T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The difficulty of saying I-a phrase from the East German novelist Christa Wolf. But once having said it, as we realize the necessity to go further, isn't there a difficulty of saying 'we'? You cannot speak for me. I cannot speak for you. Two thoughts: there is no liberation that only knows how to say 'I'; there is no collective movement that speaks for each of us all the way through.”
“The difficulty of tactical maneuvering consists in turning the devious into the direct, and misfortune into gain.”
Source: Sun Tzu: The Art of War (Illustrated)
“The difficulty of writing a good theatre play set in new reality was even greater given that the level of similitude to life that is allowed in a film would not work on the stage.”
“The difficulty of writing about sex, for women, is that sex is best when not thought about, not analysed.”
Source: The Golden Notebook
“The difficulty one experiences in meeting himsa arises from weakness of mind.”
Source: The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi
“The difficulty over the question of eternal torments lies in how it is irreconcilable with the Goodness of God.”
“The difficulty really is psychological and exists in the perpetual torment that results from your saying to yourself, "But how can it be like that?" which is a reflection of uncontrolled but utterly vain desire to see it in terms of something familiar. ... If you will simply admit that maybe Nature does behave like this, you will find her a delightful, entrancing thing. Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possible avoid it, "But how can it be like that?" because you will get 'down the drain', into a blind alley from which nobody has escaped. Nobody knows how it can be like that.”
“The difficulty seems to be, not so much that we publish unduly in view of the extent and variety of present day interests, but rather that publication has been extended far beyond our present ability to make real use of the record.”
“The difficulty that contestation must be done in the name of an authority is resolved this: I contest in the name of contestation what experience itself is.”
Source: Inner Experience
“The difficulty that negotiators have is often based on the cultural difference that various countries have.”
“The difficulty that WikiLeaks has, of course, is that we can't go around speculating on who our sources are. That would be irresponsible.”
“The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior.”
Source: The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth
“The difficulty will be to keep her from learning too fast and too much. She is always sitting with her little nose burrowing into books. She doesn't read them, Miss Minchin; she gobbles them up as if she were a little wolf instead of a little girl. She is always starving for new books to gobble, and she wants grown-up books--great, big, fat ones--French and German as well as English--history and biography and poets, and all sorts of things. Drag her away from her books when she reads too much.”
Source: A Little Princess
“The difficulty with any sort of esteem is that more is expected of you.”
“The difficulty with becoming a patient is that as soon as you get horizontal, part of your being yearns, not for a doctor, but for a medicine man.”
“The difficulty with color is to go beyond the fact that it's color ? to have it be not just a colorful picture but really be a picture about something. It's difficult. So often color gets caught up in color, and it becomes merly decorative. Some photographers use it brilliantly to make visual statements combining color and content; otherwise it is empty.”
“The difficulty with coming up with a curriculum is mainly that faculty aren't trained to think in terms of general education. They're trained to think in terms of their own discipline, or their specialty.”
“The difficulty with humanity's previous attempts at reinventing itself is that we've always started with behaviors rather than with beliefs.”
“The difficulty with humorists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't; whichever seems likelier to win an effect.”
“The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.”
“The difficulty with Poe is not figuring out which of his stories rise to the level required of this collection, but rather which of his stories to exclude from it.”
Source: The Best Horror Short Stories 1800-1849: A Classic Horror Anthology
“The difficulty with pragmatic arguments for a religion is that truths do not always "work", and beliefs that "work" are by no means always true.”
“The difficulty with telling stories about real people is you have to find a way of mixing yourself into the matter.”
“The difficulty with the present state of affairs is that there is no legislation on the sources of funding for the Polish film industry. There is no legislation concerning filmmaking. And, there is no legislation on television that would be beneficial to filmmaking.”
“The difficulty, if you're in the world - and this is for anybody - is the eventual disappointment that comes with having to meet other versions of reality. Imposed systems that ask you to compromise or sacrifice things which you consider holy or sacred.”
