T Quotes
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“The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone’s advice.”
“The advice I would give would be to know that it's ok and natural to be nervous. The key is to rehearse, always be yourself and don't be afraid to not be perfect as we all make mistakes.”
“The advice I would offer to any writer is that even when you think you have revised your book to the point where you cannot look at it again, it is time to sit down and revise it some more.”
“The advice is a call to empathy, the ultimate act of the imagination, and the true ground of all fiction.”
Source: A Plea for Eros: Essays
“The advice is, go slow and take your time with it. That works to my benefit.”
“The advice nearest to my heart and deepest in my convictions is that the Union of the States be cherished and perpetuated.”
Source: James Madison's
“The advice nearest to my heart and deepest in my convictions is that the union of the states be cherished and perpetuated. Let the open enemy to it be regarded as a Pandora with her box opened, and the disguised one as the serpent creeping with his deadly wiles into paradise.”
Source: Selected Writings of James Madison
“The advice of a fool is better than a pride boastful man's lecture.”
“The advice of a scholar, whose piles of learning were set on fire by imagination, is never to be forgotten. Proportion an hour's reflection to an hour's reading, and so dispirit the book into the student.”
Source: Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature
“The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve; we must not give ourselves up to it and follow it blindly, whether right or wrong.”
“The advice of our parents will vary according to the country we are currently living in and the dominant political ideologies (politideos) of that environment.”
Source: Treatise Upon The Misconceptions of Narcissism
“The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.”
Source: The Path of the Law
“The advice of the person which you consider as an ignorant will wake you up most of the time from a deep sleep and will change your life.”
“The advice that I can give anyone wanting to be in the biz: do all the work, learn your craft. There are no shortcuts. If you stay with it, you will get an opportunity. Whether you make the most of an opportunity depends on if you are prepared. Learn your craft, every aspect of it. Eat it, drink it, sleep it, then when you are the most prepared, you can make the most of it.”
“The advice that I usually give to young actors is that if you can create a character for the stage and keep that character fresh for at least 6 months that means you're doing the show eight times a week.”
“The advice that I wish I would have given myself is to not care about what other people are thinking.”
“The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.”
“The advice to "kill your darlings" has been attributed to various authors across the various galaxies... and Mister Heist hated them all.
Why teach young writers to edit out whatever it is they feel most passionate about?
Better to kill everything in their writing they DON'T love as much.
Until only the darlings remain.”
Source: Saga, Volume 3
“The advice to love yourself may sound beautiful to the ear, but it was the only sin committed by the first narcissist.”
“The advice we give others is often the wisdom we most need to embrace.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“The advice we give others is the advice that we ourselves need.”
Source: Indiscrete Thoughts
“The advice would be the same for any kind of fiction. Keep writing, and keep sending things out, not to friends and relatives, but to people who have the power to buy. A lot of additional, useful tips could be added, but this is fundamental.”
“The advice you give to young directors for sure is to go out and become some version of a successful movie actor. Do that first and say yes to people like Terrence Malick and Clint Eastwood and Woody Allen when they come and offer you movies. It's a great front row seat to filmmaking.”
“The advise my dad gave me: "To know is to study." Get some training under your belt, so that nobody what somebody asks you to do, you know how to handle it accordingly. I learned so much while working, because I developed a solid work ethic in school. Whereas, a lot of my friends had no work ethic; and because of that, they're sitting at home today.”
“The advocate of religious freedom is to expect neither peace nor forgiveness from [the clergy].”
Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, cont
“The advocates of a criminal are seldom artists enough to turn the beautiful terribleness of the deed to the advantage of the doer.”
Source: The Selected Writings of Friedrich Nietzsche
“The advocates of public control cannot do without inflation. They need it in order to finance their policy of reckless spending and of lavishly subsidizing and bribing the voters.”
Source: The Theory of Money and Credit
“The Ady Gil, a Sea Shepherd vessel, it's a fast patrol boat, was sitting still in the water when the Shonan Maru #2 came by, deliberately turned into it, rammed it, cut it in half, sunk it and destroyed it.”
