T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“To be a friend of the earth, you have to be an enemy of man.”
Source: A Friend of the Earth
“To be a friend of the weak-that is the artist's point of departure as well as his ultimate goal.”
“To be a friend takes time, and time is what nobody has. Therefore, real friends are rare.”
Source: Journey
“To be a full lover is to become a healer to yourself and then help another heal their self.”
Source: Cosmic Sexuality
“To be a fully functioning moral agent, one cannot passively accept moral principles handed down by fiat. Moral principles require moral reasoning.”
Source: The Science of Good and Evil: Why People Cheat, Gossip, Care, Share, and Follow the Golden Rule
“to be a gentleman and look good out there in the world. you should have to use the restroom every day more than 10 minutes before you go present yourself out there to the world”
“To be a gentleman is to be oneself, all of a seam, on camera and off.”
Source: America comes of middle age: columns, 1950-1962
“To be a genuine individualist requires a great deal of strength and courage. It is never easy to chart new territory, to cross new frontiers, or to introduce subtle shadings to an established color.”
“To be a gluten-free vegan is, like, the most difficult thing you can possibly be.”
“To be a god
First I must be a god-maker:
We are what we create.”
Source: War and Laughter
“To be a god can ultimately become boring and degrading. There'd be reason enough for the invention of free will! A god might wish to escape into sleep and be alive only in the unconscious projections of his dream-creatures.”
Source: Children of Dune
“To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new.”
“To be a good actor you really have to want to act first.”
“To be a good actor, you have to be very smart. But to be a great actor, you also have to have a streak of, 'I'm an idiot, a complete lunatic.'”
“To be a good actor... it is necessary to have a firmly tempered soul, to be surprised at nothing, to resume each minute the laborious task that has barely just been finished.”
Source: The Art of the Theatre
“to be a good advisor, you have to set aside your own personal opinions and feelings in a kind of detachment or camouflage – since self-interest is incompatible with objectivity – and avoid the limelight. Maintained over years, this steady, watchful, guarded attitude had become a way of life for me – one in which I constantly looked out for pitfalls, anticipated threats coming over the horizon, and readied myself to move and adapt at a moment’s notice and melt from the picture. Was it possible that that I had blended too much into the background of my own life… blurring my own identity”
Source: Raising Hare: A Memoir
“To be a good artist / letterer / designer / guitar player it takes practice. A lot of it. More than you can even fathom when you're starting out.”
“To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be.”
“To be a good bodybuilder you must be a good observer.”
“To be a good boss, you must be transparent. Theres a correlation between worker happiness and workplace transparency. Leaders and managers who offer transparency will earn the respect and devotion of their team.”
“To be a good citizen, it's important to be able to put yourself in other people's shoes and see the big picture. If everything you see is rooted in your own identity, that becomes difficult or impossible.”
“To be a good cook you have to have a love of the good, a love of hard work, and a love of creating.”
“To be a good designer, you would need to have deep and far-reaching interests outside of the profession.”
“To be a good detective you must also think like a crook, an immoral, unethical or unlawful person”
“To be a good draftsman was to me a blessing.”
“To be a good editor or a good writer, I think you really need to be a great reader first.”
“To be a good enough parent one must be able to feel secure in one's parenthood, and one's relation to one's child...The security of the parent about being a parent will eventually become the source of the child's feeling secure about himself.”
“To be a good executive you have to be strong, and you have to have a simple attribute that people have forgotten about - courage.”
“To be a good father and mother requires that the parents defer many of their own needs and desires in favor of the needs of their children. As a consequence of this sacrifice, conscientious parents develop a nobility of character.”
“To be a good fighter pilot, there is one prime requisite think fast, and act faster.”
Source: The look of eagles
“To be a good friend remember that we are human magnets: that like attracts like and that as we give we get.”
“To be a good hairdresser, you have to understand what the vision is of the designer or the photographer and then sort of add your thing.”
“To be a good hitter you've got to do one thing - get a good ball to hit.”
“To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control, that can lead you to be shattered in very extreme circumstances for which you were not to blame. That says something very important about the condition of the ethical life: that it is based on a trust in the uncertain and on a willingness to be exposed; it’s based on being more like a plant than like a jewel, something rather fragile, but whose very particular beauty is inseparable from that fragility.”
“To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control.”
“To be a good leader, win minds; to be a great leader, win heart’s; and to be an extraordinary leader, win souls.”
“To be a good loser is to learn how to win.”
“To be a good manager of people requires both fairness and bluntness.”
“To be a good model, I'd need a lot more confidence... and more confidence to be more bare.”
“To be a good mother, a woman must have sense, and that independence of mind which few women possess who are taught to depend entirely on their husbands. Meek wives are, in general, foolish mothers; wanting their children to love them best, and take their part, in secret, against the father, who is held up as a scarecrow.”
Source: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
“To be a good musician, you need to give people what they want, what they need.”
“To be a good parent, you need to take care of yourself so that you can have the physical and emotional energy to take care of your family.”
“To be a good patriot, a man must consider his countrymen as God's creatures, and himself as accountable for his acting towards them.”
Source: Works: Account of His Life and Letters
“To be a good poet, you must care more about the writing, than the writer.”
“To be a good professional engineer, always start to study late for exams because it teaches you how to manage time and tackle emergencies.”
“To be a good shepherd is to shear the flock, not skin it!”
“To be a good soldier, you must love the army. To be a good commander, you must be willing to order the death of the thing you love.”
“To be a good soul you must seek the grace of good.”
“To be a good speaker, you need to be a good thinker. To be a good thinker, you need to be a good human being. And to be a good human being, you need to love the truth and the world more than you love your sorry self.”
Source: How to Think Like Plato and Speak Like Cicero
“To be a good sports journalist takes many things, but the main thing it takes is the ability to listen and follow your nose - see something, sense something and follow it.”