T Quotes
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“To be a soulful person means to go against all the pervasive, prove-yourself values of our culture and instead treasure what is unique and internal and valuable in yourself and your own personal evolution.”
“To be a spiritual teacher is the call of compassion.”
“To be a spiritual warrior means to develop a special kind of courage, one that is innately intelligent, gentle, and fearless. Spiritual warriors can still be frightened, but even so they are courageous enough to taste suffering, to relate clearly to their fundamental fear, and to draw out without evasion the lessons from difficulties.”
Source: The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying: The Spiritual Classic & International Bestseller: Revised and Updated Edition
“To be a spiritual warrior, one must have a broken heart; without a broken heart and the sense of tenderness and vulnerability, your warriorship is untrustworthy.”
“To be a sports person... There is a never say die attitude you have to have to succeed. The first thing I say is "die..." If you beat me, I just give up.”
“To be a standard shape is not all in life. To know is also important.”
“To be a star and stay a star, I think you've got to have a certain air of arrogance about you, a cockiness, a swagger on the field that says, "I can do this and you can't stop me." I know that I play baseball with this air of arrogance, but I think it's lacking in a lot of guys who could have the potential to be stars.”
“To be a star is good; to stay in the sky is bad.”
“To be a star isn’t enough. Try to be a constellation.”
“To be a star, shine till all recognize you.”
“To be a star, you must shine your own light, follow your path, and don't worry about the darkness, for that is when the stars shine brightest.
Always do what you are afraid to do.”
“To be a star, you must walk your own path, shine your own light and not be afraid of the darkness, that's when a star shines the brightest.”
“To be a statesman, you must first get elected.”
“To be a storyteller is to be able to speak truth, to be able to use your imagination, to use the creative gifts that the Creator has given you.”
“To be a stranger in a strange land:
Whenever one feasts, one thinks of one's brother twice as much as before,
There where my brother far away is ascending,
The dogwood is flowering, and a man is missed.”
“To be a strong and empathetic person always requires us to trust that God will send angels to the people's heart we tried to reach, but couldn't.”
“To be a student required a peculiar kind of capitulation, a willingness not simply to do as one is told, but to surrendor the movements of one's soul to the unknown complexities of another's. A willingness, not simply to be moved, but to be remade.”
Source: The Judging Eye: One (The Aspect-Emperor Trilogy)
“To be a success as a Broadway composer, you must be Jewish or gay. I'm both.”
“To be a success in advertising you must want to fill other people with a passion for possession.”
Source: Macy's, Gimbels, and Me: How to Earn $90,000 a Year in Retail Advertising
“To be a success in business, be daring, be first, be different.”
“To be a successful boxer, the last thing you need to be doing is turning up to the gym stoned. You're going to get beaten up if you do that.”
“To be a successful business owner and investor, you have to be emotionally neutral to winning and losing. Winning and losing are just part of the game.”
“To be a successful businessman, you must have remarkable talents; and if you have such talents, why waste them on business?”
“To be a successful coach you should be and look prepared. You must be a man of integrity. Never break your word. Don't have two sets of standards. Remember you don't handle players-you handle pets. You deal with players. Stand up for your players. Show them you care-on and off the court. Very important-it's not 'how' or 'what' you say but what they absorb.”
“To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.”
Source: The Good Life According to Hemingway
“To be a successful fiction writer you have to write well, write a lot … and let ‘em know you’ve written it! Then rinse and repeat.”
Source: The Watchman of Ephraim
“To be a successful investor, you don't need to take excessive risks and be involved in all sorts of financial instruments. You need to understand your risk appetite and understand a few asset classes well. Stay within your boundaries, and your wealth will grow at a decent pace.”
“To be a successful missionary one must have the Spirit of the Lord. We are also taught that the Spirit will not dwell in unclean tabernacles. Therefore, one of the first things a missionary must do to gain spirituality is to make sure his own personal life is in order.”
Source: The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson
“To be a successful multitalented person in the modern day, you ought to channelize your talents.”
“To be a successful soldier you must know history. . . . What you must know is how man reacts. Weapons change but man who uses them changes not at all. To win battles you do not beat weapons - you beat the soul of man of the enemy man.”
“To be a successful soldier, you must know history.”
“To be a successful state, we must nurture successful children.”
“To be a super-trader, you'll need an edge to overcome the laws of probability and the uncertainty of the marketplace. That edge comes from information flow, the ability to correct your habits in terms of the market's characteristics, and being able to take risks, cut losses, expand your information network, ferret out ideas, and take recommendations.”
“To be a superstar is incredible pressure. And also in our country, I'm going to speak about this, America. We have a way of kind of making it hard on our superstars. I don't sense it when I go to Europe or I go to Japan.”
“To be a surrealist means barring from your mind all remembrance of what you have seen, and being always on the lookout for what has never been.”
“To be a survivor as an African American man - maybe any man - you have to be pretty tough. Or at least that's what we all understand.”
“To be a survivor, you must be a devoter because salvation does not come without a sacrifice.”
“to be a symbol of ‘grown-upedness’ is by no means synonymous of being wise. Usually the contrary. The wise never really grow up.”
“To be a teacher does not mean simply to affirm that such a thing is so, or to deliver a lecture, etc.”
“To be a teacher in the right sense is to be a learner. I am not a teacher, only a fellow student.”
“To be a teacher is my greatest work of art.”
Source: Beuys Kompass: ein Lexikon zu den Gesprächen von Joseph Beuys
“To be a teacher you have to have a very giving, selfless personality. I don't think I'm that selfless and giving.”
“To be a teacher you must be a prophet - because you are trying to prepare people for a world thirty to fifty years into the future.”
“To be a team, you must be a family.”
“To be a tennis champion, you have to be inflexible. You have to be stubborn. You have to be arrogant. You have to be selfish and self-absorbed. Kind of tunnel vision almost.”
“To be a textual critic requires aptitude for thinking and willingness to think; and though it also requires other things, those things are supplements and cannot be substitutes. Knowledge is good, method is good, but one thing beyond all others is necessary; and that is to have a head, not a pumpkin, on your shoulders and brains, not pudding, in your head.”
“To be a top performer you have to be passionately committed to what you're doing and insanely confident about your ability to pull it off.”
“To be a top-class athlete, you have to train hard, you have to eat right, you have to get enough rest. I feel the way golf is going nowadays, you have to treat yourself as an athlete.”
“To be a tourist is to escape accountability.”
Source: The Names
“To be a tourist is to escape accountability. Errors and failings don't cling to you the way they do back home. You're able to drift across continents and languages, suspending the operation of sound thought. Tourism is the march of stupidity.”