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“I felt strongly that since the pursuit of good science was so difficult it was essential that the problem being studied was an important one to justify the effort expanded.”

Important Problem Felt Difficult Effort Essentials Pursuit Justify Good Science

Author:Paul Nurse

“It is essential... that discipline should not be practised like a rule imposed on oneself from the outside, but that it becomes an expression of one's own will; that it is felt as pleasant, and that one slowly accustoms oneself to a kind of behaviour which one would eventually miss, if one stopped practising it.”

Ifs Should Kind Felt Missing Expression Discipline Essentials Oneself Pleasant Behaviour

Author:Erich Fromm

“Frankly, I've never felt voting to be all that essential to the process.”

Felt Process Essentials Voting

Author:Gerald R. Ford

“Orientation in time, space, and status are the essentials of social existence, and the Balinese, although they make very strong spirits for ceremonial occasions, with a few startling exceptions resist alcohol, because if one drinks one loses one's orientation. Orientation is felt as a protection rather than as a strait jacket and its loss provokes extreme anxiety.”

Source: Balinese Character: A Photographic Analysis

“... in nine out of ten cases the original wish to write is the wish to make oneself felt[ellipsis in source] the non-essential writer never gets past that wish.”

Writing Past Wish Felt Cases Source Ten Essentials Originals Oneself Nine

Author:Elizabeth Bowen

“I felt puny and absurd, a ludicrous midget. Easy enough to talk of soul and spirit and existential worth, but not when you're three feet tall.”

Soul Enough Spirit Three Felt Easy Feet Essentials Absurd Tall Midget

Author:Richard Matheson

“I have to listen to music while I'm working. Music is essential. It's at the top of the pyramid for me. I've always felt disappointed in what I've made when I held it up to the music I love. I try not to compare them now.”

Trying Made Felt Essentials Music Is Compare Disappointed Listening To Music Pyramids

Author:Michael Dumontier

“As soon as the dialogue between two people touches on something fundamental, essential, numinous, and a certain rapport is felt, it gives rise to a phenomenon which Lévy-Bruhl fittingly called participation mystique. It is an unconscious identity in which two individual psychic spheres interpenetrate to such a degree that it is impossible to say what belongs to whom.”

Source: Civilization in transition

“The more our feelings diverge, the more deeply felt they are, the greater is our obligation to grant the sincerity and essential decency of our fellow citizens on the other side.”

Feelings Felt Sides Greater Citizens Essentials Fellows Obligation Grants Sincerity Decency

Author:Edward Kennedy

“That was an exception within the [Barack] Obama administration's economic policy, a crisis that he inherited from the previous administration, and felt it was essential to carry through on.”

Felt Economic Policy Essentials Crisis Administration Barack Exception Economic Policy

Author:Judy Woodruff

“After 'Born to Run,' I had a reaction to my good fortune. With success, it felt like a lot of people who'd come before me lost some essential part of themselves. My greatest fear was that success was going to change or diminish that part of myself.”

People Running Lost Felt Born Essentials Fortune Reactions Diminish Good Fortune Greatest Fear Born To Run

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“For a moment Clary thought she might fall; she felt as if something essential had been torn away from her, an arm or a leg, and she stared at Jace in blank astonishment-- what did he feel, did he feel nothing? She didn't think she could bear it if he felt nothing.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Moments Might Fall Felt Arms Bears Essentials Legs Blank Torn Jace Astonishment

Book:City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

“The world was large, so large. Bigger than it had been before. Family, too, a bigger word. That felt like a good thing. An essential thing. There was power in numbers.”

World Felt Numbers Essentials Bigger Good Things

Author:Deb Caletti

“In short: I felt my existence was tainted, in some subtle but essential way.”

Way Felt Existence Essentials Subtle Tainted

Book:The Secret History

Source: The Secret History