“If it awakens in us as a whole how important that is - the theme of how conquest and ambition are meaningless without contribution - I think then as a society we're in better shape. I hope people are inspired to be the best.” PeopleIfsThinkingImportantWholeShapesAmbitionInspiredThemeContributionBeing The BestMeaninglessConquest Author:Rob Morrow
“My present work concerns the problems connected with the theory of elementary particles, the theory of gravitation and cosmology and I shall be glad if I can manage to make some contribution to these important branches of science.” IfsI CanImportantProblemTheoryConcernConnectedGladManageBranchesContributionParticlesCosmologyGravitation Author:Andrei Sakharov
“The Astonishment Tapes will now take its place within the growing field of international research about postwar American poetry's important contribution to world literature. Miriam Nichols has once again done exceptional scholarship.” WorldImportantDoneLiteratureGrowingFieldsResearchInternationalContributionTapeExceptionalScholarshipAstonishmentAmerican PoetryImportant ContributionsWorld Literature Author:Peter Gizzi
“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.” FirstsImportantCommunityFieldsContributionHallsBallotsSan Diego Author:Dan Fouts
“It is your mind that matters economically, as much or more than your mouth or hands. In the long run, the most important economic effect of population size and growth is the contribution of additional people to our stock of useful knowledge. And this contribution is large enough in the long run to overcome all the costs of population growth.” PeopleMindLongImportantMatterEnoughHandsRunningGrowthKnowledgeEconomicEffectsCostMouthsEconomicsOvercomingSizePopulationIntellectContributionLong RunsSmart PeopleKnowledge Is PowerPopulation GrowthUseful Knowledge Author:Julian Simon
“Faithiest resonated with me in many ways-not only because, like Chris, I am a gay former-Christian atheist who still thinks of my religious neighbors as fellow truth-seekers-but also because I deeply appreciated the book's nuanced approach to contentious issues. This is an important contribution to current debates, one which should be read not only for its valuable content but also for its exemplary tone: warm, engaging, optimistic, and humble.” ThinkingWayShouldStillsImportantBookChristianReligiousIssuesGayApproachFellowsAtheistCurrentsHumbleValuableWarmNeighborDebateOptimisticFormerToneContributionEngagingAppreciatedSeekersChristian AtheistExemplaryContentiousImportant ContributionsTruth Seekers Author:John Corvino
“An important contribution to a much-neglected but very important subject. No other author has set out to do what Davenport accomplishes, which is a systematic study of how key representatives of America's rising tide of religion attempted a theoretical understanding of, and practical response to, America's rising tide of commerce.” ImportantAmericaUnderstandingStudySubjectsKeysResponseAccomplishPracticalsRisingContributionTidesRepresentativesCommerceTheoreticalNeglectedSystematicImportant Contributions Author:Mark Noll
“Man is sitting disconsolate on an anthill one morning. God asks him what the matter is and man replies that the soil is too swampy for the cultivation of the yams which God has directed him to grow. God tells him to bring in a blacksmith to dry the soil with his bellows. The contribution of humanity to this creation is so important. God could have made the world perfect if he had wanted. But he made it the way it is. So that there is a constant need for us to discuss and cooperate to make it more habitable, so the soil can yield, you see.” IfsMenWorldWayNeedsMadeImportantMatterWantedHumanityAsksGrowsPerfectMorningCreationSittingConstantMade ItDryContributionSoilYieldCultivationBlacksmithsYams Author:Chinua Achebe
“The most important thing is contribution because the secret to living is giving. If you catch on to that you start realizing that there's nothing you can get that comes close to what you can give. Life is calling all of us to be more than just about ourselves and that is when we get that spiritual hit.” IfsGivingImportantSpiritualLife IsRealizingSecretCallingImportant ThingsContribution Author:Tony Robbins
“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.” ImportantLinesCommonTeachSubjectsDiscussionContributionSentient Beings Book:Open Secret Source: Open Secret
“Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon in the sense that it is and can be produced only by a more rapid increase in the quantity of money than in output... A steady rate of monetary growth at a moderate level can provide a framework under which a country can have little inflation and much growth. It will not produce perfect stability; it will not produce heaven on earth; but it can make an important contribution to a stable economic society.” LittlesImportantCountryEarthHeavenGrowthPerfectLevelsEconomicProduceIncreaseRateContributionPhenomenonStabilitySteadyQuantityStableInflationModeratesRapidsFrameworkMonetaryOutputHeaven On EarthImportant Contributions Author:Milton Friedman
“It is important for a father who feels pushed away [by the mom] to say, in effect, When you do that, I feel unwanted as a father, or I feel my rough-housing is not bad parenting; it's my contribution to helping our child take risks. Women cannot hear what men do not say.” MenFeelsChildrenImportantHelpingFatherRiskEffectsMomOur ChildrenContributionRoughHousingUnwantedBad ParentingPushed Away Author:Warren Farrell
“What is important - what I consider success - is that we make a contribution to our world.” WorldImportantSuccessContributionOur World Author:Benjamin Carson
“That wall, embodied in the First Amendment, is perhaps America's most important contribution to political progress on this planet.” FirstsImportantAmericaPoliticalProgressAtheismPlanetsWallPositive AtheismContributionAmendmentsFirst AmendmentImportant Contributions Author:Lowell P. Weicker, Jr.
“There are plenty of dead scientists I admire, but I can't think of any living ones. This is probably because it is only in retrospect that one can see who made the important contributions.” ThinkingMadeI CanImportantScientistAdmirePlentyContributionRetrospectImportant Contributions Author:Stephen Hawking