All Quotes

One of the hardest areas is duplication; everyone knows there's lots of duplication in government. But when you ask someone, 'OK, name two programs that are duplicative,' typically there's a long pause.
‐‐ James Lankford

One of the hardest aspects of this protracted public persona is not knowing others as well as they feel they know me. It's a rather clumsy feeling actually; to not know someone who acts as though you're old friends.
‐‐ Christopher Knight

One of the hardest jobs in ministry is keeping your own relationship with God where it needs to be.
‐‐ Harold Warner

One of the hardest questions I have been asked is 'How will you manage the army if you are having menstrual cramps?' I have also been asked if I will have the courage to face criminals. My answer is that courage is not a matter of gender.
‐‐ Josefina Vazquez Mota

One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.
‐‐ Victor Hugo

One of the hardest things about directing is just to be patient and remind yourself that you've been in Week 1 of a rehearsal process yourself, and you know what it feels like.
‐‐ Laurie Metcalf

One of the hardest things about writing lyrics is to make the lyrics sit on the music in such a way that you're not aware there was a writer there.
‐‐ Stephen Sondheim

One of the hardest things for me, now that I'm famous, is finding people who can read my stuff and give me an honest critique.
‐‐ Ken Follett

One of the hardest things for me to do is watch myself. The first time I see it, I am obsessed with my left ear or my right ear or some other physical attribute, or the fact that I'm 60 or whatever shallow ego thought is running through my head. I'm just destroyed that I'm not Cary Grant or whatever.
‐‐ Ted Danson

One of the hardest things I do as FBI Director is call the chiefs and sheriffs in departments around the nation when officers have been killed in the line of duty. I call to express my sorrow and offer the FBI's help.
‐‐ James Comey

One of the hardest things I've encountered whilst working on 'Pippin' is the consistent irony, as a reflection from the core material of the show, within my own life.
‐‐ Matthew James Thomas

One of the hardest things I've had to deal with in my career is keeping my material topical even though I only release albums every three or four years.
‐‐ Al Yankovic

One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.
‐‐ James Earl Jones

One of the hardest things is to create hope.
‐‐ Yair Lapid

One of the hardest things to believe is that anyone will abandon the effort to escape a charge of murder. It is extremely important to suspend disbelief on that. If you don't, the story is spoiled.
‐‐ Rex Stout

One of the hardest things to do in acting is to stop thinking about yourself and stop being self-conscious.
‐‐ Hannah Murray

One of the hardest things to do is to be present and open and clear about who you are and what you stand for. We all have issues with that.
‐‐ Scott Bakula

One of the hardest things to do when you launch a channel is find a voice.
‐‐ David Zaslav

One of the head guys at Disney categorically said to me, 'We don't want to make children's films any more. We want to make films that are going to appeal to all quadrants.' Hence you have films like 'Shrek' and all the Pixar stuff, which is designed to suit everybody.
‐‐ Gurinder Chadha

One of the headaches of high-tech test programmes is having to debug the test arrangements before you can start debugging the things you're trying to test.
‐‐ Henry Spencer

One of the high points of my career was winning the Grammy for 'I Will Survive.'
‐‐ Gloria Gaynor

One of the hopes we have when we hear or read an interview with a mystery writer is to get inside the writer's head, to learn something we didn't know before.
‐‐ Otto Penzler

One of the humbling things about having written more than one novel is the sense that every time you begin, that new empty page does not know who you are.
‐‐ John Irving

One of the ideas behind doing this acoustic record is that I didn't want to have to produce it by committee.
‐‐ Robyn Hitchcock

One of the ideas I've clung to most of my life is that if I just try hard enough it will work out.
‐‐ Meghan O'Rourke

One of the ideas that was developed at MIT in a workshop was, imagine this pipe, and you've got valves, solenoid valves, taps, opening and closing. You create like a water curtain with pixels made of water. If those pixels fall, you can write on it: you can show patterns, images, text.
‐‐ Carlo Ratti

