O Quotes
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“One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. . . . Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.”
“One of the few things I know about writing is this: Spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, or for another book, give it, give it all, give it now.”
Source: The Abundance
“One of the few things I still miss from my Midwest childhood was this weird, deluded but unshakable conviction that everything around me existed all and only For Me. Am I the only one who had this queer deep sense as a kid? -- that everything exterior to me existed only insofar as it affected me somehow? -- that all things were somehow, via some occult adult activity, specially arranged for my benefit?”
Source: A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
“One of the few things in dance to match the Royal Ballet's curtain calls is the Royal Ballet's dancing.”
“One of the few things in life that cannot possibly do harm in the end is the honest pursuit of the truth.”
Source: Pocket Handbook of Christian Apologetics
“One of the few things that can't be recycled is wasted time.”
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens
“One of the few things to be said for [turning 80] is that one has at least achieved an age at which one can die without people being shocked.”
“One of the few times I saw my mother cry was when Lennon died, and the other time was when Elvis died.”
“One of the few times I'm hit emotionally is when I listen to the tapes sadists make of torturing their victims. There the person is currently suffering, you can hear them suffer, and that calls out for an empathic response. But when they're dead, when they're no longer suffering, when it's over, it's hard to feel empathetic for the corpse.”
“One of the few times in a man's life when he is not full of shit!!
The morning of a colonoscopy. Enough said!”
“One of the few ways I can almost be certain I'll understand something is by sitting down and writing about it. Because by forcing yourself to write about it and putting it down in words, you can't avoid having your say on the subject. You might be wrong, but you have to think about it very intensely to write about it.”
“One of the findings that really interests me is that, although we think we ACT because of the way we FEEL, we often FEEL because of the way we ACT. So an almost uncanny way to change your feelings is to act the way you WISH you felt.”
“One of the finest beliefs I developed years ago that helped me to enjoy all of my life experience was the idea that there are no bad experiences, that no matter what I go through in life - whether it's a challenging experience or a pleasurable one - every experience provides me something of value if I look for it.”
Source: Awaken The Giant Within
“One of the finest drummers I’ve ever heard, Ringo Starr has earned for himself the love and respect of music lovers worldwide as a daedal drummer and lively singer. He rolled smoothly on the drums in a song like The Beatles’ A DAY IN THE LIFE. On HERE COMES THE SUN, he hit the skins with dexterity and vim. His voice as a singer carries the weight of sempiternal melody, as it ought to be distributed on the edge of clarity. His song PHOTOGRAPH runs deep in me with the sweet but gentle rage of bacchanal principles.”
“One of the finest magicians you can see is David Oliver.”
“One of the finest minds I've ever known...even if he was a priest.”
“One of the first actions we take at Passages is to ruthlessly scrutinize, always under a doctor's supervision and care, the specific necessity of any mind- altering or mood-altering medications that our clients are taking. As soon as any non essential drugs are out of their systems, the feelings they were trying to suppress usually emerge. When that happens, we can see what symptoms the client was masking with drugs or alcohol.”
Source: The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery
“one of the first acts of the Young Lords in Chicago was to join the Rainbow Coalition-uniting with our allies, our brothers and sisters, in the Black Panther Party, the Brown Berets, the Young Patriots, and Rising Up Angry. The Young Lords understood the importance of collaboration and of building a broad people's movement in order to transform society.”
Source: Through the Eyes of Rebel Women: The Young Lords, 1969-1976
“One of the first and foremost duties of the teacher is not to give his students the impression that mathematical problems have little connection with each other, and no connection at all with anything else. We have a natural opportunity to investigate the connections of a problem when looking back at its solution.”
Source: How to solve it: a new aspect of mathematical method
“One of the first and most difficult steps in a science is to conceive clearly the nature of the magnitudes about which we are arguing.”
Source: The Theory of Political Economy
“One of the first bands to break out of Seattle was Heart.”
“One of the first big bubbles, of course, was the huge and horrible South Sea Bubble in England. And the aftermath was interesting. Many of you probably don't remember what happened after the South Sea Bubble, which caused an enormous financial contraction, and a lot of pain. They banned publicly traded stock in England for decades.”
“One of the first bills I helped passed was the Shore Protection Fund, which provides a stable source of funding for shore protection, something very important for Monmouth County and the entire Jersey Shore.”
“One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.”
