Observe
things as they are and don't pay attention to other people.
Obstacles
are those frightful little things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.
Occam’s
Razor: The simplest explanation for any
phenomenon is likely to be the best one.
Oddly
twee and brittle.
Of
course, they all were right: Dreck was
the future and the future was Dreck.
“Of the
two hearts, one is always warm and one is always cold: the cold heart is more precious than
diamonds; the warm heart has no value
and is thrown away.”
Off by an
inch (at launch), miss by a mile (at market).
Oft
expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises.
Often those things that are in
arms' reach are harder to see than those that cast the brightest light
Oh would
some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us. (Robert Burns)
Old age
and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.
Old age
isn’t a battle; it’s a massacre.
Old
friends make the best friends.
Old
habits die hard.
On a
blank sheet of paper, free from any mark, the most precious and beautiful
characters can be written, the freshest and most beautiful pictures can be
painted.
On her
worst day, she’s a smile waiting to happen.
On the
web, information is plentiful, wisdom is scarce.
On the
web, it's hard to distinguish what is popular from what is true.
Once a
need is satisfied, it is no longer a motivator.
Once is
never and twice is always.
Once you
accept his assumptions, even a madman seems reasonable.
Once you
stop growing, you start dying.
Once
you've given advice to someone, you're obligated.
100% certain is almost always 100%
late.
100% of
nothing is worth less than 1% of something.
One brick
short of a load.
One can
acquire everything in solitude except character.
One
cannot put something behind one until one has beheld it directly.
One could
never win love so surely that one could stop imagining the pain of its loss.
One day
it’s hot; then it’s not.
One day
my father took me aside and left me there.
One day
the people who didn’t believe in you will tell others how they met you.
One does
not love a place less for having suffered in it.
One does
not plan and then try to make the circumstances fit those plans. One tries to make plans fit the
circumstances.
One
does what one is; one becomes what one does.
One
doesn’t learn from experience because the substance of things is always
changing.
One
eye on the clock-always!
One
friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of
life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
One good
example is worth a thousand theories.
One good
head is better than a hundred strong hands.
One great
mistake made by intelligent people is to refuse to believe that the world is as
stupid as it is.
One hand
washes the other.
One is
poisoned forever by the bad things that happen in the beginning.
One is
sadder and the other wiser.
One
learns from defeat, not from victory.
One life
was never quite enough for what I had in mind.
One looks
back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those
who touch our human feelings.
One
machine can do the work of a hundred ordinary men, but no machine can do the
work of one extraordinary man.
One man
with courage makes a majority.
One man's
loss is another man's gain.
One may
be anonymous in a crowd, but at least you’re part of something.
One must,
above all, endure. (Il faut [d'agord] durer.)
One must
care about a world one will not see.
One must
have chaos in one's soul to give birth to a dancing star.
One must
learn to be bored.
One must
let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense
rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand.
One must
not always think that feeling is everything.
Art is nothing without form.
One must
wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been.
One never
tortures except by a kind of mutual agreement.
One
of my strongest and most fully employed emotions: contempt. Contempt for
others, contempt for myself.
One of
the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive
hour. Write it on your heart that every
day of the year is the best day of the year.
One of
the most difficult tasks one can perform, however much others may despise it,
is the invention of good games.
One of
the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being
governed by your inferiors.
One of
the saddest things in the world is to have enough talent to try and too little
to succeed.
One of
the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work
is terribly important.
One of
the things I observed was that the most effective advertising had aspirational
content.
One of
the things I’ve learned is never to discuss process.
One of
the things you cannot do in this life is impose conditions on love.
One of the
tragedies of this life is that the men who are most in need of beating up are
always enormous.
One of
these days is none of these days.
One often
contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it
was conveyed.
One ought
to hold on to one’s heart; for if one lets go, one soon loses control of the
head too.
One
person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who only have an
interest.
One
reality has nothing to do with the other.
One
reason people get divorced is that they run out of gift ideas.
One resists the invasion of armies;
one does not resist the invasion of ideas. (Hugo)
One
service more we dare to ask – pray for us, heroes, pray, that when fate lays on
us our task, we do not shame the day. (Kipling)
One should
always have one’s boots on, and be ready to leave.
One
should be just as careful in choosing one’s pleasures as in avoiding
calamities.
One
should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.
One
should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent..
One
should never meet a man whose work one admires. The man is always so much less
than the work.
One
simply survives. It may be the most
imaginative thing we do.
One size never
fits all.
One smart
reader is worth a thousand boneheads.
One step
forward, two steps back.
One
supplies the cash, the other the cachet.
One sure
sign of maturity is when you realize that it takes less time to do as you’re
told than it does to complain about it.
One thing
acquired through pain is better for a man than one hundred things easily
acquired.
One thing
I know and that is that I know nothing.
One thing
worse than being alone is wishing you were.
One thing
you learn in racing is that they don't wait for you.
One
thought driven home is better than three left on base.
One thumb
permanently on the fast-forward button.
