T Quotes
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“The most common thing that real reporters say to me is, "I wish I could say what you say." What I don't understand is, why can't they say what I say, even in their own way? Does that mean they want to be able to name certain bald contradictions or hypocrisies that politicians have?”
“The most common trait I have found in all successful people is that they have conquered the temptation to give up.”
“The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth, and the Native American shared this elemental ethic: The land was alive to his loving touch, and he, its son, was brother to all creatures.”
Source: The quiet crisis and the next generation
“The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth.”
Source: The Quiet Crisis
“the most common type of pessimism is neither philosophical nor religious: it is the pessimism of thwarted desire. ... It is the cynical sneer of the man who, seeking roses, finds only ashes.”
“The most common user action on a Web site is to flee.”
“The most common way Jesus comes into our lives is through a broken heart.”
“The most common way people could do time-travel would be a form of meditation in which you don't get caught up in your thoughts and don't make patterns of logical consequences follow as a result of your thinking process. It's very hard for most of us to do that if we think about it. But if you start to watch the process by which things come into being, and you begin to witness from the point of view of watching the words form, then you're beginning to move into the non-temporal mindset, or that which is free of time.”
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.”
“The most common way to identify a soldier is by the disc around his neck. But these were made of compressed cardboard and so they've all but disappeared.”
“The most common-place people become highly imaginative when they are in a passion. Whole dramas of insult, injury, and wrong pass before their minds,--efforts of creative genius, for there is sometimes not a fact to go upon.”
Source: Brevia: Short Essays and Aphorisms
“The most compassionate form of giving is done with no thought or expectation of reward, and grounded in genuine concern for others.”
“The most compelling confirmation of Marx's theory of history is late capitalist society. There is a sense in which this case is becoming truer as time passes.”
Source: Why Marx Was Right
“The most compelling evidence for God's existence is Christ. If God does not exist, then Christ was the biggest fool who ever lived.”
“The most compelling evidence for the likelihood that the Great Pyramid was constructed by craftspeople with specialized knowledge and advanced techniques is the precision with which it was built. This precision reveals more about the true nature of its builders than any inscription or cartouche. There is no way to ignore the accuracy of this stonecutting, despite Egyptologists' interpretations of the inscriptions found in pyramids or temples in Egypt. After all, hieroglyphics, like any language, has the potential to be misunderstood.
After discussing much of the preceding information with the artisans at today's building sites, machine shops, and quarry mills, I became aware of the reason why we are still influenced by ideas that are not compatible with practical application. The artisans of today are too busy making a living to give serious thought to scholarly theories, and even when gross inequities are presented to them, they respond with a cynical shrug. When told that giant limestone casing stones, which were cut to within 1/100 of an inch, were cut with hammer and chisel, a typical response was a shake of the head.”
Source: The Giza Power Plant: Technologies of Ancient Egypt
“The most compelling insight of that day was that this awesome recall had been brought about by a fraction of a gram of a white solid, but that in no way whatsoever could it be argued that these memories had been contained within the white solid. Everything I had recognized came from the depths of my memory and my psyche. I understood that our entire universe is contained in the mind and the spirit. We may choose not to find access to it, we may even deny its existence, but it is indeed there inside us, and there are chemicals that can catalyze its availability.”
“The most compelling narrative, expressed in sentences with which I have no chemical reaction, or an adverse one, leaves me cold.”
“The most compelling reason for most people to buy a computer for the home will be to link it to a nationwide communications network. We're just in the beginning stages of what will be a truly remarkable breakthrough for most people - as remarkable as the telephone.”
“the most compelling reason for reforming our system is that the system is in no one's interest. It is a suicide machine.”
“The most complete footballer in the history of the game.”
“The most complete gift of God is a life based on knowledge.”
“The most complete human being is he or she who consciously or unconsciously obeys the profound physical laws of our being in such a way that the spirit receives as much help and as little hindrance from the body as possible.”
Source: Married Love: A New Contribution to the Solution of Sex Difficulties
“The most complete revenge is not to imitate the aggressor.”
Source: The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
“The most complete seems lacking. Yet in use it is not exhausted.”
“The most complete site of express buses and coaches in Singapore”
“The most complex challenge for an actor is the ability to give dimension to the story from the time that it happened, not from the present.”
“The most complex object in mathematics, the Mandelbrot Set ... is so complex as to be uncontrollable by mankind and describable as 'chaos'.”
“The most complex object in the known universe: brain, only uses 20 watts of power. It would require a nuclear power plant to energize a computer the size of a city block to mimic your brain, and your brain does it with just 20 watts. So if someone calls you a dim bulb, that's a compliment.”
“The most complex technology inhabits the smallest dimension in matter.”
“The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness.”
Source: The Interpretation of Dreams
“The most complicated character I have ever played - she has many, many, many layers that even I'm not fully aware of.”
“The most complicated skill
Is to be simple.”
“The most complicated thing for people is simplicity.”
“The most comprehensive formulation of therapeutic goals is the striving for wholeheartedness: to be without pretense, to be emotionally sincere, to be able to put the whole of oneself into one's feelings, one's work, one's beliefs.”
Source: Our Inner Conflicts: A CONSTRUCTIVE THEORY OF NEUROSIS
“The most confident critics are generally those who know the least about the matter criticized.”
Source: Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant
“The most confident of women are those who believe in every scrap of fabric they wear. They are the ones who are as happy wih their drawers as they are with their gowns. You can tell the difference between a woman who wraps herself in beautiful silks and satins and she who wears...otherwise.”
“The most confident person in a place always stands out in front of others.”
“The most confident person in any transaction ALWAYS introduces themselves first.”
“The most confused kids are those who pray to God before their science exam.”
“The most confused we ever get is when we're trying to convince our heads of something our heart knows is a lie.”
“The most confused you will ever get is when you try to convince your heart and spirit of something your mind knows is a lie.”
“The most congenial social occasions are those ruled by cheerful deference of each for all.”
“The most consequential change in man's view of the world, of living nature and of himself came with the introduction, over a period of some 100 years beginning only in the 18th century, of the idea of change itself, of change over periods of time: in a word, of evolution.”
“The most conservative man in this world is the British trade unionist when you want to change him.”
“The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates.”
“The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error, but in their readiness to acknowledge these inevitable lapses.”
Source: Collected essays
“The most consistent and ultimately damaging failure of political journalism in America (is that it) has its roots in the clubby/cocktail personal relationships that inevitably develop between politicians and journalists.”
Source: The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time
“The most consistent characteristic of awakened teachers and people I have met is a childlike nature. They laugh, cry, twinkle, and joke, all with a spontaneity born of freedom. Their faces are fluid and reflect a timeless sweetness, even into old age.”
Source: Passionate Presence
“The most consistent gift and burden of motherhood is advice.”
“The most consistent men are not more unlike to others, than they are at times to themselves.”
Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think