Once humans traded their hunter-gatherer existences for more settled communities, we began a quest to make our lives better and more comfortable, but we've also been sucking precious finite resources from our environment ever since.
‐‐ Naveen Jain
Once I accepted Christ I immediately had peace. I still didn't have a place to live, I still didn't have a car, but I had peace.
‐‐ Sherri Shepherd
Once I accidentally left my passport in Nice, France, when I was on my way to Prague. Upon arriving in Vienna, after taking an overnight, and being asked to present my travel documents and realizing I forgot them at the hotel, they kicked me off the train and sent me back!
‐‐ Megalyn Echikunwoke
Once I accomplish one thing and I'm satisfied, I try something else. I may be 50 and doing something totally outside of music and acting. Maybe I'll become a kindergarten teacher.
‐‐ Kid Cudi
Once I actually get in the studio and I start working, I'm fine, but it's just getting there and these hours of torment with myself and self doubt, thinking 'I'm useless' and 'Who am I, conning myself into thinking I can do it again.'
‐‐ Imogen Heap
Once I became a total buffoon, it was so liberating.
‐‐ Joaquin Phoenix
Once I became interested in China, I flew to Beijing in 1996 to spend half a year studying Mandarin. The city stunned me.
‐‐ Evan Osnos
Once I began college, I was committed to writing, which I think is different from saying I wanted to become a writer. I knew I would always write; I just wasn't always sure how I would go about doing so.
‐‐ Dinaw Mengestu
Once I began doing stand-up, I didn't get a kick out of the applause or being the centre of attention - but I did get a kick out of the jigsaw puzzle aspect of it, searching for the right bit, adding another few pieces each night until the bigger picture appears. That's the appeal: the challenge of it.
‐‐ Stephen Merchant
Once I began to hear and pay attention to my fledgling ideas, the biggest hurdle was to learn how to respect them. That was hard, because the real way to respect an idea is to invest the attention and work needed to develop it.
‐‐ Janet Echelman
Once I came to acting, it was almost a thing where there weren't enough hours in the day to work on stuff because I was so passionate about it.
‐‐ Aaron Tveit
Once I can verify my account, I will have a Twitter.
‐‐ Zach Woodlee
Once I climbed into a mountain lion's cage and she bounded at me and put her paw on my face, but she kept her claws withdrawn.
‐‐ Edward Hoagland
Once I come up with the concept, the rest of the song just comes.
‐‐ Fetty Wap
Once I commit to something, I complete it. If I say 'no,' I mean 'no.' I just have to learn how to say 'no' more.
‐‐ Penny Marshall
Once I committed to acting, this has been it.
‐‐ Ernie Hudson
Once I completed the Cube and demonstrated it to my students, I realized it was nearly impossible to put down.
‐‐ Erno Rubik
Once I could drive, I spent all my time in the city going to metal shows. I missed the first couple of Metallica shows because I was lame. By the time I got into them, they were playing places like the Kabuki.
‐‐ Brian Posehn
Once I could persuade these guys that all I wanted to hear from them was what they did - Tell me what you do - once you can persuade someone that this is all you're after, you can't shut them up because we're all fascinated by what we do.
‐‐ Roger Angell
Once I'd chosen the songs, it seemed like it would just be a question then of recording them. But it's a case of trying to re-invent the songs; taking them in different directions.
‐‐ Martin Gore
Once I'd heard 'Modern Times' by Bob Dylan, it really changed the way I wanted to make records.
‐‐ Elton John
Once I'd reached the point where I could squirrel away more than 30 digits a minute in memory palaces, I still only sporadically used the techniques to memorize the phone numbers of people I actually wanted to call. I found it was just too simple to punch them into my cell phone.
‐‐ Joshua Foer
Once I decide I want to do something, I just work really hard and I do it, and I just know it's going to work. I think really positively.
‐‐ Holly Madison
Once I decide to do something, I can't have people telling me I can't. If there's a roadblock, you jump over it, walk around it, crawl under it.
‐‐ Kitty Kelley
Once I decide to do something, I want to win in the worst way. I will do anything within the law to win.
‐‐ Theodore J. Forstmann
Once I decided to retire from bikes, there was no thought to go racing again. I wanted to have a full year off and maybe even see the world a bit.
‐‐ Casey Stoner
Once I decided to write, to be published, I knew it would happen.
‐‐ Augusten Burroughs
Once I discovered how important writing music was to me and just what a huge weight it lifted off of me, I knew that it was going to be the biggest part of my life, the biggest love of my life, the biggest thing in my life.
‐‐ Banks
Once I discovered music, I knew what I wanted to do.
‐‐ Rick Springfield
Once I discovered the theater at Santa Clara and once I got into the theater program, I never got into specific criminal justice studies.
‐‐ Michael Trucco
Once I dive in, I dive in all the way.
‐‐ Carly Fiorina
Once I engage in something, I really engage in it, and I love the process of reading and researching because I come from an academic background.
‐‐ Michael Hirst
Once I even took the train to Utrecht, forty miles from Amsterdam, with my yellow star, this star which I still have. Why did I go? I just wanted to visit some friends. I was a little bit crazy, a little bit insane.
‐‐ Abraham Pais
Once I fall in love, finishing a story leaves a hole in my heart. The characters become your friends.
‐‐ Sarah J. Maas
Once I feel I'm right, I have enjoyed provoking.
‐‐ E. O. Wilson
Once I fell out of a tree and was hit by a motorbike. I still have the scar on my head now.
‐‐ Nobu Matsuhisa
Once I find a bag that I love, I wear it always. I just don't change my bags. I literally find one and stay with it.
‐‐ Cara Delevingne
Once I finish a film, I don't ever see it again. Never ever. I have never seen any of my films since I finished them.
‐‐ Alfonso Cuaron
Once I finish shooting, I head straight home and spend time with my family. It's only when I have to promote my films that I make public appearances.
‐‐ Mahesh Babu
Once I finished 'Eileen,' I wanted to write more novels. I don't see myself stopping any time soon.
‐‐ Ottessa Moshfegh
Once I found a mouse under my bed in an apartment in Paris. I am terrified of mice! I couldn't sleep for days.
‐‐ Maud Welzen
Once I found acting and found that I could get away with it and make a living out of it, I was thrilled.
‐‐ Pierce Brosnan
Once I found out how much an Off-Off-Broadway actor makes, I was whoring myself out the next day.
‐‐ Rob Corddry
Once I found out that I was playing 'Deathlok,' I unearthed my old comic book collection. I was going home for Christmas, and I have a collection of thousands of comics. I was surprised to see that 90% of them were Marvel. So, I wanted to go through my collection and start there.
‐‐ J. August Richards
Once I found professional happiness, it gave me time to think about other areas in my life in which I wasn't happy. The next obvious candidate for introspection was my marriage.
‐‐ Megyn Kelly
Once I found these sticker things for your nails - Sally Hansen - those were really fun to do. They're really fun to do when you're bored, and it's better than painting your nails because you don't mess up. It looks really good, very professional. I tried a zebra one that was really pretty, but I always get a little bored of it.
‐‐ Gia Coppola
Once I found this possibility to use Twitter and Facebook and my blog to connect to my readers, I'm going to use it, to connect to them and to share thoughts that I cannot use in the book.
‐‐ Paulo Coelho
Once I get into the locker room, I turn on stuff to get me hyped up. Mainly, it's a lot of rap music.
‐‐ Colin Kaepernick
Once I get on a puzzle, I can't get off.
‐‐ Richard P. Feynman