Crucial Quotes - Page 6

• In my teaching and consulting practice, I encourage people to learn to experiment with confidence and to see themselves as scientists in the laboratory of their lives, continually trying new ways to pursue what matters most to them and to the people who depend on them. Smart, small wins are crucial to this approach, as is devoting time and attention to reflecting on what works and what doesn't.

  Stewart D. Friedman

  Smart, Teaching, Winning

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Since 1978 for the bottom half of the wealth distribution male median wages have actually gone down. And I think that's a crucial reason. If you are a male worker, your median wage since 1979 has gone down.

  Tucker Carlson

  Thinking, Down And, Males

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Just as our fingerprints are one-of-a-kind, so is our identity. Each of us is a once-only articulation of what humans can be. We are rare, unmatched, mysterious. This is why the quality of openness is so crucial to our self-discovery. We cannot know ourselves by who we think we are, who others take us to be, or what our driver's license may say. We are fields of potential, some now actualized, most not yet.

  David Richo

  Thinking, Discovery, Self

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• The light is really the most important thing, so if you don't have skylights and if you don't have north light, this is like having a natural skylight. Light is the crucial factor. With wet oil paints, you don't want any hot spots or bounce.

  Pierre Coupey

  Light, Oil, Important

  "Dream Studio". opusartsupplies.com. October 30, 2011.

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• There's a Spanish proverb," he said, "that's always fascinated me. "Take what you want and pay for it, says God.'" "I don't believe in God," Daniel said, "but that principle seems, to me, to have a divinity of its own; a kind of blazing purity. What could be simpler, or more crucial? You can have anything you want, as long as you accept that there is a price and that you will have to pay it.

  Tana French

  Believe, Long, Principles

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• There are crucial things that cause fractures, breaks, whatever in relationships. But no one throws a life away.

  Paula White

  Causes, Break, Fracture

  Source: culteducation.com

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• As any doctor can tell you, the most crucial step toward healing is having the right diagnosis. If the disease is precisely identified, a good resolution is far more likely. Conversely, a bad diagnosis usually means a bad outcome, no matter how skilled the physician.

  Andrew Weil

  Healing, Mean, Doctors

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Police and firefighters are great, but they don't create wealth. They protect it. That's crucial. Teaching is a wonderful profession. Teachers help educate people to become good citizens so that citizens can then go create wealth. But they don't create the wealth themselves.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Teacher, Retirement, Teaching

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• It does kids no favors, and sets them up for a potential lifetime of poor health and social embarrassment, to excuse them from family meals of real food. Everyone benefits from healthy eating, but it is particularly crucial at the beginning of life.

  Andrew Weil

  Real, Kids, Healthy

  "Are You An Adult Picky Eater?". www.huffingtonpost.com. August 17, 2011.

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• TV has taken reflection out of the human condition. People didn't use to have a ready answer for everything, whether they knew something about it or not. People think they have to have an answer for everything because the guys on TV have an answer for everything. But it's bullsh**t! Reflection is crucial.

  Alan Arkin

  Taken, Thinking, Reflection

  "Alan Arkin: Random Advice from an Older Gentleman" by Alan Arkin, www.esquire.com. January 31, 2013.

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• Being a TV comedian, actor, writer, columnist, and all that is quite helpful to me in acquiring wide varieties of knowledge, which is crucial for filmmaking.

  Takeshi Kitano

  Comedian, Actors, Tvs

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• We must contemplate some extremely unpleasant possibilities, just because we want to avoid them and achieve something better. Nobody, however, likes to think about anything unpleasant, even to avoid it. And so the crucial problem of thermonuclear war is frequently dispatched with the label 'War is unthinkable' -- which, translated freely, means we don't want to think about it.

  Albert Wohlstetter

  War, Learning, Mean

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• We need stem-cell research, no question about it. It is absolutely crucial for moving our medical science forward. We are trying to harness an untapped source of energy that can provide cures and possibly even prevent disease and suffering.

  Richard Carmona

  Moving, Cells, Suffering

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• These two opposed forms of social organization, the modern state and the market, have evolved together through recent centuries, and their mutual interactions have become increasingly crucial to the character and dynamics of international relations in our world.

  Robert Gilpin

  Character, Our World, Organization

  Robert Gilpin (2016). “The Political Economy of International Relations”, p.4, Princeton University Press

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• Computers no longer interface with humans--they interact, and the interaction will become steadily deeper, more subtle, and more crucial to our collective sanity and ultimate survival.

  Alan Cooper

  Survival, Computer, Sanity

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• What sets imperialism of the capitalist sort apart from other conceptions of empire is that it is the capitalist logic that typically dominates, though ... there are times in which the territorial logic comes to the fore. But this then poses a crucial question: how can the territorial logics of power, which tend to be awkwardly fixed in space, respond to the open spatial dynamics of endless capital accumulation? And what does endless capital accumulation imply for the territorial logics of power?

  David Harvey

  Space, Doe, Dynamics

  David Harvey (2003). “The New Imperialism”, p.33, OUP Oxford

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• Competition-ruthless, unforgiving, to-the-death competition-is a crucial feature of capitalism.

  Jim Stanford

  Competition, Ruthless, Capitalism

  Jim Stanford (2008). “Economics for everyone: a short guide to the economics of capitalism”, Pluto Pr

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• Just as important as getting enough sleep is thinking about sleep in the right way. Stop thinking of sleep and naps as “downtime” or as a “waste of time.” Think of them as opportunities for memory consolidation and enhancing the brain circuits that help skill learning. Nor should you feel guilty about sleep. It's just as crucial a part of successful brain work as the actual task itself.

  Richard Restak

  Memories, Sleep, Successful

  Richard Restak (2009). “Think Smart: A Neuroscientist's Prescription for Improving Your Brain's Performance”, p.41, Penguin

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• A crucial difference between lite libertarians and the right kind is that to the former, the idea of liberty is propositional - a deracinated principle, unmoored from the realities of history, hierarchy, biology, tradition, culture, values. Conversely, the paleolibertarian grasps that ordered liberty has a civilizational dimension, stripped of which the libertarian non-aggression axiom, by which we all must live, cannot endure.

  Ilana Mercer

  Reality, Ideas, Differences

  "Apartheid South Africa: Reality Vs. Libertarian Fantasy". praag.org. December 20, 2013.

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• One of the most crucial but hardest things to do as part of turning your life around is to get rid of all the negative people around you and replace them with people who encourage you instead.

  Neal Boortz

  People, Negative, Things To Do

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• There is cruelty in divorce. There is cruelty in forced or unfortunate marriage. We will continue to cry at weddings because we know how bittersweet, how fragile is the truth. We will always need legal divorce just as an emergency escape hatch is crucial in every submarine. No sense, however, in denying that after every divorce someone will be running like a cat, tin cans tied to its tail: spooked and slowed down.

  Anne Roiphe

  Running, Cat, Divorce

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• If you get caught at some crucial point and somebody tells you that your doctrine doesn't make sense - you're ready for him. You tell him there's something above sense. That here he must not try to think, he must feel. He must believe. Suspend reason and you can play it deuces wild.

  Ayn Rand

  Believe, Thinking, Play

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.608, Penguin

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• Why did the consensus of Christian churches not only accept these astonishing views but establish them as the only true form of Christian doctrine? . . . these religious debates - questions of the nature of God, or of Christ - simultaneously bear social and political implications that are crucial to the development of Christianity as an institutional religion. In simplest terms, ideas which bear implications contrary to that development come to be labeled as 'heresy'; ideas which implicitly support it become 'orthodox.'

  Elaine Pagels

  Christian, Religious, Views

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• The biggest danger we face is overfishing. We literally could fish out our oceans, some scientists believe, in the next 40, 50, 60 years. We are fishing out the top of the food chain, and it's pretty crucial because about 200 million people depend on fish and fishing for their livelihood, and about a billion people, mostly in poorer countries, depend on fish for their protein. So this is a big problem. Good news is, it's fixable.

  Ted Danson

  Country, Believe, Ocean

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The support is absolutely crucial. If you have the right people helping you in the lead up to a major event, then you know when you're lining up to start the race you have them there with you, willing you on. And I'm not only referring to the coaches, mechanics, physios, administrators, but also family and friends.

  Chris Hoy

  Race, People, Support

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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