T Quotes
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“To WOW, you must differentiate yourself, which means do something a little unconventional and innovative. You must do something that’s above and beyond what’s expected. And whatever you do must have an emotional impact on the receiver.”
Source: Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose
“To wrap them in the Taegukgi—we wanted to do that much for them, at least. We needed the national anthem for the same reason we needed the minute's silence. To make the corpses we were singing over into something more than butchered lumps of meat.”
Source: Human Acts
“To write a blues song
is to regiment riots
and pluck gems from graves.”
Source: Born of a woman: new and selected poems
“To write a book about improvisation is partly a contradiction in terms. Improvisation is spontaneous. It's in the moment.”
“To write a book is for all the world like humming a song.”
Source: The Works of Laurence Sterne: Containing The Life and Opinions of Tristan Shandy ... [etc.] ; with a Life of the Author Written by Himself
“To write a book is for all the world like humming a song—be but in tune with yourself, madam, 'tis no matter how high or how low you take it.”
Source: The Works of Laurence Sterne: Containing The Life and Opinions of Tristan Shandy ... [etc.] ; with a Life of the Author Written by Himself
“To write a book is to risk being shot at in public.”
“To write a book is to suspend the present and create a new reality.”
“To write a book such as Tiger Bone & Rhino Horn is a formidable undertaking. You must accumulate thousands of facts and spare no detail, no matter how terrible. It is always easier to write a piece of fluff and leave everybody smiling. But then, the horrors of poaching would continue unchallenged?like as tent caterpillars consuming an apple orchard, our species mindlessly consumes the others of the earth. At present, the most significant hope for our planet may be knowledge, and Richard Ellis has done a heroic job in providing a large measure of that.”
“To write a damn good thriller, you need a killer attitude.”
“To write a diary is to make a series of choices about what to omit, what to forget.
A memorable sandwich, an unmemorable flight of stairs. A memorable bit of conversation surrounded by chatter that no one records.”
“To write a genuine familiar or truly English style is to write as anyone would speak in common conversation, who had a thorough command and choice of words, or who could discourse with ease, force, and perspicuity, setting aside all pedantic and oratorical flourishes.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.”
“To write a good memoir you must become the editor of your own life, imposing on an untidy sprawl of half-remembered events a narrative shape and an organizing idea. Memoir is the art of inventing the truth.”
“To write a love song that might be able to make it on the radio, that is something that is terrifying to me. But I can definitely write a song about that chair over there. That I can do, but to sit and write a pop song out of the clear blue sky, that is very difficult and I admire the people that can do it.”
“to write a novel in the heart of London is next to an impossibility. I feel as if I were nailing a flag to the top of a mast in a raging gale.”
Source: A Change of Perspective
“To write a novel is to embark on a quest that is very romantic. People have visions, and the next step is to execute them. That's a very romantic project. Like Edvard Munch's strange dreamlike canvases where people are stylized, like 'The Scream.' Munch must have had that vision in a dream, he never saw it.”
“To write a novel may be pure pleasure. To live a novel presents certain difficulties. As for reading a novel, I do my best to get out of it.”
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
“To write a novel, you need an iron butt.”
“To write a play one must be born a playwright. Otherwise, you're starting at a huge disadvantage.”
“To write a poem is like trying to catch a lizard without its tail falling off.”
Source: Lawrence Durrell: Conversations
“To write a poem...to paint an image on canvass from the contemplation of nature and life...is to be present again in this world more richly...to see it with my eyes and my heart...is to love again more intimately I've ever loved...to cherish previously invisible secrets of desire-beauty-taste and my personal powers...”
“To write a poem you must have a streak of arrogance-- not in real life I hope. In real life try to be nice. It will save you a hell of a lot of trouble and give you more time to write.”
“To write a short story, you have to be able to stay up all night.”
“To write a song you must have an imagination, to have an imagination you must be free.”
