O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Once you have a plan, you must sell it to the players. It is not enough to put it on the blackboard and say, 'Okay, here it is.' You have to convince the players that the plan is a good one and show them, in specific ways, why it will work. If you do, you send them out to the practice field with more confidence.”
“Once you have a point of view all history will back you up.”
Source: Van Wyck Brooks: the early years: a selection from his works, 1908-1921
“Once you have a situation that is fresh, then you sort of believe in it and it becomes normal. So you do end up with protagonists that haven't been in other movies before.”
“Once you have a staff of prepared, intelligent, and energetic people, the next step is to motivate them to be creative.”
“Once you have a very, very large budget, you actually look for expensive things to spend it on.”
“Once you have accepted yourself, it's so much easier to accept other people and their points of view.”
Source: See You at the Top
“Once you have access to key people in an organization, if you go into a meeting with enemy images of those people - then you are not going to connect.”
Source: The Heart of Social Change: How to Make a Difference in Your World
“Once you have access to the source of creation within you, your health and wellbeing will naturally be taken care of.”
“Once you have an animal, you have to commit to it. They need a sense of freedom, but, of course, they must have some boundaries. I am against hitting them though; just send the vibe and that will do it.”
“Once you have an equalization instrument in place, as you have in Canada, there arise tremendous bureaucratic values - bureaucratic rent so to speak - in maintaining the system that you have. To shift to a system that paid the transfers directly to individuals, by having differential rates of federal income tax levied to adjust to provincial fiscal capacities, which would be my preference, you would have huge bureaucratic opposition. People would try to protect the rents they have in the current system of institutions.”
“ONCE YOU HAVE AN EXCUSE ABOUT SOMETHING, THE BRAIN BEGINS TO LOOK FOR EVIDENCE FOR IT. RESISTANCE BECOMES YOUR WAY OF THINKING AND YOUR THAT THINKING WILL BECOME YOUR ADDICTION.”
“Once you have an innovation culture, even those who are not scientists or engineers - poets, actors, journalists - they, as communities, embrace the meaning of what it is to be scientifically literate. They embrace the concept of an innovation culture. They vote in ways that promote it. They don't fight science and they don't fight technology.”
“Once you have analyzed data, you have to mine that data to find insights from it. At this point, you can involve your marketing or product team to work with the data analysis team.”
Source: Market Research Like a Pro
“Once you have awakened to the question of faith, you cannot simply return to your everyday agenda like a committed atheist could. You cannot retreat to the comforts of atheism.”
“Once you have become president, you must also stop being a politician. Because you can't expect to rule all citizens while being a fanatic of your one political party.”
“Once you have become the centre of a conflict in a complex governmental enterprise you have the obligation to resign.”
“Once you have been branded a criminal or felon, you are typically trapped for life.”
“Once you have been in an earthquake you know, even if you survive without a scratch, that like a stroke in the heart, it remains in the earth's breast, horribly potential, always promising to return, to hit you again, with an even more devastating force.”
Source: The Ground Beneath Her Feet: A Novel
“Once you have been tortured, you can never belong in this world. There is no place that ever be your home.”
Source: Mosquito
“Once you have been touched by magic, you are forever changed. You leave a trail.”
Source: The First Codex
“Once you have children it's love without bounds. You would die for them in an instant, without question. How can you better that?”
“Once you have commitment, you need the discipline and hard work to get you there.”
“Once you have confidence in your instincts, you must never allow other people's refusal to believe, or their data to refute, what you instinctively know is true.”
“Once you have courage to look upon evil, seeing it for what it is and naming it by its true name, it is powerless against you, and you can destroy it.”
Source: The Book of Three: The Chronicles of Prydain
“Once you have dared to dream, I believe you MUST pursue that dream. If you do not pursue your dreams they will consume you; the knowledge that you had a dream but did not pursue it is killing knowledge. Consider it absolutely necessary to go after your dreams.”
“Once you have decided that winning isn't everything, you become a winner.”
“Once you have decided to keep a certain pile, it is no longer yours; for you can't spend it.”
Source: The Autobiography of Michel de Montaigne: Comprising the Life of the Wisest Man of His Times : His Childhood, Youth, and Prime : His Adventures in Love and Marriage, at Court, and in Office, War, Revolution, and Plague : His Travels at Home and Abroad : His Habits, Tastes, Whims, and Opinions
“Once you have disidentified with yourself whether you are right or wrong makes no difference to your sense of self at all”
Source: The Power of Now A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment, The Art of Happiness 10th Anniversary Edition, You Are a Badass, Life Leverage 4 Books Collection Set
“Once you have done a man a service, what more reward would you have? Is it not enough to have obeyed the laws of your own nature, without expecting to be paid for it?”
