T Quotes
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“The act of a madman or a drunkard, or of a man labouring under violent excitement seems less free and more inevitable to the one who knows the mental conditon of the man who performed the action, and more free and less inevitable to the one who does not know it”
“The act of abortion positions women at their most powerful, and that is why it is so strongly opposed by many in society. Historically viewed as and conditioned to be passive, dependent creatures, victims of biological circumstance, women often find it difficult to embrace this power over life and death. They fall prey to the assumption, the myth, that they cannot be trusted with it.”
Source: Intimate Wars: The Life and Times of the Woman Who Brought Abortion from the Back Alley to the Board Room
“The act of accumulating knowledge about the transcendent concepts and the ability to actually experience the inner essence that these concepts signify are two very different things.”
Source: Unbound Intelligence: A Personal Guide to Self-Discovery
“The act of acting morally is behaving as if everything we do matters.”
“The act of art is metamorphosis.”
Source: Wake, Siren: Ovid Resung
“The act of being an entrepreneur is a theological act: it is a belief that God has given you the tools to go out, make money and take care of your family.”
“The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.”
“The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.”
Source: The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud
“The act of breathing is immensely advantageous for my overall well-being, and there should never be a need for legislation to enforce such a crucial practice, just like with eating. I know this, animals know this as do all plants with no legislative enforcement. Indeed, there have been more cases of authorities limiting where individuals can breathe, rather than widespread fatalities resulting from people refusing to do so. Why would people need to be forced to do something that is supposedly good for them, unless there are malicious reasons behind it?”
“The act of catching yourself wandering and coming back to your breath is a bicep curl for your brain.”
“The act of choosing what to place in your piece when you're a historian or a non-fiction writer already renders it into fiction for someone else. In some ways fiction comes a lot closer to reality. When you start talking about something as brutal as slavery and life in the American West, it's really important to take a non- judgmental stance. We romanticize a great deal about life in the American West, but I thank God I wasn't living during that time. No matter what color you were, it was rough, crude, tough living.”
“The act of choosing whether or not to have a child is often an act of love, and always an act of survival.”
Source: Intimate Wars: The Life and Times of the Woman Who Brought Abortion from the Back Alley to the Board Room
“The act of civil disobedience is the act of taking our anger and turning it into sacred rage. It is a personal and collective gesture of resistance and insistance.”
“The act of claiming an identity can be transformational. It can provide healing and empowerment. It can weld solidarity within a community. And, perhaps most importantly, it can diminish power from an oppressor, a dominant group.”
“The act of collaboration must start with dialogue. You cannot build relationships without having an understanding of your potential partners, and you cannot achieve that understanding without a special form of communication that goes beyond ordinary conversation.”
“The act of communicating with one another is the beginning of friendship.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“The act of compassion begins with full attention, just as rapport does. You have to really see the person. If you see the person, then naturally, empathy arises. If you tune into the other person, you feel with them. If empathy arises, and if that person is in dire need, then empathic concern can come. You want to help them, and then that begins a compassionate act. So I'd say that compassion begins with attention.”
“The act of composition is a series of discoveries.”
Source: Conversations with E.L. Doctorow
“The act of conducting in itself, of waving my arms in the air and being in charge, I didn't miss. I missed the sensual pleasure of being in contact with music.”
“The act of consciously and purposefully paying attention to symptoms and their antecedents and consequences makes the symptoms more an objective target for thoughtful observation than an intolerable source of subjective anxiety, dysphoria, and frustration. In ACT, the act of accepting the symptoms as an expectable feature of a disorder or illness, has been shown to be associated with relief rather than increased distress (Hayes et al., 2006). From a traumatic stress perspective, any symptom can be reframed as an understandable, albeit unpleasant and difficult to cope with, reaction or survival skill (Ford, 2009b, 2009c). In this way, monitoring symptoms and their environmental or experiential/body state "triggers" can enhance client's willingness and ability to reflectively observe them without feeling overwhelmed, terrified, or powerless. This is not only beneficial for personal and life stabilization but is also essential to the successful processing of traumatic events and reactions that occur in the next phase of therapy (Ford & Russo, 2006).”
Source: Treatment of Complex Trauma: A Sequenced, Relationship-Based Approach
“The act of consciousness is central; otherwise we are overrun by the complexes.”
Source: The Middle Passage: From Misery to Meaning in Midlife
“The act of consciousness is central; otherwise we are overrun by the complexes.
