“Four years ago, I felt the importance of the Olympics and how it is different from other events. It's a completely different atmosphere. The main advice I can give my teammates is to try to enjoy the experience.” GivingTryingYearsI CanDifferentFeltEnjoyFourAdviceEventsYears AgoImportanceAtmosphereFour YearsOlympicsTeammate Author:Kohei Uchimura
“If people looked at the stars each night, they'd live a lot differently. When you look into infinity, you realize that there are more important things than what people do all day.” PeopleIfsInspirationalLooksImportantDifferentNightStarsNatureRealizingSkyImportanceImportant ThingsRealizationMaking A DifferenceRoutineInfinityNight SkyStar GazingBigger And Better ThingsFiner Things Author:Bill Watterson
“In the judgment of design engineers, the ordinary means of communicating with a computer are entirely inadequate. [...] Graphical communication in some form or other is of vital importance in engineering as that subject is now conducted; we must either provide the capability in our computer systems, or take on the impossible task of training up a future race of engineers conditioned to think in a different way.” ThinkingWayMeanDifferentFormRaceImpossibleSubjectsDesignCommunicationJudgmentComputerTrainingOrdinaryTasksImportanceCommunicateDifferent WaysCapabilityEngineeringEngineersInadequateComputer Systems Author:Maurice Wilkes
“THERE is scarcely any inquiry more curious, or, from its importance, more worthy of attention, than that which traces the causes which practically check the progress of wealth in different countries, and stop it, or make it proceed very slowly, while the power of production remains comparatively undiminished, or at least would furnish the means of a great and abundant increase of produce and population.” MeanDifferentCountryCausesWealthAttentionProgressProduceImportanceIncreaseRemainsPopulationProductionsWorthyChecksCuriousInquiryDifferent Countries Author:Thomas Malthus
“Malcolm Fraser, in the marrow of his bones, despised racism. He despised people who discriminated against other people because they were different and in particular because of the colour of their skin, and I don't think there has been a time in Australian politics where there has been more attention to the importance of that value.” PeopleThinkingHas BeensDifferentValuesAttentionParticularRacismSkinsImportanceBonesColourAustralianDespisedMarrow Author:George Brandis
“We must continually remind students in the classroom that expression of different opinions and dissenting ideas affirms the intellectual process. We should forcefully explain that our role is not to teach them to think as we do but rather to teach them, by example, the importance of taking a stance that is rooted in rigorous engagement with the full range of ideas about a topic.” ThinkingShouldIdeasDifferentProcessEducationOpinionRolesTeachExampleStudentsExpressionIntellectualImportanceRangeThoughtfulEngagementClassroomRootedTopicsStanceDifferent OpinionsIntellectual Freedom Author:Bell Hooks
“It is clear that the building of models is not a purely mechanical process but requires skill of a high order - not merely mathematical skill but a sensitivity to the relative importance of different factors and a critical, almost an artistic, faculty in the selection of behaviour equations which are reasonable, tentative hypotheses in explaining the behaviour of actual economies.” DifferentOrderProcessEconomyClearBuildingSkillsModelsImportanceCriticalFactorsArtisticMathematicalReasonableFacultyRelativeBehaviourSensitivityHypothesisSelectionEquationsExplaining Author:Kenneth E. Boulding
“I am convinced that the unwritten knowledge scattered among men of different callings surpasses in quantity and in importance anything we find in books, and that the greater part of our wealth has yet to be recorded.” MenBookDifferentWealthGreaterCallingImportanceConvincedQuantityUnwritten Author:Gottfried Leibniz
“I'm now in my mid-thirties, so I look in the mirror and my face is changing, and I have a different relationship all of a sudden with myself. Your face changes, things change - that's just kind of what happens. It's hard, though, in this industry, because I think so much importance is put on how you look, and I'm not brave enough to be like, "You know what? I'm just going to let it happen. Whatever. I'm so cool with every line on my face."” ThinkingKnowsLooksKindDifferentHardEnoughHappensFacesLinesLike YouIndustryImportanceMirrorsBraveYour FaceThings ChangeDifferent Relationships Author:Kristen Stewart
“Girls come to the gang for very different reasons than boys. For boys in marginalized communities, they have a gender problem, and they solve it often through gang membership. They find an ability to do masculinity in a way that reasserts their importance in a society that mostly ignores them. For girls, they're coming out of more damaged backgrounds. Their families are often the reason they get propelled into gang membership.” WayDifferentReasonProblemGirlCommunityAbilityBoysImportanceGenderSolveBackgroundsComing OutMasculinityGangMembershipMarginalized Author:Meda Chesney-Lind
“My parents put me in the water very early, and also had me skiing at a very early age. They put me on skis when I was one and a half. I was fortunate to have parents who understood the importance of exposing their kids to different sports, different cultures and different activities in order to discover what we liked and what we didn't like. They didn't push us, they just gave us many things to choose from.” DifferentKidsAgeOrderCultureSportsParentWaterHalfActivityUnderstoodImportanceFortunateExposingSkisSkiingDifferent Cultures Author:Benoit Lecomte
