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“If you followed the media you'd think that everybody in Africa was starving to death, and that's not the case; so it's important to engage with the other Africa.”

Ifs Thinking Important Cases Media Starving

Author:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“The best novels are those that are important without being like medicine; they have something to say, are expansive and intelligent but never forget to be entertaining and to have character and emotion at their centre.”

Important Character Forget Emotion Novel Intelligent Medicine Never Forget Entertaining Centre

Author:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“Improving daily work is even more important than doing daily work.”

Important Improving Daily Work

Book:The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win

Source: The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win

“Remember, it goes beyond reducing WIP. Being able to take needless work out of the system is more important than being able to put more work into the system.”

Important Able Remember Work Out Reducing

Book:The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win

Source: The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win

“The camera machine cannot evade the objects which are in front of it. When the photographer selects this movement, the light, the objects, he must be true to them. If he includes in his space a strip of grass, it must be felt as the living differentiated thing it is and so recorded. It must take its proper but no less important place as a shape and a texture in relationship to the mountain tree or what not, which are included.”

Ifs Important Light Felt Space Tree Fronts Movement Objects Shapes Mountain Machines Cameras Photographer Being True Grass Texture

Author:Paul Strand

“In economics, one of the most important concepts is 'opportunity cost' - the idea that once you spend your money on something, you can't spend it again on something else.”

Important Ideas Opportunity Cost Concepts Economics Opportunity Cost

Author:Malcolm Turnbull

“The modern diet is grossly deficient in hundreds of important plant-derived immunity-building compounds which makes us highly vulnerable to viruses, infections and disease.”

Important Modern Building Disease Plant Vulnerable Diets Viruses Compounds Infection Immunity

Author:Joel Fuhrman

“It is important to show our European partners that Portugal is a governable country.”

Important Country Shows Partners Portugal

Author:Anibal Cavaco Silva

“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.”

World Years Important Together Film Cutting Media Events Tvs Development Edges Festivals Format Signatures Singapore Umbrella Cutting Edge Convergence

Author:Calvin Cheng

“I have no love for myself as a human being, but I have immense pride in the music I make, and I believe it has an important place. Others do, too, and the thousands of people with Morrissey tattoos certainly proves something.”

People Believe Humans Important I Believe Human Beings Pride Prove Immense Tattoo No Love

Author:Steven Morrissey

“Psychological man may be going nowhere, but he aims to achieve a certain speed and certainty in going. Like his predecessor, the man of the market economy, he understands morality as that which is conducive to increased activity. The important thing is to keep going.”

Men May Important Certain Economy Achieve He Man Morality Activity Aim Important Things Speed Psychological Certainty Keep Going Predecessors Market Economy

Book:The Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of Faith After Freud

Source: The Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of Faith After Freud

“Staying humble has always been really important to me, and always being proud of what you're representing.”

Important Proud Humble Staying Be Proud Representing

Author:Jordyn Wieber

“I think breakfast is really important to get a great start to the day, so I can have enough energy to train and everything.”

Thinking I Can Important Enough Energy Train Breakfast Breakfast Being Important

Author:Jordyn Wieber

“My parents survived the Great Depression and brought me up to live within my means, save some for tomorrow, share and don't be greedy, work hard for the necessities in life knowing that money does not make you better or more important than anyone else. So, extravagance has been bred out of my DNA.”

Mean Doe Has Beens Important Hard Parent Knowing Share Hard Work Tomorrow Survived Greedy Dna Great Depression Extravagance

Author:David Suzuki

“I can't imagine anything more important than air, water, soil, energy and biodiversity. These are the things that keep us alive.”

I Can Important Energy Water Alive Imagine Air Soil Biodiversity

Author:David Suzuki

“Sometimes all that saves me is being willing to make mistakes. There are projects that strike me as so beautiful, important, complicated, or just plain big, that they convince me of my own inadequacy. This awful state of reverence leads to paralyzing brain freeze. At times like that the only way out is for me to decide, 'To hell with it. I can't do it right, so I'll do it wrong. I can't do it well, but I can do it badly.' Sometimes, with luck, while I'm sweating to do it wrong, I stumble on a right way.”

“In view of the immense power of natural weather and climate fluctuations and the great buffering capacity of the Earth, especially the ocean, it is easy to be skeptical about whether small anthropogenic changes of atmospheric composition can have important practical impacts.”

Important Earth Easy Natural Views Ocean Capacity Impact Climate Practicals Weather Immense Composition Skeptical Fluctuation

Author:James Hansen

“My mother always taught us that if people don't agree with you, the important thing is to listen to them. But if you've listened to them carefully and you still think that you're right, then you must have the courage of your convictions.”

People Ifs Thinking Stills Important Mother Taught Agree Important Things Conviction Taught Us

Author:Jane Goodall

“I think the most important thing is to keep active, and to hope that your mind stays active.”

Thinking Mind Important Important Things Aging Active

Author:Jane Goodall

“The most important thing in music is what is not in the notes.”

Important Music Music Is Important Things Notes

Author:Pablo Casals

“First off there is no question that LaDainian is a first-ballot Hall of Famer. His contributions off the field to the community of San Diego are as important as what he did on the field. What he did on the field was monumental.”

Firsts Important Community Fields Contribution Halls Ballots San Diego

Author:Dan Fouts

“Life is more important than 'what film I do next.”

Important Film Life Is Next

Author:Aaron Taylor-Johnson

“The process of open adoption is not discussed in the way it should be. Everyone I know who has adopted domestically has at least one tragic story. It was important to me to be able to describe those situations.”

Knows Way Should Important Stories Able Process Situation Tragic Adoption Adopted Open Adoption

Author:Jennifer Gilmore

“I think that having comedy where people talk the way they really talk, when you talk with your friends and whatever, it's really, it's important. Or else you're making stuff that's a little bit watered down and irrelevant.”

