“In the rich world, the environmental situation has improved dramatically. In the United States, the most important environmental indicator, particulate air pollution, has been cut by more than half since 1955, rivers and coastal waters have dramatically improved, and forests are increasing.” WorldHas BeensImportantStatesWaterUnitedHalfSituationUnited StatesRichCuttingAirRiversEnvironmentalForestsPollutionIndicatorsCoastalAir PollutionEnvironmental PollutionWoods And ForestsAir Quality Author:Bjorn Lomborg
“Music is important. It says things you heart can't say any other way, and in a language everyone speaks. Music crosses borders, turns smiles into frowns, and vice versa. These observations are shared with a hope: that, when schools cut back on music classes, they really think about what they're doing - and don't take music for granted.” ThinkingWayHeartImportantSchoolTurnsSpeakLanguageClassCuttingMusic IsCrossesVicesObservationGrantedBordersVice Versa Author:Dan Rather
“The Singapore Media Festival brings together the most important Film and TV events in Singapore under one umbrella. With media convergence, I foresee that the SMF will encompass even more content formats in future, and will keep Singapore on the cutting-edge of media development. I am confident the SMF will be a signature media event for Singapore and the world for many years to come.” WorldYearsImportantTogetherFilmCuttingMediaEventsTvsDevelopmentEdgesFestivalsFormatSignaturesSingaporeUmbrellaCutting EdgeConvergence Author:Calvin Cheng
“Cuts of clothes and shapes of clothes are really important.” ImportantCuttingShapesClothes Author:Bonnie Wright
“The key to trading success is emotional discipline. If intelligence were the key, there would be a lot more people making money trading… I know this will sound like a cliché, but the single most important reason that people lose money in the financial markets is that they don't cut their losses short.” PeopleIfsKnowsImportantReasonWould BeSoundLosesLossCuttingEmotionalKeysDisciplineFinancialMaking MoneyTradingFinancial Markets Author:Victor Sperandeo
“I don't need to praise anything so justly famous as Frost's observation of and empathy with everything in Nature from a hornet to a hillside; and he has observed his own nature, one person's random or consequential chains of thoughts and feelings and perceptions, quite as well. (And this person, in the poems, is not the "alienated artist" cut off from everybody who isn't, yum-yum, another alienated artist; he is someone like normal people only more so - a normal person in the less common and more important sense of normal.)” PeopleNeedsWellsPersonsImportantFeelingsArtistCommonCuttingNormalPerceptionEmpathyPraiseObservationChainsFrostThoughts And FeelingsHornets Author:Randall Jarrell
“What they frequently want to do with a movie is, they want to cut out the valleys and just show the peaks. And valleys are important; the valleys make the peaks stand out.” WantImportantShowsCuttingValleysStanding OutPeaks And Valleys Author:Tracy Letts
“When I'm at our house in France I totally cut myself off from the rest of the world. I never have to listen to phones ringing and that's because - and Vanessa would confirm this - phones are banned from the house. We have a beautiful life and I feel that spending time in France has just calmed me down and made me stop worrying about things which aren't really important.” WorldFeelsMadeImportantFunnyBeautifulHouseWorryCuttingDown AndPhonesSpendingFranceBeautiful LifeBannedSpending TimeStop Worrying Author:Johnny Depp
“It [the scene] can be something given to you and you go, "Ah this is a good idea, I can work with this." Sometimes it cuts right across your instinct and that's when I might resist. Even if the director might be insistent, I think it's very important to say, "Look, I'm not feeling this. I'll try to make it work but I got to let you know."” IfsThinkingKnowsTryingLooksI CanImportantIdeasSometimesFeelingsMightGivenCuttingSceneDirectorsInstinctGood Ideas Author:Ralph Fiennes
“The Waltons was profoundly important after years of wandering around. I was 44 and cut off from family and friends. It nurtured me back to a sense of family and who I am. It was a transforming experience.” YearsImportantCuttingWho I AmWanderFamily And FriendsTransformingWandering Around Author:Ralph Waite
“Schools, the first thing they cut is music programs. They don't realize how important music is to kids.” FirstsImportantKidsSchoolRealizingCuttingMusic IsProgram Author:Steven Tyler
“For thousands and thousands of American kids, libraries are the only safe place they can find to study, a haven free from the dangers of street or the numbing temptations of television. As schools cut back services, the library looms even more important to countless children.” ChildrenImportantKidsSchoolStudyCuttingStreetsHavensDangerTelevisionSafeLibraryTemptationSafe PlacesNumbing Author:Scott Turow
“Under current law, on January 1, 2013, there's going to be a massive fiscal cliff of large spending cuts and tax increases.” ImportantLawCuttingTaxesPercentIncreaseCurrentsSpendingMassiveCliffsJanuaryTax IncreasesGangnam StyleSpending CutsJanuary 1stFiscal Cliff Author:Ben Bernanke
