T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The role of the artist is to be the witness of life, timbuktu.”
“The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible”
“The role of the artist is to not look away.”
“The role of the board is advice and consent. If the CEO does not lay out a clear strategy and tries to get the board to set one, it will usually end in disaster.”
“The role of the Buddhist teacher is to explain your options and to show you what creates karma. All our discussions are basically karmic until you're fully engaged in samadhi.”
“The role of the Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to think of themselves as a member of an exclusive Heaven club.”
Source: From A To Theta: Taking The Tricky Subject Of Religion And Explaining Why It Makes Sense In A Way We Can All Understand
“The role of the comedian is to say 'Wait a minute' when a consensus starts to form.”
“The role of the designer is basically that of a good host, anticipating the needs of the guest.”
“The role of the disappointed lover of a maiden or of any single woman might be ridiculous; but the role of a man who was pursuing a married woman, and who made it the purpose of his life at all cost to draw her into adultery, was one which had in it something beautiful and dignified and could never be ridiculous.”
Source: ANNA KARENINA – Two Unabridged Translations in One Premium Edition (World Classics Series): The Greatest Romantic Tragedy of All Times from the Renowned Author of War and Peace & The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Including Biographies of the Author)
“the role of the Do-Gooder is not what actors call a fat part.”
Source: The Folks at Home
“The role of the educator is one of tranquil possession of certitude in regard to the teaching of not only contents but also of 'correct thinking.'”
Source: Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage
“The role of the federal government is to protect our liberties. That means they should protect our religious liberties to do what we want; our intellectual liberty, but it also should protect our right to do to our body what we want, you know, what we take into our bodies.”
“The role of the federal government should be neutral toward culture just as it is toward religion.”
“The role of the federal government, if any, is to create more school choice.”
“The role of the Guru is to show the person that he already has what he is looking for.”
“The role of the human brain was to rationalize suffering.”
“The role of the infinitely small in nature is infinitely great.”
“The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other.”
Source: Algerian Chronicles
“The role of the intellectual, so it is said, is to speak truth to power. Noam Chomsky has dismissed this pious tag on two grounds. For one thing, power knows the truth already; it is just busy trying to conceal it. For another, it is not those in power who need the truth, but those they oppress.”
“The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.”
Source: Gravity and Grace
“The role of the judge is simply to decide cases.”
“The role of the leader is to foster mutual respect and build a complementary team where each strength is made productive and each weakness irrelevant.”
Source: Principle-centered leadership
“The role of the musician is to go from concept to full execution. Put another way, it's to go from understanding the content of something to really learning how to communicate it and make sure it's well-received and lives in somebody else.”
“The role of the opposition leader differs from that of the chancellor. If this government is to be successful, I have to take the emotional state of all partners into account. Besides, the Social Democrats didn't exactly present me with the motto "Let us dare to have more freedom" on a silver platter.”
“The role of the painter . . . is to project that which sees itself in him.”
Source: Max Ernst: a retrospective
“The role of the pastor is to embody the gospel. And of course to get it embodied, which you can only do with individuals, not in the abstract.”
“The role of the poet is almost nothing...drearily nothing. And when he steps outside of his boots and tries to get tough as our dear Ezra [Pound] did, he will get his pink little ass slapped.”
“The role of the press and the protections which we afford it are today more important than ever before, because we dwell in a society where belief in our governments and in the strength of our institutions is declining.”
“The role of the problem-posing educator is to create, together with the students, the conditions under which knowledge at the level of the doxa is superseded by true knowledge, at the level of the logos.”
Source: Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition
“The role of the scholar is to destroy chimeras, that of the statesman is to make use of them.”
“The role of the schoolmaster is to collect little plastic lumps of human dough from private households and shape them on the social kneading board.”
Source: Social Control: A Survey of the Foundations of Order
“The role of the Soul is to be spiritually liberated through universal interactions and lessons. The role of the Body is to be transformed first, then expire on this earth. Thus, giving the Soul the channel and experiences it so desires.”
“The role of the storyteller is to awaken the storyteller in others.”
“The role of the teacher is to create the conditions for invention rather than provide ready-made knowledge.”
“The role of the teacher is to make sure that the practice is pure. By guiding the student, you make sure that they are really going into the planes of light and not fooling themselves.”
“The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people.”
“The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children; and asks that they be prepared ... to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society.”
“The role of the therapist is to reflect the being/accepting self that was never allowed to be in the borderline.”
“The role of the United Nations is to set the mental clocks of the world leaders from past problems to the present opportunities and from local power mindset to global welfare mindset.”
Source: Nuclear Weapons Free World - Peace on the Earth
“The role of the vice president is to break ties in the Senate and inquire daily into the health of the president.”
“The role of the villain is only determined by who's telling the story”
Source: Nightfall
“The role of the writer is not simply to arrange Being according to his own lights; he must also serve as a medium to Being and remain open to its often unfathomable dictates. This is the only way the work can transcend its creator and radiate its meaning...”
“The role of the writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say. Most of the writing today which is called fiction contains such a poverty of language, such triteness, that it is a shrunken, diminished world we enter, poorer and more formless than the poorest cripple deprived of ears and eyes and tongue. The writer's responsibility is to increase, develop our senses, expand our vision, heighten our awareness and enrich our articulateness.”
“The role of third parties is to sting like a bee, then die.”
“The role of today's educator isn't to clear paths through dense forests, but to nourish and cultivate barren lands.”
“The role of United Nations is not policing but awakening the heart centers of the humanity.”
Source: Nuclear Weapons Free World - Peace on the Earth
“The role of United Nations is to create more smiling face and to fulfill the dreams of the innocent children of the world.”
Source: Nuclear Weapons Free World - Peace on the Earth
“The role of useless ideas is to help us see the useful ones.”
“The role of woman is to be woman.”
“The role of women in the development of society is of utmost importance. In fact, it is the only thing that determines whether a society is strong and harmonious, or otherwise. Women are the backbone of society.”