Important Quotes - Page 37

• If it isn't a wonderful story first, who cares how "important" it is?

  Orson Scott Card

  Who Cares, Stories, Firsts

  "Future on Fire". Book by Orson Scott Card, 1991.

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• I believe art is utterly important. It is one of the things that could save us. We don't have to rely totally on experience if we can do things in our imagination.... It's the only way in which you can live more lives than your own. You can escape your own time, your own sensibility, your own narrowness of vision.

  Mary Oliver

  Art, Believe, Imagination

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• Poetry is a serious business; literature is the apparatus through which the world tries to keep intact its important ideas and feelings.

  Mary Oliver

  Ideas, Poetry, Feelings

  Mary Oliver (1994). “A Poetry Handbook”, p.108, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I've always felt that anyone who wants to talk about my private life is only demonstrating the paucity of his/her imagination when there are so many more important and exciting things to discuss.

  David Gerrold

  Imagination, Want, Life Is

  David Gerrold (2013). “The Man Who Folded Himself”, p.114, BenBella Books, Inc.

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• A man is himself important precisely in proportion that all things seem important to him.

  Otto Weininger

  Men, Proportion, All Things

  Otto Weininger (1906). “Sex & Character”, p.127, Рипол Классик

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• The best thing about being an artist, instead of a madman or someone who writes letters to the editor, is that you get to engage in satisfying work. Even if you never publish a word, you have something important to pour yourself into.

  Anne Lamott

  Writing, Artist, Editors

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.236, Anchor

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• Game balance is a really important element of Mario Kart that we look very, very closely at and place a lot of value on.

  Hideki Konno

  Mario Kart, Games, Balance

  "Mario Kart 8 introduces expanded item customization" by Chris Pereira & Jose Otero, www.ign.com. April 3, 2014.

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• There are times where you can't do it yourself and the system takes over, or it's appropriate to do things differently. But I think driving your son and your wife away from hospital was really important to me.

  Prince William

  Son, Thinking, Wife

  "Prince William speaks for first time about fatherhood" by Caroline Davies, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2013.

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• I want everybody to think I'm a hard worker as an aunt, a sister, a friend, a daughter, a niece, everything. I want to be great at every role, because every role in my life is as important as being Jessie J.

  Jessie J

  Daughter, Niece, Hard Work

  "Jessie J: 'I'm a hard worker. I want to be great at everything I do'" by Kate Mossman, www.theguardian.com. September 28, 2013.

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• I think it's important to look at the world as a bigger place than just the bubble that we live in. It's so easy to get caught up in things of a trivial nature.

  Pete Wentz

  Thinking, Looks, World

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• I think hair is just, like, the most important thing about you.

  Pete Wentz

  Thinking, Hair, Important Things

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• When anything important has to be written ... I think your hand concentrates for you.

  Rebecca West

  Thinking, Hands, Written

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• Yoga answers a lot of physical problems such as back pain, stress issues, and any kind of joint problems or illnesses. Even more important is the spiritual questioning that comes up around our middle years. We wonder what do I want to hand down to my children, and how do I want to spend my days on this earth? I think yoga begins to help us look at what our passions and our dreams are. And it helps give us the courage once we find passion to actually pursue that!

  Rodney Yee

  Dream, Spiritual, Children

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• A genuine invention in the realm of ideas must first emerge as an abstruse and even partial concept? At first blusha new idea appearstobe verycloseto insanity because to be new it must reverse important basic beliefs and assumptions which, in turn, have been institutionalized and are administered by one or another kind of priesthood with a vested interest in an old idea.

  Arthur Miller

  Ideas, Insanity, Firsts

  1958 The Collected Plays,'Introduction, II'.

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• At Wal-Mart, a co-worker once advised me that, although I had a lot to learn, it was also important not to "know too much," or at least never to reveal one's full abilities to management, because "the more they think you can do, the more they'll use you and abuse you." My mentors in these matters were not lazy; they just understood that there are few or no rewards for heroic performance. The trick lies in figuring out how to budget your energy so there'll be some left over for the next day.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Lying, Thinking, Next Day

  "Nickel and Dimed". Book by Barbara Ehrenreich, 2001.

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• You know, once you give birth, once you have kids, you realize what's important in life, and you realize it's really not difficult to be a good person. And so when people aren't good around me, I tend to move away from that. There are so many good people in the world, and you want to surround your children with that.

  Pamela Anderson

  Children, Moving, Kids

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• The poem is important, but not more than the people whose survival it serves.

  Wendell Berry

  People, Survival

  Wendell Berry (2009). “The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry”, p.155, Counterpoint Press

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• The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Literature, Way, Said

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• The family feuds or the village feuds often had to do with an idea of honor. Perhaps it was a peasant idea; perhaps this idea of honor is especially important to a society without recourse to law or without confidence in law.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Law, Ideas, Honor

  V. S. Naipaul (2012). “A Turn in the South”, p.53, Pan Macmillan

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• Man is sitting disconsolate on an anthill one morning. God asks him what the matter is and man replies that the soil is too swampy for the cultivation of the yams which God has directed him to grow. God tells him to bring in a blacksmith to dry the soil with his bellows. The contribution of humanity to this creation is so important. God could have made the world perfect if he had wanted. But he made it the way it is. So that there is a constant need for us to discuss and cooperate to make it more habitable, so the soil can yield, you see.

  Chinua Achebe

  Morning, Men, Yield

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• Dancing is very important nowadays. No girl will look at you if you can't dance.

  Chinua Achebe

  Girl, Dancing, Looks

  Chinua Achebe (2011). “No Longer at Ease”, p.20, Anchor

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• I would then say that there are two kinds of feeling. The first is to feel in the sense of concentrating your emotions on something immediately available for your understanding: you make your understanding out of the emotions you have about it. The second is to feel in the sense of being affected without trying to understand: something is felt, you do not know what, and it is more important to feel it than to try to understand it, since once you try to understand it you no longer feel it.

  Laura Riding

  Two, Understanding, Feelings

  "The Idea of God". "Essays from 'Epilogue' 1935-1937". Book by Laura Riding, Robert Graves, and Mark Jacobs, 2001.

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• Entertainment is all right, but entertainment with an idea behind it is much more important.

  Gregory Peck

  Ideas, Entertainment, Behinds

  "Gregory Peck: A Charmed Life". Book by Lynn Haney, p. 148, 2003.

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• I've been on a quest for spiritual answers for a long time. The things I've learned about interconnectedness and non-duality and the feeling of tapping into your soul that goes beyond the edge of your skin is important to me. Once I learned that, I'm far less often trapped in my own little man problems. Me against the universe problems.

  Jim Carrey

  Spiritual, Men, Long

  "Jim Carrey On His 'World Stopping' New Book". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, yahoo.com. September 24, 2013.

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• Kids need to know they're the most important thing in the world to you, and if that means quitting your job to prove it, then you have to prove it.

  Jim Carrey

  Jobs, Mean, Kids

  "Jim Carrey On His 'World Stopping' New Book". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. September 24, 2013.

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