T Quotes
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“The point of going somewhere like the Napo River in Ecuador is not to see the most spectacular anything. It is simply to see what is there.”
Source: Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters
“The point of good writing is knowing when to stop.”
“The point of having a director is that they make the final decision; it's their point of view, they set the rhythm and they make the final decisions.”
“The point of healing is not to return to a place where everything is perfect. Instead, it is to begin to develop the ability to respond to what's imperfect.”
“The point of history is not what can be uprooted or shaken, but rather the openness to the shaking.”
Source: Heretical Essays in the Philosophy of History
“The point of Islam is to promote peace.”
“The point of it all you see is to get rid of fear. Fear of death, fear of lack, fear of abandonment, fear of rejection, all fears. - jessgoodvibesonly”
Source: A Spiritual Warrior's Path to Re-Enlightening
“The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.”
“The point of Jesus' existence wasn't to lessen or diminish our appreciation of each other, but to expand our appreciation of each other by reminding us what lies within all of us, because Jesus was an example of the pinnacle of human evolution.”
“The point of justice and mercy anyway is not ‘they deserve it’ but ‘this is the way God’s world should be’, and we are called to do those things that truly anticipate the way God’s world WILL be.”
“The point of life for me is just to make connections with people and share experiences with people.”
“The point of life is happiness.”
“The point of life is not to be married or single - it is to be. We are human beings, or humans being. It does not matter so much what lifestyle we choose - it's what we make of the opportunities to grow, that counts.”
Source: Companions of the Heart: A Treasury of Inspiration and Encouragement
“The point of life is not to get anywhere-it is to notice that you are, and have always been, already there.”
Source: The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue
“The point of life is not to get anywhere—it is to notice that you are, and have always been, already there. You are always and forever in the moment of pure creation. The point of life therefore is to create—who and what you are, and then to experience that.”
“The point of life is not who falls down. The point is who gets up and how you do it.”
“The point of life is to find the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality.”
“The point of life is to lift lives, in their smile is victory, in tears defeat.”
Source: The Gentalist: There's No Social Work, Only Family Work
“The point of life that I'm currently at is a 'me right now' type of attitude. I am 37 years-old, my son is in college and my daughter is in high school. I'm becoming okay with me. I can't live life as an artist or person being someone that someone else has tried to mold me into. I'm not going to put on a dress that's two sizes too small. I'm custom making my own clothes so that they'll never fit anyone else if you know what I mean.”
“The point of life was to press on, to do the best you can, to make the world a better place.”
Source: Clear and Present Danger
“The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive.”
“The point of living in the world is just to stay interested.”
Source: Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
“The point of living, and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.”
“The point of making records for me isn't to hear 300 songs in 50 minutes; it's to hear the 50-minute piece of music.”
“The point of marriage is not to create a quick commonality by tearing down all boundaries on the contrary, a good marriage is one in which each partner appoints the other to be the guardian of his solitude, and thus they show each other the greatest possible trust.”
“The point of mathematics is that in it we have always got rid of the particular instance, and even of any particular sorts of entities. So that for example, no mathematical truths apply merely to fish, or merely to stones, or merely to colours. So long as you are dealing with pure mathematics, you are in the realm of complete and absolute abstraction. . . . Mathematics is thought moving in the sphere of complete abstraction from any particular instance of what it is talking about.”
“The point of mediocre art is to inflame desire and destroy contentment because content people buy less. Good art is bad for business.”
Source: Love What Lasts: How to Save Your Soul from Mediocrity
“The point of meditation is not merely to be an honest or good person in the conventional sense, trying only to maintain our security. We must begin to become compassionate and wise in the fundamental sense, open and relating to the world as it is.”
Source: The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Three: Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism; The Myth of Freedom; The Heart of the Bud dha; Selected Writings
“The point of mentoring someone, after all, is to help that person get ahead. But these moments can also serve as a wake-up call to a mentor that things have shifted and changed, and that is not always a welcome change. People like to feel needed, so if you don't need your mentor/sponsor/etc... anymore, it can feel like a punch to the gut for that person. They might feel jeaous or surprised or simply unprepared, and that can put a strain on your relationship. But this is part of your growth, and growth always comes with its own set of challenges.”
Source: What Do You Need?: How Women of Color Can Take Ownership of Their Careers to Accelerate Their Path to Success
“The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.”
“The point of modernity is to live a life without illusions while not becoming disillusioned”
“The point of my explanation is I'm very subjective when it comes to describing my characters: they are all a little bit a part of me from the outside in or the inside out - but to put your mind at ease, I built Paul Snider from the outside in.”
“The point of my music is to make people feel good. When I do it right, it makes me feel good too.”
“The point of my music? The point I just want to get across is I'm me and I exist. Just letting people know who I am. Ever since I was young, I was the little attention grabber; I always loved attention. I want to grab people's attention. I want them listen to me and know that this is really good music. Whether they like it or not, they're gonna listen.”
“The point of my work is to make it clear that all youth can make 'big miracles' happen.”
“The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren't simply hobbies or minor influences.”
“The point of my work is to show that culture and education arent simply hobbies or minor influences. They are hugely important in the affirmation of differences between groups and social classes and in the reproduction of those differences.”
“The point of my writing, is not to change your mind, but to encourage you to consider others before criticizing them. - Unions, Equality, and Kamala: Why This Election Matters to Me (Medium Story)”
“The point of mythology or myth is to point to the horizon and to point back to ourselves: This is who we are; this is where we came from; and this is where we're going. And a lot of Western society over the last hundred years - the last 50 years really - has lost that. We have become rather aimless and wandering.”
“The point of no return in every relationship: When nothing you say or do can ever make things how they used to be.”
“The point of nonviolence is to build a floor, a strong new floor, beneath which we can no longer sink. A platform which stands a few feet above napalm, torture, exploitation, poison gas, A and H bombs, the works. Give man a decent place to stand.”
Source: DAYBREAK
“The point of page one is to make people turn to page two and if at the end of the book people think that the book was good value for money, you have achieved something, because if you haven't achieved those things you're not going to achieve the other thing.”
“The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.”
Source: The Philosophy of Logical Atomism
“The point of philosophy, as I see it, is to change thinking, and thereby to change the conversation.”
“The point of poetry is to be acutely discomforting, to prod and provoke, to poke us in the eye, to punch us in the nose, to knock us off our feet, to take our breath away.”
“The point of Political Correctness is not and has never been merely about any of the items that it imposes, but about the imposition itself. (The Rise of Political Correctness)”
“The Point of Power Is in the Present.”
Source: THE
“The point of prayer is to get above the circumstances. To tap into the joy that is always there, no matter what the circumstances.”
Source: The Opposite of Certainty: Fear, Faith, and Life in Between
“The point of protesting about 'moral equivalence' is surely not to blur moral choices on ‘our side’. Is it?”
Source: The Quotable Hitchens from Alcohol to Zionism: The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens
“The point of public relations slogans like "Support Our Troops" is that they don't mean anything ... that's the whole point of good propaganda. You want to create a slogan that nobody is going to be against and I suppose everybody will be for, because nobody knows what it means, because it doesn't mean anything. But its crucial value is that it diverts your attention from a question that does mean something, do you support our policy? And that's the one you're not allowed to talk about.”