“To write a story about New York that only deals with people in your age and socioeconomic bracket, that feels dishonest to me. So much of New York comes from everyone bumping into each other.”
“To write a story, I think you really have to open yourself up to the world.”
“To write a symphony is, for me, to construct a world.”
“To write a verse or two is all the praise That I can raise.”
Source: The complete works in verse and prose of George Herbert: for the 1. time fully collected and collated with the orig. and early editions and mss. and much enl. ...
“To write about a place, you have to live there.”
“To write about a struggle amidst the struggling: one must hope that the muddling will end someday.”
“To write about business one should be in business, just as in writing about Tasmania one should visit Tasmania.”
“To write about healing, you must first endure the suffering. To give out light, you must burn inside.”
“To write about him is to write about Greatness. To discuss him is to
discuss Intellectual Brilliance. To think of him is to think of Modesty,
Simplicity and Lucidity. To remember him is to remember Nationalism at
its finest hour. He was not one of those who merely achieved greatness
nor certainly one of those upon whom greatness was thrust-he was in
fact born great.”
Source: Pt. Kanhaiya Lal Misra - My Father
“To write about history or language is supposed to be within the reach of every man. To write about natural science is allowed to be within the reach only of those who have mastered the subjects on which they write.”
Source: The Methods of Historical Study: Eight Lectures Read in the University of Oxford In...1884, with the Inaugural Lecture on The Office of the Historical Professor
“To write about someone like myself would be very limiting.”
“To write about that now, when only ten years have gone by. Write about it? I think it's senseless. You can't explain it, you can't understand it. We’ll still try to imagine something that looks like our own lives now. I've tried it and it doesn’t work. The Chernobyl explosion gave us the mythology of Chernobyl. The papers and magazines compete to see who can write the most frightening article. People who weren't there love to be frightened. Everyone read about mushrooms the size of human heads, but no one actually found them. So instead of writing, you should record. Document. Show me a fantasy novel about Chernobyl—there isn't one! Because reality is more fantastic.”
Source: Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
“To write about the monstrous sense of alienation the poet feels in this culture of polarized hatreds is a way of staying sane. With the poem, I reach out to an audience equally at odds with official policy, and I celebrate our mutual humanness in an inhuman world.”
Source: Always Beginning: Essays on a Life in Poetry
“To write an album takes so much focus and selfish time, to just write and think about your life. For me. Maybe not for other people.”
“To write an article about someone and then to have that person murdered is disturbing.”
“To write an autobiography of Groucho Marx would be as asinine as to read an autobiography of Groucho Marx.”
Source: Memoirs Of A Mangy Lover
“To write an autobiography, you've got to expose other people. I hope to get out of this world as gracefully as possible, without embarrassing anyone.”
Source: Evenings With Cary Grant: Recollections in His Own Words and by Those Who Knew Him Best
“To write and not tell the truth? That would be death for any writer. But more, it would be death to the imagination. And if the imagination dies, what would happen to the souls of children?”
“To write and speak correctly is certainly necessary; but it is not sufficient. A derivation correctly presented in the book or on the blackboard may be inaccessible and uninstructive, if the purpose of the successive steps is incomprehensible, if the reader or listener cannot understand how it was humanly possible to find such an argument....”
“To write anything tolerable, the mind must be in a natural, proper disposition; provocatives, in that case, as well as in another,will only produce miserable, abortive performances.”
Source: The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author
“To write as if your life depended on it; to write across the chalkboard, putting up there in public the words you have dredged; sieved up in dreams, from behind screen memories, out of silence-- words you have dreaded and needed in order to know you exist.”
Source: What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition)
“To write at the same temperature at which I live I should write nothing but poetry.”
“To write books is to have a certain relation with original sin. For what is a book if not a loss of innocence, an act of aggression, a repetition of our Fall?”
“To write brashly about some things, it is almost necessary not to know much about them.”
“To write competently is to do a few magic tricks for friends and family; to write well is to run away and join the circus.”