T Quotes
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“The real problem when working with a consultant, a therapist or a coach isn’t that we don’t know what to do. The real problem is that we don’t want to change our mind.”
“The real problem with all drugs is that they work. Fantastically. They're great, right up until the moment they kill you.”
“The real problem with being around James was that he was always the hero. And what did that make you? Either the sidekick or the villain.”
Source: The Magicians Trilogy
“The real problem with Donald Trump is, if you engage him, it will only make things worse. It's like - it's a little bit what you were taught as a kid to not engage the bully, because they will continue to pick on you.”
“The real problem with stories - if you keep them going long enough, they always end in death.”
“The real problem with the IRS is that they let General Electric not pay any taxes -- and 50 other corporations -- that's the real scandal.”
“The real problem you get with humour is that you only have so many kinds of jokes within you, and you mine that vein a lot. This isn't just common to me; it's anybody who's funny.”
“The real problem, both in discussions of mass shootings and in discussions of gun control, is that too many people are too committed to a vision to allow mere facts to interfere with their beliefs, and the sense of superiority that those beliefs give them.”
“The real problem, if you look at how, for example, Hezbollah got a lot of missiles that are a grave threat to Israel, it's not because they were legal, it's not because somehow that was authorized under international law; it was because there was insufficient intelligence or capacity to stop those shipments.”
“The real problems are cultural. The problems of the people who take drugs as a cultural trap - I think there's a real problem there, the crack stuff, the hopelessness of the junkie. The urban angst.”
“The real problems of our planet are not economic or technical, they are philosophical. The philosophy of unbridled materialism is being challenged by events.”
“The real process of education should be the process of learning to think through the application of real problems.”
“The real process of making decisions, of gathering support, of developing opinions, happens before the meeting or after.”
“The real promise in too many promises is a promise that I’m going to be disappointed.”
“The real promise is not that anyone belongs to us, but that in this boundless, ever-changing world, we belong to the moments we create together.”
“The real proof that I have tried to love and that people have tried to love me back was never going to fit in a kitchen drawer.”
Source: I Was Told There'd Be Cake: Essays
“The real property that a parent can transmit to all equally is his or her character and educational facilities.”
Source: India of My Dreams
“The real protection of life and property, always and everywhere.”
“The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.”
“The real purpose of painting is to give pleasure.”
“The real purpose of performance indicator is to provide business insight and monitor the progress and performance.”
Source: Performance Master: Take a Holistic Approach to Unlock Digital Performance
“The real purpose of politics is to get rid of all politics.”
“The real purpose of running isn't to win a race, it's to test the limits of the human heart.”
“the real purpose of socialism is precisely to overcome and advance beyond the predatory phase of human development”
“The real purpose of the martial arts must be to purge oneself of petty ambitions and desire, to obtain control of one’s own character.”
“The real purpose of the opposition is to minimize the amount of money the ruling party will have stolen from the people at the end of its term.”
“The real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure Nature hasn't misled you into thinking you know something you don't actually know. There's not a mechanic or scientist or technician alive who hasn't suffered from that one so much that he's not instinctively on guard. That's the main reason why so much scientific and mechanical information sounds so dull and so cautious. If you get careless or go romanticizing scientific information, give it a flourish here and there, Nature will soon make a complete fool out of you. It does it often enough anyway even when you don't give it opportunities. One must be extremely careful and rigidly logical when dealing with Nature: one logical slip and an entire scientific edifice comes tumbling down. One false deduction about the machine and you can get hung up indefinitely.”
Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
“The real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure nature hasn’t misled you into thinking you know something you actually don’t know.”
“The real purveyors of the news are artists, for artists are the ones who infuse fact with perception, emotion, and appreciation...We are beginning to realize that emotions and imagination are more potent in shaping public sentiment and opinion than information and reason.”
“The real quality of our life is not determined by what we have won from it, but by what we have discovered within it.”
“The real question for me becomes: What is a practice, and what is a religion? A practice is a living thing. I feel like religion in some ways--and I hate to say it--is dead. It's dead because it's not evolving. Religion implies an agreed-upon creed, and somebody is in charge. If you're doing something because someone told you that's how it's supposed to be done, but it doesn't feel good to you, then you're still being led by someone else versus being led by your own self-direction and standing in your own power of growth, intelligence, understanding, and compassion. And that's what a spiritual practice is. It's self-directed.”
