O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Often, loyalty means telling people things they don't want to hear. It's not being sycophantic, it's not telling them how wonderful they are every day. It's being willing to tell them the days they're not wonderful.”
“Often, moreover, it is...that aspect of our being that society finds eccentric, ridiculous, or disagreeable, that holds our sweet waters, our secret well of happiness, the key to our equanimity in malevolent climes.”
“Often, my central challenge is figuring out how do I build trust, how do I acquaint people who've just endured some terrible event - losing their child to murder, say, or being sexually assaulted - with the bizarre and sometimes invasive nature of in-depth interviews that aren't just a quick list of ten questions?”
“Often, one discovery leads to interest in another. After the Dauphin's heart had undergone DNA testing and was placed in the crypt at St. Denis, I think people wanted some closure to the story about the fate of the royal couple's only child who survived the gruesome Temple Prison. I know I did.”
“Often, organizations need bold, grand gestures to galvanize people towards a new mission or refocus their attention.”
“Often, others see you, as you see yourself”
Source: The Palace of Illusions: A Novel
“Often, our most rewarding dreams are staring us right in the face, but for some reason we focus on how hard things are, how we are scared of the unknown and what would happen if we failed.”
“Often, out of our greatest rejection comes our greatest direction.”
Source: Daily Readings from Become a Better You: 90 Devotions for Improving Your Life Every Day
“Often, particularly with voices, you're hearing horrible things, demon voices, and voices telling them that they're not worth it or that they're going to kill somebody. In those moments, they're overcoming things.”
“Often, people ask if it's different doing live-action and voice-over, but the only thing that's different, really, is that we're in a booth and there's no camera on me. But, my intention, as an actor, is exactly the same.”
“Often, people take herbal medicines for a physical response, but what they find is that the body also responds in an emotional way to the plant medicine that they're taking.”
“Often, people who can do, don’t because they’re afraid of what people that can’t do will say about them doing.”
“Often, people who want to make interesting films simply don't have the money to do it.”
“Often, problems are knots with many strands, and looking at those strands can make a problem seem different.”
Source: You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor
“Often, the disparities in the ways men and women are treated are subtle; there are not these clear barriers that you have to break down.”
“Often, the greater our ignorance about something, the greater our resistance to change.”
Source: Animals Matter: A Biologist Explains Why We Should Treat Animals with Compassion and Respect
“Often, the greatest challenge facing an organization is recognizing and acting on opportunity rather than solving a problem.”
“Often, the human animal dresses terror in rage, and expresses both in a way unlike either.”
Source: The Autobiography of God: A Novel
“Often, the idea that there can be a wide range of translations of one text doesn't occur to people - or that a translation could be bad, very bad, and unfaithful to the original.”
“Often, the more money you make the more money you spend; that's why more money doesn't make you rich - assets make you rich.”
“Often, the most enjoyable part of an activity is the anticipation.”
“Often, the most extraordinary opportunities are hidden among the seemingly insignificant events of life. If we do not pay attention to these events, we can easily miss the opportunities.”
“Often, the most striking and innovative solutions come from realizing that your concept of the problem was wrong.”
Source: The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary
“Often, the pretexts for starting a war are not real shortages of land, food or fuel, but rather perceptions - like fear, honor and perceived self-interest.”
“Often, the roles I'm offered in England are melancholic women who are filled with regret for the past, regret for their fading beauty.”
“Often, the stories are very much like trust falls. You fall, and you hope the story's going to catch you.”
“Often, the thing we pursue most passionately is but a substitute for the one thing we really want and cannot have.”
Source: The Passionate State of Mind
“Often, the things that a lot of work has gone into have been incredibly bad because they're over-worked.”
“Often, the truly great and valuable lessons we learn in life are learned through pain. That's why they call it "growing pains." It's all about yin and yang. And that's not something you order off column A at your local Chinese restaurant.”
Source: Cancer Schmancer
“Often, the worst way to become prisoner of a system is to have a dream that things may turn better, there is always the possibility of change. Because it is precisely this secret dream that keeps you enslaved to the system.”
“Often, there is a job - say, for a voiceover or an appearance - and you think: 'Blimey!' From the outside it would seem like you are being paid a lot for a short amount of your time. It would be inappropriate to share how much they pay, but in the industry we call it 'doing a bank raid'. Unfortunately, those jobs do not happen every week.”