One way
to kill a tiger is to distract it from so many different sides that it tries to
run in every direction at once.
One who makes
no mistakes makes nothing at all. (G.
Casanova)
One will
not go far wrong if one attributes extreme actions to vanity, average ones to
habit, and petty ones to fear.
One’s
“real” life is almost always the life one doesn’t lead.
Only a
fool tests the depth of the water with both feet.
Only a
fool thinks price and value are the same thing.
Only a
mediocre person is always at his or her best.
Only
connect (E.M. Forster Howard’s End)
Only God,
my dear /
Could
love you for yourself alone /
And not
your yellow hair.
Only one
link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
Only
satisfied customers can give people job security. Not companies.
Only so
much inspiration is allotted even at the high end of the scale.
Only the exhaustive
is truly interesting.
Only the
guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.
Only the
spirit of attack born in a brave heart will bring success to any fighter
aircraft, no matter how advanced it is.
(Adolf Galland)
Only the
spoon knows the pot’s sorrows.
Only the
untalented can afford to be humble.
Only the
wearer knows where the shoe pinches.
Only the
winner goes to dinner.
Only the
winners decide what were war crimes.
Only
thing in life that provides enduring satisfaction is a shorter commute.
Only
those items which I notice shaped my mind-without selective interest,
experience is an utter chaos. (William James).
Only
those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.
Only
those willing to go too far will know how far they can go.
Only
three things to do about a mistake.
Admit it, learn from it, don’t repeat it.
Only
truth can set the spirit free.
Only two
things keep expanding until they die, software and tumors.
Only when
you have crossed the river can you say the crocodile has a lump on its snout.
OODA Loop
– observe, orient, decide, act
Oozing
slime from every pore he slips his way across the floor.
Open your
arms to change, but don’t let go of your values.
Opening
weekend: it’s the first public
referendum on a film’s prospects that carries the weight of empirical truth.
Opinions
differ significantly from assholes. Your opinions should be constantly and
thoroughly examined. (Old version:
opinions like assholes – everyone has one)
Opinions
but no convictions.
Opportunity
Costs are Everything – “Fucked or Famous”
Opportunity
is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Opportunities
are rarely offered; they are usually seized.
Opprobrium
resonates in a way that praise seldom does.
Optimism
-- girded by arrogance rather than preparation -- can only get us so far.
Optimism
is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.
Optimists
and pessimists die exactly the same death, but they live very different lives!
(Peres)
Order
must underlie everything, however disorderly it may appear.
Ordinary
people only believe in the possible.
Extraordinary people visualize what is not possible or probable, but
rather what is impossible. And by
visualizing the impossible, they begin to see it as possible.
Organizations are incredibly good
at not valuing youth.
Organized
abandonment (Drucker)
Original
minds have but one good idea in a lifetime.
Originality
is nothing more than judicious imitation. (Voltaire)
Othello: one that loved not wisely, but too well.
O.T.T. =
Over the Top (broadcast)
Our
average employees now work someplace else.
Our
biggest blind spots often come from our own behaviors
Our body
fluids, the lubricant of intimacy and the nectar of life, have become death
potions.
Our
decision did not come easily, but it did come clearly.
Our deeds
determine us as much as we determine our deeds.
Our
desires always increase with our possessions.
The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment
of the good before us.
Our
doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to
attempt. (Shakespeare)
Our
emphasis on dismantling problems into their components and our obsessive
emphasis on quantifying detail without context leaves us knowing more and more about
less and less.
Our enemy
is the concept of “impossible” – we just don’t buy it.
Our fears
must never hold us back from pursuing our hopes.
Our
freedom to discipline ourselves is a freedom we can lose if we don’t use it.
Our goal
is not a great school system, it’s a system of great schools.
Our
greatest foes, whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
Our
greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Our
ignorance of history makes us vilify our own age.
Our
greatest leverage is in the future. We
can't change the past. We can only react
to the present.
Our
knowledge (science) is growing faster than our wisdom (society).
Our last
two presenters were one hour too long.
Our
memories are independent of our wills, it is not easy to forget.
Our minds
possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth.
Our
natures lie in motion, without which we die.
Our old
friend Hugh Bris is back in town.
Our own
irrational demands strike us as having the force of needs, while other people’s
needs strike us as capricious indulgences.
Our
passions may be our guides in life.
Our
patience will achieve more than our force.
Our
philosophy is: a little number times a
big number is a big number.
Our style
betrays us. (Stylus virum arguit.)
Our
theories determine what we measure.
Our view
of the future is limited to our existing vocabulary.
Our whole
lives are convoluted, egregious apologies to our mothers because our fathers
have made such flawed husbands.
Out of
clutter find simplicity; from discord make harmony; in the middle of difficulty
lies opportunity.
Outside
of a person’s love, the most sacred thing they can give is their labor.
Outsourcing
is a way station on the path to automation.
Over
managed and under led.
Overfunding
a start-up numbs the pain and slows the progress. (McKeown)
Overnight
successes sure take a helluva long time.
Own Up,
Step Up (Ross Manire)