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Of all the paths a man could strike into, there is, at any given moment, a best path .. A thing which, here and now, it were of all things wisest for him to do .. To find this path, and walk in it, is the one thing needful for him.

Of course it was a method of play you had to change because people get the idea once they have played against you.

Of course we've lost so many superstars who've made jazz what it is. We've lost so many musicians who created new things and changed the way we think about music and who took jazz to a new level. So jazz is suffering from that. But we still have a lot of incredible people playing jazz in the world. We have a lot of people leading the way.

Often the great scientists, by turning the problem around a bit, changed a defect to an asset. For example, many scientists when they found they couldn't do a problem finally began to study why not. They then turned it around the other way and said, "But of course, this is what it is" and got an important result.

Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

Oh heavy change. The world deteriorates like a rotting apple, worms and a skin.

O Hope! Dazzling, radiant Hope! What a change thou bringest to the hopeless; brightening the darkened paths, and cheering the lonely way.

Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves!

Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

Old fashions please me best; I am not so nice To change true rules for odd inventions.

Once an old woman at my church said the secret is that God loves us exactly the way we are and that he loves us too much to let us stay like this, and I'm just trying to trust that.

Once I started working with the Polaroid, I would take a shot and if that shot was good, then I'd move the model and change the lighting or whatever... slowly sneaking up on what I wanted rather than having to predetermine what it was.

Once the season starts for me, there isn't a change in my focus, just a change in my tactics and strategies.

Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins.

Once you embrace unpleasant news, not as a negative but as evidence of a need for change, you aren't defeated by it. You're learning from it.

Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.

"One and one make two" assumes that the changes in the shift of circumstance are unimportant. But it is impossible for us to analyze this notion of unimportant change.

One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

One cannot manage change. One can only be ahead of it.

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

One day, you’re 17 and you’re planning for someday. And then quietly, without you ever really noticing, someday is today. And then someday is yesterday. And this is your life.

One in a while, you discover a presidential candidate who has the potential to change the political conversation, to elevate key issues in voters' minds, and disrupt and transform a tired Republican brand. Once in a lifetime, maybe, you will have an opportunity to support a transformative candidate who can do all of these things, and win.

One key to successful leadership is continuous personal change. Personal change is a reflection of our inner growth and empowerment.

One might have thought that the most significant change in the film industry that would come about with a transition from the communist economy to capitalism would fundamentally concern the sources of funding.

One of my rules is: Never TRY to do anything. Just do it.

One of the cool things about ski racing is there is never a perfect run so it's hard to be satisfied in that sense, you can always go that extra step, i don't think any of us have the realistic goal of having the perfect run. Ski racing is the most variable sport out there, conditions change run-to-run, we only get one chance at it and the margin for error is tiny.

One of the drivers of displacement and potential conflict over the next 10 to 20 years will be climate (change) - resource scarcity, climate change is going to compound the cocktail that's driving war and displacement.

One of the most difficult things is not to change society - but to change yourself.

One of the persistent ironies of reform is the impossibility of predicting the full consequences of change.

One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

One of the things I learned when I was negotiating was that until I changed myself, I could not change others.

One of the ways the telegraph changed us as humans was it gave us a new sense of what time it is. It gave us an understanding of simultaneity. It gave us the ability to synchronize clocks from one place to another. It made it possible for the world to have standard time and time zones and then Daylight Savings Time and then after that jetlag. All of that is due to the telegraph because, before that, the time was whatever it was wherever you were.

One person can have a profound effect on another. And two people... well, two people can work miracles. They can change a whole town. They can change the world.

One thing I certainly never was made for, and that is to put principles on and off at the dictation of a party, as a lackey changes his livery at his master's command.

One thing we know for sure is that change is certain, progress is not.

Only a crisis, actual or perceived, produces real change.

Only a crisis - actual or perceived - produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around. That, I believe, is our basic function: to develop alternatives to existing policies, to keep them alive and available until the politically impossible becomes the politically inevitable.

Only the fairy tale equates changelessness with happiness...Permanence means paralysis and death. Only, in movement, with all its pain, is life.

Only love and death will change all things.

Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change.

Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species -- man -- acquired significant power to alter the nature of the world.

Only within yourself exists the other reality for which you long. I can give you nothing that has not already its being within yourself. I can throw open to you no picture gallery but your own soul.

Openly questioning the way the world works and challenging the power of the powerful is not an activity customarily rewarded.

Opposition is a natural part of life. Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition - such as lifting weights - we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity.

Opportunity comes like a snail, and once it has passed you it changes into a fleet rabbit and is gone.

Organizations are now confronted with two sources of change: the traditional type that is initiated and managed; and external changes over which no one has control.

Ordinary women attempt to change our bodies to resemble a pornographic ideal. Ordinary women construct a false self and come to hate this self.