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Creativity is an energy. It’s a precious energy, and it’s something to be protected. A lot of people take for granted that they’re a creative person, but I know from experience, feeling it in myself, it is a magic; it is an energy. And it can’t be taken for granted.
I have become aware on my travels that when a country loses the connection between its history and its traditional dress, something truly precious is lost.
Kids only learn that the stove is hot when they put their finger on and they burn it. This, unfortunately, is the limitation of our precious brain.
If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values – that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.
I’m not there to tailor the role to me: I’m there to tailor me to the role. That guarantees me something, a precious thing, which is creativity. I’m guaranteed that I will have a creative experience, because I will go to it, not demand that it comes to me.
If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values – that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.
What are gold and jewels and precious utensils? Mere dross and dirt. The human face and the human heart, reciprocations of kindness and love, and all the nameless sympathies of our nature – these are the only objects worth being attached to.
In the art world, originality is seen as a precious commodity and its increasingly difficult to get because the territory of art is so trampled.
The independence of the United States is not only more precious to ourselves but to the world than any single possession.
Achievements are precious and timeless, just like the precious metal platinum. And what better way to celebrate milestones in your life than with precious platinum.
Whether it was expanding healthcare, stimulating the local economy and job growth, innovating in the schools, or protecting our precious environmental resources, Deval focused every day on moving Massachusetts forward.
Don’t get attached to any one idea. Nothing is too precious.
Time is the most precious resource there is – you have to protect it.
I realized that so much of our precious time is taken up by obligations that we don’t even really need.
The thing about Precious, she’s so far from a Hollywood character. She’s so honest and real, I definitely felt like I knew her.
But I have found that in the simple act of living with hope, and in the daily effort to have a positive impact in the world, the days I do have are made all the more meaningful and precious. And for that I am grateful.
Reading time is precious. Don’t waste it. Reading bad books, or books that are wrong for a certain time in your life, can dangerously turn you off the activity altogether.
We only have one life, and it is very precious, and there’s a lot we can do, and there’s a lot we should do.
Every hour of useful work is precious.
A human person is infinitely precious and must be unconditionally protected.
Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public assembly for the consideration of the most serious, the most exalted topics of human interest is too vitally precious to be lost.
I don’t waste any time at all. I have no time at all for people who are being very negative or people who are very whiny or people who feel sorry for themselves. I tend to go to them and just say, you don’t understand how incredible life is and how precious it is.
Everything matters. Time is precious.
If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.
The United States is locked in a new arms race for that most precious resource – the future entrepreneurs upon whom economic growth depends. Substantial research shows that immigrants play a key role in American job creation.
Mine is a story about a teenage single mother who struggled to keep her young family afloat. It’s a story about a young woman who was given a precious opportunity to work her way up in the world. It’s a story about resiliency, and sacrifice, and perseverance. And you’re damn right it’s a true story.
The more I grow, and the older I get, the more I am enjoying my life and know how precious it really is.
We’re all in this together, and we all have to make an investment in our most precious possession and in the foundation of our future: our young people.
Having lived in the arid deserts of Southern California since the 1970s, my interest in water conservation is a very personal concern. Water! The source of life! Some people are squandering the world’s most precious resource while others have too little clean water to drink.
But I have found that in the simple act of living with hope, and in the daily effort to have a positive impact in the world, the days I do have are made all the more meaningful and precious. And for that I am grateful.
I became a very simple person. The simple things are the most precious to me. I don’t ascribe much significance to the things I have now. That feeling of touching death has never left me.
To my young friends out there: Life can be great, but not when you can’t see it. So, open your eyes to life: to see it in the vivid colors that God gave us as a precious gift to His children, to enjoy life to the fullest, and to make it count. Say yes to your life.
Again, Be careful to make a good improvement of precious time.
Rather than making minor repairs to a few small leaks in the roof, the Architect of the Capitol is proposing to tear down the entire roof and replace it with something called a new vegetative roofing system. We shouldn’t be wasting precious taxpayer money on a new, state-of-the-art vegetative roofing system.
