T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The purpose is to help, to prevent, to correct, to improve, rather than to punish. Criticism is not meant to punish, but rather to correct something that is preventing better results. The only goal is improvement.”
“The purpose is you.”
“The purpose of [a lawsuit] is to harass and discourage rather than to win. The law can be used very easily to harass, and enough harassment on somebody who is simply on the thin edge anyway, well knowing that he is not authorized, will generally be sufficient to cause his professional decease. If possible, of course, ruin him utterly.”
“The purpose of a business is to create a customer.”
Source: The Frontiers of Management
“The purpose of a business is to create and keep a customer. All business activities must be focused on this central purpose.”
“The purpose of a business is to get and keep a customer. Without customers, no amount of engineering wizardry, clever financing, or operations expertise can keep a company going.”
Source: Marketing Imagination: New, Expanded Edition
“The purpose of a camera is to capture memories, not replace them.”
Source: The Gospel of Technology
“The purpose of a centralized financial system or any other system, is not to exploit people, but to ensure stability in the society.”
Source: The Gospel of Technology
“The purpose of a Christian education would not be merely to make men and women pious Christians: a system which aimed too rigidly at this end alone would become only obscurantist. A Christian education must primarily teach people to be able to think in Christian categories.”
“The purpose of a chronicler of moods and deeds does not require him to express his personal views upon the grave controversy above given.”
Source: Jude the Obscure
“The purpose of a college education is to give you the correct view of minorities, and the means to live as far away from them as possible.”
“The purpose of a college education is to question your father's values.”
“The purpose of a conscientious soul is to bring the truth into action, not to speak about it without thinking about the acceptability of the listener.”
Source: Lord is My Sheep: Gospel of Human
“The purpose of a doctor or any human in general should not be to simply delay the death of the patient, but to increase the person's quality of life.”
“The purpose of a fish trap is to catch fish, and when the fish are caught the trap is forgotten. The purpose of a rabbit snare is to catch rabbits. When the rabbits are caught, the snare is forgotten. The purpose of the word is to convey ideas. When the ideas are grasped, the words are forgotten. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words? He is the one I would like to talk to.”
“The purpose of a fishing trip is not to catch fish. Bringing home meat is important, but it is more symbolic than necessary, as the new morality of catch-and-release has shown. What is important is what happens between people on fishing trips, especially between uncles and nephews, fathers and sons, old men in general and young boys in particular, it is one of the few times men are together without women.”
“The purpose of a funeral service is to comfort the living. It is important at a funeral to display excessive grief. This will show others how kind-hearted and loving you are and their improved opinion of you will be very comforting.”
Source: Modern manners
“The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story.”
“The purpose of a headline is to pick out people you can interest. You wish to talk to someone in a crowd. So the first thing you say is, "hey there, Bill Jones" to get the right persons attention.so it is in n advertisement”
“The purpose of a just government is to prevent plunder, not facilitate it.”
“The purpose of a liberal arts education is to learn that a person can like both cats and dogs.”
“The purpose of a life well lived is not a happy ending. The end is for all of us the same, death. A life well lived is just that, well lived.”
Source: Godless-- Living a Valuable Life Beyond Beliefs
“The purpose of a moral philosophy is not to look delightfully strange and counterintuitive or to provide employment to bioethicists. The purpose is to guide our choices toward life, health, beauty, happiness, fun, laughter, challenge, and learning.”
“The purpose of a profession is to fulfil the personal wishes of a prospect.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“The purpose of a relationship is to decide what part of yourself you'd like to see 'show up', not what part of another you can capture and hold.”
Source: The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue
“The purpose of a relationship is to reflect to all the others in the relationship what they need to understand to become more of themselves.
Everyone in a relationship is in a relationship for the purpose of helping the other people in the relationship, giving them opportunities to learn to be who they are more and more.”
“The purpose of a resume is to highlight your leadership qualifications.”
Source: A Leader Worth Imitating: 33 Leadership Principles From the Life of Jesus
“The purpose of a short story is ... that the reader shall come away with the satisfactory feeling that a particular insight into human character has been gained, or that his (or her) knowledge of life has been deepened, or that pity, love or sympathy for a human being is awakened.”
“The purpose of a simile is to encourage the listener's imagination by likening something in the narrative of the heroic past to something which is directly within his own experience; and so the majority of Homeric similes are drawn from everyday life. This means, that they, like Akhilleus' shield, give us a view of the world lying beyond the war, the world that existed in the poet's own day and long after him.”
Source: The Iliad: A Commentary: Volume 5: Books 17-20
“The purpose of a spirit filled life is to demonstrate the supernatural power of our living God so that the unsaved multitudes will abandon their dead gods to call upon the name of The Lord and be delivered.”
“The purpose of a spiritual discipline is to give us a way to stop the war, not by our force of will, but organically, through understanding an gradual training.”
“The purpose of a spiritual path or religion is to provide a precise and believable way into what seems unbelievable.”
Source: Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything
“The purpose of a story is not to convey the value of truth, indeed the moral values”
“The purpose of a story is to be an axe that breaks up the ice within us.”
“The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.”
Source: Brandon Sanderson's Fantasy Firsts: (The Way of Kings, Mistborn: The Final Empire, Rithmatist, Alcatraz vs. The Evil Librarians)
“The purpose of a strong password is not to keep your accounts safe, but to keep your accounts moderately secure against common scammers, however, if you become a target of actual hackers, or a person of interest to the government, have no doubt, your internet activities are already monitored.”
Source: Sonnets From The Mountaintop
“The purpose of a system is what it does. There is after all, no point in claiming that the purpose of a system is to do what it constantly fails to do.”
“The purpose of a tax cut is to leave more money where it belongs: in the hands of the working men and working women who earned it in the first place”
“The purpose of a team is not goal attainment but goal alignment.”
Source: Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams
“The purpose of a true leader should be to create a world which does not need leaders.”
Source: Conscience over Nonsense
“The purpose of a vacation is to have the time to rest. But many of us, even when we go on vacation, don't know how to rest. We may even come back more tired than before we left.”
“The purpose of a work of fiction is to appeal to the lingering after-effects in the reader's mind as differing from, say, the purpose of oratory or philosophy which respectively leave people in a fighting or thoughtful mood.”
Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works
“The purpose of a writer is to be read, and the criticism which would destroy the power of pleasing must be blown aside”
Source: The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland: And a Criticism on Their Works
“The purpose of a writer is to keep civilisation from destroying itself."
(Interview, New York Post Magazine, September 14, 1958)”
“The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.”
“The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise.”
“The purpose of adolescence is to revise the past, not to obliterate it. . . . Adolescence entails the deployment of family passions to the passions and ideals that bind individuals to new family units, to their communities, to the species, to nature, to the cosmos. Therefore, given half a chance, the revolution at issue in adolescence becomes a revolution of transformation, not of annihilation.”
“The purpose of adult education is to help them to learn, not to teach them all you know and thus stop them from learning.”
“The purpose of affirmative action is to give our nation a way to finally address the systemic exclusion of individuals of talent on the basis of their gender, or race from opportunities to develop, perform, achieve and contribute. Affirmative action is an effort to develop systematic approach to open the doors of education, employment, and business development opportunities to qualified individuals who happen to be members of groups that have experienced long-standing and persistent discrimination.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995
“The purpose of all art is to cause a deep and emotion, also one that is entertaining or pleasing. Out of the depth and entertainment comes value.”