Source: Samuel Butler's notebooks
“One of the first cassette tapes I ever purchased was the Rambo III score. I was not allowed to see Rambo, but my mom would allow me to buy the music, so I would listen to that score over and over and imagine the movie. But those limitations and not being able to access those things made me so much more excited about them.”
“One of the first choices we make every day is your attitude. Wake up and put on an attitude of thanksgiving!”
“One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.”
“One of the first dates I had with Braden was to see a zombie movie.... As we watched humans infected with the virus attack others, Braden leaned closer to me. 'I would kill you myself before I let them get you,' he whispered, and he kissed the spot on my neck that always made me shiver.”
Source: Mad Honey
“One of the first decisions I made, as the director of "Hide and Seek," was that our film would be silent and use underscoring of original music that I was planning on composing. The decision was mostly predicated on knowing how time consuming the editing of dialogue can be and given the various locations we shot in, I didn't want to worry about having to mix room tones in such a short amount of time.”
“One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.”
“One of the first essentials is a policy of unreserved political cooperation with all the nations of the world.”
“One of the first examples of forensic science solving a murder appears in a book called The Washing Away of Wrongs, published in 1247 by Song Ci, a Chinese coroner and detective....Metallic green flies descend in a chaotic swarm and then, as if collectively alerted, land on one sickle, crawling all over it as the other sickles lie undisturbed. The magistrate knew traces of blood and human tissue attract blowflies....But forensic science advancements are really just about finding the latest way to draw a blowfly to a bloody sickle. The goal is the same as it was in thirteenth-century rural China: cellular certainty establishing guilt.”
Source: I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
“One of the first issues I dealt with was the struggle to find a language, to find my own words.”
“One of the first items of Congressional business in 2006 will be an effort to renew the USA Patriot Act.”
“One of the first jobs I ever had was opening clams in a seafood restaurant, so I'm pretty quick at it.”
“One of the first laws against air pollution came in 1300 when King Edward I decreed the death penalty for burning of coal. At least one execution for that offense is recorded. But economics triumphed over health considerations, and air pollution became an appalling problem in England.”
“One of the first lessons a necromancer learns is the art of playing dumb. Of course, one problem with playing dumb is that is seeps into your everyday life. ~Jaime Vegas”
Source: Otherworld Secrets: An Anthology
“One of the first lessons a president has to learn is that every word he says weighs a ton.”
“One of the first lessons he or she learns is that in baseball anything, absolutely anything, can happen. Just two days ago as I write this, something happened that had never happened in baseball before.”
“One of the first lessons I learned as a mom was to forgive myself for not being perfect and to try to prioritize what was really important. I had to really accept very early on that after a while, reading a script and finding the form for the class trip, it was hard to realize which one had priority at times. So I just had to say, "You're doing the best you can, and when you make a mistake, apologize. Your kids know that you love them."”
“One of the first lessons I learned in working life was that you don't need to like every one of your colleagues, and they don't need to like you either. You just have to respect them, and getting their respect in return.”
Source: What I Wish I Had Known
“One of the first lessons one learns is that the mind is a powerful factor in everything you do, including those exercises that seem to require a maximum of physical strength.”
Source: Zen in the Martial Arts
“One of the first lessons you learn as an actor is to listen.”
“One of the first memories I have was watching Whoopi Goldberg perform her one-woman show on Broadway on HBO. She moved seamlessly through an array of spirited and soul-stirring characters, each one holding a mirror up to me and allowing me in many ways to see a reflection of myself on screen.”
“One of the first movies I ever saw was 'Batman,' based on the TV series with Adam West and Burt Ward.”
“One of the first obligations of art is to make all useful things beautiful.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)
“One of the first observations to make in conversation is the state, or the character, and the education of the person to whom we speak.”
“One of the first papers I wrote at the University of Wisconsin, in 1977, was on stem cells. I realized that if I changed the environment that these cells were in, I could turn the cells into bone, and if I changed the environment a bit more, they would form fat cells.”
“One of the first pieces of advice I was ever given, on my first job was, you should always buy something to treat yourself to say well done for getting the job! However I've not followed on that through yet... I've always wanted a tattoo, something to mark my experience.”
“One of the first principles of decorative art is that in all manufactures ornament must hold a place subordinate to that of utility; and when, by its exuberance, ornament interferes with utility, it is misplaced and vulgar.”