I’m not suggesting that microbial cellulose is going to be a replacement for cotton, leather or other textile materials. But I do think it could be quite a smart and sustainable addition to our increasingly precious natural resources.
Once are such precious people, and I wouldn’t trade our bond for anything.
An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment.
Time is so precious with kids that you have to spend as much time with them as you can.
Providing financial incentives for both local communities and national governments to conserve and restore forests also makes sense. It will put an economic value on these precious natural resources and drive the right behaviours from both government and business.
I am fortunate to be successful. People’s love is precious to me. I can never take that for granted.
The beauty of art is that it allows you to slow down, and for a moment, things that once seemed unfamiliar become precious to you.
I’ve said this before, and I’m sure there are people who disagree, but I feel like one of the reasons there aren’t a lot more women in stand-up – and there are many more now; it’s not parity, but it’s getting there – is that women are not socialized to look stupid or silly. They’re socialized to be pretty and precious.
No clean energy development is complete without extensive environmental protections, and I’ve been proud to work in a bipartisan fashion with my colleagues in Congress to protect our most precious natural resources.
Take life for what it is, which is very precious, and that’s what moments happen.
I’m pretty Net-savvy. My surfing time is precious.
A life-threatening illness or two certainly gives you an awareness of your own mortality. It heightens your sense of gratitude for things that previously, if you’ve not taken them for granted, you perhaps never appreciated how precious they were. That’s almost a platitude, but one has to state the obvious.
You know, there’re no rules between Russell and I. We don’t want to have to have to talk too much, because it’s really precious, really special to play music.
Learn to see yourself as Heavenly Father sees you – as His precious daughter or son with divine potential.
Happy is the person who cherishes the precious lessons of the past and lives vigorously in the present.
I don’t like games. You’re robbing the precious time of children to be children. They need to be in touch with the real world more.
Our courts and law, our on-going experiment in self-governance, these parts of our social fabric are precious.
Freedom is our most precious commodity and if we are not eternally vigilant, government will take it all away. Individual freedom demands individual responsibility.
Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you’re going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are.
Like a precious family heirloom, freedom is not just ours to enjoy, but to treasure, protect, and pass on to future generations.
I was borderline deluded to think something as outrageous as Semi Precious Weapons could have been mainstream.
I know some bands that are precious about their new ideas. They’re conscious of the fact that people can – even from mobile phones – begin to get clearer and better recordings of the songs… so they’re a lot more hesitant to play them.
I’m controlling over anything I create. I’m very precious about it.
All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use.
Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
Drama school taught me not to be precious.
And every human being is precious.
For Christians, faith is a precious good, the most valuable personal and social resource. When it is left untapped, the common good suffers – not just the particular interests of Christians.
Voting is the most precious right of every citizen, and we have a moral obligation to ensure the integrity of our voting process.
I construct myself and do things how I want to do them, because your artistry is a very precious thing – it’s ultimately your whole life if you want it to be.
Energy is one of the most precious battlefield resources, but it is risky and expensive to deliver in combat zones.
Having a mother with an illness and being there for her, and being there for my children I just realize how precious life is.
Voting is the most precious right of every citizen, and we have a moral obligation to ensure the integrity of our voting process.
It would have been tough for anyone to adapt ‘Push‘ – an amazing but wrenching novel by Sapphire – for the screen, and I think director Lee Daniels made interesting choices, particularly with Precious’ fantasies. In my view, some of them work and some do not, but they are definitely provocative directorial choices.
In some parts of the world, students are going to school every day. It’s their normal life. But in other part of the world, we are starving for education… it’s like a precious gift. It’s like a diamond.
Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You, and you alone, can give them. You will receive abundance for your giving.
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.
It’s very precious to me and really important I have that space that’s personal and just to me.
