T Quotes
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“To influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtues are not real to him. His sins, if there are such things as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of someone else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him.”
Source: The Picture Of Dorian Gray
“To influence others must keep growing themselves.”
“To influence others to change, you must be able to frame that change in terms of the future, and in a way that has value to all concerned.”
“To influence others, we must know what is influencing them... and they must know that we get it.”
“To influence people with your leadership gifts, you don’t make them your enemies. When they are your enemies, they won’t take your words seriously; neither will they support your actions.”
Source: Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts
“To inform, and, therefore to reconnoitre , this is the first and constant duty of the advanced guard.”
Source: The Principles of War
“To initiate (user) action, doing must be easier than thinking.”
“To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace.”
Source: The Art of Peace
“To injure another creates bondage and hides the truth. Negative virtues are not enough; we have to conquer Maya, and then she will follow us. We only deserve things when they cease to bind us. When the bondage ceases, really and truly, all things come to us. Only those who want nothing are masters of nature.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“To injure another person through atonement is one of the most subtle devices of the neurotic, as when, for example, he indulges in self-accusations.”
“To injure your opponent is to injure yourself.”
“To innovate does not necessarily mean to expand; very often it means to simplify.”
“To innovate is not to reform.”
“To inquire and to create; these are the grand centres around which all human pursuits revolve, or at least to these objects do they all more or less directly refer.”
“To inquire and to learn is the function of the mind, By learning I do not mean the mere cultivation of memory or the accumulation of knowledge, but the capacity to think clearly and sanely without illusion, to start from facts and not from beliefs and ideals. There is no learning if thought originates from conclusions. Merely to acquire information of knowledge is to not to learn. Learning implies the love of understanding and the love of doing a thing for itself. Learning is possible only when there is no coercion through influence, thought attachment or threat, through persuasive encouragement or subtle forms of reward. Most people think that learning is encouraged through comparison, whereas the contrary is the fact. Comparison brings about frustration and merely encourages envy, which is called competition. Like other forms of persuasion, comparison prevents learning and breeds fear.”
Source: The Book of Life
“To inquire into what God has made is the main function of the imagination. It is aroused by facts, is nourished by facts; seeks for higher and yet higher laws in those facts; but refuses to regard science as the sole interpreter of nature, or the laws of science as the only region of discovery.”
Source: A Dish of Orts
“To inquisitive minds like yours and mine the reflection that the quantity of human knowledge bears no proportion to the quantity of human ignorance must be in one view rather pleasing, viz., that though we are to live forever we may be continually amused and delighted with learning something new.”
Source: Writings, Collected and Ed. with a Life and Introd
“To insinuate that I would break an oath that I made to the ALMIGHTY for my own personal gain is an insult. An insult to me and an insult to the Order. An insult, worthy of death.”
Source: The Seventh Spark: Volume One – Knights of the Trinity
“To insist on a spiritual practice that served you in the past is to carry the raft on your back after you have crossed the river.”
“To insist on living until we die may be one of life's greatest virtues.”
“To insist on one's place in the scheme of things and to live up to that place.To empower others in their reaching for some place in the scheme of things.To do these things is to make fairy tales come true.”
Source: Uh-Oh: Some Observations from Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door
“To insist on peaceful protest is just another way to prioritise compliance over righteous dissent and to protect property over human lives. The reality of our world is that power concedes nothing without demands, and if you just follow their rules and peacefully protest while they are free to use violence to suppress you, guess who gets what they want?”
“To insist on purity is to baptize instinct, to humanize art, and to deify personality.”
“To insist on strength ... is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering.”
“To insist that I am not forgiven is a kind of inverse arrogance.”
Source: Pauses: Reflections on Science, Spirituality, and the Fine Art of Living
“To insist that one’s pain is complex can feel cringey, withering. But it is. Complex. One’s love, too.”
“To insist that we always prefer reality over delusion is to deny reality and indulge in delusion. Nature’s process of Evolution “wants” its beloved children alive, productive and successful, regardless of what is true or false, reality or dream.”
“To insist, even with Olympian assurance, that life appeared quite by chance and evolved in this fashion, is an unfounded supposition which I believe to be wrong and not in accordance with the facts.”
“To inspire a singularity of focus, a challenge must be important to you and it must be something you feel you should do now in this moment. If it's trivial or not time-bound, you won't engage. So in selecting your next challenge in life, choose one that is meaningful and will demand your complete concentration.”
Source: The Charge: Activating the 10 Human Drives That Make You Feel
“To inspire is revealing the unpolished bits before perfection.”
“To inspire is to give life.
To expire is to give death.”
“To inspire is to lead through a selfless compassionate character, which displays moral integrity as a path for all…”
Source: Honourable Defection
“To inspire love is a woman's greatest ambition, believe me. It's the one thing woman care about and there's no woman so proud that she does not rejoice at heart in her conquests.”
“To inspire others
Is to be immediately rich
In the inner world.”
“To inspire others, you must first inspire yourself. Only true passion can awake passion in others”
“To inspire people, don't show them your super powers. Show them theirs.”
Source: Nothing You Don't Already Know
“To inspire trust, the AI models that encapsulate dynamic intelligence, should have a carefully configured ‘best before’ date.”
Source: The Secrets of AI: a Math-Free Guide to Thinking Machines
“To instill the values for the culture was and is the responsibility of the leadership, and staff alignment was critical to its success. It started with both board and staff. They realized that they needed to share the same value system that says, “I am the equipper, not the doer.” If not, there were going to be immense roadblocks to effectively mobilizing people for ministry.”
Source: The Equipping Church
“To instruct calls for energy, and to remain almost silent, but watchful and helpful, while students instruct themselves, calls for even greater energy. To see someone fall (which will teach him not to fall again) when a word from you would keep him on his feet but ignorant of an important danger, is one of the tasks of the teacher that calls for special energy, because holding in is more demanding than crying out.”
Source: The Cornish Trilogy
“To instruct the mass of our citizens in these, their rights, interests and duties, as men and citizens...this brings us to the point at which are to commence the higher branches of education . . . . To develop the reasoning faculties of our youth, enlarge their minds, cultivate their morals, and instill into them the precepts of virtue and order.”
“To insult a friend implies that you respect his masculinity enough to know he can take it without acting like a crybaby. The swapping of insults, like the fighting between brothers, becomes the seal of the male bonding.”
“To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.”
“To insure peace of mind ignore the rules and regulations.”
Source: Forty Modern Fables
“To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.”
Source: The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt
“To insure the continuity of philanthropy, we must instill in kids the values and attitudes that will enable them to see charity as a vital part of their lives.”
“To insure the stability of imperial power, it is sufficient for an emperor to serve God with reverence.”
Source: The Ecclesiastical History of Sozomen: From AD 324 to AD 425
“To integrate one’s experiences around a coherent and enduring sense of self lies at the core of creating a user’s guide to life.”
“To intelligent people, listening means taking a second, to actually listen to understand what the person is actually saying, beyond their words.”
“To intent but not act means the deed is not done. But to act on your intentions is a done deed.”
“To intentionally pass on opportunity is to intentionally pass on living.”