“All revealed truths derive from the same divine source and are to be believed with the same faith, yet some of them are more important for giving direct expression to the heart of the Gospel. In this basic core, what shines forth is the beauty of the saving love of God made manifest in Jesus Christ who died and rose from the dead.” GivingHeartMadeImportantJesusChristDivineExpressionSourceJesus ChristDirectDiedShiningRoseCoreSavingGod LoveManifestSaving Love Book:The Joy of the Gospel Source: The Joy of the Gospel
“In our quest to quickly make three-dimensional objects, we can miss out on the experience of making something that helps give us our first understandings of form and material, of the way a material behaves--'I press too hard here, and it breaks here' and so on. Some of the digital rendering tools are impressive, but it's important that people still really try and figure out a way of gaining direct experience with the materials.” PeopleWayGivingTryingFirstsStillsImportantHardHelpingFormThreeUnderstandingBreakMissingFiguresObjectsMaterialsToolsDirectPressesBehaveDigitalQuestsImpressiveRendering Author:Jonathan Ive
“Sometimes stories are inherently important whether or not they have a direct relation to your life.” ImportantSometimesStoriesDirectRelation Author:Linda Vester
“One of the most important factors, not only in military matters but in life as a whole, is ... the ability to direct one's whole energies towards the fulfillment of a particular task.” ImportantMatterWholeEnergyAbilityMilitaryParticularTasksDirectFactorsFulfillment Author:Erwin Rommel
“Don't sow your desires in someone else's garden; just cultivate your own as best you can; don't long to be other than what you are, but desire to be thoroughly what you are. Direct your thoughts to being very good at that and to bearing the crosses, little or great, that you will find there. Believe me, this is the most important and least understood point to the spiritual life. We all love according to what is our taste; few people like what is according to their duty or to God's liking. What is the use of building castles in Spain when we have to live in France?” PeopleBelieveLittlesLongImportantUseInspirationSpiritualDesireFaithBuildingDutyTasteUnderstoodGardenCrossesDirectVery GoodChristian InspirationalFranceSpiritual LifeBelieve In MeSpainCastles Author:Saint Francis de Sales
“Commitments present themselves in delineations of black and white. You either honor your commitments or you don't. Success is the result of making and keeping commitments to your self and others, while all failed or unfinished goals, projects and relationships are the direct result of broken commitments. It's that simple, that profound, and that important.” ImportantSelfGoalBlackSimpleWhiteResultsBrokenHonorProjectsCommitmentDirectProfoundBlack And WhiteUnfinished Author:Gary Ryan
“Economy is the first and great article (economy such as I understand it) in my financial creed. The controversy between direct and indirect taxation holds a minor, though important place.” FirstsImportantEconomyDirectFinancialArticlesCreedsMinorsGreat ArtTaxationControversyIndirectDirect And Indirect Author:William E. Gladstone
“It is alleged by men of loose principles, or defective views of the subject, that religion and morality are not necessary or important qualifications for political stations. But the Scriptures teach a different doctrine. They direct that rulers should be men who rule in the fear of God, able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness. But if we had no divine instruction on the subject, our own interest would demand of us a strict observance of the principle of these injunctions. . . .” IfsMenShouldImportantDifferentAblePoliticalHateInterestViewsPrinciplesTeachSubjectsDivineMoralityDemandDirectScriptureDoctrineStationsInstructionRulersStrictBe A ManQualificationsDefectiveCovetousnessObservanceFear God Author:Noah Webster
“I crave the freedom of knowing that if I want to do something, I can do it. It's important that I live in such a way that I can maintain a direct response to ideas.” IfsWayWantI CanImportantIdeasCan DoKnowingDirectResponseCraveI Can Do It Author:Errollyn Wallen
“Just listening carefully to what the musicians are really doing, putting the music in the right time... I became aware of the degree to which time, and therefore duration, was important in music and in art. It had a direct influence on my painting.” ArtImportantMusicInfluencePaintingListeningDegreesMusicianDirectRight TimeJust ListenDuration Author:Guido Molinari
“This is an important generation for the future of hybrid vehicles. With these models as well as the Ford Escape and the Honda Accord we're starting to see hybrid versions of mainstream vehicles. The auto makers are giving customers a direct choice: to opt for hybrid technology on a given model, or not. Will they pay the premium for the hybrid technology when everything else about the vehicle is the same?” GivingImportantChoicesTechnologyDirectVehicleHybridHonda Author:Daniel Benjamin
