T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The trick here is arbitrary word assignment: that is, any violence engaged in by ourselves or our friends is ipso facto retaliation and counter-terrorism; whatever the enemy does is terrorism, irrespective of facts.’10 We might say, then, that the golden rule of state violence is: terrorism is what they do, and counter-terrorism is what we do. As Orwell himself observed in his essay, ‘Notes on Nationalism’: ‘Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them, and there is almost no kind of outrage – torture, the use of hostages, forced labour, mass deportations, imprisonment without trial, forgery, assassination, the bombing of civilians – which does not change its moral colour when it is committed by “our” side.”
Source: Why Are We The Good Guys?: Reclaiming Your Mind From The Delusions Of Propaganda
“The trick here is, while the actual pleasure begins to recede and blur, we simultaneously bring the imagined pleasure more fully into focus. And when we do, even the memory of the pleasure becomes more and more heightened and imagined, thus anticipation is increased. This kind of anticipation is the spiritual equivalent of a Cheeto and we want them to eat the whole bag.”
“The trick in foraging for a tooth lost in coffee grounds is not to be misled by the clumps. The only way to be sure is to rub each clump between your thumb and index finger, which makes a mess of your hands.”
Source: Roger Rosenblatt Collection
“The trick in life is not to die. The trick in investing is not to lose.”
“The trick in life is to find out where you belong. Once you find out where you belong, you will be happy there.”
“The trick in life is to hang out until the miracles come.”
“The trick in life is to want nothing. And then work our way towards achieving that.”
Source: Shantaram
“The trick in minimizing dark moments, no matter how tragic they may be, is to have ambitions placed far beyond them.”
Source: Darkness Left Undone
“The trick in writing children's books is to set up danger, mystery and excitement on page one. Force the kid to turn the page . . . Then in the middle of each chapter there's a dramatic point of excitement, and at chapter's end, a cliffhanger.”
“The trick is always to attack your fear, insecurity or pain by acting quick.”
Source: Reconditioning: Change your life in one minute
“The trick is always to write in pairs because if at least two people find it funny, you've immediately halved the odds of it not being funny.”
“The trick is, don’t give in to the grief. Instead, I let myself feel it, embrace it, learn from it. In bed by 9:30, up at 7:00, breakfast, then off to school where I spend five mind-numbing hours living by the dictates of San Diego County’s Board of Education, the Western version of Mao’s Little Red Book.”
Source: Zonked Out: The Teen Psychologist of San Marcos Who Killed Her Santa Claus and Found the Blue-Black Edge of the Love Universe
“The trick is figuring out how do we structure government systems that pool resources, and hence facilitate some [wealth] redistribution, because I actually believe in redistribution, at least at a certain level, to make sure that everybody's got a shot.”
“The trick is finding a person whose flaws don't drive you crazy...you know...someone whose flaws you can live with...someone who can stand your flaws, too.”
Source: The Time of Aspen Falls
“The trick is forgetting for one moment and then forgetting for another moment and then look, the moments run together like a string of beads, and there is heartbreak in the forgetting of heartbreak, in the forgetting of pain, which returns bright and pulsing regardless of the seconds it has been put aside. Do not leave me here, it tells you. Pain becomes an animal, walking at your side. Pain becomes a home you can carry with you.”
Source: Cursed Bread
“The trick is growing up without growing old.”
“The trick is in genuinely appreciating the elements of apparent resistance while you are engaging them. Not to oppose or remove them as much as to creatively fold them into one’s linear line of movement, exploiting them and making the necessary adjustments as you go.”
Source: Re:
“The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.”
“The trick is not caring what EVERYBODY thinks of you and just caring about what the RIGHT people think of you.”
“The trick is not escaping your fear, but confronting it and allowing it to drive and teach you. Only by getting to the bottom of your fears can you find their valuable lessons and move forward stronger than before.”
“The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel”
Source: how to save your own life
“The trick is not how much pain you feel--but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.”
“The trick is not to become somebody else. You become somebody else when you're in front of a camera or when you're on stage. There are some people who carry it all the time. That, to me, is not acting.”
