O Quotes
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“One of the aspects I like about the film is that there is a kind of emotional, psychological discussion during the storytelling, ... Before taking a drug, go through yourself, experience yourself, all your hopes and fears in your own time. Before the pharmacology, do the psychology.”
“One of the aspects of form that I have been very interested in is stasis - the concept of form which is not so directional in time, not so much climactic form, but rather form which allows time, to stand still.”
“One of the assignments of leaders is to always HELP PEOPLE SET THEIR MINDS RIGHT.”
“One of the attractive things about being in Scotland is that we have a very good pipeline of new people coming into the company from the excellent universities around us.”
“One of the attributes of love . . . is to bring harmony and order out of chaos.”
Source: From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies, Third Edition
“One of the attributes of the saint is that he has no fear, for fear is anticipating some disagreeable event that might come or expecting that something beloved might pass away in the future. The saint is concerned only with the present moment. He has no future to fear.”
Source: Travelling the Path of Love: Sayings of Sufi Masters
“One of the author's most ancient roles is to call the community to account for its hypocrisies and bad faith.”
Source: Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings
“One of the authors, then a department head, found that this worked when a colleague was trying to manipulate and bully him (about office space); looking right at the colleague and loudly saying, “Don't mess with me, Jack. I teach negotiations!” made him back off. Jack was much nicer from then on, because he assumed his ploys wouldn't work.”
Source: Influence Without Authority
“One of the awful secrets of seventeen is that it still has seven hiding inside it. Sometimes seven comes tumbling out, even when seventeen wants to be Grown-Up and proud. This is also one of the awful secrets of seventy.”
“One of the awful things about writing when you are a Christian is that for you the ultimate reality is the Incarnation, the present reality is the Incarnation, and nobody believes in the Incarnation; that is, nobody in your audience. My audience are the people who think God is dead. At least these are the people I am conscious of writing for.”
Source: The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
“One of the axioms of organizing is that you organize people where they are, and where people are, in much of their lives, is in their communities.”
“One of the bad habits I developed in very high altitude astronomy was eating a bowl of free ice cream for breakfast, as the free cooked breakfast would make me feel really sickly when at the summit of Mauna Kea.”
“One of the baffling things about life is that the purposes of institutions may be ideal, while their administration, dependent upon the faults and weaknesses of human beings, may be bad.”
“One of the basic causes for all the trouble in the world today is that people talk too much and think too little. They act impulsively without thinking. I always try to think before I talk.”
“One of the basic conditions for the victory of socialism is the arming of the workers Communist and the disarming of the bourgeoisie the middle class.”
“One of the basic laws of human existence is: find yourself, know yourself, be yourself.”
“One of the basic motifs in fairy tales is that you find the poor and unfortunate along the side of the road, and when they beg for help, if you give it to them, you end up succeeding. If you don't give it to them, you end up being turned into a frog or something. It's something that's been around for thousands of years, a concept that's been around for thousands of years.”
“One of the basic philosophical tenets of conservatism - which says that the more power devolves from the federal government to the states, the greater individual freedom grows - is just flatly contradicted by crucial junctures in the country's life, most conspicuously in the 1860s and 1960s, when it's been the federal government that's interceded against the states to secure individual freedom.”
“One of the basic points is kindness. With kindness, with love and compassion, with his feeling that is the essence of brotherhood, sisterhood, one will have inner peace. This compassionate feeling is the basis of inner peace.”
“One of the basic rules of the universe is that nothing is perfect. Perfection simply doesn't exist.....Without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist”
“One of the basic steps in saving a threatened species is to learn more about it: its diet, its mating and reproductive processes, its range patterns, its social behavior.”
“One of the basic tenets of radical feminism is that any woman in the world has more in common with any other woman regardless of class, race, age, ethnic group, nationality - than any woman has with any man.”
Source: Going out of our minds: the metaphysics of liberation
“One of the basic things about a string is that it can vibrate in many different shapes or forms, which gives music its beauty.”
