T Quotes
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“Too many times, people don't try their best. They don't have the keen spirit; the winning spirit. And once you make it you've got to guard your reputation - every day go in like an unknown to prove yourself. That's why I don't clown around. I don't believe in wasting time. My goal is to win the World Chess Championship; to beat the Russians. I take this very seriously.”
Source: Fischer v Spassky: the World Chess Championship Match, 1972
“Too many tongues have gates which fly apart
Too easily, and care for many things
That don't concern them.”
“Too many trained nurses discommode Cupid.”
Source: Ade's fables
“Too many vacations that last too long, too many movies, too much TV, too much video game playing - too much undisciplined leisure time in which a person continually takes the course of least resistance gradually wastes a life. It ensures that a person's capacities stay dormant, that talents remain undeveloped, that the mind and spirit become lethargic and that the heart remains unfulfilled.”
“Too many vaccines with too many untested ingredients are being given too early to too many children and are causing too many problems in too many children.”
“Too many vital education dollars that should be spent in the classroom are bouncing around in the federal bureaucracy.”
“Too many voters are already bought -- not by corporate campaign donors, but by the government itself.”
“Too many whites are getting away with drug use... Too many whites are getting away with drug sales... The answer is to go out and find the ones who are getting away with it, convict them and send them up the river, too.”
“Too many whites still see blacks as a group apart.”
“Too many wish to be happy before becoming wise.”
“Too many women are forced to abort by poverty, by their menfolk, by their parents. A choice is only possible if there are genuine alternatives.”
“Too many women are smeared just for occupying their [male] space. Particularly those whose space involves holding power. For women who venture into governance, the spreading of fake news and disinformation has been particularly pronounced. Research has found that female politicians are targeted far more than their male peers.”
Source: The Gender Bias: The Barriers That Hold Women Back, And How To Break Them
“Too many women have given up the power over the years because men have created the terms.”
“Too many women in too many countries speak the same language, of silence.”
Source: Living History
“Too many women refuse to even consider that their lack of happiness is a direct result of rejecting their natural roles.”
Source: Reclaiming Femininity: Saving Women's Traditions & Our Future
“Too many women throw themselves into romance because they're afraid of being single, then start making compromises and losing their identity. I won't do that.”
“Too many women waste their lives grieving because they do not have something other people tell them they should want. Whether you are happy or not depends to some degree upon outsward circumstances, but mostly it depends how you choose to look at thing syourself, whether you measure what you have or what you have not.”
“Too many words are lit for a beast of burden.”
“Too many words are simply the fodder of syntax and the place-holders of lesser ideals.”
“Too many words left unsaid, instead of everything could come at once and break you all for once.”
“Too many would-be executives are slaves of routine.”
“Too many writers think that all you need to do is write well-but that's only part of what a good book is. Above all, a good book tells a good story. Focus on the story first. Ask yourself, 'Will other people find this story so interesting that they will tell others about it?' Remember: A bestselling book usually follows a simple rule, 'It's a wonderful story, wonderfully told'; not, 'It's a wonderfully told story.'”
“Too many young actors are strutting about and doing films without having developed some of the depth you need to bring off certain kinds of roles. I think that's the problem with the system, where a lot of younger actors who haven't had a chance to develop suddenly become stars.”
“Too many young African-American and Latino men ended up in jail for nonviolent offenses.”
“Too many young folk have addiction to superficial things and not enough conviction for substantial things like justice, truth and love.”
“Too many young girls have eating disorders due to low self-esteem and distorted body image. I think it's so important for girls to love themselves and to treat their bodies respectfully.”
“Too many young musicians today want to win polls before they learn their instruments.”
“Too many young people and some not-so-young people are getting caught up in gambling without understanding how easy it is to get carried away or to become addicted. Some of these people likely would have run into trouble gambling anyway—a curious fact about American problem gambling is that rates have generally remained consistent for decades, even as states have expanded the menu of legal betting options. But many people like Kyle, only started betting because it was legal and, more importantly, because it was available on their cell phone.”
Source: Losing Big: America's Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling
“Too many young people are being taught to give up their dreams before they have any experience attempting to pursue them.”
“Too many younger artists, critics, and curators are fetishizing the sixties, transforming the period into a deformed cult, a fantasy religion, a hip brand, and a crippling disease.”
“Too many!' James shouted, and slammed the door behind him.”
Source: Over Sea, Under Stone
“Too marvelous for words.”
“Too much action with too little intent makes for wasteful exertion of energy and the confusion between movement and progress.”
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free
“Too much advice and suggestions may dig you into a state of confusion, and that can lead you towards negative and harmful directions. The best initial is to keep in your mind the benefits and demands of the majority than the personal, in that way your decision will fulfil the justice and fairness”
“Too much advice and suggestions may dig you into a state of confusion that can lead you in negative; and harmful directions. The best initial is to keep in your mind the benefits and demands of the majority than the personal; in that way, your decision will fulfill justice and fairness”
“Too much aggression and work will move what you desire further away.”
“Too much agreement kills a chat.”
Source: Target Zero: A Life in Writing
“Too much agreement kills the chat.”
“Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.”
Source: Bobby Jones on Golf
“Too much and too little are both equally harmful.”
Source: Gorin no Sho & Dokkodo: Miyamoto Musashi
“Too much and too little communication is killing our relationships.”
Source: Love More, Fight Less: Communication Skills Every Couple Needs: A Relationship Workbook for Couples
“Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.”
Source: Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works
“Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things.”
Source: Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy
“Too much apology doubles the offense.”
Source: By the Numbers
“Too much apparatus, designed to guide us in experiments and to supplement the exactness of our senses, makes us neglect to use those senses...The more ingenious our apparatus, the coarser and more unskillful are our senses. We surround ourselves with tools and fail to use those which nature has provided every one of us.”
“Too much art was no art at all. Like candy instead of bread!”
“Too much attention and hoopla doesn't agree with my temperament.”
“Too much attention on problems kills our faith in possibilities.”
“Too much attention to health is a hindrance to learning, to invention, and to studies of any kind, for we are always feeling suspicious shootings and swimmings in our heads, and we are prone to blame studies from them.”
“Too much beauty to behold.”