“The difficulty, in sociology, is to manage to think in a completely astonished and disconcerted way about things you thought you had always understood.”
Source: Language and Symbolic Power
“The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.”
“The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.”
“The difficulty, then, is when you create a church, an institution, and you create a dogma. When you create an ideology, that's the danger. Communism, too, is a beautiful idea, but millions of people died when communism became an ideology.”
“The diffrense from a person and an angel is easy. Most of an angel is in the inside and most of a person is on the outside.”
Source: Mister God, This is Anna
“The diffusion of a universalist culture and of a pedagogy of peace appears more than ever to be the path that we must follow for the salvation of all nations on earth.”
“The diffusion of information and the arraignment of all abuses at the bar of public reason, I deem [one of] the essential principles of our government, and consequently [one of] those which ought to shape its administration.”
“The diffusion of taste is not the same thing as the improvement of taste.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“THE DIGESTION SYSTEM YOU ARE HAVING PHYSICALLY IS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL, COMPLEX, WONDERFUL, GREATEST, MOST POWERFUL, DIGESTION SYSTEM IN THE WHOLE UNIVERSE, NOT JUST COMPARED TO ANIMALS AND SPECIES.”
“The digestive canal is in its task a complete chemical factory. The raw material passes through a long series of institutions in which it is subjected to certain mechanical and, mainly, chemical processing, and then, through innumerable side-streets, it is brought into the depot of the body. Aside from this basic series of institutions, along which the raw material moves, there is a series of lateral chemical manufactories, which prepare certain reagents for the appropriate processing of the raw material.”
“The digestive canal represents a tube passing through the entire organism and communicating with the external world, i.e. as it were the external surface of the body, but turned inwards and thus hidden in the organism.”
“The digital age greatly assisted the selfish and heartless in degrading humanity. Being a part of humanity, when would they realize they were degrading a part of themselves?”
Source: The Beasts of Success
“The digital age is for me in many ways about temporal wounding. It's really messed up our ontological clocks.”
“The digital age is for me in many ways about temporal wounding. It's really messed up our ontological clocks. In the digital economy, everything is archived, catalogued, readily available, and yet nothing really endures. The links are digital encryptions that can and won't be located. That will have to be reassembled over time. It won't be exactly what it was. There will be some slightly altered version. So the book is both an immaterial and material artifact.”
“The Digital Age promises to amplify their being—YouTube’s original motto was “Broadcast Yourself”—but, in truth, it only delivers a horde of users with identical devices echoing one another in cyberspace.”
Source: Plough Quarterly No. 15 - Staying Human: The Tech Issue
“The digital and physical worlds are starting to come together more seamlessly - it's only the tip of the iceberg in terms of what's coming.”
“The digital artwork is characterized not by the technology which delivers it, but by the "passage" itself.”
“The digital asset that matters is trust. Awareness first, then interaction, and maybe a habit, but all three mean nothing if they don't lead to permission and trust. The privilege of connection. Everything else is slippery.”
“The digital board directors assume the dual role of guidance and governance steering.”
Source: Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as
“The digital board directors need to be independent thinkers, unbiased communicators, wise advisors, flexible facilitators, and global leaders these days.”
Source: Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as
“The digital board needs to know when to push the gas pedal to accelerate the business speed, and when to push the brake to practice governance discipline.”
Source: Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as
“The digital board’s IT inquiries help to clarify the strategic role of IT in maximizing business potential.”
Source: Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as
“The digital board’s success plan needs to be well aligned with the board composition, as well as the business's strategy evolution and digital transformation.”
Source: Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as
“The digital Board will help set the principles to innovate talent management and embrace digital fitness.”
Source: Digitizing Boardroom: The Multifaceted Aspects of Digital Ready Boards
“The digital boards today should be informed on what benefit is being delivered by IT and aware of constraints and risks.”
Source: Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as