“One of the basic things we should avoid is to criticize others. Better to criticize yourself. Criticize yourself, criticize your brothers and sisters, criticize your country, criticize all the habits you have and laugh at yourself, is the best way. If you know how to laugh at yourself then you will not object or will not stand in the way of any creativity of another person.”
“One of the basic troubles with radio and television news is that both instruments have grown up as an incompatible combination of show business, advertising and news. Each of the three is a rather bizarre and demanding profession. And when you get all three under one roof, the dust never settles.”
“One of the basic ways to avoid injury is to always make sure to stretch and warm up your body. This will loosen up your muscles, which will help to avoid common strain injuries such as shin splints and ankle strains.”
“One of the basics of a good system of innovation is diversity. In some ways, the stronger the culture (national, institutional, generational, or other), the less likely it is to harbor innovative thinking. Common and deep-seated beliefs, widespread norms, and behavior and performance standards are enemies of new ideas. Any society that prides itself on being harmonious and homogeneous is very unlikely to catalyze idiosyncratic thinking. Suppression of innovation need not be overt. It can be simply a matter of peoples walking around in tacit agreement and full comfort with the status quo.”
“One of the beauties about being an actor is that nothing really has to make sense. You just do it and live it and hope it comes out and try to find the truth in what's in the text in your own way and hopefully you can find truth in the text and everything else just comes.”
“One of the beauties of 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' is the very delicate and strange relationship between the two main characters.”
“One of the beauties of an economy coordinated by price movements is that nobody has to understand it in order for it to work.”
“One of the beauties of art is that it reflects an artist's entire life. What I've learned over the past 30 years is really beginning to inform what I make. I hope that process continues until I die.”
“One of the beauties of being an artist is that you can create a whole new world, with circumstances that are better in your invented world than they are in the real world.”
“One of the beauties of cycling is that pedalling alone on a long, empty road allows a lot of time for protracted and uninterrupted trains of thoughts.”
Source: Off the Rails
“One of the beauties of the Buddhadharma is there are so many approaches, and not everything is right for everybody.”
“One of the beauties of working in radio is the way a whole setting can be richly evoked simply by the addition to the track of a little birdsong and a church bell in the distance.”
“One of the beautiful and terrible things about America is you can go there and still be whatever you want, if you bust your ass and you have some luck.”
“One of the beautiful things about baseball is that every once in a while you come into a situation where you want to, and where you have to, reach down and prove something.”
Source: Throwing Heat: The Autobiography of Nolan Ryan
“One of the beautiful things about baseball is the history.”
“One of the beautiful things about the idea of living forever is what that does to your soul and how it changes you.”
“One of the beautiful things about the US National Parks is that they created specifically for the enjoyment of all people -- in the beginning, now, and for the future.”
Source: The National Parks Journal: Plan & Record Your Trips to the US National Parks
“One of the beautiful things about writing is that it offers an inner life that's disciplined and at the same time wild. Not in any way servile or submissive. It exists outside of institutional and other forms of authority even when being affected by them. On what almost feels like a cellular level, it's anathema to labeling and enforced divisions.”
“One of the bellwether marks of the growth and vitality of the Church is the construction of temples. We will keep on working to bring the temples to the people, making it more convenient for Latter day Saints everywhere to receive the blessings which can only be had in these holy houses.”
“One of the benchmarks of great communicators is their ability to listen not just to what's being said, but to what's not being said as well. They listen between the lines.”
“One of the benefits in making a bold move to initiate and facilitate change in your life is in knowing you are not alone.”
Source: Who Told You That?: Validating the Voices and Qualifying Your Choices
“One of the benefits of a bad education is the constant pleasure of discovery.”
“One of the benefits of a properly functioning democracy is minority rights and majority rule.”
“One of the benefits of aligning yourself with an indistinct cluster of people is that claiming to feel their pain is often enough.”
Source: I Can Make You Hate
“One of the benefits of being a mature well-educated woman is that you're not afraid of expletives. And you have no fear to put a fool in his place. That's the power of language and experience. You can learn a lot from Shakespeare.”
“One of the benefits of being an artist is being very observant.”
“One of the benefits of being divorced is that you no longer need to listen to your ex's assessment of the appropriateness of your actions.”