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 play chess is the sign of a gentleman. The ability to play chess well is the sign of a wasted life.”
“The ability to play is essential to being a creative artist.”
“The ability to play is one of the principal criteria of mental health.”
“The ability to play pretend is something that everyone has access to; you see little kids doing it.”
“The ability to play the clarinet is the ability to overcome the imperfections of the instrument. There's no such thing as a perfect clarinet, never was and never will be.”
“The ability to play with different people is infinitely fascinating to me.”
“The ability to portray people in still life and in motion requires the highest measure of intuition and talent.”
“The ability to produce every necessity of life renders us independent in war as well as in peace.”
Source: Biography of M. F.
“The ability to provide choices and the right to make choices that prove not detrimental, are the fundamental ingredients of free trade and independence.”
“The ability to qualify for, receive, and act on personal revelation is the single most important skill that can be acquired in this life.”
“The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.”
“the ability to reach customers is more cost effective than ever—therefore the intangible and emotional elements have become the key differentiating factor. There are plenty of places to purchase a great spicy tuna roll, but there’s only one Masayoshi Takayama. According to his website, “Masayoshi Takayama’s appreciation for food started at a young age, growing up working for his family’s fish market in a town of Tochigi Prefecture, Japan. From his early years of delivering fresh sashimi to neighbors on his bicycle, to prepping and grilling hun- dreds of fish courses to cater weddings in high school, his relation- ship with food has always been a way of life.” That’s the beginning of a story that makes Takayama’s sushi different and special—that makes it art. And that art is what induces people to pay $600 per person in his New York restaurant for a chance to try it.”
Source: The Age of Ideas: Unlock Your Creative Potential
“The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.”
Source: The Autobiography of Malcolm X
“The ability to read becomes devalued when what one has learned to read adds nothing of importance to one's life.”
Source: The uses of enchantment: the meaning and importance of fairy tales
“The ability to read is the needed ingredient to succeed.”
Source: Granddad Teaches Des to Ride
“The ability to rebound is in inverse proportion to the distance your house is from the nearest railroad tracks.”
“The ability to redefine failure as an opportunity to learn is a critical skill for any effective entrepreneur, and it is best to learn early.”
“The ability to reduce everything to simple fundamental laws does not imply the ability to start from those laws and reconstruct the universe.”
“The ability to relax and be mindfully present in the moment comes naturally when we are grateful.”
Source: Gratitude: A Way of Life
“The ability to remain constant, whole and playful, even while working technically, concentrating and upholding urgency, is essential to achieve a state of balance that will allow for this to happen. This has to come to life, and cannot stay just an idea or hope or intention or imitation, or ignored. The guarantee and proof that this balance and power is real is in its actualization. That is, that it manifests in functional reality. As in any intention, whether that be vague or specific, an ambition or desire, a goal or state of being, a question or hope, a curiosity or purpose, there exist natural and unnatural obstacles to its realization.”
Source: Re:
“The ability to represent failure as success would become an Agency tradition.”
Source: Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
“The ability to retain a child's view of the world with at the same time a mature understanding of what it means to retain it, is extremely rare - and a person who has these qualities is likely to be able to contribute something really important to our thinking.”
“The ability to row in any conditions, raging crosswind, two-foot tall jet ski wakes, torrential downpour, is absolutely essential in order to be a champion sculler. It all comes under the heading of boatmanship. Some races are won on nothing more than superior boatmanship.”
“The ability to save automatically is among the most powerful tools available to us.”
“The ability to say no is a tremendous advantage for an investor.”
“The ability to scrutinize others is called being critical. The ability to scrutinize one's self and change, that's called wisdom.”
“The ability to secure an independent livelihood and honorable employ suited to her education and capacities is the only true foundation of the social elevation of woman, even in the very highest classes of society. While she continues to be educated only to be somebody's wife, and is left without any aim in life till that somebody either in love, or in pity, or in selfish regard at last grants her the opportunity, she can never be truly independent.”
Source: The true remedy for the wrongs of woman: with a history of an enterprise having that for its object
“The ability to see our lives as stories and share those stories with others is at the core of what it means to be human. We use stories to order and make sense of our lives, to define who we are, even to construct our realities: this happened, then this happened, then this. I was, I am, I will be. We recount our dreams, narrate our days and organize our memories into stories we tell others and ourselves. As natural-born storytellers, we respond to others’ stories because they are deeply, intimately familiar.”
“The ability to see our lives as stories rather than unrelated, random events increases the possibility for significant and purposeful action.”
“The ability to see the future can be a burden, and the younger you are and the more isolated you feel, maybe the more of a burden it is.”
“The ability to see the good in others and the bad in ourselves is perfect vision.”
“The ability to see yourself as a temporary expression of intention and to see yourself in all of humanity is a characteristic of the holy relationship. It's the ability to celebrate and honor in all others, the place where we're all one. ...establish a holy relationship with your Source, the world community, your neighbors, acquaintances, family, the animal kingdom, our planet, and yourself.”
“The ability to self-regulate is important when dealing with stress. The demands of competition, the noise from the stands, and the team dynamics will cause stress for athletes. These stressors will be compounded by the athlete’s personal life and the stress they carry into these performance situations. Overall, athletes will get gripped by stress, whether in a championship game or a mundane practice.”
Source: B.E.T. On It: A Psychological Approach to Coaching Gen Z and Beyond
“The ability to Self-Motivate is a cornerstone of true wealth.”
“The ability to sell is the number one skill in business. If you cannot sell, don't bother thinking about becoming a business owner.”
“The ability to sense one's own experience and to put it into words and to express it in relation to another is what constitutes the core of our existence as human beings.”
Source: The Psychology of Totalitarianism
“The ability to share whole scenes form our lives will be a valuable thing over time.”
“The ability to sign a cheque is the least reliable guide to a company's fitness.”
“The ability to solve problems or to create products that are valued within one or more cultural settings.”
Source: Intelligence Reframed: Multiple Intelligences for the 21st Century
“The ability to speak does not make you intelligent.”
Source: Star Wars®: Episode I: The Phantom Menace
“The ability to speak exactly is intimately related to the ability to know exactly.”
Source: Imagination in Place
“The ability to speak is a short cut to distinction. It puts a man in the limelight, raises him head and shoulders above the crowd.”
“The ability to speak well is the shortcut to distinction.”
“The ability to stand by one's principles, to live with integrity and faith according to one's belief-that is what matters, that is the difference between a contribution and a commitment. That devotion to true principle in our individual lives, in our homes and families, and in all places that we meet and influence other people-that devotion is what God is ultimately requesting of us.”
“The ability to start out upon your own impulse is
fundamental to the gift of keeping going upon your own
terms. . . . Getting started, keeping going, getting started
again in art and in life, it seems to me this is the essential rhythm.”
“The ability to stay calm and focused in the midst of change is what distinguishes great leaders from those just collecting a paycheck.”
“The ability to step aside from the rest of the world has given the Gypsies a lot of survival skills to match their really dark sense of humour. The Gypsies are survivors”
Source: Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe
“The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person.”
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition
“The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person. Reactive people are driven by feelings, by circumstances, by conditions, by their environment. Proactive people are driven by values - carefully thought about, selected and internalized values.”
Source: The Stephen R. Covey Interactive Reader - 4 Books in 1: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, First Things First, and the Best of the Most Renowned Leadership Teacher of our Time
“The ability to suck less and do better each day requires you to be connected to your present situation and the hard truths of a tough reality.”
Source: Suck Less, Do Better: The End of Excuses & the Rise of the Unstoppable You