T Quotes
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“The resistance is the voice in your head telling you to use bullets in your PowerPoint slides...It’s the voice that tells you to leave controversial ideas out of the paper you’re writing, because the teacher won’t like them. The resistance pushes relentlessly for you to fit in.”
“The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue, but more frequently of her experience.”
“The resistance of policy-makers to intelligence is not just founded on an ideological presupposition. They distrust intelligence sources and intelligence officials because they don't understand what the real problems are.”
“The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.”
“The resistance to a new idea increases by the square of its importance.”
“The resistance to black-and-white is huge, in the way that you have to sell the film. It's difficult to distribute around the world.”
“The resistance to my work, and to my way of writing, has been there from the beginning. The first things I wrote were these short short stories collected in At the Bottom of the River, and at least three of them are one sentence long. They were printed in The New Yorker, over the objections of many of the editors in the fiction department.”
“The resistance to the mimetic contagion prevents the myth from taking shape. The conclusion in the light of the Gospels is inescapable: myths are the voice of communities that unanimously surrender to the mimetic contagion of victimization.”
“The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering.”
“The resistance will be exclusively conducted by only one group. This new group will be defined soon by me.”
“The resolute look on life closes plenty of doors.”
“The resolution approved today presents the Iraqi regime with a test - a final test.”
“The resolution of conflict in self is like the making one of opposites in art.”
Source: Self and world: an explanation of aesthetic realism
“The resolution of revolutions is selection by conflict within the scientific community of the fittest way to practice future science. The net result of a sequence of such revolutionary selections, separated by periods of normal research, is the wonderfully adapted set of instruments we call modern scientific knowledge.”
Source: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition
“The resolution of the combat is seldom equal to the vehemence of the charge.”
Source: The Rambler
“The resolution of the Phoenix Saga was one of the most frustrating experiences that I think any of us ever had, but I also think it was the right move. The decision, three years later, to undo the Phoenix Saga with the resurrection of Jean was less so, but that's in my opinion.”
“The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.”
Source: FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD (British Classics Series): Historical Romance Novel
“The resolve and effort to succeed will motivate you to persevere until you succeed.”
Source: The Kind of Substance You Need For Your Success
“The resolve of our great nation is being tested. But make no mistake, we will show the world that we will pass the test.”
“The resolve to diet is most easily summoned on a full stomach.”
“The resolved mind hath no cares.”
Source: The Remains of that Sweet Singer of The Temple, George Herbert ...
“The resolving of the ethical, is freedom; the negative resolution also has this, but the freedom, blank and bare, is as if tongue-tied, hard to express, and generally has something hard in its nature. Falling in love, however, promptly sets it to music, even if this composition contains a very difficult passage.”
“The reson I don't own a cell phone is I like making plans and being free and being normal, the way everyone was back in the 80's. Kill your cell phone.”
“The resonant space of nondual therapy allows client and practitioner to remain distinct yet ultimately inseparable through their shared being. This is intimacy and compassion at the deepest level, transcending subject/object division while not denying individuality, sensations, feelings or boundaries. As Rumi expressed, 'We are the mirror as well as the face in it. We are tasting the taste this minute of eternity. We are pain and what cures pain, both. We are the sweet cold water and the jar that pours.”
Source: Awaken To Love: Reclaiming Wholeness through Embodied Nonduality with Jungian Wisdom, Psychosynthesis & Internal Family Systems
“The resort to human flesh, often after months of ever-increasing hunger pangs, appeared to be an animallike reaction without painful emotional overtones.”
“The resource allocation task of top management has received too much attention when compared to the task of resource leverage.”
Source: Competing for the Future
“The resource from which God gives is boundless, measureless, unlimited, unending, abundant, almighty, and eternal.”
“The resource of generational history is accorded little attention our society, which seems ever more obsessed with making “new” and “better” synonymous. From my family I became aware of the importance of passing along wisdom from one generation to the next. Yet despite the increasing proliferation of digital recording and other communication technologies, we’re passing on less knowledge today than our parents did through the oral tradition alone. We’re drowning in photographs and videos, capturing every mundane moment of our birthdays, holidays, and vacations. Yet these can be no more than pleasant distraction, only scratching the surface of our real relationships.”
Source: The Seventeen Traditions
“The resource of life is everywhere, even in the smallest of things and we're never very far from it.”
“The resources invested in protecting the borders if put to use to uplift humanity then we could give all humans of the world all the happiness they require.”
Source: Fabric of Humanity
“The resources of a university, of a college, should not be wasted in merely academic pursuits.”
“The resources of civilization are not yet exhausted.”
“The resources of heaven are ready and waiting for the people of God who desire to make much of him in this world”
“The resources of nature, like those of spirit, are running out, and all that a conscientious man can aspire to be is a literal conservative, hoarding what remains of culture and of natural wealth against the fierce appetites of modern life.”
Source: The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot
“The resources of the Deity cannot be so meagre, that, in order to create a human being endowed with reason, he must change a monkey into a man.”
Source: Methods of Study in Natural History
“The resources of the human mind are unlimited.”
“The resources of the scholar are proportioned to his confidence in the attributes of the intellect.”
Source: The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations
“The resources of this earth are inexhaustible, because God made man's mind inexhaustible.”
“The resources you happen to accumulate, what do you do with them? You can spend the money and buy some houses or whatever, and people do some of that and that's fine. You can give the money to other people, your family, but usually when you do that you screw them up and it ends up counterproductive. Or, you take those resources and reinvest them in things that you believe in, and that could be reinvesting in a philanthropic cause.”
“The respect for human rights is nowadays not so much a matter of having international standards, but rather questions of compliance with those standards.”
“The respect for human rights is one of the most significant advantages of a free and democratic nation in the peaceful struggle for influence, and we should use this good weapon as effectively as possible.”
Source: Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President
“The respect for human rights, essential if we are to use technology wisely, is not something alien that must be grafted onto science. On the contrary, it is integral to science, as also to scholarship in general.”
“The respect one gets in the forces by virtue of the ‘rank’ is not absolute. 'True respect’ is the one that is earned by virtue of actions, experience, knowledge and demeanor.”
Source: Can I Have a Chocolate Milkshake?
“The respect that I have got is not for Narendra Modi or the PM of India. It is respect for the people of India.”
“The respect that is only bought by gold is not worth much.”
Source: A Brighter Coming Day: A Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Reader
“The respect that you should have for one another-I never knew any of that. So I suffered.”
“The respect you give others is a dramatic reflection of the respect you give yourself.”
“The respect you show to others (or lack thereof) is an immediate reflection on your self respect.”
“The respectable family that supports worthless relatives or covers up their crimes in order to "protect the family name"(as if the moral stature of one man could be damaged by the actions of another)
-the bum who boasts that his great-grandfather was an empire-builder, or the small-town spinster who boasts that her maternal great-uncle was a state senator and her third cousin gave a concert at carnegie hall (as if the achievement of one man could rub off on the mediocrity of another)
-the parents who search geneological trees in order to evaluate their prospective son-in-law.
-the celebrity who starts his autobiography with a detailed account of his family history
-All these are samples of racism.”
Source: The virtue of selfishness: a new concept of egoism
“The respectable London druggists, in widely remote quarters of London, from whom I happened lately to be purchasing small quantities of opium, assured me, that the number of amateur opium-eaters (as I may term them) was, at this time, immense; and that the difficulty of distinguishing these persons, to whom habit had rendered opium necessary, from such as were purchasing it with a view to suicide, occasioned them daily trouble and disputes.”
Source: Confessions of an English Opium Eater