Vital Quotes - page 4

It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen. (John Wooden)
I think it's a shame that something as creative and vital to the nature of the human species as story-telling is largely controlled by the soulless cretins known as publishers. View quote
Piers Anthony
It is apparently vital that we should be in the dark about ourselves not to be clear about our intentions, fears, and hopes. There is a stubborn effort in us to set up a compact screen between consciousness and the self. View quote
Eric Hoffer
Perfidy and brutal force thwarted opportunities for calling President Wilson's Arbitral Award to life. Nevertheless, its significance is not to be underestimated: through that decision the aspiration of the Armenian people for the lost Motherland had obtained vital and legal force. View quote
Serzh Sargsyan
In the judgment of design engineers, the ordinary means of communicating with a computer are entirely inadequate. [...] Graphical communication in some form or other is of vital importance in engineering as that subject is now conducted; we must either provide the capability in our computer systems, or take on the impossible task of training up a future race of engineers conditioned to think in a different way. View quote
Maurice Wilkes
By and large, the answer to the question "How do large institutions survive?" is "They don't!" The vast majority of large modern-day institutions - some of them extremely vital to the functioning of our complex civilization - simply fail to exist in the first place. View quote
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Without communities, no infant will be sufficiently socialized... and that occurs in the first four or five years of life. ...The first two years are important. ...of vital importance. He has to be loved, above all he has to be talked to. View quote
Carroll Quigley
To rejoice in life, to find the world beautiful and delightful to live in, was a mark of the Greek spirit which distinguished it from all that had gone before. It is a vital distinction. View quote
Edith Hamilton
I wonder whether any other generation has seen such astounding revolutions of data and values as those through which we have lived. Scarcely anything material or established which I was brought up to believe was permanent and vital, has lasted. Everything I was sure or taught to be sure was impossible, has happened. View quote
Winston Churchill
The secondary Imagination I consider as an echo of the former, co-existing with the conscious will, yet still as identical with the primary in the kind of its agency, and differing only in degree, and in the mode of its operation. It dissolves, diffuses, dissipates, in order to recreate: or where this process is rendered impossible, yet still at all events it struggles to idealize and to unify. It is essentially vital, even as all objects (as objects) are essentially fixed and dead. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Every seemingly arbitrary destructive action is a reaction of the organism to the frustration of a gratification of a vital need, especially of a sexual need. (Wilhelm Reich)
The vital energies regulate themselves naturally without compulsive duty or compulsive morality - both of which are sure signs of existing antisocial impulses. View quote
Wilhelm Reich
Besides a mathematical inclination, an exceptionally good mastery of one's native tongue is the most vital asset of a competent programmer. View quote
Edsger W. Dijkstra
The effective exploitation of his powers of abstraction must be regarded as one of the most vital activities of a competent programmer. View quote
Edsger W. Dijkstra
In my view, wholesome pleasure, sport, and recreation are as vital to this nation as productive work and should have a large share in the national budget. View quote
Walt Disney
Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread. A civilization which destroys what little remains of the wild, the spare, the original, is cutting itself off from its origins and betraying the principle of civilization itself. View quote
Edward Abbey
In this day and age if you've got the technology then it's vital to use that technology to track people down. The number on the database should be the maximum number you can get. View quote
Tony Blair
We must proceed with our own energy development. Exploitation of domestic petroleum and natural gas potentialities, along with nuclear, solar, geothermal, and non-fossil fuels is vital. We will never again permit any foreign nation to have Uncle Sam over a barrel of oil. View quote
Gerald Ford
Never till this day Did life disturb the dense eternity Of joyless quiet; never skylark's song, Or storm-bird's prescient scream, or eaglet's cry, Made vital the gross fog. The very light Is but an alien that can find no welcome. View quote
Hartley Coleridge
It's vital that the monarchy keeps in touch with the people. It's what I try and do. View quote
Diana, Princess of Wales
There is danger that totalitarian governments, not subject to vigorous popular debate, will underestimate the will and unity of democratic societies where vital interests are concerned. (John F. Kennedy)
Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Cleaning is considered a vital part of the training process in all traditional Japanese disciplines and is a required practice for any novice. It is accorded spiritual significance. Purifying an unclean place is believed to purify the mind. View quote
Mineko Iwasaki
Adaptation is a vital part of a response to the challenge of climate change. View quote
Nicholas Stern
In Western Australia they don't even know how to make that vital piece of sailing-boat equipment, the gin and tonic. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke