Crucial Quotes

• One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Teamwork, Sports

  Twitter post from Mar 27, 2013

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• Many women my age have known the experience of giving up crucial parts of themselves to please the man they love.

  Joyce Maynard

  Giving Up, Men, Age

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• What you fuel your body with is pretty crucial to how you perform.

  Erica Enders-Stevens

  Fuel, Body, Your Body

  Erica Enders-Stevens during National Hot Rod Association Media Conference, www.asapsports.com. April 29, 2015.

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• It's absolutely crucial that we come face to face with the power of our choices.

  Rob Bell

  Choices, Faces, Face To Face

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• Resist the temptation to compare yourself to others. This is crucial in order to be able to manifest whatever you want.

  Wayne Dyer

  Order, Temptation, Want

  "Become A Mighty Manifester An Interview with Wayne Dyer". Interview with Randy Peyser, www.randypeyser.com.

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• Being receptive, being able to listen openly and well, is a crucial skill for creative problem-solving.

  Paul A. Kaufman

  Skills, Creative, Listening

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• Talent is crucial. It needs to be driven by motivation, but blind ambition isn't the key.

  Lily Cole

  Motivation, Ambition, Keys

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

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• The great challenge is to refuse to let the bad things that happen to us do bad things to us. That is the crucial difference between adversity and tragedy.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Adversity, Differences, Challenges

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• There is one crucial rule that must be followed in all creative meetings. Never speak first. At least at the start, your job is to shut up.

  William Goldman

  Jobs, Creative, Firsts

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• For any human being, freedom is essential, crucial, to our dignity and our ability to be fully human.

  Izzeldin Abuelaish

  Being Free, Essentials, Dignity

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• Self-discipline is crucial to a simpler, more contented life.

  Dalai Lama

  Self, Discipline, Self Discipline

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• Social media itself is not protest. To tweet is not to protest physically. To do a Facebook post, and though it's critical and crucial, is not to show up and embody the anger you feel, to embody the righteous outrage you feel, to embody the concern you feel. This is about putting feet to pavement and to register in the consciousness of America that this is something that's problematic.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Media, Feet, America

  "A 'Moral Obligation' To Protest Trump, Says Michael Eric Dyson". "All Things Considered" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. June 19, 2016.

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• For neo-conservatism is a quintessentially Jewish project: a re-sanctification in everyday life of the core values of western civilisation, and the achievement of human potential through virtuous practice. The neo-cons' crucial insight is that public signals through law, custom and tradition are the key to getting people to behave well. And that is a Jewish insight.

  Melanie Phillips

  Keys, Law, Practice

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• Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know. One often obtains a clue to a person's nature by discovering the reasons for his or her imperviousness to certain impressions.

  Eric Hoffer

  Want, Clue, Reason

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• Good journalism is crucial. Good journalism isn't easy so I think it's less about what story and more about the layers and context that need to be explored in the story. That's one of the reasons why I'm excited to be a part of CNN. This is the kind of place that you can do that.

  George Stroumboulopoulos

  Thinking, Cnn, Needs

  "George Stroumboulopoulos: 'I like having good conversations with people'". CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. June 7, 2013.

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• Which questions guide our lives? Which questions do we make our own? Which questions deserve our undivided and full personal commitment? Finding the right questions is crucial to finding the answers.

  Henri Nouwen

  Inspirational, Commitment, Answers

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• The rewriting is always crucial to what I do; whenever I do a scene, I always tell myself that this isn't final and that I can do it again, better. The pacing is probably from experience. I've always liked gradual disclosure. I keep thinking of my rubber-band theory. You have a rubber band that you keep pulling and pulling and pulling, and just at the moment of snapping you release it and start another chapter and start pulling again.

  Robert Cormier

  Thinking, Finals, Band

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I find it incredibly boring when people are mean about some individuals, especially if the individual has no power. I can understand how someone deems it necessary if somebody is in power to tear them down - I think that's really crucial. I make a lot of mean jokes about myself; as a theme, suffering seems to me a very interesting thing for comedy, but not the suffering of a particular individual.

  Dylan Moran

  Mean, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• This point is . . . crucial,”  writes Dweck. “In the fixed mindset, everything is about the outcome. If you fail — or if you’re not the best — it’s all been wasted. The growth mindset allows people to value what they’re doing regardless of the outcome.

  Carol S. Dweck

  Writing, People, Growth

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• Don't make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money. Though it's crucial to make a living, that shouldn't be your inspiration. Do it for yourself.

  Billy Joel

  Inspiration, Unseen, Tangible

  FaceBook post by Billy Joel from Feb 10, 2014

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• Sly Stone doesn't make good albums: only good records. His style is so infinite and revolves around so many crucial aspects that it has only come together perfectly on a handful of his singles.

  Jon Landau

  Style, Together, Albums

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• History repeats itself only in that, from afar, we all seem to lead exactly the same life. We are all born; we all spend time here on earth; we all die. But up close, we have each walked down our own separate paths. We have stood at our own lonely crossroads. We have touched the lives of others at crucial points, for better or for worse. In the end, each of us has lived a unique life story, astounding and complicated, a story that could never be repeated.

  Edward Bloor

  Lonely, Unique, Earth

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• Making mental connections is our most crucial learning tool, the essence of human intelligence; to forge links; to go beyond the given; to see patterns, relationships, context.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Learning, Essence, Connections

  Marilyn Ferguson (1987). “The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s”, Tarcher

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• The rise of casino capitalism and the punishing state with their vast apparatuses of real and symbolic violence must be also addressed as part of a broader historical and political attack on public values, civic literacy and economic justice. Crucial here is the need to engage how such an attack is aided and abetted by the emergence of a poisonous neoliberal public pedagogy that depoliticizes as much as it entertains and corrupts.

  Henry Giroux

  Real, Justice, Political

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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