T Quotes
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“The art of advertising - untruthfulness combined with repetition.”
“The art of Alasdair Gray is as original and as creative in its conception and execution as his novels, short stories, plays and poems. Sadly, this is a view that is not widely shared, otherwise this piece would be being written by a professional art historian, our galleries would be rich with Gray's works, and his international reputation as a muralist in his native land would be as secure as that of Diego Rivera in Mexico and John Singer Sergeant in the USA.”
Source: Alasdair Gray: Critical Appreciations and a Bibliography
“The art of aligning the ego with the essence emerges as a sacred endeavor, a pursuit as delicate as it is profound. It is in this harmonizing of the internal celestial bodies – the luminous ego and the radiant essence – that one finds the symphony of the soul, a melody of harmony echoing through the corridors of our being.”
Source: The 7 Laws of Quantum Power
“The art of an actress is sublimated sexuality. But off the stage the fire must be able to reconvert the steam into body.”
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
“The art of an artist must be his own art. It is... always a continuous chain of little inventions, little technical discoveries of ones own, in ones relation to the tool, the material and the colors.”
“The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports.”
“The art of any propagandist and agitator consists in his ability to find the best means of influencing any given audience, by presenting a definite truth, in such a way as to make it most convincing, most easy to digest, most graphic, and most strongly impressive.”
“The art of appreciation begins with self appreciation.”
“The art of arguing is the art of living. We argue because we must, because life emends it, because, in the end, life itself is but an argument.”
“The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.”
Source: Leaves of Grass: The Original 1855 Edition
“The art of art, the glory of expression, is simplicity. Nothing is better than simplicity, and the sunlight of letters is simplicity. Nothing is better than simplicity-nothing can make up for excess, or for the lack of definiteness.”
Source: Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass
“The art of art... is simplicity.”
“The art of avoiding extremes is an art that is drawn on the canvas of maturity and painted with the abstract strokes of many experiences.”
Source: The Lady, Her Lover, and Her Lord
“The art of banking is always to balance the risk of a run with the reward of a profit. The tantalizing factor in the equation is that riskier borrowers pay higher interest rates. Ultimate safety - a strongbox full of currency - would avail the banker nothing. Maximum risk - a portfolio of loans to prospective bankrupts at usurious interest rates - would invite disaster. A good banker safely and profitably treads the middle ground.”
“The art of beautiful motion is far and away the oldest. Before man learned how to use any instruments at all, he moved the most perfect instrument of all, his body. He did this with such abandon that the cultural history of prehistoric and ancient man is, for the most part, nothing but the history of the dance.”
“the art of becoming 'rich', in the common sense, is not absolutely nor finally the art of accumulating much money for ourselves, but also of contriving that our neighbour shall have less. In accurate terms, it is 'the art of establishing the maximum inequality in your own favour'.”
Source: Unto this last: and other essays
“The art of becoming an adult is creating a place for child, for the former without the latter leaves us being less than half of what we could be and none of what we were supposed to be.”
“The Art of Becoming Who I'm Not
I've mastered the art of mimicry,
Bending and twisting, so you'd see
The person you want, not who I am,
A reflection caught in someone else’s plan.
I wear the masks you’ve tailored tight,
Changing my colours in your light.
But the weight of this act has grown too vast—
I’ve lost myself in shadows cast.
You think you know me, but it's a lie,
A crafted version built to satisfy.
I shape-shift, I mold, I rearrange,
A puzzle of fragments that feel so strange.
In your eyes, I’m whole, I’m sound,
Yet inside, I’m nowhere to be found.
A chameleon lost in its own disguise,
Drowning beneath layers of compromise.
Who am I when the curtains fall?
A hollow echo, nothing at all.
An actor lost in endless roles,
Pieces scattered, shattered souls.
So if you think you know my face,
Remember, it’s just another place
Where I’ve hidden, tried to belong—
But this pretence has gone on too long.
I’ve forgotten who I used to be,
Caught in the trap of who you see.”
