T Quotes
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“To interact means being among others, and taking others into account in a way, to act.”
“To interest is the first duty of art; no other excellences will ever begin to compensate for failure in this.”
Source: Selected Literary Essays
“To interpose the threat of physical destruction between a man and his perception of reality, is to negate and paralyze his means of survival to force him to act against his own judgment, is like forcing him to act against his own sight”
Source: Atlas Shrugged
“To interrupt the writer from the line of thought is to wake the dreamer from the dream. The dreamer cannot enter that dream, precisely as it was unfolding, ever again.”
“To introduce a new play only six weeks after another has been banned is also a way to speak one's piece to the government. It proves that art and liberty can grow back in one night under the clumsy foot which crushes them.”
“To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn.”
“To introduce to people a radically difference paradigm for life is to give the best response”
“To invent a story, or admirably and thoroughly tell any part of a story, it is necessary to grasp the entire mind of every personage concerned in it, and know precisely how they would be affected by what happens; which to do requires a colossal intellect: but to describe a separate emotion delicately, it is only needed that one should feel it oneself; and thousands of people are capable of feeling this or that noble emotion, for one who is able to enter into all the feelings of someone sitting on the other side of the table.”
“To invent fables about a world "other" than this one has no meaning at all, unless an instinct of slander, detraction, and suspicion against life has gained the upper hand in us: in that case, we avenge ourselves against life with a phantasmagoria of "another," a "better" life.”
Source: Twilight of the Idols
“To invent out of knowledge means to produce inventions that are true. Every man should have a built-in automatic crap detector operating inside him. It also should have a manual drill and a crank handle in case the machine breaks down. If you're going to write, you have to find out what's bad for you. Part of that you learn fast, and then you learn what's good for you.”
Source: Ernest Hemingway: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations
“To invent something you have to be removed from the world. In order to have liberty to imagine something better, you need to step outside for a while.”
“To invent something, all you need is imagination and a big pile of junk.”
“To invent without scruple a new principle to every new phenomenon, instead of adapting it to the old; to overload our hypothesis with a variety of this kind, are certain proofs that none of these principles is the just one, and that we only desire, by a number of falsehoods, to cover our ignorance of the truth.”
Source: A Treatise of Human Nature
“To invent your own life's meaning is not easy, but it's still allowed, and I think you'll be happier for the trouble.”
“To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.”
“To invest in improving and getting to know yourself better. It is the best investment you could ever make and one which you can harvest over lifetimes.”
“To invest successfully over a lifetime does not require a stratospheric IQ, unusual business insights, or inside information. What's needed is a sound intellectual framework for making decisions and the ability to keep emotions from corroding that framework. You must supply the emotional discipline.”
“To invest successfully, you need not understand beta, efficient markets, modern portfolio theory, option pricing or emerging markets. You may, in fact, be better off knowing nothing of these. That, of course, is not the prevailing view at most business schools, whose finance curriculum tends to be dominated by such subjects. In our view, though, investment students need only two well-taught courses - How to Value a Business, and How to Think About Market Prices.”
Source: Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha
“To invest your life, you must invest your time and make sure it doesn’t just melt away like Salvador Dali’s melting clock.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“To invest your time is to convert it into some products that could benefit humanity.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“To investigate a problem is, indeed, to solve it.”
Source: Mao Tse-tung chu tso hsüan tu
“To Investigate in the superior worlds, the logic thinking and the exact concept are needed.”
“To investigate the history of man's development, the most important finds are, of course, hominid fossils.”
“To investors, job creation is a second-order effect. Market participants care first about interest rates, exchange rates, bond prices and the one great factor that affects all three: the long-term solvency of a bond company called the U.S. government.”
“To invite God into a conversation is to open the door of mystery and possibility. It is not about an exchange between two people, with the thought of „I‘ll do this for you, maybe someday you‘ll do it for me.“ It has nothing to do with expectation. It‘s not a quid pro quo. It‘s something entirely of a different order and unpredictable. (p. 3)”
Source: In the House of Remembering: The Living Tradition of Sufi Teaching
“To invite God into my life is not simply an exchange of power. Rather it is an exchange of everything.”
“To invite others to live with us is a sign that we aren't afraid, that we have a treasure of truth and of peace to share.”
Source: Community and Growth
“To invite people to dine with us is to make ourselves responsible for their well-being for as long as they are under our roofs.”
Source: The Physiology of Taste: or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy
“To invite play is to spark the imagination and see beyond that which exists to that which is possible.”
