The Thing Quotes

One thing I'd do is get rid of carried interest.

That's one of the reasons I'm successful, I do tend to do the right thing.

In the past, presidents had been consulted about those kinds of decisions by SGs, and I thought it was the right thing to do.

I sit quietly and repeat my mantra until I'm in a meditative state, taking it all in but not focusing on any one thing.

I do remember how sexy my collection was after I first got involved with Stephan [Weiss]. That's one thing I don't have in my life now and...if anything, that's one thing I would love.

I love working in the markets, I love working with fabric. So I'm not that conditioned to one thing.

One thing I've always been grateful for is the diversity of my listeners.

There is so much about the process of writing that is mysterious to me, but this one thing I've found to be true: writing begets writing.

The one thing about players today is that they're very sensitive, and very fragile. They didn't grow up with tough coaches.

Not every effort at loving difficult people will have a positive ending... We don't love people in hopes of a happy ending. We love them because it's the right thing to do.

Thanks to big data, machines can now be programmed to do the next thing right. But only humans can do the next right thing.

I'm kind of ADD. So I try to do one thing at a time. Otherwise, I would be sort of scattered and won't be 100% where I need to be for certain things.

A leader has to keep saying the same things over and over again.

One thing I've never been accused of is slowly coming into something. I always go full on (and ask) "Now how do we make this work?"

There is one thing about being President -- nobody can tell you when to sit down.

The hardest thing to do is to trust people. Even if you know them from way back when, it's hard to trust people. There's a lot we have to deal with, and it's the price of fame.

Music's the one thing I try not to analyze. I don't want to destroy the magic that has always been there for me.

Being a leader is one thing I've never felt comfortable with. It's not my nature.

One thing that's coming up a lot is: are you as grumpy as you appear from this Black Books thing.

The game of basketball is one thing, but the image of the game is another thing.

One thing my teacher taught me about getting psychic information with my intuition was to say, "Just show me the truth of this situation, God." That helps us to be able to read it more clearly.

Many things in your life matter, but only one thing matters absolutely.. It is finding the essence of who you are.

Several of the energy companies want to do the right thing. It's a matter of leveling the playing field though for them and that's why corrective action here is necessary.

One thing that's great about the sax is that you can always get better with the horn and improve upon what you did.

The cardinal sin is not being badly dressed, but wearing the right thing in the wrong place.

To look is one thing, to see is another thing; to see is very difficult, normally; to look is to try to see. I have looked and I hope I have seen.

Trust your actors. That's why I work with the same actors time and time again. I encourage them to change the dialogue to achieve one thing: keep the characters honest.

Well, for one thing, you know my dad was a cop.

You cannot separate the composition from the life of the moment. It is all one thing, to be decided in a split second while you're living through it.

Falling in love is the beginning of all wisdom, all sympathy, all compassion, all art, all religion; and in it's larger sense is the one thing in life worth doing.

One thing is sure, there are just two respectable ways to die. One is of old age, and the other is by accident.

One thing is for sure-none of the arts flourishes on censorship and repression. And by this time it should be evident that the American public is capable of doing its own censoring.

When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.

One thing I've learned about the NBA is that you can have one good year, but you've always got to be progressing and working and making yourself better.

I've realized that I can't multitask in the writing department; I can only kind of do one thing at a time.

One thing is that [Tibetans] should not give up hope. That's - even [if] it lasts a century. My discussions with the Dalai Lama always were about that.

Those who are unjust in one Thing, will be so in others.

One thing I've learned: My intentions are clear in terms of quality.

children like change - for one thing, they never anticipate regret.

in my experience one thing you don't learn from is anything anyone set up to be a lesson; what you are to know you pick up as you go along.

there are times when the one thing you haven't counts more than all the riches that may be yours.

We are able to choose what we want - you don't have to accept one thing from one tradition. It's a melting pot.

One thing nobody can do better than you is be you.

So many things tear us apart from each other. That's the hardest thing, to fit with all the hatred and pain we're embroiled in. I mean, we're a very violent species, physically and emotionally.

The hardest thing that I'll ever do, is ballet. Because you are either good or bad.

Gear is money, and if there’s one thing we know about Hollywood, it’s that money talks.

Of one thing alone I am very sure: it is a law of our nature that the memory of longing should survive the more fugitive memory of fulfillment.

The hardest thing to believe when you're young is that people will fight to stay in a rut, but not to get out of one.

It is hard to believe that something that seems so permanent was once so different. Change. I guess that really is one thing you can count on.

Why write for the orchestra? For one thing it's a very challenging problem.