Quotes About Vital

The most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she really loves is to learn it by heart. Not by brain, by heart; the expression is vital.

I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.

Whether one believes or not, religion is as real a force in the life of the world as economics or politics, and it demands fair-minded attention. Even if you think the entire religious enterprise is at best misguided and at worst counterproductive, it remains vital, inspiring great good and, sometimes, great evil.

Seek the insignificant small but essential qualities, essential to life.

If you should happen to settle a minister who knows nothing truly of Christ and the way of salvation by him, nothing experimentally of the nature of vital religion; alas, how will you be exposed as sheep without a shepherd!

Probably no other country in the 1920s—certainly not the United States, with its stark repression of the Left, vicious antiunion policies, and legally enshrined racism—had so wide a range of free speech, such a vital public sphere, as Germany.

The vital detail about the design is captured in the code. A well-written implementation should be transparent, revealing the model underlying it.

Although he eventually chose theology over music, music remained a deep passion throughout his life. It became a vital part of his expression of faith, and he taught his students to appreciate it and make it a central aspect of their expressions of faith.

the boring stuff that matters the most.

If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.

Industries that make goods and services that people have to buy, regardless of economic circumstances, are bound to do well whatever the economic conditions.

CASE: it's not possible. COOPER: No... it's necessary.

I try to always bring topics to the table that matter, topics that I think need to be discussed and reflected on.

our freedom to express discontent with and even anger at our government's actions is vital to the preservation of a free and open society.

I feel like war should occur only for the most vital and necessary reasons, and only then.

America can enjoy a vital, fully functioning government, with all the benefits provided by Texas, while reducing Texas at the same time.

It must be understood that every architecture is bound to its time and manifests itself only in vital tasks and through the materials of its age. It has never been otherwise.

Beaumont had been trying to determine whether the gastric juice would work outside of the stomach, removed from the body's "vital force." (It does.) He filled vial after vial with St. Martin's secretions and dropped in all manner of foods. The cabin became a kind of gastric-juice dairy.

perhaps the component parts of a creature might be manufactured, brought together, and endued with vital warmth.

As I mentioned earlier, the diagnostic feature of life is that it captures energy to create order.

The success of human beings depends crucially, but precariously, on numbers and connections. A few hundred people cannot sustain a sophisticated technology: trade is a vital part of the story.

If God is not needed for morality, and if language is a spontaneous system, then perhaps the king, the pope and the official are not quite as vital to the functioning of an orderly society as they pretend?

Independence is an important, even vital, value and achievement. The problem is, we live in an interdependent reality, and our most important accomplishments require interdependency skills well beyond our present abilities.

Mission statements are also vital to successful organizations.