“If you see something that you feel is familiar it gives you an important kind of emotional connection.” IfsGivingFeelsKindImportantEmotionalConnectionsFamiliarEmotional Connection Author:Marc Newson
“For anyone going through a divorce or any other painful challenge, the first and most important recommendation I can make is to find some kind of spiritual and emotional support.” FirstsKindI CanImportantSpiritualChallengesSupportEmotionalPainfulDivorceRecommendationsEmotional SupportGoing Through Divorce Author:Alana Stewart
“Someone once said that the most important knowledge is knowledge of our own ignorance. Our schools are depriving millions of students of that kind of knowledge by promoting "self-esteem" and encouraging them to have opinions on things of which they are grossly ignorant, if not misinformed.” IfsKindSaidImportantSelfSchoolEducationOpinionMillionsSelf EsteemStudentsIgnoranceIgnorantEsteemPromotingDepriving Author:Thomas Sowell
“Origin stories are really important to me. I just like that sort of stuff and I feel like it makes a lot of sense to the guys, who they are. If you don't have that stuff, it's kind of a one dimensional version of it.” IfsFeelsKindImportantStoriesGuyStuffVersions Author:Zack Snyder
“'Transformers' was important and defining for me because it taught me about what kinds of movies I want to make and the kind of actor I want to be, and I have a long way to go before I become that actor.” WayWantKindLongImportantActorsTaughtLong WayDefiningLong Way To Go Author:Rachael Taylor
“Well, the most important thing about Islam is that we have to differentiate between two kinds of Islam. The first one is the institution of Islam... second, the culture of Islam.” FirstsWellsKindTwoImportantCultureInstitutionsImportant ThingsIslamDifferentiate Author:Abdurrahman Wahid
“I think a lot of the time, we don't give our family connections the kind of credit they deserve, like how important they are to us and how much they mean to us. I think family makes all the difference.” ThinkingGivingKindMeanImportantDifferencesDeserveConnectionsCreditOur FamilyFamily Connections Author:JoBeth Williams
“It becomes more important to me as time goes on to make every album the best thing I've ever done, so it's a lot of self-imposed pressure that also kind of slows me down a bit.” KindImportantSelfDoneBitsGoes OnPressureAlbumsBest ThingsTime Goes On Author:Al Yankovic
“Little kids grow up discovering the world that's shown to them and then when you become a teenager, it kind of shrinks a little bit. I think when you get past that point, one of the important things is that you see there is more to the world than yourself.” ThinkingWorldKindLittlesImportantKidsPastGrowsBitsGrowing UpLittle BitImportant ThingsTeenagerDiscoveringLittle KidShrinksDiscovering The World Author:Kenneth Lonergan
“If you lose emotion, and you gain it back, you realise that hate and love are very important to distribute properly. So I'm not going to waste any kind of emotion on things that aren't related to me.” IfsKindImportantHateLosesEmotionWasteGainsAnd LoveRelatedRealisingLove And Hate Author:Marilyn Manson
“It was the beginning of film for television. So we had all of these great opportunities. Northwestern was probably the only major film school of its kind at the time that was graduating anybody important.” KindImportantSchoolFilmOpportunityTelevisionMajorsGraduatesGreat OpportunityFilm SchoolNorthwestern Author:Richard Donner
“I'm very lucky to be able to work in print and radio. I'm very lucky to be able to work at a time when finance and economics are really important. And the number of people who tell finance and economic stories in a kind of accessible storytelling way, there's much more demand than there is supply.” PeopleWayKindImportantStoriesAbleNumbersEconomicLuckyDemandEconomicsRadioStorytellingFinancePrint Author:David Plotz
“I think I've always been extremely conscious of the kind of empowerment that comes from realizing that you're in a position to express yourself. And the fact is that - and this is the thing about punk rock - that everyone is in a position to create culture, and that point has never been lost on me. To me, that's an important political aspect of doing this, and trying to live in a way that's about dialogue as opposed to like... spectacle.” ThinkingWayTryingKindImportantFactsPoliticalCultureLostRealizingRocksPositionConsciousAspectEmpowermentDialoguePunkExpress YourselfPunk Rock Author:J. Robbins
