Top 415 Crucial Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Crucial Quotes from famous people such as Steve Erickson, Jill McCorkle, Katherine Dunn, Robert Gottlieb, Glenn Greenwald, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

Often a performance can be judged not by a movie's stro

Often a performance can be judged not by a movie’s strongest moment but by its weakest, especially when it’s the picture’s crucial scene.
Steve Erickson
I think too many people edit themselves way too soon. There’s plenty of time to edit, and it is a crucial part of it all, too.
Jill McCorkle
In our struggle to restrain the violence and contain the damage, we tend to forget that the human capacity for aggression is more than a monstrous defect, that it is also a crucial survival tool.
Katherine Dunn
‘Eclipse’ is overlong and overly self-conscious, but it isn’t a fake or a zero; it just gets exhausting. It raises a crucial question: ‘When does Concept morph into Gimmick?’
Robert Gottlieb
I’ve always said that my favorite aspect of online political writing is how interactive and collaborative it is with one’s readers: that has always been, and always will be, crucial in so many ways to what I do.
Glenn Greenwald
No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind, such as cars that won’t start.
Larry McMurtry
One of the most crucial kinds of intervention is in advocacy. We can think about charities in the context of delivering services, and indeed that is part of their job, but advocacy is also getting governments to step up to the plate. They can also give more voice to those who don’t have one.
Nicholas Kristof
It’s part of my job as an actor to look after myself. Your appearance is crucial.
Freddie Fox
Every American, whether Democrat or Republican, agrees that job creation and affordable energy will be crucial to our economic turnaround.
Kevin McCarthy
Oviya’ as a story is intriguing and exciting to work for. The character I play as part of the show, even if it is just for five episodes, it is a crucial role that changes the course of the show.
Manobala
Stalking brings fear, uncertainty, and violence into the lives of victims. Public awareness is a crucial step forward in protecting women and men from stalking and intimate partner violence.
Roy Cooper
You ask 20 of your friends how English and American democracy came about. None of them would say that Anglicanism or Protestantism had anything to do with it. But it was crucial to it!
Melvyn Bragg
We can’t keep limiting ourselves when it comes to housing. Affordable housing and teacher housing are too crucial to let the failed policies of the past get in the way.
London Breed
My dad would tell me bedtime stories, and he used to always leave them open-ended and finish at a crucial point with the words, ‘dream on’. Then it was my responsibility to finish the story as I was drifting off to sleep. We would call them dreaming stories.
Hannah Kent
Mexico is trapped by a dense network of rent-seekers and monopolies in sectors that are crucial for economic growth, including telecommunications, energy, transportation, and financial services.
Denise Dresser
Training to be a tough tackler isn’t easy – you don’t want to injure yourself or team-mates so it’s crucial that you have self-belief in your abilities and strength.
Adebayo Akinfenwa
The ability to sympathize with those around us seems crucial to our survival, and it’s connected to the mirroring functions of the brain.
Jay Parini
Education is important even beyond the bounds of the opportunities it gives to the individual; it is a crucial and basic requirement for ensuring effective democracy and human rights.
Sadiq Khan
When you find yourself in those situations where you have to take action in a crucial situation, you just do it.
Tony Gonzalez
To the field of synthetic chemistry belongs an array of responsibilities which are crucial for the future of mankind, not only with regard to the health and needs of our society, but also for the attainment of a deep understanding of matter, chemical change, and life.
Elias James Corey
Engineers are problem solvers, and crucial to strengthening the economy, making Vermont more affordable, and protecting our most vulnerable.
Phil Scott
When you look at human rights, look at gender, and the rights of girls for education in the world – that are crucial issues – some are saying ‘Oh, these are western values.’ But these are really universal values.
Antonio Guterres
To become a novelist, the most crucial thing one must do is read, read and read again – gradually you begin to think like a writer. Ideas are not found – they are shaped.
Avi
It is crucial that there is a government in Madrid secure enough to engage with Catalonia politically rather than continue the denial and legal obstructionism of the Rajoy years.
Carles Puigdemont
The wise use of your freedom to make your own decisions is crucial to your spiritual growth, now and for eternity.
Russell M. Nelson
While supporting human rights in another country is important, fighting for our own safety is crucial.
Richard Grenell
I’ve always felt that the obligation of teachers is to have a huge, broad overview and to provide a foundation course to the students. The long view of history is absolutely crucial.
Camille Paglia
It is urgent to shift from a traditional, authoritative, rote educational approach to a project-based and experiential approach. Specific hard skills are fundamental, but is even more important that students ‘learn how to learn’ and focus on crucial soft skills such as flexibility and the ability to adapt to change.
Alain Dehaze
Crucial to understanding federalism in modern day America is the concept of mobility, or ‘the ability to vote with your feet.’ If you don’t support the death penalty and citizens packing a pistol – don’t come to Texas. If you don’t like medicinal marijuana and gay marriage, don’t move to California.
Rick Perry
Evidence suggests jobs are crucial not only to economic well-being but also to self-esteem.
Robert Reich
I was very sure that in the journey of Bigg Boss’ house, Salman sir’s feedback is what is going to make me even stronger. So, I took everything in a positive stride and I can say that his feedback was the crucial contribution to my journey towards success.
Rubina Dilaik
It's crucial to democracy and good government to scruti

