All Quotes

One of the things we joke about in the FPS development is it's so hard to get the player to actually bother to look at all the cool stuff you've been doing. You spend a lot of time making really cool things, and usually the player isn't looking where you want them to.
‐‐ John Carmack

One of the things we often miss in succession planning is that it should be gradual and thoughtful, with lots of sharing of information and knowledge and perspective, so that it's almost a non-event when it happens.
‐‐ Anne M. Mulcahy

One of the things we're taught as actors is restraint - don't jump off the cliff.
‐‐ Ted Lange

One of the things we tell ourselves as African-Americans is if we work hard, play by the rules, we do start back a little ways, but if we can be twice as good, somehow we can escape history and heritage and legacy.
‐‐ Ta-Nehisi Coates

One of the things we urge Y-Combinator companies to do is to have profitability in grasp. If you need to get profitable before your A round of money, you ought to be able to do that.
‐‐ Sam Altman

One of the things we've always tried to do is help others with our story. Whether it's with the infertility issues, whether it's with the breast cancer, we said we're gonna turn these negatives into positives. And if we can help others by sharing our story, then it's worth it.
‐‐ Bill Rancic

One of the things we want to do is find ways, first, to impress these parents how important it is to have children in a situation where they can respond to them and, second, to bring intergenerational relationships into play.
‐‐ C. Everett Koop

One of the things we worry about when we cut the tax on gasoline is that it basically stimulates additional use.
‐‐ Edward Lazear

One of the things we wrestle with nationally is, 'If we want the economy to be strong, what should we do?' Why not learn some lessons from Virginia?
‐‐ Tim Kaine

One of the things when you're drawing a comic book is that you're spending four or five times as long to draw it as the writer takes to write it. In my career I've had to spend a week drawing something that a writer has thrown out in an hour. And there's nothing worse than having to work on something that no previous thought has gone into.
‐‐ Dave Gibbons

One of the things which make any company successful, in particular the Home Depot, was that we understood and catered to the customer. If it didn't sell, it didn't make a difference what we thought or our research told us. They told us if it was successful by buying it or not.
‐‐ Bernard Marcus

One of the things women poets have been engaged in - among the other things they've been doing - is revising parts of the poetic self. Re-examining notions of the authority within the poem, and of the poem.
‐‐ Eavan Boland

One of the things you can always depend on - this is one of the truths of the universe, and you heard it first from here - whatever we decide we want to do is what we do.
‐‐ Morgan Freeman

One of the things you do as a writer and as a filmmaker is grasp for resonant symbols and imagery without necessarily fully understanding it yourself.
‐‐ Christopher Nolan

One of the things you do when you make a piece of art is you try to make the world you'd rather be in.
‐‐ Brian Eno

One of the things you don't always realize when you're younger is that not everything you try is going to work.
‐‐ Mike Pompeo

One of the things you don't usually mess with is happy.
‐‐ Steve Alford

One of the things you get to do as a writer is that you get to learn new stuff all the time, and I hope that I'm a better writer when I'm 70 than I was when I was 30. That's one of the great things about a literary career.
‐‐ Justin Cronin

One of the things you have to be able to do, as a comic strip artist, is to draw things repeatedly from a variety of angles, so you need references, and you find the best picture you can.
‐‐ Dave Gibbons

One of the things you have to be acutely aware of when shooting episodes out of order is your character's relationship with the other characters.
‐‐ Gina Bellman

One of the things you have to get used to, working on a TV show, is filming out of sync.
‐‐ Gina Bellman

One of the things you hope you've done as a playwright is create roles that can sustain different interpretations.
‐‐ Tracy Letts

One of the things you learn as a journalist is that when there's no accountability, we humans are capable of tremendous avarice and venality. That's true of union bosses - and of corporate tycoons. Unions, even flawed ones, can provide checks and balances for flawed corporations.
‐‐ Nicholas Kristof

One of the things you learn being in the public eye is that you have the ability to raise awareness about serious issues, and, in the process, really help people.
‐‐ Mena Suvari

