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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

“Life's impermanence, I realized, is what makes every single day so precious. It's what shapes our time here. It's what makes it so important than not a single moment be wasted.”

Important Moments Shapes I Realized Our Time Impermanence Single Mom

Book:The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates

Source: The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates

“I had no plan for that year but it wound up being one of the most important years of my football coaching career. It hit me along the way that I needed to really get at the heart of what's really true to myself. And then I was able to mold it and shape it in the years at SC to become the approach and the concept and the culture that we try to create here at Seattle.”

“in most important ways, leaders of the future will need the traits and capabilities of leaders throughout history: an eye for change and a steadying hand to provide both vision and reassurance that change can be mastered, a voice that articulates the will of the group and shapes it to constructive ends, and an ability to inspire by force of personality while making others feel empowered to increase and use their own abilities.”

“Language both reflects and shapes society. Culture shapes language and then language shapes culture. Little wonder that the words we use to talk to each other, and about each other, are the most important words in our language: they tell us who I am, they tell us who you are, they tell us who 'they' are.”

Littles Important Use Culture Language Wonder Shapes Who You Are Who I Am Important Words

Book:Unspinning the Spin: The Women's Media Center Guide to Fair and Accurate Language

Source: Unspinning the Spin: The Women's Media Center Guide to Fair and Accurate Language

“The Watch is a powerful tale, courageous both in concept and creation: an ancient tale made modern, passed through different narrators in extraordinary shape-shifting prose that makes this not just an important novel, but a remarkable read.”

Made Important Different Powerful Watches Novel Modern Creation Shapes Concepts Extraordinary Ancient Tales Prose Remarkable Courageous Shifting Narrators

Author:Aminatta Forna

“She was a wicked thing sometimes. All full of want. As if the shape of the world depended on her mood. As if she were important.”

Ifs World Want Important Sometimes Shapes Ego Mood Wicked Wicked Things

Book:The Slow Regard of Silent Things

Source: The Slow Regard of Silent Things

“It is so important to remember that, as we travel through life, there will be so many events which we can`t control. These are things that seemingly alter our lives forever or become barriers for living a life of fulfillment. It`s important to remember that the ultimate experience of life is not to be controlled by events. We all have difficult events in our lives - the loss of family members, economics, stress, litigation, government interference in our businesses, health challenges. Remember that it is not the events that shape our lives, but, rather, the meaning we attach to them.”

“I think school is very important and I personally had a great experience at North Carolina, which helped shape me as a basketball player and a person. Every once in a while, you will have a player who can make the jump and have an immediate impact on the professional level, but most of the players who come out would absolutely benefit from going to college.”

Thinking Persons Important School Levels Player College Shapes Basketball Benefits Impact Carolina Basketball Player North Carolina Great Experiences Going To College

Author:Michael Jordan

“The most important thing in your life is your health and your body. You can have all the education and you can have millions of dollars in the bank, but if you've got headaches every day, if you're fat and you are out of shape - what good is your money? Your health account and your bank account, build them both up!”

Ifs Important Body Life Is Millions Shapes Accounts Important Things Dollars Your Body Fats Headache Bank Accounts Important Things In Your Life

Author:Jack LaLanne

“If you get the characters right you've done sometimes nearly half the work. I sometimes find I get the characters right then the characters will often help me write the book - not what they look like that's not very important - what people look like is not about their character. You have to describe the shape they leave in the world, how they react to things, what effect they have on people and you do that by telling their story.”

People Ifs World Writing Looks Important Book Sometimes Done Character Helping Stories Half Effects Shapes Help Me

Author:Terry Pratchett

“It's important to look ahead, I think, to shape your stuff for - again - effect. Because it's just so easy to write long, flowy sentences, get lost in them. The hard part's making them matter, making yourself make them matter.”

Thinking Writing Looks Long Important Matter Hard Lost Easy Stuff Effects Shapes Sentences

Author:Stephen Graham Jones

“I don't want people to know anything about me, because that's not important. I'm more interested in the me that takes shape through the characters.”

People Knows Want Important Character Shapes

Author:Willem Dafoe

“Psychologically speaking, it's very important to be in good shape. I work in a sport that requires you to react quickly and be in excellent shape. Besides, things don't get easier as you get older.”

Important Sports Easier Shapes Excellent

Author:Michael Schumacher

“All relationships change the brain - but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail us, altering the delicate circuits that shape memories, emotions and that ultimate souvenir, the self.”

Important Self Memories Emotion Brain Failing Shapes Ultimate Intimate Delicate Circuits Souvenirs

Author:Diane Ackerman

“As the most social apes, we inhabit a mirror-world in which every important relationship, whether with spouse, friend or child, shapes the brain, which in turn shapes our relationships.”

World Children Important Turns Social Brain Shapes Mirrors Our Relationship Spouse Apes Important Relationships

Author:Diane Ackerman

“I knew I wanted to work in Cinemascope because I find it much more beautiful just in terms of the shape of the screen, the wider image, and it's also less like television, which is important.”

