Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes

You write to please yourself, you write to move yourself, to engage yourself in the asking of questions that are important to you.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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• Love is important. I didn't have the energy to be giving it to somebody else in a way that they deserved, and I knew that. So I've always been scared to go too far with somebody I care for because I knew there would come a day when I'd need to pick up and finish a painting for the next three months. That day is inevitable.

  

  Dan Colen
  • Important
  • Giving
  • Way

• Rameswaram has, since antiquity, been an important pilgrimage destination.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Important
  • Been
  • Destination

• 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.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Important
  • Future
  • Lost

• Helping set the day's agenda and deciding what we used and editing it, that was a journalistic high point. I liked reporting as well. Just doing the news - the live performance - wasn't important. Working on the desk was.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Important
  • Live
  • High

• 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.

  

  Olivia d'Abo
  • Life
  • Time
  • Important

• One of the most important things you can do in your life is to learn to pull back the curtain of fear so you can see it for what it really is - the enemy blowing a lot of smoke and pushing your buttons.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Life
  • Important
  • Fear

• Being a father is the most important thing, if you ask me. It changed me as a person and gave me an all new life.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Life
  • Important
  • Father

• Most of my family doesn't speak English. It's so important for the baby. He's going to know all his American roots, but he also needs to know about his Brazilian side.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Important
  • Family
  • American

• I take so much pleasure at seeing customers who are happy: happy with what they eat, but happy with their friends and sharing a great moment together, and I think that is more important in life than the endless pursuit of perfection.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Life
  • Great
  • Important

• What's really important? That I'm an individual, I guess. I am an individual - a strong one, too. I'm Natalie Cole. I gotta be me.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Important
  • Strong
  • Individual

• Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • People
  • Important
  • May

• 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

• Every job is important because each one represents an American's livelihood and ability to raise a family. Yet spending our time building walls around America will do nothing to help us compete for the millions of new jobs being created.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Time
  • Important
  • Family

• I've been giving back since I was a teen, handing out turkeys at Thanksgiving and handing out toys at toys drives for Christmas. It's very important to give back as a youth. It's as simple as helping an old lady across the street or giving up your seat on the bus for someone who is pregnant.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Up
  • Important
  • Giving

• 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

• It is surprising how little most small business values the customers. A positive feedback from the customer is critical to your business, and what's more important is their referral.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Important
  • Business
  • Small

• Have you recently been through a challenge, disappointment, break up or disloyalty with somebody in your life? If so, it's important after you've been hurt, to take some time to think like a lion tamer about your pain, so you can tame the possibility of more negativity coming back to bite you again!

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• The idea is this: It's important to upset one's work habits, to topple the cart for each project.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Work
  • Important
  • Habits

• The search for the truth is the most important work in the whole world, and the most dangerous.

  

  James Clavell
  • World
  • Work
  • Important

• Outside of the chair, the teapot is the most ubiquitous and important design element in the domestic environment and almost everyone who has tackled the world of design has ended up designing one.

  

  David McFadden
  • Up
  • World
  • Important

• To make any future that we dreamt up real requires creative scientists, engineers, and technologists to make it happen. If people are not within your midst who dream about tomorrow - with the capacity to bring tomorrow into the present - then the country might as well just recede back into the cave because that's where we're headed.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • Eyes
  • Smile
  • Distance

• The more you believe in yourself, the faster you're going to get.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Believe
  • You
  • Believe In Yourself

• You write to please yourself, you write to move yourself, to engage yourself in the asking of questions that are important to you.

  

  Jonathan Safran Foer
  • Important