“When I'm on set, I do whatever I can to find my focus. One thing that stays pretty consistent for all my jobs is, I listen to a lot of music while I'm working. Because when there's all this stuff going on, for me to be able to put on headphones and listen to music helps me keep my focus,. A big part of creating a character for me is finding the general palette for what kind of music I'm going to be listening to.” KindI CanCharacterHelpingBigsAbleJobsStuffFocusOne ThingListeningFindingsCreatingHelp MeConsistentListening To MusicPaletteHeadphones Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt
“Genuine religion is not about speculating about God or the soul or about what happened in the past or will happen in the future; it cares only about one thing finding out exactly what should or should not be done in this lifetime.” ShouldSoulDoneHappensCarePastHappenedOne ThingFindingsLifetimeGenuine Author:Leo Tolstoy
“The present age delights in unearthing a great man's secrets; for one thing because we like to temper our admiration and also perhaps we have a vague hope of finding a clue to genius in such "revelations."” MenAgeSecretOne ThingGeniusFindingsDelightRevelationsGreat MenAdmirationTemperVagueClue Author:Andre Malraux
“One thing that seems to surprise the studios is finding out later my willingness to audition. Under the right circumstances, I actually enjoy it very much.” SeemsEnjoyOne ThingCircumstancesFindingsSurpriseStudiosWillingnessAuditions Author:Frank Welker
“One thing that I don't think I do is play characters. Once you start claiming that you can do something that you're not, you're crazy. I think scripts can really surprise you. You go, "Wow, I did not know that that response could come from me. I did not know that I had that in me." And so, the process of making the movie is just finding that and digging a little deeper.” ThinkingKnowsLittlesPlayCharacterProcessCan DoOne ThingCrazyFindingsSurpriseResponseScriptsDeeperWowDiggingCan Do Something Author:Kristen Stewart
“Certainly I've had the experience of thinking a person was one thing, and finding out they were another.” ThinkingPersonsOne ThingFindings Author:John Hawkes
“It is one thing to say that science is only equipped to test for natural causes and cannot speak to any others. It is quite another to insist that science proves that no other causes could possibly exist. . . . There would be no experimental model for testing the statement: 'No supernatural cause for any natural phenomenon is possible.' It is therefore a philosophical presupposition and not a scientific finding.” Would BeSpeakCausesNaturalOne ThingProveFindingsModelsTestsPhilosophicalStatementsPhenomenonTestingNatural Phenomena Author:Timothy Keller
“Many things in your life matter, but only one thing matters absolutely.It matters whether you succeed or fail in the eyes of the world. It matters whether you are healthy or not healthy, whether you are educated or not educated. It matter whether you are rich or poor - it certainly makes a difference in your life. Yes, all these things matter, relatively speaking, but they don't matter absolutely.There is something that matters more than any of those things and that is finding the essence of who you are beyond that short-lived entity, that short-lived personalized sense of self.” WorldSelfMatterEyeDifferencesPoorRichFailingOne ThingHealthySucceedFindingsEssenceWho You AreEducatedMaking A DifferenceEntitySense Of SelfShort LivedRich Or PoorPersonalized Book:Stillness Speaks Source: Stillness Speaks
“People who believe in 'universal health care' show remarkably little interest - usually none - in finding out what that phrase turns out to mean in practice, in those countries where it already exists, such as Britain, Sweden or Canada. For one thing, 'universal health care' in these countries means months of waiting for surgery that Americans get in a matter of weeks or even days.” PeopleBelieveMeanLittlesCountryMatterShowsCareTurnsWaitingInterestPracticeOne ThingWeekMonthsFindingsUniversalHealth CarePhrasesBritainCanadaSurgerySwedenUniversal Health Care Author:Thomas Sowell
“Getting it off the ground is one thing because it has to do with finding the proper people and the financing, but finding the subject is another thing and this is always for me the most difficult part.” PeopleDifficultOne ThingSubjectsFindingsFinancing Author:Philippe Falardeau
“One thing is that life's great moments evolve from simple acts of cooperation with God's mysterious promptings-nudges that always lean toward finding what's been lost and freeing what's been enslaved .” MomentsLostSimpleOne ThingFindingsMysteriousEvolveCooperationNudgeGreat Moments Author:Bill Hybels
“Many things in your life matter, but only one thing matters absolutely.. It is finding the essence of who you are.” MatterOne ThingFindingsEssenceWho You Are Author:Eckhart Tolle
“One thing that's really pulled me in to helping artists create their album is that I get to help them tell a story. It's about the way you frame that story and finding the best way to tell that story.” WayHelpingStoriesArtistOne ThingFindingsAlbumsBest Way Author:Emily Lazar
“I think it's extremely valuable for us to be able to have a conversation in more than one dialect, speaking to more than one demographic here, finding our common ground, and having a very frank discussion about race, for one thing, which is where he is most hard-hitting, race, and the issues of human rights.” ThinkingHumansHardAbleCommonRaceIssuesRightsOne ThingConversationFindingsHuman RightsValuableDiscussionFrankHittingDemographicsCommon GroundDialect Author:Jill Stein
“Your mission is to document and observe the world around you as if you’ve never seen it before. Take notes. Collect things you find on your travels. Document your findings. Notice patterns. Copy. Trace. Focus on one thing at a time. Record what you are drawn to.” IfsWorldRecordsFocusOne ThingFindingsNotesPatternsMissionsCopiesDocumentsOne Thing At A TimeFocus On One Thing Author:Keri Smith
“I think the one thing that never goes away is soul and emotion and vulnerability and finding your strength in our vulnerability. I think when I apply all of that to music, it somehow just ends up being classic. It's the sum of a bunch of things that never go away.” ThinkingSoulEndsEmotionOne ThingFindingsBunchClassicVulnerabilityGoing Away Author:Eric Benet
“One thing we've learned about Donald Trump - this candidate first, president-elect, and now president - is that he has this sort of reptilian instinct for rooting out supposed enemies and finding people he can whip up distrust into rage.” PeopleFirstsPresidentEnemyOne ThingTrumpFindingsInstinctRageCandidatesDistrustWhips Author:Ben H. Winters
“A human doesn't have a heart like mine. The human heart is a line, whereas my own is a circle, and I have the endless ability to be in the right place at the right time. The consequence of this is that I'm always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly and their beauty, and I wonder how the same thing can be both. Still, they have one thing I envy. Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.” IfsHumansHeartStillsDiesLinesMy OwnAbilityWonderOne ThingWorstMinesFindingsConsequenceUglyEnvyCirclesEndlessHuman HeartRight TimeRight PlaceGood Sense Book:The Book Thief: 10th Anniversary Edition Source: The Book Thief: 10th Anniversary Edition