Top 26 Quotes About Remembering What's Important
#1. The reality of life is chaos; the fantasy of man is order. (..) The world of art, the world of games, the world of politics, so many worlds men make for themselves, are in a very fundamental way fantastic.
Eric S. Rabkin
#2. When it comes to our children, we do not have the luxury of despair. If we rise, they will rise with us every time, no matter how many times we've fallen before. I hope you will remember that the next time you fail ... Remembering that is the most important work as parents we can possibly do.
Cheryl Strayed
#3. We're terrible at so many things - remembering important dates, college, making friends - but the one thing we've always been halfway decent at is being together.
Krista Ritchie
#4. In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important as remembering.
William James
#5. Few people think more than two or three times a year," Shaw reportedly said. "I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
Steven D. Levitt
#6. Our past shapes our future whether we realize it or not. Remembering well is as important as doing well." -- Jonita Mullins
Jonita Mullins
#7. I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet.
Joan Jett
#9. History is made not simply with events, but by remembering those events, a double drumbeat like a heartbeat. History can be written not only with books but with ceremonies. Yet a real event read about in a newspaper is not always more important than a fictional one in a novel or play or poem.
Christopher Bram
#10. Forgiving is not forgetting; its actually remembering
remembering and not using your right to hit back. Its a second chance for a new beginning. And the remembering part is particularly important. Especially if you dont want to repeat what happened.
Desmond Tutu
#11. After mature consideration it was unanimously agreed, that, to prevent as much as possible their attempting to return and molest the settlers that may be set down on their lands, a sufficient number of vessels should be hired with all possible expedition for that purpose.
Charles Lawrence
#12. It is worth remembering one of the important lessons of the Buck story: a small number of zealous advocates can have an impact on the law that defies both science and conventional wisdom.
Paul A. Lombardo
#13. Many feel the terms "Sabbath day" and "play day" are synonymous ... But I ... know that remembering to keep the Sabbath day holy is one of the most important commandments we can observe in preparing us to be the recipients of the whisperings of the Spirit.
H. David Burton
#14. One has to live in the present. Whatever is past is gone beyond recall; whatever is future remains beyond one's reach, until it becomes present. Remembering the past and giving thought to the future are important, but only to the extent that they help one deal with the present.
S. N. Goenka
#15. Remembering the fallen was important, but working to protect the living was more so.
Brandon Sanderson
#16. Every person's remembering will be different. That engagement is important, I think.
Christian Marclay
#17. Dinner and a movie? Forget that. I'd rather have a picnic and a waterfall.
Amanda Grace
#18. It is well worth remembering that the customer is the most important factor in any business. If you don't think so, try getting along without him for a while.
Napoleon Hill
#19. We're visual creatures. Probably, when we were hunter gatherers ... that was the kind of thing that mattered. And remembering, say, phone numbers was, like, not that important when you're hunting down a mastodon or whatever.
Joshua Foer
#20. I've had several work addiction cycles in my life. Those were situations when important tasks were assigned to me. I took into account that people should remember me based on what I did rather than based on what I failed to do.
Eraldo Banovac
#21. The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with. It felt like losing your co-rememberer meant losing the memory itself, as if the things we'd done were less real and important than they had been hours before.
John Green
#22. It is worth looking closer and remembering something Marcos Alvito told me: Statistics are like a bikini. They show so much, but they hide the most important parts.
Dave Zirin
#23. Logos and branding are so important. In a big part of the world, people cannot read French or English
but are great in remembering signs
Karl Lagerfeld
#24. The problem of forgetting might not torment us so much if we could only convince ourselves that remembering isn't important. Perhaps the things we learn - words, dates, formulas, historical and biographical details - don't really matter. Facts can be looked up. That's what the Internet is for.
Gary Wolf
#25. You have not forgotten to remember;
You have remembered to forget.
But people can forget to forget. That is just as important as remembering to remember - and generally more practical.
Idries Shah
#26. Forgetting used to be a failing, a waste, a sign of senility. Now it takes effort. It may be as important as remembering.
James Gleick
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