T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“To overcome fear, act as if it were impossible to fail, and it shall be.”
Source: Effective Leadership
“To overcome hate some day, we gotta stand human today.”
Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper
“To overcome in battle, and subdue Nations, and bring home spoils with infinite Man-slaughter, shall be held the highest pitch Of human glory.”
Source: The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors; and with Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Derived Principally from Original Documents in Her Majesty's State-paper Office
“To overcome negative emotions, consulting intuition is always useful. How can it guide you. During nervous periods, it offers a more centered alternative to agitation. Intuition is a neutral from of information that allows you to soberly gauge the validity of your worries. If you tune in and find out they're unfounded, you'll be relieved. If they are founded, you can develop a strategy to deal with them.”
“To overcome of our enemies we must have our own socialist militarism. We must carry along with us 90 million out of the 100 million of Soviet Russia's population. As for the rest, we have nothing to say to them. They must be annihilated.”
“To overcome oneself, one must reconcile and end the battle between heart and mind.”
“To overcome our biological limitations as individuals, we have co-evolved collective systems and capacities - cultural, social, economic, political, scientific, media, educational, public relations, etc. But the flaw in all that is that we have designed them primarily for comfort, profit, power, control, and entertainment rather than for collective intelligence, sanity, and wisdom.”
“To overcome poverty and the flaws of the economic crisis in our society, we need to envision our social life. We have to free our mind, imagine what has never happened before and write social fiction. We need to imagine things to make them happen. If you don't imagine, it will never happen.”
“To overcome prejudice, we can boldly speak against it and teach our children total intolerance for it. We can get to know one another; when we do so, the stereotypes that impede relationships will fall away. Finally, we can express regret to others for past prejudicial sins and ask God to forgive us and change our thinking.”
“To overcome something great you must first learn to overcome your own fears.”
“To overcome stress you have to find out something. You've got to do some research and homework. You need to find out who you are today.”
“To overcome the academic prose you have first to overcome the academic pose.”
Source: The Sociological Imagination
“To overcome the anxieties and depressions of contemporary life, individuals must become independent of the social environment to the degree that they no longer respond exclusively in terms of its rewards and punishments. To achieve such autonomy, a person has to learn to provide rewards to herself. She has to develop the ability to find enjoyment and purpose regardless of external circumstances.”
Source: Flow: the psychology of optimal experience
“To overcome the business vulnerability to changes, new competitors or a new breed of customer behaviors, digital organizations today should have a degree of variability.”
Source: Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as
“To overcome the intelligent by folly is contrary to the natural order of things; to overcome the foolish by intelligence is in accord with the natural order. To overcome the intelligent by intelligence, however, is a matter of opportunity.”
Source: Mastering the Art of War
“To overcome the need to be productive, as a lot of productivity is destructive.”
Source: San Mateo: Proof of The Divine
“To overcome the sadness of our hearts, we must remember the joys of our lives.”
Source: Secrets of My Heart
“To overcome this obstacle, and to discover and dismantle Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction, UNMOVIC and the IAEA must interview relevant persons securely and with their families protected, even if they protest publicly against this treatment. Hans Blix may dislike running ''a defection agency,' but that could be the only way to obtain truthful information about Saddam's weapons of mass destruction”
“To overcome your troubles...you must look past all your clouds of despair by focusing on the sunshine of hope shinning behind them.”
Source: Bullying Ben: How Benjamin Franklin Overcame Bullying
“To overdose is almost like being betrayed by your lover, your greatest friend, your confidante. The substance is your idol, your ultimate satisfaction, the
thing that fuels you in life and keeps you going. If it is given a place in your life, it will fight relentlessly until it becomes the supreme substance of your life. An innocent puff, a momentary euphoria, will eventually become more valuable than every other thing. It starts off as a fling, but the one-night stand gets you pregnant, and in a moment, the course of your entire life is altered.”
Source: Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose
“To overestimate the originality of one's thoughts is perhaps a less serious defect than being unaware of their newness. There is a more pronounced lack of sensitivity in underestimating (ourselves and others) than in overestimating.”
