T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The essential and defining characteristic of childhood is not the effortless merging of dream and reality, but only alienation. There are no words for childhood's dark turns and exhalations. A wise child recognizes it and submits to the necessary consequences. A child who counts the cost is a child no longer.”
Source: 'Salem's Lot
“The essential Arab concept of maintaining dignity seemed alien to all but the savviest of soldiers”
Source: Our Women on the Ground: Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World
“The essential attribute of a new sense is, not the perception of external objects or influences which ordinarily do not act upon the senses, but that external causes should excite in it a new and peculiar kind of sensation different from all the sensations of our five senses.”
“The essential attributes of a great leader are a positive attitude, humility, and gratitude.”
“The essential building block is...the true love that is impossible to define for those who have never experienced it and unnecessary to define for those who have.”
“The essential challenge is to transform the isolation and self-interest within our communities into connectedness and caring for the whole.”
Source: Community: The Structure of Belonging
“The essential characteristic of digital information is that it can be manipulated easily and very rapidly by computer... Computational tools for transforming, combining, altering, and analyzing images are as essential to the digital artist as brushes and pigments to a painter.”
Source: The Reconfigured Eye: Visual Truth in the Post-photographic Era
“The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights.”
Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z
“The essential characteristic of the first half of the twentieth century is the growing weakness, and almost the disappearance, of the idea of value.”
Source: The Simone Weil Reader
“The essential characteristic of Western civilization that distinguishes it from the arrested and petrified civilizations of the East was and is its concern for freedom from the state.”
Source: The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method
“The essential commitment and, above all, the visible grace and source of supernatural strength for the Church as the People of God is to persevere and advance constantly in Eucharistic life and Eucharistic piety and to develop spiritually in the climate of the Eucharist.”
Source: The Redeemer of man: encyclical
“The essential component of being a DJ is setting the mood; it's playing to the context. So that if you're not able to adapt from one context to another, then you're not a DJ.”
“The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.”
“The essential core of prayer is the act of will, turning to God, seeking God, and uniting itself to God.”
“The essential difference between emotion and reason is that emotion leads to action while reason leads to conclusions.”
Source: Within Reason: Rationality and Human Behavior
“The essential difference between rich societies and poor societies does not stem from any greater effort the former devote to work, nor even from any greater technological knowledge the former hold. Instead it arises mainly from the fact that rich nations possess a more extensive network of capital goods wisely invested from an entrepreneurial standpoint. These goods consists of machines, tools, computers, buildings, semi-manufactured goods, software, etc., and they exist due to prior savings of the nation's citizens. In other words, comparatively rich societies possess more wealth because they have more time accumulated in the form of capital goods, which places them closer in time to the achievement of much more valuable goals.”
“The essential difference between that knowledge which is, and that which is not conclusive evidence of Christian character, lies in this: the object of the one is the agreement of the several parts of a theological proposition; the object of the other is moral beauty, the intrinsic loveliness of God and Divine things. The sinner sees and hates; the saint sees and loves.”
Source: Essays on the distinguishing traits of Christian character
“The essential difference between the unhappy, neurotic type person and him of great joy is the difference between get and give.”
“The essential dilemma of education is to be found in the fact that the sort of man (or woman) who knows a given subject sufficiently well to teach it is usually unwilling to do so.”
“The essential disadvantage of the isolated pawn ... lies not in the pawn itself, but in the square in front of the pawn.”
“The essential discovery of maturity has little if anything to do with information about the names, the locations, and the sequence of facts; it is the acquiring of a different sense of life, a different kind of intuition about the nature of things.”
Source: The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy
“The essential doesn't change.”
Source: Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts
“The essential dynamic underlying almost every elite and esoteric physical art is work with the breath, so there’s information available. I would only add that it’s unfortunate that so much work is done with it, and not much play. Laughter has got to be the single healthiest activity one can perform. Just think how healthy you would be if you could sincerely laugh at that which now oppresses you. I’ve mentioned before that one good measure of someone’s depth of spirituality is how long it takes before they become offended. Imagine laughing hysterically at the criticisms, complaints and impositions you receive. At the least, you’d be breathing well.”
Source: Re:
“The essential element in nurturing our creativity lies in nurturing ourselves.”
