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“The most important part of the practice is for the question to remain alive and for your whole body and mind to become a question. In Zen they say that you have to ask with the pores of your skin and the marrow of your bones. A Zen saying points out: Great questioning, great awakening; little questioning, little awakening; no questioning, no awakening.”

Mind Littles Important Whole Body Asks Practice Alive Skins Bones Awakening Questioning Mind And Body Marrow

Author:Martine Batchelor

“It is important that the remaining scenic areas of the country be at once made into State or National Parks. Fortunately there still are a number of these wild places, but it will require effort to save them. Each Park proposed will have powerful and insidious opposition. The insidious opposition to National Parks will say, ‘There is a feeling in Congress that we should not have any more National Parks at this time’; or, ‘We should wait until present ones are improved.’”

Should Made Stills Important Country States Feelings Waiting Powerful Numbers Effort Areas Congress Parks Opposition Insidious National Parks Scenic Wild Places

Author:Enos Mills

“Courage is a terribly important value. It means you don’t run away when things are tough. It means you don’t turn away from a friend when he or she is in trouble. It means standing up against the majority opinion... There’s a lot of people who won’t wear it on their sleeve, or display it through some heroic act. But courage is having the strength to do what’s honorable and decent.”

“It is a fallacy to think that carping is the strongest form of criticism: the important work begins after the artist's mistakes have been pointed out, and the reviewer can't put it off indefinitely with sneers, although some neophytes might be tempted to try: "When in doubt, stick out your tongue" is a safe rule that never cost one any readers. But there's nothing strong about it, and it has nothing to do with the real business of criticism, which is to do justice to the best work of one's time, so that nothing gets lost.”

“I think it is the most important subject facing this country, but I cannot get any of my ministers to take any notice.”

Thinking Important Country Subjects Ministers

Author:Winston Churchill

“The most important question a human being has to face... What is it? The question, Why are we here?”

Humans Important Faces Human Beings Important Questions

Author:Elie Wiesel

“When you practice meditation, the meditator becomes all-important and not the movement of meditation.”

Important Practice Meditation Movement

Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti

“What is important in meditation is the quality of the mind and the heart.It is not what you achieve, or what you say you attain, but rather the quality of a mind that is innocent and vulnerable.”

Mind Heart Important Quality Meditation Achieve Innocent Vulnerable

Book:The Meditative Mind

Source: The Meditative Mind

“Liberalism is the philosophy for our time, because it does not try to conserve every tradition of the past, because it does not apply to new problems the old doctrinaire solutions, because it is prepared to experiment and innovate and because it knows that the past is less important than the future.”

Knows Trying Doe Important Philosophy Problem Past Solutions Tradition Prepared Experiments Our Time Liberalism

Author:Pierre Trudeau

“Agriculture is the greatest and fundamentally the most important of our industries. The cities are but the branches of the tree of national life, the roots of which go deeply into the land. We all flourish or decline with the farmer.”

Important Cities Tree Land Industry Roots Branches Farmers Decline Agriculture

Author:Bernard Baruch

“It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.”

“Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.”

“While it will be desirable to achieve planned results, it will be even more important to avoid unplanned disasters.”

Important Results Achieve Disaster Desirable

Book:the new industrial state

Source: the new industrial state

“Very important functions can be performed very wastefully and often are.”

Important Function

Book:The affluent society

Source: The affluent society

“The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important.”

Thinking Important Ideas Helping Success Inspiring Poor Business Rich Rich Kids

Author:Bill Gates

“Agreeable as it is to know where one is proceeding, it is far more important to know where one has arrived.”

Knows Important Proceeding

Book:the new industrial state

Source: the new industrial state

“My outlook on warfare is best illustrated by a cartoon I did some thirty-odd years ago of a soldier in an Italian foxhole reading about the Normandy invasion and observing to his buddy that: "The hell this ain't the most important hole in the world . I'm in it.”

Source: Mud & guts: a look at the common soldier of the American revolution

“Curiosity, which may or may not eventuate in something useful, is probably the most outstanding characteristic of modern thinking ... Institutions of learning should be devoted to the cultivation of curiosity, and the less they are deflected by the consideration of immediacy of application, the more likely they are to contribute not only to human welfare, but to the equally important satisfaction of intellectual interest, which may indeed be said to have become the ruling passion of intellectual life in modern times.”