“The art of being a slave is to rule one's master.”
Source: Herakleitos and Diogenes: Translated from the Greek by Guy Davenport
“The art of being agreeable frequently miscarries through the ambition which accompanies it. Wit, learning, wisdom,--what can more effectually conduce to the profit and delight of society? Yet I am sensible that a man may be too invariably wise, learned, or witty to be agreeable; and I take the reason of this to be, that pleasure cannot be bestowed by the simple and unmixed exertion of any one faculty or accomplishment.”
Source: The observer
“The art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters - because we never know which things might.”
“The art of being human in the age of AI: not competing on computational terrain but cultivating what emerges from consciousness, relationship, and care. Not optimizing our humanity but inhabiting it. Not becoming special but becoming real.”
Source: AI and the Art of Being Human: A practical guide to thriving with AI while rediscovering yourself in the process
“The art of being kind is all the world needs.”
Source: Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)
“The art of being officially old seems to lie in cooperative submission.”
Source: PROSPECT: The Journal of an Artist
“The art of being sick is not the same as the art of getting well.”
“The art of being sometimes audacious and sometimes very prudent is the secret of success.”
“The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.”
“The art of being wise is the art of knowing that solutions don’t come from individuals, but rather experiences.”
“The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.”
“The art of being wise is to respond to everything with kindness and love.”
“The Art of Being: A state of wholeness in which the mind functions freely and easily, without the sensation of a second mind or ego standing over it with a club.”
“The art of betrayal has not taught me to be bitter, but not so easily misplace trust.”
“The art of betrayal has not taught me to be bitter, but to not so easily misplace trust.”
“The art of biography is different from geography. Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.”
“The art of British Columbia's native Indians played a big role in inspiring my creativity... the simplicity of the images, the graciousness of the lines and curves, and the emotional impact of the bright simple primary colours.”
“The art of cartooning is vulgarity. The only reason for cartooning to exist is to be on the edge. If you only take apart what they allow you to take apart, you're Disney. Cartooning is a low-class, for-the-public art, just like graffiti art and rap music. Vulgar but believable, that's the line I kept walking.”
“The art of chess is in knowing which is the most valuable piece in play, then having the courage to sacrifice it for the win.”
Source: Flies to Wanton Boys
“The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those chosen to attain their full worth.”
“The art of classroom management lies in the delicate balance between structure and flexibility, discipline and compassion, authority and empathy.”
“The art of coalition command - whether it is here in Afghanistan, whether it was in Iraq or in Bosnia or in Haiti - is to take the resources you are provided with, understand what the strengths and weaknesses are and to employ them to the best overall effect.”
“The art of communicating is to speak with a non judging sensitivity and mean it rather than impulsively verbalizing whatever feelings arise; there's no better way to make a point.”
Source: Emotional Freedom: Liberate Yourself from Negative Emotions and Transform Your Life
“The art of communication is the language of leadership.”
“The Art of Communication shares insights to help you communicate with a higher awareness and focused intention and meet people on their level to increase clarity and understanding.”
Source: The Art of Action: 8 Ways to Initiate & Activate Forward Momentum for Positive Impact
“The art of compromise centers on the willingness to give up something in order to get something else in return. Successful artists get more than they give up.”
Source: The Art and Science of Negotiation
“The art of concentrating strength at one point, forcing a breakthrough, rolling up and securing the flanks on either side, and then penetrating like lightning deep into his rear, before the enemy has time to react.”
“The art of concentration is a continual letting go. We let go of what is inessential or distracting. We let go of a thought or a feeling, not because we are afraid of it or because we can’t bear to acknowledge it as a part of our experience; but, because it is UNNECESSARY.”
Source: A Heart as Wide as the World
“The art of conducting consists in knowing when to stop conducting to let the orchestra play.”
“The art of conversation consists far less in displaying much wit oneself than in helping others to be witty: the man who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own wit is very well pleased with you.”
“The Art of Conversation could not die in Australia; it never lived. Television did not kill it; there was nothing there to kill.”
“The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)