Important Quotes - Page 165

Students need to learn how to think critically, how to argue opposing ideas. It is important for them to learn how to think. You can always cook.

We may expect answers to prayer, and should not be easy without them any more than we should be if we had written a letter to a friend upon important business, and had received no reply.

Nature has endowed the earth with glorious wonders and vast resources that we may use for our own ends. Regardless of our tastes or our way of living, there are none that present more variations to tax our imagination than the soil, and certainly none so important to our ancestors, to ourselves, and to our children.

You should know that my most important contribution was always in tailoring; coats, jackets, wool dresses… so few of which went into the magazines.

I think constraints are very important. They're positive, because they allow you to work off something.

History thus becomes largely a study of character. Insight into temperament is hardly less important than the probing of "original materials."

It may be doubted that there are many other animals which have played so important a part in the history of the world as have these lowly organized creatures.

Well, you know what they say in Hollywood - the most important thing is being sincere, even if you have to fake it.

the important thing is not what we (look) like,but the role we play in our best friend's life.

I've always been able to decide what was more important at different points in my life, but I never gave up personal things to work, never.

You don't look in the eyes of a carrot seed quite in the way you do a panda bear, but it's very important diversity.

With three work days a week, we would have more time to relax; for quality of life. Having four days off would be very important to generate new entertainment activities and other ways of being occupied.

The method of science, as stodgy and grumpy as it may seem, is far more important than the findings of science.

Delude not yourself with the notion that you may be untrue and uncertain in trifles and in important things the contrary. Trifles make up existence, and give the observer the measure by which to try us; and the fearful power of habit, after a time, suffers not the best will to ripen into action.

Error is just as important a condition of life's progress as truth

The greatest and most important problems of life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can never be solved, but only outgrown. This 'outgrowing', as I formerly called it, on further experience was seen to consist in a new level of consciousness. Some higher or wider interest arose on the person's horizon, and through this widening of view, the insoluble problem lost its urgency. It was not solved logically in its own terms, but faded out when confronted with a new and stronger life-tendency.

I think Straight Outta Compton is one of the greatest biopics, but I am biased on that one, obviously. There are some things the Academy gets wrong and it's important to call them on it. But in other instances, there are simply just better actors. They're doing a better job than they've done, but there's still room for improvement.

Self-discipline is a great time-saver; it is the ability to make yourself work on only those things that are most important to you.

Your most important tasks and priorities are those that can have the most serious consequences, positive or negative, on your life or work. Focus on these above all.

Do one thing at a time. Start the day with a list of things you have to do, and do the most important things first.

Life is filled with tests, one after another, and if you don't recognize them, you are certain to fail the most important ones.

In my model, important interference phenomena arise when individual strata come into contact. These chaotic fluctuations are, I suppose, what my music is really about.

Science is too important not to be a part of popular culture.

A really important part of competition is coming back, trying to do it better the second time than you did the first.

The most important thing you leave behind is the stuff that turns into treasures when children find it