“The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take. He becomes fussy about filing, keen on seeing that pencils are sharpened, eager to ensure that the windows are open (or shut) and apt to use two or three different-colored inks.” MenTwoImportantDifferentUseThreeOpportunityDecisionSeeingHe ManWindowImportanceRegardDeniedPencilsInkFilingFussy Author:C. Northcote Parkinson
“Apparently there is redundancy in memory: You store the same memory in different parts of your brain for accessing at different speeds. That speed would depend on the frequency of use and the importance of the knowledge.” DifferentUseMemoriesBrainDependsImportanceSpeedStoresFrequencyRedundancy Author:Bill Nye
“I believe the role that people like myself have played in the transformation of public opinion has been by persistently presenting a different point of view, a point of view which stresses the importance of private markets, of individual freedom, and the distorting effect of governmental policy.” PeopleBelieveHas BeensDifferentIndividualI BelieveViewsOpinionRolesEffectsPolicyImportanceStressTransformationPoint Of ViewPublic OpinionPresentingIndividual FreedomDifferent Points Of View Author:Milton Friedman
“My kids are coming up in a different time then me. Interracial couples are of the norm. With me, it's about making sure my kids understand the importance of education and having opportunities that I didn't. My goal as a parent is to make sure they don't take what they have for granted.” DifferentKidsOpportunityParentGoalCoupleImportanceGrantedNormDifferent TimesImportance Of EducationInterracial Couple Author:Kevin Hart
“With Aquaman I worked with such talented guys, Ivan Reis and Joe Prado. And he's a great character. I mean, Aquaman's a great character, he just hasn't been positioned in a role of importance in a long, long time. We tried to do that in this series; give him this platform because he deserves it, and give a very different perception of Aquaman while at the same time staying true to who the character is. Showing his power level, his fortitude, his sense of honor and commitment and responsibility, and hopefully showing everything that makes a hero a hero.” GivingMeanLongDifferentCharacterGuyLevelsResponsibilityRolesHeroHonorPerceptionLong TimeDeserveCommitmentImportanceSeriesHopefullyStayingPlatformsFortitudeStay TrueGreat CharacterDifferent Perceptions Author:Geoff Johns
“I'm still a researcher. The best way to explain it is that I trusted myself deeply as a professional, but I did not have a lot of self-trust personally. When I started learning all of these things about the value and the importance of belonging, vulnerability, connection, self-kindness and self-compassion, I trusted what I was learning - again, I know I'm a good researcher. When those things and wholeheartedness started to emerge with all these different properties, I knew I had to listen. I'd heard these messages before personally but I didn't trust myself there.” KnowsWayStillsDifferentSelfValuesCompassionKindnessHeardMessagesConnectionsImportancePropertyBest WayVulnerabilityBelongingTrustedResearchersSelf CompassionSelf TrustTrust MyselfWholeheartedness Author:Brené Brown
“We live in a world in which it's harder to talk about the American in the singular, so we're a multi. We have several different people who represent the United States, so in that sense whiteness, the salience, the importance of whiteness is kind of tamping down some.” PeopleWorldKindDifferentStatesUnitedUnited StatesImportanceHarderDifferent PeoplesWhiteness Author:Nell Irvin Painter
“Although every pain has different degrees of importance, I go through all of the emotions - from crying, anger, bitterness, anxiety, etc. Feel it all. But by the end of the day, I am on my knees in prayer. The next day, I get up refreshed and begin to let it go.” FeelsDifferentEndsPainNextPrayerEmotionCryDegreesAnxietyImportanceGet UpKneesThe End Of The DayEtcBitternessNext DayLet It Go Author:Renee Lawless
“Carolyn Maloney has extensive - she's shown over and over again her creativity, her determination, her tenacity in fighting for women's rights. She has passed a host of bills in many different areas, both national and global, with both national and global importance for women, and she's on a Chair of Finance Committee so essentially in this economic crisis, we thought she would be perfect.” DifferentWould BeFightingPerfectCreativityRightsEconomicAreasDeterminationImportanceCrisisBillsFinanceChairsHostWomens RightsCommitteesTenacityEconomic Crisis Author:Eleanor Smeal
“When I think of the standing, the importance and the erudition of all these people who see nothing about racism in Heart of Darkness, I'm convinced that we must really be living in different worlds.” PeopleThinkingWorldHeartDifferentDarknessRacismStandingImportanceConvincedDifferent WorldsEruditionHeart Of Darkness Author:Chinua Achebe
“I like to think that life lessons are learned and re-learned every day and take on importance at different times in life.” ThinkingDifferentLessonsImportanceLife LessonDifferent Times Author:Julianne Malveaux
“Normally players from the hostels don't give much importance to their fitness, but my case was different thanks to my coach. He helped me focus a lot on my batting and bowling which worked out really well for me in the future.” GivingWellsDifferentCasesFocusPlayerImportanceCoachesThanksBowlingBatting Author:Suresh Raina
