T Quotes
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“To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute.”
Source: Strong opinions
“To play so as to be relaxed and refreshed for work is not to play, and no work is well and finely done unless it, too, is a form of play.”
Source: The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
“To play someone I loved in my favourite fairytale as a kid is a total honour.”
“To play someone who is who they are because of the happiness and contentedness that they've known in their life is interesting because of sort of how banal it is.”
“To play Swedish folk music is a lifetime achievement, but I'm well on my way.”
“To play the Boss is Easy but to be it is a Different Story”
“To play the drums, you have to spread your legs and use your arms. It's a very physical instrument to play. It's not feminine.”
“To play the piano is to consort with nature. Every mollusk, galaxy, vapor or viper as well the sweet incense of love's distraction, is within the hands and grasp of the pianist.”
“To play the trumpet well, a musician can not let more than a few days pass without practicing.”
Source: Flow: the psychology of optimal experience
“To play the trumpet, you must train your lips for a long time. When I was twelve or thirteen I was a good player, but I lost the skill and now I play very badly. I do it every day even so. The reason is that I want to return to my childhood. For me, the trumpet is evidence of the sort of young man I was.”
“To play this game (football) you must have fire in you, and there is nothing that strokes fire like hate.”
“To play today in London, next week in Madrid and the week after that in Warsaw is a bit better than playing Newark and Baltimore and Philadelphia. I've been doing that for 20 years.”
“To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.”
Source: Writing Home
“To play well the scenes in which we are 'on' concerns us much more than to guess about the scenes that follow it.”
Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis
“To play well you have to have good balance in your life. Tiger has found that. If you play golf long enough you'll learn that life is more than golf.”
“To play well, you need good players, but a good player almost always has the problem of a lack of efficiency. He always wants to do things prettier than strictly necessary.”
“To play with a band all of the time, just about nightly, was good for me because I wrote lots of arrangements and I got a lot of my transposition and chords ironed out.”
“To play with baubles is our ambition, not to deal with grave questions in a spirit of serious energy. But while we are playing with baubles, with our Legislative Councils, our Simultaneous Examinations, our ingenious schemes for separating the judicial from the executive functions, - while we, I say, are finessing about trifles, the waters of the great deep are being stirred and that surging chaos of the primitive man over which our civilised societies are superimposed on a thin crust of convention, is being strangely and ominously agitated.”
“To play with correctness and skill the ends of games, is an important but a very rare accomplishment, expect among the magnates of the game.”
“To play with ten players for over half of the match is never going to be easy against anybody, particularly on their home field. But I thought the team adjusted fairly well and at times we looked really good with only ten players. Still, it's a win, and it's a win for the Rivalry Series and I'm happy about that.”
“To play with Zinedine Zidane was the biggest honour I have had in my career...”
“To play without passion is inexcusable!”
“To play your colors by eye is worse than playing the piano by ear.”
“To plead for the Oppress'd and to defend the Weak seem'd to me a generous undertaking; for tho' it may be secure, 'tis not always Honourable to run over to the strongest party.”
Source: Astell: Political Writings
“To plead is to pray.”
“To plead the organic causation of a religious state of mind, then, in refutation of its claim to possess superior spiritual value, is quite illogical and arbitrary, unless one have already worked out in advance some psycho-physical theory connecting spiritual values in general with determinate sorts of physiological change. Otherwise none of our thoughts and feelings, not even our scientific doctrines, not even our dis -beliefs, could retain any value as revelations of the truth, for every one of them without exception flows from the state of their possessor's body at the time.”
Source: The Varieties of Religious Experience
“To please a child is a sweet and lovely thing that warms one's heart and brings its own reward.”
Source: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
“To please everybody is impossible; were I to undertake it, I should probably please nobody.”
Source: The Quotable George Washington: The Wisdom of an American Patriot
“To please God, live a godly life and nurture kindness, compassion, justice, and humility.”
“To please God… to be a real ingredient in the divine happiness… to be loved by God, not merely pitied, but delighted in as an artist delights in his work or a father in a son- it seems impossible, a weight or burden of glory which our thoughts can hardly sustain. But so it is.”
Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis
“To please great men is not the last degree of praise.”
