One Thing Quotes - Page 40

• What I've learned about my self over the years is that I'm pretty restless. If I multitask it's probably because I have difficulty just focusing on one thing.

  Demetri Martin

  Self, Years, I've Learned

  Source: www.maximumfun.org

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• I'm proud of my works. But there's not one thing that I can put my finger on and say, "That is my greatest achievement. That's my proudest moment." That's so tricky to me.

  Jamie Bell

  Achievement, Proud, Moments

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• The game of basketball is one thing, but the image of the game is another thing.

  Earl Monroe

  Basketball, Games

  "'The Pearl' Still Shining: An Interview with New York Knicks Legend Earl Monroe". Interview with Keith Schlosser, bleacherreport.com. November 24, 2009.

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• The one thing that fills me with enthusiasm is to try, despite everything, to get nearer to those visions that seem so hard to express.

  Alberto Giacometti

  Vision, Trying, Enthusiasm

  Paul Cézanne, Alberto Giacometti, Felix Andreas Baumann, Poul Erik Tøjner, Tobia Bezzola (2008). “Cézanne & Giacometti: paths of doubt”, Hatje Cantz Pub

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• It is better to be fully present and rested and engaged for one thing than rushed, distracted, and scattered for ten.

  Rob Bell

  Distracted, Engaged, Ten

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• Who you are as a performer is one thing, but when you're making records, you're dealing with musicians' tastes, their goals, their wants, their needs, everyone's individual pride.

  Scott Weiland

  Pride, Goal, Musician

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• I live a fairly simple life, and that didnt change much after I sold TechCrunch in 2010. I didnt buy a new house or even a new car. The one thing I did splurge on was a boat. Nothing too fancy or large.

  Michael Arrington

  Simple, Car, House

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• One thing will lead to another and somebody will come up with a riff or a line or something we build from.

  Johnny Ramistella

  Lines, Come Up

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• When you're in the world looking for only one thing, you find it or it finds you. The obsession can be mutual

  Julianna Baggott

  World, Obsession, Mutual

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• Every guy has different strengths in the NFL. Receivers are different, running backs are different, but they all have that one thing that they do thats special: that thing that keeps them on the roster every year.

  Larry Fitzgerald

  Running, Years, Nfl

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• The one thing I did know - because I've seen many, many of the road trip movies that everyone thinks about - is that death to a road trip movie happens when you spend too much time in the car.

  Ben Falcone

  Thinking, Car, Too Much

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• I think my parents were really smart parents. I think they were, actually, pretty progressive for the time. The one thing that they really wanted me to know is what makes me tick, what I am about, how I approach life. And I think what my parents really wanted for me was for me to be who I am.

  Rich Mullins

  Smart, Thinking, Who I Am

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• Everything you and I will ever have will come to us as the result of the way we use our minds, the one thing we possess that makes us different from all other creatures.

  Earl Nightingale

  Mind, Different, Use

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• Hope's one thing, expectation's quite another.

  Kate Morton

  Expectations

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• There is no piece of music that could relate to anything else but itself and its world. It is truly an independent. The one thing coplanar with music is the compositional aspect, the fact that you are composing something. Architecture is essentially a score, and what happens with it depends on the people who play it, enjoy it, use it, or hate it.

  Rafael Vinoly

  Hate, Independent, Play

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• In politics people build whole reputations off of getting one thing right.

  Nate Silver

  People, Reputation, Whole

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• If I could change one thing about myself... I would try to control my generosity.

  Jimmy Cliff

  Generosity, Trying, If I Could

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's one thing to say don't commit atrocities on the battlefield. It's another thing to say don't get caught doing atrocities.

  Oliver North

  Atrocities Committed, Caught, Battlefields

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• Mr Hemingway does it extremely well. Nothing matters. Everything happens. One wants to keep oneself loose. Avoid one thing only: gettng connected up. Don't get connected up. If you get held by anything, break it. Don't be held. Break it, and get away. Don't get away with the idea of getting somewhere else. Just get away, for the sake of getting away. Beat it! "Well, boy, I guess I'll beat it." Ah, the pleasure in saying that

  D. H. Lawrence

  Boys, Somewhere Else, Ideas

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• The one thing that advances a society is not technology or so-called development; its love - that one principle.

  Tom Shadyac

  Technology, Principles, Development

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• 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.

  Leonard Mlodinow

  Weather, World, Way

  "Leonard Mlodinow On Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior". Interview with Debra Ollivier, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 7, 2012.

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• Pasta with melted cheese is the one thing I could eat over and over again.

  Yotam Ottolenghi

  Cheese, Pasta

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• Multi-tasking is merely the opportunity to screw up more than one thing at a time.

  Gary W. Keller

  Opportunity, Screw Ups, Multitasking

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• Well, painting is the one thing I do, that is just me. It's me and easels, and the pencils. And as long as I don't drool too much over the canvas, the colors come out pretty good. And it's a chance to express all that I've got inside, that I sometimes keep hidden. And I think that's why I paint big broad, wide open landscapes.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Thinking, Color, Long

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• My investment of time, as an educator, in my judgment, is best served teaching people how to think about the world around them. Teach them how to pose a question. How to judge whether one thing is true versus another.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Teaching, Thinking, People

  "Why Revive ‘Cosmos?’ Neil DeGrasse Tyson Says Just About Everything We Know Has Changed". Interview with David Freeman, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 4, 2014.

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