“One of the deepest and strangest of all human moods is the mood which will suddenly strike us perhaps in a garden at night, or deep in sloping meadows, the feeling that every flower and leaf has just uttered something stupendously direct and important, and that we have by a prodigy of imbecility not heard or understood it. There is a certain poetic value, and that a genuine one, in this sense of having missed the full meaning of things. There is beauty, not only in wisdom, but in this dazed and dramatic ignorance.” HumansImportantFeelingsNightCertainValuesKnowledgeHeardIgnoranceFlowerUnderstoodGardenDirectStrikesMoodDramaticPoeticLeafsMeadowsProdigiesImbecilityDazed Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
“It is very important to always hold the thought of an enlightened teacher in your mind in a very positive way. When you direct negative energy towards someone who is powerful, it has a terrible bounce-back effect.” WayMindImportantEnergyPowerfulTeacherEffectsBuddhismTerribleNegativeDirectBuddhistEnlightenedEtiquetteBounceVery PositiveNegative Energy Author:Frederick Lenz
“The press, important as is its office, is but the servant of the human intellect, and its ministry is for good or for evil, according to the character of those who direct it. The press is a mill which grinds all that is put into its hopper. Fill the hopper with poisoned grain, and it will grind it to meal, but there is death in the bread.” HumansImportantCharacterEvilOfficeDirectPressesIntellectNewspapersBreadServantMealsGrainMinistryGrindMills Author:William C. Bryant
“I regard reduction in Federal spending as one of the most important issues in this campaign. In my opinion it is the most direct and effective contribution that Government can make to business.” ImportantGovernmentOpinionIssuesDirectRegardSpendingCampaignsContributionReductionImportant IssuesFederal Spending Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt
“The idea of direct action against the evil that you want to overcome is a kind of common denominator for anarchist ideas and anarchist movements. I think one of the most important principles of anarchism is that you cannot separate means and ends. Anarchism requires means and ends to be in line with one another. I think this is in fact one of the distinguishing characteristics of anarchism.” ThinkingWantKindMeanImportantIdeasEndsFactsActionEvilLinesCommonPrinciplesMovementDirectOvercomingCharacteristicsAnarchismAnarchistCommon DenominatorDirect Action Author:Howard Zinn
“There is no "scientific worldview" just as there is no uniform enterprise "science" - except in the minds of metaphysicians, school masters, and scientists blinded by the achievements of their own particular niche... There is no objective principle that could direct us away from the supermarket "religion" or the supermarket "art" toward the more modern, and much more expensive supermarket "science." Besides, the search for such guidance would be in conflict with the idea of individual responsibility which allegedly is an important ingredient of a "rational" or scientific age.” MindArtImportantIdeasWould BeAgeSchoolIndividualResponsibilityPrinciplesModernParticularMastersConflictAchievementDirectScientistObjectivesRationalGuidanceExpensiveEnterpriseIngredientsUniformsWorldviewNicheBlindedSupermarketsIndividual Responsibility Author:Paul Feyerabend
“People often ask me if I feel discriminated against as a black female director. I don't. I'm actually offered a ton of stuff. But I only want to direct what I write. And I prefer to focus on black female characters. What's most important to me is to put characters up onscreen who are not perfect, but who are human and flawed.” PeopleIfsWantFeelsWritingHumansImportantCharacterAsksStuffBlackPerfectFocusDirectorsFemaleDirectAsk MeFlawedNot PerfectFemale Characters Author:Gina Prince-Bythewood
“In terms of political things, I think it's important to be more direct in terms of political statements. I think in terms of philosophical and things that you plant things and see them grow lyrically or musically, it's okay to be subtle.” ThinkingImportantPoliticalGrowsTermDirectOkayPhilosophicalPlantStatementsSubtle Author:Serj Tankian
“There's music in my films but you seldom hear it. Very early I got the idea that the important things in films were people - the actors. They are the intermediary between the director and the audience. They make direct contact. People to people communication.” PeopleImportantIdeasFilmActorsAudienceCommunicationDirectorsDirectImportant ThingsContact Author:Frank Capra
