A Quotes
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“An orator or author is never successful till he has learned to make his words smaller than his ideas.”
“An orator without judgment is a horse without a bridle.”
“An orchestra full of stars can be a disaster.”
“An orchestra knows during the first two minutes of the first rehearsal whether or not they are going to enjoy the person on the podium.”
“An orchid in a deep forest sends out its fragrance even if no one is around to appreciate it.”
“An order given in battle, an instruction issued by the master of a sailing ship, a cry for help, are as powerful in modifying the course of events as any other bodily act...You utter a vow or forge a signature and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman or prison.”
“An order of government, established by such an all-wise, powerful being, must be good and perfect, and must be calculated to promote the permanent peace, happiness, and well-being of all his subjects”
Source: The Kingdom of God, part 1
“An order that can be misunderstood, will be misunderstood.”
“An order then should always be given not as a personal matter, not because the man giving it wants the thing done, but because it is the demand of the situation. And an order of this kind carries weight because it is the demand of the situation.”
Source: Freedom and Co-ordination (RLE: Organizations): Lectures in Business Organization
“An order to fire on people that do not fire on you is a completely illegal order.”
“An orderly society cannot exist if every man may decide which laws he will obey.”
“An ordinary archer practices until he gets it right. A ranger practices until he never gets it wrong.”
“An ordinary beginning, something that would have been forgotten had it been anyone but her. But as he shook her hand and met those striking emerald eyes, he knew before he'd taken his next breath that she was the one he could spend the rest of his life looking for but never find again. She seemed that good, that perfect, while a summer wind blew through the trees.”
“An ordinary chair is always more comfortable than the king's chair!”
“An ordinary day. I get up early, drive to the airport, from there driving to the arena where we wrestle. Then if we have a show I will take another plane for my destination. Otherwise I will take a plane to return home and fall in bed very, very late.”
“An ordinary favor we do for someone or any compassionate reaching out may seem to be going nowhere at first, but may be planting a seed we can't see right now. Sometimes we need to just do the best we can and then trust in an unfolding we can't design or ordain.”
“An ordinary fool isn't a faker; an honest fool is all right. But a dishonest fool is terrible!”
Source: Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman: Adventures of a Curious Character as Told to Ralph Leighton
“An ordinary hole beside a path through the woods might begin to open to altered worlds.”
“An ordinary house outside the city is beautiful; an ordinary house in the forest outside the city is much more beautiful, but a stone house in the forest outside the city is extraordinarily beautiful!”
“An ordinary human being will perform meditation when he is awake and an extraordinary human being will perform meditation when he is asleep”
“An ordinary life examined closely reveals itself to be exquisite and complicated and exceptional, somehow managing to be both heroic and plain.”
Source: The Bullfighter Checks Her Make-Up
“An ordinary man can enjoy breakfasting on juice and rye bread.
But when you are underfed, scorned, miserable or just plain bored, you don’t want to eat dull wholesome food.
You want something a little more colourful, exciting, tastier, meatier and juicier.”
Source: The Unconventional Life of Haee
“An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is always possible to be happy.”
“An ordinary man gets arrogant with beauty, conceited with knowledge and ruthless with power.”
“An ordinary man seeks freedom through enlightenment. An enlightened man expresses freedom through being ordinary.”
“An ordinary mind is always busy looking at the worldly existence, but the spiritual mind would always look at the consciousness hidden in the eternal world.”
Source: Enter Heaven
“An ordinary mirror is silvered at the back but the window of the night train has darkness behind the glass. My face and the faces of other travellers were now mirrored on this darkness in a succession of stillnesses. Consider this, said the darkness: any motion at any speed is a succession of stillnesses; any section through an action will show just such a plane of stillness as this dark window in which your seeking face is mirrored. And in each plane of stillness is the moment of clarity that makes you responsible for what you do.”
Source: The Medusa Frequency
“An ordinary mistake is one that leads to a dead end, while a profound mistake is one that leads to progress. Anyone can make an ordinary mistake, but it takes a genius to make a profound mistake.”
Source: The Lightness of Being: Mass, Ether, and the Unification of Forces
“An ordinary place turns into an extraordinary place when visited by a good music! Earthly place becomes celestial!”
“An ordinary smile makes you perfect -Aron Micko H.B”
“An ordinary teacher instructs and leaves his disciple, but a great teacher strives to make his disciple see reason by pushing him to his limits”
Source: Junglezen Sheru
“An ordinary teacher teaches how to accumulate information. A good teacher teaches how to assimilate information. A great teacher teaches how to stand up and turn every challenge into opportunities. An extraordinary teacher teaches how to be larger than life by following your own dreams, own goals and own instincts.”
Source: Walking the Path of Compassion
“An ordinary visit to a beautiful garden always creates an extraordinary time!”
“An ordinary woman who makes herself available to an extraordinary God can do amazing things for God.”
“An ordinary world jingles its coins by the most luxury position, I use on the moment.”
Source: Voor een betere wereld
“An organic cookie, is still a cookie.”
Source: Primal Power Method: Change Your Body. Change Your Life. The Modern Caveman Lifestyle Simplified
“An organic farmer is the best peacemaker today, because there is more violence, more death, more destruction, more wars, through a violent industrial agricultural system. And to shift away from that into an agriculture of peace is what organic farming is doing.”
“An organisation can only carry out its mandate if there is discipline, and where there is no discipline there can be no real progress”
“An Organisation That Does Not Invest In Itself, Has No Future.”
“An organisation that treats its programmers as morons will soon have programmers that are willing and able to act like morons only.”
“An organised system of machines, to which motion is communicated by the transmitting mechanism from a central automation, is the most developed form of production by machinery.”
“an organiser of charities that had lost all love for the poor.”
“An organism at war with itself is doomed.”
“An organism exists for no other reason than that it is able to... The wonderful, almost transcendent thing about life on earth is that in order to so exist, organisms must relate to each other and to the earth itself.”
“An organism is not a collection of cells; it’s a function that tells cells how to behave. And this function is not implemented as some kind of supernatural thing, like some morphogenetic field, it is an emergent result of the interactions of each cell with each other cell.”
“An organist who has the sensitivity to quietly play prelude music from the hymnbook tempers our feelings and causes us to go over in our minds the lyrics which teach the peaceable things of the kingdom. If we will listen, they are teaching the gospel, for the hymns of the Restoration are, in fact, a course in doctrine!”
“An organization belongs on a sick list when promotion becomes more important to its people than accomplishment of their job they are in. It is sick when it is more concerned with avoiding mistakes than with taking risks, with counteracting the weaknesses of its members than with building on their strength. But it is sick also when "good human relations" become more important than performance and achievement.”
“An organization cannot increase its productivity-but people can!”
Source: The Complete 101 Collection
“An organization does not exist inside of a vacuum. Success in M&A requires continuous scanning of the "Macro-Environment.”
Source: GAME CHANGR6: An Executives Guide to Dominating Change, by applying the R6 Resilience Change Management Framework
“An organization filled with honest, motivated, connected, eager, learning, experimenting, ethical and driven people will always defeat the one that merely has talent. Every time.”