T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The less attention I pay to what people want and the more attention I pay to just writing the book I want to write, the better I do.”
“The less attractive the character, the more I enjoyed writing them. Officious bureaucrats and PowerPoint weasels are where it's at for me.”
“The less confident we are in ourselves, the less we are in touch with ourselves and the world, the more we want to control.”
Source: Bruce Lee Artist of Life: Inspiration and Insights from the World's Greatest Martial Artist
“The less conscious one is of being a writer, the better the writing.”
“The less control people had over their work, the higher their blood pressure during work hours. Moreover, blood pressure at home was unrelated to the level of job control, indicating that the spike during work hours was specifically caused by lack of choice on the job. People with little control over their work also experienced more back pain, missed more days of work due to illness in general, and had higher rates of mental illness-the human equivalent of stereotypies, resulting in the decreased quality of life common to animals reared in captivity.”
“The less depth a belief system has, the greater the fervency with which its adherents embrace it. The most vociferous, the most fanatical are those whose cobbled faith is founded on the shakiest grounds.”
Source: The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd
“The less determined and the less motivated weed themselves out.”
“The less devices you have to charge the less cluttered your mind is.”
Source: Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans
“The less devices you have to charge, the more charge you have for your mind.”
Source: Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans
“The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”
“The less event and action there is in a scene the more I can enter into it.”
“The less experienced a doctor is, the higher are his notions of professional dignity . . .”
Source: Around the Red Lamp: Medical Life As It Used to Be
“The less explaining you do the less people speculate.”
“The less gear you use, the more you grow as a photographer. Although there are fewer options available, you'll find more creative ways to capture what you feel! In a way, all your technical options before turn into creative solutions that improve your photography even more.”
“The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity.”
Source: Martin Van Buren, 1782-1862: chronology-documents-bibliographical aids
“The less he says, the colder the concrete floor gets. The cold refrigerated air brushes over my feet and curls up my ankles. The coldness turns my toes inward, and I rock uneasily. Fear makes your body do things you can’t control. In battle, soldiers experience fight-or-flight, and their blood retreats into their core, their torso, depleting the extremities—which includes the brain.”
Source: Zonked Out: The Teen Psychologist of San Marcos Who Killed Her Santa Claus and Found the Blue-Black Edge of the Love Universe
“The less he understands something, the more firmly he believes in it.”
Source: Listen, Little Man!
“The less heart, the more comfort.”
“The less help you have in a garden the more yours it is.”
“The less Hillary Clinton speaks, the less she's seen, the higher her numbers go.”
“The less Holy Spirit we have, the more cake and coffee we need to keep the church going.”
Source: Holy Spirit Are We Flammable or Fireproof?
“The less human you feel, the more human you become.”
“The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after.”
“The less I get the more evil I become.”
“The less I have, the freer I am to do whatever I want to do.”
“The less I know about other people's affairs, the happier I am. I'm not interested in caring about people. I once worked with a guy for three years and never learned his name. Best friend I ever had. We still never talk sometimes.”
“The less I know – the more the world opens up, wide and waiting.
This is how I have come to understand the taste of freedom.
I am filled with resistance. But still, I am here.
One letter on this screen at a time, I am here. Neck aching and back bent and eyes burning, I am here.
This is what it means to show up.
This is what it means to trust the calling.
This is what It means to write.”
“The less I'm in a hurry, the quicker the results seem to happen. With patience, the quality of my experience has a depth that can't be measured bon the clock, but by the timelessness of my experience.”
Source: Perfectly Imperfect: The Art and Soul of Yoga Practice
“The less I needed, the better I felt.”
“The less I pray, the harder it gets; the more I pray, the better it goes.”
“The less I say the more my work gets done.”
“The less I seek my source for some definitive, the closer I am to fine.”
“The less I speak to the actors, the better. And I always hire great people, and I don't want to impose my pre-conceived notions on them. They know how to play it.”
“The less I spent on myself and the more I gave to others, the fuller of happiness and blessing did my soul become.”
“The less I talk about being black, the better.”
“The less I talk in bars, write emails, express myself in an emotionally lewd way outside of my songwriting, the more I have to do it through my music.”
“The less I understand life, the more I live it!”
“The less I understood of this farrago, the less I was in a position to judge of its importance.”
Source: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Stonehenge Classics)
“The less I was of who I was, the better I felt.”
“The less important you are in an office, the more they expect the happy smile.”
Source: Libra
“The less important you are on the table of organization, the more you'll be missed if you don't show up for work.”
“The less inhibited you are the better.”
“The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.”
“The less it is possible that something can be, the more it must be.”
“The less judgment the more curiosity, and the more curiosity the more creativity.”
“The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready is he to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause.”
Source: The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
“The less knowledgeable a nation is, the more 'miracles' the nation has.”
“The less literate are the first to fail and drop out of school.”
Source: The Power of Reading: Insights from the Research, 2nd Edition: Insights from the Research
“The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.”
Source: The Spirit of Laws
“The less manifest the work, the stronger: as though a secret law demanded it always be hidden in what it shows, thus showing what must remain hidden, only showing it, in the end, by dissimulation.”