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 known the generosity of existence you will never feel miserable.”
“Once you have known true grief, you don’t get better. You don’t recover – you only grow stronger. You learn to bear the things that seem unbearable. You find a way to rebuild yourself, even with crucial pieces missing.”
Source: Seven Faceless Saints
“Once you have learned how to subtract the gross form of ‘my’, subtract the subtle form of ‘my’. Thereafter, subtract the subtler and the subtlest forms. After subtracting all that, ‘I’ [Self] will be separate!”
“Once you have learned to ask questions - relevant and appropriate and substantial questions - you have learned how to learn and no one can keep you from learning whatever you want or need to know.”
Source: Teaching As a Subversive Activity: A No-Holds-Barred Assault on Outdated Teaching Methods-with Dramatic and Practical Proposals on How Education Can Be Made Relevant to Today's World
“Once you have learned to face your fear,
misery and pain, you will start becoming joyful, because in the process of facing misery, it will start disappearing,”
Source: The Call of the Heart
“Once you have learned to fly your plane, it is far less fatiguing to fly than it is to drive a car. You don't have to watch every second for cats, dogs, children, lights, road signs, ladies with baby carriages and citizens who drive out in the middle of the block against the lights. . . . Nobody who has not been up in the sky on a glorious morning can possibly imagine the way a pilot feels in free heaven.”
“Once you have learned to trust your own voice and allowed that creative force inside you to come out, you can direct it to write short stories, novels, and poetry, do revisions, and so on. You have the basic tool to fulfill your writing dreams. But beware. This type of writing will uncover other dreams you have, too-going to Tibet, being the first woman president of the United States, building a solar studio in New Mexico-and they will be in black and white. It will be harder to avoid them.”
Source: Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
“Once you have lived in New York and made it your home, no place else is good enough”
“Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.”
Source: Collected Stories of Carson McCullers
“Once you have looked at the land from atop the Kahlenberg, you will understand what I write and who I am.”
“Once you have made a careful decision based on facts, go into action. Don't stop to reconsider. Don't begin to hesitate, worry, and retrace your steps. Don't lose yourself in self-doubting which begets other doubts. Don't keep looking back over your shoulder.”
Source: The Essential Dale Carnegie: Curated Wisdom from 3 Bestselling Books
“Once you have made a decision and there is no turning back, acceptance is the only comfort.”
Source: The Orchid House: A Novel
“Once you have made it, you will understand that any business is limited in the challenges it offers. You will want and need other games to play, so you will look for other ventures to hold your interest.”
“Once you have made peace with the present moment, see what happens, what you can do or choose to do, or rather what life does through you. There are three words that convey the secret of the art of living, the secret of all success and happiness: One With Life. Being one with life is being one with Now. You then realize that you don't live your life, but life lives you. Life is the dancer, and you are the dance.”
“Once you have made the decision to do the film, once you have identified the desire and all the deep and personal, intimate, artistic reasons why you want to do the film, then it's more a matter of how to do things”
“Once you have made the sale...you can stop selling.”
Source: Time For Dervin - Living Large In Geiggityville
“Once you have made up your mind, stick to it; there is no longer any 'if' or 'but'.”
“Once you have mastered a technique, you barely have to look at a recipe again”
“Once you have mastered the ten thousand states of mind, it's paranirvana, the absorption into the stillness forever.”
“Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!”
Source: Awaken The Giant Within
“Once you have met a true human being,
Let him not disappear from the horizon of your HEART.”
“Once you have met someone, you never really forget them.”
“Once you have MIDI information - I mean, it's a bit technical - that's your paint. You can slow down, pitch up, change notes within a different key. That's the foundation in which you can write things.”
“Once you have missed the first buttonhole, you'll never manage to button up.”
“Once you have money, you can quite truthfully affirm that money isn't everything.”
Source: The cart and the horse
“Once you have opened up prisoner interrogation, wiretapping, border patrol, jailing and the services of the military, when this has been turned into a for-profit business in this endless war, then we're in deep trouble.”
“Once you have people around you who don't question you, you're in a dangerous place.”
“Once you have perceived that life is very cruel, the only response is to live with as much humanity, humour and freedom as you can.”
“Once you have perfect virtual reality, what else are you supposed to perfect?”
“Once you have permission to talk to someone, finding new products or services for them is a smart way to grow.”
“Once you have personally experienced enlightenment, you will see beyond the ocean of death to the everlasting shores of immortality.”
Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap
“Once you have power, you are inevitably surrounded by people who have their own agendas and will tell you whatever advances them.”
“Once you have produced your best self, then you will be able to produce new seeds and fruits after your kind.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.”
Source: Matagorda: A Novel
“Once you have realized that law enforcement are not going to uphold your legal rights, you should always exercise your legal right to silence in their presence.”
“Once you have realized that law enforcement are not going to uphold your legal rights, you should recognize that making a emergency phone call is a hazardous activity to engage in.”
“Once you have realized that Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) are not going to uphold your legal rights, you should recognize that making a future whistle-blower report is a futile activity to engage in.”
“Once you have really done all you can, then you can show it to people. But I find this is increasingly not the case with the younger people. They do a first draft and want somebody to finish it off for them with good advice.”
“Once you have received the biologically toxic exposures that trigger High Altitude Observatory Disease (HAOD), there is no turning back and you will be along for the ride for the rest of your life.”
“Once you have seen and felt your ideal future, you will be ready and able to pay any price to get there.”
“Once you have seen his face you will forever long to see it again.”
Source: God Came Near: Experiencing the Life-Changing Power of Jesus' Incarnation
“Once you have seen quality horsemanship and are exposed to the things you can do to help a horse be gentle and dependable, then why wouldn't you do those things? No matter what your horse's age, you are going to try to offer him the best that you can. If you adjust what you are doing, he will adjust too; horses have an amazing capacity to make changes. There is always hope.”
“Once you have seen the face of God, you see the same face on everyone you meet.”
“Once you have selected a sport or a creative activity, the rules are pretty much the same.”
“Once you have six children, you're committed.”
“Once you have sold a customer, make sure he is satisfied with your goods. Stay with him until the goods are used up or worn out. Your product may be of such long life that you will never sell him again, but he will sell you and your product to his friends.”
“Once you have Sold your Soul, you have no other alternative left to yourself, but to sell it again & again & again, that too rather cheaper.”
Source: The Twelfth Preamble: To all the authors to be!
“Once you have some sort of reputation in the outside world, they will try to woo you. They will say, "Won't you come and be on a talk program about books? That's not political." Then they can say to the outside world, "See how free it is, she appears on television. See how free it is." So I refused to have anything of mine read or dramatized on South African television.”
“Once you have something so deeply infused in your culture and your brand, it would be very difficult to reverse that inertia if you wanted to.”
“Once you have started seeing the beauty of life, ugliness starts disappearing. If you start looking at life with joy, sadness starts disappearing. You cannot have heaven and hell together, you can have only one. It is your choice.”