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 war is at once comprehensive and complicated; ... it demands much previous study; and ... the possession of it, in its most improved and perfect state, is always a great moment to the security of a nation. This, therefore, ought to be a serious care of every government; and for this purpose, an academy, where a regular course of instruction is given, is an obvious expedient, which different nations have successfully employed.”
Source: The speeches, addresses and messages, of the several presidents of the United States, at the openings of Congress and at their respective inaugurations: Also, the Declaration of independence, the Constitution of the United States, and Washington's farewell address to his fellow-citizens
“The art of war is if you can’t defeat your enemy, because they are stronger than you. Make them to hate themselves, then you will win the war. Self hate is the most self destructing and most dangerous weapon to any human being. We are losing in life, because we are hating ourselves and hating one of our own.”
“The art of war is like the art of the courtesan; indeed they might be called sisters, since both are slaves of desperation.”
“The art of war is not about waging war; it is about winning a war without waging it.”
“The art of war is of vital importance to the State. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected.”
Source: The Art of War
“The Art of War is self-explanatory”
“The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.”
“The art of war is to gain time when your strength is inferior.”
“The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable.”
Source: The Art of War
“The art of watching has become mere skill at rapid apperception and understanding of continuously changing visual images. The younger generation has acquired this cinematic perception to an amazing degree.”
“The art of wealth-getting which consists in household management, on the one hand, has a limit; the unlimited acquisition of wealth is not its business. And therefore, in one point of view, all riches must have a limit; nevertheless, as a matter of fact, we find the opposite to be the case; for all getters of wealth increase their hard coin without limit.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)
“The art of what we might call, loosely, cartoons…[has been] as source of pleasure which has remained and sustained me.”
Source: Why I Left America and Other Essays
“The art of winning comes from action and determination, not from speeches.”
“The art of winning friends and influencing people is only as good as your influence is positive instead of evil. Maybe you’re an asshole? Then maybe the world would prefer you not be good at influencing others. Good societies prefer that evil people remain powerless.”
Source: sciVive
“The art of winning in business is in working hard - not taking things too seriously.”
“The art of work . . . It is going to your work as you go to worship, with a prayer of thankfulness and the aspiration to serve.”
“The art of writing books is not yet invented. But it is at the point of being invented. Fragments of this nature are literary seeds. There may be many an infertile grain among them: nevertheless, if only some come up!”
“The art of writing fiction is to sail as dangerously close to the truth as possible without sinking the ship”
“The art of writing has for backbone some fierce attachment to an idea.”
Source: Selected essays
“The art of writing history is the art of emphasizing the significant facts at the expense of the insignificant. And it is the same in every field of knowledge. Knowledge is power only if a man knows what facts not to bother about.”
“The art of writing is mysterious, the opinions we hold are ephemeral.”
Source: Brodie's Report: Including the Prose Fiction from In Praise of Darkness
“The art of writing is mysterious; the opinions we hold are ephemeral , and I prefer the Platonic idea of the Muse to that of Poe, who reasoned, or feigned to reason, that the writing of a poem is an act of the intelligence. It never fails to amaze me that the classics hold a romantic theory of poetry, and a romantic poet a classical theory.”
Source: Doctor Brodie's Report
“The art of writing is not, as many seem to imagine, the art of bringing fine phrases into rhythmical order, but the art of placing before the reader intelligible symbols of the thoughts and feelings in the writer's mind.”
Source: The Principles of Success in Literature
“The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair.”
“The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.”
“The art of writing is the art of doing what you think you're doing. This is not as simple as it sounds. It implies a very difficult undertaking: the necessity to think. And it implies the requirement to think out three separate, very hard problems: What is it you want to say? How are you going to say it? Have you really said it?”
“The art of writing is to explain the complications of the human soul with the simplicity that can be universally understood.”
Source: The far side of the street: fifteen short stories
“The art of writing, like the art of love, runs all the way from a kind of routine hard to distinguish from piling bricks to a kind of frenzy closely related to delirium tremens.”
Source: Minority Report
“The art of yoga has nothing to do with bending and twisting your body, and everything to do with unbending your mind.”
Source: Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat: Pani, Agua, Water, It's All One
“The art path leads you to be increasingly free. And what does "because of being increasingly free" mean? Julio Ramón Ribeyro used to say a mature novel demands the author's death, not literal death but metaphoric death, which is the author has to truly erase himself. Therefore, to be truly free, you have to break free from internal and external pressures, to erase the self completely and become a sort of medium, let the story pass through yourself and let the story dance with you.”
“The art school babe quotes William Blake as she rolls a joint, then I think that I'll score.”
“The art school party in Liverpool, in a flat in the students' accomdation, was the first all night party I ever went to...I puked up next morning. Cynthia was there, and I remember saying drunkenly to her 'I wish I had a nice girl like you'”
“The art schools seem to be trying to turn people out as "professional." But I don't know what the word "professional" means any longer. "Professional" would be somebody who was trying to push painting to a point that nobody else could do as well as he could. That would be my ideal professional.”
“The art schools... you get young kids doing the most vile and meaningless crap. I think the believe every bit of it.”
“The art schools... you get young kids doing the most vile and meaningless crap. I think they believe every bit of it.”
“The Art Snob can be recognized in the home by the quick look he gives the pictures on your walls, quick but penetrating, as though he were undressing them. This is followed either by complete and pained silence or a comment such as 'That's really a very pleasant little water color you have there.”
Source: Confessions of a dilettante
“The Art Snob will stand back from a picture at some distance, his head cocked slightly to one side”
Source: Confessions of a dilettante
“The art stream is filled with snags and has no volume so it has no support. If you finally choose art, no amount of reason or common sense can discourage you. You must selfishly carry on.”
Source: Yvonne Rust: Maverick Spirit
“The art that I make and that I see others make confirms the miracle of being alive. Almost every day I live in a state of exaltation. The art of painting is to me sacred. It is central to all the other visual arts. This art is in a constant state of renewal.”
“the art that is frankly decorative is the art to live with”
“The art that is in the machine-made article, appeals only to the eye; the art in Khadi appeals first to the heart and then to the eye.”
Source: Collected Works
“The art that we should be doing today, in the twenty-first century, is art that is not for the museum.”
“The art was in learning to spend your life with someone, in having the courage to be creative with someone, to melt each others souls to molten temperatures and let them flow together into an alloy that could withstand the world.”
Source: Drawing Blood
“The art was just a way of hooking people in, saying: "Hey, maybe there's something cool about the tenant meeting. If the picture's really cool and weird, maybe I should check this out." And I think all of my art has really developed out of that realization.”
“The Art we look at is made by only a select few. A small group create, promote, purchase, exhibit and decide the success of Art. Only a few hundred people in the world have any real say. When you go to an Art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires”
Source: Banksy: wall and piece
“The art we need is the art of bearing the unbearable.”
“The art which speaks to a universal audience concerns itself with the 'big' questions of life and death, and delivers its message with unrelenting and powerful emotion.”
“The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque.”
Source: The Stones of Venice
“The art world can be very intimidating because it's just so vast. You talk to people who are really clued in to all the young artists and coming into it you're never going to be able to catch up immediately, even though there's pressure to.”
“the art world has always been an unrelenting taste machine, but now flavors of the month have morphed into flavors of the minute. Again, all a reflection of a wider cultural condition. I mean, the art world is slow compared with the music and movie businesses.”