O Quotes
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“Often you must turn your stylus to erase, if you hope to write anything worth a second reading.”
“Often you need to take some risk, but it must be a realistic risk, you can't take a crazy risk.”
“Often you reach a point in life where you begin to react to things too much or not at all. If you're at that state, double guard yourself.”
“Often you read something about yourself, and either you've been ironic, and that doesn't work in print, or it paraphrases something that you said, and has a different meaning.”
“Often you see a famous actor who says they produced something, when all they did was claim to have an idea at a dinner party and make three phone calls.”
“Often you see people who move there and then, once they have arrived, the ball moves here after which they also come here, but then the ball goes there again. I say: just stay where you are, then you are in any case at the right place half of the time.”
“Often you shall think your road impassable, sombre and companionless. Have will and plod along; and round each curve you shall find a new companion.”
Source: The Book of Mirdad: The strange story of a monastery which was once called The Ark
“Often you will discover that the harder you work, and the more wisely you work, the luckier you get. But there is luck, and it helps.”
“Often you will end up loving the new things you try and even if you don't love it, you've given yourself a new experience.”
“Often you will find the opposite situation. The author seems to have interesting ideas, but he is not able to illustrate them with decent examples. If a grandmaster is commenting on one of his own games, then there is usually not any problem: his general thoughts are closely tied up with what is happening on the board. But as soon as he starts writing an article or book on a different theme the difficulties begin, as he may not have suitable material to hand.”
“Often you've read another poem that you think is so beautiful that you'd like to make something like that. And so you try to make a sonnet that works in a certain kind of way, or you try to make something that's songlike, or you create a refrain, or you love the way a poem works in two line stanzas and you try to do that.”
“Often young black people are looking towards the alternative economies. They are looking towards the drug economy.... the economies that are going to that apparently will produce some kind of material gain for them.”
“Often your 'fixes' are actually removing capabilities that you had, because they were 'too confusing to the user'. GNOME seems to be developed by interface Nazis, where consistently the excuse for not doing something is not 'it's too complicated to do', but 'it would confuse users'.”
“Often your face is your autobiography”
Source: Fallen Leaves: Last Words on Life, Love, War, and God
“Often your gut instincts are the wisest because you are able to act before your ego has any input.”
“Often, your mentors are already in your life; you just haven’t yet found a way to learn from them.”
“Often your utterances and expressions of your face leak out the secrets of your hidden thoughts.”
“Often, a school is your best bet-perhaps not for education but certainly for protection from an undead attack.”
Source: The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead
“Often, as a young actress, you find yourself being the only girl in a room full of men... and one of the reasons why I like 'Grey's Anatomy' is because they have such strong female characters and the women really drive this show.”
“Often, before returning home, I would take a long and roundabout way and pass by the peaceful ramparts from where I had glimpses of other provinces, and a sight of the distant country.”
“Often, city fathers blamed prostitutes for the disease, and some threatened to brand their cheeks with hot iron if they did not desist from their vices.”
“Often, during combat, the warrior of light receives blows that he was not expecting. And he realizes that, during a war, his enemy is bound to win some of the battles. When this happens, the warrior of light weeps bitter tears and rests in order to recover his energies a little. But he immediately resumes the battle for his dreams.”
“Often, equipment can as easily function as a security blanket for musicians unwilling or unable to risk anything personal in the studio. Whether one catches the feeling on a record is a subjective matter. How can you be sure? The machinery can hold out the promise of at least mechanical perfection.”
“Often, even after years, mental states once present in consciousness return to it with apparent spontaneity and without any act of the will; that is, they are reproduced involuntarily.”
Source: Memory
“Often, even if I'm struggling with a decision or something, if I just go out into the ocean, that answer will come without thinking about it too much.”
