T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Think of aerobics plus weight lifting minus the music or camaraderie. Combine unalloyed endurance with straightforward strength and demand poise, timing, and practiced form as well. Think of pure pain: that's the ergometer.”
“Think of all that a single person can do. All the indescribable good. All the unspeakable evil.”
Source: Steelstriker
“Think of all that hard work our founding fathers put in - the revolutionizing, the three-fifths compromising, having to write the entire Constitution with a quill - and yet they neglected to include the right to vote.”
“Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.”
“Think of all the girls who could become top athletes but quit sports because they're afraid of having too many defined muscles and being made fun of or called unattractive.”
“Think of all the goals you have for your life, keep them in mind and aim to achieve them one by one.”
Source: 365 Motivational Life Lessons
“Think of all the hate there is in Red China, then take a look around to Selma, Alabama.”
“Think of all the human suffering caused by the sad truth that beautiful sexy women or handsome Porsche-owning men often prove to have miserable genes for other traits”
“Think of all the kinds of businesses that have ever existed. They all had one thing in common. They sold something that people needed, wanted or desired at the time. They sold something that a group of people perceived as something that would improve their lives in some way.”
Source: Business for Beginners: Getting Started
“Think of all the nonsense you had to learn in psychology courses. None of which was testable. None of which was measurable. We had behaviorism, Freudian psychology, all of these theories that you learn in psychology. Totally untestable. Now, we can test it, because physics allows us to calculate energy flows in the brain.”
“Think of all the positives. There are a lot of them.”
“Think of all the really successful men and women you know. Do you know a single one who didn't learn very young the trick of calling attention to himself in the right quarters?”
“Think of all the stories you've heard, Bast. You have a young boy, the hero. His parents are killed he sets out for vengeance. What next?"
Bast hesitated, his expression puzzled. Chronicler answered the question instead. "He finds help. A clever talking squirrel. An old drunken swordsman. A mad hermit in the woods. That sort of thing."
Kvothe nodded. "Exactly! He finds the mad hermit in the woods, proves himself worthy, and learns the names of all things, just like Taborlin the Great. Then with these powerful magics at his beck and call, what does he do?"
Chronicler shrugged. "He finds the villains and kills them."
"Of course," Kvothe said grandly. "Clean, quick, and easy as lying. We know how it ends practically before it starts. That's why stories appeal to us. They give us the clarity and simplicity our real lives lack.”
Source: The Name of the Wind
“Think of all the women you know who will not allow themselves to be seen without makeup. I often wonder how they feel about themselves at night when they are climbing into bed with intimate partners. Are they overwhelmed with secret shame that someone sees them as they really are? Or do they sleep with rage that who they really are can be celebrated or cared for only in secret?”
“Think of all the years passed by in which you said to yourself "I'll do it tomorrow," and how the gods have again and again granted you periods of grace of which you have not availed yourself. It is time to realize that you are a member of the Universe, that you are born of Nature itself, and to know that a limit has been set to your time. Use every moment wisely, to perceive your inner refulgence, or 'twill be gone and nevermore within your reach.”
“Think of all those ages through which men have had the courage to die, and then remember that we have actually fallen to talking about having the courage to live.”
“Think of all those times you've desperately tried to come up with solutions or concepts to no avail, only for them to drift into view when least expected. The difficulty with obsession is that there might be focus without ideas.”
Source: Lost and Found: Memory, Identity and Who We Become When We're No Longer Ourselves
“Think of all your experiences as a huge tapestry that can be laid out in whatever pattern you wish. Each day you add a new thread to the weaving. Do you craft a curtain to hide behind, or do you fashion a magic carpet that will care you to unequaled heights?”
“Think of an abstract painting as very, very low relief - a thing, not a picture.”
“Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.”
“Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or, eh, a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance, or that people could start a business and be entrepreneurial and take risk but not be job-locked because a child has asthma or someone in the family is bipolar. You name it. Any condition is job-blocking.”
“Think of an emotion you’d like to hold in your heart. It could be self-acceptance, delight, unconditional love, freedom, amusement, bliss, satisfaction, or devotion. Feel it deeply. Hold it there for as long you need to. No one can take it away from you.”
“Think of an untreated sex addict who spends hours every night until the early hours watching pornography on the internet instead of spending that time with their wife or husband, and then becomes so tired due to the late nights that their professional life suffers. The sex addict’s behaviour will cause resentment, destroy trust and create economic insecurities in the family and home.”
Source: The Kindness Habit: Transforming our Relationship to Addictive Behaviours
“Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost.”
Source: The Note-books of Samuel Butler: Easyread Large Bold Edition
“Think of anger as a muscle. The way you express anger isn't the way that I do, or you. If you have a good director, you will find that he's getting you to use an entirely different muscle that you never even knew you had - it's real hard and sore, then after a while it becomes normal. And you discover all these new muscles when you enter a new character - that's what a director does for you.”