“The importance of the question and the availability of an answer are two different things. I'm not willing to state that because the question is fundamental, therefore I possess the answer. And I'm certainly not willing to say that since I don't possess the answer, I'll pretend that I do.” TwoDifferentStatesAnswersWillingImportanceFundamentalsDifferent ThingsAvailabilityTwo Different Things Author:George Friedman
“Fashion is made up of paradoxes. There was a key moment in fashion. When the Japanese first arrived - Comme des Garçons, Yohji Yamamoto, and all - I have to humbly admit that I didn't understand the importance of it at all. It was Jean-Jacques Picart who explained it to me. They had a huge influence in that they showed that aestheticism could be different from prettiness, that there was beauty and that beauty was beyond pretty.” DifferentMomentsInfluenceFashionImportanceParadoxPrettiness Author:Ines de La Fressange
“It always seems to people that I'm avoiding saying, 'It's autobiographical,' but I really do believe that human beings make stories and they make themselves. If I told you the same story twelve years ago, I could have emphasized something different. The importance changes, the meaning of things shifts over time. Also, I think all art is autobiographical. Every endeavor is full of impressions of ourselves.” PeopleThinkingBelieveArtDifferentArt IsImportanceImpressionAvoiding Author:Phoebe Gloeckner
“The monsoon is such a dominant part of Indian life that it is hard to overstate its importance. One's life completely changes based on the rain. After the monsoon, because the dust settles, one can see further and so it feels like one's eyesight has improved or that one is living in a different country where there is more light.” DifferentCountryRainImportanceSettlingEyesight Author:Akhil Sharma
“There is behavioral ecology, which looks closely at the difference different ecologies make to behavior and other features of animals and humans. There's evolutionary individual psychology, there's evolutionary social psychology. In Darwin's terms, evolution couldn't exist without variation, and variation is important in behavioral genetics. And so on, and so on. There are so many instances in which evolution actually sharpens the precision, I think, with which one can find out the importance of differences. We're interested in differences as well as commonalities.” ThinkingImportantDifferentIndividualTermAnimalPsychologyEvolutionBehaviorImportanceEcologySocial PsychologyCommonality Author:Brian Boyd
“The Bible was written two thousand years ago. The world is a different place now. Stories that had meaning then are meaningless now. Beliefs that might have been valid then are invalid now. Those books should be looked at in the same way we look at anything of that age with interest with an acknowledgement of the historical importance but they should not be thought of as anything that has any value.” WorldWayShouldYearsLooksHas BeensTwoBookDifferentStoriesMightAgeValuesBeliefInterestWrittenThousandYears AgoImportanceHistoricalMeaninglessThousand YearsMight Have BeenDifferent PlaceAcknowledgement Author:James Frey
“Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything. But no, that is not quite accurate. There is one place where her absence comes locally home to me, and it is a place I can't avoid. I mean my own body. It had such a different importance while it was the body of H.'s lover. Now it's like an empty house.” MeanI CanDifferentHomeBodyHouseMy OwnSkyLoversEmptyImportanceSpreadAbsenceAccurateEmpty HousesStillbirth Book:A Grief Observed Source: A Grief Observed
“To come very near to a true theory, and to grasp its precise application, are two different things, as the history of science teaches us. Everything of importance has been said before by someone who did not discover it.” Has BeensSaidTwoDifferentScienceTeachTheoryDiscoveryImportanceDifferent ThingsApplicationPreciseHistory Of ScienceTwo Different Things Author:Alfred North Whitehead
“In ancient times, bodily strength and dexterity, being of greater use and importance in war, was also much more esteemed and valued, than at present. ... In short, the different ranks of men are, in a great measure, regulated by riches.” MenDifferentWarUsePoliticalGreaterImportanceAncientRichesAncient TimesDexterity Author:David Hume
“Every psychological event depends upon the state of the person and at the same time on the environment, although their relative importance is different in different cases” PersonsDifferentStatesCasesEnvironmentEventsDependsImportancePsychologicalRelative Book:Principles of Topological Psychology Source: Principles of Topological Psychology
“The aspect of congresses and such meetings generally to which I attach the greatest importance is the discussion. That is why people assemble: to hear different opinions, rather than to pass resolutions.” PeopleDifferentOpinionAspectImportanceMeetingsCongressDiscussionResolutionDifferent Opinions Author:Fredrik Bajer
“Shadow is the obstruction of light. Shadows appear to me to be of supreme importance in perspective, because, without them opaque and solid bodies will be ill defined; that which is contained within their outlines and their boundaries themselves will be ill-understood unless they are shown against a background of a different tone from themselves.” DifferentBodyLightPerspectiveUnderstoodShadowImportanceIllSupremeBoundariesBackgroundsDefinedToneOutlinesObstructionOpaque Book:The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci