T Quotes
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“The basic root of happiness lies in our minds; outer circumstances are nothing more than adverse or favourable.”
“The basic rule [of writing] given us was simple and heartbreaking. A story to be effective had to convey something from the writer to the reader, and the power of its offering was the measure of its excellence. Outside of that, there were no rules.”
“The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly - because if they don't speak fast enough, nobody will listen to them.”
“The basic rule of storytelling is 'show, don't tell.”
“The basic rules of life would indicate that it can't last forever, and we'll fall off of the wave and have to climb onto another, but I don't think about it too much. We just keep moving.”
“The basic rules of male-female relations
were imparted atmospherically in our family,
no direct speech allowed.”
Source: Glass, Irony and God
“The basic scam in the Internet age is pretty easy even for the financially illiterate to grasp. It was as if banks like Goldman were wrapping ribbons around watermelons, tossing them out fiftieth-story windows, and opening the phones for bids. In this game you were a winner only if you took your money out before the melon hit the pavement.”
Source: Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America
“The basic science is not physics or mathematics but biology -- the study of life. We must learn to think both logically and bio-logically.”
“The basic scientific conclusions on climate change are very robust and for good reason. The greenhouse effect is simple science: greenhouse gases trap heat, and humans are emitting ever more greenhouse gases.”
Source: The Global Deal: Climate Change and the Creation of a New Era of Progress and Prosperity
“The basic skills of math, English and writing are not enough, ... You must develop a basic system of values to form and guide the use of these skills. The true test will not be what you learned in college, but how you used what you learned.”
“The basic stimulus to the intelligence is doubt, a feeling that the meaning of an experience is not self-evident.”
“The basic story remains simple and never-ending. Stocks aren't lottery tickets. There's a company attached to every share.”
Source: One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In
“The basic structure of proteins is quite simple: they are formed by hooking together in a chain discrete subunits called amino acids.”
“The basic structure of the universe is balanced on a razor’s edge for life to exist”
“The basic struggle today is not between individualism and collectivism, free enterprise and socialism, democracy and dictatorship. These are only the superficial manifestations of a deeper struggle which is moral and spiritual and involves above all else whether man shall exist for the state, or the state for man, and whether freedom is of the spirit or a concession of a materialized society.”
“The basic success of the conga came from ...that basic principle of African music and dance: everybody participates. The conga eradicated the distinction between performer and audience, broke down the wall of the proscenium.”
Source: Cuba and Its Music: From the First Drums to the Mambo
“The basic task of education is the care and feeding of the imagination.”
Source: A Sense of Wonder: On Reading and Writing Books for Children
“The basic teaching of all religions is silence.
A silence spread in our inner being, the mind will begin to dissolve. That silence unites you with truth. When a person is ready to dissolve into silence, his ego will disappear, and he will not be separated from existence.
A holy person means one who has become silent within. A spiritual teacher is a death, because the ego of the student will dissolve completely. Within the student arises a pure emptiness, and samadhi is born.”
Source: When the Drop becomes the Ocean
“The basic teachings of the Protestants were all surrounding values, ethics and morals”
“The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity.”
Source: Steve Biko: Black Consciousness in South Africa
“The basic tenet of Tantrism is that matter, and therefore the body, is also a manifestation of S'akti power, that is, the power emanating from the feminine aspect of Divine Reality.”
Source: Jesus, Muhammad and the Goddess
“The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.”
Source: The Passionate State of Mind
“The basic theme of the kapha metabolic type is relaxed.”
“The basic theory in twistor theory is not to add extra dimensions.”
“The basic thesis of gestalt theory might be formulated thus: there are contexts in which what is happening in the whole cannot be deduced from the characteristics of the separate pieces, but conversely; what happens to a part of the whole is, in clearcut cases, determined by the laws of the inner structure of its whole.”
“The basic thing a man should know is how to change a tyre and how to drive a tractor. Whatever that bearded dude is doing on the Dos Equis beer commercials sets the bar. That's your guy. Every man should be aiming to be like him. The beard is just the tip of the iceberg.”
“The basic thing is to be humble, and pretend you're a bartender in the tavern of life. Don't get too comfortable and don't really listen to anybody else. Don't stand around with a bunch of writers and talk about writing. You know when you see plumbers at a plumbers convention, usually they're not talking about plumbing: they're talking about whatever it is that two men happen to talk about. They're talking about sports, their wives and children. I just tell my students, don't talk about writing too much, just go out and do it. Find out whatever you need to get to the mainland.”
“The basic thing is, people want to get paid, so they'll say the things that get them paid, in entertainment or politics.”
“The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?”
“The basic thing that made Trump popular is that he blamed others for the problems that we have in the United States. We have a problem. Let's face it. The typical income, median income, of a full-time male worker - and the workers who have a full-time job are the lucky ones - is at the same level it was 42 years ago. At the bottom, real wages in the United States are at the same level they were 60 years ago.”
“The basic thing with frugality is:
IF YOU CAN’T AFFORD IT, DON’T BUY IT.”
Source: Health & Not Screwing It Up
“The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.”
“The basic trouble is that people make statements without sufficient data.”
Source: Ups and downs: stories
“The basic trouble with all long-range population projections is that they are driven by assumptions about birth levels - and there is still no reliable method for predicting fertility levels a generation from now, to say nothing of a century hence.”
“The basic trouble with the church today is her unworthy concept of God... Our religion is weak because our God is weak... Christianity at any given time is strong or weak depending on her concept of God.”
“The basic trouble, you see, is that people think that 'right' and 'wrong' are absolute; that everything that isn't perfectly and completely right is totally and equally wrong.”
Source: The Relativity of Wrong
“The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.”
Source: My name is Saroyan
“The basic unit for contemporary art is not the idea, but the analysis of and extension of sensations.”
“The basic unit of any society is the home. When the home begins to break, the society is on the way to disintegration.”
“The basic vehicle of the dance is the human body. When and how people dance is determined by their attitudes towards their body.”
“The basic wisdom of Shambhala is that in this world, as it is, we can find a good and meaningful human life that will also serve others. That is our true richness.”
Source: The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Eight: Great Eastern Sun; Shambhala; Selected Writings
“The basic word I-Thou can be spoken only with one's whole being. The concentration and fusion into a whole being can never be accomplished by me, can never be accomplished without me. I require a Thou to become; becoming I, I say Thou.”
“The basic work of health professionals in general, and of psychotherapist s in particular, is to become full human beings and to inspire full human-beingness in other people who feel starved about their lives.”
Source: The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Two: The Path Is the Goal; Training the Mind; Glimpses of Abhidharma; Glimpses of Shu nyata; Glimpses of Mahayana; Selected Writings
“The Basics: Monaco is a city-state on the French Riviera. It's known for its casinos, wealthy people, royal family, and yachts.
Look, there's Princess Alexandra! Just kidding. You're not going to see any royals up close. And you probably don't know who Princess Alexandra is anyway.”
Source: I See London, I See France
“The basics of acting are really better in America than in Europe. Just the basic "fake laugh" is impossible to get in France.”
“The basics of being a good parent are the same as for being a good human. Arguably, our humanity is foremost about our capacity to stop and assess our behaviour as an individual, as a mother, as a father, as a friend, as a son or a daughter.”
Source: What Do I Do Now? The basics of parenting babies ... without stress
“The basics of the Ukraine war is Russia fighting European and USA supplied weapons.”
“The basics state of isemotive exquisite brings about the reform enquisity idealism realities of structured believes”
“The basics teachings of Buddha are about understanding what we are, who we are, why we are. When we begin to realize what we are, who we are, why we are, then we begin to realize what we are not, who we are not, why we are not. We begin to realize that we don't have basic, substantial, solid, fundamental ground that we can exert anymore. We begin to realize that our ideas of security and our concept of freedom have been purely phantom experiences.”
Source: The Mishap Lineage: Transforming Confusion into Wisdom
“The Basics: The canals of Venice are a wonder to behold.
There are no cars in Venice. There are no roads. Want to get somewhere? Walk, take a boat, or swim. Just kidding. Don't swim. The water's disgusting.”
Source: I See London, I See France