T Quotes
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“To Polish the Gold & Help Others Shine . . . Flip your positivity switch:
What is your first instinct? If you are quick to find fault, look for the negative, or complain about another person, knock it off! It makes you less fun to be around. When you feel those negative thoughts and judgments coming in, catch yourself and STOP!”
Source: The Art of Action: 8 Ways to Initiate & Activate Forward Momentum for Positive Impact
“To Polish the Gold & Help Others Shine . . . Focus on the Positives:
Focusing on the positives will get you further in business and further in life. Whatever you focus on will expand. If you focus on what you do not like about another person, they will become so intolerable to you that you cannot bear to be around them. However, if you focus on their positives and can find something redeeming, regardless of how small, the positivity needed to experience a more constructive interaction and relationship will manifest before your eyes.”
Source: The Art of Action: 8 Ways to Initiate & Activate Forward Momentum for Positive Impact
“To Polish the Gold & Help Others Shine . . . Make a list of positives:
Whether you would like to nurture a healthy relationship or improve a toxic one, make a list of positives which you admire about the other person. Begin by identifying, acknowledging, and focusing on their good qualities. Your perspective and how you feel about the person will begin to shift. You will find it much easier to polish the gold from a perspective of gratitude and appreciation.”
Source: The Art of Action: 8 Ways to Initiate & Activate Forward Momentum for Positive Impact
“To Polish the Gold & Help Others Shine . . . Say something nice!
My wise mother raised us with the philosophy that if you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all. That is a Southern custom if there ever was one! It is easy to find fault, criticize, condemn, and complain—but none of these behaviors will help you enjoy positive relationship results.”
Source: The Art of Action: 8 Ways to Initiate & Activate Forward Momentum for Positive Impact
“To Polish the Gold & Help Others Shine . . . take the time to mine the gold.
Actively seek the goodness in others then express your gratitude for it. Excavate the dirt, seek the treasure, and polish their gold to shine boldly and brightly. People will rise to your positive expectations and belief in them.”
Source: The Art of Action: 8 Ways to Initiate & Activate Forward Momentum for Positive Impact
“To politicians, solved problems represent a dire threat - of unemployment and poverty. That's why no problem ever tackled by the government has ever been solved. What they want is lots of problems they can promise to solve, so that we'll keep electing them - or letting them keep their jobs in a bureaucracy metastasizing like cancer.”
“To politicize a man's tragic death is about as low as you can go, isn't it?”
“To ponder is not to brood or grieve or even meditate. It is to wonder at a deep level.”
Source: It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It
“To pore upon a book, to seek the light of truth.”
Source: The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators
“To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.”
“To portray America over the past twenty years or so, I would think immediately of football, probably the Super Bowl in its sumptuous suggestion of a national death wish.”
“To posit the existence of a Creator requires only reason. To posit the existence of a good God requires faith.”
“To position yourself as an expert, create content, write a book, build a blog, post on social media, and write articles for professional publications and news sites to build your intellectual portfolio of expertise. Repurpose content in a variety of ways.”
Source: The Art of Preparation: 8 Ways to Plan with Purpose & Intention for Positive Impact
“To posses in the shade, that nobility of spirit that makes no demands on life. To be in the whirl of the worlds like dust of flowers, sailing through the afternoon air on unknown wind and falling, in the torpor of dusk, wherever it falls, lost among larger things. To be this with a sure understanding, neither happy nor sad, grateful to the sun for its brilliance and to the stars for their remoteness. To be no more, have no more, want no more … The music of the hungry beggar, the song of blind man, the relic of the unknown wayfarer, the tracks in the desert of the camel without burden or destination …”
“To possess a good cognomen is a long way on the road of success in life.”
“To possess a high degree of consciousness, to be always aware of yourself in relation to the world, to live in the permanent tension of knowledge, means to be lost for life.”
“To possess a rich life of wholeness that brings happiness into the soul; is to show loving and caring characteristic traits toward others.”
“To possess another language is to possess another soul.”
Source: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
“To possess another language, Charlemagne tells us, is to possess another soul. German is such a language. Once you have it in your head, you can go there anytime, you can close the door, you have a refuge.”