Basketball‘s just something temporary that we do and we’re blessed to do, but life is way more precious than this ball that we play.
Time is very precious to me. I don’t know how much I have left and I have some things that I would like to say. Hopefully, at the end, I will have said something that will be important to other people too.
Precious, she gets hit by life so many different ways and so many times, but she doesn’t yield to it. She continues to get up and she continues to struggle for a better life.
Time is very precious to me. I don’t know how much I have left and I have some things that I would like to say. Hopefully, at the end, I will have said something that will be important to other people too.
If you open your heart, then the object of your love becomes so precious because you are so open. And that philosophy, that caring, spreads.
I hope there is a place for me in the country landscape, but I’m not too precious about it, either.
It is wrong to try to avoid the struggle against imperialism under the pretext that independence and revolution are important, but that peace is still more precious.
My weekends are extremely precious.
If you are working or a veteran or a parent, time is often the most precious commodity.
Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.
Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
Time becomes more precious when you have children.
Engineering talent is the most precious resource for any technology company – Palantir and Addepar are successful first and foremost because of their top tech cultures, and the same is true for our best portfolio companies at 8VC.
There are a very limited number of people in senior roles at the White House, and time is their most precious asset.
Touch was important. The evening of the Third of July we would go around the neighborhood and look at the fireworks others had bought, taking them out of the brown paper sack and handling them cautiously as if they were precious stones. There was envy when we saw sacks with more in them than we had.
The future is no longer indefinite. Time has become very finite to me and very precious.
I saw firsthand the devastating consequences of poaching. I saw elephants with ivory hacked from their faces and the lengths private parks go to protect their precious wildlife.
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
Sometimes a little compromise isn’t a bad thing. You don’t need to be precious about it.
Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.
I’m not able to make amazingly perfect, precious pieces of content, but I get to make awesome spontaneous content that’s frequently ephemeral.
Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. The older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.
One thing I’ve learned to do with my age, I really don’t look ahead. For years, I’ve been preaching the precious present and having to always subscribe to it.
I think I’m very conscientious of how precious life is and how quickly life can be taken away from you, especially at times when it can be least expected.
Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.
No one is perfect… absolutely no one. Like precious stones, we have a few flaws, but why focus on that? Focus on what you like about yourself, and that will bring you happiness and peace.
Summer is very precious.
I think one’s relationship with one’s vulnerability is a very delicate and precious relationship. Most people try to hide, disguise that vulnerability, and in doing that, you, I think, diminish a great source of power.
It’s part of the American experience: We deal with mosquitoes in August, airport delays around Thanksgiving, expensive health care and the potential of being shot, at any time, by a semiautomatic weapon as we try to go about the most boring, precious, asinine aspects of our daily lives.
I feel when a writer treats a character as ‘precious,’ the writer runs the risk of turning them into a comic book character. There’s nothing wrong with comic book characters in comic books, but I don’t write comic books.
Anyone who has played the game professionally, you’re always taught that the ball is the most important, most precious thing, so when the ball hits the ground, it’s always a mad scramble. It’s amazing how many times there is a fumble, and the person who recovers it initially doesn’t walk away with the ball.
Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. The older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.
The Lord did not people the earth with a vibrant orchestra of personalities only to value the piccolos of the world. Every instrument is precious and adds to the complex beauty of the symphony.
I don’t trust news sources, and neither should other people. They should use them in the same way that they use medical opinions and get more than one on the important issues. Trust is the most precious thing you could possibly give to another person. But to institutions? Publications?
Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.
To speak about yourself, you must first be able to assemble a sense of origin. For descendants of slaves, this has proved one of the most precious losses of self-knowledge we’ve endured.
Soaring prices for crude oil, falling production surpluses, wild speculation in commodities, a rush into the precious metals, turmoil in the Middle East, assertive oil producers: it is 1973-74 all over again, and at dictation speed.
Water is our most precious resource, but we waste it, just as we waste other resources, including oil and gas.
