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“If paintings are so important - worth so much, reproduced, cherished, and visited so often - then isn't it troubling that we can hardly make emotional contact with the artists? Few centuries, it seems, are as determinedly tearless as ours.”

Ifs Important Seems Artist Century Emotional Painting Importance Contact

Author:James Elkins

“What kinds of problems, and what kinds of meanings, happen in the paint? Or as one historian puts it, 'What is thinking in painting, as opposed to thinking about painting?' These are important questions, and they are very hard to answer using the language of art history.”

Thinking Kind Art Important Hard Problem Happens Language Answers Painting Paint Historian Art History Important Questions

Book:What Painting Is

Source: What Painting Is

“Frightening for many artists is promoting themselves. They feel it is... artificial and not what we want to be known for. Yet if we start thinking about what we do as important and important to offer to people, not to sell... it allows us to shift the way we think about promoting ourselves.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Want Feels Important Artist Known Offers Sells Selling Artificial Frightening Promoting

Author:Adam Leipzig

“The important things usually prove to be very simple. They are also open secrets in the sense that no one is hiding the knowledge from us except ourselves.”

Important Simple Secret Prove Importance Important Things Hiding

Book:Dreaming the Soul Back Home: Shamanic Dreaming for Healing and Becoming Whole

Source: Dreaming the Soul Back Home: Shamanic Dreaming for Healing and Becoming Whole

“New research into cognitive functioning - how the brain works - proves that bullet points are the least effective way to deliver important information.”

Way Important Brain Information Prove Research Bullets Cognitive

Book:The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs: How to Be Insanely Great in Front of Any Audience

Source: The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs: How to Be Insanely Great in Front of Any Audience

“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.”

Ifs Way Want I Can Important Ideas Can Do Knowing Direct Response Crave I Can Do It

Author:Errollyn Wallen

“The problem with our art form: it's so ephemeral, and catching performances can be so difficult... the important thing is what happens at the moment of performance, for the people who made the effort to be there: it lives with them.”

People Art Made Important Moments Problem Happens Form Difficult Effort Performances Important Things Catching Ephemeral

Author:Judith Weir

“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.”

Art Important Music Influence Painting Listening Degrees Musician Direct Right Time Just Listen Duration

Author:Guido Molinari

“After the initial critical learning period of youth is over, the areas of the brain that need to be 'turned on' to allow enhanced, long lasting learning can only be activated when something important, surprising, or novel occurs, or if we make the effort to pay close attention.”

Ifs Needs Long Important Effort Pay Attention Brain Knowledge Novel Youth Periods Areas Critical Lasting Surprising Initials Long Lasting

Author:Norman Doidge

“The first book ever written in an alphabet was the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament. And the most important passage was the Ten Commandments. The first commandment is the most revolutionary sentence ever written. It states: "I am the Lord thy God there is no other." The second prohibits us from making images. Thus, there is a profound rejection of any goddess influence and a ban of representative art.”

“There are many ways to draw beautifully. It's important to let the drawing be an investigation and sometimes, in order to investigate, you need to go off the path.”

Way Needs Important Sometimes Order Path Draws Drawing Investigation

Author:Jacob Collins

“Drawing is the simplest way of establishing a picture vocabulary because it is an instant, personal declaration of what is important and what is not.”

Way Important Drawing Instant Declaration Vocabulary Simplest

Book:Betty Goodwin: oeuvres de 1971 à 1987

Source: Betty Goodwin: oeuvres de 1971 à 1987

“The writer of these lines has nothing whatsoever to teach anyone; his words are just his contribution to our common discussion of what must inevitably be for us the most important subject which could be discussed by sentient beings.”

Important Lines Common Teach Subjects Discussion Contribution Sentient Beings

Book:Open Secret

Source: Open Secret

“It's hard with ballet because your aesthetic really is important. It's different from acting and from film. Nobody wants to watch somebody who is sickly thin. And it's interesting because I have danced with people who are ill, have eating disorders, and a light goes off within them.”

People Want Important Different Hard Light Film Interesting Acting Watches Eating Ill Disorder Ballet Aesthetic Eating Disorder

Author:Amanda Schull

“I've always been very interested in fashion, but it is extremely important to me that the social and environment issues associated with the production of fashionable clothing are addressed. Made-By carries out really important work in transforming the fashion industry, and I am thrilled to support the organisation and help raise awareness of these ongoing issues.”

“I am persuaded that in the case of elected officials, the overwhelming temptation is to conclude that it is more important for your constituents that you be reelected than that you deal honestly with them.”

Important Deals Cases Honestly Temptation Officials Overwhelming Constituents Elected Officials

Book:Freedom at Risk: Reflections on Politics, Liberty, and the State

Source: Freedom at Risk: Reflections on Politics, Liberty, and the State

“I feel like one of the things that is central to American life is the religious experience, and I think that the experience of being Muslim in America is as valid and as important a perspective on the religious experience of America as evangelical Christianity or Judaism - whatever it may be.”