“The trick is not to get too fanatical about getting the accent too accurate because then that becomes a mask. What I try to do is just painting and sketching some of the sounds without obliterating my own voice.”
“The trick is not to look back, but keep on expressing where I'm at now. It's challenging to create something new, so it's crucial to dwell in the present moment.”
“The trick is not to make eye contact. They don't charge if you don't make eye contact.”
“The trick is perhaps not to start a new life but to learn to reconsider the old one with less jaded and habituated eyes.”
Source: The Course of Love
“The trick is remembering that change is as easy as you make it. The trick is remembering that you are the boss of you.”
Source: Please Ignore Vera Dietz
“The trick is simply to avoid jerks. There are lots of them out there. Most people are unhappy.”
“The trick is that as long as you know who you are and what makes you happy, it doesn't matter how others see you.”
Source: Every Soul a Star
“The trick is the paradox - turning your story inside out. Now if it is something that appears to be of total normality and then suddenly turns inside out and is a different thing all together then that's fun to write.”
“The trick is this: keep your eye on the ball. Even when you can't see the ball.”
Source: Skinny Legs and All
“The trick is to age honestly and gracefully and make it look great, so that everyone looks forward to it.”
“The trick is to be grateful when your mood is high and graceful when it is low.”
Source: Don't Worry, Make Money: Spiritual and Practical Ways to Create Abundance and More Fun in Your Life
“The trick is to combine your waking rational abilities with the infinite possibilities of your dreams. Because, if you can do that, you can do anything.”
“The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.”
Source: Memories and Commentaries
“The trick is to cultivate “double vision” … A sense of metaphor, of translation - of two worlds interpenetrating - must be maintained. But this is also the essential movement of the imagination. We see through the literal world to the shape-shifting Otherworld behind.”
Source: The Secret Tradition of the Soul
“The trick is to enjoy life. Don't wish away your days waiting for better ones ahead.”
“The trick is to find happiness in the brief gaps between disasters.”
Source: The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance
“The trick is to find the style that is right for you. When it comes to trying new clothes, my advice is not to take it too seriously - it's all about having fun.”
“The trick is to find what you're good at. Plus you can be good at a lot of things...it doesn't have to be one thing. Sharing well-roundedness is just as important. You get my point?
No, honestly, I don't. You just said it yourself. Look around. We're just specks out here in the scheme of things. What does it matter?
I get what you're saying, but it does. It matters what you do with yourself. What kind of trajectory you send yourself on out here
This out here, he gestures to the lakes and the peaks, it's right in our faces that it's billions of years olld. And you're right, each of our imprints seems small against that, but really each one of our imprints is fascinating. And just like those rings in the water that those fish make, we make them too. And what we do reverberates way beyond what you can ever imagine.”
“The trick is to fix the problem you have, rather than the problem you want.”
“The trick is to get people to read anything, to engender the love of reading. Once you can read, you can teach yourself anything. Librarians are key, I think. They hold the power to empower.”
“The trick is to have a career and have a family. It's like having two dogs that hate each other and you have to take them for a walk every night.”
“The trick is to keep trying until you find a way that produces real
results for you. It’s never you who’s broken, but your current approach. Fix
the approach, discard what doesn’t work, and you will be much more
successful”
Source: Fluent in 3 Months: How Anyone at Any Age Can Learn to Speak Any Language from Anywhere in the World
“The trick is to learn from your mistakes, and have the courage to be true to your heart.”
“The trick is to learn to believe that it's a disconnected world, a lunatic world, where what is true now was not true then; where Thou Shalt Not Kill and the fact that one has killed a great many men mean nothing, and absolutely nothing, for now is the time to raise legitimate children, and make money, and dress properly, and be kind to one's wife, and admire one's boss, and learn not to worry, and think of oneself as what? That makes no difference, he thought—I'm just a man in a gray flannel suit. I must keep my suit neatly pressed like anyone else, for I am a very respectable young man.”
Source: The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
“The trick is to learn to see with your heart, not with your eyes”
“The trick is to love somebody.... If you love one person, you see everybody else differently.”
“The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.”