Top 155 Imperative Quotes

Creativity is a business imperative.
Neil Blumenthal
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
When advertisers ignore diversity, it is because they don’t think the lives of others matter. There is not enough of a financial imperative for those lives to matter.
Roxane Gay
I think it’s imperative to keep your focus on why you’re in school. You’re in school to get an education.
Anne Donovan
We have to wrap this imperative of addressing climate change in a prosperity framework, and secondly we have to do a much better job of putting forward an American jobs agenda that’s a match for the climate challenge.
Martin O’Malley
Is safety a business imperative? Yes. But is it also the right thing to do? Yes. And it’s important for companies to increasingly find that by doing the right thing, they’re fulfilling their business imperative.
Tony West
The way we structure our deals is to work closely with the director. It is imperative to work with a studio because the way the film is marketed is crucial.
Ronnie Screwvala
At a time when U.S. jobs are heading overseas at a record pace, and amidst increased sanctions on our manufacturers and producers from other countries, it’s imperative that we do all we can to provide our businesses a climate to operate successfully.
Blanche Lincoln
The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else – men, guns, ammunition.
Ida Tarbell
As we continue to fight the War on Terror, it is imperative that we protect America’s fallen heroes by ensuring that they are treated with respect, while being laid to rest.
Jon Porter
We live in a permanent state of bad faith, a mutual representation of ourselves to one another for the sake of remaining sane and following our biological imperative to continue as a species.
Thomas Ligotti
I think that man has a fundamental obligation to extract from himself and from the earth all that it can give; and this obligation is all the more imperative that we are absolutely ignorant of what limits – they may still be very distant – God has imposed on our natural understanding and power.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy.
Paul Wellstone
The Law is one aspect of a much more concrete and encompassing relation than the relation between commanding and obeying that characterizes the imperative.
Paul Ricoeur
To young professionals – and particularly women – looking to advance, it is imperative to keep your life in balance.
Peggy Johnson
This is now a global war on terror and, indeed, it is important, it is imperative that we win in the battles in Afghanistan and that we win in the battles in Iraq. And as the gentleman from Georgia has mentioned, this is not something that is going to be quick and easy.
Marsha Blackburn
‘The Newton Boys’ was the one time I’ve made a film with really active characters who weren’t at all self-reflexive and just plowed through their lives. There’s a part of everyone that’s like that. We have a biological imperative to keep living, keep moving forward… We have no choice.
Richard Linklater
I think a novelist must be more tender with living or ‘real’ people. The moral imperative of having been entrusted with their story looms before you every day, in every sentence.
Rick Bass
God knows and sees all. His wisdom and knowledge far outweighs mankind, and whether or not people ever recognize it – He is the creator. He is the giver of life, and only He has the power to take it away. That’s why its imperative to submit to Him.
Monica Johnson
Refugees, imperialism, all the things that we are facing right now. What are we going to do with that? What’s the moral imperative? Where do we sit with all that, as a worldwide community?
Kari Skogland
After the end of the Second World War it was a categori

After the end of the Second World War it was a categorical imperative for us to declare that we renounced war forever in a central article of the new Constitution.
Kenzaburo Oe
I think it’s imperative of me to advance that theory that you can win your small victories against the dark.
Mark Waid
I had hoped all of Congress would recognize that it is imperative for our health, economy, and national security that we address the effects of climate change before they get even worse.
Mark Pocan
We need to acknowledge that families come in multiple shapes and sizes, that love is not a finite asset, and that caregiving involves more than a genetic imperative.
Andrew Solomon
Research such as ours is driven by the human imperative to understand where we are. It motivates the study of our positions in family, or in society, or on earth. The results may be termed geology, or sociology, or poetry.
Jim Peebles
Well, that is very imperative to let North Korea open door to outside.
Kim Dae Jung
As we enter into the 110th Congress, it is imperative that we address ethics reforms needed to make this institution run correctly.
Jo Ann Davis
There is an imperative need for the creator in every supporting actor to be able to perceive the gravity of these roles.
Thambi Ramaiah
If Russia did interfere in our election – and, by most accounts, they did – then it is imperative for the health of our democracy to have a thorough and unbiased investigation into the matter.
Valerie Plame
It is imperative the United States continues to demonstrate its commitment to a unified Iraqi.
Will Hurd
The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.
Earl Warren
When I’m doing a session for another artist, it’s a very scheduled thing, and it’s kind of imperative that I write a song in that time. But if I’m trying to write a song for myself and I don’t have an idea that day, I just can’t force it.
MNEK
Taking responsible steps to reduce poverty is not merely a moral imperative but an economic one.
John Yarmuth
While a strong presence on our southern border is imperative, the border cannot be secured unless we enforce our internal laws and stop ignoring the open complicity of U.S. companies and foreign nations to promote illegal activities.
Elton Gallegly
When markets fail, as they often do, collective action becomes imperative.
Joseph Stiglitz
It is imperative that we make consumers more aware of the long-term effects of their financial decisions, particularly in managing their credit card debt, so that they can avoid financial pitfalls that may lead to bankruptcy.
Daniel Akaka
The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders of the tribe and honor the territorial imperative.
Eugene McCarthy
Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.
Henry Miller
I believe in the imperative to explore, so any project that I can be involved with that celebrates that, and expands people’s imagination around that idea of pushing out, is one of the most positive things that I think I could be involved with.
Ron Howard
You’ll notice that for many progressives, taking from the rich is not simply a necessity of budgeting but a moral imperative and a tool to institute fairness that capitalism supposedly hasn’t.
David Harsanyi
Every day, we as athletes face several challenges during the training process, and it is imperative that we approach each situation carefully and with continued precision.
Ashton Eaton
I think a beautiful quality that’s a biological, hormonal imperative for women, whether they have children or not, is that we’re built to be empathic. For me, it was finally being maternal in an appropriate way instead of trying to mommy ex-boyfriends.
Alanis Morissette
Across all economies, the imperative is to take actions that boost potential output, improve inclusiveness, and strengthen resilience.
Gita Gopinath
Good education, housing and jobs are imperatives for the Negroes, and I shall support them in their fight to win these objectives, but I shall tell the Negroes that while these are necessary, they cannot solve the main Negro problem.
Malcolm X
Economic and technical imperatives – not any preconceived directives – will keep propelling the process of energy transition.
Vaclav Smil
This is what climate action is all about – all sectors of the economy, from places large and small, recognizing the moral imperative and the economic opportunity, stepping up and doing what they can to make a difference.
Brian Deese
Of course, it’s imperative that we stabilize Iraq and quickly reduce our armed role there.
David Hackworth
As a general rule, interrogations without clearly defined legal limits are brutal. Particularly when they have an imperative to get information out of a captive immediately.
Malcolm Nance
When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something… but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, that is when we join the fashionable madmen.
Joan Didion
With liberalisation, Indian industry gained international exposure because of which it became imperative for companies to rework their strategies to become globally competitive.
Baba Kalyani
I’m not a fan of the spread offense where you’ll go up and down the field, You’ll put up a lot of points but there are a lot of things missing that are imperative to winning championships.
Mark Schlereth