Crucial Quotes - Page 8

• We're in an era where you learn about techniques, but you don't experience anything crucial in yourself about a piece of work from an artist that you love.

  Rob Nilsson

  Artist, Technique, Pieces

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• The trick is not to look back, but keep on expressing where I'm at now. It's challenging to create something new, so it's crucial to dwell in the present moment.

  Eric Drooker

  Challenges, Looks, Moments

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• I have a thing about honesty; I think it's crucial to a relationship. Otherwise, one person holds all the power. It's healthy to be straightforward, and it turns out you can wind up weathering a lot. Knowing that everything is on the table - what you see is what you get - lends a sense of safety.

  Jennifer Connelly

  Honesty, Thinking, Wind

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Several people inspired me like Lil' Wayne, Juvenile, the whole Cash Money camp, the No Limit camp, DMX, Jay-Z, Eminem, LL Cool J, I listened to all type of sh*t. I listened to R&B like Teena Marie, just good music - anybody that made good music. When I was growing up out west I listened to Twista, Do or Die, and Crucial Conflict. They were the "it" artists in Chicago. I wanted to be like them on TV and all of that so that's how it all started.

  King Louie

  Growing Up, Artist, People

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• Professionally, I don’t necessarily have to adhere to a certain dress code. However, I think that comfort is crucial. Otherwise, you won’t be able to have fun and express yourself.

  Jared Leto

  Fun, Thinking, Comfort

  Interview with Tarek Hijazi, www.askmen.com. September 24, 2011.

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• Seeing yourself reflected on screen is a very important part of being human. It makes us feel less alone, it make us feel more connected to humanity. Women, gay men, and trans people for a long time have not seen themselves represented, so being able to show the complexities that we all have - just as complex stories as a heterosexual white male - is crucial for us to feel more human and have other people see us as human beings.

  Marielle Heller

  Gay, Men, White

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Lester del Rey told me repeatedly that the first and most important part of writing fiction is just to think about the story. Don't write anything down. Don't try to pull anything together right away. Just dream for a while and see what happens. There isn't any timetable involved, no measuring stick for how long it ought to take. For each book, it is different. But that period of thinking, of reflection, is crucial to how successful your story will turn out to be.

  Terry Brooks

  Dream, Book, Writing

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• When we talk about global crisis, or a crisis of humanity, we cannot blame a few politicians, a few fanatics, or a few troublemakers. The whole of humanity has a responsibility because it is our business, human business. I call this a sense of universal responsibility. That is a crucial point.

  Dalai Lama

  Responsibility, Humanity, Environmental

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• Our country today is at a stage in our foreign policy similar to that crucial point in our nation's early history when our Constitution was produced in Philadelphia.

  Walter Cronkite

  Country, Philadelphia, Today

  Address on receiving the Norman Cousins Global Governance Award at the UN Delegates Dining Room, October 19, 1999.

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• There is still work to be done, but that remains a crucial lesson, you cannot bring peace and security to people just by signing an agreement. In fact, most peace agreements don't last.

  Hillary Clinton

  Peace, Agreement, People

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• The most passionate, consistent, extreme and implacable enemy of the Enlightenment and ... all forms of rationalism ... was Johann Georg Hamann. His influence, direct and indirect, upon the romantic revolt against universalism and scientific method ... was considerable and perhaps crucial.

  Isaiah Berlin

  Romantic, Enemy, Enlightenment

  Isaiah Berlin (2013). “Three Critics of the Enlightenment: Vico, Hamann, Herder”, p.320, Princeton University Press

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• Whereas the comic confronts simply logical contradictions, the tragic confronts a moral predicament. Not minor matters of true andfalse but crucial questions of right and wrong, good and evil face the tragic character in a tragic situation.

  Marie Taylor Collins Swabey

  Character, Evil, Tragedy

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• Regardless of what we think we know and should happen the reality is that a lot of stock action is random. Therefore, money management is crucial if you want to be successful as a trader. To me, it`s the cornerstone of both making a living at trading and building wealth.

  Jeff Cooper

  Successful, Reality, Thinking

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• We can choose the way of compassion, the way of forgiveness, the way of generosity. Or we can choose other paths and those have very real consequences in the world. This is absolutely crucial.

  Rob Bell

  Real, Compassion, Generosity

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• The crucial people to get your product started for the first 6 months are not who will be using it 3 years later.

  Emmett Shear

  Years, People, Months

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• The joy of reading can take you so many different places. In addition to intelligence and stretching your mind, I just think reading is so crucial in terms of being a well-rounded person.

  Gayle King

  Reading, Thinking, Joy

  "The Joy of Reading Can Take You So Many Places: A Chat With Gayle King". Interview with Earl Martin Phalen, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 2, 2012.

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• And I want to find a way to be of service to humanity. I think that's crucial. So want to be an artist and a servant, a humanitarian, and I want to play goofy weirdoes.

  Rainn Wilson

  Artist, Thinking, Play

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The fragility of love is what is most at stake here—humanity's most crucial three-word avowal is often uttered only to find itself suddenly embarrassing or orphaned or isolated or ill-timed—but strangely enough it can work better as a literal or reassuring statement than a transcendent or numinous or ecstatic one.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Love Is, Humanity, Three

  Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Hitch 22: A Memoir”, p.306, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The shortness of life, which we all discuss, but which is very clear to me at the moment, makes keeping and spreading a joyful peace more crucial than ever before. Let us keep our minds on what matters, which is our work, which is astonishment and gratitude. From this quiet magic comes a power for all other new years wishes to come true.

  Martha Beck

  New Year, Gratitude, What Matters

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• Exeter was, I suspect, more crucial in my life than in the lives of most members of my class, and conceivably, than in the lives of almost anyone else who ever attended the school.

  John Knowles

  School, Class, Members

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• Impermanence is very important, crucial for life. That is why instead of complaining about impermanence you have to say "Long live impermanence!"

  Nhat Hanh

  Long, Important, Complaining

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• A discourse for broad-based political change is crucial for developing a politics that speaks to a future that can provide sustainable jobs, decent health care, quality education and communities of solidarity and support for young people.

  Henry Giroux

  Jobs, People, Political

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• So the main question is not, Which humans brought about the death of Jesus but, What did the death of Jesus bring about for humans - including Jews and Muslims and Buddhists and Hindus and nonreligious secularists - and all people everywhere?When it is all said and done, the most crucial question is: Why? Why did Christ suffer and die? Not why in the sense of cause, but why in the sense of purpose?

  John Piper

  Friday, Buddhist, Jesus

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• A player's character is a crucial factor I look into before committing to signing them. They also need to show a willingness to learn, regardless of age and experience; that's very important to me.

  Brendan Rodgers

  Character, Player, Important

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• I horse ride. I find it is the best way to maintain my fitness and stay physical. I have to practise anyway for my equestrian front. I do dressage and schooling too. I also do physical training where I work on my neck and upper body strength. Racing is a high endurance sport and you are in the car for a long time so this area is crucial.

  Liz Halliday

  Sports, Horse, Car

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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