One Thing Quotes

I can't afford to step away from acting, but the one thing I've learnt after all these years is that I don't fit in. It's very difficult to be at the mercy of other people's whims and visions.

If there is one thing I will not abide it is the folly of a willful pride.

It's one thing to not want an evil-sorcerer type villain in your story, but it's another thing to avoid having any sort of antagonist at all. A story without an antagonist gets weird pretty quick.

Our need is so desperate an idea, a thing, a law can't help us. It took one thing, the gift of gifts, God in the flesh, to rescue us.

The one thing that I have done really well in my life is be a father.

If history teaches us one thing, than that history teaches us nothing.

In the future, all cities will be distinguished by one thing only. The nature of their enthusiasm.

Only one thing is going to remain with you: that is your witnessing, that is your watchfulness. This watchfulness is meditation.

Change only one thing, change from misery to bliss. from sadness to celebration. And it can be done very easily because misery is an unnatural thing.

You've got to love libraries. You've got to love books. You've got to love poetry. You've got to love everything about literature. Then, you can pick the one thing you love most and write about it.

I miss my mattress when I am gone; It's one thing I've made an impression on.

Whether hunting is right or wrong, a spiritual experience, or an outlet for the killer instinct, one thing it is not is a sport.

Your mind must always go, even while you're shaking hands and going through all the maneuvers. I developed the ability long ago to do one thing while thinking about another.

The soul is never quiet till it comes to God . . . and that is the one thing the soul desireth.

but I felt as if I’d just been Photoshopped out of my own book cover. And if there was one thing I wasn’t used to, it was being ignored

The one thing that's hurt in my career is people saying I don't want to come out of Manchester to fight people.

One thing my dad always told me, was he would make sure I always had what he didn't have. He couldn't play basketball because he didn't have tennis shoes - so I had five pairs of tennis shoes.

I'm one of those people for whom success is one thing, but significance is another. If I can have both, I'm living the dream.

Writing a funny story is one thing. But writing a funny story that inspires others to venture beyond their level of comfort in pursuit of their greater good is what makes me come alive.

I feel it's important to show that one thing that you do doesn't define you as a human being. It doesn't mean there aren't ramifications or you shouldn't pay for that but, its not who you are.

I literally get up and get to do the one thing I dreamed about doing every day. And that is being a part of a television show and a radio show that is based in Hollywood.

Do not strive to be a modern artist: it's the one thing, unfortunately, you can't help being.

The one thing you can count on in Hollywood - across the board - is cowardice.

We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

But one thing about human beings puzzles me the most is their conscious effort to be connected with the object of their affection even if it kills them slowly within.

The one thing I like about the religion is, I'm never at a loss to do something. No matter what happens in my life, there is something for me to do so I don't feel as though I have lost control.

One thing on psychology, which we've always known, is that every investor says they're long-term - and they are until the market takes a hit.

One thing that these Buddhists have certainly gotten right is that attention to attention is the key to taking control of your mental life.

Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God

Justice is the one thing you should always find.

I was just reading some poetry, and it talked about how things start as one thing and change into another, and I just thought, what a great concept for a song.

The one thing that unites Sunni, Shiites and Kurds is they want the Americans out.

One thing I learned particularly at Yale was how to work with others

If someone were to ask me, 'What's the number one thing, in essence, that you left behind?'... it was the teaching of others, so that they could take my work and take it further.

There is one thing in the world more wicked than the desire to command, and that is the will to obey.

It is one thing to see the forward path and another to be able to take it. But it is better to have an ambitious plan than none at all.

The one thing coaches cannot tolerate... is the individual who grows arrogant because he excelled at a lower level and believes he has nothing else to learn.

One thing the blues ain't, is funny.

I can't really work on more than one thing at a time

Life isn't one thing after another, it's the same thing over and over.

I've always been the sort of guy who's happiest doing more than one thing at a time.

Children want one thing at a time, and want that one thing passionately.

People have to know that they can count on you, that you won't say one thing one day and something totally different the next.

I dont like sticking to just one thing; it bores me.

So perhaps the greatest worry of all was that one day you would realize that all the worries of your life amounted to one thing: the desire to just stop worrying.

I never want to be just one thing - I want to be multidimensional.

I believe everything has a solution, and I take it one day at a time or one thing at a time.

If you do just one thing to change the world, go organic.

If we've seen one thing from Donald Trump, it's that he says one thing one day, and another thing another.

It seems as if when you try to do just one thing and nothing but, you can't do it at all. You do everything better if there's more than one thing.