Life is precious.
My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.
The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.
I think in vitro is a miracle and it has given me my precious little baby boy.
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.
Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.
When you hire a nanny, the question you ask yourself is, ‘What’s best for my precious child?’ And do you really want someone who feels that your motive in life is to minimize the amount you spend on your child?
There’s precious little incentive to try and make it in the world of management – and that’s especially true in England.
Often, I find it really hard to see what I’m doing when I’m in the thick of things. I can get too precious and have to force myself to put my paintings aside. There’s a wall in my studio where I hang paintings that I think are done or nearly done. Over time, I’ll realise which ones are working and which aren’t.
Women don’t need to have our own little corner of the church where we can feel precious or, alternatively, cranky. In every essential thing, as far as life in Christ is concerned, the differences between men and women are irrelevant.
The most precious resource we have is time.
I’ve realized how precious life is. When I was younger, I was more adventurous. I felt invincible. I was game for everything. As a mom, I don’t want to get injured because then I can’t take care of my kids.
The Book of Mormon offers so much that broadens our understandings of the doctrines of salvation. Without it, much of what is taught in other scriptures would not be nearly so plain and precious.
Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it’s a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
We only have one life, and it is very precious, and there’s a lot we can do, and there’s a lot we should do.
Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
I think that being precious and rock and roll should never go together.
That’s the thing about ‘The Daily Show‘ – we’re doing four shows a week, so we can’t be too precious about what’s going on.
Writers, directors often can get too precious with their words.
Singing background has always been such a precious thing. I’m always going to be excited to sing behind an artist and learn from them.
Girls’ Generation was an important and precious time for me.
Children are the world’s future, and we need to take care of them like we would any precious resource.
Nothing, not even human life, is more precious to us than our myths about ourselves.
There is precious little in civilization to appeal to a Yeti.
This precious thing of empathy and love and understanding is something we have to hold and appreciate and protect.
The woman who rules her roost is one of two things: she’s illogical, therefore spoiling her children, or she’s an iron-fisted disciplinarian, adopting the attitude that rightfully belongs to the man and losing the precious softness that is her birthright.
Life is short, and every moment is precious.
In November 2000, the Republicans stole from America our most precious right of all: the right to free and fair elections… Now President Bush occupies the White House, but with questionable legitimacy.
It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.
I wish for you all, each of you, to have your own motive for indignation. This is precious. When something outrages you as I was outraged by Nazism, then people become militant, strong, and involved.
Life is precious and time is a key element. Let’s make every moment count and help those who have a greater need than our own.
Use your lives wisely, my friends, and conserve these precious freedoms for future generations.
I shot a gun one time in New Zealand. An entertainment news program there thought, since the band was called Semi Precious Weapons, they would bring us to a gun range.
Our nation’s children are our greatest asset and our most precious treasure.
I know for me the subject of how to be in a relationship is precious and complicated and challenging.
That was the big effect Lord of the Rings had on me. It was discovering New Zealand. And even more precious were the people- not at all like the Australians.
I believe the wedding vows are sacred and precious, and it’s been one of my goals as a writer to portray the kind of marriages I’ve seen modeled in my family – my parents and grandparents, who all celebrated fifty-year anniversaries and well-beyond.
The older I’ve gotten, the more I’ve gotten a little precious about music-related films as it comes to biopics. I kind of don’t want to see it; I’d rather see a documentary. And this is just coming from me. I love music documentaries; I kind of don’t want to see people embodying those people.
Health is a precious gift. You realise more and more as you get older just how precious a gift it is.
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
All of us, at some moment, have had a vision of our existence as something unique, untransferable and very precious. This revelation almost always takes place during adolescence.
I don’t think there is anything hard at all about having a lot of songs. It makes it easier to be less precious about them, and know that everybody‘s going to want to work on some of them.
The positive aspect of my negative view is essentially that you shouldn’t own cash and government bonds, but you should be in assets like real estate or equities or precious metals or in commodities.
