T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The important thing isn’t where you’ve been, or where you are, but where you want to go.”
“The important thing isn't that your technically great, I think it's the power of your expression.”
“The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brain and in your hands, wherever you go.”
“The important thing isn't the soundness or otherwise of the argument, but for it to make you think.”
Source: Nobel Prize Library
“the important thing, Jacques instructed me, was to get the pan hot as you could before adding the meat - that, and always give good wine to your butcher.”
Source: 32 Yolks: From My Mother's Table to Working the Line
“The important thing of any time you live in is to be in love yourself. You float above your time then. It's what you want that counts, not what your time wants.”
“The important thing to know about an assassination or an attempted assassination is not who fired the shot, but who paid for the bullet.”
“The important thing to know about playing to win and playing not to lose is that there are actually different neural networks that are being used. It's not very easy to do both at the same time and, if you are trying to have a playing to win mentality, you're going for it, there's some things that trip you up or trigger the wrong neural network. If you start worrying about your mistakes all of a sudden, if you get too focused on the facts and the details, these are going to shift your neural networks and sort of screw up your strategy.”
“The important thing to me is that I'm not driven by people's praise and I'm not slowed down by people's criticism. I'm just trying to work at the highest level I can.”
“The important thing to note is that it is not important whether Malala was shot or not - Malala is not asking for personal favors or support. She is asking for support with girls' education and women's rights. So don't support Malala, support her campaign for girls' education and women's rights.”
“The important thing to realize is that while we may not escape our own basic pattern, we can work in harmony with it. That is where free will comes in. Once having chosen, a man has to accept the consequences of his choice, and go on from there.”
“The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team, and the team ought to get credit for the wins and the losses. Successes have many fathers, failures have none.”
“The important thing to remember about mathematics is not to be frightened”
Source: The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design
“The important thing to remember is it's not about balance; it's about integration... to really focus on making sure you're integrating all four aspects of your work, your family, your community and yourself. And it's not about trying to spend equal amounts of time on everything you do each day on each of these things, but making sure you're paying attention to all the things that make it up as a whole human being.”
“The important thing to remember is that Vital Behaviors are dynamic, not static. They will change as people ask for more clarity and as conditions change.”
Source: Vital Behavior Blueprint: 5 Steps to Embed Mission-Critical Habits into Your Organization's DNA
“The important thing to remember, ... is that you are a human being and worthy of respect.”
Source: Keeping the Moon
“The important thing to remember is to follow the path of light. As the fictional character Yoda, from Star Wars, correctly pointed out, once you start down the dark path to power, it's very difficult to leave that path.”
“The important thing to understand about American history, wrote Mr. Ibis, in his leather-bound journal, is that it is fictional, a charcoal-sketched simplicity for the children, or the easily bored.”
“The important thing to understand is that the case for pollution control isn't based on some kind of aesthetic distaste for industrial society. Pollution does real, measurable damage, especially to human health.”
“The important thing to you is not how many years in your life, but how much life in your years!”
“The important thing was that I got the win. It's good for confidence and the season.”
“The important thing was that I was still on the radio.”
“The important thing was that we were being polite and not saying all the things that were making us unhappy, which was the only way we knew how to love each other.”
Source: A Tale for the Time Being
“The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.”
Source: Of Human Bondage
“The important thing when it comes to grooming, as when it comes to clothes, is you do not want anything to distract from the strength and power of your ideas,.”
“The important thing when you are going to do something brave is to have someone on hand to witness it.”
“The important thing when you are tied down is to continue to model Christ's love. This will ensure that your words, perhaps spoken long ago, will have fresh relevance, or it will help little ones to understand what it means to live the Christian life in days to come. A life well-lived in these circumstances can be hugely useful in evangelism.”
“The important thing, I think, is not to be bitter. You know, if it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. I think that the worst thing you could say about him is that basically he's an underachiever. After all, you know, there are worse things in life than death.”
