Important Quotes - Page 30

• It doesn't matter if they're famous or not - I just want to meet other creative people who can maybe bring something different to the studio than what I have. I think that's the most important thing for me.

  Tiesto

  Thinking, People, Creative

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We believe that if the world doesn't go quickly to an end, it will be only because Hitlerism transformed itself into a new religious faith, able to change the materialistic man of today into a new idealistic hero where the 'beyond life' is as important as life itself.

  Miguel Serrano

  Religious, Believe, Hero

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• A sense of humor has been linked with longevity. It is a possibility that the mental attitude reflected in a lively sense of humor is an important factor predisposing some people toward long life.

  Raymond Moody

  Attitude, Humor, Long

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• I have found in my still-life work that I seem to be able to tell what objects are important to me by what tends to stay in the painting as it develops.

  Richard Diebenkorn

  Able, Painting, Found

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• The most important thing is that the work has to be solid [in terms of its formal structure] and that the work accomplishes what it strives to achieve. It has to be genuine - not mannered or stylistically driven.

  Wayne Thiebaud

  Integrity, Strive, Achieve

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• Painting is more important than art.

  Wayne Thiebaud

  Art, Painting

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• Aesthetic pleasure is not to be taken lightly; it's very important for the spirit and therefore the health.

  Robert Bateman

  Taken, Spirit, Pleasure

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• The most important question facing the planet is: Is it worth it?

  Robert Bateman

  Planets, Is It Worth It, Important Questions

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• I felt landscapes would sell more readily, and not being equipped psychologically to be a teacher or commercial artist, that was important.

  E. J. Hughes

  Teacher, Artist, Landscape

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• So the stock market could have a negative wealth effect and weigh on capital spending, but a sharp decline in long-term interest rates would be an important counterweight.

  Joseph Barbera

  Long, Negative, Would Be

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• If I went back to college again, I'd concentrate on learning to write and to speak before an audience . Nothing is more important than the abillity to communicate effectively.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Writing, Wrestling, College

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• If there is any one duty which more than another we owe it to our children and our children's children to perform at once, it is to save the forests of this country, for they constitute the first and most important element in the conservation of the natural resources of this country.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Country, Children, Tree

  Theodore Roosevelt (1910). “Presidential addresses and state papers”

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• Freedom of the press is not just important to democracy, it is democracy.

  Walter Cronkite

  Democracy, Censorship, Freedom Of The Press

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• Don't sow your desires in someone else's garden; just cultivate your own as best you can; don't long to be other than what you are, but desire to be thoroughly what you are. Direct your thoughts to being very good at that and to bearing the crosses, little or great, that you will find there. Believe me, this is the most important and least understood point to the spiritual life. We all love according to what is our taste; few people like what is according to their duty or to God's liking. What is the use of building castles in Spain when we have to live in France?

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Faith, Spiritual, Believe

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• I think the years I have spent in prison have been the most formative and important in my life because of the discipline, the sensations, but chiefly the opportunity to think clearly, to try to understand things.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Opportunity, Thinking, Years

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• The barbarous custom of having men beaten who are suspected of having important secrets to reveal must be abolished. It has always been recognized that this way of interrogating men, by putting them to torture, produces nothing worthwhile.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Military, Men, Secret

  "Correspondance Napoleon" edited by Henri Plon, Vol. V, No. 3605, (p. 128), 1861.

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• There is something more important than any ultimate weapon. That is the ultimate position-the position of total control over Earth that lies somewhere out in space. That is . . . the distant future, though not so distant as we may have thought. Whoever gains that ultimate position gains control, total control, over the Earth, for the purposes of tyranny or for the service of freedom

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Lying, Space, Air Power

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• But it's a disservice to constantly put things in this radical new light - that it's going to change everything. Things don't have to change the world to be important.

  Steve Jobs

  Technology, Light, World

  "Steve Jobs: The Next Insanely Great Thing". Interview with Gary Wolf, www.wired.com. February 1, 1996.

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• I participated in the transformation of my era. I did it with clothes, which is surely less important than music, architecture, painting but whatever it's worth I did it.

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Clothes, Eras, Architecture

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• Life was not intended to be simply a round of work, no matter how interesting and important that work may be. A moment’s pause to watch the glory of a sunrise or a sunset is soul-satisfying, while a bird's song will set the steps to music all day long.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Song, Sunset, Long

  Laura Ingalls Wilder, Stephen W. Hines (1991). “Little house in the Ozarks: a Laura Ingalls Wilder sampler : the rediscovered writings”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• We never thought we were. That's the important part.

  Betty Comden

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• A good ending is vital to a picture, the single most important element, because it is what the audience takes with them out of the theater.

  Walt Disney

  Elements, Theater, Audience

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• Miracles happen in silence... lesser important things create world headlines.

  Silent lotus

  Life, Silence, Miracle

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• Making an enduring company was both harder and more important than making a great product.

  Steve Jobs

  Leadership, Endure, Harder

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• Important moments like this are time to reflect. To remind us, sometimes, that it's not only important what you wear, but it's also important to be aware.

  Kenneth Cole

  Sometimes, Moments, Important Moments

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