T Quotes
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“The more I work the happier I am.”
“The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom.”
“The more I work with the powers of Nature, the more I feel God's benevolence to man; the closer I am to the great truth that everything is dependent on the Eternal Creator and Sustainer; the more I feel that the so-called science, I am occupied with, is nothing but an expression of the Supreme Will, which aims at bringing people closer to each other in order to help them better understand and improve themselves.”
“The more I work, the more I see things differently, that is, everything gains in grandeur every day, becomes more and more unknown, more and more beautiful. The closer I come, the grander it is, the more remote it is.”
Source: Alberto Giacometti: Castello di Rivoli, 6 dicembre 1988-26 febbraio 1989
“The more I work, the more I want to work.”
“The more I write about us, the more our love feels like art.”
“The more I write openly into the space of sexual sovereignty, the more I hear from humans desperate for a safe space to share. Those who have nowhere to be fully honest and real about the whys and hows and whats and whos of their body and its desire.
What turns us on? What brings us pleasure? What completely normal and natural variation of human sexuality have we labeled deviant simply because it does not fit within the prescribed heteronormative, vanilla narrative for what we are permitted to experience? Where do we berate ourselves because we like what we like and we want what we want?
It's a fucking shame that we've driven so much into the shadows. It's a travesty that we are forced to squeeze the entire spectrum of desire into such a tightly constructed box.
You've got 22 square feet of skin covering your holy human body—of course, there's a hell of a lot of different ways to make that skin feel good.
Coincidentally, 22 square feet is approximately the size of a standard closet door., and we all know a closet is a terrible place to live.
When we force people into the closet, we cause harm. We create an experience of othering based on our own discomfort and unwillingness to expand our notions of acceptability.
We NEED to start having way more honest, open, and raw conversations about sex, desire, and kink.
We need to blow the remaining closets to smithereens.
We need to talk about how to embrace the power of full, enthusiastic consent and expand our sex-positivity and our ability to say 'that's so not for me, but GO YOU and your bad self feeling all that pleasure'. We need to start really thinking about how, as long as we bring no harm to others in the fulfillment of desire, we aren't fucking wrong for the wanting.
Embrace your queerness or your kink or your fetish in your journal or to your bestie or to an internet stranger. Hell, start by whispering it out loud in an empty room and then breathe the power of that back into your being.
You are human. You get to want. You get to feel good. Anything else is blasphemy.”
“The more I write poems, the more I harvest scented jasmines of my heart, for poetry calls the opening of unopened flower buds, in my depths.
Shyly, as they open, sunlight enters my soul, and there flows the ripe scent inside, a lamp in the heart. My poems then become, a worship of God.”
“The more I write poems, the more I harvest scented jasmines of my heart, for poetry calls the opening of unopened flower buds, in my depths.
Shyly, as they open, sunlight enters my soul, and there flows the ripe scent inside, a lamp in the heart. The poems then become, a worship of God.”
“The more I write stories for young people, and the more young readers I meet, the more I'm struck by how much kids long to see themselves in stories. To see their identities and perspectives—their avatars—on the page. Not as issues to be addressed or as icons for social commentary, but simply as people who get to do cool things in amazing worlds. Yes, all the “issue” books are great and have a place in literature, but it's a different and wildly joyous gift to find yourself on the pages of an entertainment, experiencing the thrills and chills of a world more adventurous than our own.
And when you see that as a writer, you quickly realize that you don't want to be the jerk who says to a young reader, “Sorry, kid. You don't get to exist in story; you're too different.” You don't want to be part of our present dystopia that tells kids that if they just stopped being who they are they could have a story written about them, too. That's the role of the bad guy in the dystopian stories, right? Given a choice, I'd rather be the storyteller who says every kid can have a chance to star.”
“The more I write, the more I find it hard to describe my work with any contemporary label.”
Source: Every Generation Needs Caretakers: The Gospel of Patriotism
“The more I write, the more I've come to realize that books have a different place in our society than other media. Books are different from television or film because they ask you to finish the project. You have to be actively engaged to read a book. It's more like a blueprint. What it really is, is an opportunity... A book is a place where you're forced to use your imagination. I find it disappointing that you're not being asked to imagine more.”
“The more I write, the more the silence seems to be eating away at me.”
“The more I've acted, I've realised that I have a) no control of and b) no way of really quite understanding how people react to anything I do, or any movie I do.”
“The more I've done work with the IOC the more I've come to realize I'm really excited about this, the work that I'm doing and the impact that I can have if I'm fully committed to it.”
“The more I've reflected on that and asked Iraqi friends, the more I realize that the corruption in Iraq has nothing to do with ideas - it has to do with the regime and institutional structures and power. There's no core to what Michel Aflaq has to say that results in this. That was a key to looking at Michel Aflaq as a sideshow. He's the intellectual father of an ideology that no one probably ever believed in. At that point I began to appreciate him in a funny way.”
“The more I've traveled to war zones, the more I'm convinced that the impact and the effects are way beyond anything we can even begin to imagine.”
“The more I've walked through tough times, the stronger I've become.”
“The more ideas one is free to explore, the more likely a truly creative idea can emerge.”
“The more ideas there are in circulation, the more ideas there are for any individual to disagree with. More media always means more arguing.”
“The more ideas they had the more they suffered.”
Source: Bouvard and Pécuchet with The Dictionary of Received Ideas
“The more identities a man has, the more they express the person they conceal.”