Important Wanted Beautiful Term Television Shapes Screens

Author:Victor Levin

“The most important thing about global warming is this. Whether humans are responsible for the bulk of climate change is going to be left to the scientists, but it's all of our responsibility to leave this planet in better shape for the future generations than we found it.”

Humans Important Found Left Responsibility Generations Planets Shapes Scientist Responsible Important Things Climate Environmental Climate Change Global Warming Future Generation Changing Environment Environmental Responsibility

Author:Mike Huckabee

“The decision to believe is the most important choice we ever make. It shapes all our other decisions.”

Believe Important Choices Decision Shapes Important Choices

Author:L. Whitney Clayton

“What we choose to love is very important for what we love leads our eyes, ears, and hearts on a pilgrimage that shapes the texture of our lives.”

Heart Important Eye Love Is Our Lives Shapes Ears Texture Pilgrimage

Book:How Then, Shall We Live?: Four Simple Questions That Reveal the Beauty and Meaning of Our Lives

Source: How Then, Shall We Live?: Four Simple Questions That Reveal the Beauty and Meaning of Our Lives

“Yet each of us also carries another portrait with us, a picture far more important than any in our wallet. Psychologists have a name for it. They call that mental picture of ourselves, our self-image. ... there's always the person whose self-image is bent all out of shape, like a photo carried too long in a wallet.The good news of the tremendous worth we have in God's eyes can light up our inner self-portrait.”

Persons Long Important Self Light Eye Names Shapes News Carrie Portraits Bent Good News Inner Self Psychologist Light Up Wallets Self Portrait

Author:Josh McDowell

“The most important thing for staying in shape is having fun with your workouts.”

Important Fun Shapes Important Things Having Fun Staying Workout

Author:Erin Heatherton

“The transmission of values from one generation to the next is the single most important task of the society. ...What am I doing to shape the values of the society?”

Important Values Next Generations Shapes Tasks Transmission

Author:John Ashcroft

“I think that's a really important role that people sometimes forget about, especially with all these newspaper shutting down and having trouble, where are all these stories going to go? I think you have something really great with all those stories waiting to be told, but I just don't know how it shapes up exactly. I don't think there are going to be a lot of newspaper reporters sitting around not writing.”

“I want to encourage more young women to get involved in coding, because it's important for them to be able to help shape the future, and coding is the future.”

Want Important Helping Able Young Involved Shapes Young Women Get Involved

Author:Karlie Kloss

“The shape is the most important to me because it is what really matters and what's really missing in the market. Anything else is easier.”

Important Matter Missing Easier Shapes

Author:Beth Ditto

“My children have made me a better man, which is - in the end, that's probably more important than two more comedy specials or being in better shape.”

Men Children Made Two Important Ends Comedy Shapes My Children Better Man

Author:Jim Gaffigan

“I get letters from kids from all over the country. I always try to answer them because there were people I looked up to in my youth and just wanted to be in contact with. It's also important to realize that you find your role models in a lot of different places. I've never believed that your role models have to look like you. You can find them in all sort of colors, shapes and sizes.”

People Trying Looks Important Different Country Kids Wanted Realizing Answers Roles Youth Color Like You Shapes Models Letters Size Contact Role Models Different Place

Author:Condoleezza Rice

“It's important to know yourself well, in order to create your own style of fashion to suit your own body shape.”

Knows Wells Important Body Order Fashion Style Shapes Suits Know Yourself Body Shapes

Author:Sonia Rykiel

“It's important to recognize the vital role that the financial markets play in our economy and that so many of you are contributing to. To function effectively those markets and the men and women who shape them have to command trust and confidence, because we all rely on the market's transparency and integrity. So even if it may not be 100 percent true, if the perception is that somehow the game is rigged, that should be a problem for all of us, and we have to be willing to make that absolutely clear.”

“It's important to meet with the people who can shape future events, and who might be causing a current problem. And to ignore them means that the problem will continue.”

People Mean Important Problem Might Events Shapes Currents Future Events

Author:Jimmy Carter

“I used to say, 'There is a God-shaped hole in me.' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important.”

Long Important God Used Shapes Long Time Absence Holes Stressed Stressed Out

Author:Salman Rushdie

“People used to laugh that academics would study Disney movies. There's nothing more important for academics to study, because they shape the minds of our children possibly more than any single thing.”

People Mind Children Important Used Laughing Study Shapes Our Children

Author:Joss Whedon

“Zest. Gusto. How rarely one hears these words used. How rarely do we see people living, or for that matter, creating, by them. Yet if I were asked to name the most important items in a writer's make-up, the things that shape his material and rush him along the road he wants to go. I would only warn him to look to his zest, see to his gusto.”

People Ifs Want Looks Important Matter Used Names Materials Shapes Creating Items Zest Gusto

Author:Ray Bradbury

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