“The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity - an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.”
Source: The Man and the Book Nobody Knows
“The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.”
Source: The Essential W. Somerset Maugham Collection
“The essential element of successful strategy is that it derives its success from the differences between competitors with a consequent difference in their behavior.”
“The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other.”
Source: Receiving and Giving: A Baccalaureate Sermon, Delivered at Williamstown , Ms. August 15, 1852. Published by Request of the Class
“The essential elements of singing are voice, musicianship, and story. It is the rare artist that has all three in abundance.”
Source: Simple Dreams: A Musical Memoir
“The essential fact is that all the pictures which science now draws of nature, and which alone seem capable of according with observational facts, are mathematical pictures.”
“The essential fact of Christianity is that God thought all men worth the sacrifice of his son.”
Source: Day by Day with William Barclay: Selected Readings for Daily Reflection
“The essential fact which emerges ... is that the three smallest and most active reservoirs ( of carbon in the global carbon cycle), the atmosphere, the plants and the soil, are all of roughly the same size. This means that large human disturbance of any one of these reservoirs will have large effects on all three. We cannot hope either to understand or to manage the carbon in the atmosphere unless we understand and manage the trees and the soil too.”
“The essential factor in the transition of the baroque to photography is not the perfecting of a physical process... rather does it lie in a psychological fact, to wit, in completely satisfying our appetite for illusion by a mechanical reproduction in the making of which man plays not part. The solution is not to be found in the result achieved, but in the way of achieving it.”
“The essential factor of military success is speed, that is taking advantage of others' unpreparedness or lack of foresight, their failure to catch up, going by routes they do not expect, attacking where they are not on guard. This you cannot accomplish with hesitation.”
“The essential facts are known. We know of the weapons in Saddam's possession: chemical, biological, and nuclear in time. We know of his unequaled willingness to use them. We know his history. His invasions of his neighbors. His dreams of achieving hegemonic control over the Arab world. His record of anti-American rage. His willingness to terrorize, to slaughter, to suppress his own people and others. We need not stretch to imagine nightmare scenarios in which Saddam makes common cause with the terrorists who want to kill us Americans and destroy our way of life.”
“The essential fault of surrealism is that it invents without discovering. To make a clam play an accordion is to invent not to discover. The observation of the unconscious, so far as it can be observed, should reveal things of which we have previously been unconscious, not the familiar things of which we have been conscious plus imagination.”
Source: Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose
“The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.”
Source: Economic freedom and interventionism: an anthology of articles and essays
“The essential feature of statistics is a prudent and systematic ignoring of details.”
“The essential feature, and necessity of life is to know reality, which means knowing God.”
“The essential form of knowledge... is nothing but a representation of truth: for the truth of being and the truth of knowing are one, differing no more than the direct beam and the beam reflected.”
Source: The works
“The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.”
Source: Studies in Classic American Literature
“The essential function of the (design) profession in our society is to enhance and cultivate communications toward: Easier understanding of ideas and complex problems, in the shortest possible time and higher visual and auditory retention of data.”
“The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality.”
“The essential humanity of men can be protected and preserved only where government must answer, not just to the wealthy, not just to those of a particular religion, or a particular race, but to all its people.”
Source: Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy
“The essential humanness of people is that under the press of circumstances human beings tend to economize by developing what we must possess in order to survive.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“The essential idea is that the quality of the result is continually at risk during the process of making.”
“The essential idea of this book is that the problem gambler must anticipate, even expect that in the course of their quest to stop gambling they will at some point face that horrible decision. That at some point they will seriously consider killing themselves.”
Source: Gambling Addiction: The complete guide to survival, treatment, and recovery from gambling addiction.
“The essential in artistic creativity is victory over the burden of necessity. In art, man lives outside himself, outside his burdens, the burdens of life. Every creative artistic act is a partial transfiguration of life. In the artistic concept man breaks out through the heaviness of the world. In the creative-artistic attitude towards this world we catch a glimpse of another world.”
“The essential in the being of a man of my type lies precisely in what he thinks and how he thinks, not in what he does or suffers.”
Source: Autobiographical Notes
“The essential in this time of moral poverty is to create enthusiasm.”
Source: Picasso and Man