T Quotes
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“The most important, and indeed the truly unique, contribution of management in the 20th century was the fifty-fold increase in the productivity of the MANUAL WORKER in manufacturing. The most important contribution management needs to make in the 21st century is similarly to increase the productivity of KNOWLEDGE WORK and the KNOWLEDGE WORKER.”
Source: Management Challenges for the 21st Century
“The most important, overriding arc of my career has been that I would never be self-deprecating.”
“The most important, the longest lasting, the strongest emotional, and the most practiced memories are the ones that are embedded the deepest in the brain, and because we have retrieved them so many times previously, they are the most able to be retrieved. We all hear about people who can remember their youth, their phone number, or street address from 70 years ago, but they cannot recall what they had for breakfast. The memory of this morning's breakfast wasn't rehearsed, and wasn't very important, so it fades away quickly.”
“The most impoverished people of all are those who have everything but appreciate nothing.”
“The most impressive being my lavish collection of majestic suits. They’re sure to entice without having to roll the dice.”
Source: The Beasts of Success
“The most improbable tales can be made believable, if your reader, through his sense, feels certain that he stands at the middle of events.”
“The most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.”
Source: The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
“The most incomprehensible talk comes from people who have no other use for language than to make themselves understood.”
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
“The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.”
“The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.”
Source: Some strangeness in the proportion: a centennial symposium to celebrate the achievements of Albert Einstein
“The most incomprehensible thing in the world to a man, is a woman who rejects his offer of marriage!”
“The most incredible architecture
Is the architecture of Self,
which is ever changing, evolving, revolving and has unlimited beauty and light inside which radiates outwards for everyone to see and feel.
With every in breathe
you are adding to your life
and every out breathe you are releasing what is not contributing to your life.
Every breathe is a re-birth.”
Source: The Master's Sacred Knowledge
“The most incredible beauty and the most satisfying way of life come from affirming your own uniqueness.”
“The most incredible dream of love is the most beautiful sensation.”
“The most incredible gift you can give someone in a video is to help them feel less alone... The things that make us feel the most alone, have the greatest power to connect us”
“The most incredible service you can render to yourself is to clearly define WHY you are here and live it out.”
“The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.”
“The most incredible thing about my career is that I had one.”
“The most incredible thing is that so much happens outside of the will. You can't will anything. Not even solitude is an act of will. You simply endure it. You must hold on until the very end, without weakening. You can do nothing else. But you must not believe that because you accept being nothing, you are anyone special.”
“The most incredible thing you can do is to be unapologetically yourself.”
Source: Reflections
“The most indespensible ingredient of all good home cooking: love for those you are cooking for.”
“The most indispensable qualification of a cook is punctuality. The same must be said of guests.”
Source: The handbook of dining, based chiefly upon the Physiologie du goût of Brillat-Savarin
“The most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage: management.”
“The most inefficient and self-harming thing a person can do is go out looking for love. Let it find you when the time is right and you're out doing what you love to do. Only then will you find it in its truest form.”
Source: Rise of the Morningstar
“The most inexplicable paradox of the work of art is that it seems to exist for itself and yet not for itself; that it addresses itself to a concrete, historically and sociologically conditioned public, but seems, at the same time, to want to have no knowledge at all of a public.”
Source: The Social History of Art: Volume 4: Naturalism, Impressionism, The Film Age
“The most influential books, and the truest in their influence, are works of fiction. They repeat, they re-arrange, they clarify the lessons of life; they disengage us from ourselves, they constrain us to the acquaintance of others; and they show us the web of experience, but with a singular change-that monstrous, consuming ego of ours being, nonce, struck out.”
Source: Essays in the Art of Writing(illustrated)
“The most influential factor in selling a home is always price. Don't build 'wiggle room' into the asking price. There's a price war out there and you have to win it from the get-go.”
“The most influential of all educational factor is the conversation in a child's home.”
“The most influential of all the virtues are those which are the most in request for daily use. They wear the best, and last the longest.”
Source: Character
“The most influential person in Europe in the last 20 to 30 years has been Margaret Thatcher. Without her we'd all be living in some French bloody unemployed republic.”
“The most influential person in the room isn't the one who is being a bully, talking loudly, and imposing him- or herself on others. Surrendered people understand that true power comes from being respectful and listening.”
“The most influential person in the room isn't the one who is being a bully, talking loudly, and imposing him- or herself on others. Surrendered people understand that true power comes from being respectful and listening. Surrendered people know themselves and are empathetic toward others. They don't measure themselves by how much they are liked, nor do they compete for attention. When they sit quietly in a room, others always seem to come to them.”
“The most influential thing was the two Chris Rock specials that came out when I was in high school. I was obsessed with that stuff.”
“The most influential time in my life musically was definitely those piano lessons.”
“The most infuriating part was that she didn’t have to mean it. She was mortal. She could lie. So why wouldn’t she?”
Source: How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories
“The most ingenious men are now agreed, that [universities] are only nurseries of prejudice, corruption, barbarism, and pedantry.”
“The most ingenious men continually pretend to condemn tricking--but this is often done that they may use it more conveniently themselves, when some great occasion or interest offers itself to them.”
“The most innocent heart is generally the most credulous.”
Source: Pamela, Or Virtue Rewarded: In a Series of Familiar Letters from a Beautiful Young Damsel to Her Parents : and Afterwards, in Her Exalted Condition, Between Her, and Persons of Figure and Quality, Upon the Most Important and Entertaining Subjects, in Genteel Life
“The most innocent man, pressed by the awful solemnities of public accusation and trial, many be incapable of supporting his own cause. He may be utterly unfit to cross-examine the witnesses against him, to point out the contradictions or defects of their testimony. And to counteract it by properly introducing it and applying his own.”
“The most innovative designers consciously reject the standard option box and cultivate an appetite for thinking wrong.”
“The most insane things can become normal if you have them around you long enough. A mind can’t seem to hold anything too crazy for too long without finding a way to make it seem normal.”
Source: Stay
“The most insidious of sophisms are usually repeated to justify immodesty and seem to be the same everywhere.”
“The most insidious part of fame for April wasn't that other people dehumanized her; it was that she dehumanized herself. She came to see herself not as a person but as a tool.”
Source: An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
“The most insidious party of fame for April wasn't that other people dehumanized her; it was that she dehumanized herself. She came to see herself not as a person but as a tool. And if that tool wasn't being used, sharpened, refined, or strengthened at every opportunity, then she was letting the world down.”
Source: An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
“The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors.”
“The most insignificant score is the score at halftime.”
“The most insistent and formidable concern of agriculture, wherever it is taken seriously, is the distinct individuality of every farm, every field on every farm, every farm family, and every creature on every farm.”
Source: The Way of Ignorance: And Other Essays
“The most inspirational man I knew only reached his potential by helping a child reach his.”
Source: Have a Little Faith: A True Story
“The most inspiring drummer for me is Stewart Copeland from The Police. The Police are the first band I can remember really liking, and Copeland is a guy who was playing in sort of a rock band, or a rock-pop band, but he didn't want to do the traditional kind of rock drumbeat. He was doing all these kind of reggae rhythms, and the reggae style is almost an exact opposite of the rock mold of drumming.”
“The most inspiring leaders are those who... inspire the rest of us to be our best selves and to match our skills with our passions. They give us confidence to pursue our dreams.”