Quotessence
Home / Topics / Crucial Quotes

Crucial Quotes

Browse 834 quotes about Crucial.

Related topics

PeopleIfsThinkingWayImportantNeedsKnowsWorldHumansMomentsRolesWellsGivingWantHas BeensIdeasPlayBelieveCountryFirstsChildrenMayKindLooksMindProblemCrucial MomentsFormWritingFeelsPoliticalDifferencesFactsMatterProcessStoriesYearsDecisionMenShouldMadeRealReasonValuesEnergyHelpingRightsTodayTwoAbleDoeInformationIssuesJobsMeanStatesStepsAgeChoicesElementsGovernmentNationsPersonsSelfTryingViewsEconomyEssentialsHardIndividualLevelsMightSocialTermUnderstandingWholeArtCareCertainCoursesCultureDevelopmentHeartHomeRealityWarActionBodyBookCharacterDoneGamesHappensHuman BeingsImportanceKnowingLeaderOrderSaidSupportmore

Crucial Quotes

“Why did the consensus of Christian churches not only accept these astonishing views but establish them as the only true form of Christian doctrine? . . . these religious debates - questions of the nature of God, or of Christ - simultaneously bear social and political implications that are crucial to the development of Christianity as an institutional religion. In simplest terms, ideas which bear implications contrary to that development come to be labeled as 'heresy'; ideas which implicitly support it become 'orthodox.'”

IdeasChristianFormPoliticalReligionSocialTermChristChurchReligiousViewsAcceptingChristianitySupportDevelopmentBearsContraryDebateDoctrineOrthodoxCrucialSimplestConsensusAstonishingImplicationsHeresyChristian ChurchChristian Doctrine
Author:Elaine Pagels
Create image

“The biggest danger we face is overfishing. We literally could fish out our oceans, some scientists believe, in the next 40, 50, 60 years. We are fishing out the top of the food chain, and it's pretty crucial because about 200 million people depend on fish and fishing for their livelihood, and about a billion people, mostly in poorer countries, depend on fish for their protein. So this is a big problem. Good news is, it's fixable.”

PeopleYearsBelieveCountryProblemBigsFacesNextMillionsDangerDependsOceanNewsScientistFishesBillionsChainsFishingCrucialGood NewsProteinLivelihoodBig ProblemsFood ChainOverfishing
Author:Ted Danson
Create image

“Fitness and proper nutrition truly go hand-in-hand. Focus on eating clean and filling your plate with veggies, fruits, whole grains and lean proteins. And, everyone hates to do it, but calorie counting is crucial to weight loss as well as maintaining a healthy physique.”

WellsWholeHandsHateLossFocusHealthyEatingWeightCleanFruitCrucialNutritionGrainPlatesFillingMaintainingWeight LossCountingHand In HandProteinCaloriesPhysiqueWhole GrainsProper Nutrition
Author:Jillian Michaels
Create image

“There is cruelty in divorce. There is cruelty in forced or unfortunate marriage. We will continue to cry at weddings because we know how bittersweet, how fragile is the truth. We will always need legal divorce just as an emergency escape hatch is crucial in every submarine. No sense, however, in denying that after every divorce someone will be running like a cat, tin cans tied to its tail: spooked and slowed down.”

KnowsNeedsRunningKnow HowCryCatDivorceCrueltyCrucialFragileTiedUnfortunateTailsEmergenciesBittersweetTinSubmarinesTin Cans
Author:Anne Roiphe
Create image

“Spin' is a polite word for deception. Spinners mislead by means that range from subtle omissions to outright lies. Spin paints a false picture of reality by bending facts, mischaracterizing the words of others, ignoring or denying crucial evidence, or just 'spinning a yarn' - by making things up.”

MeanFactsRealityLyingEvidencePaintDeceptionRangeSubtleCrucialPoliteSpinningMisleadBendingOmissionYarnSpinner
Book:unSpun: Finding Facts in a World of Disinformation
Create image

“With the growth of the world population, the global climate change and the need for a greater healthy environment, access to water resources has become a crucial condition for the realization of an equitable international order, where the needs of the peoples are effectively addressed. In this regard, the need for international cooperation, including in joint effort with relevant non-state actors, is paramount to ensure water is made available to all without discrimination. Water is a human right, an enabling right, not a mere commodity.”

WorldNeedsHumansMadeStatesOrderActorsGrowthWaterEffortEnvironmentGreaterConditionsHealthyResourcesRegardMereClimateClimate ChangeIncludingInternationalPopulationAvailableAccessDiscriminationRealizationCooperationCrucialRelevantCommodityJointsEnablingParamountEquitableWater ResourcesWorld PopulationInternational CooperationHealthy EnvironmentJoint EffortsAccess To Water
Author:Alfred-Maurice de Zayas
Create image

“Failure to summon forth the courage to risk a nondogmatic and nonevasive stance on such crucial existential matters can also blur our ethical vision. If our actions in the world are to stem from an encounter with what is central in life, they must be unclouded by either dogma or prevarication. Agnosticism is no excuse for indecision. If anything, it is a catalyst for action; for in shifting concern away from a future life and back to the present, it demands an ethics of empathy rather than a metaphysics of fear and hope.”

