T Quotes
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“The great requisite for the prosperous management of ordinary business is the want of imagination.”
Source: Table talk
“The great responsibility that we have today is to put the poor and the near poor back on front of the American agenda.”
“The great revelation for long-lasting relationships is "CARING"; we are human beings who are affectionate by nature and when care is lacking in the mind of man, their need will be to hurt or be hurt. If we choose to take care of our minds more, and to love our interior more, there will be no lack; let’s be careful with that.”
“The great revelation of the quantum theory was that features of discreteness were discovered in the Book of Nature, in a context in which anything other than continuity seemed to be absurd according to the views held until then.”
Source: What is Life?: With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches
“The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark.”
Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf
“The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free.”
Source: The Letters of John F. Kennedy
“The great revolution of the future will be Nature's revolt against man.”
“The great risk is always saying, "how will I communicate what I'm trying to get across to a room full of strangers sitting in the dark watching a stage?"”
“The great river follows its own course before joining the vast sea. Likewise, the soul follows equally varied routes and passes through different stages, receiving here and there tributaries of knowledge, strengthening its personality and perfecting its qualities before reaching the Ocean of Eternal Wisdom.”
“The great river-courses which have shaped the lives of men have hardly changed; and those other streams, the life-currents that ebb and flow in human hearts, pulsate to the same great needs, the same great loves and terrors. As our thought follows close in the slow wake of the dawn, we are impressed with the broad sameness of the human lot, which never alters in the main headings of its history--hunger and labour, seed-time and harvest, love and death.”
Source: Romola: Top Novelist Focus
“The great rocks of Yosemite, expressing qualities of timeless yet intimate grandeur, are the most compelling formations of their kind. We should not casually pass them by, for they are the very heart of the earth speaking to us.”
“The great Rocky Mountains, softly shaded in
gray, were submerged in a sea of fluffy white clouds, feathery wisps enveloping the peaks like a kingdom of the air.”
Source: Peter
“The great roe is a mythological beast with the head of a lion and the body of a lion, though not the same lion.”
Source: The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose
“The great Roman statesman Cicero observed that, 'Not to know what happened before one was born is to be always a child.' In our ignorance of the values that form part of our history and heritage, we Americans have become perpetual children.”
“The great romance of your youth is your best friend at that age.”
“The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is in extending our commercial relations to have as little political connection as possible... Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalships, interest, humor, or caprice?... It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.”
“The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible.”
Source: Washington's political legacies: To which is annexed an appendix, containing an account of his illness, death, and the national tributes of respect paid to his memory, with a biographical outline of his life and character
“The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time.”
“The great rule: If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special.”
“The great Russian literature is above all a literature of pessimism, more accurately of passive pessimism.... Russian passive pessimism educated the cadre of "superfluous people," or to put it more simply, parasites, "dreamers," people "without any given responsibilities," "whimperers," "grey little people" of the "twentieth rank.".... In contemporary Russian ethnographic romanticism such an idealization of past Razins and Pugachevs fuses with a sense of Russian "imperial" patriotism and obscures dreams concerning the future. It is incapable of going beyond this. The great Russian literature has reached its limit and has halted at the crossroads.... And the illiterate advice to found our orientation upon Muscovite art sounds like a malicious irony directed at the same Russian literature. By the will of history entirely the opposite will come to pass: Russian literature can only find the magical balm for its revival beneath the luxuriant, vital tree of the renaissance of young national republics, in the atmosphere of the springtime of once oppressed nations.”
Source: The Cultural Renaissance in Ukraine: Polemical Pamphlets 1925-26
“The great sacrifice is obedience to Sovereign Lord.”
“The great sacrifice is obedience to the Sovereign Lord.”
“The great sadness of my life is that I never achieved the hour newscast, which would not have been twice as good as the half-hour newscast, but many times as good.”
“The great saint may be said to mix all his thoughts with thanks. All goods look better when they look like gifts.”
“The great scandal of American life is that we pay for German levels of government without enjoying the related benefits.”
“The great scholars of Islam were often endangered not by Mongol hordes or infidel Christians but, instead, by homegrown religious orthodoxy.”
Source: Islam and Science: Religious Orthodoxy and the Battle for Rationality
“The great scientific achievements are research programmes which can be evaluated in terms of progressive and degenerative problemshifts; and scientific revolutions consist of one research programme superceding (overtaking in progress) another. This methodology offers a new rational reconstruction of science.”
“The great scientist dares to differ from accepted 'facts' - think irrationally - let the artist do likewise.”
Source: Edward Weston: The Flame of Recognition: His Photographs Accompanied by Excerpts from the Daybooks & Letters
“The great seal of truth is simplicity.”
“The great Searcher of human hearts is my witness, that I have no wish, which aspires beyond the humble and happy lot of living and dying a private citizen on my own farm.”
Source: The Writings of George Washington: pt.III. Private letters from the time Washington resigned his commission as commander-in-chief of the army to that of his inauguration as president of the United States: December, 1783-April, 1789. 1835
“The great secret about goals and visions is not the future they describe but the change in the present they engender.”
Source: Making It All Work: Winning at the Game of Work and the Business of Life
“The great secret behind classified projects is that most of them are so utterly boring and uninteresting that James Bond wouldn't even take a second look at them.”
“The great secret is a controlled imagination and a well-sustained attention, firmly and repeatedly focused on the object to be accomplished.”
Source: Be What You Wish
“The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves; most things, in fact, are better in the morning.”
“The great secret of education is to direct vanity to proper objects.”
Source: The Theory of Moral Sentiments: Or, An Essay Towards an Analysis of the Principles by which Men Naturally Judge Concerning the Conduct and Character, First of Their Neighbours, and Afterwards of Themselves : to which is Added, A Dissertation on the Origin of Languages
“The great secret of getting what you want from life is to know whay you want and believe you can have it. Always do something for others, then ask God to help you get at it.”
“The great secret of good management is to be more alert to prevent a man's going wrong than eager to punish him for it.”
Source: Old Gorgon Graham: More Letters from a Self-made Merchant to His Son
“The great secret of happiness in love is to be glad that the other fellow married her.”
“The Great Secret of Life is the law of attraction that says like attracts like, so when you think a thought, you are also attracting like thoughts to you.”
Source: The Secret
“The great secret of social alchemy is to profit best from each stage in our lives, to gather all its leaves in spring, all its flowers in summer, and all its fruits in autumn.”
“The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much; always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes that of our friends; never to pretend to wit, but to make that of others appear as much as possibly we can; to hearken to what is said and to answer to the purpose.”
Source: Poor Richard Day by Day
“The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used to failing.”
“The great secret of success is to go through life as a person who never gets used up. That is possible for those who never argue and strive with people and facts, but in all experience retires upon themselves, and look for the ultimate cause of things in themselves.”
“The great secret of the successful fool is that he's no fool at all”
Source: The English plays
“The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful.”
“The great secret possessed by the great men of all ages was their ability to contact and release the powers of their subconscious mind. You can do the same.”
Source: The Power of Your Subconscious Mind
“The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.”
“The great secret to success is that there are no secrets of success. There are only timeless principles that have proven effective throughout the centuries.”
“The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no thirdclass carriages, and one soul is as good as another.”
Source: George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit
“The great secret...is not having bad manners or good manners...but having the same manner for all human souls.”