“The important thing, Jesus is saying (in Matthew 5:33-37), is to tell the truth and keep one's pledges without insisting that a certain form of words must be used if it is to be binding. No oath is necessary for the truthful person... Their word is so reliable that nothing more than a statement is needed from them.”
“The important thing, once you have enough to eat and a nice house, is what you can do for others, what you can contribute to the enterprise as a whole.”
“The important things are always simple.”
“The important things are children, honesty, integrity and faith.”
“The important things are not worth knowing because they are useful. They are worth knowing because they are true.”
“The important things are to train hard, and not give up hope.”
“The important things for a mom is that her kids are watched, and are safe and it's a good care environment.”
“The important things that in a campaign we talk about, let us not forget that once the election is over.”
“The important things to me are your faith, your family and your friends. If you have that, you have everything.”
“The important things usually prove to be very simple. They are also open secrets in the sense that no one is hiding the knowledge from us except ourselves.”
Source: Dreaming the Soul Back Home: Shamanic Dreaming for Healing and Becoming Whole
“The important word there is inspire. The key difference between managers and leaders is that managers tell people what to do, while leaders inspire them to do it. Inspiration comes from three things: clarity of one's vision, courage of their conviction and the ability to effectively communicate both of those things.”
“The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.”
“The importation and enslavement of millions of lack people, the destruction of the American Indian population, the internment of Japanese American, the use of napalm against civilians in Vietnam, all are harsh policies that originated in the authority of a democratic nation, and were responded to with the expected obedience.”
Source: Obedience to Authority
“The importation and sale of marijuana is condemned and punished as a serious crime, but we accept as legitimate the manufacture and sale of an infinitely more addictive and deadly drug: the nicotine in cigarettes that cost the lives of 390,000 American citizens last year.”
“The importation of foreigners into a country that has as many inhabitants as the present employments and provisions for subsistence will bear, will be in the end no increase of people, unless the new comers have more industry and frugality than the natives, and then they will provide more subsistence, and increase in the country; but they will gradually eat the natives out. Nor is it necessary to bring in foreigners to fill up any occasional vacancy in a country for such vacancy will soon be filled by natural generation.”
Source: Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin
“The importation of gold and silver is not the principal, much less the sole benefit which a nation derives from its foreign trade.”
Source: The Wealth of Nations: An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: With an introduction by Jonathan B. Wight, University of Richmond
“The imported discovery, that human nature is too good to be made better by discipline, that children are enticed from the right way by religious instruction, and driven from it by the rod, and kept in thraldom by the conspiracy of priests and legislators, has united not a few in the noble experiment of emancipating the world by the help of an irreligious, ungoverned progeny. The indolent have rejoiced in the discovery that our fathers were fools and bigots, and have cheerfully let loose their children to help on the glorious work; while thousands of families, having heard from their teachers, or believing, in spite of them, that morality will suffice both for earth and heaven, and not doubting that morality will flourish without religion, have either not reared the family altar, or have put out the sacred fire, and laid aside together the rod and the Bible, as superfluous auxiliaries in the education of children. From the school, too, with pious regard for its sacred honors, the Bible, by some, has been withdrawn, lest, by a too familiar knowledge of its contents, children should learn to despise it; as if ignorance were the mother of devotion, and the efficacy of laws depended upon their not being understood.”
“The imposing edifice of science provides a challenging view of what can be achieved by the accumulation of many small efforts in a steady objective and dedicated search for truth.”
“The imposition of anomalous models and lifestyles are alien to people's identity and, in the end, are irresponsible.”
“The impositions that this government is trying to put on now, it's the typical death by 1,000 cuts. We'll take a little bit here, we'll take a little bit here, we'll take a little bit here. And it doesn't end the conversations for 25, 50 years. It starts the conversation again the next day what they're looking to take back.And really it's about freedoms.”
“The impossibility and hypocrisy of a situation where kids are expected to be honest but are judged and alienated from their community because of it should not escape us.”
“The impossibility of a retreat makes no difference in the situation of men resolved to conquer or die; and, believe me, my friends, if your conquest could be bought with the blood of your general, he would most cheerfully resign a life which he has long devoted to his country.”