“Often, everywhere we look, we seem to find obstacles and facades and smokescreens, so it was really nice to find things in the world that actually spoke to me. And I felt like Eastern thought really spoke to me. Because it isn't trying to cover up the pain in life; it's trying to deal with it and overcome it in an intelligent way. I think the reason I love Eastern thought so much, and mysticism in general - but especially Buddhism - is because it seems to me an attempt to look life squarely in the face, as it is.”
“Often, failure is success trying to be born in a bigger way, and persistence helps you to experience that greater result.”
“Often, feelings of sadness, uneasiness, and loneliness are vague and unattached to specific events. This makes it more challenging to find ways to turn you mood around. When you find yourself in a funk, focus on what you're feeling.”
Source: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Changing Old Habits for Good
“Often, I dream about work. For instance, the night before the Oscars, I dreamt about the Oscars and I dreamt about who I wanted to interview. Interestingly, one of the people I really wanted to interview was Keanu Reeves, and then we got him. We had never interviewed him before, so that was lucky. Or maybe it was fate - I don't know.”
“Often, I get the feeling that the story is really happening somewhere and all I'm doing is trying to work out the best way to tell it.”
“Often, I go and see films where I can see the beats coming. So, if I read something where I don't see the beats coming and it takes me somewhere unexpected, that's a great thing to build upon.”
“Often, I think that my brothers were the reason I didn't do something really stupid in my teenage years; I didn't want to disappoint them. Even though was I was pretty committed to disappointing everybody else.”
“Often, I think you find that you're enjoying certain things, you've got this new way of listening, and you find that you really enjoy the way that sounds on it and the way this other thing sounds on it and the way that other thing sounds on it. So, you're finding a new pleasure that you didn't know about before.”
“Often, I think, displaced people imagine themselves leading double lives. So a portion of my identity has always been privately siphoned into what would have been if I had stayed in Wisconsin.”
“Often, I visualize a quicker, like almost a ghost runner, ahead of me with a quicker stride.”
“Often, I went in love with some friends in school. And, no, I suffered. Only later, things went better.”
“Often, I work out of my work. One work takes me to the next thing.”
“Often, I'm spending months with a person in a very intimate context, getting to know the ins and outs of what they ate for breakfast, not to mention dredging up the most traumatic experiences of their lives, digging through their documents and photographs from difficult times, all of that. And that process, I think, can be extraordinarily strange for subjects who've never been interviewed before, especially if you don't acquaint them from the get-go with what you're trying to do, what it entails, and why you care.”
“Often, if there's something that I want to do, but somehow can't get myself to do, it's because I don't have clarity. This lack of clarity often arises from a feeling of ambivalence - I want to do something, but I don't want to do it; or I want one thing, but I also want something else that conflicts with it.”
“Often, in a given project team or network, one sees leadership roles shifting among various members at various times. Attempts to fit these into traditional views of "leader" and "follower" don't quite work. It's more like Twitter: the "leader" has "followers" - but the "followers" are empowered to alter the relationship unilaterally, and the "leader" must continually earn the consent of the "followers."”
“Often, in great discovery the most important thing is that a certain question is found.”
“Often, in the midst of great problems, we stop short of the real blessing God has for us, which is a fresh vision of who He is.”
Source: The Vision of His Glory
“Often, in the real world, it's not the smart that get ahead but the bold.”
“Often, in the Ruy Lopez, one must be patient, wait and carry on a lengthy and wearisome struggle.”
“Often, in the student's confusion, she or he directs anger at the teacher, blaming them for the pain they are experiencing, or for their own mistakes.”
“Often, instead of offering empathy, we have a strong urge to give advice or reassurance and to explain our own position or feeling.”
“Often, it seems, we're [Christians] perceived more as guilt dispensers than as grace dispensers.”
“Often, just as when they were children, it was four against one when some argument came up. At least they no longer sat on him to force him to submit to their wishes.”
Source: Blackveil: Book Four of Green Rider
“Often, kids don't appreciate the choices available, as if it's either the street or nothing.”
“Often, little brother, there is no smoke without fire.”