Crucial Quotes - Page 33

• I was one of those skeptics that thought that yoga was for kooks. Now I'm on a very strict regimen. You know, I work out. That's another thing I've learned relaxin', sleep, yoga. I didn't know that that's as crucial as going hard, as workin' hard, as exercising hard. I never knew. I thought that, "Okay, I gotta be at the gym like five hours everyday going balls to the wall." And what my yoga instructor, what my trainer, what they're trying to teach me is that, "No, it's sleep." That's important. That's just as important as workin' out.

  Questlove

  Wall, Yoga, Sleep

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• To diminish the suffering of pain, we need to make a crucial distinction between the pain of pain, and the pain we create by our thoughts about the pain. Fear, anger, guilt, loneliness and helplessness are all mental and emotional responses that can intensify pain.

  Howard Cutler

  Pain, Loneliness, Buddhism

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• Sleep is crucial and I tend to find when the sun is shining I find it much more difficult to get that sense of sleep.

  DJ Spooky

  Sleep, Shining, Sun

  Source: bigthink.com

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• It's crucial that people are on the right measure at the right time.

  Glenn Branca

  People, Right Time

  Interview with Simon Dasher, pitchfork.com. April 30, 2006.

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• The ‘I’ character in journalism is almost pure invention. Unlike the ‘I’ of autobiography, who is meant to be seen as a representation of the writer, the ‘I’ of journalism is connected to the writer only in a tenuous way—the way, say, that Superman is connected to Clark Kent. The journalistic ‘I’ is an overreliable narrator, a functionary to whom crucial tasks of narration and argument and tone have been entrusted, an ad hoc creation, like the chorus of Greek tragedy. He is an emblematic figure, an embodiment of the idea of the dispassionate observer of life.

  Janet Malcolm

  Character, Ideas, Greek

  "The Journalist and the Murderer". Book by Janet Malcolm, March 20, 1989.

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• Our contemporary society is experimenting with the diminishment of caregivers for children. Some children are raised through crucial stages of life by only one person. This one person, who strives to give the best, may be overwhelmed, busy, trying to raise many children. And even in homes with two parents, many children are essentially alone.

  Michael Gurian

  Children, Home, Two

  Michael Gurian (2010). “The Wonder of Children: Nurturing the Souls of Our Sons and Daughters”, p.238, Simon and Schuster

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• The right wing can use anything, and we have to make it very clear and I make it very clear that my love for the president in terms of protecting him and respecting him but also correcting, now all three of those are crucial, and if I can do all three, then the right wing can use it whatever they want, and I'm just clear where I stand, over against them but also critical when the president leans toward the strong, rather than the weak.

  Cornel West

  Strong, Wings, President

  "Cornel West Reconsiders President Obama". "Talk of the Nation" with Tony Cox, www.npr.org. August 2, 2010.

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• Sometimes the difference between two candidates is an important one in the immediate sense, and then I believe trying to get somebody into office, who is a little better, who is less dangerous, is understandable. But never forgetting that no matter who gets into office, the crucial question is not who is in office, but what kind of social movement do you have. Because if you have a powerful social movement, it doesn't matter who is in office.

  Howard Zinn

  Powerful, Believe, Two

  "Rebels Against Tyranny". Interview with Ziga Vodovnik, www.counterpunch.org. May 12, 2008.

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• Our stories affect one another whether we know it or not. Sometimes obedience isn't for us at all, but for another. We don't know how God holds the kingdom in balance or why he moves a chess piece at a crucial time; we might never see the results of his sovereignty [...] I might just be one shade of one color of one strand, but I'm a part of an elaborate tapestry that goes beyond my perception.

  Jen Hatmaker

  Moving, Chess Pieces, Color

  Jen Hatmaker (2012). “7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess”, p.114, B&H Publishing Group

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• America today has insufficient savings to finance both crucial investment and its consumption of imports.

  James Dale Davidson

  America, Gold, Saving

  James Dale Davidson, William Rees-Mogg (1991). “The great reckoning: how the world will change in the depression of the 1990s”

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• Kyle Idleman’s Not a Fan is a crucial message for our time. It’s a powerful call to commitment and to following Jesus with all our hearts that has challenged me in the best of ways!