Source: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
“The more ignoble I find life, the more strongly I react by contradiction, in humour and in an outburst of liberty and expansion.”
“The more ignorant men are, the more convinced are they that their little parish and their little chapel is an apex to which civilization and philosophy has painfully struggled up the pyramid of time from a desert of savagery.”
Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more
“The more ignorant the authority, the more dogmatic it is. In the fields where no real knowledge is even possible, the authorities are the fiercest and most assured and punish non-belief with the severest of penalties.”
“The more ignorant we become the less value we set on science, and the less inclination we shall have to seek it.”
“The more ignorant you are, the quicker you fight.”
Source: Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Coolidge years, 1926-1929
“The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even amongst powerful princes.”
Source: Praise of Folly
“The more illegal a profit, the more tenaciously a man clings to it.”
“The more images I gathered from the past, I said, the more unlikely it seemed to me that the past had actually happened in this or that way, for nothing about it could be called normal: most of it was absurd, and if not absurd, then appalling.”
Source: Vertigo
“The more imagination the reader has ... the more he will do for himself. He will, at a mere hint from the author, flood wretched material with suggestion and never guess that he is himself chiefly making what he enjoys.”
Source: On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature
“The more immoral we become in big ways, the more puritanical we become in little ways.”
Source: Lump It Or Leave It
“The more importance we give to a thought, the heavier it gets. The heavier it gets, the more it weighs on us, and the more stress and anxiety is induced.”
Source: Mindfulness in 8 Days: How to find inner peace in a world of stress and anxiety
“The more important an activity is to your soul's evolution, the more you will feel resistance to it.”
“The more important factors are a man’s perseverance, his ability to innovate and think of new ideas, to be willing to adapt to changing conditions, to push almost tirelessly at a task or several at a time, during the difficult seasons as well as the prosperous. Certainly a man may be all these on his own, and succeed, wife or no – but to have a wife who possessed these qualities, who could bring out in her husband such steadiness and strength of character by her example and unyielding affection… The worth of such a wife is immeasurable. - James Laurence to his grandson, Laurie”
Source: The Courtship of Jo March: A Variation of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women
“The more important fundamental laws and facts of physical science have all been discovered, and these are now so firmly established that the possibility of their ever being supplanted in consequence of new discoveries is exceedingly remote. Nevertheless, it has been found that there are apparent exceptions to most of these laws, and this is particularly true when the observations are pushed to a limit, i.e., whenever the circumstances of experiment are such that extreme cases can be examined. Such examination almost surely leads, not to the overthrow of the law, but to the discovery of other facts and laws whose action produces the apparent exceptions. As instances of such discoveries, which are in most cases due to the increasing order of accuracy made possible by improvements in measuring instruments, may be mentioned: first, the departure of actual gases from the simple laws of the so-called perfect gas, one of the practical results being the liquefaction of air and all known gases; second, the discovery of the velocity of light by astronomical means, depending on the accuracy of telescopes and of astronomical clocks; third, the determination of distances of stars and the orbits of double stars, which depend on measurements of the order of accuracy of one-tenth of a second-an angle which may be represented as that which a pin's head subtends at a distance of a mile. But perhaps the most striking of such instances are the discovery of a new planet or observations of the small irregularities noticed by Leverrier in the motions of the planet Uranus, and the more recent brilliant discovery by Lord Rayleigh of a new element in the atmosphere through the minute but unexplained anomalies found in weighing a given volume of nitrogen. Many other instances might be cited, but these will suffice to justify the statement that 'our future discoveries must be looked for in the sixth place of decimals.”
“The more important point, however, is not about what the money does. It's about what has to be done to get the money. The effect of the money might be (democratically) benign. But what is done to secure that money is not necessarily benign. To miss this point is to betray the Robin Hood fallacy: the fact that the loot was distributed justly doesn't excuse the means taken to secure it.”
“The more important question, of course, was what the new Lucy would do, and even though I was pretty sure the old Lucy wouldn't be around much anymore, I was a little bit afraid the new Lucy hadn't yet shown up.”
Source: Waltzing the Cat
“The more important reason is that the research itself provides an important long-run perspective on the issues that we face on a day-to-day basis.”
“The more important the emotion is, the fewer words required to express it: Will you go out with me? I think I like you. I care for you. I love you. Marry me. Goodbye.”
“The more important the subject and the closer it cuts to the bone of our hopes and needs, the more we are likely to err in establishing a framework for analysis.”
Source: Life's Grandeur: The Spread of Excellence From Plato to Darwin
“The more important you are, the later you arrive.”
“The More Important Your Cheese Is To You The More You Want To Hold On To It.”
Source: Who Moved My Cheese?: An A-Mazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life
“The more impossible the situation, the greater God accomplishes His work.”
Source: Perfect Trust
“The more improbable the message, the less "compressible" it is, and the more bandwidth it requires. This is Shannon's point: the essence is its improbability.”
Source: Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street
“The more "in doubt" you are, the more serious you are, and the less alive you are.”
“The more in harmony with yourself you are, the more joyful you are, and the more faithful you are. Faith is not to disconnect you from reality, it connects you to reality.”
“The more in harmony you are with the flow of your own existence, the more magical life becomes.”
“The more in vibrational sync you are with who you really are, then the more you are allowing only those things that you're wanting, and the less resistance there is. And the less resistance there is, then the less delay between the idea of the thought and the receiving of it.”
“The more incompetent one feels, the more eager he is to fight.”