O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Observing and understanding the social media phenomenon is one thing-leveraging this trend for advertising purposes is quite another. While most companies recognize the value of social media advertising opportunities, not many have figured out how to execute these kinds of campaigns and the unique risks they entail because of the potential that a viral marketing effort can backfire and actually harm a brand.”
“Observing daily silence periods requires the diligent following of a process. It is not about attaining a state of thoughtlessness. That’s not possible. And that’s not required either. What is possible, and important, is that you can still the mind and train it to attend only to the present. And like with everything else in Life, mastering this process requires disciplined application and rigorous practice. It is only through stilling the mind, through being in the now, that you learn the art of being happy despite the circumstances.”
“Observing desire without acting on it enlarges our freedom to choose how we live.”
Source: Radical Acceptance: Awakening the Love that Heals Fear and Shame
“Observing human variety can give pleasure, but so too can human sameness.”
“Observing humans and observing oneself yields a clear-minded starting point for literature.”
“Observing life in general, people very broadly seem to fall into two main camps: those who seem to have mastered the knack of successful living and those who still find it all a bit of a struggle.
And when I say successfully mastered it, I don't mean by amassing wealth or being at the top in some stressful career.
People who are healthy and getting more out of life. Those who are still struggling tend to be not so happy on the whole, and the enjoyment of life just isn't what it should be.”
Source: The Rules of Life: A personal code for living a better, happier, more successful kind of life
“Observing life, living through it. As you experience life some events call upon you to suffer through them and that's what brings inspiration.”
“Observing many companies in action, I am unable to point to a single instance in which stunning results were gotten without the active and personal leadership of the upper managers.”
“Observing others is not about copying them, rather it’s an opportunity to learn from them.”
Source: Open the Windows
“Observing sea, sky and stars, I sought to indicate their plastic function through a multiplicity of crossing verticals and horizontals. Impressed by the vastness of Nature, I was trying to express its expansion, rest and unity.”
Source: Plastic art and pure plastic art, 1937, and other essays, 1941-1943
“Observing someone doesn't mean that you know them. Too many folks think they know you when they really don't know you.”
“Observing someone without context amplifies the experience. The more we know, the less we are able to feel.”
Source: Eating the Dinosaur
“Observing that she was struggling with all her might to do the job of pouring the coffee, Nagare realized that she was still a child - a thought that made him happy.”
“Observing that the market was FREQUENTLY efficient, EMT Adherents went on to conclude incorrectly that it was ALWAYS efficient. The difference between these propositions is night and day.”
“Observing the happiness of others always makes the world make a little more sense all of a sudden, makes suffering a little more bearable, makes grief a little less suffocating.”
Source: Children of the Stars
“Observing the medical histories of various neurological syndromes is like observing the fascinating nerve cells of the human brain in action, while they construct what we so proudly call the Human Consciousness. They remind us of the overwhelming aspects of human silliness. They remind us how such a simple natural response of the human Biology, is misinterpreted as the “last surviving mystery” of this planet.”
Source: What is Mind?
“Observing the world, rather than engaging with it, meant I didn't have to invest emotionally. If I never got close to anyone, they couldn't leave me. Or it wouldn't hurt if they did. Better to be alone by choice - that was one thing I always had control over.
But now I realized I wasn't fooling anyone. The truth was, I wasn't trying my best - I was only living a shell of the life I knew was possible.
And I regretted it.”
Source: The Collected Regrets of Clover
“Observing your thoughts, feelings & sensations is the grist of the practice.”
“Observo el ir y venir de las olas y me doy cuenta de que yo no soy más que eso, una ola anónima sin nada en esta vida, que viene, se va y ya está, el mundo sigue y no se detiene.”
Source: La última raya
“Observé el cielo, preguntándome si realmente habría algo allí; un paraíso, un infierno, casitas de nube, ciudades voladoras o simplemente la nada misma.”
Source: El último latido de un sueño
“Obsesia persistenă pentru estetică, pentru cele mai fine detalii, să-și fi găsit izvorul nu în mândrie, ci în teama constantă de frumos?”
Source: Enigma Rikyū
“Obsess about customers, not competitors.”
“Obsess about the next customer, not only the ones you have.”
“Obsess about the quality of the product.”
“Obsess your way to success”
Source: 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
“Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace.”
Source: More Stately Mansions: The Unexpurgated Edition
“Obsessed is a word that the lazy use to describe the dedicated.”
“Obsessed people are more concerned with obeying God than doing what is expected or fulfilling the status quo. A person who is obsessed with Jesus will do things that don't always make sense in terms of success or wealth on this earth.”
Source: Living Crazy Love: An Interactive Workbook for Individual or Small-Group Study
“Obsessed with Christine to the end, his last statement as he left his cell was, 'to kill is the final possession'. But Muldowney was wrong. He had never possessed Christine; the resistance burning within her was too great.”
Source: The Spy Who Loved: The Secrets and Lives of Christine Granville
“Obsessed with success and wealth and despising failure and poverty, our society is systematically dividing the population into winners and losers, using institutions like the courts to speed the process.”
Source: The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap
“Obsessed? I don't know what the word means. I know there were times when I couldn't think of anything else. I used to stay in every weeknight in the hope that he might get free and call me. It felt like I had a disease I didn't want to get rid of. I suppose that's a definition of obsession, yes.”
Source: Mapping the Edge: A Novel
“Obsessing about weight is a big old waste of time.”
“Obsessing on evil is boring. Rousing fear is a hackneyed shtick. Wallowing is despair is a bad habit. Indulging in cynicism is akin to committing a copycat crime.”
“Obsessing over a boy makes the time fly.”
Source: The Queen of Kentucky
“Obsessing over [Clint's own] gender would make him dysphoric, sacrificing the many labors it took to reach this dreamlike idyll where he can just be.”
Source: American Teenager: How Trans Kids Are Surviving Hate and Finding Joy in a Turbulent Era
“Obsessing over something that has jarred your world is called coping.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“Obsessing over the future is not how God wants us to live, because showing us the future is not God's way.”
“Obsessing over what is wrong will not invite what is right. Dwelling in darkness keeps us from embracing the light. ”
“Obsessing over what isn’t invites anxiety, fear and more lack. Appreciating what is attracts miracles.”
Source: Divine Living: The Essential Guide To Your True Destiny
“Obsession and desperation for your goal, gets you the goal.”
“Obsession and possession are just sessions destined to end soon.”
Source: Just the Way I Feel
“Obsession and repetition in the process of making things is one constant element in my work.”
Source: Sandy Skoglund: reality under siege : a retrospective
“Obsession can be a great thing or it can also destroy lives.”
“obsession either boosts up feeling or
just blow it off . . .”
“obsession either boosts up feeling or just blow iy off...”
“Obsession for progression - leads to upgrading compulsions.”
“Obsession is a negative word, I do not think that obsession can bring positive things. Not only in tennis but, I mean in any situation of life.”
“Obsession is a young man's game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.”
“Obsession is a young man’s game.”
“Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.”