Top 100 At A Time Quotes
#1. Leaders are like eagles ... they don't flock. You'll find them one at a time.
Knute Rockne
#2. Play more than one game at a time. This is a painless way to learn how to do many things at once.
Marilyn Vos Savant
#3. Let us take one day only in hands at a time. Resolve to do good today and better tomorrow.
Catherine McAuley
#4. I'm a documentary image maker, still and moving, because keeping the real world on the agenda is really important at a time when we're increasingly disconnected from parts of the world on whom we depend.
Tim Hetherington
#5. You bite off more than you can chew, 'course you're going to choke. One bite at a time. And that goes for thinking things, too, not just food.
Margaret Peterson Haddix
#6. I've had days when I go in my bedroom for 24 hours at a time. I call them my Cilla Black days, and they're literally black days. It's like the old Boomtown Rats song 'I Don't Like Mondays.' You just want to shut the whole day down.
Cilla Black
#7. The Egyptian revolution will remain indebted to everyone who tossed a stone into the still waters at a time when doing so risked beating, and arrest, or worse.
Wael Ghonim
#8. It's not just about getting a song on the radio or appearing on television. It really is about helping people change their lives one day at a time.
Yolanda Adams
#9. Meditation is a mental discipline that enables us to do one thing at a time.
Max Picard
#10. You build a golf game like you build a wall, one brick at a time.
Tony Lema
#11. You achieve long-term success step by step. Try to achieve your goals one at a time, like you do target practice.
Daniel Snyder
#12. I usually have 10 different animation projects going at a time.
Tara Strong
#13. I took the stairs two at a time. There's a time for decorum and a time to run like a crazed vorpal's after you, except a crazed vorpal's an oxymoron. This was the time to run.
L.E. Modesitt Jr.
#14. I have learned that delivering the best possible palliative care to children is vital, providing children and their families with a place of support, care and enhancement at a time of great need is simply life-changing.
Kate Middleton
#15. This book of our existence is everything that has ever happened to everyone in every universe. All the pages exist at once even though you are reading them one at a time. When you finish a page and turn your consciousness to another page, the previous page remains.
Russell Anthony Gibbs
#16. I thought: Just one step. One step at a time. You don't have to do them all at once.
Jennifer Niven
#17. Our most important task is to transform our consciousness so that violence is no longer an option for us in our personal lives, that understanding that a world of peace is possible only if we relate to each other as peaceful beings, one individual at a time.
Deepak Chopra
#18. Most people did not think dirty thoughts at a time like this. Only me.
Jennifer Echols
#19. Sometimes it's about living life 'one letter' at a time.
Cecelia Ahern
#20. There's nothing sadder than buying bananas one at a time.
Rainbow Rowell
#21. You can only play one hole at a time.
Tom Kite
#22. I have learned to live my life one step, one breath, and one moment at a time, but it was a long road. I set out on a journey of love, seeking truth, peace and understanding. I am still learning.
Muhammad Ali
#24. Mountains are moved when we choose positivity, when we choose to exert the power of love, when we chip away at our problems 1 day at a time.
D. Allen Miller
#25. New technologies make it possible for even the mass marketer to assume the role of a small proprietor, doing business again wit individuals, one at a time.
Don Peppers
#26. I want to change the world and I used to think I needed to do some big, significant thing. More recently I see this can be accomplished one relationship at a time.
Oliver Thomas
#27. Biggie came at a time just like Hitler did with the Germans.
Tupac Shakur
#28. I'm never in the same place for more than, like, three days at a time. Things can change from one minute to the next.
Taylor Swift
#29. ...Thought lengths it, pulls
an invisible world through
a needle's eye
one detail at a time,
...
Jennifer Grotz
#30. Every situation had a little shelf in her head and she never took more than one thing down at a time, never mixed feelings, always kept a sense of control.
Jewel E. Ann
#31. Taking on the afterlife one soul at a time.
Tite Kubo
#32. Usually I read several books at a time - old books, new books, fiction, nonfiction, verse, anything - and when the bedside heap of a dozen volumes or so has dwindled to two or three, which generally happens by the end of one week, I accumulate another pile.
Vladimir Nabokov
#33. I had grown up at a time when people were being lynched, being attacked with water hoses. Becoming active and learning a different way of viewing my life was a healthy reaction to what I was seeing every day.
Assata Shakur
#34. Jesus healed people one at a time because God cares about individual people.
Andy Stanley
#35. I'm like a recovering perfectionist. For me it's one day at a time.
Brene Brown
#36. You could block things from your mind for years at a time. You could make them go away because you know that if you let them in, the pain could nearly kill you.
Diane Chamberlain
#37. one sentence seemed to change a man, and the world seemed to change, one man at a time.
Jung-Myung Lee
#38. President Reagan was a leader at a time when the American people most needed leadership. He outlined a vision that captured the imagination of the free world, a vision that toppled the Communist empire and freed countless millions.
