T Quotes
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“To gauge the understanding and insight that metaphysics provides is to ask whether, in the final analysis, it helps us to cope with our world and harmonize our existence with nature, humanity, and ourselves, and leads to greater freedom and self-realization. Metaphysics is only the beginning. The end is human progress.”
“To gaze into another persons face is to do two things: to recognise their humanity and to assert your own.”
Source: Someone Knows My Name: A Novel
“To gaze into the depths of the sea is, in the imagination, like beholding the vast unknown, and from its most terrible point of view. The submarine gulf is analogous to the realm of night and dreams. There also is sleep, unconsciousness, or at least apparent unconsciousness, of creation. There in the awful silence and darkness, the rude first forms of life, phantomlike, demoniacal, pursue their horrible instincts.”
Source: Toilers of the Sea: Works Of Hugo
“To generalize about war is like generalizing about peace. Almost everything is true. Almost nothing is true. At its core, perhaps, war is just another name for death, and yet any soldier will tell you, if he tells the truth, that proximity to death brings with it a corresponding proximity to life. After a firefight, there is always the immense pleasure of aliveness. The trees are alive. The grass, the soil—everything. All around you things are purely living, and you among them, and the aliveness makes you tremble. You feel an intense, out-of-the-skin awareness of your living self—your truest self, the human being you want to be and then become by the force of wanting it. In the midst of evil you want to be a good man. You want decency. You want justice and courtesy and human concord, things you never knew you wanted. There is a kind of largeness to it, a kind of godliness. Though it’s odd, you’re never more alive than when you’re almost dead. You recognize what’s valuable. Freshly, as if for the first time, you love what’s best in yourself and in the world, all that might be lost. At the hour of dusk you sit at your foxhole and look out on a wide river turning pinkish red, and at the mountains beyond, and although in the morning you must cross the river and go into the mountains and do terrible things and maybe die, even so, you find yourself studying the fine colors on the river, you feel wonder and awe at the setting of the sun, and you are filled with a hard, aching love for how the world could be and always should be, but now is not.”
Source: The Things They Carried
“To generalize is to be an idiot.”
“To generalize is to be an idiot. To particularize is the alone distinction of merit. General knowledge are those knowledge that idiots possess.”
“To generalize on women is dangerous. To specialize in them is infinitely worse.”
“To generate any appreciable degree of long-term affluence requires scrupulous honesty and the willingness to honor long-term agreements with employers, suppliers, partners, and especially customers. The flimflam artist may generate a few quick bucks through fraud or misrepresentation, but no successful and lasting business enterprise was ever founded on such principles.”
Source: Resentment Against Achievement: Understanding the Assault Upon Ability
“To generate exuberant diversity in a city's streets and districts four conditions are indispensable:
1. The district, and indeed as many of its internal parts as possible, must serve more than one primary function; preferably more than two...
2. Most blocks must be short; that is, streets and opportunities to turn corners must be frequent.
3. The district must mingle buildings that vary in age and condition, including a good proportion of old ones so that they vary in the economic yield they must produce. This mingling must be fairly close-grained.
4. There must be a sufficiently dense concentration of people, for whatever purposes they may be there...”
Source: The Death and Life of Great American Cities
“To generate great power you must first totally relax and gather your strength, and then concentrate your mind and all your strength on hitting your target.”
“To generous souls every task is noble.”
“To genetic evolution, the human lineage has added the parallel track of cultural evolution.”
Source: Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge
“To genius life never grows commonplace.”
“To genuinely discover your Spirit, stop talking, stop reading, and start listening to your heart.”
“To George Gershwin, on refusinghim as a pupil: You would only lose the spontaneous quality of your melody, and end by writing bad Ravel.”
“To Germany
You are blind like us. Your hurt no man designed,
And no man claimed the conquest of your land.
But gropers both through fields of thought confined
We stumble and we do not understand.
You only saw your future bigly planned,
And we, the tapering paths of our own mind,
And in each other’s dearest ways we stand,
And hiss and hate. And the blind fight the blind.
When it is peace, then we may view again
With new-won eyes each other’s truer form
And wonder. Grown more loving-kind and warm
We’ll grasp firm hands and laugh at the old pain,
When it is peace. But until peace, the storm
The darkness and the thunder and the rain.”
Source: The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry
“To get 300 songs to fit together on an album, it's not like I choose 300 songs and say these are the ones I wanted to pick. To get those 300 songs I sampled 1000's of songs and narrowed down the ones I felt worked the best musically.”
“To get a better piece of chicken, you'd have to be a rooster.”
Source: Whitey and Mickey: A Joint Autobiography of the Yankee Years
“To get a big company moving fast, especially on a many-headed opportunity like the Internet, you have to have hundreds of people participating and coming up with ideas.”
