I Quotes
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“It's one thing to be discouraged. It's another thing to have despair. Despair is when you think there's just no end to this [suffering]. There's no solution for this. Despair is when you think that your suffering has no purpose, and your suffering has no end.”
“It's one thing to be helpless as one tries to lace a corset or to mount an elephant, quite another to be helpless as a bandit pushes a black steel knife against the flesh of your throat while his brother comes to join him.”
Source: The Temple Dancer: A Novel of India
“It's one thing to be religious, but it's another thing to make religion your policy.”
“It's one thing to be sitting at a drawing board, alone in your home and coming up with a fantasy character, and drawing her whichever way you feel like drawing, then dealing with a real performer. All of a sudden, things change. It's amazing, in working with actors, how much I learn from them and how many new lines will come to mind because of their personality or their strengths.”
“It's one thing to be struggling and not really making money in your early 20s and figuring out your life. Early 30s, you start to wonder, is this ever going to happen?”
“It's one thing to be this 'tough chick,' but you also have to be likeable.”
“It's one thing to be twenty and touring the world, but doing it in your forties, you wake up with aches and pains.”
“It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.”
“It's one thing to communicate to people because you believe you have something of value to say. It's another to communicate with people because you believe they have value.”
Source: The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership Workbook: Revised and Updated
“It's one thing to donate money. It's a whole other thing to give an opportunity for someone to make his own money.”
“It's one thing to dream, but when the moment is right, you've got to be willing to leave what's familiar and go out to find your own sound.”
Source: Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time
“It's one thing to execute dishes on your own time for family and friends, but quite another to perform and be judged in a competition. And that's what cooking in a high profile restaurant is. It's a competition. You're up against every other three-star restaurant in your city, and if you want to stay in business, you'd better deliver.”
“It's one thing to fall in love. It's another to feel someone else fall in love with you, and to feel a responsibility toward that love.”
Source: Every Day
“It's one thing to fight for what you believe in, another thing to fight for what others believe in.”
Source: Critical Mass: Four Decades of Essays, Reviews, Hand Grenades, and Hurrahs
“It's one thing to go through a crisis grandly, yet quite another to go through every day glorifying God when there is no witness, no limelight, and no one paying even the remotest attention to us.”
Source: Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers
“It's one thing to have a goal, but it's quite another thing to actually accept the challenge, develop a strategy to press for the goal, make the sacrifices, pay the price to move forward, and blessing of blessing, to realize some part of it.”
Source: A Woman After God's Own Heart®
“It's one thing to have an eye for the sport, and it's another to have a feel for the sport. He has both.”
“It's one thing to have talent. It's another to figure out how to use it.”
“It's one thing to have the attitude of enlightenment and another thing to act in an enlightened way, which is conduct or activity.”
“It's one thing to just play a tune, or play a program of music, but it's another thing to practically create a new language of music, which is what 'Kind of Blue' did.”
“It's one thing to keep secrets. It's quite another to lie.”
Source: Chime
“It's one thing to lie to ourselves. It's another thing to believe it.”
Source: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles
“It's one thing to lose weight, but it's another thing to eat healthy.”
“It's one thing to maintain that upper-income earners should pay higher tax rates because they are better able to shoulder the burden for essential government services. But it's constitutional blasphemy to claim that the tax code should be used as a weapon against the wealthy and that the state should be the tyrannical arbiter of how income is distributed.”
“It's one thing to make a beautiful thing; it's another thing to make a living thing.”
“It's one thing to make a choice. It's another to put that choice into practice.”
“It's one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it's another thing to make a portrait of who they are.”
“It's one thing to make a pronouncement in a moment of inspiration about what you intend to manifest in your life or what kind of person you intend to become. It's quite another thing to make a commitment to holding that vision regardless of what difficulties or obstacles may surface. Holding the vision involves an unwillingness to compromise what you're visualizing for yourself. It means being willing to suffer through criticism and what appears to be an uncooperative universe.”
Source: The Essential Wayne Dyer Collection
“It's one thing to make lemonade out of lemons, another to proclaim that
lemons are what you'd hope for in the first place.”
Source: Kluge: The Haphazard Evolution of the Human Mind
“It's one thing to make peace with the idea of something that's going to happen someday; it's another to find yourself at that day.”
“It's one thing to not want an evil-sorcerer type villain in your story, but it's another thing to avoid having any sort of antagonist at all. A story without an antagonist gets weird pretty quick.”
“It's one thing to reject the idea that it's a man's job to bring home all the bacon; it's another the 500th time your wife reaches for the check at dinner.”
“It's one thing to say don't commit atrocities on the battlefield. It's another thing to say don't get caught doing atrocities.”
“It's one thing to say, 'I don't like what you said to me and I find it rude and offensive,' but the moment you threaten violence in return, you've taken it to another level, where you lose whatever credibility you had.”
“It's one thing to see a vision; it's another thing to be seized by a vision.”
“It's one thing to show your love for someone when everything is going fine and life is smooth. But when the 'in sickness and in health' part kicks in and sickness does enter your lives, you're tested. Your resilience is tested.”
“It's one thing to tell a front man to drop off and fill in the hole behind, but if they don't know why they are doing it, it is not an easy thing to teach. But Rooney's just got it.”
“It's one thing to tolerate a boring marriage; a boring affair does not make sense.”
“It's one thing to want money, but if you find yourself choking on a coin as you wake, the money is slightly less desirable.”
“It's one thing to work women into your talking points. It's another to tell them how you are going to educate their kids, how you are going to ensure they get health care, how we are going to rebuild infrastructure, how they are going to get equal pay.”
“It's one thing to write the music, it's another thing to write it down, it's another thing to play it, and something else altogether again to learn how to play it. These are the elements that are fascinating, and, you know, move my world.”
“It's one thing when you are photographing others, but when you are exposing yourself and your insecurities, that's the biggest risk. That's always scary.”
“It's one thing when you're driving to go play at a radio station and you hear it on that station. It's another thing when you're just out in the middle of nowhere, and the song just comes on the radio, and you're like "Oh my God!"”
“It's one thing, holding open the door for someone at a grocery store, or the library, or just about anyplace else. But the doughnut shop is a different thing altogether. This is a get-in-and-out-as-fast-as-you-can operation. There's no room for courtesy or chivalry here.”
“It's one-on-one out there, man. There ain't no hiding. I can't pass the ball.”
“It's only ... when we're stripped of purpose that we know who we are.”
“It's only 60,000. It's not a big town. It's a big hockey town. Everybody plays hockey when you grow up.”
“It's only a dogma that hells exists; it isn't a dogma that there's anybody in it.”
Source: Frost in May
“It's only a dream
Just a memory without anywhere to stay”
“It's only a drop in the ocean - but the ocean wouldn't be the same without that drop.”