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If nothing is to be done in the given situation, he must invent plausible reasons for doing nothing; and if something must be done, he must suggest the something. The unpardonable sin is to propose nothing, when action is imperative.
Charles Edward Merriam
Invent
Situation
Nothing
Action
Must
Unpardonable
Something
Given
Imperative
Propose
He
Sin
Doing
Done
Reasons
Plausible
Suggest
Effective storytelling is the key to getting users to understand and adopt your product as well as imperative to recruiting team members and future investors.
Chris Sacca
Future
Key
Members
Adopt
Imperative
Recruiting
Investors
Well
Understand
Effective
Getting
Storytelling
Product
Your
Team
Users
The gay people with whom I am close are some of the strongest, most passionate and caring people I know, and their demands for justice are no less imperative than those of any other community.
Cory Booker
Gay
Justice
People
Community
Other
Caring
Those
Some
Strongest
Imperative
Demands
Know
Most
Am
Passionate
Close
Than
Any
Less
Whom
Whoever utters 'Kafkaesque' has neither fathomed nor intuited nor felt the impress of Kafka's devisings. If there is one imperative that ought to accompany any biographical or critical approach, it is that Kafka is not to be mistaken for the Kafkaesque.
Cynthia Ozick
Impress
Ought
Approach
Critical
Neither
Imperative
Mistaken
Felt
Accompany
Nor
Any
Kafka
Whoever
It's imperative to save a few chips whenever possible when playing small-ball poker. You never want to risk a high percentage of your chips unless you're dealt a monster hand.
Daniel Negreanu
You
Few
Monster
Unless
Possible
High
High Percentage
Percentage
Risk
Imperative
Never
Poker
Dealt
Hand
Whenever
Want
Chips
Your
Playing
Save
I wanted to imbue Ziggy with real flesh and blood and muscle, and it was imperative that I find Ziggy and be him.
David Bowie
Find
Imperative
Him
Real
Blood
Wanted
Flesh
Muscle
I was about 26 or 27 and it was imperative that I make a living right away and it's hard to make a living on stage, so I started in television and film.
David Duchovny
Stage
Living
Television
About
Imperative
Make
Hard
Film
Away
Right
Right Away
Started
I feel like I came to acting late in a way. I was about 26 or 27, and it was imperative that I make a living right away, and it's hard to make a living on stage, so I started in television and film.
David Duchovny
Stage
Living
Late
Way
Television
About
Imperative
Feel
Like
Make
Came
Acting
Hard
Film
Away
Right
Right Away
Started
I just want to be a storyteller, and I think the way to do that is by your lyrics, by your visuals, by your choreography, by your dance. It's imperative as an artist.
Dawn Richard
Dance
Think
Lyrics
Way
Visuals
Imperative
Artist
Just
Want
Storyteller
Your
Choreography
Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Confidence
Honor
Mutual
Imperative
Disarmament
Continuing
Israel fits into the zeitgeist of our era. It is true that there are demographic threats to its existence. That is why a separation from the Palestinians is a compelling imperative.
Ehud Barak
Separation
Our
Threats
Imperative
True
Demographic
Israel
Era
Existence
Fits
Zeitgeist
Why
Compelling
Palestinians
I have realized that the taste of the viewer can constantly change. So you need to sniff out the need for change. Constantly restructuring your own business to cater to changing taste is imperative.
Ekta Kapoor
You
Business
Change
Own
Changing
Out
Constantly
Restructuring
Imperative
Cater
Sniff
Taste
Realized
Your
Viewer
Need
Whether you're a high school student, attend traditional college, or take night classes while working full-time, it is imperative that you are given the tools necessary to become competitive in the workforce.
Elise Stefanik
You
School
College
Become
Tools
High
Classes
High School
Given
Imperative
Student
Take
Attend
Traditional
Whether
While
Workforce
Working
Full-Time
Necessary
Competitive
Night
My education was dominated by modernist thinkers and artists who taught me that the supreme imperative was courage to face the awful truth, to scorn the soft-minded optimism of religious and secular romantics as well as the corrupt optimism of governments, advertisers, and mechanistic or manipulative revolutionaries.
Ellen Willis
Education
Truth
Me
Courage
Secular
Face
Corrupt
Religious
Imperative
Advertiser
Supreme
Well
Scorn
Governments
Optimism
Dominated
Revolutionaries
Taught
Artists
Romantics
Modernist
Manipulative
Who
Awful
Thinkers
If you say morality is just what you like, you lose the metaphysical level of what in the history of philosophy is called 'categorical imperative.'
