O Quotes
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“One must not be shy where language is concerned.”
Source: State of Wonder
“One must not believe any of those mythologies about oneself as an artist”
“One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory.”
Source: The Basic Kafka
“One must not consider a language as a product dead, and formed but once; it is an animate being, and ever creative. Human thought elaborates itself with the progress of intelligence; and of this thought language is a manifestation. An idiom cannot therefore remain stationary; it walks, it develops, it grows up, it fortifies itself, it becomes old, and it reaches decrepitude.”
“One must not count in thousands, like the propagandist belonging to a small group that has not yet given leadership to the masses; in these circumstances one must count in millions and tens of millions.”
Source: Left-Wing Communism, an Infantile Disorder
“One must not criticize that which is common since it remains always the same.”
“One must not forget that recovery is brought about not by the physician, but by the sick man himself. He heals himself, by his own power, exactly as he walks by means of his own power, or eats, or thinks, breathes or sleeps.”
“One must not forget that the earth seen from an airplane is more splendid than the earth seen from an automobile. The automobile is the end of progress on the earth, it goes quicker but essentially the landscapes seen from an automobile are the same as the landscapes seen from a carriage, a train, a waggon or in walking. But the earth seen from an airplane is something else. So the twentieth century is not the same as the nineteenth century and it is very interesting knowing that Picasso has never seen the earth from an airplane, that being of the twentieth century he inevitably knew that the earth is not the same as in the nineteenth century, he knew it, he made it, inevitably he made it different and what he made is a thing that now all the world can see.”
Source: Picasso
“One must not hesitate to innovate and change with the times. The leader who stands still is not progressing, and he will not remain a leader for long.”
Source: What It Takes to Be #1 : Vince Lombardi on Leaders: Vince Lombardi on Leadership
“One must not hold one's self so divine as to be unwilling occasionally to make improvements in one's creations.”
Source: Beethoven: The Man and the Artist
“One must not hope to be more than one can be.”
“One must not imitate the sun, one must make oneself into a sun.”
“One must not imitate what one wants to create.”
Source: Georges Braque
“One must not judge everyone in the world by his qualities as a soldier: otherwise we should have no civilization.”
“One must not judge other cultures by the standars of one's one,' said Aunt Hilda”
“One must not let oneself be misled: they say 'Judge not!' but they send to Hell everything that stands in their way.”
Source: The Vision of Nietzsche
“One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.”
“One must not look inward too much, while the inside is yet tender. I do not wish to frighten myself until I can stand it.”
Source: Vivid and Repulsive as the Truth: The Early Works of Djuna Barnes
“One must not love oneself so much, as to avoid getting involved in the risks of life that history demands of us, and those that fend off danger will lose their lives.”
“One must not make oneself cheap here - that is a cardinal point - or else one is done. Whoever is most impertinent has the best chance.”
Source: The Letters of Mozart and His Family
“One must not make too much of anything in life, good or bad.”
Source: The Shadow-Line
“One must not mistake majority for truth.”
“One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.”
“One must not permit oneself excesses, except with persons whom one wishes soon to leave.”
“One must not politicize science. But the converse is not necessarily true. There's no reason why scientists can not go into the public sphere. In fact, I would argue they should.”
“one must not prostrate oneself before the minor impossibilities, otherwise the major impossibilities would never come into view.”
Source: Letters to Felice
“One must not put a loaded rifle on the stage if no one is thinking of firing it.”
“One must not speak of such things. One is still scarred from that experience.”
Source: Cecelia Ahern 2-Book Valentine Collection: PS I Love You, Where Rainbows End
“One must not think slightingly of the paradoxical…for the paradox is the source of the thinker’s passion, and the thinker without a paradox is like a lover without feeling: a paltry mediocrity.”
“One must not think that a person who is suffering is not praying. He is offering up his sufferings to God, and many a time he is praying much more truly than one who goes away by himself and meditates his head off, and, if he has squeezed out a few tears, thinks that is prayer.”
“One must not trifle with love”
“One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.”
Source: The Thesmophoriazusae
“One must obey the man whom the city sets up in power in small things and in justice and in its opposite.”
“One must observe the proper rites.”
Source: The Little Prince:
“One must open men's eyes, not tear them out.”
“One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.”
Source: The Art of Worldly Wisdom
“One must picture everything in the world as an enigma, and live in the world as if in a vast museum of strangeness.”
“One must placate large strange men in the middle of nowhere.”
Source: Nine Perfect Strangers
“One must place one's principles in big things. For the small, graciousness will suffice.”
Source: Notebooks, 1951-1959
“One must plan for the future and anticipate the future without fearing the future.”
Source: Ship of Magic
“One must practice slowly, then more slowly, and finally slowly.”
“One must pray first, but afterwards one must help oneself. God does not care for cowards.
--"Wanda”
“One must pray first, but afterwards one must help oneself. God does not care for cowards.”
“One must put oneself in every one's position. To understand everything is to forgive everything.”
Source: War and Peace
“One must put things in perspective - I've been given a circumstance with very little time to catch form and try and get an Olympic quota for the country.”
“One must reach out and try to grasp this astonishing finesse, that the value of life cannot be estimated.”
Source: Twilight of the Idols
“One must read all writers twice--the good as well as the bad. The one kind will be recognized; the other, unmasked.”
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
“One must read poetry with one's nerves.”
“One must read the journals of this period, and must hear the philistines talk, to get the horrible conviction that one is shut up in a house with fools. 'Thou shalt not call thy brother a fool; if thou dost . . . ' But I do not fear the curse, and I say, my brothers are arch-fools.”
Source: The Ego and Its Own
“One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.”
Source: Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi