T Quotes
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“To be a man you've gotta beat the man.”
Source: Ric Flair: To Be the Man
“To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.”
Source: Fruits of solitude in reflections and maxims relating to the conduct of human life. A new ed
“To be a man, a boy must see a man”
Source: The Tender Bar: A Memoir
“To be a man, to have been born without knowing it or wanting it, to be thrown into the ocean of existence, to be obliged to swim, to exist; to have an identity; to resist the pressure and shocks from the outside and the unforeseen and unforeseeable acts - one's own and those of others - which so often exceed one's capacities? And what is more, to endure one's own thoughts about all this: in a word, to be human.”
“To be a manager requires more than a title, a big office, and other outward symbols of rank. It requires competence and performance of a high order.”
“To be a mass tourist, for me,...is, in lines and gridlock and transaction after transaction, to confront a dimension of yourself that is as inescapable as it is painful: As a tourist, you become economically significant but existentially loathsome, an insect on a dead thing.”
Source: Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays
“To be a Master of Change one must accept that like their own mortality it is inevitable. Such a Warrior must embrace Change and have the courage to recognize that it is not the enemy but rather an essential alley to the evolution of the human condition as well as the preservation of their immortal soul.
Excerpt From Resiliency The Spirit With In”
“To be a maximally happy human is to immerse oneself in perpetual play across countless life domains. Life is too serious not to play.”
Source: The Saad Truth about Happiness: 8 Secrets for Leading the Good Life
“To be a member of such a crowd ... is not much to be far removed from solitude; the freedom of everyone is assured by the freedom to which everyone else lays claim.”
“To be a member of the Communist Party is to have a taste of the police state. It is a diluted taste but it is bitter and unforgettable.”
“To be a mentor for up-and-coming artists is right up my alley.”
“To be a mentor you need to understand what's going on in a young person's life and you just want to have an internal dialogue that says, 'How can I help? Because I really care.'”
“To be a mere verbal critic is what no man of genius would be if he could; but to be a critic of true taste and feeling is what no man without genius could be if he would.”
Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“To be a miracle worker you do not have to get a doctoral degree, become a minister, eat a particular food, or be able to meditate for long hours. All you need to do is to begin to see beauty in your life and those around you.”
Source: Healing of the Planet Earth: Personal Power and Planetary Transformation
“To be a mirror of God’s love is to show Jesus by one’s way of living”
“To be a modern person in 2012, you are often required to have some electronics in your life. And I do. I try to put that phone down, put the computer away, and get out there and hike in the woods; feel it in my feet, feel it in my hands; get out in the garden and feel the soil under my fingers, my fingertips and my fingernails. I try to be involved in nature in a very tactile way. I think that's important.”
“To be a Mom means to have your heart walking around outside your body, forever.”
“To be a monk is to have time to practice for your transformation and healing. And after that to help with the transformation and healing of other people.”
“To be a mortician was a calling. And there was beauty after death, like a wilted rose, petals stiff and fragile. Timeless and enchanting. A casted spell and oldest tale. Stories frozen in time within the ruins.”
Source: Hollow Heathens: Book of Blackwell
“To be a mother is a great treasure. Mothers, in their unconditional and sacrificial love for their children, are the antidote to individualism; they are the greatest enemies against war.”
“To be a mother is a magical experience. The whole body is transformed by this.”
“To be a mother is a woman's greatest vocation in life. She is a partner with God. No being has a position of such power and influence. She holds in her hands the destiny of nations, for to her comes the responsibility and opportunity of molding the nation's citizens.”
“To be a mother of a son is one of the most important things you can do to change the world. Raise them to respect women, raise them to stand up for others, raise them to care for the earth, raise them to be kind, compassionate and honest. If you do these things you are raising a leader-- someone that will affect the lives of countless people with their morality. Their future wife and children will thank you, but most of all Heavenly Father...for anyone can raise a son, but only a faithful Daughter of God can raise a warrior.”
“To be a mother you must be strong. Even if you don't feel it, you have to pretend.”
