O Quotes
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“Once you accept anything as tacked down, then you begin to build a structure, to accept limits. Then you have to make a choice as to whether or not you're going to accept that structure. If you do, you give up the notion of total freedom.”
“Once you accept defeat, it becomes ease to lose. If defeat comes, face it and take it, but don't accept it.”
“Once you accept mathematics as reality, you immediately see that everything has a sufficient reason, an explanation and answer, and you are part of the cosmic machinery of providing all of these answers. You yourself are an essential node of the calculation.”
Source: What Is Mathematics?: The Greatest Detective Story Never Told
“Once you accept that people don't belong to you, happiness finds you in full.”
“Once you accept that perfection is just a goal, screwing up isn't so hard to handle. Each misstep is still a step, another lesson learned, another opportunity to get it right the next time.”
Source: Life Without Limits: Inspiration for a Ridiculously Good Life
“Once you accept that playing the game will be uncomfortable, and you do it for a while, it will become much easier (like it does when getting fit). When you excel at it, you will find your ability to get what you want thrilling.”
“Once you accept that we're all imperfect it's the most liberating thing in the world. Then you can go around making mistakes and saying the wrong thing and tripping over on the street and all that and not feel worried.”
“Once you accept the existence of God - however you define him, however you explain your relationship to him - then you are caught forever with his presence in the center of all things.”
Source: Three Complete Novels
“Once you accept the fact that people have 'individual choices' and they're 'free' to make those choices. Free to make choices means without being influenced and I can't understand that at all. All of us are influenced in all our choices by the culture we live in, by our parents, and by the values that dominate. So, we're influenced. So there can't be free choices.”
“Once you accept the fact that there's nothing to fear, you drill into the primal oil well. I believe when we do things without fear, we can do anything. As long as you don't worry about the consequences.”
“Once you accept the fact that you're not perfect, then you develop some confidence.”
“Once you accept the power of spine in the creative act, you will become much more efficient in your creativity. You will still get lost on occasion, but having a spine will anchor you.”
Source: The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life
“Once you accept you are being judged by people who have less knowledge than yourself, then what's it worth?”
“Once you accept you're a child in the government nursery, why shouldn't Nanny tell you what to do?”
“Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you are free to live.”
“Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in.”
“Once you accept, truly accept, that stuff will happen to you and there is nothing you can do about it, stress miraculously leaves your life.”
“Once you achieve a certain level of success or fame, it becomes really difficult to go against type.”
“Once you achieve one goal, you should be looking forward to trying to build onto the next thing, and not just getting comfortable with what you're doing.”
“Once you acknowledge that accusations of guilt are always shouted loudest by the guilty, then you quickly realize that indictments are just another form of confession — that the things we hate and condemn in this world reveal a hell of a lot more about us than the things we love and cherish.”
Source: Heaven and Hurricanes
“Once you acknowledge that reality is not your enemy, it will no longer be your enemy.”
“Once you act with someone, who gives you so much to feed off of, you just have to be there and be yourself, and it comes out.”
“Once you add value, you get paid.”
“Once you admit a lie or a slander into your ears, you can never totally rid yourself of its effects.”
Source: Thou Shall Prosper: Ten Commandments for Making Money
“Once you admit that the individual is merely a means to serve the ends of the higher entity called society or the nation, most of those features of totalitarianism which horrify us follow of necessity”
“Once you adopt a value-investment strategy, any other investment behavior starts to seem like gambling.”
“Once you adopt and communicate a quality policy, stick with it, live it, and protect it. You get only one chance!”
“Once you agree to this you can never go back. Your life will change forever and not necessarily for the best,” Mr. Shine said, his thin hands clasped behind his back.”
Source: The Lazarus Men
“Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures.”
Source: What it Takes to be #1: Vince Lombardi on Leadership
“Once you allow anyone to terrorize you, you will be terrorized all your life. Terror corrupts. Pretty soon you'll be terrorizing others. ... Life doesn't mean anything if you can't rid yourself of fear.”
“Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on the surface it's far removed from your situation.”
“Once you appreciate one of your blessings, one of your senses, your sense of hearing, then you begin to respect the sense of seeing and touching and tasting, you learn to respect all the senses.”
“Once you are a proper, serious law-maker, you can't break the laws you're writing.”
“Once you are a victim of a bombing, you enter a risk group to which they will not sell insurance.”
“Once you are a warrior, you must live like one. You can't be afraid to fight against and destroy anything that fights against what is right.”
Source: Battle of the Spheres: Crust, Mantle and Core
“Once you are able to make your request in such a way that you will be quite certain of its fulfillment, then the fulfillment will come.”
“Once you are absolutely thoughtlessly aware, you are one with the Divine, so much so that the Divine takes over every activity, every moment of your life and looks after you and you feel completely secured, one with the Divine and enjoy the blessings of the Divine.”
“Once you are afraid of death you are bound to be afraid of life. That`s why I am talking about this Hasidic approach. The whole approach consists of methods, ways and means of how to die - the art of dying is the art of living also. Dying as an ego is being born as a non `ego; dying as a part is being born as a whole; dying as man is a basic step towards being born as a God.”
“Once you are assigned to a flight, the whole crew is assigned at the same time, and then that crew trains together for a whole year to prepare for that flight.”
“Once you are at the point where you can call yourself a writer, there's no turning back.”
“Once you are aware that you are working at a biologically toxic facility, you should leave as soon as possible, even if it means being unemployed for a while.”
“Once you are born good looking it never depletes, chicks are always looking at you and going, “You are just like that movie star.”
“Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.”
“Once you are clear about what you wish to create, you can maintain a steady stream of thoughts – unwavering, resolute, and focused.”
“Once you are clear with the process of input-output and its consequence, you become more careful with every choice and decisions with your life.”
“Once you are committed to taking right actions, God is committed to bringing you right success.”
“Once you are completely comfortable with charging, then - and only then - will you allow yourself to do things for free. That way if you perform a kindness for another, you will know that you are doing it because you want to, not because you have been manipulated into it or are maneuvering in the hopes of winning their affection.”
“Once you are dancing with the devil, the prettiest capers won't help you.”
“Once you are defiled, you can't get back your purity by any means, instead, you will only look for ways to be defiled over and over again.”
“Once you are diagnosed with cancer, time changes. It both speeds up insanely and stops altogether.”
Source: In the Body of the World: A Memoir of Cancer and Connection