IfsWorldMatterActionVisionRiskDemandEmpathyEthicsConcernExcuseEncountersEthicalCrucialDogmaExistentialStemMetaphysicsShiftingOur ActionsAgnosticismNo ExcusesCatalystStanceBlurIndecisionFuture LifePrevarication
Author:Stephen Batchelor
Create image

“Belief in oneself is a crucial quality of leadership, because 'a house divided against itself cannot stand.' A leader who fluctuates back and forth sends a very wavery signal. Like the soprano who can shatter glass by finding that high note and holding it, a leader who can hold that high note, without wavering, can shatter walls.”

HouseBeliefLeadershipQualityLeaderWallFindingsNotesGlassesOneselfDividedCrucialSignalsBack And ForthSopranosWaveringHigh NotesHouse Divided
Book:Jesus, CEO: using ancient wisdom for visionary leadership
Create image

“The very technologies that were supposed to free up our time seem instead to be consuming it, tacking hours onto our already extended days. The very interconnectedness of life in a global networked economy that creates so many opportunities also makes all our decisions more complex, crucial, even fragile.”

SeemsOpportunityHoursDecisionTechnologyEconomyComplexesOur TimeCrucialFragileConsumingInterconnectedness
Book:Thriving In 24/7: Six Strategies for Taming the New World of Work
Create image

“The United States is strongly committed to the IPCC process of international cooperation on global climate change. We consider it vital that the community of nations be drawn together in an orderly, disciplined, rational way to review the history of our global environment, to assess the potential for future climate change, and to develop effective programs. The state of the science, the social and economic impacts, and the appropriate strategies all are crucial components to a global resolution. The stakes here are very high; the consequences, very significant.”

WayStatesTogetherNationsSocialProcessCommunityUnitedUnited StatesEnvironmentEconomicConsequenceProgramImpactStrategyClimateClimate ChangeInternationalCommittedSignificantRationalAppropriateResolutionReviewsCooperationCrucialStakesComponentsOrderlyInternational CooperationDrawn Together
Author:George H. W. Bush
Create image

“There will come a moment when the most urgent threats posed by the credit crisis have eased and the larger task before us will be to chart a direction for the economic steps ahead. This will be a dangerous moment. Behind the debates over future policy is a debate over history-a debate over the causes of our current situation. The battle for the past will determine the battle for the present. So it's crucial to get the history straight.”

MomentsPastCausesBehindsSituationStepsEconomicDangerousPolicyBattleTasksCrisisThreatInvestingDetermineCurrentsCreditDebateCrucialUrgentCurrent Situation
Author:Joseph Stiglitz
Create image

“I want everyone to keep the property that he has acquired for himself according to the principle: benefit to the community precedes benefit to the individual. But the state should retain supervision and each property owner should consider himself appointed by the state. It is his duty not to use his property against the interests of others among his own people. This is the crucial matter. The Third Reich will always retain its right to control the owners of property.”

PeopleWantShouldMatterStatesPhilosophyUsePoliticalIndividualInterestCommunityPrinciplesDutyBenefitsThirdsPropertyClassicOwnersCrucialPolitical PhilosophySupervision
Author:Adolf Hitler
Create image

“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.”

IfsTryingBelieveKindLittlesTwoImportantSometimesMatterI BelieveSocialDifferencesForgetPowerfulDangerousMovementOfficeCandidatesNever ForgetCrucialSocial Movements
Author:Howard Zinn
Create image

“Richard Nixon was not the lesser evil, he was the greater evil, but in his administration the war was finally brought to an end, because he had to deal with the power of the anti-war movement as well as the power of the Vietnamese movement. I will vote, but always with a caution that voting is not crucial, and organizing is the important thing.”

WellsImportantWarEndsEvilDealsGreaterMovementVoteImportant ThingsAdministrationVotingCrucialAnti WarCautionVietnameseLesser EvilAnti War Movement
Author:Howard Zinn
Create image

“Only a God of love is fully personal. Thus the Trinity is crucial for maintaining a fully personal concept of God. As theologian Robert Letham writes, “Only a God who is triune can be personal.... A solitary monad cannot love and, since it cannot love, neither can it be a person.” Therefore it “has no way to explain or even to maintain human personhood.”

WayWritingHumansPersonsLove IsConceptsCrucialSolitaryTheologianMaintainingTrinityPersonhood
Author:Nancy Pearcey
Create image

“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.”

GivingTryingMayChildrenPersonsTwoHomeParentStageRaisesRaisedStriveBusyContemporaryCrucialStrifeOverwhelmedCaregiversStages Of LifeContemporary Society
Book:The Wonder of Children: Nurturing the Souls of Our Sons and Daughters
Create image

“All other passions build upon or flow from your passion for Jesus. A passion for souls grows out of a passion for Christ. A passion for missions builds upon a passion for Christ. The most crucial danger to a Christian, whatever his role, is to lack a passion of Christ. The most direct route to personal renewal and new effectiveness is a new all-consuming passion for Jesus. Lord, give us this passion, whatever the cost!”

GivingSoulChristianPassionJesusGrowsChristLordRolesDangerCostFlowDirectMissionsCrucialRoutesRenewalEffectivenessConsumingPassion Of The Christ
Author:Wesley L Duewel
Create image

“Stopgaps do belong to the internal economy of the form, since the Whole requires them, even if only in a subordinate position ... The stopgap Luigi Paryson's 'zeppa' accepts its own banality, because without the speed that the banal allows up, it would slow up a passage that is crucial for the outcome of the work and its interpretation.”

IfsWholeFormPoetryLiteratureAcceptingEconomyPositionSpeedOutcomesInternalsInterpretationCrucialPassagesSubordinatesBanality
Author:Umberto Eco
Create image