“When the PC was launched, people knew it was important.”

People Important Technology Computer Computing Shelf Life

Author:Bill Gates

“Mourning your first love is as important as meeting your first love. It's the whole cycle.”

Firsts Important Whole Love Is Meetings Mourning Cycles First Love

Author:Jane Anderson

“I was lucky to be involved and get to contribute to something that was important, which is empowering people with software.”

People Important Success Involved Lucky Empowering Software

Author:Bill Gates

“I think education and intelligence (are) important, but not art. Not artistic education.”

Thinking Art Important Artistic

Author:Brassai

“Being fresh is more important than having money.”

Important

Author:Kanye West

“Misogyny is ingrained in people from the time they are born. So to me, feminism is probably the most important movement that you could embrace, because it's just basically another word for equality.”

People Important Born Feminism Movement Embrace Misogyny

Author:Taylor Swift

“It is important to emphasize again and again and again that finding a cure is not the problem The cures for many cancers, if not most cancers, exist. But they are not being offered to the patient who has cancer.... Being legally permitted to use an alternative cancer therapy is the problem”

Ifs Important Use Problem Findings Patient Cancer Cures Alternatives Therapy Again And Again

Author:Barry Lynes

“It’s important to remember that Mark David Chapman really set a lot of trends: such as the trend of celebrities having bodyguards.”

Important Remember Mark Trends Bodyguard

Author:Julie Klausner

“Without the sleeping bag I'm just somebody up early in the morning, sitting under a tree. With the sleeping bag I'm nobody up early, sitting under a tree: a slight, but important difference in how I’ll be perceived.”

Important Differences Sleep Morning Tree Sitting Bags Up Early

Author:Craig Stone

“Scores are absurdly important, One hundred points could easily make or break a kid.”

Important Kids Break Hundred Score Absurdity Make Or Break

Author:Bill Vaughan

“Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key, that it's the sine-qua-non of religion, people look kind of balked, and stubborn sometimes, as much to say, what's the point of having religion if you can't disapprove of other people?”

People Ifs Looks Kind Important Sometimes Religious Compassion Virtue Keys Stubborn

Author:Karen Armstrong

“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.”

Firsts Important Economy Direct Financial Articles Creeds Minors Great Art Taxation Controversy Indirect Direct And Indirect

Author:William E. Gladstone

“Some philosophers fail to distinguish propositions from judgements; ... But in the real world it is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true. The importance of truth is that it adds to interest.”

World Important Real Interest Interesting Failing Truth Is Importance Add Philosopher Being True Judgement Real World Propositions

Book:Process and Reality

Source: Process and Reality

“Thoughtful criticism and close scrutiny of all government officials by the press and the public are an important part of our democratic society.”

Important Government Criticism Presses Democratic Officials Thoughtful Scrutiny Democratic Society Government Officials

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Jimmy Carter, 1980-1981

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Jimmy Carter, 1980-1981

“The government and the church are two different realms of service, and those in political office have to face a subtle but important difference between the implementation of the high ideals of religious faith and public duty.”

Two Important Different Government Faces Political Differences Church Religious Duty Office Ideals Realms Subtle Religious Faith Implementation

Book:The Jimmy Carter Library

Source: The Jimmy Carter Library

“La chose la plus importante a' toute la vie est le choix du me tier: le hasard en dispose. The most important thing in life is to choose a profession: chance arranges for that.”

Important Life Is Chance Important Things Profession Plus Things In Life Most Important Things In Life

Author:Blaise Pascal

“A writer can be compared to a well. There are as many kinds of wells as there are writers. The important thing is to have good water in the well, and it is better to take a regular amount out than to pump the well dry and wait for it to refill.”

Writing Wells Kind Important Waiting Water Amount Important Things Dry Pumps Refills

Book:Ernest Hemingway: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations

Source: Ernest Hemingway: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations

“The difficulty in working with someone on a show like Idol or X Factor is they have an idea of what they think is cool in their heads, and it's important as a producer to maintain control of the session and not let it get side-tracked or chase too many rabbits. But it's also important to let the artist feel like their opinion matters, so that balance is difficult.”

