Important Quotes - Page 13

• Not to discount my music, but I'm always suspicious of the music that I make on some level, as to how valid it is. Or maybe not "valid," but how important.

  Ryan Adams

  Levels, Discounts, Suspicious

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 28, 2007.

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• I had self-doubt about whether my story was interesting to people. I didn't want to write something that was anecdotal. It was important to me that people would get something out of my book. I want people to read it and say, "Now I don't feel so alone," or "I'm going to remember that next time I'm being an asshole."

  Lizz Winstead

  Book, Writing, Self

  "Lizz Winstead, Freely Speaking". Interview with Lianne Stokes, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 9, 2012.

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• Ecology more important than saving animals from slavery??? Humans suffer the raping of the earth but animals suffer DOUBLY: the raping of the earth PLUS their own raping by humans. They are innocent/they are not the ones who raped the earth/they enrich it for us all from the tiniest microscopic beings to the largest ones.

  Adela Popescu

  Animal, Suffering, Slavery

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• My homies in Gadsden aren't as exposed as I am culturally, which is awesome - that's why I love going home. I'm in the kitchen with people who don't know anything but the simple life, what's important to them, and what's dope.

  Yelawolf

  Home, Dope, Simple

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• I would say that nobody is going to work harder for your career than yourself - the one with the vision. No matter how many people you hire, nobody is going to get is as much as yourself does. So it's really important to be your own leader at all times and not hand it all off, otherwise the whole empire will fall apart.

  Skylar Grey

  Fall, Hard Work, Hands

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Art, Language, Importance

  "What is Art?". Book by Leo Tolstoy, 1897.

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• Life is serious all the time, but living cannot be. You may have all the solemnity you wish in your neckties, but in anything important (such as sex, death, and religion), you must have mirth or you will have madness.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Sex, Wish, May

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• There are two ways of forming an opinion. One is the scientific method; the other, the scholastic. To the scientific mind, experimental proof is all-important, and theory is merely a convenience in description, to be junked when it no longer fits. To the academic mind, authority is everything, and facts are junked when they do not fit theory.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Two, Mind, Scientific Method

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• Controlling my temper is important, ... Sometimes it's hard, but I try.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Trying, Sometimes, Temper

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• In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed by the deep inner needs of our nature.

  Sigmund Freud

  Choices, Decision, Needs

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• All of us, in a sense, struggle continuously all the time, because we never get what we want. The important thing which I've really learned is how do you not give up, because you never succeed in the first attempt.

  Mukesh Ambani

  Giving Up, Struggle, Want

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• Energy and time are finite resources; conserving them is very important.

  Twyla Tharp

  Energy, Resources, Finite

  Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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• Interest is the most important thing in life; happiness is temporary, but interest is continuous.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Things In Life, Life Happiness, Interest

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• I find that it is important to work slowly. Anyone who looks at such a canvas will follow the same path the artist took, and he will experience that it is the path which counts more than the outcome of it, and that the route taken has been the most interesting part.

  Georges Braque

  Taken, Artist, Interesting

  "Cahiers d'art" by Dora Vallier, p. 14, 1954.

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• Memory is very important, the memory of each photo taken, flowing at the same speed as the event.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Memories, Taken, Events

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• I believe that the sight is a more important thing than the drawing.

  John Ruskin

  Believe, Sight, Drawing

  John Ruskin (2012). “The Elements of Drawing”, p.13, Courier Corporation

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• People go through four stages before any revolutionary development: 1. It's nonsense, don't waste my time. 2. It's interesting, but not important. 3. I always said it was a good idea. 4. I thought of it first.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Change, Ideas, People

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• It is well known that "problem avoidance" is an important part of problem solving. Instead of solving the problem you go upstream and alter the system so that the problem does not occur in the first place.

  Edward de Bono

  Doe, Firsts, Problem

  Edward De Bono (1992). “Serious Creativity: Using the Power of Lateral Thinking to Create New Ideas”, Harpercollins

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• My responsibility is simply being who I am and not buying into any projection as real. No projection is finally real, but projection does play a very important role.

  Gangaji

  Real, Responsibility, Who I Am

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• We do not choose to be born.We do not--most of us, choose to die, or the times or conditions of our death. But within all this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we shall live--Courageously or in cowardice, Honorably or dishonorably, With purpose or adrift. We decide what is important and what is trivial. What makes us significant is what we DO, Or REFUSE TO DO. WE DECIDE and WE CHOOSE--and so we give definition to our lives.

  Joseph Epstein

  Giving, Adrift, Definitions

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• The point is that profound but contradictory ideas may exist side by side, if they are constructed from different materials and methods. and have different purposes. Each tells us something important about where we stand in the universe, and it is foolish to insist that they must despise each other.

  Neil Postman

  Ideas, Profound, May

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• Ideas, as the raw material from which knowledge is produced, exist in superabundance, but that makes the production of knowledge more difficult rather than easier. Many ideas- probably most- will have to be discarded somewhere in the process of producing authenticated knowledge. Authentication is as important as the raw information itself, and the manner and speed of the authentication process can be crucial.

  Thomas Sowell

  Ideas, Raw Materials, Information

  Thomas Sowell (1996). “Knowledge And Decisions”, p.4, Basic Books

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• Informal relationships are not mere minor interstitial supplements to the major institutions of society. These informal relationships not only include important decision-making processes, such as the family, but also produce much of the background social capital without which the other major institutions of society could not function nearly as effectively as they do.

  Thomas Sowell

  Decision, Social, Process

  Thomas Sowell (1996). “Knowledge And Decisions”, p.30, Basic Books

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• People say I think too much about women, yet, after all what is there more important to think about?

  Auguste Rodin

  Thinking, People, Too Much

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• The shadows are as important as the light.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Light, Shadow, Eloquence

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