Bill James Quotes

In a crime story, the details become tremendously important - where the staircase was in relation to the bed, for example.

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• I think people are always able to achieve more than they think they can. While that's cliche, I don't know if managers think about that enough. You have to set your sights extremely high.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • People
  • High
  • Know

• The way I work is by infinitely playing a very simple loop over and over, and then I start layering things.

  

  Washed Out
  • Work
  • Simple
  • Start

• The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • People
  • Important
  • Service

• That's the most important thing you do in your life - raise children and try to do the best job as a parent and give your kids the best shot in life to go out there into the big, bad world.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Life
  • World
  • Important

• The most important service to others is service to those who are not like yourself.

  

  J. Irwin Miller
  • Important
  • Service
  • Yourself

• I feel that I've got the opportunity to set a great role model for girls to look up to a strong, active, compassionate, loving, positive woman, and I think it's so important.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Up
  • Great
  • Important

• My mountaineering skills are not important to my best photographs, but they do add a component to my work that is definitely a bit different than that of most photographers.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • Work
  • Different
  • Important

• A lot of people forget how important it is to be creative. We get caught up in getting ahead and in day-to-day minutiae. But creativity is a fundamental mode of expression, as is being tenacious and standing by your own convictions and passions, even if it's not the 'popular' choice.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • People
  • Up
  • Important

• Marketing is more important than it has ever been. But I'm trying to tear the layers back and make it not so contrived. I think people just want entertainment.

  

  Usher
  • People
  • Important
  • Trying

• Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.

  

  G. Gordon Liddy
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Important

• An important notion in Indian political thought that is of great value to Hungary is the idea of peaceful development.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Great
  • Important
  • Political

• I understand how bureaucracies work. And that's important because our government has become a vast, huge, bloated, corrupt bureaucracy.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Work
  • Important
  • Government

• I dug the idea that I was being perceived as the black sheep of my family, but for me, it was like, I was a rebel, and that to me was most important.

  

  Larry Bishop
  • Important
  • Family
  • Black

• A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Love
  • Man
  • Friendship

• Rule-following, legal precedence, and political consistency are not more important than right, justice and plain common-sense.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Important
  • Political
  • Justice

• Overall when you work in fashion, you're always in a rush. You're always a little late, always in a hurry. Every single moment's important, so you never have enough time to do what you want to do. It's ridiculous.

  

  Ines de La Fressange
  • Time
  • Work
  • Important

• There is nothing more important in life than love.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Life
  • Important
  • Love

• You used to be able to just call people. You didn't have to be on someone's calendar to have a phone conversation. The telephone was an important and valuable domain of communication, both for casual, friendly chats and for professional exchanges of ideas and information. But no more.

  

  Dan Pallotta
  • People
  • Important
  • Ideas

• The more I got into playing guitar, the more I enjoyed music, and the broader my listening became. The instrument itself became important to me, and I started messing around with classical guitar and took classical lessons.

  

  Alex Lifeson Rush
  • Music
  • Important
  • Listening

• It's hard to think it's important to try out as cheerleader when you're starring on Broadway. But you do kind of miss the things that I now see my children doing. I'm just happy they are not actors. The Valentine's Day dance is really important. Pitching in Little League is very important. And the medals and the scouts are really important.

  

  Bonnie Bedelia
  • Important
  • Children
  • Happy

• Makes a diff'rence, havin' a decent family,' he said. 'Me dad was decent. An' your mum an' dad were decent. If they'd lived, life woulda bin diff'rent, eh?' 'Yeah, I s'pose,' said Harry cautiously. Hagrid seemed to be in a very strange mood. 'Family,' said Hagrid gloomily. 'Whatever yeh say, blood's important.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Life
  • Important
  • Family

• I didn't have a desk to write 'Red Queen' on, so I got a nice writing desk.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Writing
  • Nice
  • Red

• A vacation home is a wonderful 'extra' as you start building wealth. Remember, though, it's still basically a very large, very expensive toy.

  

  Dave Ramsey
  • Home
  • Remember
  • Vacation

• In a crime story, the details become tremendously important - where the staircase was in relation to the bed, for example.

  

  Bill James
  • Important