T Quotes
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“To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.”
“To solve a problem, you have to be able to state what the problem is or at least say the name.”
“To solve an interesting problem, start by finding a problem that is interesting to you.”
Source: The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary
“To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?”
“To solve big problems you have to be willing to do unpopular things.”
Source: Iacocca: An Autobiography
“To solve, make or change the objects or rules, to gain the power for misusing that, the result will not be fruitful, and the history will endorse shame. Using the mind and the heart is the best option to meet the success and receive appreciation for a beautiful remembrance.”
“To solve the drug problem, we have to start at the root - first grade. If a boy has all the toys in his head that reading can give him, and you hook him into science fiction, then you've got the future secured.”
“To solve the economy, first understand the economy!”
“To solve the human equation, we need to add love, subtract hate, multiply good, and divide between truth and error.”
“To solve the inability of middle-class renters to purchase single-family homes for the first time, Congress and President Roosevelt created the Federal Housing Administration in 1934. The FHA insured bank mortgages that covered 80 percent of purchase prices, had terms of twenty years, and were fully amortized. To be eligible for such insurance, the FHA insisted on doing its own appraisal of the property to make certain that the loan had a low risk of default. Because the FHA's appraisal standards included a whites-only requirement, racial segregation now became an official requirement of the federal mortgage insurance program. The FHA judged that properties would probably be too risky for insurance if they were in racially mixed neighborhoods or even in white neighborhoods near black ones that might possibly integrate in the future.
When a bank applied to the FHA for insurance on a prospective loan, the agency conducted a property appraisal, which was also likely performed by a local real estate agent hired by the agency. as the volume of applications increased, the agency hired its own appraisers, usually from the ranks of the private real estate agents who had previously been working as contractors for the FHA. To guide their work, the FHA provided them with an Underwriting Manual. The first, issued in 1935, gave this instruction: 'If a neighborhood is to retain stability it is necessary that properties shall continue to be occupied by the same social and racial classes. A change in social or racial occupancy generally leads to instability and a reduction in values.' Appraisers were told to give higher ratings where '[p]rotection against some adverse influences is obtained,' and that '[i]mportant among adverse influences . . . are infiltration of inharmonious racial or nationality groups.' The manual concluded that '[a]ll mortgages on properties protected against [such] unfavorable influences, to the extent such protection is possible, will obtain a high rating.'
The FHA discouraged banks from making any loans at all in urban neighborhoods rather than newly built suburbs; according to the Underwriting Manual, 'older properties . . . have a tendency to accelerate the rate of transition to lower class occupancy.' The FHA favored mortgages in areas where boulevards or highways served to separate African American families from whites, stating that '[n]atural or artificially established barriers will prove effective in protecting a neighborhood and the locations within it from adverse influences, . . . includ[ing] prevention of the infiltration of . . . lower class occupancy, and inharmonious racial groups.”
Source: The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
“To solve the new century's mounting social and environmental problems, people of color activist and white activists need to be able to join forces. But all too often, the unconscious racism of white activists stands in the way of any effective, worthwhile collaboration. The Challenging White Supremacy Workshop is the most powerful tool that I have seen for removing the barriers to true partnerships between people of color and white folks. If the CWS trainings were mandatory for all white activists, the progressive movement in the United States would be unstoppable.”
“To solve the problem of organizing world peace we must establish world law and order.”
“To solve the problems created by social media platforms, many politicians are now giving the call to break up big tech. Empowered by their own limited understanding of the matter and blinded by their own biases, their brain has made them believe that impeding the growth of big tech companies will magically give power back to the people. Here they act just like another kind of anti-intellectuals, who can't even perceive the real problem, so they think of breaking up the companies as the ultimate solution. The real problem here is the psychological inability of the human population to use the platforms in a healthy manner.”
Source: Mission Reality
“To solve these problems one needs as much an understanding of politics as an understanding of man - and the one cannot be derived from the other.”
Source: Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis
“To some an extremely sharp picture may be positively painful, for it will perhaps disturb and break the train of thought, whereas a less-defined one would allow the mind to wander at its own sweet will.”
“To some believers, being on the pill or using a condom is a nonverbal way of telling God to go to hell.”
Source: The Use and Misuse of Children
“To some characters, fame is like an intoxicating cup placed to the lips,--they do well to turn away from it who fear it will turn their heads. But to others fame is "love disguised," the love that answers to love in its widest, most exalted sense.”
Source: A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected
“To some Christianity is an argument. To many it is a performance. To a few, it is experience.”