“To please men and to kill parasites are the only uses tobacco-its ultimate effects are the same in both cases.”
Source: Tobaccoism;: Or, How Tobacco Kills,
“To please people is a great step towards persuading them.”
Source: The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author
“To please the Divine, our character, our behavior should be absolutely clean.”
“To please the fancy is no trifling good, Where health is studied; for whatever moves The mind with calm delight, promotes the just And natural movements of th'harmonious frame.”
Source: John Armstrong's The Art of Preserving Health: Eighteenth-century Sensibility in Practice
“To please the many is to displease the wise.”
Source: Plutarch's Morals
“To plot is to live. […] We start out lives in chaos, in babble. As we surge up into the world, we try to devise a shape, a plan. There is dignity in this. Your whole life is a plot, a scheme, a diagram. It is a failed scheme but that's not the point. To plot is to affirm life, to seek shape and control. Even after death, most particularly after death, the search continues. Burial rites are an attempt to complete the scheme, in ritual. Picture a state funeral, Jack. It is all precision, detail, order, design. The nation holds its breath. - (WN 292)”
“TO PLOW IS TO PRAY; TO PLANT IS TO PROPHESY,
AND THE HARVEST ANSWERS AND FULFILLS.”
Source: Prose-poems and Selections from the Writings and Sayings of Robert G. Ingersoll
“To pluck up the courage and open your heart, and embrace someone else's heart is difficult.”
“To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.”
“To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.”
“To poetry belongs the golden, decisive word. Other arts have accepted nature herself as arbiter, from whom they have borrowed their forms. Music is the orphan whose father and mother no one can determine, and it may well be that precisely in this mystery lies the source of its beauty.”
“To point at the moon a finger is needed, but woe to those who take the finger for the moon.”
Source: Essays in Zen Buddhism
“To point out the importance of circumspection in your conduct, it may be proper to observe that a good moral character is the first essential in a man, and that the habits contracted at your age are generally indelible, and your conduct here may stamp your character through life. It is therefore highly important that you should endeavor not only to be learned but virtuous.”
Source: The Papers of George Washington
“To poison a nation, poison its stories. A demoralised nation tells demoralised stories to itself. Beware of the storytellers who are not fully conscious of the importance of their gifts, and who are irresponsible in the application of their art: they”
“To poke a wood fire is more solid enjoyment than almost anything else in the world.”
Source: Back-log studies and My summer in a garden
“To Polish the Gold & Help Others Shine . . . Acknowledge their achievements:
Great achievements require great effort and usually come dressed as hard work. Move beyond merely recognizing the achievement and express admiration for the effort it took to get there.”
Source: The Art of Action: 8 Ways to Initiate & Activate Forward Momentum for Positive Impact
“To Polish the Gold & Help Others Shine . . . Be complimentary:
Find something positive to say to compliment another person. Whether they are being a great parent, dressing nicely, maintaining a gorgeous yard, or winning a recent 5K run, pick something to acknowledge which is noteworthy.”
Source: The Art of Action: 8 Ways to Initiate & Activate Forward Momentum for Positive Impact
“To Polish the Gold & Help Others Shine . . . Brag about their accomplishments in front of others:
For years, I have shared that the definition of a good friend is someone who says nice things about you behind your back. And the definition of a GREAT friend is someone who says GREAT things to others in front of you. One of the kindest things a husband or wife can do for their relationships is to brag about their partner’s qualities to other people.”
Source: The Art of Action: 8 Ways to Initiate & Activate Forward Momentum for Positive Impact
“To Polish the Gold & Help Others Shine . . . Catch people doing things right:
Outstanding leaders know that people will be more engaged, perform at higher levels, and be more loyal when they are appreciated and celebrated. Jeff West, international speaker and author of The Unexpected Tour Guide, shares that “People will jump over high hurdles, fight fires and break through walls for leaders who find them doing things right. Building that kind of chemistry is essential if a team is going to jell.” Capitalize on the opportunity to notice what people are doing right at work and at home and they will deliver their best. As the old saying goes, “A person who feels appreciated will always do more than expected.”
Source: The Art of Action: 8 Ways to Initiate & Activate Forward Momentum for Positive Impact