Source: Creative Flow: Tap and Express Your Juicy Essence
“To invoke a Kierkegaardesque figure of speech, the beauty of the language of the Bible can be like a set of dentist's instruments nearly laid out on a table and hanging on a wall, intriguing in their technological complexity and with their stainless steel highly polished--until they set to work on the job for which they were originally designed. Then all of a sudden my reaction changes from "How shiny and beautiful they all are!" to "Get that damned thing out of my mouth!”
Source: Whose Bible Is It?: A Short History of the Scriptures
“To invoke alien law when it agrees with one's own thinking, and ignore it otherwise, is not reasoned decisionmaking, but sophistry.”
Source: The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court
“To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is an art worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae.”
Source: The Clouds
“To invoke the origin of the DNA/protein machine by invoking a supernatural Designer is to explain precisely nothing - for it leaves unexplained the origin of the Designer.”
Source: The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design
“To irrational principles, one cannot be loyal. Ideas that are not derived from reality cannot be consistently practiced in reality.
--as quoted by Leonard Peikoff in "Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand”
“To Isabella, Leon was only a good friend providing a fringe benefit, like a company car or expense account. The arrangement between Leon and Isabella had comfortably (at least in her professional opinion as a lawyer) developed into one where she, always the workaholic with no time for serious relationships, had chosen him as her “love” interest. Despite Leon a few pay grades lower, she did found him fit and proper to share body fluids with from time to time. She found him an amusing toy, like a mouse where she was the cat, glutted with food that just wanted to play and not necessarily wanting to kill her prey.”
“To Islamize doesn't make sense to me. But to center, but to have intellectual empathy and modesty - all these dimensions are important on how we look at truth.”
“To isolate mathematics from the practical demands of the sciences is to invite the sterility of a cow shut away from the bulls.”
“To isolate the revolutionary ideologues and their killers we must gain the trust of the majority of Muslims. This can only happen if they are treated as equal citizens, not just in theory, and have access to decent education and jobs.”
“To Israel's faithful hosts in the past, as to its loyal sons and daughters of the present, the Siddur has been the gate to communion with their Father in Heaven; and, at the same time, it has been a mighty spiritual bond that unites them to their scattered brethren the world over.”
“To it, more than to anything else, I owe whatever success I have had - to this power of settling down to the day's work and trying to do it to the best of one's ability, and letting the future take care of itself.”
Source: Aequanimitas
“To iterate is human, to recurse divine.”
“To its committed members (the Democratic Party) was still the party of heart, humanity, and justice, but to those removed a few paces it looked like Captain Hook’s crew–ambulance-chasing lawyers, rapacious public policy grants persons, civil rights gamesmen, ditzy-brained movie stars, fat-assed civil servant desk squatters, recovering alcoholics, recovering wife-beaters, recovering child-buggers, and so forth and so on, a grotesque line-up of ill-mannered self-pitying, caterwauling freeloaders banging their tin cups on the pavement demanding handouts.”
“To its devotees the bowtie suggests iconoclasm of an Old World sort, a fusty adherence to a contrarian point of view. The bowtie hints at intellectualism, real or feigned, and sometimes suggests technical acumen, perhaps because it is so hard to tie. BowTies are worn by magicians, country doctors, lawyers and professors and by people hoping to look like the above. But perhaps most of all, wearing a bow tie is a way of broadcasting an aggressive lack of concern for what other people think.”
“To its great credit, Wimbledon has been a leader in bringing about change and improvement in the sport.”
“To its original readers in 1932 Sunset Song was a book in itself; they could not know it was the first part of a trilogy. Many reacted with disgust to its frank treatment of sex and childbearing, its scorn for the rich and powerful, its sometimes strident anti-clericalism.”
“To J. Halford, Esq. Dear Halford, When we were together last, you gave me a very particular and interesting account of the most remarkable occurrences of your early life, previous to our acquaintance; and then you requested a return of confidence from me.”
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
“To Jack, there was nothing more powerful than a promise made over a handshake. He would have died ー literally chosen death ー before breaking his word.”
Source: Blue-Eyed Devil: A Novel
“To Jacob the act of critiquing art was essentially imprecise. That's why he didn't read reviews on anything he liked, be it a book, a movie, or a record. He believed that any work an artist puts forth which contains the truth as he or she sees it is worthy of consideration, and any commentary of the work beyond that is nothing more than pure individual opinion and should not be considered relevant to the work itself.”
Source: God Shaped Hole: A Novel
“To Jane Austen, every fool is a treasure trove.”
“To Jane Jacob’s three traditional urban values of civic space, human scale and diversity, the current environmental imperative adds two more: conservation and regionalism.”
Source: Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change