“Tweeting is something you can do wherever you are, on your phone, on the computer, in an airport lounge. It's easy to do, and I do find it fun to communicate with people. It's quite nice that we can have almost direct contact with anyone in the world at any time. I don't know how important it is in terms of one's career. It seems to be pretty much superfluous in terms of that, but it's nice to communicate.” PeopleKnowsWorldImportantSeemsFunEasyTermCan DoCareersKnow HowNiceComputerDirectPhonesCommunicateContactAirportsSuperfluousWherever You Are Author:Boy George
“I think it is kind of important to direct someone so the character is appealing, but, as an actress, I find it frustrating because I think, "Why do I have to be more likable than a man would have to be saying the same line?"” ThinkingMenKindImportantCharacterLinesDirectActressesFrustrating Author:Romola Garai
“Our country regularly uses military force, but only a fraction of Americans serve in the military. This means fewer and fewer people have a direct link to the military, and yet it remains as important as ever that we have a rich understanding of what we are doing as a country.” PeopleMeanImportantCountryUseForceUnderstandingRichMilitaryDirectRemainsOur CountryLinksFewerFractionsMilitary Force Author:Phil Klay
“Parental trust is extremely important in the guidance of adolescent children as they get further and further away from the direct supervision of their parents and teachers. I don't mean that trust without clear guidance is enough, but guidance without trust is worthless.” MeanChildrenImportantEnoughParentClearTeacherDirectGuidanceWorthlessParentalSupervisionParents And TeachersWithout Trust Book:Raising Children in a Difficult Time Source: Raising Children in a Difficult Time
“Frank Lloyd Wright made houses right up until the end. I think that's important because it gives you a direct connection to all the basic aspects of architecture - the spatial energy of the place, the construction, the materials, the site, the detail.” ThinkingGivingMadeImportantEndsHouseEnergyMaterialsAspectDirectConnectionsDetailsArchitectureConstructionFrankSiteSpatial Author:Steven Holl
“When I want to tackle a story or a subject, I always ask myself three questions: Is it important to talk about that? Will it interest other people than just me? Can I live with that for three or four years because that's how long it takes to do the project, to write the script, and to direct it, and then to do this.” PeopleWantWritingYearsLongImportantStoriesThreeAsksInterestFourSubjectsProjectsDirectScriptsFour Years Author:Philippe Falardeau
“In a world where discovery is more important than delivery, it's the people who find, remix and direct attention to old stuff that should be rewarded, not the people who deliver it or sit on it waiting for someone to show up.” PeopleWorldShouldImportantShowsStuffWaitingAttentionDiscoveryDirectDeliveryRemixOld Stuff Author:Joichi Ito
“If a subject has a delicate surface to it, you do not want to go charging in there. You need to establish some kind of presence and understanding. I will say, Try to forget I'm here. I won't ask you to pose, I won't ask you to do anything. It's important that I just be allowed to be around, to be present. Photographing people requires a willingness to be rejected. So, I think the best approach is to be honest and direct. Very often, I tell them, You don't know me. There's no reason why you should trust me... the only thing I can promise is that I'll try to do the most honest work I can.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWantNeedsShouldTryingKindI CanImportantReasonAsksUnderstandingForgetSubjectsHonestPromiseApproachDirectSurfaceBeing HonestReason WhyNo ReasonWillingnessDelicateKnow MeRejectedTrust MeChargingHonest WorkYou Don't Know Me Author:William Albert Allard
“I really don't like watching myself and for the most part I will never watch myself. I worked with Kevin Smith on Yoga Hosers and I really respected the way that he directed. He told me, "It's very important to watch yourself." So he would direct by going, "Hey come over to the screen and watch this scene." And so it was very uncomfortable for me to have to watch myself but then he talked me through the process of that and it was very helpful.” WayImportantProcessWatchesSceneYogaDirectScreensHeyUncomfortableHelpfulKevin Author:Austin Butler
“There are many direct biological benefits that result from higher atmospheric CO2 concentrations. Two of the most important are increased plant photosynthesis and water-use efficiency.” TwoImportantUseWaterResultsHigherBenefitsDirectPlantConcentrationEfficiencyCo2Photosynthesis Author:Keith E. Idso
“Anarchism means all sort of things to different people but the traditional anarchists' movements assumed that there'd be a highly organized society, just one organized from below with direct participation and so on. Actually, one piece of the media confusion has a basis because there really are two different strands in the occupy movement, both important, but different.” PeopleMeanTwoImportantDifferentPiecesMediaMovementDirectBasesConfusionTraditionalOrganizedJust OneParticipationDifferent PeoplesAnarchismAnarchistStrandsOne PieceOccupy Movement Author:Noam Chomsky
