Important Quotes - Page 146

Important families are like potatoes. The best parts are underground.

I always feel sad, to be honest, to see people badly injured. That's important because if someone's life is being changed like that it's extraordinarily important for that person - and you can't forget whether it was ten years ago, twenty or today. So I feel the same each time - I feel sad but I also feel that I should do the best I can to make it the best I can for them. So that's how I cope - by working.

It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.

It doesn't matter if you use a box camera or you use a Leica; the important thing is what motivates you when you are photographing.

The first and most important step in the process of becoming genuinely is to be once again authenticated by the original designer.

The market is a tool, and a useful one. But the worship of this tool is a hollow faith. Far more important than any tool is what you make with it.

We all only have 1440 minutes a day. Accept you can't do it all, focus on what's important and do that well.

The direction we are going in at this moment is the negation of material goods as being important and the great importance of spiritual values and sensations. Permissiveness, if you will. There is tremendous talk of sex and bi-sexuality.

I prize my seamstress, I value my copyist; but my cook, who knows well how to prepare the food to sustain life, and nourish brain, bone, and muscle, fills the most important place among the helpers in my family.

I find acting conservatories really important. I've gone to four different ones, and all of them provided totally different tools for me.

Science has heroes, but no gods. The great Names are not our superiors, or even our rivals, they are passed milestones on our road; and the most important milestone is the hero yet to come.

The most important question a human being has to face... What is it? The question, Why are we here?

One very important aspect of string theory is definitely testable. That was the prediction of supersymmetry, which emerged from string theory in the early '70s.

[The daguerreotype] itself must undoubtedly be regarded as the most important, and perhaps the most extraordinary triumph of modern science.

It is strange but true that although we may have learned all sorts of important facts while raising our own children, when we become grandparents we still tend to forget a whole lot of things we knew.

To the ego, the present moment hardly exists. Only past and future are considered important.

Far more important throughout the rest of science is the ability to form concepts, during which the researcher conjures images and processes by intuition.

It is far more important to be able to hit the target than it is to haggle over who makes a weapon or who pulls a trigger.

It's nice to be important but it's even more important to be nice. I grew up in a world where there were a lot of big physical guys...and woman so it's always important to be nice to me.

It is people who are important, not the masses.

I spent an important part of my life participating in conflicts. But for me, conflict was not the main principle.

The most important thing in the kitchen is the waste paper basket and it needs to be centrally located.

Our lives are so important to us that we tend to think the story of them begins with our birth. First there was nothing, then I was born...Yet that is not so. Human lives are not pieces of string that can be separated out from a knot of others and laid out straight. Families are webs. Impossible to touch one part of it without setting the rest vibrating. Impossible to understand one part without having a sense of the whole. - Vida Winter

Being a parent is very important to me.

When dams were erected on the Columbia, salmon battered themselves against the concrete, trying to return home. I expect no less from us. We too must hurl ourselves against and through the literal and metaphorical concrete that contains and constrains us, that keeps us from talking about what is most important to us, that keeps us from living the way our bones know we can, that bars us from our home. It only takes one person to bring down a dam.