Important Quotes - Page 181

Never give up! And remember, determination is as important as talent.

It is always brave to insist on undergoing transformations that feel necessary and right even when there are so many obstructions to doing so, including people and institutions who seek to pathologize or criminalize such important acts of self-definition. I know that for some feels less brave than necessary, but we all have to defend those necessities that allow us to live and breathe in the way that feels right to us. Surgical intervention can be precisely what a trans person needs – it is also not always what a trans person needs.

Were all important in god's eyes.

The rearing of children is considered too important to be left to the individual and should be the responsibility of the state.

After all that has been said, the greatest and most important duty is to preach the Gospel

Major Major never sees anyone in his office while he's in his office.

Be glad you're even alive.' Be furious you're going to die.

There was only one catch and that was catch 22

When an idea is important to a person or culture it will find its way into imagery.

I think it's important to live life with a knowledge of its mystery, and of your own mystery.

Arnošt Lustig is one of the leading contemporary Czech fiction writers, and certainly the most important Jewish writer of Bohemia to have survived the Holocaust.

Composers are influenced by all the important music in their lives - and I suppose that since radio started playing popular music, that's as likely to be The Beatles or Aphex Twin as it is to be Verdi or Ravel.

I have lost my credibility as a hit maker because of these side excursions into other branches of music; by not being consistent. Consistency seems to be all-important.

We live in a moment in history in which our privacy may not be important.

People assume that they perceive reality as it is, that our senses accurately record the outside world. Yet the science suggests that, in important ways, people experience reality not as it is, but as they expect it to be.

Once the attacks occur, as we learned on Sept. 11, it is too late. It makes little sense to deprive ourselves of an important, and legal, means to detect and prevent terrorist attacks while we are still in the middle of a fight to the death with al Qaeda.

What happened is that in the middle of my life I went away and in my own sense of hubris, pride, cynicism, thought, I am an autonomous being in the world, I can control things, I am God.' But my experiment at being God failed! And they do have a great saying in AA: 'Get down off the cross, we need the wood!' And the important thing is to realise you are not the centre of the universe, you are not God.

Everyone I have ever known very well has been concerned that I would eventually starve. Probably I shall. It isn't important enough to me to be an obsession.

The education of the doctor which goes on after he has his degree is, after all, the most important part of his education.

Religious faith is an important aspect of American culture and a fact of American political life.

I think it's very important to maintain the classical Christian distinction between the Creator and creation.

Immersing yourself in the environment of a real record store where music is celebrated and cherished adds real value to the experience of buying music. In some ways, that retail experience is as important as the music.

Important benefits often accrue to states that behave in an unexpected way.

It's so important what you're doing in your life. It's tremendously important to the work, and no aesthetic theories take that into account.

Rules are important, but they're temporary and they're always supposed to be changed.