T Quotes
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“The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it is not. It is an existential truth: only those people who are capable of being alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of the other person without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other.”
“The capacity to be either happy or unhappy is determined by the manner in which you react to whatever happens.”
“The capacity to be intrinsic and vulgar is American.”
“The capacity to be overwhelmed by the beautiful is astonishingly sturdy and survives amidst the harshest distractions.”
Source: At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches
“The capacity to be patient, to bear with others through thick and thin, is within the reach of anyone.”
Source: The End of Sorrow: The Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living, Vol I
“The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.”
“The capacity to become aware of the givens of our existence - such as change - and to actually welcome those as just part of our human experience releases the struggle.”
“The capacity to believe is under the control of each individual. But, not everyone directs his believing towards God.”
Source: Heaven I - Paradise: The City and Throne
“The capacity to blunder slightly is the real marvel of DNA. Without this special attribute, we would still be anaerobic bacteria and there would be no music.”
Source: A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays
“The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy.”
Source: Composing a Life
“The capacity to creatively improvise is an important factor that differentiates successful companies - or teams - from those that are not successful.”
“The capacity to forgive is not just about Rwandan women. It is about a willingness of women all over the world to work across conflict lines, to say, "Yes, I'm a Serb. Or yes, I'm a Muslim. Or yes, I'm a Croat. But I'm also a mother."”
“The capacity to form attachments on equal terms is considered evidence of emotional maturity. It is the absence of this capacity which is pathological. Whether there may be other criteria of emotional maturity, like the capacity to be alone, is seldom taken into account.”
Source: Solitude: A Return to the Self
“The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.”
“The capacity to give one's attention to a sufferer is a very rare and difficult thing; it is almost a miracle; it is a miracle. Nearly all those who think they have the capacity do not possess it.”
Source: Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)
“The capacity to innovate - the ability to solve problems creatively or bring new possibilities to life - and skills like critical thinking, communication and collaboration are far more important than academic knowledge.”
“The capacity to learn is a gift; The ability to learn is a skill; The
willingness to learn is a choice.”
Source: Dune: House Harkonnen
“The capacity to love is tied to being able to be awake, to being able to move out of yourself and be with someone else in a manner that is not about your desire to possess them, but to be with them, to be in union and communion.”
“The capacity to make free choices is not something we either have entirely or not at all. Rather, choices become freer the more they are the result of our own capacity to reflect on and assess facts and arguments.”
“The capacity to produce social chaos is the last resort of desperate people.”
Source: The Cornel West Reader
“The capacity to reason is a special sort of capacity because it can lead us to places that we did not expect to go.”
Source: The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress
“The capacity to recognize significant factors in a given situation is limited by the context that arises from the level of consciousness of the observer.”
“The capacity to see the big picture is perhaps the most important as an antidote to the variety of psychic woes brought forth by the remarkable prosperity and plentitude of our times. Many of us are crunched for time, deluged by information, and paralyzed by the weight of too many choices. The best prescription for these modern maladies may be to approach one's own life in a contextual, big picture fashion - to distinguish between what really matters and what merely annoys.”
Source: A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future
“The capacity to solve Life's problems is based on our abilities to learn to think above and not below the problems.”
“The capacity to still feel wonder is essential to the creative process.”
“The capacity to succeed depends on your ability to believe in your vision and pursue it with determination. No one can convince you to succeed if you do not believe it.”
Source: The Kind of Substance You Need For Your Success
“The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.”
Source: More Memories
“The capacity to think about, to reflect upon, difficult feelings is what allows us to forego expressing them in more problematic ways, such as, for patients with eating disorders, through a binge, or a purge, or food restriction.”
Source: Eating Disorders: A Contemporary Introduction
“The capacity to transfer production elsewhere is a weapon against the Western workers.”
“The capacity to transform itself from the inside makes capitalism a somewhat peculiar beast - chameleon-like, it perpetually changes it colour; snake-like, it periodically sheds its skin.”
“the capacity to work feeds on itself and has its own course of development. This is what artists have going for them.”
Source: Daybook, Turn, Prospect: The Journey of an Artist
“The capacity you're thinking of is imagination; without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction.”
Source: Death in Summer
“The Cape Town is considerably increased within the last eight years. Its respectability with regard to strength has kept pace with its other enlargements and rendered it very secure against any attempt which is not made with considerable force.”
Source: The Voyage of the Bounty
“The capillaries in my eyes are bursting
If our love died, would that be the worst thing?
For somebody I thought was my saviour
You sure make me do a whole lot of labour
The calloused skin on my hands is crackin'
If our love ends, would that be a bad thing?
