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• Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self- importance.

  Goswami Kriyananda

  Acceptance, Opportunity, Self

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• If you never assume importance, you never lose it.

  Laozi

  Assuming, Assumption, Never Assume

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• We all wish to be of importance in one way or another. The child coughs with might and main, since it has no other claim on the company.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Wish, Might

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.171, Harvard University Press

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• Nothing that actually occurs is of the smallest importance

  Oscar Wilde

  Smallest

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.1006, GENERAL PRESS

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• Exaggerated self-importance is deemed an individual fault, but a racial virtue.

  Kelly Miller

  Self, Faults, Virtue

  Kelly Miller (1908). “Race Adjustment: Essays on the Negro in America”

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• A painting with a message does not happen by accident. It happens when you place elements in their order of importance.

  Mike Svob

  Order, Doe, Elements

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• The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Writing, Literature, Firsts

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• I cannot emphasize enough the importance of a good teacher.

  Temple Grandin

  Teacher, Autism, Enough

  Interview with Dr. Stephen Edelson, www.autism.com. February 1, 1996.

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• To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.

  Alan Greenspan

  Success, Education, Business

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• Think about it: what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellow men. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Thinking, Men, Self

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Fire from Within”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Failure, Laughing, Immense

  Katherine Mansfield, Margaret Scott (1997). “The Katherine Mansfield notebooks”

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• Light is one of the most important factors in photography.

  Laura Gilpin

  Photography, Light, Important

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• The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Art, Important, Language

  "What is Art?". Book by Leo Tolstoy, 1897.

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• Very idle is all curiosity concerning other people's estimate of us, and all fear of remaining unknown is not less so.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  People, Curiosity, Idle

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.159, Penguin

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• Let not the author eat up the man, so that he shall be all balcony and no house.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, House, He Man

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1979). “Emerson's Literary Criticism”, p.105, U of Nebraska Press

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• The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brain and in your hands, wherever you go.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Hands, House, Brain

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• In this life we have to make many choices. Some are very important choices. Some are not. Many of our choices are between good and evil. The choices we make, however, determine to a large extent our happiness or our unhappiness, because we have to live with the consequences of our choices. Making perfect choices all of the time is not possible. It just doesn't happen. But it is possible to make good choices we can live with and grow from.

  James E. Faust

  Life, Happiness, Struggle Between Good And Evil

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• Knowing is NOT the most important thing. To be able to FIND OUT is more important than knowing.

  Sugata Mitra

  Education, Knowing, Important

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• It's really important for people who are HIV positive to reach out to let other people know that they can be tested, they can find out they can still live a life -- a positive life, a happy life.

  Laura Bush

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  "First Lady Winds Up West Africa Trip". www.foxnews.com. January 18, 2006.

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• What is the most important thing you could be working on in the world right now? ... And if you're not working on that, why aren't you?

  Aaron Swartz

  Motivational, Work, Important

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• The next day brought more visitors. Sarah was eating a simple luncheon with Charis, Ariel, and Guinevere and was experiencing for the first time in her life the pleasure of talking freely with other girls she trusted. It wasn't that they talked about anything of importance. Indeed, most of their conversation was hopelessly trivial- Mordecai would have shaken his head sadly over such frivolity, Sarah reflected with an inward smile. But to talk so openly, and to laugh so unrestrainedly, was somehow far more significant than any single thing that was said.

  Gerald Morris

  Girl, Simple, Talking

  Gerald Morris (2004). “The Princess, the Crone, and the Dung-cart Knight”, p.235, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• She began now to comprehend that he was exactly the man who, in disposition and talents, would most suit her. His understanding and temper, though unlike her own, would have answered all her wishes. It was an union that must have been to the advantage of both: by her ease and liveliness, his mind might have been softened, his manners improved; and from his judgement, information, and knowledge of the world, she must have received benefit of greater importance.

  Jane Austen

  Men, Understanding, Mind

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.175, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• There are new gods growing in America, clinging to growing knots of belief: gods of credit card and freeway, of Internet and telephone, of radio and hospital and television, gods of plastic and of beeper and of neon. Proud gods, fat and foolish creatures, puffed up with their own newness and importance. "They are aware of us, they fear us, and they hate us," said Odin. "You are fooling yourselves if you believe otherwise.

  Neil Gaiman

  Hate, Believe, Odin

  Neil Gaiman (2011). “American Gods”, p.100, Hachette UK

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• Talk. I'll just wait' shall I? Because my mission to save this town is of no importance whatsoever next to your girl talk."- Myrnin "Oh, shut up, you medieval drama queen" - Claire

  Rachel Caine

  Girl, Queens, Drama

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• The importance of our connection, what it meant to find each other again, the way it made what happened to us and between us not be a waste, not be for nothing. He would know, he had to know, that not saying good-bye would be the worst end of all.

  Sara Zarr

  Bye, Connections, Would Be

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