T Quotes
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“To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist.”
“To be an artist you must learn the laws of nature.”
“To be an artist — actually, to be a human being in these times — it’s all difficult. … What matters is to know what you want and pursue it.”
“To be an artist, one must . . . never shirk from the truth as he understands it, never withdraw from life”
“To be an artist, you don't have to compose music or paint or be in the movies or write books. It's just a way of living. It has to do with paying attention, remembering, filtering what you see and answering back, participating in life.”
“To be an artist, you have to nurture the things that most people discard.”
“To be an artist, you need to exist in a world of silence.”
“To be an artist, you're basically a crazy person. You're extremely narcissistic and emotionally expressive. The idea that the world needs to listen to you is an insane thought.”
“To be an atheist you have to have ten thousand times more imagination than if you are a religious fundamentalist. You must take the responsibility to acquire information, digest and use it to understand what you can.”
Source: Peter Greenaway: Interviews
“To be an author, and an executive producer, and a host, and I don't even know, I mean I actually have a resume now, which is pretty cool.”
“To be an effective criminal defense counsel, an attorney must be prepared to be demanding, outrageous, irreverent, blasphemous, a rogue, a renegade, and a hated, isolated, and lonely person - few love a spokesman for the despised and the damned.”
“To be an effective leader, you have to have a manipulative streak - you have to figure out the people working for you and give each tasks that will take advantage of his strength.”
Source: It Doesn't Take a Hero: The Autobiography of General Norman Schwarzkopf
“To be an effective leader, you must be trustworthy. If people don’t trust you, they won’t follow you. And if they won’t follow you, your organization won’t meet its goals. Sandy Allgeier explains that personal credibility comes down to a simple truth: It’s not about the type of person you are; it’s about the types of things you do. If you want to be a great leader, read The Personal Credibility Factor.”
“To be an effective organisation, the structure of the organisation must be willing to adapt to a network model, leaving the old hierarchy model behind. We see the efficacy of the network model daily in many areas of our lives, and this greatly challenges the old from-top-to-down hierarchical model that many organisations have a hard time letting go of. But I suppose at the end of the day, it is a matter of survival. Simply put, in order to survive, one must adapt and to adapt today, means to take on a more networked approach to doing things in organisations, groups, companies and even in society as a whole (including politics). So in other words, in order for society in all of its forms from big to small, to move forward strongly, it must adapt to a framework that sees itself as a network rather than a hierarchy.”
“To be an effective time user, you must make sure you are spending your time on only what is important.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“To be an enduring, great company, you have to build a mechanism for preventing or solving problems that will long outlast any one individual leader.”
Source: Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time
“TO BE AN ENTREPRENEUR,
BE A DOER FIRST.
IT TAKES “YOU” TO BE THAT!”
“To be an entrepreneur is to think differently.”
Source: The Entrepreneur Mind: 100 Essential Beliefs, Characteristics, and Habits of Elite Entrepreneurs
“To be an entrepreneur, it just takes a lot of persistence, dedication, and drive. No matter what happens, you have to be wiling to get back up and try again.”
“To be an environmentalist is to care about the environment and care about life on planet Earth.”
“To be an Error and to be Cast out is a part of God's Design.”
Source: William Blake
“To be an ethical leader is indeed to be different. This kind of leader acknowledges the complexity of running a responsible business, yet tries to do it anyway.”
Source: Ethical Leadership: Creating and Sustaining an Ethical Business Culture
“To be an honest writer, you have to be away from home, and totally alone in life.”
Source: Ilustrado: A Novel
“To be an ideal guest, stay at home.”
“To be an Indian in modern American society is in a very real sense to be unreal and ahistorical.”
Source: Custer Died For Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto
“To be an individual is the hardest thing in the world, because nobody likes you to be an individual. Everybody wants to kill your individuality and to make a sheep out of you. Nobody wants you to be on your own.”
“To be an influencer, you have to love people before you can try to lead them.”
“To be an innovator, you can't be worried about making mistakes.”
“To be an intellectual really means to speak a truth that allows suffering to speak.”
Source: The Cornel West Reader
“To be an inventor, you have to be willing to live with a sense of uncertainty, to work in this darkness and grope towards an answer, to put up with anxiety about whether there is an answer.”
“To be an investor you must be a believer in a better tomorrow.”
Source: The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel
“To be an Irish poet after that 19th century in which there was such a struggle toward the light, I think still will always be in the hearts of the writers of my generation and the generations before and hopefully the generations after.”
“To be an object of hatred and aversion to their contemporaries has been the usual fate of all those whose merit has raised them above the common level. The man who submits to the shafts of envy for the sake of noble objects pursues a judicious course for his own lasting fame. Hatred dies with its object, while merit soon breaks forth in full splendor, and his glory is handed down to posterity in never-dying strains.”
“To be an original human, you must die to all labels. This death brings the real vitality in life. Now one may ask, how can one achieve it? And there is the problem of the so-called modern humans. They all want somebody to tell them, how to achieve something. Here is a fact, calculus can be taught, quantum physics can be taught, molecular biology can be taught, but not freedom of mind. And why do you need a path in the first place? If there is a bottle labeled poison, on the shelf, you don't just bring it down and drink the poison to know whether it will kill you. Likewise, once you really see the poisonous implications of the socio-culturally passed on labels, you simply tear them apart - throw them away as far as possible. Does one need to deceive oneself, to understand self-deception! If not, then why do you deceive yourself, by conforming to the social labels, be it a religious label, a non-religious label, a nationalist label, an intellectual label, or a gender label. You are a human - that's it.”
“To be an original one must not only come up with new ideas but also Sherpa those ideas into the wider world, battling skepticism, incomprehension, and outright hostility in the process. . . .”
Source: Originals
“To be an outlaw you must first have a base in law to reject and get out of, I never had such a base. I never had a place I could call home that meant any more than a key to a house, apartment or hotel room. ... Am I alien? Alien from what exactly? Perhaps my home is my dream city, more real than my waking life precisely because it has no relation to waking life.”
“To be an outstanding musician, you have to be very attentive to the smallest detail and willing to have infinite patience in the pursuit of your ideal. You require absolute control and professionalism.”
“To be an overachiever you have to be an over believer.”
“To be and not to be, that is the answer.”
“To be and to be creative are synonymous. It is impossible to be and not to be creative. But that impossible thing has happened, that ugly phenomenon has happened, because all your creative sources have been plugged, blocked, destroyed, and your whole energy has been forced into some activity that the society thinks is going to pay.”
“To be and to think are one and the same for us.”
“To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.”
Source: The Improvement of the Mind: Or, A Supplement to the Art of Logic
“To be angry at the gods is to scream at the stars. Even if they hear, they will not stop shining.”
Source: The Pyramids of London
“To be angry is easy. But to be angry with the right man at the right time and in the right manner, that is not easy.”
“To be angry is not wrong. But throwing anger around indiscriminately is wasting precious energy. Channelizing anger with a sense of purpose is living intelligently.”
“To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.”
“To be angry is to yield to the influence of Satan. No one can make us angry. It is our choice. If we desire to have a proper spirit with us at all times, we must choose to refrain from becoming angry. I testify that such is possible.”
“To be angry is very good. It burns out things and leaves nutrients in the soil. You should always be ready to be angry at injustice and cruelty.”
“To be angry once in a while is really good fun, because it makes others so miserable. But to be angry morning, noon and night, as I am, grows monotonous and prevents my gaining any other pleasure in life.”
Source: 7 Books in 1: L. Frank Baum's
“To be animating at the same time, it's the ultimate freedom in filmmaking because you can literally put anything on the screen that you can imagine.”