T Quotes
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“To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good... Ideology - that is what gives devildoing its long-sought justification and gives the evildoer the necessary steadfastness and determination. That is the social theory which helps to make his acts seem good instead of bad in his own and others' eyes, so that he won't hear reproaches and curses but will receive praise and honors.”
“To do evil for good is human corruption; to do good for good is civil retribution; but to do good for evil is Christian perfection. Though this be not the grace of nature, it is the nature of grace.”
“To do evil is more within the reach of every man, in public as in private life, than to do good.”
Source: The Works of Samuel Parr ...: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings, and a Selection from His Correspondence
“To do evil is to be an enemy of God.”
“To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals.”
Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims
“To do exactly as your neighbors do is the only sensible rule.”
Source: Etiquette: The Blue Book of Social Usage
“To do God's will is simply to surrender our ego and accept what is. It is to develop a nonviolent approach to life: to recognize and accept our weaknesses and limitations, to be friendly with the universe instead of fighting against it, to accept that there are things that we simply cannot control or predict.”
Source: The Zen Teachings of Jesus
“To do God's will as fast as it is made known to us, to inquire hourly -- I had almost said each moment -- what He requires of us, and to leave ourselves, our friends, and every interest at His control, with a cheerful trust that the path which He marks out leads to our perfection and to Himself, -- this is at once our duty and happiness; and why will we not walk in the plain, simple way?.”
Source: Memoir of William Ellery Channing, with extracts from his correspondence and manuscripts ...
“To do good for the sake of goodness, to do good while forgetting goodness—this is Zen training.”
Source: The Zen Life
“To do good is noble. To tell others to do good is even nobler and much less trouble.”
“To do good seemed to take a great deal of effort, like moving a mountain, while to do seemed easy.
Worse still, many people took evil as the expected norm - until it was publicly detected in the actions of the person in power. Then it was played up relentlessly till it was out of all proportion to reality. Often, the person involved was ruthlessly crushed as a fly under a sledge-hammer.”
Source: The insider
“To do good things in the world, first you must know who you are and what gives meaning to your life.”
“To do good whenever one can, to love liberty above all else, never to deny the truth, even though it be before the throne.”
Source: The letters of Beethoven
“To do good work one must eat well, be well housed, have one's fling from time to time, smoke one's pipe, and drink one's coffee in peace”
“To do good, you are forced to bribe and to be good, you are forced to donate”
“To do good, you actually have to do something.”
“To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.”
Source: The Portable Nietzsche
“To do great things, we need to be able to endure tragedy and setbacks. We've got to love what we do and all that it entails, good and bad. We have to learn to find joy in every single thing that happens.”
“To do great work one must be very idle as well as very industrious.”
“To do high fashion, you have to go into a little bit of a higher price point.”
“To do his best, one needs a confidence that says, "I can do anything, and if I can't do it, I know how to get help.”
“To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it.”
Source: Gorgias and Timaeus
“To do injustice is the greatest of all evils.”
“To do is hard, but to teach is still harder. Do not teach only to teach. Teach to improve the pupil. To be a teacher requires tremendous, vigorous discipline on oneself. We are teachers because somebody demands it from us. But the teacher should first rub his own self, and teach afterwards”
“To do is to be. -Descartes To be is to do. - Voltaire Do be do be do.”
“To do it all and deprive others of doing is...a misguided notion.”
“To do it always right, that is what music is to me.”
“To do it nationally or internationally, you have to follow a few more rules.”
“To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation.”
“To do justice to a lifelong dream of being a writer, I must give it the intense concentration and focus I gave to track. To do both with excellence is not possible. It is with a sense of sadness and joyous anticipation that I leave track and move on.”
“To do justice to modern technology's rigid linear structure, to the lofty gridwork of cranes and bridges, to the dynamism of machines operating at one thousand horsepower - only photography is capable of that. What those who are attached to the painterly style regard as photography's defect, the mechanical reproduction of form - is just what makes it superior to all other means of expression.”
“To do justice to the figure of Kafka in its purity and its peculiar beauty one must never lose sight of one thing: it is the purity and beauty of a failure.”
Source: Illuminations
“To do? Lad, there is but one thing to do. Live your light. Everything else shall fall into place.”
“To do life right, you have to feel like you're growing up until the day you die. The thing I'm proudest of is that I have stayed curious. I have every intention, when I'm on my deathbed, of saying, "Oh, my God - I get it!"”
“To-do list:
1. Science – stop people from getting sick and dying.
2. Keep people economically solvent – as you request their help in fighting the pandemic.
Some states do better at one. Others, at the other. None strike the right balance. Everything collapses. Utter failure.
One party is full of bad ideas that their rivals merely rubber-stamp. Like a reverse Robin Hood, they scapegoat the powerless, while simultaneously handing out checks to the richest stakeholders. The other party has few ideas, except for a few bad ones of their own that they throw into the mix. Businesses, flush with cash, appear almost embarrassed to take public money. But they soon get over their initial shame.”
Source: Eyes Open With Your Mask On
“to do list (after the breakup)
1. take refuge in your bed
2. cry. till the tears stop (this will take a few days).
3. don’t listen to slow songs.
4. delete their number from your phone even though it is memorized on your fingertips.
5. don’t look at old photos.
6. find the closest ice cream shop and treat yourself to two scoops of mint chocolate chip. the mint will calm your heart. you deserve the chocolate.
7. buy new bed sheets.
8. collect all the gifts, t-shirts, and everything with their smell on it and drop it off at a donation center.
9. plan a trip.
10. perfect the art of smiling and nodding when someone brings their name up in conversation.
11. start a new project.
12. whatever you do. do not call.
13. do not beg for what does not want to stay.
14. stop crying at some point.
15. allow yourself to feel foolish for believing you could’ve built the rest of your life in someone else’s stomach.
16. breathe.”
Source: Milk and honey
“To-do list : to-do list!”
Source: The New Land
“To-do lists just perpetuate the feeling of "unfinishedness" that dogs modern life.”
Source: Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day
“To do magic, to do great magic, he has to know himself as a piece of the universe.A piece of the universe?A little piece that has all the rest of it in it. Everything outside of him is also inside of him.”
Source: Shadowland
“To do mathematics is to engage in an act of discovery and conjecture, intuition and inspiration; to be in a state of confusion − not because it makes no sense to you, but because you gave it sense and you still don't understand what your creation is up to.”
“To do meaningful work is to contribute - to create value in society.”
Source: The Science of Success: How Market-Based Management Built the World's Largest Private Company
“To do Mohammed justice, his main attack was against the idolatries of Asia. Only he thought, just as the Arians did and just as the Unitarians do, that he could attack them better with a greater approximation to plain theism. What distinguishes his heresy from anything like an Arian or Albigensian heresy is that, as it sprang up on the borders of Christendom, it could spread outwards to a barbaric world.”
“To do more and more with less and less until eventually you can do everything with nothing.”
“To do more for the world than the world does for you - that is success.”
“To do more, is not necessarily to do better.”
“To do much clear thinking a person must arrange for regular periods of solitude when they can concentrate and indulge the imagination without distraction.”
“To do my job well, I have to be a good listener. The listening is so much more important than the talking.”
“To do nothing and get something, formed a boy's ideal of a manly career.”
“To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.”
Source: The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde
“To do nothing by halves is the way of noble spirits.”