Dennis Hastert
#39. Politics is a country idiot capable of concentrating on only one thing at a time.
Robert Harris
#40. I'm a little commitment phobic, in that I've always been someone who likes to take things one year at a time because as we all know, a year can change everything in your life.
Debra Messing
#41. There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.
Rebecca West
#42. Our resources will diminish in the coming decades at a time when hunger for energy grows dramatically in China and other parts of Asia. Eventually, it will just be impossible to fly - normal flights will become as expensive as flying with the Concorde.
Hermann E. Ott
#43. The best way to handle responsibility is to break it down into smaller parts. Take care of one small thing at a time.
Pat Summitt
#44. Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.
Walt Disney
#45. Equal partnerships are not made in heaven-they are made on earth, one choice at a time, one conversation at a time, one threshold crossing at a time.
Bruce C. Hafen
#46. There was an art to living, and sometimes it required the inexorable, relentless resolve just to keep plowing forward, one step at a time, no matter what the hell it was you were doing.
Marjorie M. Liu
#47. There once was an old man of Lyme who married three wives at a time when asked, 'Why a third?' he replied 'One's absurd! and bigamy, sir, is a crime!'
William Cosmo Monkhouse
#48. It seems to me that I have greater peace and am close to God when I am not "trying to be a contemplative," or trying to be anything special, but simply orienting my life fully and completely towards what seems to be required of a man like me at a time like this.
Thomas Merton
#49. You can't go wrong with some nuts. The key word is 'some.' Eat them one at a time, not by the handful.
Summer Sanders
#50. The thought constructed itself a piece at a time, like an incomplete jigsaw. Think, don't panic.
Terry Pratchett
#51. Improvement depends far less upon length of tasks and hours of application than is supposed. Children can take in but a little each day; they are like vases with a narrow neck; you may pour little or pour much, but much will not enter at a time.
Jules Michelet
#52. When I'm writing a comic book, I'm thinking about a character that I'm going to be drawing on the page. I've never drawn a character to look like who I want to cast in a movie because I don't think that way. I'm a real monomaniac. I do one thing at a time.
Frank Miller
#53. My good man, could we have one deadly issue to deal with at a time?
Jenny Colgan
#54. Every really good book was written a little at a time, over time, in tremendous confusion and doubt.
Richard Bausch
#55. But now he understood why someone would write things like 'she walked in beauty like the night' and so forth. Because poetry was a barrier against raw emotions. It distilled them into bearable music, allowed one to accommodate them a little at a time.
Julie Anne Long
#56. I think romantic love evolved to enable you to focus your mating energy on just one individual at a time, thereby conserving mating time and energy.
Helen Fisher
#57. I drew a line for myself. I never dated anyone that could hire me when I was first in Hollywood, and I think that kept me focused on what I was there to do and how I wanted to go about it. I took it a step at a time.
Cheryl Ladd
#58. Start moving, a step at a time, step after step. The positive momentum will take you from there.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
#59. Historically the first philosopher to enquire deeply into the nature of corruption in society was Ibn Khaldun (1322-1406), whose wandering life was largely spent in the northern littoral of Africa at a time when kingdoms and sultanates were crumbling.
Robert Payne
#61. Isolation means a lack of growth. I grew up in China at a time when the country was completely isolated. That era is over.
Zhang Xin
#62. Forcible intercourse with one individual is called as "Rape" & Raping thousands of individuals at a time is called as "Politics".
Srinivas Shenoy
#64. I don't believe in looking back. If you make a decision that you think is the proper one at a time, then that's the correct decision.
John Wooden
#65. The chess player who develops the ability to play two dozen boards at a time will benefit from learning to compress his or her analysis into less time.
Marilyn Vos Savant
#66. Sleep is like a drug. Take too much at a time and it makes you dopey. You lose time and opportunities.
Thomas A. Edison
#67. When I'm playing with circular saws, I'm offline (though often listening to podcasts) and when I sit in the cabin to read or write, it's wonderful to be offline for a few hours at a time.
Ethan Zuckerman
#68. Dawn crept up out of the trees, defining a bole, a burl, a leaf at a time the world he'd spent the night trying to comprehend. But what would daylight offer except the illusion of understanding? At least in darkness you were spared the pretending.
Tom Franklin
#69. The belief that a person can and should only feel grief over one sad event at a time is a truly disturbing estimate of our emotional capacity.
Jennifer Armintrout
#71. You can only wear one pair of shoes at a time," she said. "Rich people are like the rest of us - two feet, ten toes. We are all the same that way.
Alexander McCall Smith
#72. History is change happening one person at a time.
Matt Damon
#73. You don't change the world by telling it what to do, sitting at home, and telling it what you believe. You believe by throwing yourself into it. Making a leap, getting involved, then waiting, taking some one person's place for a while, one suffering person at a time.