Source: The Witching Year: A Memoir of Earnest Fumbling Through Modern Witchcraft
“The real question for me is, do people have the tools that they need in order to make those decisions well? And I think that it's actually really important that Facebook continually makes it easier and easier to make those decisions... If people feel like they don't have control over how they're sharing things, then we're failing them.”
“The real question here is how you -- as a reader, eater, and citizen -- can recognize and protect yourself against the onslaught of misleading information and advice that results from food-company manipulation of nutrition research and practice. Everyone eats. Food matters. All of us need and deserve sound nutrition advice aimed at promoting public health -- not corporate commercial interests.”
Source: Unsavory Truth: How Food Companies Skew the Science of What We Eat
“The real question I am asking here is the one Marcuse asked in the sixties. How does a way of life break down? How does it break down. And Marcuse doesn’t give the pat Marxist answer, which means economically, and we ought to be glad that that pat Marxist answer is false because if a society could be driven to ruin by debt, you know, the way a lot of people said the Russians – the Soviet Union – fell because it was broke. Let’s hope that’s not true [laughs] since we are broke, let’s hope that’s false. As a generalisation, we had better hope it is false.
How do they break down? Well, here there is an analogy – for me – between the social and the self under siege, in many ways. In many ways, not in a few, and some of the symptoms we see around us that our own lives are breaking down and the lives of our society is a generalised cynicism and scepticism about everything. I don’t know how to characterise this situation, I find no parallel to it in human history. The scepticism and cynicism about everything is so general, and I think it’s partly due to this thing I call banalisation, and it’s partly due to the refusal and the fear of dealing with complexity. Much easier to be a cynic than to deal with complexity. Better to say everything is bullshit than to try to look into enough things to know where you are. Better to say everything is just… silly, or pointless, than to try to look into systems of this kind of complexity and into situations of the kind of complexity and ambiguity that we have to deal with now.”
Source: The Self Under Siege: Philosophy In The Twentieth Century
“The real question is "Why should we make an exception for billionaire politicians?". We should not.”
“The real question is how do you stay funny in your 70s and 80s? And that's a real accomplishment, you know, the longevity.”
“The real question is how do you survive at the same time you pose those risks? Because you need to survive. And it seems to me that you survive in community or in solidarity, with others who are taking the risk with you.”
“The real question is how much suffering we've caused our womenfolk by turning headscarves into symbols - and using women as pawns in a political game.”
Source: Snow
“The real question is not are there other forms of life in the universe, but are there other intelligent forms of life out there right now. Because the universe is not only really big but it's also really long. It's been around for a long time; it's going to be around for a long time.”
“The real question is not what one person's going to do, what are we all going to do? How are we all going to pitch in to fix this party to make working America know that the Democratic party is absolutely on their side? That's the real question.”
“The real question is not what's wrong with Trump, what's up with Trump, but what's up with the establishment.”
“The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death.”
“The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a thinking man.”
“The real question is should we trust people who don't like cheese?”
“The real question is: The Kingdom of God is available to you, but are you available to the Kingdom?”
Source: Kingdom Fundamentals: What the Kingdom of God Means and What it Means for You | A Thorough and Biblical Exposition of the Kingdom of Heaven as Preached by Jesus
“The real question is what to live for. And I can't answer it. Except another one of your records. And another chance for me to write. Art for art's sake, corny as that sounds.”
“The real question is whether all your pondering and analyses will convince you that life is worth living. That's what it all comes down to.”
Source: The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time and the Texture of Reality
“The real question is whether we can learn anything from our experiences upon which we may grow and help others to grow in the likeness and image of God. We know that if we rebel against doing that which is reasonably possible for us, then we will be penalized. And we will be equally penalized if we presume in ourselves a perfection that simply is not there. Apparently, the course of relative humility and progress will have to lie somewhere between these extremes. In our slow progress away from rebellion, true perfection is doubtless several millennia away”
“The real question is who will innovate.”
“The real question is why are millions of people so unhappy, so bored, so unfulfilled, that they are willing to drink, snort, inject or inhale any substance that might blot out reality and give them a bit of temporary relief.”