One Thing Quotes - Page 10

• That's the way it is with entrepreneurial people. You try one thing, it doesn't work, you try another.

  Pete du Pont

  People, Trying, Way

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• One thing we seem to be missing is that just as we no longer search for the news, the news finds us today (e.g. this article found me) we will no longer search for products and services, rather we will look to our social graph to what products and services they like and don't like.

  Erik Qualman

  Missing, Looks, News

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• I think the one thing about me is I'm a fairly demanding guy, and I give a great deal of myself, and I expect that in return.

  Mike Quade

  Thinking, Giving, Guy

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• One thing any backpacker will tell you is that it's tedious and monotonous. You're bored sometimes, so you really have to make the fun in your head.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Fun, Bored, Sometimes

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• I don't have a lot of skills, but one thing I can do is, I can compartmentalize. I can make that a little world that I can go back to, so I can be a waitress, or I can be a teacher, and then go and work on my book.

  Dana Spiotta

  Teacher, Book, Skills

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• It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another.

  Dan Simmons

  Writing, Relax, Exhausted

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• There is such a suspicion in today's world of people who do more than one thing, who aren't specialized.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  People, World, Today

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• Well, they each seem to do one thing well enough, but fail to realize that literature depends on doing several things well at the same time.

  Julian Barnes

  Writing, Literature, Realizing

  Julian Barnes (1984). “Flaubert's parrot”, Vintage

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• If I have learned one thing in life, it is never to take any man's own estimate of himself. He could very well be mistaken.

  Johann Lamont

  Men, Things In Life, I Have Learned

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• One thing that served me well with clients was that you back your winners and you back your losers.

  Rick Santelli

  Clients, Loser, Winner

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• All of the leading terrorism experts are clear on one thing: that in terms of protecting America, we are almost never going to know a place or a time of an attack.

  Ron Suskind

  America, Experts, Terrorism

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• It used to be that you kind of got pigeonholed into one thing - you're either a stage actor or a TV actor or a movie actor. Today, there's a lot of crossover with film actors doing television, which never happened before, so those lines are a little bit more blurred than they used to be.

  Aaron Tveit

  Stage Actors, Television, Lines

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• Typecasting is an interesting thing because, in a way, if you're good at something, you're going to work at that thing. In other ways, you constantly have to change people's opinion of you as one thing, especially if you want to play different roles. You have to shatter that image sometimes.

  Aaron Tveit

  Play, People, Interesting

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• In an age where everything and everyone is linked through networks of glass and air, no one - no business, organization, government agency, country - is an island. We need to do right by all our stakeholders, and that's how you create value for shareholders. And one thing is for sure - no organization can succeed in a world that is failing.

  Don Tapscott

  Country, Organization, Islands

  "The Seven Imperatives for Highly Successful Business Revolutionaries" by Don Tapscott, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 23, 2012.

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• One thing the futurists never get right, though, is that the extreme desire for polyester only lasted a brief period in the '70s!

  Lea Thompson

  Desire, Periods, Extremes

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• Seal Team Six is a different unit than the rest of the SEAL teams inasmuch as they concentrate primarily on one thing, counter-terrorism, hostage rescue.

  Howard E. Wasdin

  Team, Different, Six

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• Music's the one thing I try not to analyze. I don't want to destroy the magic that has always been there for me.

  Dwight Yoakam

  Magic, Trying, Want

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• I never fantasized or invented a thing, not one thing. I knew every single thing I ever wrote about.

  Marguerite Young

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• Delayed gratification is the one thing we ignore these days. And if you delay it, it becomes more pleasurable later in life.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Later In Life, Delay, These Days

  Source: nation.foxnews.com

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• You know a Senate race is obviously a much smaller deal than a presidential race. What I think makes a very hard job considerably easier when you're going to debate is if you have reminded yourself - or somebody has reminded you during the course of your campaign - that consistency is enormously important. That people don't want to hear you say one thing in one part of the state and another thing in another part of the state.

  Michael Bennet

  Jobs, Thinking, Race

  "Transcript: Face to Face with Sen. Bennet". Interview with John Dickerson, www.cbsnews.com. October 3, 2012.

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• When punk rock came along, the one thing you were not supposed to be was musical.

  Nick Lowe

  Rocks, Musical, Punk

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• It's luck that one thing works out and one doesn't, it's sort of happenstance.

  Richard Linklater

  Work Out, Luck, Happenstance

  Interview with Michael Koresky and Jeff Reichert, reverseshot.org. July 2, 2004.

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• The biggest problem is always getting hits. That's the one thing that has never changed. The way of delivering music has changed, the way of listening to it has changed, the way of distributing it has changed, but it's always the music.

  Doug Morris

  Listening, Way, Problem

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• One thing that I noticed is having met some former Taliban is even they, as children, grew up being indoctrinated. They grew up in violence. They grew up in war. They were taught to hate. They were, they grew up in very ignorant cultures where they didn't learn about the outside world.

  Greg Mortenson

  Children, War, Hate

  "Bill Moyers Journal", www.pbs.org. January 15, 2010.

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• Audiences aren't going to get rid of me. One thing I can say, with absolute certainty, is that my shows will still be performed when I'm dead, buried and forgotten. They're going to absolutely outlive me, which is a wonderful thing to think about.

  Cameron Mackintosh

  Thinking, Wonderful, Forgotten

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