T Quotes
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“The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated."Mark McCormack, Author and sports entrepreneur"Psychologists tell us that money is a satisfier, not a motivator... Recognition is. That's why we do what we do... Recognition is critical to self-esteem. Without it, we feel undervalued, even insignificant. Money is nice, sure. But once you establish a basis of monetary rewards, without the accompanying verbal and social affirmation, the employee will quickly become disgruntled and ask for more. Eventually, more will never be enough.”
“The deepest problems of modern life derive from the claim of the individual to preserve the autonomy and individuality of his existence in the face of overwhelming social forces, of historical heritage, of external culture, and of the technique of life.”
Source: The Sociology of Georg Simmel
“The deepest problems of the human race are spiritual in nature. They are rooted in man’s refusal to seek God’s way for his life. The problem is the human heart, which God alone can change.”
Source: Billy Graham in Quotes
“The deepest reality you are aware of is the one from which you draw your power.”
Source: Ageless Body, Timeless Mind: The Quantum Alternative to Growing Old
“The deepest regret of yesterday can be made right by following the Savior today.”
“The deepest repentance and humility and our own frailty and weakness must be realized before we can know God's strength.”
“The deepest rivers flow with the least sound.”
Source: Quintus Curtius [History of Alexander]
“The deepest rivers make least din, The silent soule doth most abound in care.”
“The deepest secret in our heart of hearts is that we are writing because we love the world.”
Source: Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
“The deepest secret is that life is not a process of discovery, but a process of creation.”
“The deepest secret is that life is not a process of discovery, but a process of creation. You are not discovering yourself, but creating yourself anew. Seek therefore, not to find out Who You Are, but seek to determine Who You Want to Be.”
Source: The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue
“The deepest secrets are never whispered; they are buried in the silence between heartbeats.”
Source: Out of Bounds: Convergence: A Realistic Espionage Thriller of Betrayal, Survival, and International Deception
“The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.”
“The deepest sins are camouflaged as holiness.”
“The deepest sleep is meant only for children and perfect fools.”
Source: Hausfrau
“The deepest spiritual truths are always unutterable.”
Source: Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace
“The deepest subjective experiences are also the most universal, because through them one reaches the original source of life.”
Source: On the Heights of Despair
“the deepest subjective experiences are also the most universal, because through them one reaches the universal source of life.”
“The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.”
Source: The Yale Edition of the Unpublished Writings of Gertrude Stein: Mrs. Reynolds, and five earlier novelettes
“The deepest truth however is,
that no love begins unconditional,
but the only one that grows to be it,
is the one that survives the breaking
of all conditions, yet standing tall.”
“The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to feel important.”
“The deepest words
of the wise man teach us
the same as the whistle of the wind when it blows
or the sound of the water when it is flowing.”
Source: Times Alone: Selected Poems of Antonio Machado
“The deepest work is usually the darkest. A brave woman, a wisening woman, will developing the poorest psychic land, for if she builds only on the best land of her psyche, she will have for a view the least of what she is. So do not be afraid of the worst. It only guarantees increase of soul power through fresh insights and opportunities for re-visioning one's life and self anew.”
“The deepest wounds aren't the ones we get from other people hurting us. They are the wounds we give ourselves when we hurt other people.”
Source: Alyzon Whitestarr
“The deepest wounds of the soul are healed only by compassion... People do not merely need to be clothed, they need to be embraced with love. A love that enters into their own fears and frailty, a love that suffers with them and stays with them through their darkest hour.”
Source: 366 Days of Compassion: One Year Catholic Devotional
“The deepest, the intelligible, part of the nature of man is that part which does not take refuge in causality, but which chooses in freedom the good or the bad.”
Source: Sex & Character
“The deepest, the only theme of human history, compared to which all others are of subordinate importance, is the conflict of skepticism with faith.”
“The deeply irrational attitude of each sex toward women may be seen in novels, particularly in bad novels. In bad novels by men, there is the woman with whom the author is in love, who usually possesses every charm, but is somewhat helpless, and requires male protection; sometimes, however, like Shakespeare’s Cleopatra, she is an object of exasperated hatred, and is thought to be deeply and desperately wicked. In portraying the heroine, the male author does not write from observation, but merely objectifies his own emotions. In regard to his other female characters, he is more objective, and may even depend upon his notebook; but when he is in love, his passion makes a mist between him and the object of his devotion. Women novelists, also, have two kinds of women in their books. One is themselves, glamorous and kind, and object of lust to the wicked and of love to the good, sensitive, highsouled, and constantly misjudged. The other kind is represented by all other women, and is usually portrayed as petty, spiteful, cruel, and deceitful. It would seem that to judge women without bias is not easy either for men or for women.”
Source: An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish: A Hilarious Catalogue of Organized and Individual Stupidity
“The deeply learned ones know the mind as the directly expressed meaning of the supreme knowledge. The heart is the meaning aimed at. The Supreme is none other than the heart.”
