Important Quotes - Page 199

In time of war steamships and improved arms are the most important things.

When people ask me what really changed my life, I tell them that absolutely the most important thing was changing what I demanded on myself.

Nothing is more important to England's arrangements for the World Cup than the state of David Beckham's foot.

If there is one thing Britain should learn from the last 50 years, it is this: Europe can only get more important for us.

Nelson Mandela was a terrorist. And then he wins the world peace prize and becomes president of South Africa. That's how change happens. It's very important not to differentiate protest from the democratic process.

As a director, I have to feel realism from actors, and they can't be plastic. The words for me are secondary, but the chemistry between the actors is most important. However, you have to go by the script because it's related to production, otherwise you will not finish your project.

Sometimes people are so close to the material, they miss an important cross-reference. You can't drop this line because half an hour later, it affects that line. And the writer is the person who knows that immediately.

My real bottom-line hypothesis is that nobody has a sweet clue what they’re doing. Therefore you better be trying stuff at an insanely rapid pace. You want to be screwing around with nearly everything. Relentless experimentation was probably important in the 1970s-now it’s do or die.

I used to be skeptical when educators and technologists predicted that we may be entering a new era of oral culture, in which audible information will be at least as important as visible information. Now that I have adopted into my own daily life a device that makes music and spoken-word files easy to access from anywhere, I have tempered my skepticism.

Things are forgotten and then perhaps picked up again, if we're lucky, it lasts... if not, then it's in the lap of the gods. The important thing was to do some work that I liked and hopefully that some others might also like, whether for a minute, a week, a month, a year.

Group personification obscures, rather than illuminates, important political questions.

Authenticity is really important, and sometimes thats really hard to get.

It's important to remember that whatever the presidential candidates of either party say, they will have to interact with the United States Congress, particularly the Senate, when it comes to crafting policy.

Words and music equally important. But the way to get what I'm looking for is different in each case. I have something specific I'm hoping for with the words and the music, and the way to get the words the way I like them is to take a long time, and the way to get the music I like it is to not let me or anyone else get in the way of it.

I think psychoanalyze-pinhead is the important lesson of GNU Emacs.

I like the idea of imagining a sound and feeling a sound and then having it come out through your body, through an instrument. That's an important way to make music.

When someone changes your world, that's when you know he's important to you.

I think the most important technique is to ground everything, to make fantasy world grounded and relatable, just great characters.

Compassion is the intention to see each human being as no better or worse than yourself, neither more nor less important, and as fundamentally similar to yourself.

No writer or thinker has taught me as much as James Hunter has about this all-important and complex subject of how culture is changed.

Love is counting someone else’s needs and interests as more important than your own needs or interests or comfort.

I believe deeply that it's very important to the United States, to the economic health of the United States, that we maintain a strong dollar.

I'm six foot four and a half and I have a temper. It's reserved for very important issues. If someone is asking me to make an artistic concession, then I'll become a madman.

If the challenge we face doesn't scare us, then it's probably not that important.

Intellectual property is an important legal and cultural issue. Society as a whole has complex issues to face here: private ownership vs. open source, and so on.