Chieh Huang Quotes
The best advice I ever received is that there is a difference between urgency and importance: Urgent tasks seem important, but they're not. Important things need to get done.
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I'm a Christian, and I'm not judgmental towards anyone. I think that's really important.
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People must be protected from prejudice against their person. But people cannot be protected from prejudice against their ideas - because otherwise we're all done.
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With 'Tron,' we had so many crew members around and a stage full of special effects people that know exactly what has to be done in the situations. You're on a stage in sets the whole time.
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Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.
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Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.
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One of the most important reasons for living is to do something - live outside of yourself and put together an idea, an idea that you want to explore and then complete... Awaken your creative sensitivities!
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I think one's history and past is important at a certain time in your life, especially as an artist, just to try to hone in on that.
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Caring about policy is important - people in washington forget.
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Through all the bad guys that I've played, they're justifiably bad - they have their reasons. It's been important to me.
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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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When people talk about the impact of mobile dating, everyone focuses on real-time meeting - this idea that my pocket will vibrate every time a hot girl walks by. That's important. But it's not transformative.
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The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
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Surround yourself with really good people. I think that's an important thing. Because the people you surround yourself are a reflection of you.
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One of the things I think is important about 'Watchmen' is that it have resonance within cinematic pop culture as well as superhero culture.
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I've never done a superhero movie. It's very nice to you as an actor in several worlds to go and to experiment.
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The kind of people that all teams need are people who are humble, hungry, and smart: humble being little ego, focusing more on their teammates than on themselves. Hungry, meaning they have a strong work ethic, are determined to get things done, and contribute any way they can. Smart, meaning not intellectually smart but inner personally smart.
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Sometimes I feel like an impostor, and I have to remind myself, 'You are able to do this.' I look at the books on the shelf that have my name on them to remind myself I have done it before and, likely, I can do it again.
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At 20 and 30, we are like travelers in a foreign country, reading the guide book to learn how to behave, to learn when the post office is open. Trivia looms important; critical issues fade into a pastel background, unrecognized.
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Richard Childress and myself have made some important innovations on our cars.
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It is true that short forms of poetry have been cultivated in the Far East more than in modern Europe; but in all European literature short forms of poetry are to be found - indeed quite as short as anything in Japanese.
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The really big difference is that what you make with a molecular machine can be completely precise, down to the tiniest degree of detail that can exist in the world.
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In wrestling, there's a shelf life, and some wrestlers don't pay attention to the shelf life.
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The road to freedom must be uphill, even if it is arduous and frustrating.
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The best advice I ever received is that there is a difference between urgency and importance: Urgent tasks seem important, but they're not. Important things need to get done.
