My therapist told me the way to achieve true inner peace is to finish what I start.

我的临床医生对我说，达到内心的平静的办法就是做事有始有终。

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Sometimes what I start with ends up being something else entirely by the time I'm finished.

有时作品完成的时候，已经和我开始时用的是完全不同的素材了。

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I'm careful to start out by saying clearly what I want.

我小心地以清楚地说出自己想要的东西开始。

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"So at that time I think the public in Bangkok feel that, or start to wonder, what is their real demand?"

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I start $100 as the average price of the stock, what should the average price of the stock be?

我把100美元作为股票的初始平均值，你们觉得这个股价的平均值应该是多少呢？

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So now, now that we've got all three of the major laws of thermodynamics, what I want to start in on is a discussion of what happens spontaneously.

现在既然我们已经得到了,热力学的三个主要定理，我想现在开始讨论的是,什么过程会自发进行。

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It was just what I needed to hear, and just what I needed to start me on an obsession with music that has stuck with me through the years.

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Than ask yourself: What could I slowly start cutting out of my day?

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And I've heard from people who start getting what - I'm no psychiatrist - would sound like severe PTSD symptoms.

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