“To be a mother, a housewife, never cost me any sacrifice - I savored every minute of those years.”
“To be a movie star, you have to carry a movie. And to carry a movie where you play the title role is the supreme example.”
“To be a movie star, you have to invent yourself.”
Source: Acting in Film: An Actor's Take on Movie Making
“to be a muse may be enough”
Source: Sexing the Cherry
“To be a musician is a great privilege but it is also a very great responsibility. One must think that to be a musician is a gift - a gift from Nature. There is no great merit in us except in loving this gift with respect and devotion and doing everything possible to honor that gift by work and more work. We must work with conviction and humility, searching for beauty, simplicity, and the Truth. And it is for us musicians to do all in our power for a better world. Music must carry the message of beauty, of love and of peace.”
“To be a musician, especially a singer-songwriter - well, you don't do that if you have a thriving social life. You do it because there's an element of alienation in your life.”
“To be a musician, you have to be honest... to be honest... to be honest.”
“To be a MVF (Most Valuable Friend), you need to tell your friends the pure truth about themselves. However, how you tell them the truth is the difference between being a villain or a hero.”
Source: Masterplan Your Success: Deadline Your Dreams
“To be a natural presence, you shouldn't take up too much space, which I always found easy at the beginning of a friendship. It felt nice to reshape myself into precisely the right format until the moment came, usually once I'd shrunk to my minimum size, when I got moody. I always have to be careful what I say around you, my friends would say. Or if I suddenly lost my temper over something that hadn't previously angered me, they'd say, I don't have enough space for this. Then I would know that my presence was no longer a given and it was all my fault -- it wasn't fair to pretend I was something other than who I really was, to keep shapeshifting like some kind of Barbapapa. I'm either too much or too little. I'm terrible at dispensing the right dose of myself.”
Source: Waar ik liever niet aan denk
“To be a Naturalist is better than to be a King.”
“To be a navigator, you have to be fierce.”
“To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.”
“To be a nemesis, you have to actively try to destroy something, don't you? Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect.”
“To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.”
“To be a nun is a very great blessing. It's a great inspiration to think that the Sangha goes all the way back to the Buddha and that so many fantastic, really truly-realized beings have been ordained. Thinking of all those members, such a wonderful, exalted and holy order - I love the Sangha.”
“To be a nutritionist in France, you must be a doctor, seven years studies, and then three more years in nutrition.”
“To be a pacifist in the face of evil is to be complicit with evil.”
“To be a painter now is to be part of a very small, endangered species.”
“To be a parent, especially to rock & roll kids, I think being a parent is the most difficult job on the face of the earth. You hate to say things that will upset your kids, but then sometimes you have to because you can't let them run around wild.”
“To be a part of a show that makes that not feel demanding and makes it feel natural and makes you want to go to work, every day, and be excited about it, from what I hear, that's pretty rare.”
“To be a part of nature was to be part of the will to live. When you stay too long in a place, you forget just how big an expanse the world is. You get no sense of the length of those longitudes and latitudes. Just as, she supposed, it is hard to have a sense of the vastness inside any one person. But once you sense that vastness, once something reveals it, hope emerges, whether you want it to or not, and it clings to you as stubbornly as lichen clings to rock.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“To be a part of something like 'Tron,' good God! It doesn't matter how big or small your role is, you're like, 'Yeah, I was in 'Tron.''”
“To be a part of the few who achieve their dreams, you need to cultivate the never-give-up spirit that sets apart the achievers from the mere dreamers.”
Source: DREAMS DON'T DIE, PEOPLE GIVE UP ON THEM
“To be a part of the kingdom you need to desire it enough to search it out”
“To be a patriot, one had to say, and keep on saying, "Our Country, right or wrong," and urge on the little war. Have you not perceived that that phrase is an insult to the nation?”
Source: Mark Twain's Fables of Man
“to be a person is to be constantly engaged in making yourself into that person”
Source: Self-Constitution: Agency, Identity, and Integrity