“The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.”
“The AEC scientists were so narrowly focused on arming the United States for nuclear war that they failed to perceive facts - even widely known ones - that were outside their limited field of vision.”
“The Aedes aegypti mosquito, which spreads dengue fever and yellow fever, has traditionally been unable to survive at altitudes higher than 1,000 meters because of colder temperatures there. But with recent warming trends, those mosquitoes have now been reported at 1,240 meters in Costa Rica and at 2,200 meters in Columbia. Malaria-bearing mosquitoes, too, have moved to higher elevations in central Africa, Asia, and parts of Latin America, triggering new outbreaks of the disease.”
“The Aegean sea washes Greece on two sides: first, the side that faces towards the east and stretches from Sunium, towards the north as far as the Thermaean Gulf and Thessaloniceia, a Macedonian city...; and secondly, the side that faces towards the south, I mean the Macedonian country, extending from Thessaloniceia as far as the Strymon.”
“The Aelfinn are not evil, but they are so different from humanity they may as well be so. They are not to be trusted."
—Birgitte Silverbow”
Source: The Complete Wheel of Time
“The aeroplane is an invention of the devil and will never play any part in such a serious business as the defence of the nation, my boy!”
“The aeroplane is the nearest thing to animate life that man has created. In the air a machine ceases indeed to be a mere piece of mechanism; it becomes animate and is capable not only of primary guidance and control, but actually of expressing a pilot's temperament.”
“The aeroplane is tragically unsuited for ocean service.”
“The aeroplane will never fly.”
“The aeroplane. . . is not capable of unlimited magnification. It is not likely that it will ever carry more than five or seven passengers. High speed monoplanes will carry even less. . . . Over cities, the aerial sentry or policeman will be found. A thousand aeroplanes flying to the opera must be kept in line and each allowed to alight upon the roof of the auditorium, in its proper turn.”
“The aesthete aims at harmony rather than beauty. If his hair does not match the mauve sunset against which he is standing, he hurriedly dyes his hair another shade of mauve. If his wife does not go with the wall-paper, he gets a divorce.”
“The aesthetes of Des Esseintes' generation found diamonds common, rubies and emeralds depreciated, and turquoises vulgar. The old poetry was dead, though echoes of it lived on in the names of such gems as chrysoberyl and peridot and olivines and almandines and cymophanes and aquamarines. Beauty which has departed from things may live on in words.”
Source: A History of Jewellery 1100-1870
“The aesthetic came along the way, I think - just through experimenting, and going on tour, and trying stuff out on stage, having fun with it, and not taking it too seriously. If I had a ballgown at home, I'd wear it onstage. If I found something in a charity shop, I'd wear it. That's where it grew from - just wanting to play dress-up.”
“The aesthetic dimension of the ideal state comes out in the idea of harmony, which is the classical idea of beauty as "concinnitas" or "unity-in-variety".”
“The aesthetic discussion of photography is dominated by the concept of time. Photographs appear as devices stopping time and preserving fragments of the past, like flies in amber.”
“The aesthetic education offers a "subjective" transformation of each person's private war of conflicting drives into a knack for making beautiful public peace offerings.”
Source: The Work of Art in the World: Civic Agency and Public Humanities
“The aesthetic event is something as evident, as immediate, as indefinable as love, the taste of fruit, of water. We feel poetry as we feel the closeness of a woman, or as we feel a mountain or a bay. If we feel it immediately, why dilute it with other words, which no doubt will be weaker than our feelings?”
“The aesthetic experience has to be given. And beauty is a regular experience of every person - every person who is not clinically depressed!”
“The aesthetic is an individual rather than a societal concern.”
Source: The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
“The aesthetic of architecture has to be rooted in a broader idea about human activities like walking, relaxing and communicating. Architecture thinks about how these activities can be given added value.”
“The aesthetic principle is the same in every art, only the material differs.”
Source: On Music and Musicians
“The aesthetic serviceability of objects of beauty is not greatly nor universally heightened by possession.”
Source: A Veblen Treasury: From Leisure Class to War, Peace, and Capitalism