“I experienced direct telepathy with other people, and during one such incident, I I received a channelling of cosmic information from some being in another realm. It came directly through a friend who was tripping on acid, and as he began speaking stream-of-consciousness to me and my girlfriend - and both of us were very stoned on grass - his words conveyed cosmic instructions and information we all three knew to be profoundly important and meaningful.” PeopleImportantThreeConsciousnessInformationDirectMeaningfulGrassRealmsGirlfriendStreamsCosmicInstructionIncidentsAcidMy GirlfriendTelepathyTrippingStream Of Consciousness Author:Susan Schneider
“When you travel from your own country to another country for a long period, you do become aware of the differences. For example, verbal expression is much more important in France - in Finland people don't speak so much. Also, Finnish people say things directly; that kind of direct honesty would be very impolite in France.” PeopleKindLongImportantCountryWould BeSpeakDifferencesHonestyExampleExpressionPeriodsDirectFranceFinnishFinland Author:Kaija Saariaho
“It wasn't a direct route. I began as a freelance reporter. That's an important distinction, because people who rise through the ranks of The New York Times become vetted, conditioned, harassed, and shaped by the institution. That never happened to me.” PeopleImportantHappenedNew YorkDirectInstitutionsDistinctionReportersRoutesNew York Times Author:Chris Hedges
“As a matter of fact, wherever I get to is a direct result of where I'm at now which makes where I'm at now equally important.” ImportantMatterFactsResultsDirectMatter Of Fact Author:Bryan Kest
“I do believe that India needs a lot more foreign direct investment than we've got, and we should have the ambition to move in the same league many other countries in our neighborhood are moving. We may not be able to reach where the Chinese are today, but there is no reason why we should not think big about the role of foreign direct investment, particularly in the areas relating to infrastructure, where our needs for investment are very large. We need new initiatives, management skills, and I do believe that direct foreign investment can play a very important role.” ThinkingNeedsShouldBelieveMayImportantCountryReasonPlayBigsTodayAbleMovingRolesSkillsAmbitionAreasDirectShould HaveIndiaManagementInvestmentChineseReason WhyLeagueNeighborhoodNo ReasonInitiativeOther CountriesInfrastructureThink BigManagement Skills Author:Manmohan Singh
“And Mel [Brooks] - you have to understand this important point - he had done "The Producers" for $50,000 over two years, and he didn't make a penny from it. And then he did "The Twelve Chairs" - $50,000 for two more years and didn't make a penny from it. That's four years of work. And then they offered him quite a bit of money to direct "Young Frankenstein," and he took it.” YearsTwoImportantDoneYoungBitsFourDirectProducersChairsTwo YearsFour YearsTwelvePenniesBrooks Author:Gene Wilder
“The beam in our own eye is harder to detect, although - or more accurately because - to detect it, and remove it, is vastly more important on elementary moral grounds, and commonly more important in terms of direct human consequences as well. Intellectuals have historically played a critical function in performing these tasks, and [Ivan] Illich is right to observe that claims to scientific expertise and special knowledge are often used as a device.” HumansWellsImportantEyeUsedTermMoralSpecialConsequenceTasksDirectFunctionClaimsHarderCriticalPerformingRemoveDevicesExpertiseBeam Author:Noam Chomsky
“It is important to eliminate the stigma created by American imperialism and its allies regarding the Cuban political system. That stigma must be eliminated. You may think that there are no direct elections in Cuba. I am going to tell that they are direct and you can compare our process with any other country including the United States.” ThinkingMayImportantCountryStatesPoliticalProcessUnitedUnited StatesDirectElectionIncludingCompareAlliesOther CountriesImperialismCubaStigmaPolitical SystemsCubanAmerican Imperialism Author:Alejandro Castro Espin
“I guess I'm a really analytical person, but when I'm writing, all that stuff goes behind a screen. Analysis and taking things apart is really important and really interesting, but it's the direct opposite of creating something, which has to do with taking things and putting them together and hoping to make something unique that's more than the sum of its parts. And you can't do that with analysis, you can only take things into smaller and smaller pieces.” WritingImportantTogetherInterestingUniqueDirectReally Interesting Author:Will Sheff
