“What mothers need, as well as fathers, spouses, and the children of aging parents, is an entire national infrastructure of care, every bit as important as the physical infrastructure of roads, bridges, tunnels, broadband, parks and public works.” NeedsWellsChildrenImportantCareMotherFatherBitsParentAgingBridgesParksSpouseInfrastructureTunnelsBroadbandAging Parents Author:Anne-Marie Slaughter
“If you think about Shakespeare, you remember Richard III and Macbeth before you remember Ferdinand, whose role is just to fall in love and be a bit of a wimp. I love the baddies. More important, though, is making the baddies somehow, weirdly, understood.” IfsThinkingImportantRememberFallBitsRolesUnderstoodFalling In LoveWimpsBaddies Author:Mark Strong
“Balance is the most important of all qualities. We don't want a little bit of rapid growth and then to stagnate. We want continual growth, continual development, which implies balance, always.” WantLittlesImportantBitsGrowthQualityBuddhismDevelopmentBalanceLittle BitRapidsRapid GrowthContinual Growth Author:Frederick Lenz
“It becomes more important to me as time goes on to make every album the best thing I've ever done, so it's a lot of self-imposed pressure that also kind of slows me down a bit.” KindImportantSelfDoneBitsGoes OnPressureAlbumsBest ThingsTime Goes On Author:Al Yankovic
“Little kids grow up discovering the world that's shown to them and then when you become a teenager, it kind of shrinks a little bit. I think when you get past that point, one of the important things is that you see there is more to the world than yourself.” ThinkingWorldKindLittlesImportantKidsPastGrowsBitsGrowing UpLittle BitImportant ThingsTeenagerDiscoveringLittle KidShrinksDiscovering The World Author:Kenneth Lonergan
“I think that having comedy where people talk the way they really talk, when you talk with your friends and whatever, it's really, it's important. Or else you're making stuff that's a little bit watered down and irrelevant.” PeopleThinkingWayLittlesImportantStuffBitsComedyLittle BitDown AndIrrelevant Author:Seth Gordon
“I do believe that separation can be a bit damaging at times. To be happy about yourself and your culture and all of that is necessary and fulfilling, but the whole tapestry is what's important.” BelieveImportantWholeCultureBitsSeparationAbout YourselfFulfillingWhat's ImportantTapestry Author:Chita Rivera
“People always want to ask me about my dad. Which I get because he's a phenomenal actor, and that's for the world, that's out there. But my mother is every bit as impressive and as important for the world as my dad is. It's just that she's not an actor.” PeopleWorldWantImportantMotherActorsAsksBitsDadMy DadAsk MeImpressivePhenomenal Author:Domhnall Gleeson
“Art gives a sense of order, life is basically chaotic, and there's a tension between them. A sense of order comes from chaos and contains a bit of it, but it's the sense of order that is important in a work of art.” GivingArtImportantLife IsOrderBitsChaosTensionWorks Of ArtChaotic Author:Alfred Brendel
“Letting Go: A Little Bit at a Time is filled with big ideas that just might change your life. Wise, witty, and important.” LittlesImportantIdeasBigsMightBitsWiseLetting GoLittle BitFilledWittyChanging Your LifeBig IdeasWise Life Author:Daniel Amen
“To any intelligent being, there is no emotion more important than hope. Individually or collectively, we must hope that the future will be better than the past, that our offspring, and theirs after them, will be a bit closer to an ideal society, whatever our perception of that might be... It is at those times when we feel we are contributing to that ultimate end... we feel true elation.” FeelsImportantEndsMightPastBitsEmotionPerceptionIdealsUltimateIntelligentBeing ThereContributingOffspringElationIdeal Society Book:Siege of Darkness: The Legend of Drizzt Source: Siege of Darkness: The Legend of Drizzt
“Economics is important because it's possible to buy the places that are necessary to live in relative inaccessibility and seclusion, or to move with a bit of style and chicness into the middle of civilization.” ImportantMovingSuccessBitsCareersMiddleStyleBuddhismCivilizationEconomicsRelativeSeclusion Author:Frederick Lenz
“It's a bit difficult to get hippies organized into anything, but I think if they get annoyed enough with the stuff that's going down, they're capable of showing up. So anything they consider important, they'll be there.” IfsThinkingImportantEnoughStuffBitsDifficultCapableOrganizedHippieAnnoyedShowing Up Author:Grace Slick
“What science is all about is a process. It's like saying, "Well, is it important for people to know that World War II happened?" Well it's part of what makes us who we are. And so, there's basic bits of science we need to know.” PeopleKnowsWorldNeedsWellsImportantWarBitsProcessHappenedWar Of The WorldsWho We AreWorld War IiWorld War I Author:Lawrence M. Krauss
“there is a danger, when thinking of the earliest civilized people, of putting too much emphasis on technology. One tends to assume that if you don't have, at least, a lavatory and perhaps something that will take you a lot faster than your own feet, or a certain number of gadgets in the house, then you must be in some way, a bit backward and defective ... the important thing to remember is that technology is not necessarily the same thing as civilization.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayImportantRememberCertainHouseBitsNumbersTechnologyToo MuchFeetDangerCivilizationImportant ThingsAssumingFasterCivilizedEmphasisGadgetsDefective Author:Jacquetta Hawkes