Thinking Feels Important Ideas Matter Shows Artist Difficult Sides Opinion Balance Difficulty Factors Producers Idols Session Rabbits

Author:Ryan Tedder

“It's really important to just accept who we are, and find somebody who accepts us for who we are.”

Important Accepting Who We Are

Author:Shiri Appleby

“The most important thing is to keep creating and following my inklings as they come into being and acting on them.”

Important Acting Creating Important Things Following

Author:Reggie Watts

“Cross-pollination and "contamination" is really important to the health of fiction, and sometimes it's a literal conversation, too, in that writers who might never otherwise meet and talk do so because of our anthologies.”

Important Sometimes Might Fiction Conversation Crosses Literal Anthology Contamination Pollination

Author:Jeff VanderMeer

“One of the most important things as a writing instructor is to provide a lot of different entry points to subjects. To not impose your own personal experience as the One True Way.”

Way Writing Important Different Subjects Important Things Entry Personal Experiences Instructors

Author:Jeff VanderMeer

“I really enjoy work to a purpose. Maybe that makes me kind of strange. In some ways - and this is going to sound awful - it could be that writing is the worst job that I've ever had. Because it's so much more important to me and there's so much more opportunity for failure and I have so many people depending on me. In some ways it's the most satisfying, the most gratifying, and the most rewarding job I've ever had. But I actually would say it's probably the worst job I've ever had too.”

People Way Writing Kind Important Jobs Purpose Opportunity Enjoy Sound Worst Strange Awful Satisfying

Author:Patrick Rothfuss

“I think the Supreme Court has, as an equal branch of government, the ability to overrule Congress and the president. But I also feel it's the role of the Congress and the president to push back. I mean I think it's important that they are understood as equal branches of government.”

Thinking Feels Mean Important Government President Ability Roles Equal Understood Court Congress Supreme Branches Supreme Court Branches Of Government Congress And The President

Author:Rick Santorum

“Comedy is very important, yes. For one thing, it keeps you sane. But it's not really a conversion. I mean, it's marginally a conversion, because if people tune in or go to a nightclub or even watch television, and hear that a lot of other people are laughing at something you thought was not funny, at least it'll force you to reconsider.”

People Ifs Mean Important Force Watches Laughing Comedy One Thing Television Conversion Tunes Sane Nightclubs

Author:Tom Lehrer

“The living together is very important in a way. It's important for writing. It wouldn't be important if we were like just getting other people's numbers together, we'd just have to meet at rehearsals, but writing is something almost completely different.”

People Ifs Way Writing Important Different Together Numbers Rehearsal Living Together

Author:Steve Winwood

“I mean the most important thing you can have as an actor, writer, director, or whatever you are, poet or whatever it is, is life experience. Life experience doesn't mean you have to live 50 years to have it. I mean you know a lot of people have huge life experience by the time they're in college.”

People Knows Years Mean Important Actors College Poet Huge Directors Important Things Life Experience

Author:Billy Bob Thornton

“I think doing something creative is the most important thing to me, and I think it's probably just good for the soul for anyone, whatever it is. You don't have to be a film director - you can do gardening or something - but I think everyone needs to create something.”

Thinking Needs Important Soul Film Can Do Creative Directors Important Things Gardening Film Directors

Author:Ricky Gervais

“Growing up, the most important thing, after taking care of your family and getting a decent job of work, was having a laugh. That was the point to life.”

Important Care Jobs Laughing Growing Up Growing Important Things Our Family Decent

Author:Ricky Gervais

“The most important thing about a child's education is to have a great teacher in front of the classroom and a lot of choice and accountability with parents.”

Children Important Choices Parent Teacher Fronts Important Things Accountability Classroom Great Teacher

Author:Carly Fiorina

“I'm not a perfectionist, but I like discipline. I'm obedient, but I'm not a perfectionist. I think it's important to work your hardest and be as kind as possible to everyone you work with. The goal, every day, is keeping focused on that.”

Thinking Kind Important Goal Discipline Focused Hardest Obedient Perfectionist

Author:Natalie Portman

“Believing in yourself you gain confidence, which allows you to relax. Relaxation is one of the most important parts about acting.”

Believe Important Acting Gains Believe In Yourself Relax Relaxation Gaining Confidence

Author:Emile Hirsch

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