“To overextend yourself is to invite defeat.”
“To overlook those years (muddled, complicated times) is to fall into the trap of only celebrating success. We can learn as much, if not more, from failure, from promising paths that turn into dead ends. The vision, understanding, patience, and wisdom that informed Steve's last decade were forged in the trials of these intervening years. The failures, stinging reversals, miscommunications, bad judgment calls, emphases on wrong values-the whole Pandora's box of immaturity- were necessary prerequisites to the clarity, moderation, reflection, and steadiness he would display in later years.”
Source: Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader
“To overpower savagery one must lash out savagely. In their stories Euro-American colonists invented and broadcast a vision of wolves as threats to human safety. They then modeled their behavior on the ferocity they perceived in wolves. Thus folklore explains not only why humans destroyed wolves but why they did so with such cruel enthusiasm.”
Source: Vicious: Wolves and Men in America
“To overthrow the power of the bourgeoisie and to establish the power of the proletariat in one country still does not signify the full victory of Socialism.”
“To overturn orthodoxy is no easier in science than in philosophy, religion, economics, or any of the other disciplines through which we try to comprehend the world and the society in which we live.”
Source: Biological woman--the convenient myth: a collection of feminist essays and a comprehensive bibliography
“To overvalue something is a form of lying.”
“To owe an obligation to a worthy friend is a happiness, and can be no disparagement.”
“To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds, and watch the renewal of life - this is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do.”
Source: My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition
“To own a certain book - and to choose it without help - is to define yourself.”
“To own a man's heart is to own him for life.”
“To own beauty is the first lie of it.”
Source: In Conversation
“To own nothing is to be owned by nothing.”
Source: Collaborate: The Art of We
“To own something and not be aware of it could not only be annoying, but fatal too. That is why most people had all the time but did nothing with it. They died leaving behind no invention or product that they could be remembered for.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“To own something means that it is so small in stature and importance that it can be possessed. And I don’t know if there’s anything in life that’s really that small.”
“To own the dominant, or only, newspaper in a mid-sized American city was, for many decades, a kind of license to print money. In the Internet age, however, no one has figured out how to rescue the newspaper in the United States or abroad.”
“To P.J. (2 yrs old who sed write
a poem for me in Portland, Oregon)
if i cud ever write a
poem as beautiful as u
little 2/yr/old/brotha,
I wud laugh, jump, leap
up and touch the stars
cuz u be the poem i try for
each time i pick up a pen and paper.
u. and Morani and Mungu
be our blue/blk/stars that
will shine on our lives and
makes us finally BE.
if i cud ever write a poem as beautiful
as u, little 2/yr/old/brotha,
poetry wud go out of bizness.”
Source: It's a New Day: Poems for Young Brothas and Sistuhs
“To pace about, looking to obtain status, looking to attain 'importance' - I can think of nothing more ridiculous.”
“To pacify your external conflicts, you must wage peace, first and foremost, within yourself.”
Source: The Art of Talking to Yourself
“To paint a human figure you must not paint it; you must render the whole of its surrounding atmosphere.”
“To paint a picture of a dream life can be more appealing than an average reality and it is exciting and flattering to be in this bubble. But you can’t live in a painting. Real life takes sustained effort, slow progress and compromise.”
Source: The Instant
“To paint a still life, a painter and an apple must confront and adjust to each other.”
Source: Create Dangerously
“To paint an image and to write a poem, is to reclaim the dignity and personal joy...it is an invitation for my creative contemplation of an opened mind...it is a storytelling venture on a blank page of paper and white canvases...it is reclaiming my life.”
“To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films.”
“To paint from nature is to realize one's sensations, not to copy what is before one.”
“To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing.”
Source: Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations
“To paint is always to start at the beginning again, yet being unable to avoid the familiar arguments about what you see yourself painting.”
Source: Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations
“To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.”
“To paint is to know how to put nothing on canvas, and have it look like something when you stand back.”
Source: The Art Spirit
“To paint nature you must be in it a long time.”