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“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.”

People Ifs Thinking Important Whole Shapes Ambition Inspired Theme Contribution Being The Best Meaningless Conquest

Author:Rob Morrow

“It's important, I think, for a writer of fiction to maintain an awareness of the pace and shape of the book as he's writing it. That is, he should be making an object, not chattering.”

Thinking Should Writing Important Book Fiction Awareness Objects Shapes Pace

Author:Thomas Perry

“I do think that exercise is important, not only to keep you in shape but also for your state of mind. However, I am not fanatical about it.”

Thinking Mind Important States Exercise Shapes State Of Mind

Author:Donatella Versace

“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

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

Important Cutting Shapes Clothes

Author:Bonnie Wright

“One's self-image is very important because if that's in good shape, then you can do anything, or practically anything.”

Ifs Important Self Can Do Confidence Shapes Self Confidence

Author:John Gielgud

“The most important thing that I think we've done this season is to show navy and gray in a very new way. Most men understand navy and gray as a navy blazer and a gray flannel trouser, but today, we're taking that very traditional color palette and putting it in a more modern shape.”

Thinking Men Way Important Done Shows Today Modern Color Shapes Seasons Important Things Traditional Gray New Ways Navy Palette Blazers Flannels

Author:Joseph Abboud

“I have an hourglass shape, and I think it's important to understand your body type and your personality type. Then make whatever is on trend and in fashion work for you.”

Thinking Important Body Fashion Type Personality Shapes Your Body Trends Body Types Personality Types Hourglass

Author:Fiona Gubelmann

“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

“To be a standard shape is not all in life. To know is also important.”

Knows Important Shapes Standards

Author:Brian Aldiss

“We know today about nutrition and we know about exercise. There's no reason for anybody to be sick and tired, fat and out of shape -- it's ridiculous! This has got to be taught in the schools. It's got to be taught in kindergarten. That's when kids should first get the idea that the most important thing in your life is your health and your body.”

“The only important property of evils of the past is that they not be repeated in the future, in any way, shape, or form.”

Way Important Past Form Evil Shapes Property

Author:Erik Naggum

“From that point on, the extraordinary system of spies and informers which has played an important part in the political work of the French state into our own time took shape. (Sartine, who became lieutenant general de police in 1759, is supposed to have said to Louis XV, "Sire, when three people are chatting in the street one of them is surely my man.") Eighteenth-century police manuals like those of Colquhoun in England or Lemaire in France are no less than general treatises on the government's full repertoire of domestic regulation, coercion, and surveillance.”

Source: The Formation of national States in Western Europe

“I believe stories are very important to all performances. The life story of the performer shapes their work, and the life stories of the audience alter how they receive the work, what they read into the performer.”

Believe Important Stories I Believe Audience Shapes Performances Performers Life Story

Author:Marina Abramovic