Socrates Quotes

The beginning is the most important part, especially when dealing with anything young and tender.

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• I met Arthur Ashe a few times. I know how important education was to him.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Important
  • Education
  • Know

• From when I was young, I wanted to be an action hero. I always dreamed about being an action star. So finally, I made it.

  

  Rain
  • Action
  • Star
  • Hero

• It's important for cinema to keep on evolving: for people, and not only teenagers, to be able to go to a movie that has huge epic scope but has an intellectual and real story to tell.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • People
  • Important
  • Real

• I'm doing a lot of things in Africa. I've formed a company with two friends of mine called Made In Africa and we are doing a lot of important things across the continent.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • Important
  • Friends
  • Company

• Developing skills is as important as training. A larger effort is needed to create a skilled workforce with employment potential.

  

  Pallam Raju
  • Important
  • Effort
  • Training

• That's maybe the most important thing each generation does, is to break a lot of rules and make up their own way of doing things.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Up
  • Important
  • Rules

• Once you understand that Goliath is much weaker than you think he is, and David has superior technology, then you say: why do we tell the story the way we do? It becomes, actually, a far more meaningful and important story in its retelling than in the kind of unsophisticated way we've done it for, I think, too long.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Important
  • Long
  • Done

• What is important is to believe in something so strongly that you're never discouraged.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Strength

• It's so important to me to do the washing, do the Hoovering. I don't ever want to lose contact with that.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Important
  • Want
  • Lose

• When I had no shoes I was comfortable - I used to run barefoot. When I wore shoes it was difficult. To run in shoes was ok, but at the beginning of my career it was hard.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Career
  • Beginning
  • Shoes

• For me, it was very important to be part of a boxing film that actually explores the psychological aspects of the sport, more than just the physical aspects. I haven't seen boxing movies very often that really go so deep into the minds of the boxers. It really puts out how much it is about strategy and tactics and technique.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Important
  • Deep
  • Boxing

• I've got a rubber face. It has always served me very well and really helps, especially as I get older, because I still have all my road map intact, and I can use it at will.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Me
  • Face
  • Helps

• I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Mary Renault.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Beginning
  • Writers
  • Influenced

• As the years passed in my village, I witnessed poorly educated young men leaving to seek the greater comforts and liberations of big cities. I would see them on my visits to Delhi.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Men
  • Young
  • Leaving

• Right from the very beginning, I knew I wanted to write palpably Scottish fiction.

  

  Ian Rankin
  • Beginning
  • Write
  • Fiction

• Of course, the simple explanation of the fact is that marriage is the most important act of man's life in Europe or America, and that everything depends upon it.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Life
  • Important
  • America

• There is nothing more important in life than love.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Life
  • Important
  • Love

• From the very beginning, I always tried to make dialogue flow comfortably; I always did that to make it seem more authentic.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Always
  • Beginning
  • Flow

• Our job as friends, mentors, parents, and writing coaches is not to write anyone's college essay. That's cheating. Plus, it sends a discouraging message to the teenager that he or she can't be trusted with this important assignment. Trust the student to write the essay, but verify that it gets done. Gentle editing and proofreading are allowed.

  

  Kate Klise
  • Important
  • Writing
  • Done

• I think it's so important for young readers to find a book or series that ignites their passion for reading, especially boys, whose interest in reading wanes as they grow older.

  

  Jennifer A. Nielsen
  • Important
  • Book
  • Reading

• Style has always been very important to us. We grew up in the '70s. Music was glam rock, punk rock and a very stylish movement.

  

  Nicholas James Bates Duran Duran
  • Important
  • Style
  • Punk

• By keeping your eye on the ultimate goal, you lean into the mess and try to make the outcome a little better.

  

  Jeff Fortenberry

• There are a lot of things that immigrants, especially Chinese-Americans, want to share with their children, but there are a lot of things they don't want to share.

  

  Anchee Min
  • Children
  • Chinese

• The beginning is the most important part, especially when dealing with anything young and tender.

  

  Socrates
  • Important
  • Beginning
  • Young