Thinking Feels May Important America Life Is Religious Christianity Perspective Judaism Evangelical American Life Religious Experience

Author:Ayad Akhtar

“As a nation, we owe a great deal to the National Audubon Society, one of our most distinguished and important environmental organizations, and all those who work to protect America's open land and waterways.”

Important America Nations Deals Land Protect Organization Environmental Distinguished

Author:Louis Bacon

“It is not advantageous for Russia in its present state to fight against Chechnya. The army is a mess. It must be made combat ready. That will take time. Russia has a lot of economic, social and political problems much more important than Chechnya.”

Made Important States Problem Political Fighting Social Economic Ready Army Russia Mess Combat Take Time Chechnya

Author:Aslan Maskhadov

“Breasts are very important for women. Their clothes just don't hang right without them.”

Important Clothes Breasts

Book:Strange Bedpersons

Source: Strange Bedpersons

“The secret of doing well on TV is to understand that it's not too important. A lot of people watching doesn't change anything.”

People Wells Important Secret Tvs

Author:Jack Germond

“Everyone I know thinks television is the most important part of my life. I did it for the money! I was able to send my daughter to college.”

Thinking Knows Important Able Television College Daughter My Daughter

Author:Jack Germond

“In the field of Artificial Intelligence there is no more iconic and controversial milestone than the Turing Test, when a computer convinces a sufficient number of interrogators into believing that it is not a machine but rather is a human. It is fitting that such an important landmark has been reached at the Royal Society in London, the home of British Science and the scene of many great advances in human understanding over the centuries. This milestone will go down in history as one of the most exciting.”

“In some ways painters have been more important in my life than writers. Painters teach you how to see—a faculty that usually isn’t highly developed in poets. Whether you take a walk in the woods with a painter, or go to a museum with one, through them you notice shapes, colors, harmonies, relationships that enhance your own seeing.”

Way Has Beens Important Walks Teach Seeing Color Poet Shapes Harmony Woods Painter Faculty Museums Walk In The Woods

Author:Carolyn Kizer

“I do not recall another period when ‘faith’ was as popular as it is today. ‘If only we believe hard enough we'll make it somehow.’ So goes the popular chant. What you believe is not important. Only believe... What is overlooked in all this is that faith is good only when it engages truth; when it is made to rest upon falsehood it can and often does lead to eternal tragedy. For it is not enough that we believe; we must believe the right thing about the right One.”

Ifs Believe Doe Made Important Hard Enough Today Periods Eternal Tragedy Right Thing Falsehood Recalls Overlooked

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“As the heated debate continues, it will be important that nonproliferation experts play a critical role in the discourse. Science-based statements, not snarky sound bites, should be the weapons of choice.”

Should Important Play Choices Sound Roles Weapons Critical Debate Statements Experts Bites Discourse Sound Bites

Author:David Corn

“What happens when an art form becomes ambiguous, I think, is that the standards are lowered. You can say anything is jazz. So I think it's important to reflect on what made jazz so special.”

Thinking Art Made Important Happens Form Special Standards Jazz Say Anything Ambiguous

Author:Stefon Harris

“You see continuous movement is the important thing here. Those who remain in one position and then lie to themselves about their progress are the ones in real trouble.”

Important Real Lying Progress Trouble Movement Position Important Things

Author:Chris Murray

“The main thing is winning. Stats aren't that important, but I think in the end things will work themselves out.”

Thinking Important Ends Winning

Author:John Harbaugh

“No office in the land is more important than that of being a citizen.”

Important Land Citizens Office

Author:Felix Frankfurter

“Rest of my life is more important to me than politics”

Important Life Is

Author:Chuka Umunna

“Reject without regret whatever seems on reflection wrongheaded, dull, destructive, or irrelevant to your vision. It’s just as important to be able to discriminate between helpful and unhelpful criticism as it is to be able to write.”

Writing Important Seems Able Vision Regret Reflection Criticism Dull Destructive Helpful Rejects Irrelevant

Author:Janet Burroway

“If you have cancer, the most important single consideration is to get the maximum amount of vitamin B17 into your body in the shortest period of time. This is secondary to the medical skill involved in administering it, which is relatively minimal.”

Ifs Important Body Amount Involved Periods Skills Cancer Medical Your Body Consideration Maximum Vitamins

Author:Ernst T. Krebs

“I grew up watching my Dad, Uncles Ciaran Murray and Brendan Murray, and cousin, Aedin Murray, who were all national caliber Gaelic football players in Ireland. I try to watch as much Gaelic football as I can, it is my first love. I bleed Green, White, and Orange. Gaelic football players don’t get paid to play, you play to represent your county that is more important than earning money.”

“I come out before the matches because it's important the fans see I am in a good mood. When I get to the club, my mood is always lifted. You can be in a terrible mood, but once you are at Fulham, you are happy.”

