#import

What's important is to remain human. ↗

— Katerina Gogou

#importance #life #life

Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#climb #does #epoch #i #i can

I think it's important that people think about what they are doing and that includes what they are eating. I am 61 now and attitudes towards drinking and driving have changed radically since I was a student. People change their notion of what is responsible. They will increasingly ask about the carbon content of their food. ↗

— Nicholas Stern

#am #ask #attitudes #carbon #change

To the Kenyan families, school doesn't really matter because none of them are going on to college. Almost all of drop out of school and so, they're spending their time learning things that are important to them. ↗

— Robert Sternberg

#because #college #drop #families #going

* The essential respect is the one in your own heart for yourself. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#respect #sincere #respect

A small brazier glowed near the monk's left hand. On a lecturn before him lay pots of paints, brushes, a quill, a pen, a knife, a sizeable handbell, the tooth of some animal--and a piece of parchment. It was the parchment that commanded the room. Until he saw it Len didn't realize how starved he had been of colour. Villagers dressed in various shades of brown and beige, like their furniture and fields and now, here, was an irruption of the rainbow, as if a charm of goldfinches had landed on the manuscript and been transfixed. ↗

— Diana Norman

#interesting #medieval-life #the-importance-of-art #art

Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it. ↗

— Yves Saint Laurent

#i #i have learned #important #learned #over

I'd rather make a show 100 people need to see, than a show that 1000 people want to see. ↗

— Joss Whedon

#quality #virtue #virtue

Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#best #bottom #every #how #learns

The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#boredom #controlled #creative #creative man #directed