#vital

The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#adventure #custodians #die #done #fervor

Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#class #few #lands #other #other lands

A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

#argument #common #common good #component #credible

It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen. ↗

— John Wooden

#big things #details #happen #little #little things

The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved. ↗

— Emma Goldman

#demand #equal #equal rights #every #fair

They look at what's more important, like subjects to help with the SAT's, etc. They miss that music is vital. It offers a break from a stressful day of science and math and it's different. ↗

— Justin Guarini

#day #different #etc #help #important

A strong life force can be seen in physical vitality, courage, competent judgment, self-mastery, sexual vigor, and the realization of each person’s unique talents and purpose in life. To maintain a powerful life force, forget yourself, forget about living and dying, and bring your full attention into this moment. ↗

— H.E. Davey

#courage #judgment #ki #life-force #meditation

All those trucks and barges that carry our goods to port are vital connections to the only force which can balance our trade deficit: export. We must keep doing what we do best if we are going to get America out of the red. ↗

— Jo Ann Emerson

#balance #best #carry #connections #deficit

Life: a constellation of vital phenomena—organization, irritability, movement, growth, reproduction, adaptation. ↗

— Anthony Marra

#definition #life #phenomena #vital #life

To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality. ↗

— John Ruskin

#expression #imperfection #paralysis #vitality #expression