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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 all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still
speak the most universally understood language.
Of
course, they all were right: Dreck was
the future and the future was Dreck.
Of fairy
tales and failed attempts at quietude, of a child’s memory soup of imagination
Of the things men give each other the greatest is loyalty.
“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 the hardest person to
forgive is yourself.
Often those things that are in
arms' reach are harder to see than those that cast the brightest light
Oh, I could drink a case of you, darling, and I would still be
on my feet.
Oh would
some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us. (Robert Burns)
OK, so what's the
speed of dark?
Old age
and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.
Old age comes at a bad time.
Old age is like a plane flying through a
storm. Once you are aboard there is nothing you can do about it.
Old age is when you resent the swimsuit issue
of Sports Illustrated because there are fewer articles to read.
Old age
isn’t a battle; it’s a massacre.
Old age isn't so bad when you consider the
alternative.
Old
bartenders tend to bring their bad habits with them.
Old friends — even thoughts of them — are my ballast; all that
love and loyalty, those delicious memories, the gossip.
Old
friends make the best friends.
Old
habits die hard.
Old is workable. Depravity is a dead end.
Old people are fond of giving good advice, to
console themselves for being no longer in a position to give bad examples.
Old people shouldn't eat health foods. They
need all the preservatives they can get. – R.Orben
Old
people weren’t always old.
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 lies
is tyranny built.
On some
great and glorious day, the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s
desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron. (Mencken)
On some level we think having money and power
is an indication that we deserve them.
On the
way to wonderful, you’re gonna have to pass through all right. When you get to all right,
take a good
look around and get used to it, because that may be as far as you're gonna go.
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 bitten, twice shy.
Many times bitten, always on high alert.
Once is
never and twice is always.
Once my eyes wandered to my opponent across the
net, they knew I would lose.
Once we
were standing still in time / Chasing the fantasies that filled our minds.
Once you
accept his assumptions, even a madman seems reasonable.
Once you buy the ticket, you’ve got to take the
ride.
Once you
got it up, keep it up.
Once you
start caring about people’s opinions of you, you give up control.
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 bus
comes, one bus goes, try to get on the next one.
One can
acquire everything in solitude except character.
One can
always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.
One
cannot put something behind one until one has beheld it directly.
One constant rule of
innovation: The young devour the old.
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 can.
One
does what one is; one becomes what one does.
One
doesn’t have to operate with great malice to do great harm. The absence of
empathy and understanding are sufficient.
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
hand washes the other, and both hands wash the face.
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
minute you’re here, next minute you’re gone.
One
misstep away from misery.
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 curses of history is that we cannot
go back and change the course leading to disasters, no matter how much we might
wish to. The past has its own terrible inevitability. But it is never too late
to change the future.
One of
the great questions of this time has always been whether Trump changed the
country or revealed it more clearly.
One of the great things money can buy is time.
One of the great truths
of history is that the great deceivers also deceive themselves.
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 cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.
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 great tragedies of the internet is
that people now see what they believe rather than believe what they see.
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 of those things that I would call lawful but awful.
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 person with passion
is better than 40 who are merely interested.
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, for example, be able to see that things are
hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
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 I learned early about fun is that having it on command is hard. Fun is a
child of accident and chaos, resistant to authority’s guiding hand.
One thing it takes to accomplish something is courage.
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
deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.
(Machiavelli)
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-off events usually
don’t amount to much. Organize gatherings that meet once a month or once a
year.
One’s
“real” life is almost always the life one doesn’t lead.
Online:
one is enough.
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 a
weak mind seeks ultimate answers.
Only
connect (E.M. Forster Howard’s End)
Only fools never change their minds. Fr. Il n’y a que les imbéciles qui ne changent pas d’avis.
Only God,
my dear /
Could
love you for yourself alone /
And not your
yellow hair.
Only in
darkness can we see the stars.
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
stupid people are breeding.
Only the
dead have seen their last war….
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 time will tell if it was time well-spent.
Only trust someone who can see these three things in you: The
sorrow behind your smile, the love behind your anger, and the reason behind
your silence.
Only
truth can set the spirit free.
Only two
industries call customers “users” – software and illegal drugs.
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.
Opinion is really the
lowest form of human knowledge.
Opinions
are like assholes, everyone’s got one.
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.
Opportunities
multiply as they are 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 a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the
future can be better, it’s unlikely you will step up and take responsibility
for making it so. If you assume that there’s no hope, you guarantee that there
will be no hope. (Chomsky)
Optimism
is a vital and necessary element of everyday life. It is the spirit that
propels us to go on living in the face of unavoidable suffering, that compels
us to fall in love when our hearts have been broken and gives us the courage to
bring children into the world, believing that even in times such as these we
are surrounded by enough beauty to fill lifetime after lifetime.
Optimism is
the belief that things are going to get better. Hope is the belief that we can
make things better. Optimism is a passive virtue, hope is an active one. It
takes no courage to be an optimist, but it does need courage to hope. (Rabbi
Sacks)
Optimism
is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.
Optimism is the obstinacy of maintaining
that everything is best when it is worst.
Optimists
and pessimists die exactly the same death, but they live very different lives!
(Peres)
Optimists
see problems as conduits, not obstacles, for progress.
Oration is to filibuster as essay writing is to
texting.
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 overrated, except by people who have it. It’s like
an untamed, ungrateful beast you’re trapped with.
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
commitments to each other are what we’re here for and that is life.
Our
decision did not come easily, but it did come clearly.
Our deeds
determine us as much as we determine our deeds.
Our
deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are
powerful beyond measure. (Marianne Williamson)
Our
desires always increase with our possessions.
The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment
of the good before us.
Our
devotion to each other was a consolation beyond the ravages of time.
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. (JFK)
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
grandkids will live in a country unrecognizable to us.
Our
greatest leverage is in the future. We
can't change the past. We can only react
to the present.
Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards – the things we
live by and teach our children – are preserved or diminished by how freely we
exchange ideas and feelings.
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 possessions owned us.
Our selves are our only guarantee.
Our style
betrays us. (Stylus virum arguit.)
Our task is to educate their whole being, so
they can face the future.
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.
Overton window is a model that identifies the range of policies
acceptable to the mainstream population at a given time. Politicians can
only act within the acceptable range. Proponents of policies outside the
window can persuade the public to expand the window.
Own Up,
Step Up (Ross Manire)
Oysters
don’t choose to make pearls.
Oz
didn’t give anything to the Tin Man that he didn’t already have.