And the silence haunts out bed chamber
You make me do too much labour”
“The capital amassed in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries through various forms of slave economy is still in circulation, said De Jong, still bearing interest, increasing many times over and continually burgeoning anew.”
Source: The Rings of Saturn
“The capital city of the Dominican Republic is Santo Domingo, founded in 1496 by Bartholomew Columbus, Christopher’s brother. Rafael Leónidas Trujillo served as President from 1930 to 1938 and again from 1942 to 1952, continuing to rule for the rest of the time as an unelected strongman using figurehead presidents. He renamed the capital city of the Dominican Republic to Ciudad Trujillo after himself. His régime lasted for over thirty years, until his assassination on May 30, 1961, while riding in his car on the outskirts of the city. After he was gunned down, his riddled body was taken to France and interred in the famous Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, bringing to an end “La Era de Trujillo.” Six years later Trujillo’s body was moved to the El Pardo Cemetery near Madrid, Spain, where it now rests.”
“The capital gains tax is 15 percent now. So I sit there in my office and I make a lot of money by capital gains, and I pay 15 percent, and I pay no payroll tax on it.”
“The capital is become an overgrown monster; which, like a dropsical head, will in time leave the body and extremities without nourishment and support.”
“The capital of any nation is capacity to enhance the development of human skills through education in any form.”
“The capital of the United States is the home to the best of the worst humanity has to offer. The most corrupt, the most deceitful, the most tyrannical, the most greedy, and the most evil rise through the ranks of the political machines and eventually find themselves safely in bed participating in the incestuous orgy of corruption occurring daily in Washington, DC.”
“The capital of the world would multiply at an increasing rate if everyone employed enjoyed the activities of their employment. When people enjoy their work, they’re more productive.”
Source: Business Essentials
“The capital phenomenon, the most catastrophic disaster, is uninterrupted sleeplessness, that nothingness without release.”
“The capital ... shall form a fund, the interest of which shall be distributed annually as prizes to those persons who shall have rendered humanity the best services during the past year. ... One-fifth to the person having made the most important discovery or invention in the science of physics, one-fifth to the person who has made the most eminent discovery or improvement in chemistry, one-fifth to the one having made the most important discovery with regard to physiology or medicine, one-fifth to the person who has produced the most distinguished idealistic work of literature, and one-fifth to the person who has worked the most or best for advancing the fraternization of all nations and for abolishing or diminishing the standing armies as well as for the forming or propagation of committees of peace.”
“The capital-T Truth is about life before death. It is about making it to 30, or maybe 50, without wanting to shoot yourself in the head.”
“The capital-T Truth is about life BEFORE death. It is about the real value of a real education, which has almost nothing to do with knowledge, and everything to do with simple awareness; awareness of what is so real and essential, so hidden in plain sight all around us, all the time, that we have to keep reminding ourselves over and over: "This is water." "This is water." It is unimaginably hard to do this, to stay conscious and alive in the adult world day in and day out.”
“The capitalism we are in now is already coming to an end”
“The capitalist achievement does not typically consist in providing more silk stocking for queens but in bringing them within the reach of factory girls in return for a steadily decreasing amount of effort.”
Source: Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
“The capitalist and consumerist ethics are two sides of the same coin, a merger of two commandments. The supreme commandment of the rich is ‘Invest!’ The supreme commandment of the rest of us is ‘Buy!’ The capitalist–consumerist ethic is revolutionary in another respect. Most previous ethical systems presented people with a pretty tough deal. They were promised paradise, but only if they cultivated compassion and tolerance, overcame craving and anger, and restrained their selfish interests. This was too tough for most. The history of ethics is a sad tale of wonderful ideals that nobody can live up to. Most Christians did not imitate Christ, most Buddhists failed to follow Buddha, and most Confucians would have caused Confucius a temper tantrum. In contrast, most people today successfully live up to the capitalist–consumerist ideal. The new ethic promises paradise on condition that the rich remain greedy and spend their time making more money and that the masses give free reign to their cravings and passions and buy more and more. This is the first religion in history whose followers actually do what they are asked to do. How though do we know that we'll really get paradise in return? We've seen it on television.”
Source: קיצור תולדות האנושות
“The capitalist can only make a whole people go to war . . . by capturing the popular will. The only prophylactic against that situation is to make the public aware of the way in which it is being misled.”
Source: The great illusion--now
“The capitalist cannot store labour-power in warehouses after he has bought it, as he may do with the raw material.”
Source: Capital: A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production