“I think since I was in drama school, I wanted to direct in the theatre. When you are an actor, you just have to open your eyes and you start to learn a lot about how to survive on set and what's important and how to tell a story. Directing is really about putting yourself out there, to be slapped in a way. You know that in the kitchen, you're gonna get burned. It's very scary but very exciting as well. If you have something to say, you have nothing to lose and you probably learn from the experience.” ThinkingImportantEyeSchoolDramaDirectExcitingScaryTheatreKitchen Author:Gael Garcia Bernal
“It's important to look people in the eye and have direct conversations. I actually have a rule that if an issue takes more than five sentences to explain it, don't send an email. Pick up the phone instead, because it'll take less time to resolve it.” PeopleImportantEyeDirectResolve Author:Rachel Roy
“Today, 90% of terrorist activity on the Internet takes place using social networking tools, be it independent bulletin boards. The most important terrorist communiques and videos are virtually all initially released on certain password-protected chat forums run by Al-Qaida supporters. These forums act as a virtual firewall to help safeguard the identities of those who participate, and they offer subscribers a chance to make direct contact with terrorist representatives, to ask questions, and even to contribute and help out the cyber jihad.” ImportantHelpingRunningTodayChanceIdentityInternetDirectIndependentTerroristSupporterSocial NetworkingSocial NetworkJihad Author:Evan Kohlmann
“Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product.” ImportantIndividualHonestyProductsDirectArmyFinalsFactorsCorporationsHonest And IntegrityHonest Person Author:Ed McMahon
“Yet what you need is not marches, demonstrations, rallies or wide associations, all of them are important. What you need is direct action. The sooner people understand that, the sooner we'll begin to change things.” PeopleNeedsImportantActionDirectWideMarchAssociationDemonstrationDirect Action Author:Arthur Scargill
“'This thing I feel, I can't name it straight out but it seems important, do you feel it too?' — this sort of direct question is not for the squeamish. For one thing, it's perilously close to 'Do you like me? Please like me,' which you know quite well that 99% of all the interhuman manipulation and bullshit gamesmanship that goes on goes on precisely because the idea of saying this sort of thing straight out is regarded as somehow obscene.” KnowsFeelsWellsI CanImportantIdeasSeemsNamesOne ThingGoes OnPleaseDirectLike MeManipulationBullshitObsceneDo You Like Me Author:David Foster Wallace
“Tell me, is it possible to love someone who is not as smart as you are? ...But isn't it important for you to think she is smarter than you in order to fall in love? ...Why is that? Because we want to know things, how the pieces fit. Talkers seduce, words direct us into corners. We want more than anything to grow and change. Brave new world.” ThinkingKnowsWorldWantImportantOrderFallGrowsPiecesFitSmartDirectBraveFalling In LoveCornersNew WorldSmarterLove SomeoneSeducingTalkersBrave New World Author:Michael Ondaatje
“When we see the need for deep change, we usually see it as something that needs to take place in someone else. In our roles of authority, such as parent, teacher, or boss, we are particularly quick to direct others to change. Such directives often fail, and we respond to the resistance by increasing our efforts. The power struggle that follows seldom results in change or brings about excellence. One of the most important insights about the need to bring about deep change in others has to do with where deep change actually starts.” NeedsImportantParentGrowthChangeResultsEffortRolesStruggleTeacherFailingAuthorityDirectExcellenceInsightResistanceBossStarting AnewPower Struggle Book:Deep Change: Discovering the Leader Within Source: Deep Change: Discovering the Leader Within
“Writing wasn't easy to start. After I finally did it, I realized it was the most direct contact possible with the part of myself I thought I had lost, and which I constantly find new things from. Writing also includes the possibility of living many lives as well as living in any time or world possible. I can satisfy my enthusiasm for research, but jump like a calf outside the strict boundaries of science. I can speak about things that are important to me and somebody listens. It's wonderful!” WorldWritingWellsI CanImportantLostSpeakEasyWonderfulPossibilityResearchDirectI RealizedBoundariesContactEnthusiasmNew ThingsStrictCalves Author:Virpi Hameen-Anttila
“The quality of love and the duration of a relationship are in direct proportion to the depth of the commitment by both people to making the relationship successful. Commit yourself wholeheartedly and unconditionally to the most important people in your life.” PeopleImportantQualitySuccessfulCommitmentDirectDepthCommitProportionRomantic LoveDurationPeople In Your LifeLove And MarriageWholeheartedly Author:Brian Tracy