T Quotes
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“The important aim in Christian meditation is to allow God's mysterious and silent presence within us to become more and more not only a reality but the reality which gives meaning, shape and purpose to everything we do, everything we are.”
Source: Word Into Silence
“The important and difficult job is never to find the right answers. It is to find the right question. - Peter Drucker”
Source: Questions Are the Answer: A Breakthrough Approach to Your Most Vexing Problems at Work and in Life
“The important aspect shouldn't be whose administration it is, the important aspect should be how does the state of Wisconsin work, what can we do to move Wisconsin forward.”
“The important bit for an actor is the actual shooting of it, because the minute the shoot ends, it's got nothing to do with you anymore.”
“The important concept of the solar wind is that Space is not empty. It is an energy and particle filled environment that interacts with whatever is in it! Astronomers call this 'Dark Energy'.”
Source: Solar Radiation, Global Warming and Human Disease
“The important consequences to the American States from this Declaration of Independence, considered as the ground and foundation of a future government, naturally suggest the propriety of proclaiming it in such a manner as that the people may be universally informed of it.”
“The important consideration is not how long we can live but how well we can learn the lesson of life, and discharge our duties and obligations to God and to one another.”
“the important consideration is not your opponents, but yourself. It is bad to scream at them, not because it hurts them, they ought to be hurt, but because it hurts you. Anger is a form of recognition. It amounts to admitting that those people are important to you and that they have the power to hurt you. Actually, they haven't.”
Source: Letters of Ayn Rand
“The important distinction so well understood in America between a constitution established by the people, and unalterable by the government; and a law established by the government, and alterable by the government, seems to have been little understood and less observed in any other country. Wherever the supreme power of legislation has resided, has been supposed to reside also, a full power to change the form of government.”
Source: The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in 1788
“The important element is the way in which all things are connected. Every thought and action sends shivers of energy into the world around us, which affects all creation. Perceiving the world as a web of connectedness helps us to overcome the feelings of separation that hold us back and cloud our vision. This connection with all life increases our sense of responsability for every move, every attitude, allowing us to see clearly that each soul does indeed make a difference to the whole.”
“The important graphs are the ones where some things are not connected to some other things. When the unenlightened ones try to be profound, they draw endless verbal comparisons between this topic, and that topic, which is like this, which is like that; until their graph is fully connected and also totally useless.”
“The important is not what you believe but how you behave.”
“The important issue for us is bringing (people) who recognize the Palestinian people's rights and work on ending the occupation (to the Palestinian territories) and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.”
“The important issue is not how much inequality there is but how much opportunity there is for individuals to get out of the bottom classes and into the top. If there is enough movement upward, people will accept the efficiency of the markets. If you have opportunity, there is a great tolerance for inequality. That has been the saving grace of the American system.”
“The important lesson I learned from these experiences is not to get all worried and upset about things until you know the facts. [...] Things often turn out better than we think they will. We just need to resist the temptation to worry and choose to believe the best about our circumstances, knowing God will see us through them.”
Source: Live Original: How the Duck Commander Teen Keeps It Real and Stays True to Her Values
“The important lesson of the deficit is - and the national debt - is we have to be careful about how we're spending money.”
“The important man is not the artist, but the businessman who, in the marketplace and on the battlefield, holds the reins in his hands.”
“The important matter is freedom. When the people choose what they want, it is good for them and for us.”
“The important matter is God has given us life. We must pray for grace to live.”
“The important message I heard about working out and what I want to share is that you create your own opportunities and your own limitations.”
Source: I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down
“The important message of the energy of attraction is in learning to master your choices in the present to create a personal reality that reflects this expanded consciousness.”
“The important outcomes of schooling include not only the acquisition of new conceptual tools, refined sensibilities, a developed imagination, and new routines and techniques, but also new attitudes and dispositions. The disposition to continue to learn throughout life is perhaps one of the most important contributions that schools can make to an individual's development.”
Source: The Arts and the Creation of Mind
“The important part of any process is the conclusion. Our lives are hypotheses until they are run. Only then can the sum of our life’s work be calculated, and our value to the Machine-God be ascribed.”
Source: Flesh and Steel
“The important part of dreaming is what you do when you wake up.”
