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"There are plenty of dead scientists I admire, but I can't think of any living ones. This is probably because it is only in retrospect that one can see who made the important contributions."
"I was lucky to wander into evolutionary theory, one of the most exciting and important of all scientific fields. I had never heard of it when I started at a rather tender age; I was simply awed by dinosaurs. I thought paleontologists spent their lives digging up bones and putting them together, never venturing beyond the momentous issue of what connects to what. Then I discovered evolutionary theory. Ever since then, the duality of natural history-richness in particularities and potential union in underlying explanation-has propelled me."
"The important question has nothing to do with whether the talk in your story is sacred or profane; the only question is how it rings on the page and in your ear. If you expect it to ring true, then you must talk yourself. Even more important, you must shut up and listen to others talk."
"The story is the only thing that's important. Everything else will take care of itself. It's like what bowlers say. You hear writers talk about character or theme or mood or mode or tense or person. But bowlers say, if you make the spares, the strikes will take care of themselves. If you can tell a story, everything else becomes possible. But without story, nothing is possible, because nobody wants to hear about your sensitive characters if there's nothing happening in the story. And the same is true with mood. Story is the only thing that's important."
"The book is not the important part. The book is the delivery system. The important part is the story and the talent."
"We have been in contact with our customers, we've been actively talking to them. Our customers are important to us, so we decided to compensate appliance repairs."
"I don't know whether it is important to study science at a young age, though current thinking emphasises the need."
"Having a child is arguably the most important thing you do in life."
"I'm a traditional Jew with an orthodox background, and it informs much of my approach to science. Of course I think it's very important that if you have those sorts of backgrounds you don't impose them on other people as a clinician, of course."
"I really love having smart and important conversations on TV."
"Having talent is fantastic. Having confidence is even more important."
"Who you are becoming is more important than what you are accumulating."
"Your life is too important to give it to distractions."
"To arrive at a place called Mastery, you must commit to daily and rigorous practice. Enjoy practising your craft for its own sake without turning your attention to your ultimate destination. Understand, once and for all, that the journey is as important as the destination."
"Sometimes countries have to go through periods of crises and then rediscover why it's important to be bipartisan and compromise and if you haven't had a deep crisis for a while, you feel like you have the luxury of going on your own way."
"I can understand the drug thing. So they feel that it's more important to take the drugs than to do a good show for the people."
"As a human being on Earth, you can't imagine friendship not being important in some other solar system or some other planet, or some other context of beings that are conscious. We even see it in animals. It is important for people on Earth to reach out or reach into someone."
"Getting the first win is very important. I think that takes a lot of pressure off going forward."
"It's certainly important to include text beside documentary photographs. Furthermore, it's important to include text in a way that's useful and accessible."
"One of the most important lessons she'd recently learned was that looking strong and confident was sometimes all the people required of you."
