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 writer you need to see things as they are, and to see things as they are you need a certain basic innocence.”
“To be a writer you should read, write and talk to people, hear their knowledge, hear their problems. Be a good listener. The rest will come.”
“To be a writer, a creative person, you must retain your ability to react uniquely. Your feelings must remain your own. The day you mute yourself, or moderate yourself, or repress your proneness to get excited or ecstatic or angry or emotionally involved...that day, you die as a writer.”
Source: Techniques of the Selling Writer
“To be a writer, open your heart. Keep it open. You can't be a writer with a closed heart.”
“To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers.”
“To be a young Gaullist is to be a revolutionary!”
“To be abandoned like that! Shut out when you most need to be loved.”
Source: Paper Towns
“To be able to accept everything that comes our way, even the things we don’t want to accept, is the art of Love. However, this acceptance isn’t to become conformists or martyrs. The art of accepting has to do with surrendering the need for control; it’s ceasing the effort to regulate our environment and manipulate the human beings, as well as the other creatures, within it.
“When we give up our attachment to the outcome and rest our minds in a peaceful state, then we have a better chance to act free from the results. Such a state of surrender could be described as “just be-ing”.
“Whatever happens is an indication that at some level we’re ready for it, or at least we’ve got all the tools required in order to become ready, and face any problem or obstacle that may arise along this path.”
Source: Divine Union
“To be able to achieve the laudable goals (of preventing and treating HIV/AIDS), especially for us in sub-Saharan Africa, there is the need for us to invest in improving our weak health systems. The inadequate number of healthcare facilities in many of our countries are major issues of concern.”
“To be able to actually sit in a theater and watch people get off on anything that I had a part in, is just thrilling. When you work in television, it's an isolating experience. You rarely ever get to watch it with an audience.”
“To be able to analyze plays and novels is so relevant to acting.”
“To be able to ask a question clearly is two-thirds of the way to getting it answered.”
Source: Proserpina: Studies of Wayside Flowers, While the Air was Yet Pure Among the Alps, and in the Scotland and England which My Father Knew
“To be able to be caught up into the world of thought-that is educated.”
“To be able to be there first, I love the pioneer thing. It's exciting to me. And they pay full rate, they're really nice, they support the work, and they said yes. What could be bad? It's the Wild West. You can do what you want.”
“To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.”
Source: The works of the most reverend Dr. John Tillotson, late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury: containing fifty four sermons and discourses on several occasions. Together with The Rule of Faith. Being all that were published by His Grace himself and now collected into one volume, to which is added an alphabetical table of the principle matter
“To be able to celebrate life is religion. In that very celebration you come close to God. If one is able to celebrate, God is not far away; if one is not able to celebrate life, then God does not exist for him. God appears only in deep celebration, when you are so full of joy that all misery has left you, all darkness has left you.”
“To be able to choose between proprietary software packages is to be able to choose your master. Freedom means not having a master.”
“To be able to choose your own pain - it's a little scary, she thought, but it's wonderful, too.”
Source: Piercing
“To be able to co-create in your organisation, you need to connect information and relationships, both to be driven by transparency and fairness, focus on learning and what is achieved—rather than just what it’s been done.”
Source: Sustainable Happy Profit
“To be able to communicate at a soul level with another human being is the biggest treasure of the physical dimension.”
Source: The Soul's Journey Lesson Cards: A 44-Card Deck and Guidebook
“To be able to compete, we've got to improve our education system, our litigation environment, our tax code, our health system and our trading policies if we're going to be as strong economically in the years ahead.”
“To be able to concentrate for a considerable time is essential to difficult achievement.”
Source: On Education
“To be able to convert time, you must be conscious of time.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“To be able to create you have to have peace of mind on some level.”
“To be able to design for the plus-sized consumer, for me, that's just beyond. It's a dream.”
“To be able to detect the outbreak of avian flu anywhere in the world is going to require a partnership of several countries that will share information and samples, but it is important to remember a threat anywhere is a threat everywhere.”
“To be able to die consciously, we need to prepare for death while we are still living.”
“To be able to die consciously, we need to prepare for death while we are still living.
Only if we live consciously, we can die consciously.
Only a meditator is able to die consciously as life is an opportunity to prepare for death.
Meditation is a death, a death of the ego.
Death is not in opposition of life, death is the finale, the crescendo of life. How we die shows us how we have been living.
Death is not an end, death is a new beginning, a new life.”
“To be able to dispense with good things is tantamount to possessing them.”
“To be able to do art, it was a luxury to me.”
“To be able to do it in the warmth and - of the White House and to do it around people who do care about my kids in a country that has been respectful of my children and their privacy, it has been less stressful than I would have imagined for me.”
“To be able to do one thing at a time is the whole art of life.”
“To be able to do this job in the first place you've got to have a bit of an ego.”
“To be able to donate money to effect change is extremely exciting. I think I'm very determined and persistent. All the things that you need to deliver a successful business and I think these qualities will be useful in the campaign with the Animal Justice Fund.”
“To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.”
“To be able to enjoy one's past life is to live twice.”
“To be able to experience wealth, health and the many other things we humans want, we must mentally be in absolute harmony with them.”
Source: Reboot Your Money Mindset: Surprising Strategies For Mastering Wealth
“To be able to feel the lightest touch really is a gift.”
“To be able to fight pain, you need the empathy of others. Once you start believing that there are other people who share the same emotions as you, that's when you finally start to feel like maybe you can move forward.”
Source: The Ex-Boyfriend's Favorite Recipe Funeral Committee
“To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.”
“To be able to forget means sanity.”
Source: Jack London's Science Fiction (Deluxe Annotated)
“To be able to get up and be in my studio and work all day is a great joy.”
“To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.”
“To be able to greet the sun with the sounds from all of Nature is a great blessing, and it helps us to remember Who is the real provider of all of our benefits.”
Source: Yellowtail, Crow Medicine Man and Sun Dance Chief: An Autobiography
“To be able to hand somebody a poem like you’d hand them a hammer or 20 bucks and say, 'I hope this helps' ...is not only powerful but our responsibility as poets.”
“To be able to have an effect on someone's life is extraordinary .”
“To be able to have that self-respect for yourself and just that feeling of, OK, I did what I could, just stay true to yourself.If you feel that this is something that's valid and you should go out there and win, then push through it no matter what the outcome is. Just know that nine times out of 10 that no matter whether you were right or you were wrong, the NFL is a business.”
“To be able to have the space to sit down and write has always been my central policy.”
“To be able to have winning in your blood growing up, whether it was pounding my little brother or trying to beat my dad in something, or just competing on teams with my friends, it was nonstop.”
“To be able to hear our own feelings and needs and to empathize with them can free us from depression.”