Crucial Quotes - Page 18

• For though we may be the Earth's gardeners, we are also its weeds.  And we won't get anywhere until we come to terms with this crucial ambiguity about our role - that we are at once the problem and the only possible solution to the problem.

  Michael Pollan

  Weed, Roles, Earth

  Michael Pollan (2007). “Second Nature: A Gardener's Education”, p.115, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I think blocking a shot at a crucial point of the game is the most incredible feeling.

  Jermaine O'Neal

  Block, Thinking, Games

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• In poor countries, we still need better ways to measure the effectiveness of the many government workers providing health services. They are the crucial link bringing tools such as vaccines and education to the people who need them most. How well trained are they? Are they showing up to work?

  Bill Gates

  Country, Government, Vaccines

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• The key role of entrepreneurs, like the most crucial role of scientists, is not to fill in the gaps in an existing market or theory, but to generate entirely new markets or theories. . .They stand before a canvas as empty as any painter's; a page as blank as any poet's.

  George Gilder

  Keys, Entrepreneur, Roles

  George Gilder (1985). “The Spirit of Enterprise”, Simon & Schuster

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• It is crucial in a sound investment process to search a mile wide than a mile deep with they find something - also.. never stop digging for information.

  Seth Klarman

  Sound, Digging, Information

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• Nowhere does it say that investors should strive to make every last dollar of potential profit; consideration of risk must never take a backseat to return. Conservative positioning entering a crisis is crucial: it enables one to maintain long-term oriented, clear thinking, and to focus on new opportunities while others are distracted or even forced to sell. Portfolio hedges must be in place before a crisis hits. One cannot reliably or affordably increase or replace hedges that are rolling off during a financial crisis.

  Seth Klarman

  Thinking, Opportunity, Long

  "The 20 Forgotten Lessons Of 2008". Seth Klarman's annual letter, www.businessinsider.com. April 28, 2010.

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• Having clients with a long-term orientation is crucial. Nothing else is as important to the success of an investment firm.

  Seth Klarman

  Long, Important, Clients

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• At certain crucial moments - an emergency or an opportunity - one must act first and think later.

  Edmund White

  Thinking, Opportunity, Emergencies

  Edmund White (2016). “A Boy's Own Story: Picador Classic”, p.42, Pan Macmillan

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• The most crucial thing is to learn the craft: how to string sentences together, how to make your dialogue sound like real people, how to properly pace a story, how to develop interesting characters.

  Stephen Coonts

  Real, Character, People

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• Ministry to the poor is a crucial sign that we believe the gospel.

  Timothy Keller

  Believe, Ministry, Poor

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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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• For members of the political class, the crucial question is always: how can we push out the frontier, how can we augment the government's dominion and plunder, with net gain to ourselves the exploiters who live not by honest production and voluntary exchange, but by fleecing those who do so?

  Robert Higgs

  Government, Class, Political

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• The crucial role of the rich in a capitalist economy is... to invest; to provide unencumbered and unbureaucratized cash.

  George Gilder

  Capitalist Economy, Roles, Cash

  George F. Gilder (1981). “Wealth & Poverty”, Ics Press

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• Biblical social scientists have an advantage because they know truths about human nature. Those who dismiss the Bible and create surveys that don't measure crucial factors are the ones who have closed minds. Sometimes the Bible gives us clear answers and sometimes it doesn't, but it always helps us to ask the right questions.

  Marvin Olasky

  Biblical, Giving, Mind

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• God rewards gamblers and fools. The crucial thing, when you win, is knowing which you were.

  Mark Twain

  Winning, Knowing, Rewards

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• Leaders are people who do the right thing: managers are people who do things right. Both roles are crucial, but they differ profoundly. I often observe people in top positions doing wrong things well.

  Warren G. Bennis

  People, Leader, Roles

  Warren G. Bennis, Patricia Ward Biederman (2009). “The Essential Bennis”, p.198, John Wiley & Sons

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• The close games are usually lost, rather than won. What I mean by that is games are mostly won because of the opponent making mistakes during crucial moments.

  John Wooden

  Mistake, Mean, Games

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• At all crucial moments in our lives we want to speak without knowing what to say.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Knowing, Want, Speak

  Joyce Carol Oates (1989). “(Woman) writer: occasions and opportunities”, Plume

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• Things that don't have a big impact seem to be crucial. Always when you go out to make a movie you have questions, "What if this doesn't work? What if that doesn't work?" you want to cover yourself, you want to bring back enough [footage] so you can do something.

  Ang Lee

  Impact, Over You, What If

  "Ang Lee Talks LIFE OF PI, the Difficulty of Getting the Project Off the Ground, 3D as a New Artistic Form, Deleted Scenes and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. October 3, 2012.

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• Having a good director is very important. It's crucial. When you do good work with a certain director, you want to work with them again, and hopefully vice versa.

  Giles Matthey

  Important, Vices, Directors

  Source: collider.com

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• I believe that this life is all we have. I don't believe in anything after this, so I think the choices we make here are so important and the relationships we choose are crucial, especially in that time when we are developing ourselves and we're becoming adults.

  Joel Kinnaman

  Believe, Thinking, Choices

  Source: collider.com

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• I take a cliche and try to organize its forms to make it monumental. The difference is often not great, but it is crucial.

  Roy Lichtenstein

  Differences, Trying, Cliche

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• I am convinced that 1941 will be the crucial year of a great New Order in Europe. The world shall open up for everyone. Privileges for individuals, the tyranny of certain nations and their financial rulers shall fall. And last of all this year will help to provide the foundations of a real understanding among peoples, and with it the certainty of conciliation among nations. . . . Those nations who are still opposed to us will some day recognize the greater enemy within. Then they will join us in a combined front, a front against Jewish exploitation and racial degeneration.

  Adolf Hitler

  Real, Fall, Order

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• Why don't we teach sex the way we teach math or history? It is such a deeply crucial and healing part of life and we offer no road map. I think it is core to ending violence.

  Eve Ensler

  Sex, Healing, Math

  Interview with Kevin Powell, bknation.org. May 1, 2014.

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• Ideas, as the raw material from which knowledge is produced, exist in superabundance, but that makes the production of knowledge more difficult rather than easier. Many ideas- probably most- will have to be discarded somewhere in the process of producing authenticated knowledge. Authentication is as important as the raw information itself, and the manner and speed of the authentication process can be crucial.

  Thomas Sowell

  Ideas, Important, Raw Materials

  Thomas Sowell (1996). “Knowledge And Decisions”, p.4, Basic Books

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