- Nov 07, 2020
Important Quotes
On priorities and knowing what really matters.
These quotes weigh what matters most across very different fields: holding an alliance together ahead of any single military strike, and staying musically open instead of narrowing yourself to one sound. For more, see our Life quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Friend
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- Nov 07, 2020
As the most social apes, we inhabit a mirror-world in which every important relationship, whether with spouse, friend or child, shapes the brain, which in turn shapes our relationships.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's important to be honest and truthful with your constituents. At the end of the day, we represent them.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
One thing that's really important for me to be creatively motivated is to find an angle. Some people refer to that as a concept, which it is, in a sense, but not overtly. It's just something I need to focus and hone in on, and the trajectory of what might be seen as a 'concept' gives me creative momentum.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The number of people who read a poem is not as important as how the poem affects those who read it.
- Nice
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's important to be sort of nice.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It will always be important that people continue to push on the system from the outside. It will also be important that people make the changes that we know are necessary on the inside.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
What college is all about is some kind of 4-year game about who is going to end up with the highest grades. And I don't mean to say that academic achievement isn't important. But it is, after all, a means to an end.
- Foreign Languages
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- Nov 07, 2020
Teaching methods are often inadequate for the goals faculties are trying to achieve. Important courses such as expository writing and foreign languages are frequently taught by untrained graduate students and underpaid adjunct teachers.
- Freshmen
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although professors regard improving critical thinking as the most important goal of college, tests reveal that seniors who began their studies with average critical thinking skills have progressed only from the 50th percentile of entering freshmen to about the 69th percentile.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's very important to emphasize that there are many, many different educational institutions in what we call higher education, and they educate an enormous diversity of students. I think all of those institutions have to define particular roles for themselves; they can't do everything at once.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Athletics keeps us healthy, gets us up and running around. It also gives you an opportunity to meet a lot of different people, which is very important.
- Level
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's really important that we have a level playing field for global trade.
- Mission
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- Nov 07, 2020