“Once you have done with school, you realise that it is just a smaller version of life, and really I have felt that I should have been an adult since I was aged about five.”
“Once you have entered the Stream, yon are irreversibly bound for Enlightenment, one could say; you have sufficient spiritual momentum to take you all the way. You may still have a long way to go, but you are now safe from any danger of losing what you have gained. It is therefore said of the Buddha’s ‘victory’, his attainment of Enlightenment, that it is irreversible. It cannot be undone. There is no outside power that can make a Buddha no longer a Buddha. This applies not only to the Buddha, but also to the Arhant, the Once-Returner, and the Stream Entrant – and of course the irreversible Bodhisattva. But until we have passed through that gate of irreversibility we are in a precarious position. This is why we need to make a constant effort in our spiritual life and also make sure that we are living and working in conditions that support our spiritual efforts. Until we have reached that point of no return, we need the most positive situation, the most helpful environment, we can possibly get.”
Source: The Bodhisattva Ideal : Wisdom and Compassion in Buddhism
“Once you have established Your inner contact With your inner Pilot, Your life's transformation-victory Will not remain a far cry.”
“Once you have established yourself as a center of love and kindness radiating throughout your being, which amounts to a cradling of yourself in loving kindness and acceptance, you can dwell here indefinitely, drinking at this fount, bathing it in, renewing yourself, nourishing yourself, enlivening yourself. This can be a profoundly healing practice for body and soul.”
Source: Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life
“Once you have faced what could kill you, there's no going back.”
Source: Voices of Cancer: What We Really Want, What We Really Need
“Once you have fallen off the edge like all of us have, you will never stop falling. And as you fall you will hold on to other falling people. The sooner you understand that the better. This place where we live, where we made our home, is the place of falling people. Here there is baqeeqat. Arre, even we aren't real. We don't really exist”
Source: The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
“Once you have felt the Indian dust, you will never be free of it.”
Source: The Peacock Spring
“Once you have found out what you love to do, there is only one goal: to be the best in the world at it.”
Source: How to Win at the Sport of Business: If I Can Do It, You Can Do It
“Once you have found the right shot to introduce the scene-written your first declarative sentence-then the rest flows. You've found the key to the whole scene.”
“Once you have found yourself and accepted your aloneness, then the greatest blessing is to share the love that arises within you. Each new moment presents the richest opportunity to be loving. And you can share love in the simplest of ways. Be soft and gentle. Be caring and kind. Be loving in an ordinary way, without any sense of wanting anything back, Life offers you the most precious gift. The gift of allowing you to be present and share love.”
“Once you have gotten all you need from a situation, it passes out of your life, never to return.”
Source: That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition
“Once you have grace," I said to him, "you are free. Without it, you cannot help doing the things you know you should not do, and that you know you don't really want to do. But once you have grace, you are free. When you are baptized, there is no power in existence that can force you to commit a sin-nothing that will be able to drive you to it against your own conscience. And if you merely will it, you will be free forever, because the strength will be given you, as much as you need, and as often as you ask, and as soon as you ask, and generally long before you ask for it, too.”
Source: The Seven Storey Mountain
“Once you have had a glimpse of awareness or Presence, you know it firsthand. It is no longer just a concept in your mind.”
Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
“Once you have had a wonderful dog, a life without one, is a life diminished.”
“Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about.”
“Once you have hierarchy you need rules to protect and administer it, and then you need law and the enforcement of the rules, and you end up with some kind of chain of command or system of order that destroys relationship rather than promotes it. Hierarchy imposes laws and rules and you end up missing the wonder of relationship that we intended for you.”
“Once you have identified with some form of negativity, you do not want to let it go, and on a deeply unconscious level, you do not want positive change. It would threaten your identity as a depressed, angry or hard-done by person. You will then ignore, deny or sabotage the positive in your life. This is a common phenomenon. It is also insane.”
Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
“Once you have invented a character with three dimensions and a voice, you begin to realize that some of the things you'd like him to do to further your plot are things that such a person wouldn't, or couldn't, do.”
“Once you have invested some time and energy on a path, you no longer want to know the right path. You just want assurance that your path is the right path.”
“Once you have kids and you're married, it's all about them. My life changed. You can see in my records.”
“Once you have kids, you think like a parent. You get a lot more protective.”