T Quotes
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“Too many film schools, as well as any number of screenwriting gurus and an obscene number of how-to-write tomes, have made a business of catering to fledgling screenwriters and filmmakers by exploiting their belief that the only thing standing between them and an Oscar is the right kind of knowledge. If only one knew enough, one could easily become rich and famous. Unfortunately, almost all are susceptible to that eternal malady – “that last great infirmity of the soul” – which is FAME. And whilst I don’t deny the value of technical knowledge, such knowledge matters very little if the story one is trying to tell doesn’t matter, either because it’s incoherent or simply because it fails to make us care.”
“Too many films today feel formulaic and familiar. I prefer it when the familiar is made to feel strange.”
“Too many founders run out of capital trying to perfect their product.”
Source: The 6 Startup Stages: How Non-technical Founders Create Scalable, Profitable Companies
“Too many girls follow the line of least resistance, but a good line is hard to resist.”
Source: The wit and wisdom of Mae West
“Too many good docs are getting out of the business. Too many OB/GYNs aren't able to practice their love with women all across the country.”
“Too many good ideas are overwhelming, and they can keep us from doing anything at all.”
Source: Shadow and Light: A Journey into Advent
“Too many good things all seem the same after a while.”
Source: The Joy Luck Club: A Novel
“too many grown-ups tell kids to follow their dreams
like that's going to get them somewhere
Auntie Laurie says follow your nightmares instead
cuz when you figure out what's eating you alive
you can slay it”
Source: Shout
“Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.”
“Too many have lost themselves in themselves.”
“Too many have no idea of the subjection of their temper to the influence of religion, and yet what is changed, if the temper is not? If a man is as passionate, malicious, resentful, sullen, moody, or morose after his conversion as before it, what is he converted from or to?”
“Too many hearts have been broken, failing to trust what they feel.”
“Too many heroes in my life. All gone.”
“Too many heroes stepping on too many toes, too many yes-men nodding when they really mean no.”
“Too many historical writers are the votaries of cults, which, by definition are dedicated to whitewashing warts and hanging halos.”
Source: Essays Diplomatic and Undiplomatic of Thomas A. Bailey
“Too many in America lead with their emotions when it comes to the flag, becoming illogically protective.Hell, the British treat their national symbol, the Royal Family, way worse, and they're people!”
Source: When You Ride Alone You Ride with Bin Laden: What the Government Should be Telling Us to Help Fight the War on Terrorism
“Too many individuals are like Shakespeare's definition of "echo,"--babbling gossips of the air.”
“Too many individuals are walking through their days as passive actors in a script they allow others to write. We all need to realize that we can create our own stories.”
Source: Vade Mecum: An Always-Present Guide to Your Divine Path
“Too many individuals have been wrongly instructed that biblical love means they must be "nice," and suffer quietly--even if they are mistreated and abused. But as C.S. Lewis wisely wrote, 'Love is more stern and splendid than mere kindness.”
Source: The Emotionally Destructive Relationship: Seeing It, Stopping It, Surviving It
“Too many instances there are of daring men, who by presuming to sound the deep things of religion, have cavilled and argued themselves out of all religion.”
“Too many irons, not enough fire.”
“Too many jazz pianists limit themselves to a personal style, a trademark, so to speak. They confine themselves to one type of playing. I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea. I have no one style. I play as I feel.”
“Too many journalists and scientists have built their careers on the global-warming alarm. Certain newspapers have staked their reputation on it. The death of this theory will be painful and ugly. But it will die. Because it is wrong, wrong, wrong.”
“Too many judges are fooled into thinking a smile equals style.”
“Too many kids today are playing major league ball and don't belong there.”
“Too many kings can ruin an army”
“Too many leaders act as if the sheep.. their people.. are there for the benefit of the shepherd, not that the shepherd has responsibility for the sheep.”
“Too many leaders try to do a little bit of 25 things and get nothing done. They are very popular because they always say yes. But they get nothing done.”
“too many left-wing student groups treat no one as badly as students of color or women who consider themselves to be classical liberals, libertarians, or conservatives, or who merely disagree with the actions of progressive protesters on campus. They’re seen as special kinds of traitors.”
“Too many lives are needed to make just one.”
“Too many lives go up in smoke - It's nice to laugh but don't be the joke.”
“Too many locks, not enough keys.”
“Too many managers and executives try to reduce programming to a low-level assembly-line activity. That's inefficient, wasteful, costly in the long run, and inhumane to programmers.”
“Too many managers manage by what the postgame press conference is going to be.”
“too many maniacs not enough michelangelos”
“Too many marketers assume that future will hold back and wait until they're ready for it. It won't.”
Source: The Popcorn Report: Faith Popcorn on the Future of Your Company, Your World, Your Life
“Too many MC's take that word 'emcee' lightly;
They can't Move a Crowd, not even slightly.”
“Too many members of Congress are too involved in grabbing what they can for their states or districts without enough emphasis on overall fiscal restraint for the sake of the nation as a whole. We need a new era of fiscal sanity. I am not willing to subject my children and grandchildren to the level of debt that Congress has created.”
“Too many members of Congress believe they can solve all economic problems, cure all social ills, and bring about worldwide peace and prosperity simply by creating new federal programs.”
“Too many memories of her were crammed inside of me, and as soon as one of them found the slightest opening, the rest would force their way out in an endless stream, an unstoppable flood.”
Source: Norwegian Wood
“Too many men I know experience shame because society places pressure on them to withhold emotion: emotion and sensitivity is weak. I have found the opposite is true: emotion and sensitivity is what makes us strong.”
Source: This Undeserved Life: Uncovering The Gifts of Grief and The Fullness of Life
“Too many men slip early out of the habit of studious reading, and yet that is essential.”
Source: Wm. Osler: the continuing education
“Too many men work on parts of things. Doing a job to completion, satisfies me.”
“Too many modern painters set themselves satisfied with just a coincidence, the spot in its raw, meaningless form.”
“Too many moralists begin with a dislike of reality.”
Source: THE BEST
“Too many multi-vitamins are packaged as one size fits all, but you should be more specific about what you need. When I was competing as a dancer, I took zinc for healthy skin and immune system.”
“Too many musicians rush through everything with too many notes. I need time to take the picture. A ballad should be a ballad. It's important to understand what the song is saying, and learn how to tell the story. It takes time. I can't rush it. I really can't rush it.”
“Too many non-achievers confuse humility with humiliation.”
Source: Life
“Too many OB/GYN’s aren’t able to practice their love with women all across the country.”
“Too many of Disney animators, and a lot try to emulate Disney, are trying to hit what they call quality levels. They're boring mannerisms.”