One skill of a great entrepreneur is to get a whole complicated discussion and then say, 'We're going to do this one and we're only going to do this one'. Managers are good at prioritizing. Entrepreneurs know what is the one thing.
No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.
I wrote a novel about Israelis who live their own lives on the slope of a volcano. Near a volcano one still falls in love, one still gets jealous, one still wants a promotion, one still gossips.
One word can end a fight; One hug can start a friendship; One smile can bring Unity; One person can change your entire life!
For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office: so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.
But when one does not complain, and when one wants to master oneself with a tyrant’s grip — one’s faculties rise in revolt — and one pays for outward calm with an almost unbearable inner struggle.
And as a director, you make 1,000 decisions a day, mostly binary decisions: yes or no, this one or that one, the red one or the blue one, faster or slower. And it's the culmination of those decisions that define the tone of the film and whether or no...
Unless one says goodbye to what one loves, and unless one travels to completely new territories, one can expect merely a long wearing away of oneself and an eventual extinction.
When one studies the properties of atoms, one found that the reality is far stranger than anybody would have invented in the form of fiction. Particles really do have the possibility of, in some sense, being in more than one place at one time.
Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends.
Marlin: Now, what's the one thing we have to remember about the ocean? Nemo: It's not safe. Marlin: That's my boy.
Blanche DuBois: Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable, and the one thing of which I have never,ever been guilty of.
Gordon Gekko: That's the one thing you have to remember about WASPs: they love animals and hate people.
As long as time is not pressing one does not burn incense; when it becomes urgent one kisses the feet of Buddha.
If you have a good case, try to compromise; if you have a bad one, take it to court.
We are members of God’s family. One faith, one hope and one baptism.
No-one ever built a statue of a critic.
As if one could do what one wanted with one's own body!
There's something very real about helping someone one-on-one.
When it's over no one cares what you did
One is never wounded by the love one gives, only by the love one expects.