People Thinking Way Littles Important Stuff Bits Comedy Little Bit Down And Irrelevant

Author:Seth Gordon

“Those who have the most, who earn the most, must give an example, because that is important for Spain's collective effort.”

Giving Important Effort Example Collectives Spain Collective Effort

Author:Luis de Guindos

“Wild Swans' showed me there are Chinese traditions that still affect my life. For example, it's not that women are inferior, exactly, but my dad and my brother are the most important men in my life and I would do anything for them. I feel like I should be the one cooking and looking after them.”

Men Feels Should Stills Important Example Brother Dad Tradition Cooking My Dad Chinese My Brother Inferiors Swans

Author:Katie Leung

“As the BBC approaches the final phase of decisions about its future, it will be important for those involved to be established in post and ready to take responsibility for implementation of the outcome.”

Important Decision Responsibility Ready Involved Approach Finals Posts Outcomes Phases Taking Responsibility Implementation

Author:Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones

“It is really important for women to look up and see other women being successful. When I was in that position, all I wanted to do was blend in and be one of the guys.”

Looks Important Wanted Guy Successful Position Look Up Being Successful

Author:Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones

“The BBC's television, radio and online services remain an important part of British culture and the fact the BBC continues to thrive amongst audiences at home and abroad is testament to a professional and dedicated management team who are committed to providing a quality public service.”

“The most important thing you learn as a sports photographer is anticipation - not where the action is taking place, but where it’s going to take place. Not where the subject is now, but where they’re going to be.”

Important Action Sports Subjects Important Things Photographer Anticipation

Author:Lawrence Schiller

“Cuts of clothes and shapes of clothes are really important.”

Important Cutting Shapes Clothes

Author:Bonnie Wright

“It is extremely important to me that the social and environmental issues associated with the production of fashion clothing are addressed.”

Important Social Issues Fashion Environmental Productions Clothings Environmental Issues

Author:Bonnie Wright

“People say that one of the most important things about being an actor is to have thick skin, but I don't think that's it. Because you can't just walk around being tough, you have to be able to be vulnerable to do this. So really, it's about not being defensive.”

People Thinking Important Able Actors Walks Tough Skins Important Things Vulnerable Thick Thick Skin

Author:Jess Weixler

“At Sun, we have a special number you can call if there is something important happening.”

Ifs Important Numbers Sun Special Happenings

Author:Frank James

“The library was one more essential in the parade of rooms in a big 18th-century house - and part of the required kit ever afterwards. The important thing was to have the books, not actually read them.”

Important Book Bigs House Rooms Century Essentials Important Things Library Parades Ever After 18th Century

Author:Peter York

“What cracks me up is people who think I don't take baseball seriously. It's the most important thing in my life. They don't know how hard it is for me to get a bad game out of my mind. I still can't, but I'm getting better.”

People Thinking Knows Mind Stills Important Hard Games Know How Baseball Important Things Get Better Cracks Of My Mind Bad Games

Author:Brady Anderson

“The aggressive use of wiretaps is important: It shows that we are targeting white-collar insider-trading rings with the same powerful investigative tools that have worked so successfully against the mob and drug cartels.”

Important Use Shows White Powerful Drug Tools Rings Aggressive Trading Collars Insiders White Collar Cartels Drug Cartels Insider Trading

Author:Preet Bharara

“But I have always said that it's important we must make sure that justice is at all time be maintained.”

Said Important Justice All Time

Author:Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

“Of course education becomes very very important and that's for our human resource development.”

Humans Important Courses Development Resources Human Resources

Author:Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

“You can't have too much of everything, you must have a balance, that's very important.”

Important Too Much Balance

Author:Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

“Very old fashioned to say that they will be well behaved but I think it's very important.”

Thinking Wells Important Old Fashioned

Author:Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

“It all begins with the initial tone coming from the cabinet, but EQ at the board is very important.”

Important Boards Tone Initials Cabinets

Author:Scott Putesky

“The most important function of a bibliographic entry is to help the reader obtain a copy of the cited work.”

Important Helping Reader Function Copies Entry

Author:Daniel J. Bernstein

“The only currency I value is the coin of the spirit. That's very important in my life.”

Important Spirit Values Currency Coins Kinky Flipping A Coin

Author:Kinky Friedman

“I am deeply aware of the dimension of luck. It's so important to be prepared to receive it, but it is a major factor. There's no question.”

Important Majors Luck Prepared Factors Dimensions Be Prepared

Author:J. Carter Brown

“Disapproval is a very important factor in all progress. There has really never been any progress without it.”

Important Progress Society Factors Disapproval

Book:The Conquest of Civilization

Source: The Conquest of Civilization

“My latter schooldays and my university days were during the war, when science - physics, in particular - was a very important and glamorous subject. A lot of us felt that if we couldn't get into science, we might try engineering or medicine.”

Ifs Trying Important War Might Felt Subjects Particular Medicine University Physics Latter Engineering Glamorous Science Physics

Author:John Henry Carver

“People have to understand how important it is for the players to let off steam, switch off and relax.”

People Important Player Relax Steam

Author:Will Carling

“It's just nice to see people enthusiastic about their tennis and want to learn and improve - for me that's the most important thing - I still love my tennis.”

People Want Stills Important Nice Important Things Tennis Enthusiastic

Author:Jo Durie

“It was the beginning of film for television. So we had all of these great opportunities. Northwestern was probably the only major film school of its kind at the time that was graduating anybody important.”

Kind Important School Film Opportunity Television Majors Graduates Great Opportunity Film School Northwestern

Author:Richard Donner

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