“To possess both wisdom and compassion is the heart of our human revolution. If you have wisdom alone and lack compassion, it will be a cold, perverse wisdom. If you have compassion alone and lack wisdom, you cannot give happiness to others. You are even likely to lead them in the wrong direction, and you won't be able to achieve your own happiness.”
“To possess dignity is to be worthy of respect. Worthy of high esteem. Absorb this: you are worthy of respect.”
Source: So Long, Insecurity: You've Been a Bad Friend to Us
“To possess effective natural leadership abilities is one of life's greatest assets.”
“To possess is past the instant; we achieve the joy, immortality contented, were anomaly.”
Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson
“To possess money is very well; it may be a valuable servant; to be possessed by it is to be possessed by the devil, and one of the meanest and worst kind of devils.”
Source: The New Dictionary of Thoughts
“To possess ourselves of a clear idea of what government is, or ought to be, we must trace it to its origin.”
Source: Rights of man: being an answer to Mr. Burke's attack on the French Revolution, etc
“To possess pure power, pray.”
“To possess something and not know its value is torturous”
“To possess something without the corresponding knowledge, is extremely dangerous indeed”
“To possess taste, one must have some soul.”
“To possess the wealth of soul is to dim the momentary pleasures, the fleeting desires for the deep is lit by the spirit of life, the flames of eternal living...”
“To possess time is to possess life, don’t trivialize time.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“To possess your soul in patience, with all the skin and some of the flesh burnt off your face and hands, is a job for a boy compared with the pains of a man who has lived pretty long in the exhilarating world that drugs or strong waters seem to create and is trying to live now in the first bald desolation created by knocking them off.”
Source: Disenchantment
“To postpone unpleasantness is human; to forget it is divine.”
“To practice - write each and every day if possible - then try to attend professional writer's conferences where you can learn your craft, get to know fellow writers, and meet editors and agents.”
“To practice Aikido fully you must calm the spirit and go back to the origin.”
“To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.”
“To practice Dhamma means to observe and examine oneself.”
“To practice Extreme Self-Care, you must learn to love yourself unconditionally, accept your imperfections, and embrace your vulnerabilities.”
Source: 21 Days to Master Extreme Self-Care
“To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.”
“To practice in a group requires both a loosening of self-consciousness and a tightening grip on the rudder of sincerity. You have to care, and you have to let others see you caring. And you have to bear witness to their caring in turn.”
Source: Waking the Witch: Reflections on Women, Magic, and Power
“To practice is not to practice for ourselves alone. We practice for everyone. We should be proud to say, Violence, it may come from somewhere else, but not from me. Hatred, discrimination, it may come from somewhere else, but not from me.”
Source: The Ultimate Dimension : An Advanced Dharma Retreat on the Avatamsaka and Lotus Sutras
“To practice jnana yoga, the yoga of knowledge and discrimination, it's necessary to have a highly developed mind.”
“To practice kata is not to memorize an order. Find the katas that work for you, understand them, digest them & stick with them for life.”
“To practice magic is to be a quack; to know magic is to be a sage.”
Source: The Paradoxes of the Highest Science
“To practice magic is to bear the responsibility for having a vision.”
“To practice nonviolence in mundane matters is to know its true value.”
Source: Gandhi: Selected Political Writings
“To practice NVC, it's critical for me to be able to slow down, take my time, to come from an energy I choose, the one I believe that we were meant to come from, not the one I was programmed into.”
“To practice properly the Art of Peace, you must: Calm the spirit and return to the source. Cleanse the body and spirit by removing all malice, selfishness, and desire. Be ever grateful for the gifts received from the universe, your family, Mother nature, and your fellow human beings.”
Source: The Art of Peace
“To practice space is thus to repeat the joyful and silent experience of childhood; it is, in a place, to be other and to move toward the other...Kandinsky dreamed of: 'a great city built according to all the rules of architecture and then suddenly shaken by a force that defies all calculation.”
“To practice the process of conflict resolution, we must completely abandon the goal of getting people to do what we want.”