One of the illusions that we live by is that we can really know anybody else, and we're often surprised by traits in people that we thought we knew very well. The struggle to overcome loneliness, which is sort of our universal burden, leads us to leap to conclusions about who other people are.
‐‐ Thomas McGuane

One of the immutable patterns of history is the rise and fall of great powers. Those that survive are the ones that adapt as the world changes.
‐‐ Stephen Kinzer

One of the important lessons of the Internet is, how easy it is to get things done completely shapes what gets created. For that reason, technologies like Amazon's cloud service are very important. Even if they aren't technically impressive, they make things easy to do.
‐‐ Patrick Collison

One of the important things about temptation is, if I'm going to deal with it I'm going to have to recognize, this is an area of weakness in my life. I have been tempted here before and before and before.
‐‐ Charles Stanley

One of the important things for me is that my father is from Sri Lanka. But even more importantly, he was a consultant for the World Bank.
‐‐ Sunil Yapa

One of the important things is that a lot of people forget that a biker club is a secret society.
‐‐ Ryan Hurst

One of the influences of Kafka over later writers is not so much in the content of his work as in its form.
‐‐ John Kessel

One of the ingredients that made Cheers work so well was the great ensemble of actors we had. That's the case with any good series.
‐‐ Ted Danson

One of the inspirations for my becoming a writer was the baseball board game Strat-O-Matic.
‐‐ H. G. Bissinger

One of the interesting applications of symbolic systems is artificial intelligence, and I spent some time thinking about how to create a brain that operates the way ours does.
‐‐ Marissa Mayer

One of the interesting things about being a female police officer in the '60s is they really didn't have opportunities to do any serious police work - they filed, and they made coffee, and they were treated like secretaries.
‐‐ Claire Holt

One of the interesting things about comedy is it's tension release, and nothing creates tension faster than anger.
‐‐ Lewis Black

One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn't if you knew better.
‐‐ Brian Eno

One of the interesting things about 'Saw' is that you don't find out about things in sequential or linear order. One of the things that fans have liked a lot is, we don't forget about details. They come back and reveal themselves as the story evolves.
‐‐ Tobin Bell

One of the interesting things about the Ozarks is you just about don't have street crime. It's strictly between people who know each other. It really isn't indiscriminate; it's kind of between themselves.
‐‐ Daniel Woodrell

One of the interesting things about Twitter is looking how famous people choose to use it. Take someone like Steve Martin, who I follow: it's all sorts of comic gems, nothing private, nothing personal - all jokes. Other celebrities are overtly personal - like Charlie Sheen. I do a mix of observations and updates.
‐‐ Rob Lowe

One of the interesting things about YA books - I don't know about Percy Jackson, but I do know about 'Twilight' and 'Maximum Ride': There are a lot of adult readers. In fact, we released 'Maximum Ride' both as a paperback for kids and as a mass release for adults.
‐‐ James Patterson

One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom.
‐‐ Thom Yorke

One of the Internet's highest-profile companies, Priceline once dreamed of transforming the way consumer goods are bought and sold by offering customers the chance to 'name your own price' for a variety of products, including airline tickets.
‐‐ Alex Berenson

One of the ironies of a conference dedicated to all things digital and virtual is that the best ways to connect with people are surprisingly old-school. Social media tools can improve the odds of a serendipitous encounter at SXSW, but old-fashioned hustle, palm-pressing and - above all - creativity go a long way.
‐‐ Ryan Holmes

One of the ironies of being a professional writer is that, if you are even moderately successful, the very traits that let you succeed as a writer are not much help when the time comes to head out as 'The Author.'
‐‐ Jane Lindskold

One of the issues facing us today is that there are countries where there is a serious lack of resources, the standards of living are very low, and this creates a fundamental unease and discomfort in entire populations.
‐‐ Ralph Merkle

One of the issues I kept saying to my students is you have to learn to interrupt. When you raise your hand at a meeting, by the time they get to you, the point is not germane. So the bottom line is active listening. If you are going to interrupt, you look for opportunities. You have to know what you're talking about.
‐‐ Madeleine Albright