“The deeply spiritual man can no longer bear all the noise of the public. Thus, avoiding general politics and the immense masses in his service.”
“The deepness and consistency of your repenting will have a direct impact on the liveliness of your faith and the brightness of your confidence. This is not because you repent so well, but because in repenting you know the darkness and trouble of your own sin, and the great work of grace in Jesus that overcomes it all.”
Source: Note to Self: The Discipline of Preaching to Yourself
“The deepness of your mind produces the thickness of your thoughts.”
“The deeps are cold: In that darkness camaraderie does not hold: Nothing touches but, clutching, devours.”
“The deer aren't our prey or our possessions -- they're us. They're us at one point in the cycle of life and we're them at another point in the cycle. The deer are twice your parents, for your mother and father are deer, and the deer that gave you its life today was mother and father to you as well, since you wouldn't be here if it weren't for that deer.”
“The Deer don't dineWhen a Wolf's about,And the PorcupineSticks his quill-points out.”
“The deer hovered by the trees beyond as the sounds of the ravening wolves came to them across the grass, their own senses almost frozen in impotent horror.”
“The Deer Hunter is securely on my list of American movie events, by which I mean those films that aspired to the whole equation, to be show business and art at the same time.”
“The deer in procession resemble charcoal cave paintings rendered manifest. Art's magic working backwards. The chalk behind them, bone. And not the hare runs, too. The hare runs in the opposite direction to the deer. The animals runs, and the landscape seems then to be parting in front of me. Deer one way, hare the other. And now they are quite gone: the hare to the fieldmargin at the top of the hill to my left, the deer into the wood at the top of the hill to my right. There is nothing before me now but wind and chalk and wheat.”
Source: H is for Hawk
“The deer season just opened. A deer hunter in Ventura Country brought in his first man yesterday.”
“The #deerlivesmatter signs from protestors had caused Daphne's eyes to become temporarily glued to her brain, they had rolled so far back in her skull.”
Source: History Lessons
“The default assumption is that - financial crises aside - growth will continue indefinitely. Not just for the poorest countries, where a better quality of life is undeniably needed, but even for the richest nations where the cornucopia of material wealth adds little to happiness and is beginning to threaten the foundations of our wellbeing.”
Source: Prosperity Without Growth: Foundations for the Economy of Tomorrow
“The default digital world tone is one of hyperactive friendliness, artificial empathy, emoji-based validation, dopamine-rich feedback loops, toxic positivity, and veiled cruelty. They assume communication is always good, that speaking is a virtue, and that interaction is life. Because they know nothing.”
“The default movement on a software project should be in the direction of taking elements of the software away to make it simpler rather than adding elements to make it more complex.”
Source: Software Project Survival Guide
“The defeat of the Americans in Canada and the advantages gained by the British arms in the Jerseys, and indeed for some months in every other quarter, gave to the royal cause an air of triumph.”
“The defeat of the Armada in 1588 was Elizabeth's high point. Things went downhill after that. Militarily the triumph against Spain was rather undermined the following year when Elizabeth sent her own massive Armada, commanded by Sir Francis Drake, to Spain and Portugal. This was annihilated too. So maybe God was neutral. Or Muslim.”
Source: Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
“The defeat of your enemy lies within the peace of your heart and the humbleness of your thoughts.”
“The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren't always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.”
Source: Mother Courage and Her Children: A Chronicle of the Thirty Years' War
“The defect in wisdom and taste which exists among the majority of dancers is due to the bad education which they generally receive. They apply themselves only to the material side of their art, they learn to jump more or less high, they strive mechanically to execute a number of steps, and like children, who utter a great many words devoid of sense and relation, they execute many phrases of steps devoid of taste and grace.”
“The defect of democracy is its tendency to put mediocrity into power; and there is no way of avoiding this except by limiting office to men of "trained skill".
Numbers by themselves cannot produce wisdom, and may give the best favors of office to the grossest flatterers.
"The fickle disposition of the multitude almost reduces those who have experience of it to despair; for it is governed solely by emotions, and not be reason."
Thus democratic government becomes a procession of brief-lived demagogues, and men of worth are loath to enter lists where they must be judged and rated by their inferiors.
Sooner or later the more capable men rebel against such a system, though they be in a minority.
"Hence I think it is that democracies change into aristocracies, and these at length into monarchies"; people at last prefer tyranny to chaos.
Equality of power is an unstable condition men are by nature unequal; and "he who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.”
Source: The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
“The defect of power in the existing confederacy, to regulate the commerce between its several members is in the number of those which have been clearly pointed out by experience . . . . A very material object of this power was the relief of the States which import and export through other States from the improper contributions levied on them by the latter.”
Source: The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788, by Mr. Hamilton, Mr. Madison, and Mr. Jay: with an Appendix, Containing the Letters of Pacificus and Helvidius, on the Proclamation of Neutrality of 1793; Also, the Original Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution of the United States, with the Amendments Made Thereto