T Quotes
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“The critical thing about the design process is to identify your scarcest resource. Despite what you may think, that very often is not money. For example, in a NASA moon shot, money is abundant but lightness is scarce; every ounce of weight requires tons of material below. On the design of a beach vacation home, the limitation may be your ocean-front footage. You have to make sure your whole team understands what scarce resource you're optimizing.”
“The criticality of pausing and reflecting is grossly underestimated. Only when you step away from the rat race, from the earning-a-living bubble, does your Life’s Purpose find you…that’s how Purpose slips in…it tiptoes into your Life!”
“The criticism from the other side of [race] debate - and these are not necessarily I think defenders of [Donald] Trump, but they're certainly quick to say, you know, if you're going to live by the race card, you die by the race card.”
“The criticism hurts sometimes and I worry about the effect on my family.”
“The criticism is that it's too simple, but my feeling is it's more of a challenge making someone feel an emotion in four notes than in 25 notes.”
“The criticism is, once I get something flying, I lose interest in it.”
“The criticism of Leopold II often came from the Anglo-Saxon side, who thus did not have to talk about their own dirty path. Chopping off the hands of dead soldiers to justify ammunition use, for example, was a mutilation practice also used by the British in Sierra Leone, the Germans in Cameroon, French in Brazzaville and so on.”
Source: Leopold II: Het hele verhaal
“The criticism of Religion is the beginning of all criticism”
“The criticism that has most consistently bothered me is the allegation that I'm a schlockmeister whose only objective is to shock people.”
“The criticism usually goes only to the religious right. 'Bigots,' 'intolerant,' 'hateful' - those labels get slapped on quickly and usually when we are winning debates and scoring points against liberals.”
“The criticisms made of Gorbachev-that he was indecisive, spineless, lily-livered, half-hearted, evasive-were all true. Just as it was true that he earned them all in his opposition to the radical democrats, whom I idolized at the time. The camp of those who hated Gorbachev was divided between those who did not like the reforms and those who did not like the fact that he was introducing them too slowly. The latter, to whom I belonged, hated him much more fervently: we had a goal we could see elsewhere-complete freedom of speech, capitalism, and democracy-and that made us active critics hammering away. We also deprived Gorbachev of support from the only section of society he could count on. So when, in his own good time, having missed every opportunity, he ceased to be afraid and ran for office (before that, he had been elected only by collegial bodies like congresses and supreme soviets whose subordinate status removed the risk of losing), he gained a derisory 0.51 percent of the vote.
The older I grew, the more intolerant I became of Gorbachev, but now I view him positively, if only because he proved completely incorruptible. In that he was unique. Everyone who had power during the transition from socialism to capitalism tried to grab as big a slice of the pie as they could. The Communist leaders of the central Asian republics of the U.S.S.R. became owners of entire countries and promptly turned them into totalitarian states. Ministers scooped up whole industries for which they had responsibility. Directors of factories found ingenious ways of becoming their owners. Nimble-footed members of the Young Communist League, whose resonant voices had vowed their preparedness to give their lives for the party, now employed their influence and connections to become oligarchs.
When Gorbachev stepped down as president, he took nothing with him, though there had been colossal opportunities for him to get rich. No one would have blinked an eye if a couple of major factories had somehow been transferred to offshore companies under the guise of "joint ventures." He could have helped himself to state property abroad. It would have been so easy to siphon party money into personal accounts. He did none of that. People can argue as much as they like that it was because he did not have the opportunity, but the fact remains that he made no attempt to do so. In my view, that was because he was a different kind of person. Not avaricious.”
Source: Patriot: A Memoir
“The criticisms that are often presented to us by some in the conservative Jewish community about our Palestinian version are: first, that the U.S. is not in conflict with "Palestine" (quotes are theirs) and second, that Conflict Kitchen should counter the Palestinian viewpoints it presents with pro-Israeli viewpoints, otherwise we are spreading dangerous propaganda.”
“The critics - how come you never see any of them on TV?”
“The critics and hardcore music fans, those are the people you have to get to first, so we're really happy about it.”
“The critics and the reviewers are more frightening than anything else!”
“The critics are generally wrong, or they're fifteen, twenty years late. It's a great shame. They miss out on a lot.”
“The critics are like tourists who return from a trip saying they've "done" Machu Picchu: "Okay, we've done magical realism," so now we can throw it out.”
“The critics can say stupid things and we can enjoy them, if we have the legitimate feeling of superiority - the satisfaction of a duty accomplished.”