“In terms of bullying, there are so many new laws in America, I am not sure about worldwide, but in America, the laws for bullying are getting strict. And I am really excited of how strict they are and I think it has cut down on a lot of bullying. As a kid I was a bully and I was bullied. I lived both sides of it. To see what is being done with bullying now is super important.” ThinkingImportantDoneKidsAmericaLawSidesTermCuttingExcitedNot SureBullyingStrictBoth SidesBullyBulliedBeing Done Author:Tyra Banks
“The architecture per se isn't at fault. The more important factor, in my view, is the political neglect of these areas, which have essentially been cut off from other neighborhoods.” ImportantPoliticalViewsCuttingAreasFaultsArchitectureFactorsNeighborhoodNeglect Author:Rem Koolhaas
“For me, the most important word in cinema is the word freedom. For example, in Europe, we've got freedom, we've got the final cut and that's something which is marvellous.” ImportantCuttingExampleEuropeFinalsCinemaMarvellousImportant Words Author:Jean-Pierre Jeunet
“In our house, mother’s day is every day. Father’s day, too. In our house, parents count. They do important work and that work matters. One day just doesn’t cut for us.” ImportantMatterMotherFatherHouseParentCuttingOne DayMothers DayImportant Work Author:Margaret Heffernan
“It's important in show business to have friends who understand the cut and thrust of everyday working life and the constant rejection.” ImportantShowsCuttingConstantEverydayRejectionShow BusinessThrustWorking LifeConstant Rejection Author:Julian Ovenden
“In terms of my relationships with a lot of the adult characters, when I was working with Harrison, it wasn't like a verbal agreement, but we both understood that because there was this constant tension between our characters, we couldn't say "Cut" and start acting normal. We had to keep an essence of that relationship in our characters off screen which is really important.” ImportantCharacterTermActingCuttingNormalUnderstoodAdultsEssenceConstantScreensTensionAgreement Author:Asa Butterfield
“You'll find that marriage is a good short cut to the truth. No, not quite that. A way of doubling back to the truth. Another thing you'll find is that the years of illusion aren't those of adolescense, as the grown-ups try to tell us; they're the ones immediately after it, say the middle twenties, the false maturity if you like, when you first get thoroughly embroiled in things and lose your head. Your age, by the way, Jim. That's when you first realize that sex is important to other people besides yourself. A discovery like that can't help knocking you off balance for a time.” PeopleIfsWayTryingYearsFirstsImportantHelpingAgeSexRealizingLosesCuttingMiddleBalanceIllusionDiscoveryTwentiesMaturityKnockingShort Cuts Author:Kingsley Amis
“That's the thing about acting - it does have the feeling of downhill skiing. When it's really all going right, you know your lines, you know what's important to your character, you pick the strongest reactions possible to elements in the story. But then you let it all go and you're in the moment and stuff happens. It surprises you and it's super strong; it's like you're living life in a slightly heightened way in the time between "action" and "cut."” KnowsWayDoeImportantMomentsCharacterStoriesFeelingsHappensActionStrongStuffLinesActingCuttingLike YouElementsPicksSurpriseReactionsLive LifeStrongestWhat's ImportantSkiingStuff Happens Author:Mira Sorvino
“America's economic strength depends on industry's ability to improve productivity and quality and to remain on the cutting edge of technology, and that's why the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award is so important.” ImportantAmericaAbilityQualityTechnologyCuttingEconomicDependsIndustryEdgesProductivityAwardsCutting Edge Author:Ronald Reagan
“As a filmmaker, it's important to sit there and feel embarrassed. If you feel embarrassed by something, you cut it.” IfsFeelsImportantCuttingFilmmakerEmbarrassed Author:Andrew Dominik
“Stories set the inner life into motion, and this is particularly important where the inner life is frightened, wedged, or cornered. Story greases the hoists and pulleys, it causes adrenaline to surge, shows us the way out, down, or up, and for our trouble, cuts for us fine wide doors in previously blank walls, openings that lead to the dreamland, that lead to love and learning, that lead us back to our own real lives as knowing wildish women.” WayImportantRealStoriesShowsLife IsCausesKnowingCuttingTroubleDoorsWallFineWideReal LifeOpeningFrightenedBlankInner LifeAdrenalineGreaseCorneredDreamlandPulleys Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“The air strikes are important [to fight ISIS], but we need to have an air force capable of it. And because of the budget cuts we are facing in this country, we are going to be left with the oldest and the smallest Air Force we have ever had. We have to reverse those cuts, in addition to the cuts to our Navy and in addition to the cuts to our Army, as well.” NeedsWellsImportantCountryFightingLeftForceCuttingAirCapableArmyStrikesBudgetsSmallestReverseNavyIsisAir ForceBudget Cuts Author:Marco Rubio
“Wyclef is a musician that tried to unite as many musicians at once as possible. I am trying to be successful at that. The greatest challenge is that, I just got arrested for protesting in NYC for cutting the school budgets... And I think that it's important to stand up. Schools are important.” ThinkingTryingImportantSchoolChallengesSuccessfulCuttingMusicianBudgetsBeing SuccessfulArrestedNyc Author:Wyclef Jean