T Quotes
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“Technical knowledge has now become an integral aspect of the Iranian psyche.”
“Technical knowledge is not enough. One must transcend techniques so that the art becomes an artless art, growing out of the unconscious.”
“Technical people don't make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation, things fall apart.”
Source: A Deepness in the Sky
“Technical perfection is insufficient. It is an orphan without the true soul of the dancer.”
“Technical problems are like gremlins. They come and go.”
“Technical problems can be remediated. A dishonest corporate culture is much harder to fix.”
“Technical progress and more comfortable living permit the systematic inclusion of libidinal components into the realm of commodity production and exchange. But no matter how controlled the mobilization of instinctual energy may be (it sometimes amounts to a scientific management of libido), no matter how much it may serve as a prop for the status quo - it is also gratifying to the managed individuals, just as racing the outboard motor, pushing the power lawn mower, and speeding the automobile are fun.”
“Technical skill is mastery of complexity, while creativity is mastery of simplicity.”
“Technical things are getting more mechanical. Take 'Swan Lake,' the Black Swan pas de deux. Now, my goodness, they're turning not just 32 fouettes - but double or triple pirouettes.”
“Technical Utopias-flying, for example-have been achieved by the new science of nature.The human utopia...a united new humankind living in solidarity and peace, free from economic determination and from war and class struggle-can be achieved, provided we spend the same energy, intelligence, and enthusiasm on the realization of the human Utopia as we have spent on the realization of our technical Utopias.”
“TECHNICALITY, n. In an English court a man named Home was tried for slander in having accused his neighbor of murder. His exact words were: "Sir Thomas Holt hath taken a cleaver and stricken his cook upon the head, so that one side of the head fell upon one shoulder and the other side upon the other shoulder." The defendant was acquitted by instruction of the court, the learned judges holding that the words did not charge murder, for they did not affirm the death of the cook, that being only an inference.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)
“Technically, all tattoos are temporary, even permanent ones.”
“Technically, God is trying from all angles to keep us awake, walk, run.”
Source: Key for the Next Generation Growth: Author: Human composer of the God played new tune
“Technically, Hard work is an auto-connector to the Heaven.
Hard work is done on the negatives to attain control and generate product.
Nullified negative and available positive auto-connects to the Heaven”
Source: Key for the Next Generation Growth: Author: Human composer of the God played new tune
“Technically he is perfect and he plays so naturally, almost without effort. It's like when Roger Federer plays tennis, he barely sweats.”
“Technically, I am unarmed. But no one should ever underestimate the harm that fingernails can do, especially if the target is unprepared. I lunge across the table and rake mine down Haymitch's face, causing blood to flow and damage to one eye. Then we are both screaming terrible, terrible things at each other, and Finnick is trying to drag me out, and I know it's all Haymitch can do not to rip me apart, but I'm the mockingjay. I'm the mockingjay and it's too hard keeping me alive as it is.”
Source: Catching Fire
“Technically I can get out of my wheelchair and crawl around and do things, but when I've traveled and they've lost my wheelchair in transit, I feel like I need to be bound to it. My functionality and autonomy are often bound to this.”
“Technically, I don’t know much about music, but since childhood I’ve instinctively understood its expression. I felt the musical sense in me as something natural and innate”
Source: Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
“Technically I feel total fluidity in writing. I feel there's nothing technically that I can't do the way a certain sort of pianist feels that. But that doesn't mean it comes easily. It doesn't.”
“Technically I have siblings, but they are quite a bit older than me - I was the accident - so I have the only-child syndrome going on. I'm a little more selfish, a little more independent, a little closed. I do wish I were softer. I wish I were able to form relationships better.”
“Technically I've improved - I might turn a metaphor in five words now, where years ago, it would have taken me a paragraph. I can't say it was intentional - but you know what they say about practice making perfect...!”
Source: House Rules: A Novel
“Technically it was a victory for the British, who attacked the patriot fortifications but a Pyrrhic victory if ever there was: out of 2,200 British soldiers 1,034 were killed or wounded, including one in nine of all the officers the British lost in the whole war.”
“Technically it's not premarital sex if you don't plan on marrying them.”