“To some Christians today, this world is not a sinking ship or a world reserved for fire. It is an international capitol building overrun with undesirables whom these believers plan to kick out. They will then take their place, renovating and governing it all themselves. Such thinking is symptomatic of a dying love for Jesus and a clinging to this world!”
“To some degree it matters who's in office, but it matters more how much pressure they're under from the public.”
“To some degree Satanism is purely a kind of disease of Christianity. You've got to really be Christian to believe in Satan.”
“To some degree we all find life difficult, perplexing, and oppressive. Even when it goes well, as it may for a time, we worry that it probably won't keep on that way.”
“To some degree we all live with uncertainty. We have no control over the future. Yet we carry on, we persevere, because, I guess, it's the way we're made.”
“To some degree, the critic arises out of that negativity bias in that our brains are oriented towards threat and toward survival. The critic really started as a survivor mechanism in early infancy and childhood when we were trying to navigate our early family system and culture; when we're learning how to fit in so we could optimize that flow of love and affection. It was an internal voice telling us to shut certain patterns and reactions down, that negativity bias that's always looking for what's wrong, looking for the threat.”
“To some degree, yeah, because I have to play a certain number of originals that might be considered avant-garde material. I realize though, that only a few people in the audience actually know what that music is, or understand it.”
“To some degree, you control your life by controlling your time.”
“To some degree. I think that I've always been very much of a chordal person. The chords are the foundation of everything. Some of Yes' stuff is very linear, albeit complex, but it's single-line melodic stuff. So I kind of had to wear a different cap working with Yes. It's not so much chord-based.”
“To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that.”
“To some extent I liken slavery to death.”
“To some extent I'm guilty of wishful thinking. The absence of the interstitial I find unbearable.”
“To some extent I've always taken the architecture of the space into account.”
“To some extent it [Mr. Bush's standing in the polls] is affecting the races, but only because the races really haven't begun. At some point these races are going to be about the two candidates in each race. This is ultimately not going to be about Bush helping or hurting someone getting elected, but ultimately will be about the candidates' records.”
“To some extent, it doesn't matter who we are or where we came from—what kind of family brought us into this world," Josie said softly. "We become who we were meant to be, and all those other influences fall away.”
Source: Royal Airs
“To some extent, it is almost blasphemous to think that insult, anger and irritation could be a positive force.”
Source: The Mountain of Ignorance
“To some extent the romantic condemnation of rationality stems from the very effectiveness of rationality in uplifting men from primitive conditions.”
Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
“To some extent the shorter the writing assignment is, the harder it is to accomplish, and a blurb is 200 words max. Blurbs are meaningless, and actual people who are buying the books don't care about them at all.”
“To some extent: To be with a partner is to be a servant; to be alone is to be brilliant.”
“To some extent we are all the prisoners of stereotypes; we see each other in terms of distorted and oversimplified images. Better communication in the realm of ideas, of the arts, and of science can help refashion these false images. And by seeing more clearly we may act more wisely.”
Source: The Conscience of a Liberal
“To some extent, being an entrepreneur is a lonely journey.”
“To some extent, each sentence has to be the whole story.”
Source: My Life and My Life in the Nineties
“To some extent, I have only lived to have something to outlive. By confiding these futile remembrances to paper, I am conscious of accomplishing the most important act of my life. I was predestined to Memory.”
“To some extent, people who are insane are nonconformists, and society and their family wish they would live what appear to be useful lives.”
“To some extent, Seattle remains a frontier metropolis, a place where people can experiment with their lives, and change and grow and make things happen.”
“To some extent, stocks are like Rembrandts. They sell based on what they've sold in the past. Bonds are much more rational. No-one thinks a bond's value will soar to the moon.”
“To some extent, the cult surrounding black-and-white photography is based on nostalgia.”
“To some extent, this urge to break out of the ordinary is present in every generation. Part of being young is desiring something beyond everyday life and a secure job, a yearning for something really truly greater. Is this simply an empty dream that fades away as we become older? No! Men and women were created for something great, for infinity. Nothing else will ever be enough.”
“To some extent, we all have quirks or idiosyncrasies, and some geniuses, because of how bright they are and how focused they are, may have liberal eccentricities, but they're not at a disabling level.”
“To some extent, we are all labeled by what we're able to achieve. But more importantly, we are defined by what we attempt.”
Source: Finding Triathlon: How Endurance Sports Explain the World
“To some generations much is given. Of other generations, much is expected.”
“To some, having children may seem as conducive to travelling as having your feet set in concrete.”
Source: Your Child's Health Abroad: A Manual for Travelling Parents