“The critics could never mortify me out of heart - because I love poetry for its own sake, - and, tho' with no stoicism and some ambition, care more for my poems than for my poetic reputation.”
Source: The Brownings' Correspondence
“The critics don't build great cities”
“The critics don't interest me because they're concerned with what's past and done, while I'm concerned with what comes next.”
“The critics greeted this book with a churlish and horrified outcry. Certain virtuous people, in newspapers no less virtuous, made a grimace of disgust as they picked it up with the tongs to throw it into the fire. Even the minor literary reviews, the ones that retail nightly the tittle-tattle from alcoves and private rooms, held their noses and talked of filth and stench. I am not complaining about this reception; on the contrary I am delighted to observe that my colleagues have such maidenly susceptibilities.”
Source: Thérèse Raquin
“The critics had an image of me, and they wouldn't accept any other... I was a cartoon character. A joke.”
“The critics have been writing me off for 20 years. That's nothing new. As far as I know I still have plenty of fans and sell lots of records. Do I care what critics say about me? No, and I don't read reviews.”
“The critics…have it backward: The Qur’an is not the source of the Muslim world’s problems, but its untapped solution.”
Source: The Life of the Qur'an: From Eternal Roots to Enduring Legacy
“The critics love to get out their knives and dine on Coverdale. But the worse the criticism gets, the more successful I become.”
“The critics say that Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony has no form. They are wrong; it has the form of Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“The critics slap labels on you and then expect you to talk inside their terms.”
“The critics suppose that it is easy to write a play. They aren't aware that writing a good play is difficult and writing a bad one is twice as hard.”
“The critics tend to forget their own answers after a while”
“The critics try to intellectualize my material. There's no satire involved. Satire is a concept that can only be understood by adults. My stuff is straight, for people of all ages.”
“The critics who love are the severe ones . . . we know our relationship must be based on honesty.”
Source: The private eye, the cowboy, and the very naked girl: movies from Cleo to Clyde
“The critics. When they're right, they're right for the wrong reasons. And they're usually wrong.”
“The critique of social inequality, which is very much a part of my story, came about naturally from my recollection of Huck and Tom and the controversy surrounding [Mark] Twain's use of them and from my own passionate interest in civil rights, animal rights, and the right of Earth to survive humankind's reprehensible neglect of its stewardship.”
“The critique of the highest values hitherto does not simply refute them or declare them invalid. It is rather a matter of displaying their origins as impositions which must affirm precisely what ought to be negated by the values established.”
Source: Nietzsche: The will to power as art
“The critiques I received from my father's community didn't actually have to do with any of the things I'd been afraid of - spiritual or cultural aspects - they were more annoyed that I'd killed off this character or those characters hadn't hooked up or I'd done an open ending and it didn't give them a sense of closure that they were expecting.”
“The Croatians don't play well without the ball.”
“The crocodile cannot turn its head. Like all science, it must always go forward with all-devouring jaws.”
“The crocodile doesn't harm the bird that cleans his teeth for him. He eats the others but not that one.”
“The crocodile must want to be a crocodile for reasons of the crocodile”
“The crocodile on the bus goes
snap, snap, snap”
Source: The Wheels on the Bus
“The crocodiles that frighten from crossing the rivers of our destinies are easily drowned with personal confidence but not team courage. It means you owe it to yourself to defeat your own crocodiles and cross over to the other side!”
Source: Daily Drive 365
“The Crone, the Reaper... She is the Dark Moon, what you don't see coming at you, what you don't get away with, the wind that whips the spark across the fire line. Chance, you could say, or, what's scarier still: the intersection of chance with choices and actions made before. The brush that is tinder dry from decades of drought, the warming of the earth's climate that sends the storms away north, the hole in the ozone layer. Not punishment, not even justice, but consequence.”
“The crooked little tomato branches, pulpy and pale as if made of cheap green paper, broke under the weight of so much fruit; there was something frantic in such fertility, a crying-out like that of children frantic to please.”
Source: The witches of Eastwick
“The crooked people conduct to a crooked path.”
“The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.”
Source: Cutting for Stone
“The crooks downtown figured out that comedy is like a hammer. It can put up a barn and it can knock down a wall. So they bought it outright and marketed it as Comedy Central.”
“The crooning turns to a sunrise singing.”
Source: The poetry of Vachel Lindsay: complete & with Lindsay's drawings
“The crop always seems better in our neighbor's field, and our neighbor's cow gives more milk.”
“The Crosby family is sort of legendary for all of its traumas and familial problems, even though it has this appearance of being this perfect world. It had quite a dark side to it.”