O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“One of the best things in the world to be is a boy; it requires no experience, but needs some practice to be a good one”
Source: Being A Boy
“One of the best things I’ve read about that inexplicably, but endlessly, fascinating group of people, the so-called Serious Collectors of 78s. Petrusich burrows into not just their personalities but the hunger that unites and drives their obsessions. She writes elegantly, and makes you think, and most important manages to hang onto her skepticism in the midst of her own collecting quest.”
“One of the best things that came out of the Carter administration was the energy policy. The best things in it were renewable energy.”
“One of the best things that ever happened to me is that I'm a woman. That is the way all females should feel.”
“One of the best things that ever happened to me was Rocky Horror being a total flop in New York as a play. I mean, it was a disaster, and it was the night of the long knives as far as the critics were concerned.”
“One of the best things that happened for me as a playwright is becoming a comic-book writer.”
“One of the best things that's come out of the Seattle protests is the birth of the Independent Media Center. It's not as though the independent media movement wasn't already there, but it's given it another jump-start. There's the feeling that not only should we report on our underground culture and our own situation, but now we have to start telling people what's really going on at a time when everything from CNN to USA Today is as tightly controlled as Tass or Pravda.”
“One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is.”
Source: Without Me You're Nothing: The Essential Guide to Home Computers
“One of the best things to do sometimes is simply to be.”
“One of the best things you can do for a relationship is become the best and most complete YOU that you can possibly be. Second best thing? Unconditionally love and support your friend/partner/child/spouse in prioritizing the same work in their own life—but not necessarily in the same way.”
“One of the best things you can do for the people you love is learn to let them go.”
Source: Hey Humanity
“One of the best things you can do for yourself and your relationship is to learn how to take control of your emotions.”
Source: 50+ Ways to Keep Drama Out of Your Relationship
“One of the best things you can do in your work is to show up, serve others and trust others to also work with love and kindness to create desired results.”
“One of the best things you can relate to is a detailed story.”
“One of the best things you can teach a child is to value the freedom of others as much as she values her own freedom!”
“One of the best times for figuring out who you are & what you really want out of life? Right after a break-up.”
Source: The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence
“One of the best uses of your time is to increase your competence in your key result areas.”
Source: Mastering Your Time
“One of the best way to save the economy of a country is to save electricity.”
“One of the best ways countries can combat poverty is to use development assistance to promote a growing private sector, in which the poor can fully participate.”
“One of the best ways into the business is to get a job with a production, which you can do by cold-calling or by getting your résumé out there, and also through contacts. That's where nepotism really helps.”
“One of the best ways of avoiding necessary and even urgent tasks is to seem to be busily employed on things that are already done.”
Source: The affluent society
“One of the best ways of becoming an effective parent—or, for that matter, an effective human being—is to understand the perceptions of other people, to be able to “get into their world.”
Source: Positive Discipline: The First Three Years: From Infant to Toddler--Laying the Foundation for Raising a Capable, Confident Child
“One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education.”
Source: My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962
“One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education... The second way of enslaving a people is to suppress the sources of information, not only by burning books but by controlling all the other ways in which ideas are transmitted.”
Source: My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962
“One of the best ways of keeping your temper in an argument, as most of us know only too well, is not to listen to anything the other person has to say.”
“One of the best ways of repressing emotions is artificial certainty.”
“One of the best ways of showing pluralism in action is for people to do service together, and that has so many benefits.”
“One of the best ways to [improve my longevity] that is to minimize injury or avoid it by being more flexibleespecially when we are meeting at the net. There is a hitter and blocker, which means a lot foot contact, where you can twist your ankle easily.”
“One of the best ways to achieve justice is to expose injustice.”
“One of the best ways to attract capital is to outperform the competition.”
Source: The Art of Startup Fundraising
“One of the best ways to celebrate righteous history is to make more of it, make more righteous history!”
“One of the best ways to convince someone is to use a telling example, a story, a narrative. When Steve Jobs announced a new product, he told a story, exzlaining how a product would change the world as we know it. He turned Apple into a story whose challenges and adventures you want to hear about.”
“One of the best ways to cultivate a possibility mind set is to prompt yourself to dream one size bigger than you normally do. Let's face it, most people dream too small, they don't think big enough.”
Source: How Successful People Think: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life
“One of the best ways to educate our hearts is to look at our interaction with other people, because our relationships with others are fundamentally a reflection of our relationship with ourselves.”
Source: First Things First
“One of the best ways to elevate your character is to emulate worthy role models”
“One of the best ways to expand his horizon is through a regular reading program.”
“One of the best ways to fight poverty and end violence is through education.”
“One of the best ways to fight poverty and to fight terrorism is to educate girls and bring women into the formal labor force.”
“One of the best ways to get an individual voter out to the polls is through a personal appeal. In this sense, a personal appeal means an appeal to a specific person and not people in general.”
Source: The Secret of Greatness
“One of the best ways to improve men's behaviour is to enlighten their minds: and today, against the strong opposition of the Church and the Establishment, Scientific Humanism is attempting to do just that.”
“One of the best ways to influence people is to make them feel important.”
“One of the best ways to influence people is to make them feel important. Most people enjoy those rare moments when others make them feel important. It is one of the deepest human desires.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“One of the best ways to keep a great secret is to shout it.”
“One of the best ways to know you're completely wrong, is to behave as if you're complete right.”
“One of the best ways to learn anything is to teach yourself.”
“One of the best ways to learn how to deal with jealousy productively is to identify the root cause of what is causing your jealousy. If someone gets a big car or house or something, is it really their material possessions that bother you or is there something deeper that you crave?
Going from this example you may analyse your jealousy and come to a conclusion to it may not be riches you want but maybe the respect and adulation from society that come along with it. If you go after the material possessions without knowing your true desires, you may not be happy even if you get them, because what you really wanted was something else.”
Source: UnLearn: A Practical Guide to Business and Life
“One of the best ways to let Him inside you is to honestly share your feelings with Him. You need to be brutally honest with Him and with yourself in how you are feeling. By pouring out your heart to Him honestly—being totally transparent and vulnerable—you create tremendous intimacy. You are letting Him inside you.
"The goal in sharing your heart with Him is to talk about the things that really matter; your feelings and emotions on a subject that is really important to you.”
Source: Intimate Life Lessons; developing the intimacy with God you already have.
“One of the best ways to make growth personal is to give employees a share in their firm, a real incentive to go the extra mile, more of a 'John Lewis Economy' if you like...We know that firms where employees are engaged and own a stake do at least as well as other companies in the good times and have performed even better in recent bad times. Expanding and recruiting at a much faster rate and achieving better productivity...So, why do they make up just 2% of our business landscape?”
“One of the best ways to make yourself happy in the present is to recall happy times from the past. Photos are a great memory-prompt, and because we tend to take photos of happy occasions, they weight our memories to the good.”
“One of the best ways to make yourself happy is to make other people happy. One of the best ways to make other people happy is to be happy yourself.”