One Way Quotes - Page 39

• Your computer monitor is a kind a one-way mirror, reflecting your own interests while algorithmic observers watch what you click.

  Eli Pariser

  Mirrors, Watches, Way

  "The Filter Bubble: What the Internet is Hiding From You". Book by Eli Pariser, 2011.

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• There can be very little of present-day science and technology that is not dependent on complex numbers in one way or another.

  Keith Devlin

  Math, Technology, Numbers

  Keith J. Devlin (1988). “Mathematics: the new golden age”, Penguin Books

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• But don't blame me for the food. My wife knows a hundred and one ways to incinerate a cow, and as far as I can tell she's still experimenting.

  Jojo Moyes

  Wife, Cows, Way

  Jojo Moyes (2010). “The Last Letter from Your Lover”, p.433, Hachette UK

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• I believe people run marathons every day of their lives in one way or another, and we need to remember to give ourselves the finishers' medals we deserve.

  Zoe Koplowitz

  Running, Believe, People

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• There is no one way to render an idea. Let’s explore how masters of the sentence play with length and style to make their sentences distinctive.

  Constance Hale

  Play, Ideas, Style

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• In every age of transition men are never so firmly bound to one way of life as when they are about to abandon it.

  Bernard Levin

  Men, Age, Transition

  'The Pendulum Years' (1970) ch. 4

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• One way to practice staying present is to simply sit still for a while and listen. For one minute, listen to the sounds close to you. For one minute, listen to the sounds at a distance. Just listen attentively.

  Pema Chodron

  Buddhist, Distance, Practice

  Pema Chodron (2009). “Taking the Leap: Freeing Ourselves from Old Habits and Fears”, p.19, Shambhala Publications

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• We encourage people to believe that there is only one identity, one role, one way for them to be, one value for them to fulfill, rather than a host of possible 'incarnations' to be lived in a lifetime.

  Sidney Jourard

  Believe, People, Identity

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• Well I think it's great that Americans are able to choose one way or the other. We live in a land where you can choose same-sex marriage or opposite marriage. And, you know what, in my country, in my family, I think that I believe that marriage should be between a man and a woman, no offense to anybody out there. But that’s how I was raised and I believe that it should be between a man and a woman.

  Carrie Prejean

  Country, Sex, Believe

  "My Voltaire Moment" by Stephen Robert Morse, www.motherjones.com. June 11, 2009.

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• Ignore the conventional wisdom. If everybody else is doing it one way, there’s a good chance you can find your niche by going in exactly the opposite direction.

  Sam Walton

  Opposites, Way, Chance

  Sam Walton (2012). “Sam Walton: Made In America”, p.317, Bantam

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• One shouldn’t believe in all those so-called innovations. There is only one nature and only one way to see it. Nowadays, they want to succeed too fast, this is how they go about inventing new aesthetics, pointillism, pipisme! All this is just to make noise.

  William-Adolphe Bouguereau

  Believe, Innovation, Want

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• We attach meaning to things, and things to meaning: endow them one way or another as if to prove to ourselves that we are who we are; this life really happened; we really have traveled this far in time and space.

  Dinah Lenney

  Space, Who We Are, Way

  "The Object Parade: Essays". Book by Dinah Lenney, 2014.

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• One way to measure a particular doctor's openness and attitude toward women in general is simply to ask about the doctor's opinion of midwifery.

  Marsden Wagner

  Attitude, Women, Doctors

  Marsden Wagner (2008). “Born in the USA: How a Broken Maternity System Must be Fixed to Put Women and Children First”, p.103, Univ of California Press

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• You should not live one way in private, another in public.

  Publilius Syrus

  Character, Way, Should

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• Communication is not a one-way street.

  Jim George

  Communication, Way, Streets

  Jim George (2016). “A Husband After God's Own Heart: 12 Things That Really Matter in Your Marriage”, p.26, Harvest House Publishers

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• I believe in the complexity of the human story, and that there's no way you can tell that story in one way and say, 'this is it.' Always there will be someone who can tell it differently depending on where they are standing ... this is the way I think the world's stories should be told: from many different perspectives.

  Chinua Achebe

  Believe, Thinking, Perspective

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• We all compromise ourselves, from time to time, because maybe it will lead to more opportunity...A ll of that’s cool, but we forget and we get caught up. If you want that nurturing, caring, empathetic, compassionate heart to keep on ticking and be around, and you want it to be strong, then don’t neglect #1. One way to feed it is just being truthful and listening to your heart.

  Paul Walker

  Strong, Heart, Caring

  FaceBook post by Paul Walker from Dec 13, 2013

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• To begin by always thinking of love as an action rather than a feeling is one way in which anyone using the word in this manner automatically assumes accountability and responsibility.

  Bell Hooks

  Responsibility, Thinking, Accountability

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• You and I are players, God's our coach, and we're playing the biggest game of all. We have a loving God that made us. We need to get on His team. It says in His word, there's only one way to Him and that's through Jesus Christ.

  Joe Gibbs

  Jesus, Team, Player

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• Remember, there's ultimately only one way to financial peace, and that's to walk daily with the Prince of Peace, Christ Jesus.

  Dave Ramsey

  Jesus, Prince Of Peace, Way

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• I don't have 'gears.' I play one way. That's all I've ever known. I WILL.

  Bryce Harper

  Play, Gears, Way

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• If you see that some aspect of your society is bad, and you want to improve it, there is only one way to do so: you have to improve people. And in order to improve people, you begin with only ONE thing: you can become better yourself.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Order, People, Want

  Leo Tolstoy (2010). “A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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• A lot of things which come with a high profile will always be criticised one way or another.

  Evelyn Glennie

  Way, Profile, High Profile

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• There is one way to understand another culture. Living it. Move into it, ask to be tolerated as a guest, learn the language. At some point understanding may come. It will always be wordless. The moment you grasp what is foreign, you will lose the urge to explain it. To explain a phenomenon is to distance yourself from it.

  Peter Høeg

  Distance, Moving, Understanding

  Peter Høeg (2010). “Smilla's Sense of Snow: A Novel”, p.222, Macmillan

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• True love knows no bargains. It is one-way traffic: giving, giving, giving.

  Swami Satchidananda

  Giving, Way, Traffic

  Swami Satchidananda (1987). “The Golden Present: Daily Inspirational Readings”, Integral Yoga Dist

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