Important Quotes - Page 159

You're less apprehensive when you know what to expect. Also, the first flight is very important in this performance-driven culture I work in; it establishes your reputation. If you don't do well, it's probably your last flight.

The goal is justice, the method? is transparency. It's important not to confuse the goal and the method.

I was nominated for two Grammy's, but ... more importantly, I like it when I get a letter from someone ... a person that I've affected their lives or I've helped them. That's important to me. Someone will say "I was feeling bad and you helped me".

Precision marching is less important for the bridal party than maintaining the proper facial expresssions: The bridegroom must look awed; the bridesmaids, happy and excited; the father of the bride, proud; and the bride, demure. If the bridegroom feels doubtful, the bridesmaids, sulky, the father, worried, and the bride, blasé, nobody wants to know.

A philosopher knows that in reality he knows very little. That is why he constantly strives to achieve true insight. Socrates was one of these rare people. He knew that he knew nothing about life and about the world. And now comes the important part: it troubled him that he knew so little.

It is important also to consider, that the surest means of avoiding war is to be prepared for it in peace.

Sometimes, it's not getting what we want that offers us the most important Lessons

Tradition is an important help to history, but its statements should be carefully scrutinized before we rely on them.

The two important facts I should say, are emotion, and then words arising from emotion. I don't think you can write in an emotionless way. If you attempt it, the result is artificial. I don't like that kind of writing. I think that if a poem is really great, you should think of it as having written itself despite the author. It should flow.

You have to remember. . .that for this little boy whom you have met, his life is just as important to him, as your life is to you. No matter how insufficient or how shabby it may seem to some, it is the only one he has.

Make a list of what is really important to you. Embody it.

The dollars aren't so important... once you have them.

The most important invention that will come out of the corporate research lab in the future will be the corporation itself.

Seeing & savoring Jesus Christ is the most important seeing and savoring you'll ever do.

That's how you deal with stardom; you make it the least important part of your life.

The Alexander Technique has played an important and beneficial part in my life.

Behavioral change is more important than individual product choices. They both have a role to play.

The relevance of Marxism to science is that it removes it from its imagined position of complete detachment and shows it as a part, but a critically important part, of economy and social development.

Shipping is a feature. A really important feature. Your product must have it.

The mind is the most important thing of the big picture and no one has a stronger mindset than amateur wrestlers.

I stayed on the track I wanted to stay on. I don’t think I deviated from what I’m all about and what I thought was important. Whether you want to call that a legacy, or whatever you want to call it.

I was lucky enough when it came to sports and work ethic to be taught some basics that continue to be important.

Acting is real important to me. I love it, and it's something I care about.

Water is important to people who do not have it, and the same is true of control.

It's so important to know where you are.