T Quotes
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“The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.”
“The art of spirituality is learning to be happy in any condition and in any circumstance. This is the art of love.”
“The art of splitting hairs four ways. This is the department of useless techniques. Mechanical Avunculogratulation, for example, is how to build machines for greeting uncles. We're not sure, though, if Pylocatabasis belongs, since it's the art of being saved by a hair. Somehow that doesn't seem completely useless.”
“The art of spreading rumors may be compared to the art of pin-making. There is usually some truth, which I call the wire; as this passes from hand to hand, one gives it a polish, another a point, others make and put on the head, and at last the pin is completed.”
“The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.”
“The art of staying motivated, being happy, and continually improving oneself is a dynamic interplay that shapes a fulfilling life journey. Motivation is not a fleeting emotion but a sustained commitment to finding purpose and inspiration in daily pursuits. Happiness, the compass of well-being, emanates from a life aligned with personal values, while self-improvement serves as the engine propelling you towards your best self. To be better and stronger necessitates resilience, a dedication to continuous learning, and the wisdom to discern toxic individuals and political ideologies that may hinder your progress. Surrounding yourself with positivity and steering clear of toxicity is not just a lifestyle choice; it is a deliberate strategy for crafting a life of fulfillment and purpose.”
“The art of stone in a Japanese garden is that of placement. Its ideal does not deviate from that of nature.”
Source: The Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum
“The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.”
Source: Illuminations
“The art of subversion, of revolution, is to dislodge established customs by probing down to their origins in order to show how they lack authority and justice.”
Source: Pascal Pensées
“The Art of Success . . . Success is ninety-nine percent mental attitude. It calls for love, joy, optimism, confidence, serenity, poise, faith, courage, cheerfulness, imagination, initiative, tolerance, honesty, humility, patience, and enthusiasm. . . . Success is having the courage to meet failure without being defeated. It is refusing to let present loss interfere with your long-range goal. . . . Success is relative and individual and personal. It is your answer to the problem of making your minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years add up to a great life.”
“The art of successful relationships is hidden in holding on to yourself and resisting the desire to argue.”
Source: Quantraz
“The art of surrender is the art of getting out of the way of your own growth.”
“The art of survival is a story that never ends.”
“The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the least possible amount of hissing.”
“The art of teaching is clarity and the art of learning is to listen.”
“The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.”
“The art of teaching is to take what rather seem like a complex concept and make it simple, personal and relevant. To make it useful for purpose of creating value.”
“The art of teaching is tolerance. Humbleness is the art of learning.”
“The art of the child is in non-realization.”
Source: The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition
“The art of the colorist has in some ways elements of mathematics and music.”
“The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion.”
Source: Selected Writings: 1913-1926
“The art of the cuisine, when fully mastered, is the one human capability of which only good things can be said.”
“The art of the dramatist is very like the art of the architect. A plot has to be built up just as a house is built-story after story; and no edifice has any chance of standing unless it has a broad foundation and a solid frame.”
“The art of the good art is to reach the beyond of the beyond!”
“The art of the High Renaissance is absolutely secular in its outlook; even in the representations of religious subjects, it attains its ideal style not by contrasting natural with supernatural reality, but by creating a distance between the objects of natural reality itself - a distance which in the world of visual experience creates differences of value similar to those that exist between the elite and the masses in human society. Its harmony is the utopian ideal of a world from which all conflicts is excluded, and, moreover, not as a result of the rule of a democratic but of an autocratic principle. Its creations represent an enhanced, ennobled reality exempt from transitoriness and banality. Its most important stylistic principle is the restriction of the representation to the bare essentials.”
Source: The Social History of Art: Volume 2: Renaissance, Mannerism, Baroque
“The art of the indirect approach can only be mastered, and its full scope appreciated, by study of and reflection upon the whole history of war. But we can at least crystallize the lessons into two simple maxims- one negative, the other positive. The first is that, in face of the overwhelming evidence of history, no general is justified in launching his troops to a direct attack upon an enemy firmly in position. The second, that instead of seeking to upset the enemy's equilibrium by one's attack, it must be upset before a real attack is, or can be successfully launched”
“The art of the novel is to arrive at that artless point where your characters become more real than yourself.”
“The art of the novel, however, has fallen into such a state of stagnation - a lassitude acknowledged and discussed by the whole of critical opinion - that it is hard to imagine such an art can survive for long without some radical change. To many, the solution seems simple enough: such a change being impossible, the art of the novel is dying.”
Source: For a New Novel: Essays on Fiction
“The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society”
“The art of the poem nowadays is something unstable; but at least the construction of the poem should make sense; you should know where you stand. Many questions haven't been answered as yet. Our poets may be wrong; but what can any of us do with his talent but try to develop his vision, so that through frequent failures we may learn better what we have missed in the past.”
“The art of the police is not to see what it is useless that it should see.”
“The art of the quoter is to know when to stop.”
Source: The Cornish Trilogy
“The Art of the Romance, though warning us that it is providing fictions, opens a door into the Palace of Absurdity, and when we have lightly stepped inside, slams it shut behind us.”
Source: The Island of the Day Before
“The art of the word is painting + architecture + music.”
“The art of the writer, like that of the player, is attained by slow degrees. The power of distinguishing and discriminating comick characters, or of filling tragedy with poetical images, must be the gift of nature, which no instruction nor labour can supply; but the art of dramatick disposition, the contexture of the scenes, the involution of the plot, the expedients of suspension, and the strategems of surprise, are to be learned by practice.”
Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D..: The Adventurer and Idler
“The art of these Fifties movies was in sustaining forever the moment before sex.”
Source: Push Comes to Shove
“The art of thinking is the greatest art of all, for 'as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.' The thinker knows he is today where his thoughts have taken him and that he is building his future by the quality of the thoughts he thinks.”
“The art of those who govern consists above all in the science of employing words.”
Source: The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind
“The Art of Time is NOT Wasting It!”
“The art of today is that which really belongs to us: it is our own reflection. In condemning it we but condemn ourselves.”
Source: The Book of Tea the Illustrated Classic Edition
“The art of tomorrow will be a collective treasure, or it will not be art at all.”
“The art of translation lies less in knowing the other language than in knowing your own.”
Source: The Later Diaries of Ned Rorem: 1961–1972
“The art of true sportsmanship is not only shaped by winning, but by being able to embrace defeat, respect and participating with integrity.”
“The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user.”
“The art of using moderate abilities to advantage often brings greater results than actual brilliance”
“The art of using troops is this:
......When ten to the enemy's one, surround him;
......When five times his strength, attack him;
......If double his strength, divide him;
......If equally matched you may engage him;
......If weaker numerically, be capable of withdrawing;
......And if in all respects unequal, be capable of eluding him,
..........for a small force is but booty for one more powerful.”
“The Art of Vermeer must have been there on the morning of creation.”
“The art of victory is learned in defeat.”
“The art of walking on quicksand is still beyond me. What I learned is only how difficult this art is to master and how hard people need to struggle to learn it.”
“The art of war in its highest point of view is policy.”
Source: On War