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 key pleasures of receiving a letter is the act of holding and entering the envelope - a sort of cross between Christmas and sex.”
Source: The artful dodger: images & reflections
“One of the key premises on which Mindfulness-Based leadership is built is that leadership is a role, not you.”
Source: Mindfulness-Based Leadership: The Art of Being a Leader - Not Becoming One
“One of the key problems is that the Germans know what they do because everywhere they go there's a 'made in Germany' label on it - they can feel proud of Volkswagens and Audis and Mercedes.”
“One of the key problems of the business world is that greed has become culturally acceptable.”
“One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government.”
“One of the key purposes of mindfulness is to allow you to reclaim the driver’s seat and start being fully there in every moment and every experience.”
Source: Mindfulness in 8 Days: How to find inner peace in a world of stress and anxiety
“One of the key qualities of all stories is that they are made to be shared.”
“One of the key qualities that you need to be a great hockey player is fantastic anticipation and feel for the game - if you know where the puck is going before it is hit, that is half the battle.”
“One of the key roles of an ethical AI system is to protect humanity from air pollution and ensure pure and healthy air for the next generation to breathe.”
Source: Ethical AI Systems: Frameworks, Principles, and Advanced Practices
“One of the key skills you'll need to bring change to the world will really test your creativity, as well as your sanity, your patience, and your resolve. It has to do with how to take your dream and make it as real as possible. It doesn't really matter what your dream is, "going big" means doing it to the utmost. To do that, you need one thing: other dreamers to share your dream. If you learn to make your dream a team effort, you'll find the key to growing big.”
“One of the key things about the entitlement and power of patriarchy, but also within feminism, is not that it's wilful nastiness. But you can't ask for permission. You can negotiate and you can bring people on board and you can build a base but you can't expect for it to be given.”
“One of the key things in the tech business in particular is that you need to be able to push boundaries.”
“One of the key things is to encourage people to have a go in the kitchen and not to be embarrassed by it. Try and spend a couple of nights a week cooking something up. It doesn't have to be complicated, it can be something really simple.”
“One of the key things that we did at Bank of North Dakota that I worked to try to do with our state economic development is make sure we are customer-service oriented.”
“One of the keys is, and it may sound funny, talking about characters with super powers, but one of the keys is to make your characters as realistic and believable as possible. Even if they have super powers, you say to yourself, "Well, if somebody had a super power like this, what would his life be like? Wouldn't he still maybe have to go to the dentist or wouldn't he have to worry about making a living? What about his love life?" You've got to make characters that your reader can believe exists or might exist.”
“One of the keys to achieving understanding is humility.”
Source: Trying to be Muslim
“One of the keys to ensuring accountability is to have civil servants who witness fraud, waste and abuse to blow the whistle.”
“One of the keys to focus, and why I said cofounders that aren't friends really struggle, is that you can't be focused without good communication.”
“One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.”
“One of the Keys to Happiness, is to surround yourself with the right people.”
“One of the keys to harnessing this potentially unlimited power of the mind is to expand your level of self-awareness.”
“One of the keys to learning for me has been to not get so hung up on the past. It's important to remember the past, but that doesn't mean you have to torture yourself with it by reliving it every single day.”
“One of the keys to our present definition of good taste is that it is better to be kind than to be 'correct.' There is no situation in which it is smart to be nasty.”
Source: Vogue's book of etiquette: a complete guide to traditional forms and modern usage
“One of the keys to success is an unflinching belief that there are no rules. Anyone who's ever succeeded has gone on that premise; not buying established procedures, business or otherwise. The naysayers are inevitably left behind amid shouts of 'it cannot be done' and "should not be done'."”
Source: Satan Speaks!
“One of the keys to taking life as it is, is learning to embrace uncertainty. Life is full of uncertainties, and it's impossible to know what the future holds.”
Source: Snackable Existentialism: Small Portions, Big Ideas
“One of the keystones of romantic love - and also of the ecstatic religion practiced by mystics - is the powerful desire to become one with the beloved.”
Source: A Natural History of Love: Author of the National Bestseller A Natural History of the Senses
“One of the kind of unexpectedly liberating things of becoming this global fugitive is the fact that you don't worry so much about tomorrow. You think more about today. And unexpectedly, I like that very much.”
