The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

- Aristotle

I do not feel certain until I have confronted my initial solution with other solutions - although in fact the first solution often proves to be the right one.

- Arne Jacobsen

My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no character.

- Charles Barkley

Movies, obviously, are a little more lucrative. The initial paycheck is better.

- Carlos Alazraqui

All of us are living with dogmas that we accept as truths. When one of these is overturned, there's an initial gasp, soon followed by a rush of exhilaration.

- Deepak Chopra

Sometimes you get so jaded, you don't have those initial connections and emotions with music, because you are promoting your own.

- David Nail

I think that initial independence is very important; that's what being an entrepreneur is all about.

- Jon Oringer

The most important and urgent appeal we have to make is for an immediate cease-fire. Initial reports from the cease-fire talks being held in N'Djamena in Chad are not very encouraging.

- Jan Egeland

More of him came from my step-dad, who is now passed away. The initial creators of the show kind of based the character on their dads and then I added my dad.

- Kurtwood Smith

There's that initial reticence for some athletes to take you seriously.

- Lisa Guerrero

Our initial assessment is that they will all die.

- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

All characters come from people I know, but after the initial inspiration, I tend to modify the characters so they fit with the story.

- Nicholas Sparks

If you can get over this initial distrust that people have of strangers, you can do remarkable things.

- Pierre Omidyar

For very long, I wasn't able to find a place for myself in movies. After my initial success, I didn't know how to capitalise on it.

- Randeep Hooda

Firms would be given initial entitlements to gross markup on the basis of past performance. These entitlements would be transferable and a market in them would be developed.

- William Vickrey