Truly, we do live on a ‘water planet.’ For us, water is that critical issue that we need. It’s the most precious substance on the planet, and it links us to pretty much every environmental issue, including climate change, that we’re facing.
Half of my family has a deep-rooted connection to the South and Louisiana, and for me, New Orleans is one of our most precious, historic communities: visually, emotionally, artistically.
Once are such precious people, and I wouldn’t trade our bond for anything.
Learning how to learn is the most precious thing we have in life.
Studies have consistently shown that financial hardship is the biggest obstacle to heterosexual marriage, yet the Republican leadership has done precious little to help address the financial hardship faced by American families.
As I’ve said before, time is short, and life is precious.
Nothing is more precious than peace, by which all war, both in Heaven and Earth, is brought to an end.
God loves you and everything about you, so why beat up on your precious self?
One of the great things I learned from how cooperative theater is, you can’t be too precious about your ideas.
The fears you run away from run toward you. The fears you don’t own will own you. But behind every fear wall lives a precious treasure.
I just don’t care that much about the band name. I’m not so precious about it. The Harpoons were different people, but The Boy-Friends were and are the same people as The Visions. I changed it to The Visions when we made ‘Transangelic Exodus‘ because I guess we didn’t feel so friendly and boyish anymore.
Confidence is such a fragile and precious thing.
One shouldn’t gamble with what is irreplaceable and precious.
Women are as precious as they are stronger than any man that I have met.
I have always been fascinated with precious stones, especially colored ones, and knew that I would eventually join the family business and be a jewelry designer some day.
I’ve grown up with girls that are like Precious. I’ve grown up with people that are like everyone that I read about in that book. And so years later, when I was given the role, I just felt a huge responsibility to show the reality of that situation and to show that we’re not making it up.
Some people mistake grit for sheer persistence – charging up the same hill again and again. But that’s not quite what I mean by the word ‘grit.’ You want to minimize friction and find the most effective, most efficient way forward. You might actually have more grit if you treat your energy as a precious commodity.
We don’t ever realize how precious life is while we’re living it.
People are misers of mental effort. If we don’t have the interest or the capacity to look into the arguments, if the message isn’t personally relevant, if we judge that we already know all we need to know about a topic, there is no reason to spend precious mental resources.
It makes no sense to spend precious resources on propping up loss-making, state-owned enterprises when they could be used to get more children into school or provide more midwives to reduce the number of mothers dying in childbirth.
I wanted to be a poet when I was 20; I had no interest in fiction or biography and precious little interest in history, but those three elements in my life have become the most important.
My rights are precious, and I value those provided to me through the United States Constitution so much.
I think our young people are our most precious possession.
We are unnecessarily wasting our precious resources in wars… if we must wage war, we have to do it on unemployment, disease, poverty, and backwardness.
God has a team. It’s made up of African-American, Anglo, Hispanic, Asian, Middle Eastern, and a variety of other people and cultures. He never wants you to make your distinction, your history, or your background so precious to you that it messes up His team.
The Fourth Amendment protects the privacy of us all – from ordinary citizens up to candidates for president. If we allow this precious right to be ignored when dealing with a presidential campaign, it can be ignored when dealing with the rest of us.
Stupidly, in our industry, producers pay precious money to sign stars whom they might not even use in the film. Producers believe stars make hits; actually it is the script that makes a film successful.
I think it’s very hard in this day and age to raise little girls with morals, ethics and values, and them knowing that they are precious creations and that they are important.
My private life is the most precious thing to me.
I have put my faith in the Lord, and I really believe He’s taking care of them. They’re too beautiful and precious that He’s not going to let anything happen to them.
Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare – and precious as a pearl.
Things go wrong all the time; you can’t be precious about it.
Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
Life goes by really fast, and it seems that there are times when you’re burying a lot of friends and family. And then there are times that feel really precious and everybody is doing okay. This is one of those times.