“I exercise at the gym with a trainer. I feel it's very healthy, very important - important for everybody. I feel it's good for you. It makes you feel better. It loosens you up a little bit.” FeelsLittlesImportantBitsExerciseHealthyLittle BitGymFeel BetterTrainers Author:Ralph Lauren
“I feel like we're all here on this planet, and intimacy is important. I can't bear small talk, it's awful. I want to get beyond that thing of discussing how the weather is a bit better today than it was yesterday, and how this is a nice restaurant. I want to get to what are the problems, what's really going on. Are you in love? Are you in a lot of pain? What's really going on in your life? I'm interested in that area, whether it's on stage or in real life.” WantLoveLifeFeelsI CanImportantRealProblemTodayPainBitsNiceStagePlanetsBearsAreasYesterdayReal LifeWeatherAwfulIntimacyRestaurantsLove LifeDiscussingSmall Talk Author:Simon Amstell
“It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.” WellsLittlesImportantBitsLittle Bit Author:Kareena Kapoor
“You know, we have little bits of understanding, glimpses, a little bit of light here and there, but there's a tremendous amount of darkness, which is a challenge. I think life would be pretty boring if we understood everything. It's better if we don't understand anything and know that we don't, that's the important part.” IfsThinkingKnowsLittlesImportantLightWould BeBitsUnderstandingChallengesDarknessAmountLittle BitUnderstoodBoringGlimpseHere And There Author:Noam Chomsky
“The casting is the most important thing. If you cast a picture really well a lot of things take care of themselves. You get actors that like to give a lot to the role and who appreciate the role on the same level that you do. If you miscast it, you're working an uphill battle a little bit and maybe you can come out okay but you can't always come out great.” IfsGivingWellsLittlesImportantCareActorsBitsLevelsRolesBattleLittle BitAppreciateOkayImportant ThingsCastsTake CareCastingUphill Battles Author:Clint Eastwood
“I feel humor is important for those two reasons: that it is a little bit of refreshment like music, and that women have told me over the years that it is very, very important to them.” FeelsYearsLittlesTwoImportantReasonBitsLittle BitRefreshments Author:Woody Allen
“I've always felt like my music would stand for itself and I would stand for myself. So I've kept my music a little bit esoteric, and I've kept the lyrics a little aloof. I try to say something important, but I don't necessarily preach.” TryingLittlesImportantFeltBitsLittle BitEsotericAloof Author:Kenna
“[On The Waste Land:] Various critics have done me the honor to interpret the poem in terms of criticism of the contemporary world, have considered it, indeed, as an important bit of social criticism. To me it was only the relief of a personal and wholly insignificant grouse against life; it is just a piece of rhythmical grumbling.” WorldImportantDoneSocialBitsTermPiecesLandHonorWasteCriticismCriticsVariousContemporaryReliefInsignificantGrumblingWaste Land Author:T. S. Eliot
“Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your eyes, kindness in your face, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greetings. We are all but His instruments who do our little bit and pass by. I believe that the way in which an act of kindness is done is as important as the action itself.” WayBelieveLittlesImportantDoneEyeActionFacesI BelieveBitsKindnessExpressionLittle BitInstrumentsWarmYour FaceGreetingsActs Of KindnessYour Smile Author:Mother Teresa
“Magic has a spiritual element, and is considered very important and of value, and magicians have always been a little bit silly, so if you're going to portray a modern day magician, there's gotta be a little silliness.” IfsLittlesImportantSpiritualValuesBitsMagicModernElementsLittle BitSillyMagicianModern DaySilliness Author:Jon Turteltaub
“Writers who open up horizons for other people are performing a function every bit as important as a consciously politicized writer.” PeopleImportantBitsFunctionPerformingHorizon Author:Wole Soyinka
“There are a lot of little tricks you can do to inject a bit more time into the day. Most important is limiting yourself to a 40 hour week, not working 50 hours or 60 or 70. It's just crazy. It's actually irresponsible to you and irresponsible to your family and friends. Why should your employer's profits be more important than your own family? You're not even going to get any of the profits - all you get is not losing your job. It's a very negative system.” ShouldLittlesImportantJobsBitsCan DoHoursWeekCrazyLosingNegativeProfitTricksOur FamilyMore TimeFamily And FriendsEmployersIrresponsibleLimiting Yourself Author:Tom Hodgkinson
“I'd like it to be a bit of everything, the kind of music you can dance to, but also something a bit more personal, that you can listen to in other contexts. I think it's very important to maintain the contrasts between the different types of music that I make.” ThinkingKindImportantDifferentBitsTypeContrastDifferent Types Of Music Author:Shook
“I would be wary about working in the States because freedom is an important thing. I have made seven films and even on Alien Resurrection I had the freedom. I had to fight and struggle a bit but in the end I won out.” MadeImportantEndsStatesWould BeFilmFightingBitsStruggleImportant ThingsSevenAliensResurrection Author:Jean-Pierre Jeunet