Geoffrey Wood
#74. I'm not saying looting is good, ... But I'm saying surely at a time when your child needs diapers and you need food, when does looting stop ...
Bill Cosby
#75. If you think you are the mermaid, think again.
You are the ocean holding the mermaid afloat,
trying to change the world one dolphin at a time.
Kelli Russell Agodon
#76. I'm proud of the fact that Downton Abbey was born in a recession, at a time when ITV had dropped a lot of drama programmes. And I know that because I was out of work at the time!
Rob James-Collier
#77. At a time when we're having to take such difficult decisions about how to cut back without damaging the things that matter the most, we should strain every sinew to cut error, waste and fraud.
David Cameron
#78. I believe there is a legitimate place for sweat and toil, but life is more than a climb to the top. Therefore, help me, Lord, to enjoy my work one day at a time, unhindered by my desire to get ahead.
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Phil Callaway
#79. Churchill was in the lavatory in the House of Commons and his secretary knocked on the door and said: Excuse me Prime Minister, but the Lord Privy Seal wishes to speak to you. After a pause Churchill replied: Tell His Lordship: I'm sealed on The Privy and can only deal with one shit at a time
Winston S. Churchill
#80. Musical theater can save you, even if only for two or three hours at a time.
Michelle Knudsen
#81. If I was a little bit younger I would worry more. I'd want to do one thing at a time but now I try to do a bunch of different things at a time if I can.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
#82. Those men and women are fortunate who are born at a time when a great struggle for human freedom is in progress. It is an added good fortune to have parents who take a personal part in the great movements of their time. I am glad and thankful that this was my case.
Emmeline Pankhurst
#83. It is a full time job being honest one moment at a time, remembering to love, to honor, to respect. It is a practice, a discipline, worthy of every moment.
Jasmine Guy
#84. No, I'm not the first or last model of my type in this industry. You can make up all the reasons you think I am where I am, but really, I'm a hard worker that's confident in myself - one that came at a time where the fashion industry was ready for a change.
Gigi Hadid
#85. I was sprawled out in my usual position on the couch, half asleep but entirely drunk, torturing myself by tearing memories out of my mind at random like matches from a book, striking them one at a time and drowsily setting myself on fire.
Jonathan Tropper
#86. She used to grip me so tightly that the only way I could put her down was to pry her loose, one digit at a time. For two years, I had bruises from her fingers and toes all over my body.
Karen Joy Fowler
#87. They went to university because someone, at a time when universities seemed important, said that in order to rise in the world, you had to have a degree. And thus the world was deprived of some excellent gardeners, bakers, antique dealers, sculptors, and writers.
Paulo Coelho
#88. Homo sapiens does its best to forget the fact, but it is an animal. And it is doubly important to remember our origins at a time when we seek to turn ourselves into gods.
Yuval Noah Harari
#90. What works for me is knowing the character in an emotional sense. I wish I was more logical but it doesn't work for me like that. I need quite a lot of time; it's why I always worry when I'm doing more than one thing at a time. I hope that some sort of magic will kick in.
Sally Hawkins
#91. Sometimes I've survived anger only one minute at a time, by saying to myself again and again that the best kind of revenge is some kind of life beyond this, some kind of goodness. And I can lay no claim to goodness until I can prove that mean people have not made me mean.
Barbara Kingsolver
#92. One thing I did not want to change, even if we got serious, work had to be enjoyable on a daily basis. We all had to come to work on the balls of our feet and go up the stairs two at a time.
Yvon Chouinard
#93. The tools of their trade were simple, effective things: iron knuckles, saps and the like. But the iconic tool of the scuttler arsenal was a woven leather belt with a heavy iron or brass buckle used to decrease intelligence one wallop at a time.
S.C. Barrus
#94. Just as a war fought in winter demands different behavior and equipment from a war in the summer, human beings must learn to respect their own seasons, and not try to act when it is time to wait, not try to wait at a time of action.
Paulo Coelho
#95. Consumers can choose from hundreds of channels today, including dozens for kids. At a time of dwindling resources, we don't need to be subsidizing PBS. It's time for Big Bird the mooch to compete with 'Dora the Explorer' and 'Bob the Builder.'
Mark McKinnon
#96. I just got a new iPod. It's got 80 gigabytes. Because I like to jog for three weeks at a time and I do not want to hear the same song twice.
Arj Barker
#98. It is really intolerable that we can say only one thing at a time; for social behavior displays many features at the same time, and so in taking them up one by one we necessarily do outrage to its rich, dark, organic unity.
George C. Homans
#99. I worked at the White House in the early Reagan administration at a time when the deficit rocket really started to take off.
Christopher Buckley
#100. One of the reasons AA works is that the individual makes the decision not to drink, one day at a time. One hour. One minute even. You can do that, right? One minute? ... There's one minute. You're stronger than you know, Mrs. Alexander.
Tammara Webber
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