T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The art of pleasing is more based on the art of seeming pleased than people think of, and she disarmed the prejudices of her enemies by the unaffected delight she appeared to take in themselves.”
Source: Friendship, a Story
“The art of pleasing is the art of deception.”
“The art of plucking the goose without making it cry out has been developed to a high state of perfection at the hands of the war makers.”
“The art of poetry consists in taking the poem through draft after draft, without losing its inspirational magic: he removes everything irrelevant or distracting, and tightens up what is left. Lazy poets never carry their early drafts far enough: some even believe that virtue lies in the original doodle scrawled on the back of an envelope.”
Source: Food for Centaurs: Stories, Talks, Critical Studies, Poems
“The art of poetry is to touch the passions, and its duty to lead them on the side of virtue.”
“The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt.”
“The art of politics is knowing what to do next.”
“The art of politics is learning to walk with your back to the wall, your elbows high, and a smile on your face. It's a survival game played under the glare of lights.”
“The art of politics is to separate actions from consequences”
“The art of politics, under democracy, is simply the art of ringing it. Two branches reveal themselves. There is the art of the demagogue, and there is the art of what may be called, by a shot-gun marriage of Latin and Greek, the demaslave. They are complementary, and both of them are degrading to their practitioners. The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots. The demaslave is one who listens to what these idiots have to say and then pretends that he believes it himself.”
“The “Art of Possible” can only be achieved through visionary IT leadership, as well as the art and science of modern IT management.”
Source: Digital It: 100 Q&as
“The art of practical theology is in finding creative solutions to complex problems.”
Source: The Art and Science of Practical Theology in Ministry: A Holistic Approach
“The art of printing secures us against the retrogradation of reason and information.”
Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence
“The art of procreation and the members employed therein are so repulsive, that if it were not for the beauty of the faces and the adornments of the actors and the pent-up impulse, nature would lose the human species.”
“The art of producing good music from a cultivated voice can be achieved by many, but the art of producing that music from the harmony of a pure life is achieved very rarely.”
Source: All Men Are Brothers
“The art of professionalism displays orderliness and involvement at work”
“The art of programming is the art of organizing complexity.”
“The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.”
Source: Process and reality: an essay in cosmology
“The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. Life refuses to be embalmed alive. The more prolonged the halt in some unrelieved system of order, the greater the crash of the dead society.”
Source: Process and reality: an essay in cosmology
“The art of propaganda lies in understanding the emotional ideas of the great masses and finding, through a psychologically correct form, the way to the attention and thence to the heart of the broad masses.”
“The art of prophecy is very difficult, especially with respect to the future.”
Source: The Lack of Money is the Root of All Evil: Mark Twain's Timeless Advice on Money and Wealth for Today's Investor
“The art of prosperity lies in knowing when to say "no" to expenditures that eclipse the brilliance of your financial goals.”
Source: Currency of Conversations: The Talk You've Been Waiting For About Money
“The art of publicity is a black art.”
Source: The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses
“The art of publicity is a black art; but it has come to stay, and every year adds to its potency.”
“The art of putting into play mediocre qualities often begets more reputation than is achieved by true merit.”
“The art of putting the right men in the right places is first in the science of government; but that of finding places for the discontented is the most difficult.”
“The art of questioning is to ignite innovative thinking; the science of questioning is to frame system thinking, with the progressive pursuit of better solutions.”
Source: Leadership Master: Five Digital Trends to Leap Leadership Maturity
“The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceive who can see nothing more in a quotation than an extract.”
“The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceive who can see nothing more in a quotation than an extract. Whenever the mind of a writer is saturated with the full inspiration of a great author, a quotation gives completeness to the whole; it seals his feelings with undisputed authority.”
“The art of rap is deceptive. It seems so straightforward and personal and real that people read it completely literally, as raw testimony or autobiography. And sometimes the words we use, nigga, bitch, motherfucker, and the violence of the images overwhelms some listeners. It's all white noise to them till they hear a bitch or a nigga and then they run off yelling "See!" and feel vindicated in their narrow conception of what the music is about.”
Source: Decoded
“The art of reading and studying consists in remembering the essentials and forgetting what is not essential.”
“The art of reading between the lines is as old as manipulated information.”
“the art of reading hardly differs from the art of writing, in that its most intense pleasures and pains must remains private, and cannot be communicated to others.”
Source: The profane art: essays and reviews
“The art of reading is in great part that of acquiring a better understanding of life from one's encounter with it in a book.”
“The art of reading is the art of adopting the pace the author has set. Some books are fast and some are slow, but no book can be understood if it is taken at the wrong speed.”
“The art of reading is to skip judiciously.”
“The art of reading is to skip judiciously. Whole libraries may be skipped in these days, when we have the results of them in our modern culture without going over the ground again.”
Source: The Intellectual Life
“The art of reasoning becomes of first importance. In this line antiquity has left us the finest models for imitation; I should consider the speeches of Livy, Sallust, and Tacitus, as pre-eminent specimens of logic, taste, and that sententious brevity which, using not a word to spare, leaves not a moment for inattention to the hearer. Amplification is the vice of modern oratory.”
“The art of remembering is the art of thinking. When we wish to fix a new thing in either our own mind or a pupil's, our conscious effort should not be so much to impress and retain it as to connect it with something else already there. The connecting is the thinking; and, if we attend clearly to the connection, the connected thing will certainly be likely to remain within recall.”
Source: Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals
“The art of research [is] the art of making difficult problems soluble by devising means of getting at them.”
“The art of revolutionizing and overturning states is to undermine established customs, by going back to their origin, in order to mark their want of justice.”
Source: The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal
“The art of saying well what one thinks is different from the faculty of thinking. The latter may be very deep and lofty and far- reaching, while the former is altogether wanting.”
Source: Pensées of Joubert
“The art of scaling:
The art of scaling is subtraction, not addition.
The art of scaling is alignment through amplified purpose.
The art of scaling is when your idea works even when you’re not there to push it.
The art of scaling removes everything slowing you down.”
“The art of science is as important as so-called technical science. You need both. It's this combination that must be recognized and acknowledged and valued.”
“The art of seduction should be from within yourself, not from your outer appearance. If whoever you're doing this for doesn't realize that... then, honey, you're seducing the wrong person.”
Source: Lupus Deus
“The art of seeing nature, or, in other words, the art of using models, is in reality the great object, the point to which all our studies are directed.”
Source: The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: Containing His Discourses, Idlers, A Journey to Flanders and Holland, and His Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting; to which is Prefixed an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author by Edward Malone
“The Art of Seeing. It is essential to an architect to know how to see: I mean, to see in such a way that the vision is not overpowered by rational analysis.”
“The art of self-discovery is in self-annihilation.”
Source: Şehit Sevda Society: Even in Death I Shall Live
“The art of selling is not about convincing people to buy what you offer or sell, but about convincing them that they need and want what you sell or offer.”
“The art of sensuality encompassing the exploration and experiencing of all our senses... Those images are being born from and through living the moments of eating favorite chocolate cake with ice-cream, tranquil meditating, walking the beach and feeling the warm breeze on your face and the soothing sand beneath your feet, watching a never repeating its symphony sunset, dancing and feeling your body move through space, smelling flowers in a garden, painting or working with clay, with your fingertips gently touching piano keys or pulling the tense strings of guitar, caressing your ears with the whispers of one's soul, diving into the depth of loving you eyes, and, joining in a passionate kiss of life...the life of the artist...”