Important Quotes - Page 327

If we were multilingual, imagine how much you would learn about your own culture, about the sensibilities of what's important in your own culture.

That's why it's important to be multilingual, because it teaches you so much about your own language.

I don't want to blame anybody, but I just want to tell you that the process of writing is antisocial, so on the days that you have something really important to write, go from lying down directly to your notepad or your computer. Do not talk.

My head is filled with so much crap, or facts that I find important, but that some others don't.

The most important, overriding arc of my career has been that I would never be self-deprecating.

Nothing is more common than for men to make partial and absurd distinctions between vices of equal enormity, and to observe some of the divine commands with great scrupulousness, while they violate others, equally important, without any concern, or the least apparent conciousness of guilt. Alas, it is only wisdom which perceives this tragedy.

Every man's affairs, however little, are important to himself.

The takeover of Harvard in 1805 by the Unitarians is probably the most important intellectual event in American history - at least from the standpoint of education

For psychological purposes the most important differences in conation are those in virtue of which the object is revealed as sensed or perceived or imaged or remembered or thought.

I'm definitely not the kind of person who wants to push anything down anyone's throat, so I don't really mind what the outcome of the conversation is but just that people are talking about it is very important to me.

In my community, women are as important as males, and they are playing an equal role in the society.

Core strength and stability is very important to me. Tennis is all about rotation of the body and my ability to create power. I incorporate a lot of abdominal, back and glute exercises into my gym sessions.

It's important to have masculine energy around your child.

John Faulkner's As I Lay Dying is very important to me as an influence. When I didn't know how to start Mr. Splitfoot, I just wrote the first line of As I Lay Dying instead and then continued on. It's dissolved in the text now, but it helped me start.

It's important to be able to keep things fresh, no matter what age you are, or how many years you've been in the industry.

I think that critiquing the myths of our society and helping people find their way through them is a very important thing. It's a theme that goes through all of my work.

The second commandment is "Thou shall not construct any graven images." Is this really the pinnacle of what we can achieve morally? The second most important moral principle for all the generations of humanity?

It is important to realize that our inability to answer a question says nothing about whether the question itself has an answer.

You'll get more support on a hard, important, project than a derivative one.

The most important thing is that there is clear reporting structure and everyone knows what it is.

You need to figure out what the 2 or 3 most important things are, and then just do those.

Developing a personal connection with anyone you're trying to do a big deal with is really important.

Cofounder relationships are among the most important in the entire company.

More important than starting any startup, is getting to know a lot of potential co-founders.

It's always been colossally important to me that my books should be well received in India. It's where I come from.