“Often, there is no correlation between the success of a company's operations and the success of its stock over a few months or even a few years. In the long term, there is a 100 percent correlation between the success of the company and the success of its stock. This disparity is the key to making money; it pays to be patient, and to own successful companies.”
Source: Beating the Street
“Often, these downplay the power of cultural imperialism - in that sense, playing the game of US interests - by reassuring us that the global success of American mass culture is not as bad as all that.”
Source: Valences of the Dialectic
“Often, though, the passivity of the woman's role weighs on me, suffocates me. Rather than wait for his pleasure, I would like to take it, to run wild. Is it that which pushes me into lesbianism? It terrifies me. Do women act thus? Does June go to Henry when she wants him? Does she mount him? Does she wait for him? He guides my inexperienced hands. It is like a forest fire, to be with him. New places of my body are aroused and burnt. He is incendiary. I leave him in an unquenchable fever.”
“Often, to be free means the ability to deal with the realities of one's own situation so as not to be overcome by them.”
Source: Meditations of the Heart
“Often, very often, I am alone. My studio in Amsterdam, (Beckmann lived in the center of Amsterdam during World War 2.) an enormous old tobacco storeroom is again filled in my imagination with figures from the old days and from the new, like an ocean moved by storm and sun and always present in my thoughts. Then shapes become beings and seem comprehensible to me in the great void and uncertainty of the space which I call god.”
“Often, very often, we are punished as much by our sins as we are for them.”
Source: Teach Ye Diligently
“Often, very talented technical people find it extraordinarily difficult to take the viewpoint of customers, who are often ignorant about the technology and who may have strong and perhaps incorrect prejudices about it. The technical people may believe, deep down, that they know better what customers "should" need. Customers, of course, have a different perspective. They want products that will solve customer problems and provide other customer benefits, and will do so without undue risk or cost. Not infrequently, customers view advanced technology itself as a risk.”
“Often, warriors find their lives meaningless.”
“Often, we are quick to find blame with others but yet are unable to give constructive responses. There seems to be a tendency to doubt almost everything. Do we not have faith in our own people's strengths and in our institutions? Can we afford distrust amongst ourselves?”
“Often, we are too slow to recognize
how much and in what ways we can assist each other
through sharing expertise and knowledge.”
“Often, we don't recognize real moments of happiness in our lives because we've been expecting something different- something bigger or perhaps more dramatic.”
Source: Wake-up calls
“Often, we feel that we need a leader outside of ourselves -a Buddha, a Gandhi, or a Martin Luther King, Jr.- to show the way. But we have the Buddha inside of us. We have Gandhi and King inside of us as well. We are interconnected. We don't need to wait for some other person to be the change we want to see in the world”
“Often, we ignore the fact that our spiritual condition and psychological state of mind are highly affected by what is happening to us physically. Sometimes depression is simply the result of exhaustion.”
“Often, we melt into our ecstasies as though they were jams, as though we were sinking into syrupy bowls of gooseberries, of raspberries, of bilberries.”
Source: The Woman with the Little Fox: Three Novellas
“Often, we separate intellectual discourse from emotional reaction. But I take such genuine pleasure in things that are intellectually well architected. It's definitely an integrated experience for me. Much more than any kind of cheap, emotional pulls that you get in popular culture, when I read a sentence and it's beautifully written, it can bring me to tears.”
“Often, we take stability - peace in terms of security and economic activity - to mean a country is doing well. We forget the third and important pillar of rule of law and respect for human rights, because no country can long remain prosperous without that third pillar.”
“Often, we try to repair broken things in such a way as to conceal the repair and make it “good as new.” But the tea masters understood that by repairing the broken bowl with the distinct beauty of radiant gold, they could create an alternative to “good as new” and instead employ a “better than new” aesthetic. They understood that a conspicuous, artful repair actually adds value. Because after mending, the bowl's unique fault lines were transformed into little rivers of gold that post repair were even more special because the bowl could then resemble nothing but itself.”
“Often, what allows someone to behave heroically in dire circumstances is unpalatable in day-to-day life.”
“Often, what people don't say tell you more about the nature of their insecurities than what they do say.”