O Quotes
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“One cannot help the evil thoughts that come, but it is the thoughts we cultivate that make the difference between good or evil. We don't have to open the door to the devil and say, "Make yourself at home."”
“One cannot hire a hand; the whole man always comes with it.”
Source: Management
“One cannot hold power and not use it.”
“One cannot, I find, talk to a knitter. Conversation may seem to be going in that greased, easy way essential to all good conversation; starting hares too lavishly to follow them up; allowing pauses for rumination; bursts for sudden eagerness; digressions, returns, new departures, discoveries of rooted creeds or new ideas—sooner or later the challenge is bound to come: "Don't you agree?" or "What do you think?" "Yes?" says the knitter, startled but polite, "seventy-five, seventy-six—just a moment till I get to the end of my row—seventy-seven, seventy-eight—yes," she says, looking up brightly, "it's all right now. What were you saying?" But of course one has forgotten or no longer cares.”
Source: Country Notes
“One cannot ignore half of life for the purposes of science, and then claim that the results of science give a full and adequate picture of the meaning of life. All discussions of 'life' which begin with a description of man's place on a speck of matter in space, in an endless evolutionary scale, are bound to be half-measures, because they leave out most of the experiences which are important to use as human beings.”
“One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights.”
Source: Letter to a Priest
“One cannot impose its nationalism and ethnicity, except a legal dispute, on the ground of language, creed, caste, race, and colour upon a major host of it, who provided shelter and refuge as the human rights context. Indeed, it pictures the grave dishonesty, misrepresentation, even traitorous motives.”
“One cannot in the nature of things expect a little tree that has been turned into a club to put forth leaves.”
Source: On Intersubjectivity and Cultural Creativity
“One cannot inherit a talent for the violin - there are no violins in nature. Instead, one must be motivated, able to benefit from practice, and persevering.”
“One cannot inquire into the foundations and nature of mathematics without delving into the question of the operations by which the mathematical activity of the mind is conducted. If one failed to take that into account, then one would be left studying only the language in which mathematics is represented rather than the essence of mathematics.”
“One cannot judge a man for the sins of his family.”
Source: Clockwork Prince
“one cannot judge the beauty of a path merely by looking at its entrance.”
Source: Warrior of the Light -
“One cannot keep all old views and opinions and acquire new ones.”
“One cannot kick against geography!”
“One cannot know everything.”
“One cannot know how far one has come unless one looks back and continue forward.”
“One cannot know what a man really is by the end of a fortnight.”
Source: Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations
“One cannot lay a foundation by scattering stones, nor is a reputation for good work to be got by strewing volumes about the world.”
Source: Letters of Ellen Glasgow
“One cannot lead a life that is truly excellent without feeling that one belongs to something greater and more permanent than oneself.”
Source: Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life
“One cannot lead well until one learns to follow well.”
“One cannot leap a chasm in two jumps.”
“One cannot learn from someone whom one distrusts.”
Source: Sufi Thought and Action
“One cannot learn how to be creative by reading Marx. Either one is creative or one is not.”
Source: Selected essays
“One cannot learn so well as by experiencing it oneself.”
“One cannot legislate problems out of existence. It has been tried.”
“One cannot legislate the maniacs off the street... these maniacs can only be shut down by an armed citizenry. Indeed bad things can happen in nations where the citizenry is armed, but not as bad as those which seem to be threatening our disarmed citizenry in this country at this time.”
“One cannot legislate trust in government. A lack of true leadership is a systemic, party agnostic problem in government, leading to apathy among citizens, regardless of their voter status.”
“One cannot let the events of one's past murder one's future.”
Source: UnSouled
“One cannot live a creative life without first letting go of the fear of being wrong.”
“One cannot live for ever by ignoring the price of coffins.”
Source: THE KAI LUNG FANTASY SERIES: The Wallet of Kai Lung, Kai Lung's Golden Hours & Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat: The Transmutation of Ling, The Story of Yung Chang, The Probation of Sen Heng, The Experiment of the Mandarin Chan Hung, The Confession of Kai Lung, The Vengeance of Tung Fel and more
“One cannot live in society and be free from society.”
Source: Lenin on Literature and Art
“One cannot live on anger, my son.”
Source: The Almond Tree
“One cannot live on dreams, but neither can one live without them.”
“One cannot live on potatoes alone. It is said that one wants bread with potatoes. And when there's no bread, a Jew takes his stick, and goes through the village in search of business.”
“One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.”
Source: The Story of My Life
“One cannot live with sighted eyes and feeling heart and not know and read of the miseries which affect the world.”
“One cannot live without inconsistency.”
“One cannot live without motives. I have no motives left, and I am living.”
Source: The Trouble with Being Born
“One cannot long remain so absorbed in contemplation of emptiness without being increasingly attracted to it. In vain one bestows on it the name of infinity; this does not change its nature. When one feels such pleasure in non-existence, one's inclination can be completely satisfied only by completely ceasing to exist.”
Source: Suicide: A Study in Sociology
“One cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.”
Source: Wanderings in West Africa from Liverpool to Fernando Po
“One cannot love a world. It is too large. But a fleck of ground so far as his eye can see, one may hold precious above all.”
“One cannot make a memorable catch without reaching out to catch the ball.”
“One cannot make a slave of a free person, for a free person is free even in a prison.”
“One cannot make architecture without studying the condition of life in the city”
“One cannot make command decisions simply by assessing the tactical situation and going ahead with whatever course of action will do the most harm to the enemy with a minimum of death and damage to your own men and materiel. Modern warfare has become very complex, especially during the last century. Wars are won not by a simple series of battles won, but by a complex interrelationship among military victory, economic pressures, logistic maneuvering, access to the enemy’s information, political postures—dozens, literally dozens of factors.”
“One cannot make men good by Act of Parliament.”
“One cannot make oneself, but one can sometimes help a little in the making of somebody else. It is well.”
“One cannot make up stories; one can only retell in new ways the stories one has already heard.”
Source: Hamlet's Mother and Other Women
“One cannot manage change. One can only be ahead of it.”
Source: Management Challenges for the 21st Century
“One cannot measure a manager’s knowledge and performance in a vacuum. It involves their participation in business activities while bringing all of themselves to the process of development, including their spiritual, personal, and skill & ability development.”
Source: Lift: Five Practices Great Managers Do Consistently: Raise Performance and Morale - See Your Employees Thrive