Source: Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy
“To get a big hit single you've got to go a bit dance. You've got to go a bit Britney. I don't think I can do that - well, I could but it wouldn't look very seemly!.”
“To get a breath of fresh air." The expression sounded wonderfully odd, with its suggestion of sedentary desk life.”
Source: Heart of Darkness
“To get a child's trust - you may know or not - is a very hard thing to do. They're so used to not believing adults - because adults tell tales and lies all the time.”
“To get a great idea, come up with lots of them.”
“To get a horse to hit a mark without a rider, to get it to stand up, to get it to rear, to get it to pick up a bucket and bring it over is amazing. It's hard work and very rewarding but can be dangerous.”
“To get a job where the only thing you have to do in your career is to make people laugh-well, its the best job in the world.”
“To get a man soundly saved it is not enough to put on him a pair of new breeches, to give him regular work, or even to give him a University education. These things are all outside a man, and if the inside remains unchanged you have wasted your labor. You must in some way or other graft upon the man's nature a new nature, which has in it the element of the Divine.”
Source: In Darkest England and the Way Out
“To get a man's attention, just stand in front of the TV and don't move. He'll talk to you. I promise.”
“To get a name can happen but to few. A name, even in the most commercial nation, is one of the few things which cannot be bought . It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.”
“To get a person's real opinion, ask what she thinks everyone else believes... If people truly hold a particular belief, they are more likely to think that others agree or have had similar experiences. [People] tend to assume that other people have had life histories at least somewhat similar to their own. When we talk about other people, we are often talking about ourselves, whether we know it ourselves.”
“To get a roaster clean, send something like baked apples in it to a neighbor. Neighbors always return pans spotless, and you won't have to use a blow torch on it like you usually do.”
“To get a save in the World Series is the reason I can't stop smiling.”
“To get a traveling salesman drunk is the height of impossibility.”
“To get a true education, going to school is not enough. School helps students gain knowledge; however, true education is in gaining wisdom, which can only be earned with experience.”
“To get a woman, you have to be willing to risk losing her.”
Source: The Game
“To get a women you have to risk losing her.”
“To get all that life wants for you, apply what I call the Boomerang Effect: Give out what you most want to see come back.”
Source: The Greatness Guide: One of the World's Most Successful Coaches Shares His Secrets for Personal and Business Mastery
“To get all there is out of living, we must employ our time wisely, never being in too much of a hurry to stop and sip life, but never losing our sense of the enormous value of a minute.”
“To get along with God, Consider the consequences of your behavior. Earthseed: The Books of the Living”
Source: Parable of the Sower
“To get along with me, don't increase my tension.”
“To get along with others, and also become a successful leader know how to provide tailor made feedback that leads to performance improvement...”
Source: The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For continued success in leadership
“To get an answer I must first ask a question. But far too often I fear both and so I get neither.”
“To get an elementary grasp of the game of golf, a human must learn, by endless practice, a continuous and subtle series of highly unnatural movements, involving about sixty-four muscles, that result in a seemingly natural swing, taking two seconds to begin and end.”
Source: Fun and Games with Alistair Cooke: On Sport and Other Amusements
“To get an Emmy nomination for a show that was the first-ever science talk show on television to us was an affirmation that there is an appetite for this content in the mainstream public, not just the erudite public. So we're all completely thrilled by it.”
“To get an Oscar would be an incredible moment in my career, there is no doubt about that. But the Lord of the Rings films are not made for Oscars, they are made for the audience.”
“To get answers, ask questions; but to get good answers, ask good questions.”
Source: 101 Keys To Everyday Passion
“To get answers to life, ask questions.”
Source: Quantraz
“To get any reason out of the mass of incongruity we call human life, we have to transcend our reason, but we must do it scientifically, slowly, by regular practice, and we must cast off all superstition.”
Source: Raja Yoga: Conquering the Internal Nature
“To get anything done, you used to have to brush past, or at least lay eyes on, someone whose reality was totally different from your own. That used to be inevitable. If that goes away because everything's so convenient, everything's brought to you, well, then there goes one of my favorite parts of life, and something that I've gone out of my way to court.”
“To get anywhere, a woman must fall. You can fall by being tipsy, getting ahead of yourself, by missing a step. You can fall because there was a blind alley, a sharp curve, a slippery surface, or a stumbling block. You fall because somebody pulls the rug out from under you or because the whole time as you stood, believing you were on solid ground, there was a trapdoor directly beneath you.”
Source: Fast Fallen Women: 75 Essays of Flash NonFiction
“To get anywhere in life,
there is but one rule.
Never seek external validation
for your own inner peace.”