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 most poignant pieces of recent science fiction for me was the portrayal of the adults in the Pixar film WALL-E. I feel like we're on the cusp of becoming fat babies in floating chairs being fed everything in shake form, and I feel like I am as prone to laziness as anybody.”
“One of the most popular current errors, and the one out of which springs most of the noisy, blustering religious activity in evangelical circles, is the notion that as times change the church must change with them.”
“One of the most popular narcotics to ease the pain of economy is cherishing the belief that better days are ahead. This is both efficacious and commendable, but it sometimes turns out to be a habit-forming drug. ... Things to which you look forward too long are almost invariably disappointing when you get them, and you might die first anyway.”
“One of the most positive things about America is just like what we're all doing here today. We're standing on Jensen Beach, we're watching a beautiful sunrise over the Atlantic. It's all because of men and women who were willing to make a sacrifice so that we can enjoy these freedoms.”
“one of the most powerful abilities a person can have is not to care what other people think about them.”
Source: "A" is for Actress
“One of the most powerful and sacred relationships an individual has is with their mother, even if it is marred by emotional conflicts, disfunction, or abandonment. Mothers do the best they can with the resources they have to provide a nurturing environment for their babies.”
Source: The Flower of Heaven: Opening the Divine Heart Through Conscious Friendship & Love Activism
“One of the most powerful aspects of drumming and the reason people have done it since the beginning of being human is that it changes people's consciousness. Through rhythmic repetition of ritual sounds, the body, the brain and the nervous system are energized and transformed. When a group of people play a rhythm for an extended period of time, their brain waves become entrained to the rhythm and they have a shared brain wave state. The longer the drumming goes on, the more powerful the entrainment becomes. It's really the oldest holy communion.”
“One of the most powerful aspects of momentum is that it creates a positive feedback loop. As we make progress towards our goals, we build confidence, motivation and a sense of momentum that helps us to tackle even bigger challenges. This positive cycle of growth and success can be incredibly energising and rewarding and can help us to achieve things we never thought possible by changing our paradigm.”
Source: Paradigm Shift: Change Your Mindset and Live the Life of Your Dreams
“One of the most powerful aspects of service - being different. What is WOW? WOW! is great service! WOW! separates the EXTRAordinary from the ordinary. WOW! Separates the strong from the weak. WOW! separates the sincere from the insincere. WOW! separates the pro's from the con's. WOW! separates the yes's from the no's. WOW! is the full measure of your personal power, and the way you use it. WOW! is doing what others can't (or won't). WOW! is what you do for others in an exceptional way. WOW! is the ticket to success. Your ticket. Are you WOW?”
Source: Customer Satisfaction is Worthless, Customer Loyalty is Priceless: How to Make Customers Love You, Keep Them Coming Back and Tell Everyone They Know
“One of the most powerful concepts, one which is a sure cure for lack of confidence, is the thought that God is with you and helping you. This is one of the simplest teachings in religion, namely, that Almighty God will be your companion, will stand by you, help you, and see you through. No other idea is so powerful in developing self-confidence as this simple belief when practiced. To practice it simply affirm "God is with me; God is helping me; God is guiding me." Spend several minutes each day visualizing his presence. Then practice believing that affirmation.”
“One of the most powerful defences the media can offer for controversial actions is, of course, public interest.”
“One of the most powerful devices is to distort time, to go from human time to atomic time, geologic time. Sometimes you can actually accomplish that, with one unexpected word choice.”
“One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can go from talking about the way a minute passes to the way a century passes, or a lifetime.”
“One of the most powerful effects in your life is brought by Who-You-Think-You-Are. The moment your brain became functional, you began to build an image of who and what you believe yourself to be. All the events of your life have helped to create that image, the self-image of Who-You-Think-You-Are.”
Source: I Ching Life: Becoming Your Authentic Self
“One of the most powerful energies you can ever experience is gratitude.”
Source: The Attractor Factor: 5 Easy Steps for Creating Wealth (or Anything Else) from the Inside Out
“One of the most powerful experiences in which these questions would surface was listening to the guitar solo in Stairway to Heaven by Led Zeppelin. Some said the band had made a pact with the devil, that the song contained hidden satanic messages if played backwards. But for me, especially during the final solo, it felt like a portal opening onto something mysterious and absolute. As if those notes – in their apparent simplicity – held the power to evoke a longing for the infinite. Every chord seemed like a threshold to cross, an invitation to go beyond the visible and to question the deeper meaning of existence.”
Source: The Strength of Fragile Days: A Long Journey Across the Middle Lands
“One of the most powerful feelings in the world is after a really, really long run.”
“One of the most powerful forces in human nature is our belief that change is possible.”
“One of the most powerful forces in the world is the will of men and women who believe in themselves, who dare to hope and aim high, who go confidently after the things they want from life.”
“One of the most powerful forms of information is feedback on our own actions.”
Source: Successful Organizational Change: The Kotter-Cohen Collection (2 Books)
“One of the most powerful lessons in life is to recognize that no one can give you power, and many people don’t want you to have it. You have to find the courage to seize it, own it and hold on!”
“One of the most powerful lessons silence teaches us is to ponder”
“One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.”