“One of the kindest things you can do for the stranger you once loved is to guard the memories and secrets you shared. In that silence lives respect for them, for yourself, and for the love you’re building now.”
“One of the ladies asked about that awful Bobby Kennedy, and Goldwater responded by speaking about the attorney general with touching affection. (Mary) McGrory recalled how Jack Kennedy behaved at a similar stage in his campaign: spouting statistics, attacking carefully chosen enemies and puffing all the right friends, quoting dead Greeks, never cracking a joke lest he remind the voters how young he was.”
Source: Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus
“One of the ladies handed her a red velvet hooded cloak. Little Red Riding Hood. This big bad wolf in a leather kilt wanted to eat her all up.”
Source: A Highland Wolf Christmas
“One of the lambs fixed its attention on Jared. “Baa,” it flirted. “Boo,” said Jared. “Oh my God, Jared. Don’t tough-talk the lambs.” "It was giving me a funny look.”
Source: Unspoken
“One of the landmines that church planters never dodge is the landmine
of leadership development. I will never forget the day when I realized
that there are no such things as 'ready-made leaders'.”
Source: Church Planting Landmines
“One of the large consolations for experiencing anything unpleasant is the knowledge that one can communicate it.”
“One of the largest barbarians spouted after donning Trantan royalty clothing, "I would be a great nobleman. I look splendid.”
Source: Primitives of Kar
“One of the last courses I taught was on the Russian short story, which I love.”
“ONE OF THE LAST GREAT REALIZATIONS is that life will not be what you dreamed.”
Source: Light Years
“One of the last times that we played in the area before I wrote "Allentown," I remember a guy coming up to us and saying, "You're never coming back here." I said, "Why do you say that?" He said, "Well, you're probably gonna become a big star. Nobody who ever becomes big comes back here." And I felt so sad for this kid, he seemed so bitter about it. I said, "Well, I'm coming back, no matter what."”
“One of the laudable by-products of the Freudian quackery is the discovery that lying, in most cases, is involuntary and inevitable--that the liar can no more avoid it than he can avoid blinking his eyes when a light flashes or jumping when a bomb goes off behind him.”
Source: Mencken Chrestomathy
“One of the laws of nature," Gordon said, "is that half the people have got to be below average.""For a Gaussian distribution, yeah," Cooper said. "Sad, though.”
Source: Timescape
“One of the laws of paleontology is that an animal which must protect itself with thick armour is degenerate. It is usually a sign that the species is on the road to extinction.”
“One of the leading causes of divorce is sexual incompatibility. Why not mandate premarital sex, overseen, of course, by the Marriage Board to ensure that it was carried out and completed as required? The final exam question could be: "Was it good for you two?" For good measure, the engaged couple should be required to work together on a home improvement project like installing a kitchen sink or finishing a basement. That's the ultimate test of a marital relationship.”
“One of the leading causes of obesity is the misbelief that, when it comes to juice, ‘100%’ means ‘sugar-free.”
“One of the leading theories of why electroconvulsive therapy is effective for most severe depressions is that it causes a loss of short-term memory - patients feel better because they can't remember why they were sad.”
Source: Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ
“One of the leading uses of photography by the mass media came to be called photojournalism. From the late 'twenties' to the early 'fifties' what might have been the golden age of this speciality - photographers worked largely as the possessors of special and arcane skills, like the ancient priests who practiced and monopolized the skills of pictography or carving or manuscript illumination. In those halcyon days the photographer enjoyed a privileged status.”
“One of the learning curves I'm not going to have is being a head coach.”
“One of the least arduous but most productive of gardening jobs, the magic of deadheading never fails to delight me. It was a revelation when the principle was explained to me: that flowers are the attempt by the plant to reproduce itself. So if you cut the heads off before the flower turns into seeds, the plant will continue to flower.”
“One of the least enjoyable things for me to do is to talk about myself.”
“One of the least impressive liberties is the liberty to starve. This particular liberty is freely accorded to authors.”
“One of the least secure buildings in the world is a large city center hospital.”
“One of the less attractive aspects of human nature is our tendency to hate the people we haven't treated very well; it's much easier than accepting guilt. If we can convince ourselves that the people we betrayed or enslaved were subhuman monsters in the first place, then our guilt isn't nearly so black as we secretly know that it is. Humans are very, very good at shifting blame and avoiding guilt.”