The hero in each of us is required to answer the call of individuation.
We must turn away from the cacaphony of the outerworld to hear the inner voice.
When we can dare to live its promptings, then we achieve personhood.
We may become strangers to those who thought they knew us, but at least we are no longer strangers to ourselves.”
Source: The Middle Passage: From Misery to Meaning in Midlife
“The act of contemplation then creates the thing created.”
“The act of continued physical proximity combined with emotional connection is highly binding. If both connections are present, the bond between two people will be cemented in their consciousness and the very structure of their bodies. They are holding each other’s spirit as well as each other’s body.”
Source: Nanima: Spiritual Fiction
“The act of continued physical proximity combined with emotional connection is highly binding. If both links are present, the bond between two people will be cemented in their consciousness and the very structure of their bodies.”
Source: Dance: A Spiritual Affair
“The act of contributing to the lives of others is its own reward. A servant's heart is a greater motivator than financial gain.”
“The act of creation can be an extreme violent experience.”
“The act of creation fascinates me. You can only sit with blank page and wait. You cannot press a button, cannot program it.”
Source: Enter Talking
“The act of creation is a kind of ritual. The origins of art and human existence lie hidden in this mystery of creation. Human creativity reaffirms and mystifies the power of 'life.”
“The act of creation, as you very well know, is a lonely and private matter and has nothing to do with the public area... the performance of the work one creates.”
Source: Conversations with Edward Albee
“The act of creation, making anything, is an alteration. We cannot eliminate the medium or ourselves from the process, and both are limited. We create decisive moments by devoting our time and attention to specific things. This is the greatest gift we can give anyone or anything - pieces of our life.”
“The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice.”
“The act of delegation is a slippery slope for managers. Yes, you want to figure out how not to be a bottleneck in your organization and, yes, you want to figure out how to scale, but you also want to continue to get your hands dirty.”
Source: Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager
“The act of deporting people who in many cases have left their own land for reasons of extreme poverty, insecurity, exploitation, persecution or serious deterioration of the environment, damages the dignity of many men and women, and of entire families, and places them in a state of particular vulnerability and defenselessness.
What is built on the basis of force, and not on the truth about the equal dignity of every human being, begins badly and will end badly.”
“The act of discovering who we are will force us to accept that we can go further than we think.”
“The act of divine worship is the inestimable privilege of man, the only created being who bows in humility and adoration.”
“The act of dying is one of the acts of life.”
Source: Meditations: with selected correspondence
“The act of envisioning is mainly useful as a means for identifying what matters most to you now.”
“The act of evil breeds others to follow, young sins in its own likeness.”
Source: Aeschylus II: The Oresteia
“The act of exploring what the men are, and moreover the separation of the good from the evil, is visitation; and the good are then removed, and the evil are left behind.”
Source: Last Judgment: Are We Living in the End of Days?
“The act of expressing oneself is a physical one. It materializes the thought.”
“The act of facing overwhelming odds produces greatness and beauty.”
“The act of faith, which separates us from all men, unites us for the first time in real brotherhood; and they who, one by one, come to Jesus and meet Him alone, next find that they are come to the city of God "and to an innumerable company.”
Source: MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture
“The act of falling ill is enough to cast a person as the negative image in an industrial endogroup. This has been obvious for years through the condemnation of the ill to poverty and social ostracization but it becomes more evident as hospitals are threatened with bombs and hospital workers are evicted and shunned.”
Source: The Creation of Me, Them and Us
“The act of farming starts in the heart before it reaches the soil.”
“The act of fishing – for fish, dreams or whatever magic is available – is enough. It transports us to a special world, and a state of mind, where we are free.”
Source: A Meaningful Life - Fennel's Journal - No. 1
“The act of focusing is not simply the mental equivalent of gazing intently at an object. It is a confluence, a harmonious marriage of mind, heart, and will, an alignment akin to a troupe of actors on a stage, each playing their part, but all moving in harmony towards the climax of the play. This is the essence of true focus.”
Source: The Power of the Present: A Stoic's Guide to Unyielding Focus
“The act of forgiveness is the act of returning to present time. And that's why when one has become a forgiving person, and has managed to let go of the past, what they've really done is they've shifted their relationship with time.”
“The act of forgiveness takes place in our own mind. It really has nothing to do with the other person.”
Source: I Can Do It: How to Use Affirmations to Change Your Life
“The act of funding your own dream is the purest form of belief in its potential, a belief that inspires others to join your journey”