  Jud Wilhite

  Jesus, Powerful, Heart

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• But private lands development around the periphery of the parks - Grand Teton and Yellowstone - is a crucial issue because if those private lands are transformed from open pastures, meadow, forest land to suburbs, to little ranchettes, to shopping malls, to roads, to Starbucks - if those places are all settled for the benefit of humans, then the elk are not going to be able to migrate in and out of Yellowstone Park anymore. And if the elk can't migrate into the park, then that creates problems for the wolves, for the grizzlies, for a lot of other creatures.

  David Quammen

  Issues, Yellowstone, Land

  "< Is Yellowstone National Park In Danger Of Being 'Loved To Death'?". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. April 18, 2016.

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• I was born at a very crucial time. I consider 1968 to be the Mason Dixon line between pre- and post-civil rights generation ideas, whereas a lot of people born before '68 they kind of went into that Moses mentality. Like, I'm not going to make it, you know, I don't have any hope.

  Questlove

  Ideas, Rights, People

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• It's crucial we know the facts and science, but it's naïve to rely on them alone to build a movement for change.

  Annie Leonard

  Movement, Facts, Rely

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• The crucial thing is to look in an informed way at what's going on. Look at the way in which we are forced by our imbalanced system to push away people who might contribute mightily to the NHS.

  Boris Johnson

  Nhs, People, Looks

  "EU debate: Boris Johnson says Brexit will be 'Britain's independence day' as Ruth Davidson attacks 'lies' of Leave campaign in front of 6,000-strong Wembley audience". www.telegraph.co.uk. June 21, 2016.

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• Volunteering is also now more crucial than ever in helping people find work.

  Boris Johnson

  People, Volunteer, Helping

  Interview with Charlie Kenber, londoncalling.com. July 10, 2013.

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• The first years of life are not just important; they are more crucial to shaping children than any other time. Even before they speak, children are extremely sensitive to the messages adults send them.

  Hillary Clinton

  Children, Years, Important

  Hillary Rodham Clinton (2012). “It Takes a Village”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

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• Whatever art form you're working in, it's crucial to see it clearly, to feel it clearly, and not to worry about the results, or how someone else will see it.

  Omar Epps

  Inspirational, Art, Worry

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• Mortal fear is as crucial a thing to our lives as love. It cuts to the core of our being and shows us what we are. Will you step back and cover your eyes? Or will you have the strength to walk to the precipice and look out?

  Marisha Pessl

  Eye, Cutting, Looks

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• Modern mass culture, aimed at the "consumer", the civilisation of prosthetics, is crippling people's souls, setting up barriers between man and the crucial questions of his existence, his consciousness of himself as a spiritual being.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Spiritual, Men, Mass Culture

  "Sculpting in Time" by Andrei Tarkovsky, (p. 42), 1986.

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• The crucial thing is to arouse the awareness that as a matter of human conscience we can never permit the people of any country to fall victim to nuclear weapons, and for each individual to express their refusal to continue living in the shadow of the threat they pose.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Country, Fall, People

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• No matter what the realm of leadership – the home, the workplace, the church, or the community – the vision is crucial. Leaders must funnel their faith into action so that life-changing results.

  Phil Pringle

  Life Changing, Home, Community

  Phil Pringle (2010). “You The Leader”, p.23, Whitaker House

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• The not-knowing is crucial to art, is what permits art to be made. Without the scanning process engendered by not-knowing, without the possibility of having the mind move in unanticipated directions, there would be no invention.

  Donald Barthelme

  Art, Moving, Knowing

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• An important purpose for mortality is to help us learn to recognize and to choose the positive even though the negative more fully surrounds us. We make this choice consciously or unconsciously in every moment of the day, and these millions of tiny choices create the foundation of our identity. We are what we think. We are what we say, what we do, what we fill our lives with. Ultimately, every being creates himself by these countless, crucial choices.

  Betty Eadie

  Thinking, Choices, Identity

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• To achieve peace, it is crucial to eliminate unnecessary bureaucracy that prevents peace processes from advancing.

  Widad Akrawi

  Unnecessary, Achieve, Process

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