T Quotes
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“The most dangerous prisons are those with invisible bars”
Source: What I Believe
“The most dangerous question a prospect or customer asks is "Why should I?" And he may ask it more than once... The product and its communication stream must continue to provide him with both rational and emotional answers.”
“The most dangerous risk of all - the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.”
Source: The Monk and the Riddle: The Education of a Silicon Valley Entrepreneur
“The most dangerous roads are those that provide sea level adapted humans rapid ascent to very high altitudes.”
“The most dangerous roads I have driven on are those leading to high altitude astronomical observatories.”
“The most dangerous savages live in cities.”
“The most dangerous sicknesses are those that make us believe we are well”
Source: Delirium: The Complete Collection: Delirium, Hana, Pandemonium, Annabel, Raven, Requiem
“The most dangerous silence is noise; noise keeps us from hearing what we need to hear or from speaking what we need to speak.”
“The most dangerous silence is the one where the impending danger is more silent than the silence there!”
“The most dangerous states in the international system are continental powers with large armies.”
Source: The Tragedy of Great Power Politics
“The most dangerous stories we make up are the narratives that diminish our inherent worthiness. We must reclaim the truth about our lovability, divinity, and creativity.
Lovability: Many of my research participants who had gone through a painful breakup or divorce, been betrayed by a partner, or experienced a distant or uncaring relationship with a parent or family member spoke about responding to their pain with a story about being unlovable—a narrative questioning if they were worthy of being loved.
This may be the most dangerous conspiracy theory of all. If there’s one thing I’ve learned over the past thirteen years, it’s this: Just because someone isn’t willing or able to love us, it doesn’t mean that we are unlovable.”
Source: Rising Strong: The Reckoning. The Rumble. The Revolution
“The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps.”
“the most dangerous temptations are not due to the active, sudden flames of desire, 'the lusts of the flesh,' but to the disinclinations of the flesh, its indolence and sluggishness, our tendency to become creatures of habit.”
“The most dangerous tendency of the modern world is the way in which bogus theories are given the force of dogma.”
“The most dangerous, the most complex, the most insidious and the most incorrigible type of criminal the world has ever known is the Tyrant.”
Source: To Be Tried As A Jew
“The most dangerous thing a company can do is lose control of an employee that has witnessed hazardous and illegal workplace activities.”
“The most dangerous thing about an academic education is that it enables my tendency to over-intellectualize stuff, to get lost in abstract thinking instead of simply paying attention to what’s going on in front of me.”
Source: This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
“The most dangerous thing about an academic education is that it enables my tendency to over-intellectualize stuff, to get lost in abstract thinking instead of simply paying attention to what’s going on in front of me.
Instead of paying attention to what's going on inside me.”
“The most dangerous thing about power is to employ it where it is not applicable.”
Source: The Best and the Brightest
“The most dangerous thing about student riots is that adults take them seriously.”
“The most dangerous thing for an actor is to refuse to listen to anyone else, to feel you know more than anybody.”
Source: Rock Hudson: his story
“The most dangerous thing I've ever encountered was a run-in with Boko Haram around 2007 in a small town in Nigeria. I got caught along with the photographer I was working with, the same one I worked with on the Afghanistan book, Seamus Murphy. We were caught in an attack by a mob after Friday prayers. And the level of violence was so extreme. It was more violent than any other mob violence I have ever seen.”
“The most dangerous thing in American society is a self-respecting and self-loving black person, because they're on the road to freedom and that means they're gonna run up against the powers that be.”
“The most dangerous thing in life is an incompetent that has been given a gun and a law enforcement badge.”
“The most dangerous thing in the world is the sin of self-reliance and the stupor of worldliness.”
“The most dangerous thing in the world is to have no purpose.”
“The most dangerous thing in the world is to make a friend of an Englishman, because he'll come sleep in your closet rather than spend 10 shillings on a hotel.”
“The most dangerous thing in your life is your government.”
“The most dangerous thing Iraq could have ever had was a nuclear weapon. The nuclear weapon Iraq was trying to build was not deliverable by bomb or ballistic missile. It was a large, bulky device that they hoped to bury and set off to let the world know they had a nuclear weapon. They never achieved that.”
“The most dangerous thing is a bored teenager. They have the stigma of being Indigenous, Aboriginal, and all the trappings that come with it. The connection does come a lot more from those kids, desert or not. They're stepping out into the world.”
“The most dangerous thing is illusion.”
“The most dangerous thing that can happen to us, I think, is to permit a feeling to develop that any client is a problem. I have always taken the attitude that no account is a 'problem account' but that all accounts have important problems attached to them - that you can waste more time and burn up more nervous energy by fighting a problem than by taking a positive attitude and solving it. It sure gives you a nice, warm glow when you do.”
“The most dangerous thing you can do in life is play it safe.”
“The most dangerous thing you can do is know who you are.”
Source: Conversations with Ray Bradbury
“The most dangerous thing you can do is prove that alternatives actually work.”
“The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs.”
Source: Mere Christianity
“The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs. There is not one of them which will not make us into devils if we set it up as an absolute guide. You might think love of humanity in general was safe, but it is not. If you leave out justice you will find yourself breaking agreements and faking evidence in trials "for the sake of humanity", and become in the end a cruel and treacherous man.”
Source: Mere Christianity
“The most dangerous things about humans are their choices. But you’re too small to be dangerous. The problem starts when humans grow up. They can quickly become a threat.”
Source: A Girl in the Himalayas
“The most dangerous things in life are overeating and the lack of ambition.”
Source: Night of a Thousand Thoughts
“The most dangerous things in the world are immense accumulations of human beings who are manipulated by only a few heads.”
Source: The Collected Works: The symbolic life. Miscellaneous writings
“The most dangerous thought you can have as a creative person is to think you know what you’re doing.”
“The most dangerous time in any endogroup occurs on its destruction.”
Source: The Creation of Me, Them and Us
“The most dangerous trap is just living and forgetting that God exists.”
“The most dangerous trap is the one that tricks you with light!”
“The most dangerous type of atheism is not theoretical atheism, but practical atheism -that's the most dangerous type. And the world, even the church, is filled up with people who pay lip service to God and not life service. And there is always a danger that we will make it appear externally that we believe in God when internally we don't. We say with our mouths that we believe in him, but we live with our lives like he never existed. That is the ever-present danger confronting religion. That's a dangerous type of atheism.”
“The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.”
“The most dangerous way we sabotage ourselves is by waiting for the perfect moment to begin. Nothing works perfectly the first time, or the first fifty times. Everything has a learning curve. The beginning is just that - a beginning. Surrender your desire to do it flawlessly on the first try. It's not possible. Learn to learn. Learn to fail. Learn to learn from failing. And begin today. Begin now. Stop waiting.”
“The most dangerous weapons live and breathe.”
Source: Icestorm
“The most dangerous weather condition that I experienced at high altitude was walking out of the observatory to check on astronomers in another building during a snow blizzard. When I was returning to the observatory the conditions progressed to white out, stranding me in a nighttime snow field. I was only able to return to the safety of the observatory by following my footprints in the snow with the flashlight.”
“The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It's inflammatory.”
Source: Camino Real