The most altruistic and sustainable philosophies fail before the brute brain stem imperative of self-interest. — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
The truth is that finding happiness in what you do every day is so imperative. — Gary Vaynerchuk Copy Share Image
It is imperative to base your life on yourself, to take responsibility for your own happiness. — Josei Toda Copy Share Image
The secret of life does not lie in its chemical basis . . . Life succeeds precisely because it evades chemical imperatives. — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
Globalization is now no longer an objective but an imperative, as markets open and geographic barriers become increasingly blurred and even irrelevant. — Jack Welch 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 truth is very important. No matter how negative it is, it is imperative that you learn the truth, not necessarily the… — Maya Angelou 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
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
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
Communication between band-mates is imperative. Communication is the key to any healthy relationship. If I need to be checked, I expect to… — Phil Anselmo 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 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
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
When neither high purpose nor the categorical imperatives of religion will do, the only argument against suicide is life itself. You pause… — Al Alvarez Copy Share Image
The greater the importance to safeguarding the community from incitements to the overthrow of our institutions by force and violence, the more… — Charles Evans Hughes Copy Share Image
Essential to the attainment of these national goals is the moral imperative of ensuring social justice and respect for human dignity. The… — Pope Francis 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I think that indigenous women's wisdom is crucial. So much of the care of the Earth has come from the mothers. I… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
That a good fit between parental handling and child temperament is vital to help children adapt to the imperatives of their society… — Stella Chess Copy Share Image
I've discussed this with many doctors, and it is just so imperative that people learn how to properly cook food to get… — Wolfgang Puck Copy Share Image
To play is to listen to the imperative inner force that wants to take form and be acted out without reason. It… — Michele Cassou Copy Share Image
There's an imperative to make sure you distinguish fiction from the fact, because if the fact is doing the work, why did… — Fred D'Aguiar Copy Share Image
The war-function has grasped us so far; but the constructive interests may some day seem no less imperative, and impose on the… — William James 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
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
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
It is imperative for many branches of fundamentalist christianity to constantly feel conspired against...so they cite humanist manifestos and theosophical societies and… — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
We cannot discover ourselves without first discovering the universe, the earth, and the imperatives of our own being. Each of these has… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
The real secret is to build an organization that isn't afraid to make changes while it is still successful, before change becomes… — Lewis E. Platt Copy Share Image