“Technically my dog's naked most of the time. Except halloween, when I dress him up as Liza Minelli.”
“Technically perfect, pictorially rotten. (Stieglitz's standard comment on photographs he rejected for publication in The American Amateur Photographer.)”
“Technically speaking, since our complex societies are highly susceptible to interferences and accidents,they certainly offer ideal opportunities for a prompt disruption of normal activities. These disruptions can, with minimum expense, have considerably destructive consequences. Global terrorism is extreme both in its lack of realistic goals and in its cynical exploitation of the vulnerability of complex systems.”
“Technically speaking, you can build anything out of sand; it doesn't mean you do it.”
“Technically speaking, you drive like a rabid chicken who has hijacked a tractor.”
Source: Unspoken
“Technically, under the Golden Rule, you wouldn’t have to do anything for anybody and you would still be in the clear. But that merely stops the transference of evil with you. It’s just indifference. If the evil stopped with you, and there was no good to push it out, then that evil is still inside you.”
Source: In Limbo
“Technically, you cannot really own a book you bought; you can only own the sheets of paper your copy is printed on; unless, of course, you are the book’s publisher.”
Source: The Selfish Genie: A Satirical Essay on Altruism
“Technically, you don't pay me.
And technically, most of what I do is "think."
I...rrr. ummm.
And when you get right down to it, I'm better at it than you are.
-Ennesby & Captain Tagon”
Source: Resident Mad Scientist
“Technically, you’re not responsible for your man’s cheating. However, your lack of context (context = sensual awareness) makes you responsible to some degree.”
“Technically, you were not my patient when I tried to stab you.”
Source: Delicious Death
“Technically you would only need one time traveler convention.”
“Technically, 'Kukla, Fran and Ollie' was a kids' show, but adults watched almost religiously - and we're talking adult adults, celebrated adults - including James Thurber, Orson Welles, John Steinbeck, Adlai E. Stevenson and lyricist Stephen Sondheim.”
“Technically, at this point we're no longer with the label; we've fulfilled our contract.”
“Technically, I am unarmed. But no one should ever underestimate the harm that fingernails can do. Especially if the target is unprepared.”
Source: Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)
“Technically, I split my time between N.Y.C. and Boston.”
“Technically, I'm a knight. My family goes back a thousand years in the Naples area. We're a titled, noble people.”
“Technically, I'm a New Yorker.”
“Technically, I'm not a guitar player, all I play is truth and emotion.”
“Technically, I've been retired for some time now. All I ever do is occasionally write songs for friends, such as one, for a friend who had just turned 80. I wrote a song for him called, The First 80 Years are The Hardest.”
“Technically, I've learned that having good legs and wind is good for being on stage. You have to be in shape and have endurance.”
“Technically, if a girl wants to sparkle she can put on glitter but I think the correct answer would be a smile because no one pays attention to your short when you have a nice smile on your face.”
“Technically, Japan and South Korea normalized their diplomatic ties 50 years ago, but this wasn't included in the Normalization Treaty because forced prostitution, coerced sex just was taboo to even talk about.”
“Technically, of course, he was right. Socially, he was annoying us.”
Source: Anathem
“Technically, on the spectrum of very bad things, they did nothing truly wicked. But of course, that spectrum has no measure for the greatest of all carnal sins, the kind that occurs before skin touches skin, before wondering turns to yearning, yearning to having, having to holding for dear life, when two people cling to each other so desperately that even when they lie, inches apart, neither is fully satisfied until the light between them turns to darkness.”
Source: The Romantics
“Technically, the city of Ankh-Morpork is a Tyranny, which is not always the same thing as a monarchy, and in fact even the post of Tyrant has been somewhat redefined by the incumbent, Lord Vetinari, as the only form of democracy that works. Everyone is entitled to vote, unless disqualified by reason of age or not being Lord Vetinari.”
Source: Unseen Academicals
“Technically, the dance worked best when done naked, but I didn't feel like prancing in the nude into Morrigan Hound's arms. I'm sure he'd be thrilled to see me.”
Source: Magic Burns
“Technically, the last number of years, partially from the injury, it's been difficult to push forward but I felt even before the injury that I still could do more and was sort of at a stalemate.”