T Quotes
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“The important task rarely must be done today, or even this week...But the urgent task calls for instant action...The momentary appeal of these tasks seems irresistible and important, and they devour our energy. But in the light of time's perspective, their deceptive prominence fades; with a sense of loss we recall the vital tasks we pushed aside. We realize we've become slaves to the tyranny of the urgent.”
“The important thing
is to pull yourself up by your own hair
to turn yourself inside out
and see the whole world with fresh eyes.”
Source: Marat/Sade ; The Investigation ; and The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman
“The important thing about "brave" is, it doesn't mean you're not terrified.”
“The important thing about a problem is not its solution, but the strength we gain in finding the solution”
“The important thing about a sport is the people who devote their lives to it.”
“The important thing about adventures, thought Mr. Bunnsy, was that they shouldn't be so long as to make you miss mealtimes.”
“The important thing about any book is that you have to have a good story and that it has to be exciting. Then it's nice to add other levels underneath that people can pick up on.”
“The important thing about doing art and writing is that we are using our voices and using them really, really loudly. And to any girls or young women who want to write comics, I tell them, "You have to use your voice. You have to take up space." We have to fight to be heard. No one else is going to fight for us.”
“The important thing about groupthink is that it works not so much by censoring dissent as by making dissent seem somehow improbable.”
Source: The Wisdom of Crowds
“The important thing about having lots of things to remember is that you’ve got to go somewhere afterward where you can remember them, you see? You’ve got to stop. You haven’t really been anywhere until you’ve got back home.”
“The important thing about having lots of things to remember is that you’ve got to go somewhere afterwards where you can remember them, you see? You’ve got to stop. You haven’t really been anywhere until you’ve got back home.”
Source: The Rince Cycle
“The important thing about human beings is not what they do, but why they do it.”
“The important thing about mobile is, everybody has a computer in their pocket. The implications of so many people connected to the Internet all the time from the standpoint of education is incredible.”
“The important thing about outsourcing or global sourcing is that it becomes a very powerful tool to leverage talent, improve productivity and reduce work cycles.”
“The important thing about Paris is not so much that one sees exciting work, but one meets people who feel that art is worth living completely for. This whole atmosphere is very good for work.”
“The important thing about security systems isn’t how they work, it’s how they fail.”
Source: Little Brother
“The important thing about travel in foreign lands is that it breaks the speech habits and makes you blab less, and breaks the habitual space-feeling because of different village plans and different landscapes. It is less important that there are different mores, for you counteract these with your own reaction-formations.”
Source: Five years
“The important thing about women today is, as they get older, they still keep house. It's one reason why they don't die, but men die when they retire. Women just polish the teacups.”
“The important thing, as Abbe Galiani said to Mme d’Epinay, is not to be cured, but to live with one’s ailments.”
Source: The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
“The important thing for Government is not to do things which individuals are doing already, and to do them a little better or a little worse; but to do those things which at present are not done at all.”
“The important thing for me as an educator is how to - how do we unsettle the minds and touch the souls of significant numbers of young people who don't read texts or don't read my texts.”
“The important thing for me is that I try to understand the culture. Everything I thought I knew about the country was either through TV, music, movies or hopping in and out when I did shows. You can't just get the US through being in Miami, LA and New York. Middle America is the place to understand real America.”
“The important thing for me is that one accepts that one is irretrievably flawed and as you say, takes responsibility for those flaws, rather than hiding them in some code that allows "this" and doesn't allow "that" as if there were a way of being sure of how to be good in the world.”
“The important thing for me is, and what I'd like people to know is that, one particular genre does not make it whole. There are many, many different genres and if you ever gave it an opportunity open mindedly, I think you'd find some pretty interesting things there.”
“The important thing for me was that the World Cup should travel round the world.”
“The important thing for the remembering author is not what he experienced, but the weaving of his memory, the Penelope work of recollection. Or should one call it, rather, the Penelope work of forgetting? ... And is not his work of spontaneous recollection, in which remembrance is the woof and forgetting the warp, a counterpart to Penelope's work rather than its likeness? For here the day unravels what the night has woven. When we awake each morning, we hold in our hands, usually weakly and loosely, but a few fringes of the tapestry of a lived life, as loomed for us by forgetting. However, with our purposeful activity and, even more, our purposive remembering each day unravels the web and the ornaments of forgetting.”
Source: Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
“The important thing for the survival of the Thai society is that the majority of those who work, both in the government and the private sector, still strive to work in the same direction; this is why the Thai nation still stands.”
“The important thing for women to know is, you can be who you are and run for office. Women need to see themselves as good candidates, whose life experience matters, and understand that there are multiple ways that people enter public life.”
“The important thing for you to remember, Montag, is we're the Happiness Boys, the Dixie Duo, you and I and the others. We stand against the small tide of those who want to make everyone unhappy with conflicting theory and thought. We have our fingers in the dike. Hold steady. Don't let the torrent of melancholy and drear philosophy drown our world. We depend on you. I don't think you realize how important you are, we are, to our happy world as it stands now.”
Source: Fahrenheit 451
“The important thing here to understand is that the people that are at Guantanamo are bad people. I mean, these are terrorists for the most part.”
“The important thing here to understand is that the people that are at Guantanamo are bad people. I mean, these are terrorists for the most part. These are people that were captured in the battlefield of Afghanistan or rounded up as part of the Al Qaeda network. We've already screened the detainees there and released a number, sent them back to their home countries. But what's left is hard core.”
“The important thing in acting is to be able to laugh and cry. If I have to laugh, I think of my sex life. If I have to cry, I think of my sex life.”
“The important thing in aeroplanes is that they shall be speedy.”
Source: The Red Air Fighter
“The important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle.”
“The important thing in life is not to have a good hand but to play it well.”
“The important thing in life is not victory but combat; it is not to have vanquished but to have fought well.”
“The important thing in life is not what you get, but what you throw out.”
“The important thing in life is not where you came from,but where you are going.”
Source: Believe Like a Child
“The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and the determination to attain it.”
“The important thing in life is to let the years carry us along.”
“The important thing in my view is not to pin the blame for a mistake on somebody, but rather to find out what caused the mistake.”
“The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.”
“The important thing in strategy is to suppress the enemy's useful actions but allow his useless actions”
Source: Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.
“The important thing in war is that there is an element of rage, but you must remain very distant from it.”
“The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish.”
“The important thing is allowing the whole world to wake up. Part of allowing the whole world to wake up is recognizing that the whole world is free—everybody is free to be as they are. Until the whole world is free to agree with you or disagree with you, until you have given the freedom to everyone to like you or not like you, to love you or hate you, to see things as you see them or to see things differently—until you have given the whole world its freedom—you’ll never have your freedom.”
Source: The End of Your World: Uncensored Straight Talk on the Nature of Enlightenment
“The important thing is being capable of emotions, but to experience only one's own would be a sorry limitation.”
“The important thing is Burma needs to end the civil war and for this to happen both sides must want to end the war.”
“The important thing is fear should not control your actions. It should not dictate what you do.”
“The important thing is first of all to have a real love for the visible world that lies outside ourselves as well as to know the deep secret of what goes on within ourselves.”
Source: Self-Portrait in Words: Collected Writings and Statements, 1903-1950