Important Quotes - Page 163

More important than learning how to recall things is finding ways to forget things that are cluttering the mind.

The extension of life beyond Earth is the most important thing we can do as a species.

My most important rule is one that sums up the 10: If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it.

It's so important to take vitamins. People always get ill on tour because of the close proximity in the bus with everyone.

For me, being able to work with somebody who I don't have to translate my experience to all the time - that's important, because I'm not ­having to walk someone down the path of racial understanding to tell a story about a woman of color.

I realized how important it was to know something about aviation, and it was something I was interested in, so I followed my brother's footsteps and obtained my pilot's license.

It is important that we relish the food we eat. If we cannot do this, but eat mechanically, our food does not do us that good it should, and we fail to be nourished and built up by it as we otherwise would be, if we could enjoy the food we take into the stomach.

[On power:] Some people really have almost a disdain for that word. They feel it is alien to conscience. Power for power's sake, no. But the positive use of power for positive purposes is very important. You have to understand that. You've got to have a seat at the policy table if you want to make a difference.

Great trials seem to be a necessary preparation for great duties. It would seem that the more important the enterprise, the more severe the trial to which the agent is subjected in his preparation.

I was a very introverted individual and this became an important outlet for me to express myself, to communicate, to take positions, make statements, take a stand and so forth. But I never really thought I had much a future at all So the thing that I had to do was to really go inward and really work super hard in the hope that someday it would pay off. And in using that term I don't mean necessarily money, but just the fact that I would have more depth and dimension both as a human being and as an artist.

It's important for me to let my fans know I really don't care. I'm confident.

I realized at a young age that sequence in an album is almost as important as the songs that are on the album.

You should write, first of all, to please yourself. You shouldn't care a damn about anybody else at all. But writing can't be a way of life - the important part of writing is living. You have to live in such a way that your writing emerges from it.

What's important is self-appreciation

I thought it was very important that femininity wasn't lost.

As far as he can achieve it, readability is as important for the scientific writer as it is for the novelist.

The best thing that I learned from the best directors that I worked with is that the best answer wins. They are ego-less when it comes to doing the most important thing.

An important and fundamental premise of the American judicial system is the presumption of innocence, that is until proven guilty.

What makes you attractive is being yourself, being natural, being unaware. Even though makeup is important, you should do it all, and then forget about it. You don't want to look like anyone else, any more than you want to be anyone else. You want to look like you. Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery - but it's flattering to someone else. Not to you.

I get to swim in the ocean every single day, which is a very, very important thing to do to stay connected.

The most important conversations, briefings, meeting, and lectures you will ever have will be those you hold with yourself in the privacy of your own mind.

There is a small, but important, difference between peeing in the pool, and peeing into the pool.

Courage is more important than to be deceived by shallow victory waiting for a delayed defeat.

When you have a lot of resources, the most important thing is to have had good parents and to have been brought up by people who gave one the proper values.

Adam Smith, and other able writers to whom I have alluded, not having viewed correctly the principles of rent, have, it appears to me, overlooked many important truths, which can only be discovered after the subject of rent is thoroughly understood.