Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment.
The country needs someone with experience and determination to make tough decisions. All the money aside, it is important that Greece restore its reputation.
The Nixon years were trying. They honed my judgment for everything I did later on. The experience also illustrated for me the importance of training young lawyers properly.
Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time.
Music and language are a vital element. We, as actors and directors, offer it to people who want to experience it. Sometimes the actual meaning is less important than the words themselves.
I do think the first time you read a script, that gut response is very important, and that probably plants a seed that continues to blossom throughout the whole experience.
It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.
Unless everyone grasps the importance of having only two children per couple, wars won't be over just oil anymore, they will be over water and food.
I was the youngest of six kids, so yeah, feeding myself was important, but it's not like I was obsessed with food growing up.
The time has come to recognize that food, how we produce it, process it, package it, sell it, cook it and eat it, is as important as any other issue.
The important matter is freedom. When the people choose what they want, it is good for them and for us.
The First Amendment freedom of religion is as important today as when the Bill of Rights was first written.
One of the things that bothers me most is the growing belief in the country that security is more important than freedom. It ain't.
On my days off, I like to be outdoors - on my bike or walking the dog or swimming - so it's important anyone I date is also into fitness.
To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations have perished from their failure to achieve it.
You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that will jeopardize the future.
Your roots, your family, your friends all become so much more important to you as you get older, especially if you are a wandering minstrel like me.
The family is the single most important institution in Afghan culture. It is described in the country's constitution as the 'fundamental pillar of society'.
My family's always been really funny. I feel like comedy's hard. I feel like it's so important.
But for me, my personal relations, my personal family relations, are very important, and we've always tried to make sure that the public and the private are kept separate.
You are a person of the greatest importance when you are a mother of a family. Just do your job right and your kids will love you.
