T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The task ahead of us is never as great as the power behind us.”
“The task confronting contemporary man is to live with the hidden ground of his activities as familiarly as our literate predecessors lived with the figure minus ground.”
“The task for a modern industrial society is to achieve what is now technically realizable, namely, a society which is really based on free voluntary participation of people who produce and create, live their lives freely within institutions they control, and with limited hierarchical structures, possibly none at all”
Source: Language and Politics
“The task for each of us, White and of color, is to identify what our own sphere of influence is (however large or small) and to consider how it might be used to interrupt the cycle of racism.”
Source: Why are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
“The task for Germany today is - through its own policies and its own structural reforms, its own investments - to support the EU and the Commission... but every nation has to have the courage to broach such structural reforms and speak clearly about them without making people be afraid.”
“The task for me is to not only comprehend the world, but to change the world. I would like to see a world where America lives up to its ideals, and resolves the contradiction between reality and principles.”
“The task for parents and teachers is not to teach, it is how to inspire the people of youth to find their desire to learn.”
“The task for sociology is to come to the help of the individual. We have to be in service of freedom. It is something we have lost sight of.”
“The task for us now, if we are to survive, is to build the earth.”
“The Task Force didn't produce any earth-shattering findings but it suggests that this matter is on the president's radar screen.”
“The task I'm trying to achieve, above all, is to make you see.”
“The task I've been given seems absurd: To wait here on earth until I no longer exist.”
“The task is clear: to create a culture of caretaking in which no one and nowhere is thrown away, in which the inherent value of people and all life is foundational.”
“The task is not done. The journey is not complete. We can and we must do more.”
“The task is not in getting the healing; the task is in what will you do with your healing. The task is not in seeing the light; the task is in what will you do with the light. It is when you have choices that God can see who you really are not when you are without.”
Source: Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
“The task is not just to understand the world but to change it.”
“The task is not primarily to have a story, but to penetrate the story, to discard the elements of it that are merely shell, or husk, that give apparent form to the story, but actually obscure the essence. In other words, the problem is to transcend the givens of a narrative.”
“The task is not so much to solve problems as to propose questions.”
“The task is not to overcome opponents in general but only those opponents against whom one has to summon all one's strength, one's skill and one's swordsmanship-in fact to master opponents who are one's equals.”
“The task is not to perfect yourself, it's to perfect your love.”
“The task is not to search for meaning, but to bring meaning to every situation you are in.”
“The task is not to see what has never been seen before, but to think what has never been thought before about what you see everyday.”
“The task is simple. We will organize children and teach them in a perfect way the things their fathers and mothers are doing in an imperfect way.”
“The task is to keep the lost opportunities of the past alive.”
“The task is to learn how to enjoy everyday life without diminishing other people's chances to enjoy theirs.”
Source: Flow: the psychology of optimal experience
“The task is to live well enough with you.”
“The task is to transform society; only the people can do that - not heroes, not celebrities, not stars.”
Source: Revolutionary Suicide: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.”
“The task must be to banish from mankind's thought the idea that anybody has the right to use force against righteousness, against justice, against mutual agreements.”
“The task of a judge is not to make the law - it is to apply the law.”
“The task of a leader is to simplify. You should be able to explain where you need to go in two minutes.”
“The task of a philosophy of photography is to reflect upon [the] possibility of freedom - and thus its significance - in a world dominated by apparatuses; to reflect upon the way in which, despite everything, it is possible for human beings to give significance to their lives in the face of the chance necessity of death. Such a philosophy is necessary because it is the only form of revolution left open to us.”
Source: Towards a Philosophy of Photography
“The task of a philosophy of photography is to reflect upon this possibility of freedom - and thus its significance - in a world dominated by apparatuses; to reflect upon the way in which, despite everything, it is possible for human beings to give significance to their lives in the face of the chance necessity of death. Such a philosophy is necessary because it is the only form of revolution left open to us.”
Source: Towards a Philosophy of Photography
“The task of a teacher is not to work for the pupil nor to oblige him to work, but to show him how to work.”
“The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue.”
Source: Modes of Thought
“The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.”
“The task of all Christian scholarship—not just biblical studies—is to study reality as a manifestation of God’s glory, to speak and write about it with accuracy, and to savor the beauty of God in it, and to make it serve the good of man. It is an abdication of scholarship when Christians do academic work with little reference to God. If all the universe and everything in it exist by the design of an infinite, personal God, to make his manifold glory known and loved, then to treat any subject without reference to God’s glory is not scholarship but insurrection.”
Source: Think
“The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony.”
“The task of an author is, either to teach what is not known, or to recommend known truths by his manner of adorning them; either to let new light in upon the mind, and open new scenes to the prospect, or to vary the dress and situation of common objects, so as to give them fresh grace and more powerful attractions, to spread such flowers over the regions through which the intellect has already made its progress, as may tempt it to return, and take a second view of things hastily passed over, or negligently regarded.”
Source: The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with his life, and notes on his Lives of the poets, by Sir John Hawkins, Knt. In eleven volumes ...
“The task of art is to take hold of the shining, the radiance, the manifestation, of that which as spirit weaves and lives throughout the world. All genuine art seeks the spirit. Even when art wishes to represent the ugly, the disagreeable, it is concerned, not with the sensory - disagreeable as such, but with the spiritual which proclaims its nature in the midst of unpleasantness. If the spiritual shines through the ugly, even the ugly becomes beautiful. In art it is upon a relation to the spiritual that beauty depends.”
Source: The arts and their mission
“The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into music, into something which can last in man’s memory. That is our duty. If we don’t fulfill it, we feel unhappy.”
“The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.”
Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
“The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. Artistic productivity is the capacity for being voluntarily involuntary.”
Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
“The task of asking nonliving matter to speak and the responsibility for interpreting its reply is that of physics.”
Source: Time, the Familiar Stranger
“The task of being right is a task the father perfects over time.”
Source: Notable American Women
“The task of cinema or any other art form is not to translate hidden messages of the unconscious soul into art but to experiment with the effects contemporary technical devices have on nerves, minds, or souls.”
“The task of consciousness is to preserve the best possible relationship between the rational and irrational, the concrete and abstract, the literal and symbolic, and so on.”
Source: Dark Religion: Fundamentalism from The Perspective of Jungian Psychology
“The task of defending capitalism was still important to leave to the capitalists.”
Source: Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus
“the task of each family is also the task of all humanity. This is to cherish the living, remember those who have gone before, and prepare for those who are not yet born.”
Source: Family
“The task of evangelism often involves preparing an open road so offenders can find their refuge in Christ.”