Importance Quotes - Page 38

• The importance of rehearsal is maybe you want to talk about how the scene's going to be designed, how it's going to be staged, all of those things. It's all about preparation, and deciding what mutually you don't want to do, rather than necessarily what you do.

  Sam Mendes

  Preparation, Rehearsal, Want

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• You can publish a poem you think is a very important poem, and you don't hear a word from anyone. [...] You can publish a book of poetry by dropping it off a cliff and waiting to hear an echo. Quite often, you'll never hear a thing. So doing that, using older work, puts it in a context, and that sort of forces the reader to realize what its importance is-if it has any. Everything needs a context. You're not going to recognize a poet unless you have a context.

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  Book, Thinking, Echoes

  Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 1, 2012.

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• Another strand of my writing is the importance of the idea. If you think about fiction writing as a spectrum, where at one end of the spectrum in the infrared, are the story tellers, and the people for whom creation of wonderful characters and telling a good story is the most important thing.

  Alan Lightman

  Character, Writing, Thinking

  "Alan Lightman Interview". Interview with Alex Burack, www.literarytraveler.com. May 4, 2007.

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• The importance of my legacy is not the golf course, it's what my life is, and what my life is intended to be. The game of golf is a game. My family is my life.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Golf, Games, Legacy

  Source: www.nicklaus.com

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• I have always valued the care for my body, and my mind and had holistic approach to life. I always thought this is utmost importance for my tennis.

  Novak Djokovic

  Tennis, Mind, Body

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• In truth, there never was any remarkable lawgiver amongst any people who did not resort to divine authority, as otherwise his laws would not have been accepted by the people; for there are many good laws, the importance of which is known to be the sagacious lawgiver, but the reasons for which are not sufficiently evident to enable him to persuade others to submit to them; and therefore do wise men, for the purpose of removing this difficulty, resort to divine authority.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Wise, Men, Law

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• No one at this time can duly estimate the importance of Mrs Marcet's scientific works.

  Mary Somerville

  Mary Somerville (2010). “Queen Of Science”, p.92, Canongate Books

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• Never underestimate the importance of having fun. I'm dying and I'm having fun. And I'm going to keep having fun every day because there's no other way to play it.

  Randy Pausch

  Fun, Play, Dying

  "Achieving Your Childhood Dreams". Randy Pausch's last lecture at McConomy Auditorium of Carnegie Mellon University, www.youtube.com. September 18, 2007.

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• I hate churches, all of them. But they used to know something about the importance of silence.

  Ferdinand Mount

  Hate, Silence, Church

  Ferdinand Mount (1991). “Of love and asthma”, Vintage

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• In the view of the fact that nature is dying, political developments are of secondary importance.

  Wolfgang Hildesheimer

  Views, Political, Dying

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• When we make the choice to care, we set into motion a snowball effect that touches many people, most of whom we will never know about . . . never underestimate the importance of a kind act.

  Alan Cohen

  People, Choices, Care

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• The importance of a problem should not be judged by the number of pages devoted to it.

  Albert Einstein

  Numbers, Pages, Problem

  Albert Einstein, Leopold Infeld (1966). “Evolution of Physics”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• It is obvious to any observer that in every western country the increase of importance of public schools has been at least coincident with the relaxation of older family ties.

  John Dewey

  Country, School, Ties

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, David Sidorsky (2008). “The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1927-1928”, p.230, SIU Press

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• It is deliberate policy to keep even the favoured groups somewhere near the brink of hardship, because a general state of scarcity increases the importance of small privileges and thus magnifies the distinction between one group and another.

  George Orwell

  Groups, Scarcity, Hardship

  George Orwell (1983). “1984”, p.414, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The French Revolution gave us three... powerful ideas, or concepts - liberty, equality and fraternity. But these ideas... are not only right in themselves, but they are so because they come in the proper order. You cannot have equality without liberty, and you certainly cannot have fraternity without equality. The importance of this I learnt from music, because music evolves in time, and therefore the order inevitably determines the content.

  Daniel Barenboim

  Powerful, Order, Ideas

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• Consequently, the value and importance of the monarchic idea cannot reside in the person of the monarch himself except if Heaven decides to lay the crown on the brow of the heroic genius like Frederick the Great or a wise character like William I.

  Adolf Hitler

  Wise, Character, Ideas

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A novelist must preserve a childlike belief in the importance of things which common sense considers of no great consequence.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Common Sense, Novelists, Belief

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• The military taught me the importance of getting something done in a timely manner and the importance of completing a mission on time. My lieutenant would say, 'If you don't, you die.' In many ways, life is the same. If you don't pay attention to a timeline, you lose out on the ability to accomplish the task at hand.

  Don Young

  Military, Hands, Tasks

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• The importance of command leadership. Clear objective and strategy and loyalty to those reporting to you.

  Peter King

  Loyalty, Strategy, Clear

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• For me, I look at a project that has a story that's going to resonate in some way. It doesn't have to be about a message. It doesn't have to have some underlying theme of overwhelming importance.

  Will Packer

  Messages, Looks, Stories

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• I'm looking for films that can resonate and hopefully have some level of critical importance but also have commercial viability and can put butts in seats. At the end of the day, that is the name of the game. And if you can find that perfect balance, then that's the sweet spot.

  Will Packer

  Sweet, Games, Names

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• Food is such an important part of our lives, and sometimes we tend to diminish the importance of that, because we rely on conveniences or because our lives are so complicated. We forget about those moments that we can actually share around the table with our family, with our friends, with our loved ones.

  Thomas Keller

  Important, Tables, Forget

  "Table Talk with Thomas Keller". Interview with James Mustich, www.barnesandnoble.com. November 24, 2009.

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• You don't have to care about children to care about children. One of the things that I talk a lot about is the fact of the importance of third-grade reading level. By the end of third grade, if the child is not at reading level, it'll drop off. They never catch up.

  Kamala Harris

  Children, Reading, Levels

  "The Lenny Interview: Kamala Harris, the Senate Hopeful, Going After Revenge Porn". Interview with Doreen St. Félix, www.elle.com. October 23, 2015.

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• It's a historical fact that the Stasi did horrible things and that they monitored a lot of people in East Germany, but I find it very interesting to think about the importance of the Western secret services back then and still working today.

  Christian Schwochow

  Thinking, East Germany, Interesting

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Don't listen to other people's advice unless it is rooted in irrepressible enthusiasm (e.g., "Be afraid but do it anyway"), or about the importance of being a good colleague.

  Torill Kove

  People, Advice, Enthusiasm

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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