Source: Raising Eyebrows: A Failed Entrepreneur Finally Gets it Right
“The important part of growing older was the growing part. Resisting change meant forever standing still, which was a sad way to live.”
Source: Blueprints
“The important part of Marxism was its demand for active, constant, practical, class-war”
Source: Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics
“The important part of the present development is the anti-capitalist sentiment that is permeating our people.”
“the important people in our lives leave imprints. they may die or go in the physical realm, but they are always there in your heart, because they helped form your heart”
“The important people in our lives leave imprints. They may stay or go in the physical realm, but they are always there in your heart, because they helped form your heart. There's no getting over that.”
Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares
“The important point is that since the origin of life belongs in the category of at-least-once phenomena, time is on its side. However improbable we regard this event, or any of the steps which it involves, given enough time it will almost certainly happen at least once. And for life as we know it, with its capacity for growth and reproduction, once may be enough.”
“The important point is that the cost of adding a feature isn't just the time it takes to code it. The cost also includes the addition of an obstacle to future expansion. Sure, any given feature list can be implemented, given enough coding time. But in addition to coming out late, you will usually wind up with a codebase that is so fragile that new ideas that should be dead-simple wind up taking longer and longer to work into the tangled existing web. The trick is to pick the features that don't fight each other.”
“The important point is to be on the spot at the moment most favorable for gaining the desired advantage; and it will be found that of men who get what they want in this world, both those who seem to hasten and those who seem to lounge are always at the right place at the right time.”
“The important point is to not just follow your passion but something larger than yourself.”
“The important point is to resolve matters as fast and efficiently as possible, with the least distress or impact to yourself.”
Source: Life Is A Circus
“The important point of spiritual practice is not to try to escape your life, but to face it - exactly and completely.”
“The important point of this report [Montague, Massachusetts; July 7, 1774] may be summed up in six resolutions: 1. We approve of the plan for a Continental Congress September 1, at Philadelphia. 2. We urge the disuse of India teas and British goods. 3. We will act for the suppression of pedlers and petty chapmen (supposably vendors of dutiable wares). 4. And work to promote American manufacturing. 5. We ought to relieve Boston. 6. We appoint the 14th day of July, a day of humiliation and prayer.”
Source: History of Montague; A Typical Puritan Town
“The important point there is that when people talk about a mean temperature rise of say two, three or four degrees that's a sort of global average which really is a signature of large scale change in climatic patterns.”
“The important point was that whatever errors America had made [in Vietnam] "we are so powerful [according to Secretary Kissinger] that Hanoi is simply unable to defeat us militarily" and must therefore eventually be forced to compromise.”
“The important prediction is not the automobile, but the parking problem; not radio, but the soap opera; not the income tax, but the expense account; not the Bomb, but the nuclear stalemate”
Source: From earth to heaven
“The important question has nothing to do with whether the talk in your story is sacred or profane; the only question is how it rings on the page and in your ear. If you expect it to ring true, then you must talk yourself. Even more important, you must shut up and listen to others talk.”
Source: On writing: a memoir of the craft
“The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.”
Source: A Collection of Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments
“The important question is whether [a theory] is true, not whether envisioning an alternative is too intellectually painful to bear.”
“The important question is, how many hands have I shaked?”
“The important question is, therefore, not whether anarchy is possible or not, but whether we can so enlarge the scope and influence of libertarian methods that they become the normal way in which human beings organise their society.”
Source: Anarchy in Action
“The important question is, what will your wear for a wedding dress, Alexia? You look horrible in white.”
“The important question of how poverty can be remedied is one which agitates and torments modern societies especially”
Source: Elements of the Philosophy of Right
“The important questions focus on what matters most-Heavenly Father's plan and the Savior's Atonement.”
“The important role of union organizations must be admitted: their object is the representation of the various categories of workers, their lawful collaboration in the economic advance of society, and the development of the sense of their responsibility for the realization of the common good.”
“The important talent is the talent to develop one's talent.”
“The important task of literature is to free man, not to censor him, and that is why Puritanism was the most destructive and evil force which ever oppressed people and their literature: it created hypocrisy, perversion, fears, sterility.”