Important Quotes - Page 225

She's kind of funny looking. Her face is out of balance--broad forehead, button nose, freckled cheeks, and pointy ears. A slammed-together, rough sort of face you can't ignore. Still, the whole package isn't so bad. For all I know maybe she's not so wild about her own looks, but she seems comfortable with who she is, and that's the important thing.

The power to concentrate was the most important thing. Living without this power would be like opening one’s eyes without seeing anything.

You like to write. It's the single most important quality for someone who wants to be a writer. But not in itself enough.

The truth is more important to me than anything - my personal wealth or health or any of these things. I think that it's not so difficult for me to say what I'm saying.

A personal relationship with God enhances life. First, it enables us to accept our limitations without being frustrated by them. It assures us that problems we can't solve are not necessarily insoluble. Second, when we need it, God offers us a sense of forgiveness, a sense of cleansing from our incompleteness. . . . Last and perhaps most important, a personal relationship with God redeems us from the fear of death. We needn't be afraid that all our good deeds will vanish when we die.

The most important message that I can give to you and to all the world is to keep the commandments of God.

What's important is not just to develop the technology; it's to develop the processes.

The invention of the printing press was one of the most important events in human history.

Loosen up. Relax. Except for rare life-and-death matters, nothing is as important as it first seems.

When you have nothing important or interesting to say, don't let anyone persuade you to say it.

Remember that how you say something is as important as what you say.

In these times - where social appearance is more important than spiritual substance - what has become our longing to change is really the unconscious desire to control not just the shape of our bodies (according to prevailing values) but to dominate our environment as well, regardless of the cost.

One of the most important rules for me is: Don't ever defend myself. If we could put this one principle into practice, how much more simple life would be.

So this anchoring in some way, in some important way in the past without repeating the past, but on the basis of the past building something new: that is what is important.

There were influences in my life that were more important than journalism, such as comic strips and radio.

Titles are not only important, they are essential for me. I cannot write without a title

I don't need to put extra pressure on myself right now. The important thing is for me to stay healthy, in practice, and just keep on the hours. You just never know when it's going to happen for you.

I love shooting in New York because I love the city. Ultimately, I like doing it there and the city is important to the story, but it can be hard to shoot where you live too because it is so all-absorbing.

The public is usually slow to catch on to new things, and its important that musicians stick to their guns and not look for that instant gratification.

If people are really excited about their music, and that's their primary motivation, then that comes through in demo tapes. That's the most important ingredient.

I think it's really important that we get rid of the idea that protest will create change.

I don't see how you can create and not have the feeling that it is the most important, all-consuming thing.

Noise pollution is basically defined as the presence of simple information that makes it impossible to hear all the other more delicate - and often more important - information. Noise pollution creates, if you will, dumb environments. Our industrial areas, many of our downtown urban areas, are dumb acoustic environments. Very simple, very loud, often unhealthy.

[They] should never have put me with that woman. ... She was just a sort of bigoted woman who said she used to be Labour.

I wanted to be on the stage, doing very important emotional roles.