The Thing Quotes

My success is due more to my ability to work continuously on one thing without stopping than to any other single quality.

But there is one thing most companies struggle to standardize, and ironically, it's the most important part of our efforts to gain and sustain results. It is leadership.

Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission

When I finish with one thing very well, I start some other thing. I don't like to stop. I like to continually prove myself.

The price of doing the same old thing is far higher than the price of change.

The one thing I've always maintained is that I'm an American Indian. I'm not politically correct.

This company looks cheap, that company looks cheap, but the overall economy could completely screw it up. The key is to wait. Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to do nothing.

We're going to do the right thing for the company and our customers, all things considered.

Speech gave man a unique power to lead a double life, he could say one thing and do another.

The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.

I hate the business part of music. Music is just like the streets. There's loyal and disloyal people, people saying one thing and then don't do it.

I think one of the successes of Gladiator is how we manage to turn on a dime the character from one thing to another where you believe he is one thing and he is something very different.

Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.

The thing to do when one feels sure that he has said or done the right thing and is condemned, is to stand still and keep quiet. If he is right, time will show it.

The hardest thing about skateboarding is consistency: The slightest flick of your foot or gust of wind can send your board flying, so it's really anybody's game out there.

One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child's name and how old he or she is.

I believe in not over thinking things too much. When the right thing comes along, you really don't have a choice.

liberty is the one thing no man can have unless he grants it to others.

My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid.

And let's get one thing straight. There's a big difference between a pilot and an aviator. One is a technician; the other is an artist in love with flight.

If I can say one thing for my pictures, it is a certain craftsmanship. A thought which has gone into every angle. There is nothing there without an optical reason.

One thing that I'm sure of is the real pleasure of life - it's not being known, it's not having your own jet plane, it's not having a mansion the pleasure is to learn something

If you start today to do the right thing, you are already a success even if it doesn’t show yet.

I have one thing to say to those non-believers. Don't ever underestimate the heart of a champion.

I would add a little more love in the world. It's ridiculous, I know, but it is one thing I would do.

It is a little ironic that one thing a babysitter should not do is sit on a baby.

The hardest thing when you think about focusing. You think focusing is about saying "Yes." No. Focusing is about saying "No." And when you say "No," you piss off people.

The realm of superstitions, fortune-telling, presentiments, intuition, dreams, all this is the inner life of a human being, and all this is the hardest thing to film.

The one thing I do that nobody else does is jump three and four times for one rebound.

The successful person places more attention on doing the right thing rather than doing things right.

The giants of the faith all had one thing in common: neither victory nor success, but passion.

Children need to see that they are assumed to be well-intentioned, naturally social people who are trying to do the right thing and who want reliable reactions from their elders to guide them.

You can raise her up a lady but there's one thing you just can't avoid.

One thing I don't like is when you disrespect the law.

One thing that does confuse me, is that there are more religions in this world than ever, yet there's only sup­posed to be one God.

Listen up. You're in trouble. Word is the Capitol's furious about you showing them up in the arena. The one thing they can't stand is being laughed at and they're the joke of Panem

The one thing I always talk about in terms of restaurants is consistency.

Saxophone is one thing, and music is another.

Always bear in mind that our own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing." - Abraham Lincoln6/26"One must have strategies to execute dreams.

To love to preach is one thing; to love to whom you preach is quite another.

A great defensive effort. The one thing we have to do is make it hard for people to beat us. We're not worried about winning and losing, we just have to make the game hard

Nothing is as dangerous as a sure thing.

To know what is the right thing to do and not do it is the greatest cowardice.

The way of the mind is to study many things; the way of the Beingness is to focus on one thing.

It is one thing to persuade, another to command; one thing to press with arguments, another with penalties.

All the shrewdness of 'man' seeks one thing: to be able to live without responsibility.

I'm inspired by failure. The process of defeat – picking yourself back up again is the hardest thing in the world.

Courage is one thing that no one can ever take away from you.

I'll admit I never wanted to be in a band. Then, in X-Factor, they put me in this group and it's the best thing that ever happened to me.

Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.