One Thing Quotes

Focusing on one thing without interruption is how you get meaningful work done.

The one thing about music is that there are no rules.

I'm up before 5 a.m., I have breakfast, then swimming, Pilates, weight training, and physical therapy. I'm constantly going from one thing to the next. Everyone is busy, but that's my busy.

Fan mail is one thing, but fans you meet in person are a different matter entirely.

Among these things, one thing seems certain - that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man.

Easter is reflecting upon suffering for one thing, but it also reflects upon Jesus and his non-compliance in the face of great authority where he holds to his truth - so there's two stories there.

Love attracts only one thing and that thing is love.

I tell you one thing that's great about children. They don't need a show to have fun. What do they need? A book of matches, some oily rags, a little brother... that's all they need.

Be at peace, my friend. One thing I have learnt about Death is that his bark is worse than his bite.

To grieve over sin is one thing, to repent is another.

One thing is certain. I am not afraid to act as my conscience dictates, no matter what the world may think.

My mind says one thing, but my body says another. Thanks a lot, Indian food and beer.

I had too many big passions in life and it gets in the way of work. You can't concentrate properly on the one thing.

One should want only one thing and want it constantly. Then one is sure of getting it. But I desire everything, and consequently get nothing.

One thing I've learned that is basic but bears repeating constantly: You are created with free will. Not even the Creator can help you unless you ask for help.

One thing Jay z told me that always sticks with me, is that, the album is never how you viewed it to be.

One thing it takes to accomplish something is courage.

Sometimes it takes me days or weeks to get something clear in my head on what I want to do. Everything is in steps. One thing leads to another.

A foreign policy aimed at the achievement of total security is the one thing I can think of that is entirely capable of bringing this country to a point where it will have no security at all.

Poetry is the one thing that isn't contaminated, the one thing that isn't part of the game.

When we look in the mirror, the one thing we don't want to see is an ordinary human being.

Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another.

The one thing I would tell everyone - myself included - would be to just chill out. Life, by design, provides us with plenty of drama without us having to augment it and invent more. Just chill.

Never, no never, did Nature say one thing, and wisdom another.

A sense of humor is the one thing no one will admit to not having.

Our lives are awkward and fragile and we have only one thing to keep us sane: pity, and the man without pity is mad.

One thing is always wrong-always: to cause suffering in others for the purpose of gratifying one's own pleasures; that is everlastingly wrong.

How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become - to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.

Love is many things. It is varied. One thing love is not, is unsure.

Reaching toward perfection in any one thing should lift us higher in all things; it should beget a habit of application and thoroughness.

There's only one thing worse than to live without working, and that is to work without living.

I have lost faith in universal panaceas - work is the one thing in which I really believe.

Kings and queens might do wicked things, but they don't nag. One thing I like about Bloody Mary: she never said a word about lung cancer.

One thing about the business and investing world that I connect to very intimately is that there is little room to deny the harsh realities of your mistakes. A bad call can lose you many millions.

Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.

All the elements in an advertisement are primarily designed to do one thing and one thing only: get you to read the first sentence of the copy.

One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment... If it doesn't turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.

One thing is certain in business, you and everyone around you will make mistakes.

One thing is certain in business: you will make mistakes. When you are pushing the boundaries, mistakes are inevitable-how you react is important.

To read of human depravity in the police reports is one thing, to see it fall like a black shadow across one's life is another.

Only one thing matters: learning to be the loser.

Taking one step, doing one thing every day that will get you closer to your own financial dream.

It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.

Fame is one thing, notoriety is another.

Knowing that one may be subject to bias is one thing; being able to correct it is another.

One thing about great art: it made you love people more, forgive them their petty transgressions. It worked in the way that religion was supposed to, if you thought about it.

It is one thing to be blind, and another to be in darkness.

The one thing that unifies men in a given age is not their individual philosophies but the dominant problem that these philosophies are designed to solve.

If there is one thing that has helped me as a coach, it's my ability to recognize winners, or good people who can become winners by paying the price.

Music is the one thing in which there is no use trying to deceive others or make false pretenses.