Source: Sceptical Essays
“One of the most powerful opponents of happiness is indeed fear. Unfortunately, the chains that bind people to their comfortable mediocrity are the same ones that bind their future to an unsuccessful destiny. The courage to dream is the very first step. LISTENING TO YOUR DREAMS is the second!”
Source: Happy Divorce: How to turn your divorce into the most brilliant and rewarding opportunity of your life!
“One of the most powerful paths to personal peace is learning to live outside of the persistent push from the voice of perfectionism.”
Source: Giants At Play: Finding Wisdom, Courage, And Acceptance To Encounter Your Destiny
“One of the most powerful sayings I have come across is by Imam ash-Shafi'I, "My heart is at ease knowing that what was meant for me will never miss me, and that what misses me was never meant for me."”
“One of the most powerful shocks of the Middle Passage is the collapse of our tacit contract with the universe-the assumption that if we act correctly, if we are of good heart and good intentions, things will work out. We assume a reciprocity with the universe. If we do our part, the universe will comply. Many ancient stories, including the Book of Job, painfully reveal the fact that there is no such contract, and everyone who goes through the Middle Passage is made aware of it.”
Source: The Middle Passage: From Misery to Meaning in Midlife
“One of the most powerful things you can do is take responsibility for your life. Your choices. Your actions. Your Life.”
“One of the most powerful tools for empowering individuals and communities is making certain that any individual who wants to receive a quality education can do so.”
“One of the most powerful ways to keep people controlled is to use faith or guns or both.”
“One of the most powerful ways we can learn from others is to ask, ‘What do you think?’ and be open to the answer.”
“One of the most powerful wellsprings of creative energy, outstanding accomplishment, and self-fulfillment seems to be falling in love with something - your dreams, your image of the future.”
Source: The Manifesto: A Guide to Developing a Creative Career
“One of the most predictable things in life is there will be change. You are better off if you can have a say in the change. But you are ignorant or naive if you don't think there will be change, whether you want it to or not.”
“One of the most pressing questions faced by capitalist societies now, at the pinnacle of their productive capacities, is the question of what should be done with the time being saved by these gains in productivity. What meaning and content will we, as a society, choose to give this new-found free-time?
Will we use it to enhance our lives outside work, nourish our relationships and pursue our own self-development, or will economic rationality dictate that we spend just as much time and energy on work as we did before? [ch.one]”
Source: The Refusal of Work: The Theory and Practice of Resistance to Work
“One of the most prevalent standards made for women, has been the standard of men.”
Source: Reclaim Your Heart: Personal Insights on Breaking Free from Life's Shackles
“One of the most productive things that we ever do in our lives is to think. To be able to think is to be able to decide, to judge, to have opinions and convictions, and to entertain a point of view. To be able to think is to be able to love, to believe, to work, to originate, and to organize.”
“One of the most productive times in my early writing life was while I had a full-time job as a word processor in a law firm and also worked part-time at night, often working until 11:00 P.M.”
“One of the most profound choices we have is to sculpt the lens through which we experience our surroundings, the world. We can choose cynicism, a lens that dims the vibrancy of life, or we can choose wonder, a lens that magnifies the beauty in the ordinary.
This choice shapes our reality...
It's a choice we can revisit every morning, like opening the curtains to a new day.”
“One of the most profound things you can do to achieve peace in this life is to love yourself, by being yourself.”
“One of the most profound truths that Mahayana Buddhism teaches is that nirvana is samsara (the troubled world). [...] The same truth is expressed most beautifully in the Christian image of the Incarnation: God descends to reascend. There can be no ascension without descent. We must realize that Zen and Christianity are not telling two different stories but one story.”
Source: The Zen Teachings of Jesus
“One of the most puzzling things about a novel is that "the way it really was" half the time is, and half the time isn't, the way it ought to be in the novel.”
“One of the most radical and revolutionary things you can do is grow your own food and eat from the land.”
Source: Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
“One of the most radical things that you can do is really listen to someone.”
“One of the most radical things women can do is to love their body.”
“One of the most radical things you can do, is to actually believe women when they tell you about their experiences.”
“One of the most rebellious things a woman can do is allow people to think she’s mean.”
“One of the most recent things we did [in Perceval Press] is a reissue of a fantastic documentary about Russian prison tattoo culture by Alix Lambert called The Mark of Cain. We've done books from Twilight of Empire, that actually has forewords by Howard Zinn and Dennis Kucinich and others, to books of poetry, photography, painting - all kinds of books.”
“One of the most refreshing changes I've seen in recent years is the blending of genres - the pushing past the hard-and-fast lines of specific publishing categories.”
“One of the most remarkable of man's characteristics is his capacity for becoming used to conditions of almost any kind, whether good or bad, both in the self and in the environment, and once he has become used to such conditions they seem to him both right and natural. This capacity is a boon when it enables him to adapt himself to conditions which are desirable, but it may prove a great danger when the conditions are undesirable. When his sensory appreciation is untrustworthy, it is possible for him to become so familiar with seriously harmful conditions of misuse of himself that these malconditions will feel right and comfortable.”
“One of the most repellent spectacles at election times is the pretense of piety on the part of people running for office.”