The Thing Quotes

You can do only one thing at a time. I simply tackle one problem and concentrate all efforts on what I am doing at the moment.

All human beings are born with the same creative potential. Most people squander theirs away on a million superfluous things. I expend mine on one thing and one thing only: my art.

If you have the capacity to be more than one thing , do everything that's inside of you.

I think the one thing that I cannot do without each day is hope. If you put me in a position where you took all my hope away, I'm not sure I could make it through the day.

When you appeal to force, there's one thing you must never do - lose.

One thing leads to another? Not always. Sometimes one thing leads to the same thing. Ask an addict.

We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.

We all start out in life with one thing in common; We all have the same amount of time. It's just a matter of what we do with it.

Be able to keep a secret or promise when you know in your heart that it is the right thing to do.

Borrowing for expansion is one thing; borrowing to make up for mismanagement and waste is quite another.

The manager does things right; the leader does the right thing.

Perhaps, once I am gone, the one thing I might be remembered for is having sung a great deal of Mahler with a great many phenomenal conductors. It is wonderful music, very spiritual.

If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run-and often in the short one-the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative.

Who knows? Maybe my life belongs to God. Maybe it belongs to me. But I do know one thing: I'm damned if it belongs to the government.

I do not wish any reward but to know I have done the right thing.

Politicians are notoriously economically illiterate. And even when they know what would be the right thing, we don't really expect them to do it.

One thing that I ask of you: Never be afraid of giving. There is a deep joy in giving, since what we receive is much more than what we give.

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

There is but one thing of real value - to cultivate truth and justice, and to live without anger in the midst of lying and unjust men.

If I could wish one thing for anyone, it would be to not have to do anything his entire life-just go along and when you feel like doing something, do it.

It is one thing to see the kingdom of God, and another thing to enter into it. We must have a change of heart to see the kingdom of God, and subscribe the articles of adoption to enter therein.

There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings.

I'll tell you one thing, I know how to satisfy my wife in bed, yeah, I leave.

... The wise in all ages... have tried to learn one thing only, and that was resignation to the Will of God. By doing this, they have reached a stage at which they could see from God's point of view.

You want to know the hardest thing about being smart? What? I pretty much always know what's going to happen next; there's no suspense.

One must look for one thing only, to find many.

To make a rock'n'roll record, technology is the least important thing.

But I found that disappointing people is a good thing, because disapproval is freedom.

Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.

It's a funny thing about weaknesses....Most people will tell you they know their weaknesses. When asked, they'll tell you, 'Well for one thing, I'm overgenerous.' ... that's what innkeepers are for.

One thing alone not even God can do,To make undone whatever hath been done.

There is no 'the truth,' 'a truth'--truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity.

Every choice is a thousand renunciations. To choose one thing is to turn one's back on many others.

The world was more than a place. Life was more than an event. It was all one thing, and that thing was: story.

I knew one thing: as soon as anyone said you didn't need a gun, you'd better take one along that worked.

One thing that attracted me to Buddhism was the support for this larger vision of values.

In the Olympic Oath, I ask for only one thing: sporting loyalty.

Life is just more comfortable if you're honest and open about everything. I spent so many years being in the closet about one thing or another.

Is a fixed income not a good thing? Does not everyone love to count on a sure thing? Especially every petty-bourgeois, narrow-minded Frenchman? the 'ever needy' man?

I'm a cook, and I'm like, "a dash of this, a pinch of that." I cook with a lot of passion and instinct. So that's the hardest thing - to put an actual recipe together.

The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.

I believe I'm doing the right thing in trying to step away from that and to take chances and work on little independent films and do stuff like that wild dance scene.

We all want to do the right thing for our children. We all don't know what that is and we all - you know, you won't know until the future.

The real key is to live in an environment where the mind feels free to choose the right thing instead of being compelled by habit and inertia to choose the wrong thing.

Do one thing at a time. Start the day with a list of things you have to do, and do the most important things first.

I feel like I'm at a level in my business where I've established myself as a professional. And the one thing I haven't managed to do is find a way to achieve a better balance.

A woman will allow herself to be clouded by her emotions. Her reasonable thought becomes completely unreasonable over the most ridiculous thing. It's a girl thing.

It is easy for men to talk one thing and think another.

Find one thing every day to forgive the other person for. Don't let them know what it is...just forgive them and let it go.

I'll tell you one thing, since I'm married, single people look absolutely ridiculous to me.