“I think that it's important for judges to understand that if a woman is out there trying to raise a family, trying to support her family, and is being treated unfairly, then the court has to stand up, if nobody else will. And that's the kind of judge that I want.” IfsThinkingWantTryingKindImportantSupportJudgingRaisesCourtTreatedTreated Unfairly Author:Barack Obama
“The presence of a body of well-instructed men, who have not to labor for their daily bread, is important to a degree which cannot be overestimated; as all high intellectual work is carried on by them, and on such work material progress of all kinds mainly depends, not to mention other and higher advantages.” MenWellsKindImportantBodyProgressSocietyMaterialsDependsHigherDegreesIntellectualAdvantageLaborBreadAll KindsDaily Bread Book:The Descent of Man Source: The Descent of Man
“I've been in a bad accident on I-95, as well as my friend. Having this kind of organization is important so that change can occur. I'll be around whenever they need me.” NeedsWellsKindImportantMy FriendsOrganizationAccidents Author:Jeremy Miller
“I was doing something that the officials or art commission probably didn't consider important... I was experimenting with different kinds of realistic art, impressionism and the more decorative compositions of different forms of painting, which took away from the earlier photographic realism that I was doing.” KindArtImportantDifferentFormPaintingExperimentsOfficialsRealisticDifferent KindsRealismCompositionImpressionism Author:E. J. Hughes
“The alternate media are becoming important and viable alternatives to playing live. Records, videos, that kind of thing. They're going to start to count for something. Because there's only a limited amount of us-time available to us.” KindImportantRecordsMediaAmountBecomingAvailableVideoAlternatives Author:Jerry Garcia
“As you get older, it's important to have goals. When you're a kid you have them, but other people can set them for you, such as your parents, your school... so, as you get older it's nice to have your own goals, which don't have to do with being more famous, or being in bigger movies, or making more money. Those things kind of corrupt your soul.” PeopleKindImportantSoulKidsSchoolParentGoalNiceBiggerYour SoulMore Money Author:Dolph Lundgren
“There are many things in life that you feel you need such as television, magazines, teachers telling that you have to make money and be successful, but if you have some kind of hope, something to hold onto, then all this will no longer be important. If you can make your next day better than the previous one, then you will see what it really means something to you and not everything that people think you need for your life.” PeopleIfsThinkingNeedsFeelsKindMeanImportantNextSuccessfulTeacherTelevisionMagazinesMaking MoneyBeing SuccessfulThings In LifeNext DayReally Mean Author:Billie Joe Armstrong
“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?” PeopleIfsLooksKindImportantSometimesReligiousCompassionVirtueKeysStubborn Author:Karen Armstrong
“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.” WritingWellsKindImportantWaitingWaterAmountImportant ThingsDryPumpsRefills Book:Ernest Hemingway: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations Source: Ernest Hemingway: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations
“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.” PeopleWayWritingKindImportantJobsPurposeOpportunityEnjoySoundWorstStrangeAwfulSatisfying Author:Patrick Rothfuss
“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.” ThinkingKindImportantGoalDisciplineFocusedHardestObedientPerfectionist Author:Natalie Portman
“The most important thing regardless of my stats or anybody else's stats is the win-loss record. In the locker room people are always telling me, you're doing this and that. I don't really pay that much attention so long as we have a 'W' in that column; that's the kind of thing that makes me really happy. It blows all stats out of the water.” PeopleKindLongImportantWinningWaterLossRoomsPayAttentionRecordsImportant ThingsBlowColumnsReally HappyLockersLocker Room Author:Dhani Jones
“I do kind of aspire to do comedy that appeals to a wide range of audiences and doesn't divide people. I never want to do material that makes people laugh at the expense of making other people feel bad - not to say I'm not guilty of that at times. ... I try and make humor out of the really important issues of the day, like Hot Pockets and elevators and not wanting to get out of bed.” PeopleWantFeelsTryingKindImportantAudienceLaughingIssuesComedyMaterialsBedHotWideGuiltyAppealsRangePocketsExpensesDividesAspireMaking People LaughElevatorsImportant IssuesNot Guilty Author:Jim Gaffigan
