Words matter. These are the best Only One Way Quotes from famous people such as Rodney Dangerfield, Henry Van Dyke, Lars von Trier, Laurel Lea, Rhys Thomas, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I found there was only one way to look thin: hang out with fat people.
There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.
Far be it from me to force anyone into either chess or dressage, but if you choose to do so yourself, in my opinion there is only one way: follow the rules.
A personal offense is like a scratch on a phonograph record. I couldn’t move my thoughts beyond my pain. It kept repeating, as if I were stuck within its grooves. There was only one way to play beyond it. I had to forgive them, so my heart could take its form again.
I always found the dramatic side of things easier than the comedy, because there’s so many ways to do comedy, and it’s also subjective. Someone might not laugh at what you do, whereas if you’re going to do a dramatic scene, there’s usually only one way you can do it.
If you want to get wages up in America for middle income Americans, there’s only one way I know how to do that in real terms… by having more businesses want to hire more people.
Don’t be too close-minded, and don’t think there’s only one way to get to where you want to be. There are a thousand ways to get there, and if one way doesn’t work, try the other.
I think the kids in school that laughed at the clothes that we wore and the house that we lived in, and then my mother had to cut hair… I think that was a good motivator. Every time they laughed at me, they just built a fire, and there was only one way to put it out – to try and show ’em I was as good as they were.
There’s only one way to get strong. You work at it.
All companies that grow really big do so in only one way: people recommend the product or service to other people.
All my wire sculptures come from the same loop. And there’s only one way to do it. The idea is to do it simply, and you end up with a shape.
If you come to The Kitchen and get a pork chop with polenta, which is our kind of food – simple – there is only one way it should taste at The Kitchen.
There is only one way to solve the alleged crisis of the erosion of ‘family values.’ And that is to get right down to the root cause of the problem.
You can’t say there is only one way of doing things, the police way of ensuring law and order.
I’m picky, very picky. I wanted to be an actor since I was nine years old, and I figured that was only one way to ever have any longevity, and that’s to be careful about what kind of work you do.
I think there is only one way to write fiction – alone, in a room, without interruption or any distraction.
I don’t remember myself to be a forefront fighter, but when pushed to a point with a wall behind me, there is only one way forward. Later you can call it a Rambo syndrome, but I never regret it, as it comes naturally to me, and in my mind, that is the only way.
We have no desire to convince anyone that there is only one way by which faith can be acquired.
I understand aggressiveness in only one way: being prepared to hurt yourself, not someone else.
There’s a lot of bad habits a lot of guys have now in the NBA and in college, so there’s only one way to get them started right and that’s to go back to the roots.
No expectations, no tension between goals and performance, no outrage, resolve or intention, no action, no results. There’s only one way to get a government – and a nation – to stop drifting to low performance. That’s to wake up and insist on higher standards.
There’s only one way to train, and that’s being in the ring. And even in practice, it’s not the same as performing in front of a crowd.
There is only one way in which one can endure man’s inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one’s own life, to exemplify man’s humanity to man.
I think the truth of it is that when you get down to actually having to do the things on the ground, there is only one way to do it, and that’s in cooperation with the communities.
But when you take the Bible literally, for what it says, you have to come back to the fact that there is only one way of salvation; there’s only one Savior.
Football can be played in different ways and the more ways you know, the better you will be. If you know only one way, you’re limiting your possibilities.
If you stand still there is only one way to go, and that’s backwards.
There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
There’s only one way to gain mountain sense, and that’s to be in the mountains a lot. Unfortunately, when you’re a young climber, you have none. You’re out there, and your risk level is high.
Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.
Most actors feel only one way. We’re just grateful to have a job.
There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.
If you put people up on pedestals, there’s only one way for them to go, and that is down.
Things are not as we would like them to be. There is only one way to deal with it, namely to try and be all right oneself.
Don’t let anyone tell you there’s only one way to write.
I’ve gone from a place where I was told there was one way and only one way, to being more in a place where I don’t think anyone has the right to say what they believe is more important or more significant.
We’ve got to keep an eye on the battle that we face – a war on workers. And you see it everywhere. It is the Tea Party. And there’s only one way to beat and win that war – the one thing about working people is, we like a good fight.
There’s only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.
A big part of me would be very proud never having anything of mine adapted, because if you want the real experience, there’s only one way to get it. You’re going to actually have to be a reader.
At a certain R.P.M., there’s only one way for blood to leave your body, and that’s through your eyeballs. That means you’re dead.
Too often black people are confronted with an assumption that there is only one way to be black, and that anyone who doesn’t conform is a ‘coconut’ an ‘Uncle Tom’ (or as Ms Dent Coad stated in her blog, a ‘token’). It implies we are too stupid to understand what it means to be conservative, or are race traitors.
Ben Schwartzwalder was a decent guy, but he was from another era. He was like a Marine, with a real army attitude. He thought there was only one way to play football, and that was the rough way.
There’s only one way to play this game since I was a little kid – play fast, play physical, play strong.
If there is any God, there is only one way to please him, and that is by a conscientious discharge of your obligations to your fellow men.
We are a democracy, and there is only one way to get a democracy on its feet in the matter of its individual, its social, its municipal, its State, its national conduct, and that is by keeping the public informed about what is going on.
There is really only one way to deal with Misery. Accept her presence. Like most experiences in life, we must acknowledge the passage gracefully and let her move through our lives because she brings with her a hidden gift.
Asset managers have different approaches, and I don’t wish to suggest there is only one way to run money. There are many ways one can attempt to reduce risk, improve performance, lower drawdowns and reduce volatility.
You and I are players, God’s our coach, and we’re playing the biggest game of all. We have a loving God that made us. We need to get on His team. It says in His word, there’s only one way to Him and that’s through Jesus Christ.
There’s only one way we’re going to change our political climate and ensure we establish some respect in our discourse. And that is to show there is a real price to pay for being a disrespectful partisan idiot.
The challenge is moving fast and staying great. You have to keep the bar high. There’s only one way you can evolve the brand and perception, which is to deliver. You just gotta lay it down.
For people who have been ostracized, who have been all the way at the bottom, there’s only one way that we can go – and that’s up.
We tend to think of racism as this interpersonal verbal or physical abuse, when in truth, that is only one way that racism manifests itself. The reality of contemporary racism is that it while it is ubiquitous, it is often invisible, subsequently making it more difficult to name and identify.
We tend to think of meditation in only one way. But life itself is a meditation.
When I was coming up, there was only one way to listen to music, and that was on a Walkman.
I say it in the writers’ room all the time: My black is not your black. What’s terrifying is that, just the same way we’ve all accepted that normal is white, everybody seems to buy into the idea that there’s only one way to be black or one way to be Hispanic. That’s as damaging as anything else.