One of the things you learn in football is that you're only as good as your last outing. I don't like to reflect on what we've done in the past. I'm not a very good storyteller, for one thing. I'd disappoint you. When it's time, I'll talk about the good old days. But it's a sign of old age, reveling in the past.
‐‐ Chuck Noll

One of the things you learn in rehab is that you're responsible for your own actions.
‐‐ Dale Archer

One of the things you learn operating in the technology industry is disruptions are occurring every day.
‐‐ Dick Costolo

One of the things you learn when you get married is how you need to always work on continuing to make it better.
‐‐ Eric Shanteau

One of the things you learn when you go overseas is how much a lot of the countries overseas really just like to enjoy life.
‐‐ Chris Paul

One of the things you'll discover... as you listen to your own soul is that you spend a great amount of your life trying to bring meaning to your own life. And, by the way, most people are not going to church, so the place they're actually trying to find meaning in their life is at work.
‐‐ Erwin McManus

One of the things you're doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.
‐‐ Brian Eno

One of the things you realize when you have a health crisis in your immediate family is that life does not stop so that you can go through that experience.
‐‐ Jason Katims

One of the things you realize with a lot of high achievers: You have to figure out a way to make things their idea.
‐‐ Hank Haney

One of the things you see in New York is that offices keep their lights on at night. They're proud of their building. Great. But they must find another way to be proud without draining energy.
‐‐ Richard Rogers

One of the things your unconscious mind does for you - and it's a great gift - is it gives you extra courage to view the outer world and it does that by giving you an extra-special view of yourself.
‐‐ Leonard Mlodinow

One of the threats to Christianity in the 21st century is this idea that religion is best understood as a kind of aesthetic experience, and that you can get all your morality from that.
‐‐ John Cornwell

One of the thrills of playing at the top tennis centres of the world is to see the Indian flag go up whenever I'm participating in these events. That's enough motivation for any Indian who has the opportunity to perform at these tournaments.
‐‐ Sania Mirza

One of the top causes of startup death - right after cofounder problems - is building something no one wants.
‐‐ Kathryn Minshew

One of the torturous things about my job is that, as time goes on, you get more and more clarity on all the things you've screwed up and all the mistakes you've made.
‐‐ Matt Cohler

One of the tough things about being an actor, probably the hardest thing, is getting your foot in the door, and my father handled that for me at a very early age.
‐‐ Jeff Bridges

One of the toughest guys in the world is Randy Couture - he is the true epitome of what a tough guy is.
‐‐ Jason Statham

One of the toughest things for leaders to master is kindness. Kindness shares credit and offers enthusiastic praise for others' work. It's a balancing act between being genuinely kind and not looking weak.
‐‐ Travis Bradberry

One of the towering people in this industry said, why don't you go and make a five-year contract with somebody, make yourself several million dollars and put it away, then go and do whatever you want, work for public TV if you want.
‐‐ Roone Arledge

One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative or provocation purposes, actually represents that person's beliefs at the time.
‐‐ Idries Shah

One of the tragedies of the Bush administration is that we went back to business as usual, make a deal with the Democrats, let's all be friends in Washington philosophy.
‐‐ Pete du Pont

One of the tragedies of the struggle against racism is that up to now there has been no national organization which could speak to the growing militancy of young black people in the urban ghetto.
‐‐ Stokely Carmichael

One of the traps or the pitfalls of writing a trilogy - or a triptych, or whatever term you want to use - is that the second book can be a long second act to get you from book one to book three, which borrows all of its energy from the first book.
‐‐ Justin Cronin

One of the trials of life is that we do not usually receive immediately the full blessing for righteousness or the full cursing for wickedness.
‐‐ Ezra Taft Benson

One of the trickiest things about 'Game of Thrones' is just seeding those first couple of episodes with that basic information that people need to know, both about the world and the ground rules of the world, and the relationships between the characters, as far as who means what to whom and why.
‐‐ D. B. Weiss

One of the tricks of life is to have sense and money in roughly equal proportions.
‐‐ Craig Brown