“Yoga answers a lot of physical problems such as back pain, stress issues, and any kind of joint problems or illnesses. Even more important is the spiritual questioning that comes up around our middle years. We wonder what do I want to hand down to my children, and how do I want to spend my days on this earth? I think yoga begins to help us look at what our passions and our dreams are. And it helps give us the courage once we find passion to actually pursue that!” ThinkingWantGivingYearsLooksKindChildrenImportantHelpingProblemDreamHandsEarthPainSpiritualPassionAnswersWonderIssuesMiddleYogaStressCome UpIllnessPursueMy ChildrenQuestioningOur DreamsJointsBack Pain Author:Rodney Yee
“A genuine invention in the realm of ideas must first emerge as an abstruse and even partial concept? At first blusha new idea appearstobe verycloseto insanity because to be new it must reverse important basic beliefs and assumptions which, in turn, have been institutionalized and are administered by one or another kind of priesthood with a vested interest in an old idea.” FirstsKindHas BeensImportantIdeasTurnsBeliefInterestConceptsGenuineInventionInsanityRealmsAssumptionReverseNew IdeasPriesthoodVested InterestsOld Ideas Author:Arthur Miller
“I would then say that there are two kinds of feeling. The first is to feel in the sense of concentrating your emotions on something immediately available for your understanding: you make your understanding out of the emotions you have about it. The second is to feel in the sense of being affected without trying to understand: something is felt, you do not know what, and it is more important to feel it than to try to understand it, since once you try to understand it you no longer feel it.” KnowsFeelsTryingFirstsKindTwoImportantFeelingsFeltUnderstandingEmotionAvailableAffectedStanding OutConcentratingUnderstanding You Author:Laura Riding
“The director is the most important because, ultimately, as an actor, when you watch a movie, it looks like an actor is giving a performance, and they kind of are. But, what's actually happening is that an actor has given a bunch of ingredients over to a director, who then constructs a performance. That's movie-making.” GivingLooksKindImportantActorsGivenWatchesDirectorsHappeningsPerformancesBunchIngredientsConstructsMovie Making Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt
“People confuse friendship and relaxation. It's incredibly important to be relaxed - you don't have a chance if you're not relaxed. So I try very hard to relax any kind of tension. But friendship is different.” PeopleIfsTryingKindImportantDifferentHardChanceTensionRelaxRelaxationRelaxed Author:Bill Murray
“It's easy to be a bad ass, it's easy to act like a bad ass, easy to act like a tough guy, it's easy to be a diva, and it's easy to be self absorbed. The list goes on and on but to me, I always just find it more important to be nice and kind.” KindImportantSelfGuyEasyNiceGoes OnToughListsAssBeing NiceBad AssSelf AbsorbedTough Guy Author:Dwayne Johnson
“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.” ThinkingKindArtImportantHardProblemHappensLanguageAnswersPaintingPaintHistorianArt HistoryImportant Questions Book:What Painting Is Source: What Painting Is
“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.” IfsHumansKindImportantWrittenShareProtectGrantedUnfortunateDocumentsDnaHuman RelationsHuman RelationshipsMistrust 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.” ThinkingWayWantKindImportantLife IsCausesSidesMinutesMarkImportant ThingsEmbraceNotionPopsLife ChangingShakesVersusMoldMessed UpPoke Author:Steve Jobs
“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.” IfsKindImportantEndsEnoughBeautifulFoundFatherDiscoveryImportant ThingsGloriousPursued Author:Richard P. Feynman
“One of the many, many things I hate about war is how it trivializes the personal. The big themes, the broad sweep, the emergency measures, the national identity, all the things that a particular kind of man with a particular kind of power urge adores, these are the things that become important. War gives the lie to the personal, drowns it in meetings, alarms, sacrifices. The personal is only allowed to return as death.” MenGivingKindImportantWarBigsLyingHateSacrificeIdentityParticularHe ManReturnI HateMeetingsThemeUrgesBroadsAdoreEmergenciesAlarmsNational IdentityThings I Hate Author:Jeanette Winterson