The secret of life does not lie in its chemical basis . . . Life succeeds precisely because it evades chemical imperatives. — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
There is only one categorical imperative in golf, and that is to hit the ball. There are no minor absolutes. — Charles Walter Simpson Copy Share Image
Society cannot do without cultivated men. As soon as the first wants are satisfied, the higher wants become imperative. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The most altruistic and sustainable philosophies fail before the brute brain stem imperative of self-interest. — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
Action isn't a burden to be hoisted up and lugged around on our shoulders. It is something we are. The work we… — Joanna Macy Copy Share Image
To act without rapacity, to use knowledge with wisdom, to respect interdependence, to operate without hubris and greed are not simply moral… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Copy Share Image
Physical fitness is the first requisite of happiness. In order to achieve happiness, it is imperative to gain mastery of your body.… — Joseph Pilates Copy Share Image
The most striking fault in work by young or beginning novelists, submitted for criticism, is irrelevance--due either to infatuation or indecision. To… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
I'm very fatalistic about life. Whatever happens, happens. The imperative for me is that I do my contribution for my people, for… — Lav Diaz Copy Share Image
The essence of globalization is a subordination of human rights, of labor rights, consumer, environmental rights, democracy rights, to the imperatives of… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
Society doesn't need newspapers. What we need is journalism...When we shift our attention from 'save newspapers' to 'save society,' the imperative changes… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
If we are to remain mission focused, as we must be if we are to be relevant in an uncertain age, the… — Frances Hesselbein Copy Share Image
Today it's fashionable to talk about the New Economy, or the Information Economy, or the Knowledge Economy. But when I think about… — Arthur Levitt Jr Copy Share Image
There is a false moral imperative that seems to be all-around us that treatment of depression, the medications and so on, are… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
We need to invest in clean energy technologies. We need to rush them to market while rebuilding our energy networks intelligently. And… — Jayni Chase Copy Share Image
We see political leaders replacing moral imperatives with a Southern strategy. We have seen all too clearly that there are men-now in… — John Lindsay Copy Share Image
There really is no foolproof or even optimal way of dealing with White House emissaries who tell whoppers on live television. On… — Erik Wemple Copy Share Image
The computer revolution is a revolution in the way we think and in the way we express what we think. The essence… — Hal Abelson Copy Share Image
Without reverence we [people] will gradually descend into ecocide. In the degree that the imperatives of the market - the temple of… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
To stimulate optimal size and strength increases, it's imperative that you regularly attempt the momentarily impossible. For example, if you can curl… — Mike Mentzer Copy Share Image
Each individual work serves as an expression of our most personal state of mind at that particular moment and of the inescapable,… — Lyonel Feininger Copy Share Image
Poetry is an ethic. By ethic I mean a secret code of behavior, a discipline constructed and conducted according to the capabilities… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
We need each other, deeper than anyone ever dares to admit even to themselves. I think it is a genetic imperative that… — Patch Adams Copy Share Image
We need to send Barack Obama back to Chicago - I'd like to send him back to Kenya, back to Indonesia. But… — Rafael Cruz Copy Share Image
It is absolutely imperative at the outset that you come to terms with this simple yet life-changing truth: God is for you.… — Mark Batterson Copy Share Image
It is imperative that we recognize that whatever has happened to us has happened to others. They have coped and so must… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
It is imperative that we do not fear challenges that we have attracted to promote our growth. Every obstacle we encounter is… — Dannion Brinkley Copy Share Image
It is imperative that Christians be like Jesus, by living freely within the culture as missionaries who are as faithful to the… — Mark Driscoll Copy Share Image
It's every actor's dream to be seen on the big screen. Having said that, it's also imperative to better yourself as an… — Indraneel Bhattacharya Copy Share Image
Nothing in our time is more interesting than the erstwhile capitalist corporation and the erstwhile Communist firm should, under the imperatives of… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
It was equally imperative that this chain of reactions should always tend to dampen, to die out. It must not build up,… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Modernity has reneged on its promise to young people to provide social mobility, stability and collective security. Long-term planning and the institutional… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The early ascendancy of leisure as a means of reputability is traceable to the archaic distinction between noble and ignoble employments. Leisure… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
To Jane Jacob’s three traditional urban values of civic space, human scale and diversity, the current environmental imperative adds two more: conservation… — Peter Calthorpe Copy Share Image
I think given all the different imperatives - getting energy to Africa, security of energy, climate change, that we should be spending… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The message that "we can't take in everybody" is imperative. At the same time, the decision as to who has a right… — Paolo Gentiloni Copy Share Image
Overall, the work of rebuilding and transforming government for the digital age is only just beginning. Governments remain organized according to political… — Andrew Leigh Copy Share Image
Before you place your financial future in the hands of an adviser, it's imperative that you find someone who not only makes… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
It is imperative when flying coach that you restrain any tendency toward the vividly imaginative. For although it may momentarily appear to… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
A key difference between Christianity and Islam is that Muslims believe that the Koran contains verbatim the word of God; it is… — Geert Wilders Copy Share Image
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