Emir Kusturica
History
You
Lose
Philosophy
Say
Morality
Imperative
Categorical
Like
Metaphysical
Just
The History Of
Level
Challenges of historic import threaten America's future. Action on the deficit, economy, energy, health care and much more is imperative, yet our legislative institutions fail to act. Congress must be reformed.
Evan Bayh
Future
Health
Challenges
Care
Energy
Congress
Action
Our
Deficit
Must
Threaten
More
Imperative
Fail
Economy
Import
Institutions
Health Care
Historic
Reformed
America
Legislative
Much
Act
I have sometimes been haunted with the idea that it was an imperative duty, knowing what I know, and having seen what I have seen, to do all that lies in my power to show the dangers and the evils of this frightful institution.
Fanny Kemble
Sometimes
Seen
Power
Duty
Dangers
Evils
Lies
Haunted
Having
Imperative
Idea
Institution
Know
Knowing
Been
Frightful
Show
One of the management imperatives in the '90s is managing diversity. Whatever the organization, when the constituents of that organization look at the board and management staff, they need to find themselves.
Frances Hesselbein
Management
Organization
Diversity
Whatever
Find
Constituents
Imperative
Look
Managing
Staff
Board
Themselves
Need
My son smelled like a cinnamon bun, and that smell entered into my biological being, and it became an imperative that I keep him alive at all costs, so then there's this monster - this tiger or lion - that comes forward in you to protect them. And it doesn't stop. It doesn't matter if they become men or women.
Frances McDormand
Lion
You
Son
Women
Matter
Men
Smell
Become
Monster
Alive
Entered
Costs
Imperative
Like
Smelled
Protect
Him
Tiger
Became
Stop
Being
Them
Then
Forward
Keep
Biological
Across all economies, the imperative is to take actions that boost potential output, improve inclusiveness, and strengthen resilience.
Gita Gopinath
Boost
Potential
Imperative
Output
Take
Economies
Improve
Across
Actions
Resilience
Strengthen
With Facebook's IPO, the world learned a new way of organizing businesses around one overriding imperative: to ship new products quickly.
Glenn Kelman
Facebook
World
Way
Imperative
New
Learned
Around
Overriding
Ship
New Products
Quickly
New Way
Products
Organizing
Businesses
Much of the conventional wisdom associated with Vietnam was highly inaccurate. Far from an inevitable result of the imperative to contain communism, the war was only made possible through lies and deceptions aimed at the American public, Congress, and members of Lyndon Johnson's own administration.
H. R. McMaster
Wisdom
War
Communism
Result
Made
Inevitable
Own
Congress
Lyndon
Members
Possible
Administration
Lies
Only
Imperative
Johnson
Through
Contain
Highly
American
Conventional
Conventional Wisdom
Inaccurate
Public
Far
Much
Vietnam
American Public
Associated
When you tell a story, there are imperatives of structure, of style, of pacing and all of this, that are there simply because you want to make it a good story. When do you introduce your characters? When do you put them onstage, when do you take them off the stage? How do you weave the different threads of the narrative together?
H. W. Brands
Good
You
Together
Style
Stage
Tell
Characters
Introduce
Threads
Weave
Structure
Imperative
Good Story
Onstage
Take
Put
Simply
Make
Because
Narrative
How
Off
Different
Want
Story
Pacing
Them
Your
Responsibility has become the fundamental imperative in modern civilization, and it should be an unavoidable criterion to assess and evaluate human actions, including, in a special way, development activities.
Hans Jonas
Responsibility
Become
Way
Criterion
Unavoidable
Civilization
Imperative
Development
Modern
Modern Civilization
Human
Human Actions
Should
Evaluate
Special
Actions
Including
Activities
Assess
Fundamental
I made my money with software - encoded knowledge without which few products and services can exist today - and so it seemed imperative that this would be the field where I would give something back.
Hasso Plattner
Today
Knowledge
Money
Made
Few
Field
Software
Back
Would
Would-Be
Seemed
Give
Something
Imperative
Without
Exist
Where
Which
Products
Services
It is imperative that Afghanistan cricket does well. You cannot imagine how passionate Afghanistan's fans are and how they live and die by every result.
Inzamam-ul-Haq
You
Result
Fans
Live
Every
Cricket
Imperative
Well
Does
How
Passionate
Die
Afghanistan
Cannot
Imagine
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