“Think of any great man or woman. How can you separate them from the years in which they lived? You can't. Their greatness lies in their response to that moment.”
“Think of any product or service and beneath the surface, you’ll see it’s just a value exchange.”
Source: Business for Beginners: Getting Started
“Think of anybody - Dostoevsky or Jane Austen - [their work] was always something that now we would call political. So I don't see those separations too much, between what is artistic and what is political. Maybe in painting... no, I don't even believe that.”
“Think of at least three ways to generate income from your knowledge, passion and expertise. Yes, there may be a learning curve until you are actually doing it, but you're going to love the extra money flowing in.”
Source: 365 Ways to Live Happy: Simple Ways to Find Joy Every Day
“Think of being curled up and floating in a darkness. Even if you could think, even if you had an imagination, would you ever imagine its opposite, this miraculous world the Asian Taoists call the "Ten Thousand Things"? And if the darkness just got darker? And then you were dead? What would you care? How would you eve know the difference?”
Source: Jesus' Son: Stories
“Think of being mindful as being like an ocean that accepts the waters from all the rivers without rejection. It remains stable in spite of the hundreds and thousands of rivers that ceaselessly flow into it.”
Source: Mindfulness in 8 Days: How to find inner peace in a world of stress and anxiety
“Think of brief insanities that are in you, not just the ones that blossomed as you grew into taller, more sinful versions of yourself, but the ones you were born with, tucked behind your liver.”
Source: Freshwater
“Think of brilliant trickster Vik Muniz as the offspring of Man Ray and Jacques Henri Lartigue, combining the former's relentless experimentation, the latter's effortless wit, and their mutual inventiveness in work that defies category.”
“Think of business as a good game. Lots of competition and a minimum of rules. You keep score with money.”
“Think of civil society and the state as joined in a marriage of necessity. You already know who the wife is, the one who is supposed to love, cherish and obey: that's civil society. Think of the state as the domineering husband who expects to have a monopoly on power, on violence, on planning and policymaking.”
“Think of cocaine. In its natural form, as coca leaves, it's appealing, but not to an extent that it usually becomes a problem. But refine it, purify it, and you get a compound that hits your pleasure receptors with an unnatural intensity. That's when it becomes addictive.
Beauty has undergone a similar process, thanks to advertisers. Evolution gave us a circuit that responds to good looks - call it the pleasure receptor for our visual cortex - and in our natural environment, it was useful to have. But take a person with one-in-a-million skin and bone structure, add professional makeup and retouching, and you're no longer looking at beauty in its natural form. You've got pharmaceutical-grade beauty, the cocaine of good looks.
Biologists call this "supernormal stimulus" [...] Our beauty receptors receive more stimulation than they were evolved to handle; we're seeing more beauty in one day than our ancestors did in a lifetime. And the result is that beauty is slowly ruining our lives.
How? The way any drug becomes a problem: by interfering with our relationships with other people. We become dissatisfied with the way ordinary people look because they can't compare to supermodels.”
Source: Stories of Your Life and Others
“Think of color, pitch, loudness, heaviness, and hotness. Each is the topic of a branch of physics”
“Think of conflict like the bill for a delicious meal at a restaurant: the only way for it to be zero is not to order the meal.”
“Think of destiny more like potentiality because of an element called - free will.”
“Think of destiny. Think of vitality. Think of prosperity. Think of longevity. Life requires you to think like royalty.”
Source: The Daily Dose of Motivational Quotes
“Think of Divine Abundance as a mighty, refreshing rain. Whatever receptacle you have at hand will receive it. If you hold up a tin cup, you will receive only that quantity. If you hold up a bowl, that will be filled. What kind of receptacle are you holding up to Divine Abundance?”
“Think of drawing as a way of talking about the things that interest you. Think of those wonderful documents, drawings made on scraps of paper by the lesser Dutch masters while they were wandering around market places and sitting in saloons.”
“Think of Europe in the 20th century. Two World Wars generated by nationalism. France, Germany, Britain fighting with each other.”
“Think of every audition as a chance to perform and you will have fun doing it.”
“Think of every character as a main character. They believe they're the main characters in their stories. No one should just be an obstacle.”
“Think of every contact a customer has with your brand as the most important encounter of your life.”
Source: Content Marketing Revolution: Seize Control of Your Market in Five Key Steps
“Think of every fairy-tale villainess you've ever heard of. Think of the wicked witches, the evil queens, the mad enchantresses. Think of the alluring sirens, the hungry ogresses, the savage she-beasts. Think of them and remember that somewhere, sometime, they've all been real.”
Source: Small Favor
“Think of every step in a workout as a step in the right direction.”
Source: Finding It: And Satisfying My Hunger for Life without Opening the Fridge
“Think of everybody you talk to as having a flashing sign on their chest saying: Make me feel special!”
“Think of everything you've ever experienced that was painful; that's the meaning of Good Friday. Think of all the ways that love ultimately healed your heart; that's the meaning of Easter.”