The Thing Quotes

Even with cameras being very cheap, one thing that researchers noticed was that you look really bad in a videoconference image because the lighting is bad and you get shadows and things.

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

The hardest thing about being famous is that ... in a conversation everybody's agreeing with what you're saying. ... You need people who can tell you what you don't want to hear.

In the beginning was the thing. And one thing led to another.

The world doesn't end just because one thing goes wrong.

If initiative is the ability to do the right thing, then efficiency is the ability to do the thing right.

I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.

Concentrate on each task, whether trivial or crucial, as if it's the only thing that matters.

There is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage: a marriage in which there is love, but on one side only.

Zazen practice and everyday activity are one thing. We call zazen everyday life, and everyday life zazen.

Only one thing counts in this life - get them to sign on the line that is dotted.

Adam was created to be the friend and companion of God, he was to have dominion over all the life in the air and earth and sea, but one thing he was not to have dominion over, and that was himself.

I'll tell you one thing, in what I do for a living, there's no substitute for experience. I don't care how much natural talent you may have... In the type of show I do, you can depend on surprises.

It's one thing to go through a crisis grandly, yet quite another to go through every day glorifying God when there is no witness, no limelight, and no one paying even the remotest attention to us.

Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.

The future is the worst thing about the present.

We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.

From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of each other.

Life's hard in Haiti right now. And the hardest thing is that the future does not lie with one person.

One thing is certain. At some point global investors will lose confidence in our (U.S.) easy dollars and debt-financed prosperity, and then the chickens will come home to roost.

The one thing which you have to abandon unconditionally is your self.

In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing that I find is feeling lost and trying to find your way.

The important thing is to do the right thing. Then credibility will follow.

Honestly, if you don’t fit in, then you’re probably doing the right thing.

One thing changes every evening: It's the audience, and I'm working my magic. I'm always learning from it.

I don't think you can have pain and soul-searching doing the right thing for your child.

One thing I've learned is that I'm not the owner of my talent; I'm the manager of it.

My number one thing was that if I ever did get successful enough to make it, I wanted to be able to give back to my family.

One thing you learn in a long marriage is how many sneezes to wait before saying, "Bless you.

Our elected politicians do what they judge is the right thing to do. And if we disagree then I'll show them the evidence of why I disagree.

There is one thing I know about creative conflict: once my argument is exhausted, I am not going to be unhappy whether it moves in my direction or away.

I don't like to gamble, but if there's one thing I'm willing to bet on, it's myself.

The one thing the media abhors almost without exception is anyone who takes a firm stand on any issue out of religious principle, unless their stand happens to coincide with their expressed views.

One thing that feeds into the way you experience the social world is your mood - and one thing that affects your mood is the weather.

The Self is the one thing you can discover, not by travelling miles, but by being very still inside your own being and saying to the Supreme, Yes, absorb me.

One thing that I've struggled with has been a certain amount of animosity toward the whole human race.

But I was sure of one thing. If God were a father, with children, that cleanliness I had been feeling wasn't God.

Leaving Australia was the hardest thing I have ever done.

I believe in discipline. You can forgive incompetence. You can forgive lack of ability. But one thing you cannot ever forgive is lack of discipline.

It's one thing to have talent. It's another to figure out how to use it.

One thing my and mother and dad shared completely was their approach to money - they just didn't spend it.

All efforts to render politics aesthetic culminate in one thing: war.

Change is one thing. Acceptance is another.

One thing I can say about George... he may not be able to keep a job, but he's not boring.

The hardest thing about traveling is that mostly you get to a point - and it always happens on every tour - where you can choose between eating and sleeping, but you can't do both.

People said to me, "You know, when you record a special, you're going to regret it. The one thing you'll regret because you're a comic is you'll think of better tags."

There is nothing brilliant or outstanding in my record, except perhaps this one thing. I do the things I believe ought to be done. And when I make up my mind to do a thing, I act.

The hardest thing about being a leader is demonstrating or showing vulnerability. And that has a lot to do with trust.