Important Quotes - Page 387

The important thing is how we know, not what or how much.

There are few things it is more important to learn than how to live on little and be therewith content: for the less we need what is without, the more leisure have we to live within.

When you're animating a music video, you have to animate to some set music. You're somewhat restricted by that, but you're also inspired by that. The animation becomes secondary if you're animating to a music video. Either way, it's important. Music has really helped my animation, that's for sure.

As a matter of ethics - our broader social life needs to be constrained by law and other devices - resolving at the societal level matters that should not be left for individual ethical negotiation. What is important - in the end - is that we are enabled to flourish in ways that acknowledge our dignity.

Immediately after the September 11th attacks, I volunteered to go to Afghanistan in any capacity that the CIA wanted me. Four months passed before I was able to go overseas, just because my skill set was not one that was important in those really early days after the attacks.

The big issue is this incremental whittling away of our constitutional rights, our most important constitutional rights, including freedom of speech. This is something that we really have to put our foot down on, and we have to fight it at every step of the way.

Agreeable as it is to know where one is proceeding, it is far more important to know where one has arrived.

Very important functions can be performed very wastefully and often are.

While it will be desirable to achieve planned results, it will be even more important to avoid unplanned disasters.

If people are hungry, ill-clad, unsheltered or diseased, nothing is so important as to remedy their condition.

It is a well known and very important fact that America's founding fathers did not like taxation without representation. It is a lesser known and equally important fact that they did not much like taxation with representation.

The heart is important at any age, I'm afraid.

Manufacturing is still very important to us, but we are much more diversified state. And furthermore, anybody that says the steel mills are coming back to Youngstown is not telling the truth. They're not coming back. You could have some aspects of advanced manufacturing appear.

The capacity to creatively improvise is an important factor that differentiates successful companies - or teams - from those that are not successful.

We enjoy a considerable net inflow of capital and I am sure that a condition of its coming, and staying, is that it is free to flow out again. It is also important for Hong Kong's status as a financial centre that there should be a maximum freedom of capital movement both in and out.

Being wrong about important things is exhausting.

The main character and the most important character are not always the same person - you have to know the difference.

It is an important distinction to note that she looked not only as if she had taken good care of herself, but that she had good reason to have done so. (...) She looked to be in such total possession of her life that only the most confident men could continue to look at her if she looked back at them. Even in bus stations, she was a woman who was stared at only until she looked back.

[Pope Francis] has reminded us that the way we live our lives is the most important expression of our Catholic identity.

Often I don't read novels. The script is more important, that's the springboard to your imagination, really. Peripheral information can be interesting to read but you can't use it when it's not in the script.

There were a lot of things in it that were important at the time to me. Cutter's Way movie was very relevant. And I wanted Cutter to succeed as a vet, as a guy coming back from 'Nam, because there were so many guys like that. And there were so many other movies at the time, like Apocalypse Now, Coming Home, and The Deer Hunter, that it was really important that the movie be believable, that I come across a pissed-off vet who'd been there and comes home angry.

I have come to know that we learn much more of what is important when we concentrate on helping others than when we concentrate on our own challenges.

Every play is so important. It's a record of what life was like at the time you wrote that play or that book.

In the end, what you do isn't going to be nearly as interesting or important as who you do it with.

We look back to the most important moment in our history, and that becomes the dividing line between what we were and what we are now.