Important Quotes - Page 39

• Our time and attention is scarce. Art is not that important to us, no matter what we might like to believe.

  Tyler Cowen

  Art, Believe, Might

  Tyler Cowen (2008). “Discover Your Inner Economist: Use Incentives to Fall in Love, Survive Your Next Meeting, and Motivate Your Den tist”, p.41, Penguin

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• I don't see how you can create and not have the feeling that it is the most important, all-consuming thing.

  Grace Hartigan

  Feelings, Obsession, Consuming

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• When you draw a crowd of people in a street or room or landscape, decide whether you want to say that the people dominate the place or that the place is more important than the people.

  John French Sloan

  People, Crowds, Landscape

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• It's important to start off with ideals, even if they become modified at some later stage.

  Stuart Pearson Wright

  Stage, Idealism, Ifs

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• I love isolation. It's very important for me to have time and space to myself when I can sit and read or write as well as paint. It's all part of the process.

  Stuart Pearson Wright

  Writing, Love Is, Space

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• Frightening for many artists is promoting themselves. They feel it is... artificial and not what we want to be known for. Yet if we start thinking about what we do as important and important to offer to people, not to sell... it allows us to shift the way we think about promoting ourselves.

  Adam Leipzig

  Artist, Thinking, People

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• The important things usually prove to be very simple. They are also open secrets in the sense that no one is hiding the knowledge from us except ourselves.

  Robert Moss

  Simple, Secret, Hiding

  Robert Moss (2012). “Dreaming the Soul Back Home: Shamanic Dreaming for Healing and Becoming Whole”, p.13, New World Library

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• I crave the freedom of knowing that if I want to do something, I can do it. It's important that I live in such a way that I can maintain a direct response to ideas.

  Errollyn Wallen

  Ideas, Knowing, Want

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• The problem with our art form: it's so ephemeral, and catching performances can be so difficult... the important thing is what happens at the moment of performance, for the people who made the effort to be there: it lives with them.

  Judith Weir

  Art, People, Effort

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• The writer of these lines has nothing whatsoever to teach anyone; his words are just his contribution to our common discussion of what must inevitably be for us the most important subject which could be discussed by sentient beings.

  Wei Wu Wei

  Lines, Common, Teach

  Wei Wu Wei (2004). “Open Secret”, p.24, Sentient Publications

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• It's hard with ballet because your aesthetic really is important. It's different from acting and from film. Nobody wants to watch somebody who is sickly thin. And it's interesting because I have danced with people who are ill, have eating disorders, and a light goes off within them.

  Amanda Schull

  Light, Interesting, People

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• I am persuaded that in the case of elected officials, the overwhelming temptation is to conclude that it is more important for your constituents that you be reelected than that you deal honestly with them.

  James L. Buckley

  Temptation, Cases, Overwhelming

  James L. Buckley (2010). “Freedom at Risk: Reflections on Politics, Liberty, and the State”, p.246, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I feel like one of the things that is central to American life is the religious experience, and I think that the experience of being Muslim in America is as valid and as important a perspective on the religious experience of America as evangelical Christianity or Judaism - whatever it may be.

  Ayad Akhtar

  Religious, Thinking, America

  "Actor-writer Ayad Akhtar". "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. April 26, 2012.

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• Breasts are very important for women. Their clothes just don't hang right without them.

  Jennifer Crusie

  Clothes, Breasts

  Jennifer Crusie (2012). “Strange Bedpersons”, p.34, Harlequin

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• The secret of doing well on TV is to understand that it's not too important. A lot of people watching doesn't change anything.

  Jack Germond

  People, Secret, Tvs

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• We all want things that are not necessarily essential, but we always choose those actions which we think will best improve the situation from our viewpoint. This means that the ideas that men hold determine their choice of actions. This means that the most important thing in the world is ideas.

  Percy L. Greaves, Jr.

  Mean, Men, Thinking

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• In the field of Artificial Intelligence there is no more iconic and controversial milestone than the Turing Test, when a computer convinces a sufficient number of interrogators into believing that it is not a machine but rather is a human. It is fitting that such an important landmark has been reached at the Royal Society in London, the home of British Science and the scene of many great advances in human understanding over the centuries. This milestone will go down in history as one of the most exciting.

  Kevin Warwick

  Believe, Home, Numbers

  "Computer Simulating 13-year-old Boy Becomes First to Pass Turing Test". www.reading.ac.uk. June 09, 2014.

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• You see continuous movement is the important thing here. Those who remain in one position and then lie to themselves about their progress are the ones in real trouble.

  Chris Murray

  Real, Lying, Progress

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• The main thing is winning. Stats aren't that important, but I think in the end things will work themselves out.

  John Harbaugh

  Winning, Thinking, Ends

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• Reject without regret whatever seems on reflection wrongheaded, dull, destructive, or irrelevant to your vision. It’s just as important to be able to discriminate between helpful and unhelpful criticism as it is to be able to write.

  Janet Burroway

  Regret, Writing, Reflection

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• If you have cancer, the most important single consideration is to get the maximum amount of vitamin B17 into your body in the shortest period of time. This is secondary to the medical skill involved in administering it, which is relatively minimal.

  Ernst T. Krebs

  Cancer, Skills, Body

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• Legal documents have mistrust written all over them. It's unfortunate, but the human DNA is so tuned to kind of taking you for granted that we tend to protect ourselves legally. That's why I don't read them as, if I read them, I will go soft. To me, the human relationship is far more important than the professional bond I share with anyone.

  Karan Johar

  Dna, Kind, Granted

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• Science is meaningless because it gives no answer to our question, the only question important for us: 'What shall we do and how shall we live?'

  Leo Tolstoy

  Giving, Answers, Meaningless

  "Scientists as Prophets: A Rhetorical Genealogy". Book by Lynda Walsh, p. 90, 2013.

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• Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Would Be, Easy, Important Things

  Bertolt Brecht, Ralph Manheim (1987). “Poems, 1913-1956”, p.41, Taylor & Francis

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• It is necessary, if one would read aright, that he should read at least two newspapers, representing both sides of important subjects.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Two, Sides, Newspapers

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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