“I felt strongly that since the pursuit of good science was so difficult it was essential that the problem being studied was an important one to justify the effort expanded.” ImportantProblemFeltDifficultEffortEssentialsPursuitJustifyGood Science Author:Paul Nurse
“Those who have the most, who earn the most, must give an example, because that is important for Spain's collective effort.” GivingImportantEffortExampleCollectivesSpainCollective Effort Author:Luis de Guindos
“Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.” MenLifeGivingImportantCharacterLife IsEffortProductsPersonalityBirthTasksIntelligenceBirthdayGiving BirthInspirational BirthdayFinding Your PathBirth LifeMy Own PersonalityPersonality And Character Author:Erich Fromm
“everything is too important ever to be entrusted to professional experts, because every organization of such professionals and every established social organization becomes a vested-interest institution more concerned with its efforts to maintain itself or advance its own interests than to achieve the purpose that society expects it to achieve.” ImportantPurposeSocialInterestEffortSocietyAchieveConcernedOrganizationInstitutionsExpertsVested InterestsSocial Organization Book:The evolution of civilizations: an introduction to historical analysis Source: The evolution of civilizations: an introduction to historical analysis
“China and other members should join efforts to combat serious infectious disease, such as bird flu. To enhance the cooperation on the prevention of bird flu is an important target of the organization, which includes Russia, China and four Central Asian states.” ShouldImportantStatesEffortFourSeriousMembersDiseaseBirdOrganizationChinaRussiaTargetCombatCooperationAsianFluPreventionInfectious DiseasesBird Flu Author:Wen Jiabao
“No Zionist can forgo the smallest portion of the Land Of Israel. [A] Jewishstate in part [of Palestine] is not an end, but a beginning ..... Our possessionis important not only for itself ... through this we increase our power,and every increase in power facilitates getting hold of the country in itsentirety. Establishing a [small] state .... will serve as a very potent lever inour historical effort to redeem the whole country.” ImportantEndsCountryStatesWholeEffortLandIncreaseHistoricalIsraelPortionsSmallestPalestineZionistFacilitateLevers Author:David
“Others are engaging even in an eco-type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves. So there are plenty of ingenious minds out there that are at work finding ways in which they can wreak terror upon other nations. It's real, and that's the reason why we have to intensify our efforts, and that's why this is so important.” WayMindImportantRealReasonUseNationsEffortTypeFindingsClimateWaveTerrorTerrorismPlentyReason WhyEngagingEarthquakesEugenicsIngeniousVolcanoesEcoElectromagnetic Waves Author:William Cohen
“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.’” ShouldMadeStillsImportantCountryStatesFeelingsWaitingPowerfulNumbersEffortAreasCongressParksOppositionInsidiousNational ParksScenicWild Places Author:Enos Mills
“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.” PeopleArtMadeImportantMomentsProblemHappensFormDifficultEffortPerformancesImportant ThingsCatchingEphemeral Author:Judith Weir
“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.” IfsNeedsLongImportantEffortPayAttentionBrainKnowledgeNovelYouthPeriodsAreasCriticalLastingSurprisingInitialsLong Lasting Author:Norman Doidge
“His [Turgot's] first important literary and scholastic effort was a treatise On the Existence of God. Few fragments of it remain, but we are helped to understand him when we learn that he asserted, and to the end of his life maintained, his belief in an Almighty Creator and Upholder of the Universe. It did, indeed, at a later period suit the purposes of his enemies, exasperated by his tolerant spirit and his reforming plans, to proclaim him an atheist; but that sort of charge has been the commonest of missiles against troublesome thinkers in all times.” FirstsHas BeensImportantEndsSpiritPurposeUniverseBeliefEffortExistenceEnemyPlansPeriodsAtheistCreatorSuitsAll TimeThinkerAlmightyFragmentsMissilesTroublesomeExistence Of GodScholastics Author:Andrew Dickson White
“Let us put aside resolutely that great fright, tenderly and without malice, daring to be wrong in something important rather than right in some meticulous banality, fearing no evil while the mind is free to search, imagine, and conclude, inviting our countrymen to try other instruments than coercion and suppression in the effort to meet destiny with triumph, genially suspecting that no creed yet calendared in the annals of politics mirrors the doomful possibilities of infinity.” TryingMindImportantEvilEffortDestinyImaginePossibilityMirrorsInstrumentsTriumphInfinityDaringCreedsMaliceCoercionInvitingFrightSuppressionCountrymenBanalityMeticulous Author:Charles A. Beard
“If physics is too difficult for the physicists, the nonphysicist may wonder whether he should try at all to grasp its complexities and ambiguities. It is undeniably an effort, but probably one worth making, for the basic questions are important and the new experimental results are often fascinating. And if the layman runs into serious perplexities, he can be consoled with the thought that the points which baffle him are more than likely the ones for which the professionals have not found satisfactory answers.” IfsShouldTryingMayImportantRunningFoundDifficultAnswersResultsEffortWonderSeriousPhysicsComplexityFascinatingPhysicistAmbiguityPerplexityLayman Author:Edward Condon
“Employee participation programs and employee ownership are important efforts to deal with powerlessness at work.” ImportantPoliticsDealsEffortEconomyProgramLiberalismEmployeeOwnershipParticipationPowerlessness Author:Daniel Yankelovich