It’s crucial to democracy and good government to scrutinize our public officials.
Ana Navarro
Planned Parenthood has been there for thousands of Maine people. From cancer screenings to crucial reproductive care, there are countless families that rely on their support and care.
Sara Gideon
University research is crucial to our future as a nation.
Chris Grayling
If Pakistan claims to be a crucial partner in the international coalition against terrorism, how can it continue to use terrorism as an instrument of state policy against India?
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
I have a lot of respect for Messi and for everything that he has achieved. He is very humble. But it’s crucial to show authority when we meet on the pitch and show him who’s boss.
Manuel Neuer
Issuing orders and circulars without errors and in the proper way is crucial for efficient administration. This is why the Secretariat Office Manual mandates scrutiny at different levels.
Pinarayi Vijayan
Coaches do so much research about a referee because they believe refereeing is such a crucial part of the game that the result may hinge on what we say or do. They probably know more about me than I know myself!
Alan Lewis
We’re fighting for community energy initiatives, warmer homes and crucial flood defences – and fiercely opposing the Government’s assault on renewables.
Barry Gardiner
For me, going out on loan and playing men’s football was crucial, and I was getting bored of playing Under-23 football because I wasn’t getting tested.
Jordan Pickford
Many women assume they can’t be good mothers and have challenging careers at the same time, so they might give up trying to do both as they get to a crucial point in their career. Although it can be hard at times, it’s important for women to recognize the benefits of working outside the home.
Susan Wojcicki
I think it’s crucial that we remember the lives of people, not their deaths. Our deaths are not our lives.
Ross Gay
I think death is a crucial element when designing games around the theme of the satisfaction of overcoming overwhelming odds.
Hidetaka Miyazaki
It is very important that you can express yourself, especially at half-time in a changing room, which is the crucial time for a manager.
Rafael Benitez
I believe that parents need to make nutrition education a priority in their home environment. It’s crucial for good health and longevity to instill in your children sound eating habits from an early age.
Cat Cora
A fixed deadline and a flexible scope are the crucial combination.
Jason Fried
It’s absolutely crucial for the Democrats to have a sense of their history, of who they are, in order to be able to project their values and stand up for them.
Sidney Blumenthal
The daily deluge of tales of lechery and trauma holds a hidden but crucial truism: sexual harassment routinely feeds on income inequality. After all, it’s much harder to exploit an equal.
Alissa Quart
The crucial point is always the own cost structure. Therefore I created a Low Cost alliance with air Berlin.
Niki Lauda
Farmfree production promises a far more stable and reliable food supply that can be grown anywhere, even in countries without farmland. It could be crucial to ending world hunger.
George Monbiot
Microtargeting, as its name implies, is a way to identify small but crucial groups of voters who might be won over to a given side, and which messages would do the trick.
Steven Levy
Everyone needs to understand that my work addresses existing problems, and one of the crucial problems in Russia today is corruption.
Alexei Navalny
If New Orleans is allowed to die, a crucial part of the world’s music heritage will disappear.
Ray Davies
Scotland forms a crucial part of our Armed Forces which should not be jeopardised by rushed cuts or a rush to the exit from the U.K. Defence jobs are vital to the Scottish economy and yet independence puts thousands of jobs at risk.
Philip Hammond