Important Fans Terrible Clubs Mood Good Mood Fulham

Author:Mohamed Al-Fayed

“It occurred to me that nothing is more interesting than opinion when opinion is interesting, so I devised a method of cleaning off the page opposite the editorial, which became the most important in America and thereon I decided to print opinions, ignoring facts.”

Important Facts America Interesting Opinion Pages Decided Opposites Method Print Cleaning Editorials Ignoring Facts

Author:Herbert Bayard Swope

“Legal documents have mistrust written all over them. It's unfortunate, but the human DNA is so tuned to kind of taking you for granted that we tend to protect ourselves legally. That's why I don't read them as, if I read them, I will go soft. To me, the human relationship is far more important than the professional bond I share with anyone.”

Ifs Humans Kind Important Written Share Protect Granted Unfortunate Documents Dna Human Relations Human Relationships Mistrust

Author:Karan Johar

“The minute that you understand that you can poke life and actually something will pop out the other side, that you can change it, you can mold it. That's maybe the most important thing. It's to shake off this erroneous notion that life is there and you're just gonna live in it, versus embrace it, change it, improve it, make your mark upon it. I think that's very important and however you learn that, once you learn it, you'll want to change life and make it better, cause it's kind of messed up, in a lot of ways. Once you learn that, you'll never be the same again.”

Thinking Way Want Kind Important Life Is Causes Sides Minutes Mark Important Things Embrace Notion Pops Life Changing Shakes Versus Mold Messed Up Poke

Author:Steve Jobs

“Science is meaningless because it gives no answer to our question, the only question important for us: 'What shall we do and how shall we live?'”

Giving Important Answers Meaningless

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“Design is important, it's an important dimension in the car. It's not the only one.”

Important Car Design Dimensions

Author:Carlos Ghosn

“[T]here seems to have been an actual decline in rational thinking. The United States had become a place where entertainers and professional athletes were mistaken for people of importance. They were idolized and treated as leaders; their opinions were sought on everything and they took themselves just as seriously-after all, if an athlete is paid a million or more a year, he knows he is important ... so his opinions of foreign affairs and domestic policies must be important, too, even though he proves himself to be ignorant and subliterate every time he opens his mouth.”

“Electric cars are going to be very important for urban transportation.”

Important Car Electric Urban Transportation Electric Car

Author:Carlos Ghosn

“How many quarrels, and how important, has the doubt as to the meaning of this syllable "Hoc" produced for the world!”

World Important Doubt Quarrels Syllables

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.”

Important Would Be Easy Important Things

Book:Poems, 1913-1956

Source: Poems, 1913-1956

“People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little. It is plain that an ignorant person thinks everything he does know important, and he tells it to everybody. But a well-educated man is not so ready to display his learning; he would have too much to say, and he sees that there is much more to be said, so he holds his peace.”

People Thinking Knows Men Wells Littles Persons Doe Said Important Knowledge Too Much Ready Ignorant Educated Display Talkers Well Educated Educated Man Ignorant Person

Book:Emile

Source: Emile

“It is to be emphasized that no matter how many [amplitude] arrows we draw, add, or multiply, our objective is to calculate a single final arrow for the event . Mistakes are often made by physics students at first because they do not keep this important point in mind. They work for so long analyzing events involving a single photon that they begin to think that the arrow is somehow associated with the photon [rather than with the event].”

Thinking Mind Firsts Long Made Important Matter Mistake Events Students Draws Add Finals Physics Objectives Arrows Involving Analyzing Photons

Book:QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter

Source: QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter

“The most important thing I found out from my father is that if you asked any question and pursued it deeply enough, then at the end there was a glorious discovery of a general and beautiful kind.”

Ifs Kind Important Ends Enough Beautiful Found Father Discovery Important Things Glorious Pursued

Author:Richard P. Feynman

“A possibility of continuing progress is opened up by the fact that in learning one act, methods are developed good for use in other situations. Still more important is the fact that the human being acquires a habit of learning. He learns to learn.”

Humans Stills Important Facts Use Human Beings Situation Progress Possibility Habit Method Acquire Continuing

Book:Democracy and Education: Top American Authors

Source: Democracy and Education: Top American Authors

“The need for the creation of collective art and ritual on a nonclerical basis is at least as important as literacy and higher education.”

Needs Art Important Creation Higher Bases Collectives Ritual Literacy Higher Education

Book:Sane Society Ils 252

Source: Sane Society Ils 252

“There are two threats to reason, the opinion that one knows the truth about the most important things and the opinion that there is no truth about them. Both of these opinions are fatal to philosophy; the first asserts that the quest for truth is unnecessary, while the second asserts that it is impossible. The Socratic knowledge of ignorance, which I take to be the beginning point of all philosophy, defines the sensible middle ground between two extremes.”

Knows Firsts Two Important Reason Philosophy Opinion Impossible Middle Ignorance Truth Is Important Things Threat Extremes Sensible Quests Unnecessary Middle Ground Two Extremes Socratic

Author:Allan Bloom

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