T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The ability to imagine oneself in another's place and understand the other's feelings, desires, ideas, and actions. The most obvious example, perhaps, is that of the actor or singer who genuinely feels the part he is performing.”
Source: A to Z of Narcissism and Narcissistic Personality Disorder Encyclopedia: The Narcissism Bible
“The ability to incur and address mistakes is a priceless skill.”
“The ability to infer the specific content of another person's thoughts and feelings.”
“The Ability to influence people without irritating them is the most profitable art known to man.”
“The ability to just sit there. That's being a person.”
“The ability to keep a cool head in an emergency, maintain poise in the midst of excitement, and to refuse to be stampeded are true marks of leadership.”
“The ability to keep things in perspective is very important for a journalist. In a tense situation you need the ability to be there, yet somehow step aside; to keep a cool head and keep working without getting frustrated.”
“The ability to keep your mouth shut is usually a sign of intelligence”
Source: Counting by 7s
“The ability to know one’s limitations, to recognize the bounds of one’s own comprehension—this is a kind of knowing that approaches wisdom.”
Source: I don't know: In Praise of Admitting Ignorance (Except When You Shouldn't)
“The ability to know that your perceptions are accurate has to happen without others' validation. Intuition is not the result of diet, rituals, or wind chimes. It's the natural consequence of having self-esteem, the greatest power you can have. With self-esteem, your life can broaden into an adventure because you can know in your gut that you can handle the unknown. And you can handle helping others without fear, which is true liberation.”
“The ability to last more than six minutes - isn't that what all men want?”
“The ability to laugh at life is right at the top, with love and communication, in the hierarchy of our needs. Humour has much to do with pain; it exaggerates the anxieties and absurdities we feel, so that we gain distance and through laughter, relief.”
“The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.”
“The ability to laugh is what differentiates man from the beasts, but evidently one cannot always get oneself in a laughing mood.”
“The ability to lead a happy life is made, not found”
“The ability to learn faster than competitors may be the only sustainable competitive advantage.”
“The ability to learn is older as it is also more widespread than is the ability to teach.”
Source: Continuities in Cultural Evolution
“The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have.”
“The ability to learn quickly is the most important skill to have.”
“The ability to lie persuasively is one of the greatest gifts a woman can possess in this life. Some critics, principally men, will argue that deception in women is inherently evil; but having spent the last fifteen years of my life in the theater, I can attest that lying not only is sometimes expedient but can save one's career.”
Source: Nocturne for a Widow
“The ability to live a God-pleasing life, indeed, to inherit eternal life, does not stem from our dedication to God or vows of our will; rather, it flows to us from the power of the divine life granted to us through our supernatural union with Christ. The very life of God through Christ via the Holy Spirit has taken up residence inside us. We are irrevocably wed to the divine nature, and human marriage is a powerful picture, or symbol, of this union.”
Source: Sex, Dating, and Relationships: A Fresh Approach
“The ability to look at certain patterns with regards to urban fashion, with regards to swagger, with regards to cultural hegemony, with regards to the ways in which young people look at resistance culture as a pattern that should be mimicked and admired.”
“The ability to make a decision is another characteristic of a winner in money matters. I have found over and over again that those who succeed in making large sums of money reach decisions very promptly and change them, if at all, very slowly. I have also found that people who fail to make money reach decisions very slowly, if at all, and change them frequently and quickly.”
Source: Money Dynamics for the 1990s
“The ability to make a truly artistic photograph is not acquired off-hand, but is the result of an artistic instinct coupled with years of labor.”
Source: Stieglitz on photography: his selected essays and notes
“The ability to make and keep promises is the key aspect to trust in a relationship.”
“The ability to make big leaps of thought is a common denominator among the originators of breakthrough ideas.”
“The ability to make fire at will. It allowed us light to see in the darkness, warmth against the cold, a tool to cook our food.’ He gestured vaguely in the direction of the Delta’s engines. ‘Fire is what eventually led to travel across the black beyond, the ability to start a new life on a New World.”
“The ability to make hard truths palatable is one that every long-lived co-leader has mastered.”
“The ability to make judgments lies at the heart of Christian living. Unless we are able to judge doctrine, lifestyles, and entertainment, unless we are able to distinguish between outer appearance and inner character, we just might miss the purpose for which God placed us on this earth. We might end up accepting a stone for bread and a snake for a fish.”
Source: Who Are You to Judge?: Learning to Distinguish Between Truths, Half-Truths, and Lies
“The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from the beasts.”
“The ability to make music is a gift that you're born with; it's not something you can learn.”
“The ability to make others feel good about themselves will take you further than proving that you are the smartest one in the room.”
“The ability to make risk scenario simulations is a profoundly helpful way for company leadership to engage in risk management.”
“The ability to make someone laugh… AWESOME!The ability to make someone LAUGH when they have every reason to break down and cry? PRICELESS!”
“The ability to make wise choices is the most valuable skill a person can develop.”
Source: No Parking. No Halt. Success Non Stop!
“The ability to make witty observations is commonly refered to as "cynism" by people who lack it.”
“The ability to manage large assets well - it's like being Michael Jordan or winning the gold in the Olympics; it's what you aspire to.”
“The ability to manage well doesn't make much difference if you're not even in the right jungle.”
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition
“The ability to meditate successfully is a very unique skill that will help you better weather the storms of life.”
“The ability to memorize a very large number of things is not nearly as valuable as the ability to tell what is worth remembering.”
“The ability to mingle with so many countries and cultures is extremely valuable for men and women.”
“The ability to name poetry's gestures and rhetorics isn't required to write or read them, any more than a painter needs to know the physics of color to bring forward a landscape. The eye and hand and ear know what they need to know. Some of us want to know more, because knowing pleases.”
“The ability to negotiate with other people without friction and argument is the outstanding quality of all successful people.”
Source: The Law of Success
“The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.”
“The ability to overcome adversity and failure is an evolved capacity that is essential to countless organisms, including humans. The capacity to develop an anti-fragile response to repeated failures is a fundamental, necessary, and beneficial feature of life. No meaningful goal can ever be achieved without resilience and effort.”
Source: The Saad Truth about Happiness: 8 Secrets for Leading the Good Life
“The ability to overcome failure—to live through it and move on—is crucial. If we are not willing to face failure—if we don't have the skills to survive it—we have precluded any real creativity or risk. Failure may never become our friend, but if we are to do meaningful work, perhaps failure needs to be our companion.”
Source: World Peace and Other 4th-Grade Achievements
“The ability to perceive and feel, along with the intricacies of family relations unites us as a species. Poets collect succulent physical sense impressions and heartfelt feelings with equal enthusiasm. Poets have the alacrity to see and feel what most of us fail to perceive or otherwise ignore, take for granted, or attempt to forget. Similar to the art of Ukiyo-e (a genre of Japanese woodblock prints and paintings depicting traditional Japanese scenes), poets make the nothingness of our lives come alive. Poets design their sun-filled salvations out of the minutia of nature and the seemingly ordinary happenings of life. Although essayist can also explore the liminal spaces of daily life by probing the avenues of common experiences, essayists are more interested in testing ideas and principles than in invoking memories, sharing feelings, or eliciting emotions.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.”
“The ability to persuade is the secret of the cosmos.”
Source: JetSet Life Hacks: 33 Life Hacks Millionaires, Athletes, Celebrities, & Geniuses Have In Common
“The ability to plan for what has not yet happened, for a future that has only been imagined, is one of the hallmarks of leadership.”
Source: Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration