T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The key to understanding Crowley is the same as the key to understanding the Marquis de Sade. Both wasted an immense amount of energy screaming defiance at the authority the resented so much, and lacked the insight to see that they were shaking their fists at an abstraction.”
Source: Aleister Crowley: The Nature of the Beast
“The key to understanding if something is truly precious is to ask if we can hold it, for things truly precious cannot be held.”
“The key to understanding the Bible is Jesus Christ.”
“The key to understanding the course of history is to divide history into two parts. One part follows a predetermined direction and the other part is random and unpredictable. The part that follows a predetermined direction is the part that results from ever increasing human knowledge of the world we live in. The world we live in is structured and understandable and is explained by the laws of physics, chemistry and biology and the known properties of the particles, elements and compounds that make up our world. Our ever increasing knowledge of these laws and properties of matter comes to us in a predetermined and rational order from the easiest discoveries being made first to the more difficult discoveries being made later.”
“The key to understanding the future is one word: sustainability.”
“The key to understanding the rise in inequality isn't technology or globalization. It's the power of the moneyed interests to shape the underlying rules of the market.”
“The key to unlock your entrepreneurial spirit is your imagination.”
“The key to unlocking greatness is found by awakening to the truth of your essence. You are a vessel that is transforming energy from the inner universe, into the outer universe.”
Source: Love Will Show You the Way: Choosing the Path of Least Resistance
“The key to unlocking Liberia's prosperity lies within the hearts and minds of its people as they embrace innovation, education, and sustainable development.”
“The key to unlocking our unique creative energy is fully participating in the magic of creation happening within and all around us.”
“The key to using the Internet to extend and build relationships is to view ownership of information differently-you need to bring customers inside your business to create information partnerships ... relationships become the differentiator, more than products or services. Businesses become intertwined.”
“The key to valuing something is to lose it and then realize how rare it was—after which you pray like mad to regain what you foolishly lost. The value of an item often depends upon how hard it is to attain.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“The key to wealth is not what we earn. It is in what is spent on us.”
“The key to wealth is to learn how to make money while you sleep”
“The key to why things change is the key to everything.”
“The key to winning any general election in the USA is to excite your base and then expand your base - get independent voters and voters who haven't been voting for your party to come to your party.”
“The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.”
“The key to winning is choosing to do God's will and loving others with all you've got.”
“The key to winning is poise under stress.”
“The key to winning, as always, was looking as if you had every right, nay, duty to be where you were. It helped if you could also suggest in every line of your body that no one else had any rights to be doing anything, anywhere, whatsoever.”
Source: Night Watch
“The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.”
“The key to writing for Richard (Pryor) was to just push his buttons and then know when to push the buttons on your cassette recorder. You'd get him started, then surreptitiously start recording when he got inspired and started walking around the room and improvising in character. Then you'd get it all transcribed and take credit for it.”
“The key to writing is something to be stolen. How else does one open the door to a house of thieves?”
“The key to writing successful YA is to keep the adults out of the story as much as possible.”
“The key to your greatness is under your control.”
Source: The Mountain of Ignorance
“The key to your greatness is under your control. You are the one in charge of your life and how great you become is up to you.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“The key to your happiness,
Depends on what's in focus.”
“The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don't. If you keep saying your slippers aren't yours, then you'll die searching, you'll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more. Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.”
“The key to your power is simple: love. Love is strength. Your compassion is commanding. Your ability to heal is hailing. Let this be your Goddess ethos.”
Source: Evolution of Goddess: A Modern Girl's Guide to Activating Your Feminine Superpowers
“The key to your success in the world is to discover the field of your gift”
“The key to your success in this world is to discover the field of your gifts”
“The key to your success on planet earth is to find the field where your gift would be of the highest benefit”
“The key to your success, to my success, to everyone's success is determined by our daily agenda. What you and I do every day is either making us or breaking us, we're either preparing or repairing. So when somebody says, 'John, I want to be a success. Where do I start?' I say, It's very simple. Start with today.”
“The key to your universe is that you can choose.”
“The key to Zeppelin's longevity has been change.”
“The key trait of a Sperm Pirate is that she is not driven by desperation. Escaping poverty or hardship is not her motive. She usually has a good education and access to the same opportunities as the man she tries to trap. However, she understands that it is more efficient to enjoy a lavish lifestyle through the sweat of another’s labour. But the Sperm Pirate is acutely aware that the infatuation of a hormonal man has a brief shelf life. This poor collateral must be cashed in before it expires. A pregnancy is the best way to convert this volatile resource into a stable asset. Babies are reliable insurance policies. They create legal obligations for financial support, even when the sweet milk of passion turns sour.”
Source: The Hangman's Replacement: Sprout of Disruption
“The key utility measure is user happiness. Speed of response and the size of the index are factors in user happiness. It seems reasonable to assume that relevance of results is the most important factor: blindingly fast, useless answers do not make a user happy. However, user perceptions do not always coincide with system designers' notions of quality. For example, user happiness commonly depends very strongly on user interface design issues, including the layout, clarity, and responsiveness of the user interface, which are independent of the quality of the results returned.”
Source: Introduction to Information Retrieval
“The key value of a person is not in their current material wealth, but in their character and ability to learn and improve their life”
Source: The Danger Of Monoculturalism In The XXI Century
“The key was disclosure, and nobody has ever raised a concern that anybody who contributed, whether a campaign contributor or a gift giver, ever got anything for it.”
“The key was in his hand, but she found a way to unlock herself.”
“The key was to roll with the evolving situation, and contour new tactics around the principles we had discovered back home…if you have a solid foundation, you should be fine. Tactics come easy once principles are in the blood.”
Source: The Art of Learning: A Journey in the Pursuit of Excellence
“The key with a question offense is to move your freak from the emotional state to the rational one. I know I know and I know how good it feels when you’re stressed out to attack the source of that stress in what looks like a rational manner, but, um, you’re yelling, pointing your finger at me, and jumping up and down. Do you want me to react to the yelling or to the facts?”
Source: Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager
“The key with blogging is to lay it all out there because sooner or later people are going to know what you know, so might as well be the first one to share the information and get credit for it.”
“The key word about The West Wing is show. It is not a reality show. It has nothing to do with reality.”
“The key word among advocates of multiculturalism became “diversity.” Sweeping claims for the benefits of demographic and cultural diversity in innumerable institutions and circumstances have prevailed without a speck of evidence being asked for or given. It is one of the purest examples of arguments without arguments, and of the force of sheer repetition, insistence and intimidation.”
Source: Intellectuals and Society
“The key word for my book The Woman in Black is unsettling... because you're not terrified all of the time or even frightened, but you're unsettled and once you're unsettled, then the door's open.”
“The key word in profiteering is profit.”
“The key word in the church community is relationships, you know brother and sister in Christ.”
“The key word is flexibility, the ability to adapt constantly. Darwin said it clearly. People thought that he mainly talked about survival of the fittest. What he said was that the species that survive are usually not the smartest or the strongest, but the ones most responsive to change. So being attentive to customers and potential partners is my best advice--after, of course, perseverance and patience.”
“The key word of the dedicated Christian should be 'give.' Charitable contributions speak eloquently of your unselfish Christian generosity.”