T Quotes
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“The positive aspect of competition in a business scenario is it helps you to be more alert and innovative.”
“The positive counterpart of the anarchist is the anarch. The latter is not the adversary of the monarch, but his antipode, untouched by him though also dangerous. He is not the opponent of the monarch, but his pendant.
After all, the monarch wants to rule many, nay, all people; the anarch, only himself. This gives him an attitude both objective and skeptical towards the powers that be; he has their figures go past him – and he is untouched, no doubt, yet inwardly not unmoved, not without historical passion. Every born historian is more or less an anarch; if he has greatness, then on this basis he rises without partisanship to the judge’s bench.
This concerns my profession, which I take seriously. I am also the night steward at the Casbah; now, I am not saying that I take this job less seriously. Here I am directly involved in the events, I deal with the living. My anarchic principle is not detrimental to my work. Rather it substantiates it as something I have in common with everyone else, except that I am more conscious if this. I serve the Condor, who is a tyrant – that is his function, just as mine is to be his steward; both of us can retreat to substance: to human nature in its nameless condition.”
Source: Eumeswil
“The positive effect music has in our lives is understated. It can influence mind-state and motivate us to reach for the stars.”
“The positive element of kitsch lies in the fact that it sets free for a moment the glimmering realization that you have wasted your life.”
Source: Essays on Music
“The positive emotions that arise in...unpromising circumstances demonstrate that social ties and meaningful work are deeply desired, readily improvised, and intensely rewarding. The very structure of our economy and society prevent these goals from being achieved.”
“The positive evidence for Darwinism is confined to small-scale evolutionary changes like insects developing insecticide resistance....Evidence like that for insecticide resistance confirms the Darwinian selection mechanism for small-scale changes, but hardly warrants the grand extrapolation that Darwinists want. It is a huge leap going from insects developing insecticide resistance via the Darwinian mechanism of natural selection and random variation to the very emergence of insects in the first place by that same mechanism.”
“The positive force of love can create anything good, increase good things and change anything negative in your life.”
Source: The Power
“The positive fruit of the revelation of ignorance is nonknowledge, which is not a negation of knowledge but rather its most elaborate form.”
“The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies.”
Source: The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes: Volume 1: Philosophical Papers
“The positive nature of some child-adult sexual relationships is not confined to non-Western cultures. Several of my friends - gay and straight, male and female - had sex with adults from the ages of nine to 13. None feel they were abused. All say it was their conscious choice and gave them great joy.”
“The positive news is that the British economy is continuing to grow and is creating jobs. And it is positive news too that at a time of real international instability we are a safe haven in the storm.”
“The positive outlook that optimists project does not come from ignoring or denying problems. Optimists simply assume that problems are temporary and can be solved, so optimists naturally want more information about problems because then they can get to work and do something. Pessimists are more likely to believe that there is nothing they can do anyway, so what's the point of even thinking about it?”
“The positive side about dealing with the logistics of moving books around is that it's better than a gym!”
“The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner.”
“The positive thing about being Masked Up is that it saves us from witnessing all the fake smiles that are aimed at us.”
“The positive thing about collaborating is that I cannot get distracted by coding work, because I cannot waste the other collaborator's time in the same way as I can my own. And it's always good to learn how the other person works, learn about techniques, learn social things like: how do you communicate with another person? The music I make with other people I'm much more confident about, I'm a little bit less judgemental of the outcome than with my own stuff because I know it's not only me, it's a more outside of me. Sometimes I even like them better than my own tracks.”
“The positive thing about writing is that you connect with yourself in the deepest way. You get a chance to know who you are, to know what you think. You begin to have a relationship with your mind.”
“The positive thing is that today we can realize that a Mexican film it is positioned in the top 5 of the box office during more than one month and that Mexicans are taking into consideration that Mexican films can be enjoyed with the family, instead of going to see Transformers and that our films looks like something that are necessary to support.”
“The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly... which is more than can be said for the average negative thinker. But he sees more than difficulties - he tries to see the solutions of those difficulties.”
Source: Positive Thinking Every Day: An Inspiration For Each Day of the Year
“The POSITIVE THINKER sees the INVISIBLE, feels the INTANGIBLE, and achieves the IMPOSSIBLE.”
“The positive thinker, on the contrary, constantly sends out positive thoughts, together with vital mental images of hope, optimism and creativity. He therefore activates the world around him positively and strongly tends to draw back to himself positive results. This, too, is a basic law of mind action.”
Source: The Positive Principle Today
“The positive vibrations of unregulated joy, peace, happiness and tranquility is freedom.”
Source: From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence
“The positivists have a simple solution: the world must be divided into that which we can say clearly and the rest, which we had better pass over in silence. But can anyone conceive of a more pointless philosophy, seeing that what we can say clearly amounts to next to nothing? If we omitted all that is unclear, we would probably be left completely uninteresting and trivial tautologies.”
“The possession and the enjoyment of property are the pledges which bind a civilised people to an improved country.”
Source: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
“The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.”
“The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.”
Source: On photography
“The possession of a great many things, even the best of things, tends to blind one to the real value of anything.”
Source: All Manner of Folk: Interpretations and Studies
“The possession of a library, or the free use of it, no more constitutes learning, than the possession of wealth constitutes generosity.”
Source: Self-Help; with Illustrations of Character, Conduct, and Perseverance by Samuel Smiles
“The possession of a perfect knowledge of your business is an absolute necessity in order to insure success.”
Source: Art of Money Getting
“The possession of a quantity of plants, however good the plants may be themselves and however ample their number, does not make a garden; it only makes a collection. Having got the plants, the great thing is to use them with careful selection and definite intention.”
Source: On Gardening
“The possession of a true testimony is the most valuable possession that one could have. It gives one knowledge, the hope and assurance that one, through obedience, can be a partaker of all the promised blessings.”
“The possession of anything begins in the mind.”
Source: Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way
“The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth.”
Source: A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States: With Remarks on Their Economy
“The possession of facts is knowledge; the use of them is wisdom.”
“The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it.”
Source: Ponkapog papers: A sea turn, and other papers
“The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it. What noble enterprises have been checked and what fine souls have been blighted in the gloom of poverty the world will never know.”
Source: Ponkapog papers: A sea turn, and other papers
“The possession of great powers no doubt carries with it a comtempt for mere external show”
“The possession of illegal properties is a poison to one's legal possession.”
Source: Re-Exploring Genesis: Uncover the Author's Intents, Gain Clarity, and Deepen Your Faith.
“The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.”
“The possession of land seems to be a greater gratification to the pride and independence of men.”
“The possession of muscular strength and the courage to use it in contests with other men for physical supremacy does not necessarily imply a lack of appreciation for the finer and better things of life.”
Source: Jack Johnson is a dandy: an autobiography
“the possession of power brings on madness.”
“The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.”
“The possession of power over others is inherently destructive both to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.”
“The possession of unlimited power corrodes the conscience, hardens the heart, and confounds the understanding.”
Source: The History of Freedom (and other Essays)
“The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks.”
Source: The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich
“The possession of unnecessary implements makes difficult the collection of taxes and dues and tends to foment uprisings.”
“The possession of wealth confers honor; it is an invidious distinction.”
Source: A Veblen Treasury: From Leisure Class to War, Peace, and Capitalism
“The possession of wealth is not a mark of Heavenly favor and their absence is not evidence of Heavenly disfavor.”
“The possession of wealth is, as it were, prepayment, and involves an obligation of honor to the doing of correspondent work.”