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• We are a species that has lost its way. Everything natural, every flower or tree, and every animal have important lessons to teach us if we would only stop, look, and listen.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Flower, Animal, Tree

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.93, Penguin

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• The single most important lesson of effective communication is this: Focus on clarity. Concentrate on precisions. Don’t worry about constructing beautiful sentences. Beauty comes from meaning, not language. Accuracy is the most effective style of all.

  David Gerrold

  Beautiful, Communication, Writing

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• Learn a lot about the world and finish things, even if it is just a short story. Finish it before you start something else. Finish it before you start rewriting it. That's really important.
  It's to find out if you're going to be a writer or not, because that's one of the most important lessons.
  Most, maybe 90% of people, will start writing and never finish what they started. If you want to be a writer that's the hardest and most important lesson: Finish it. Then go back to fix it.

  Tad Williams

  Writing, People, Important

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• Because God is love, the most important lesson he wants you to learn on earth is how to love.

  Rick Warren

  Important, Lessons, Earth

  Rick Warren (2010). “Daily Inspiration for the Purpose Driven Life: Scriptures and Reflections from the 40 Days of Purpose”, p.60, Harper Collins

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• Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.

  David Suzuki

  Education, Positive Energy, Important

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• I knew that I was learning one of the most important lessons of my life: that instead of waiting for the perfect opportunity, I should work toward a realization that every opportunity is perfect.

  Suzan-Lori Parks

  Inspirational, Opportunity, Perfect

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• I feel that one of the most important lessons that can be learned is that what we "see" may be different than what is actually in front of us.

  Marc Singer

  Retirement, Important, Different

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• Life is a never-ending school, and the really important lessons all tend to teach man his proper relation to the environment where he must live.

  Clarence Darrow

  Life, School, Humanity

  "Why I Am an Agnostic and Other Essays".

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• From a very young age, my parents taught me the most important lesson of my whole life: They taught me how to listen. They taught me how to listen to everybody before I made up my own mind. When you listen, you learn. You absorb like a sponge - and your life becomes so much better than when you are just trying to be listened to all the time.

  Steven Spielberg

  Parent, Mind, Important

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• If there is one thing about my family that I do identify with, it is that everyone is extremely hardworking. Also, the people whom I grew up with all did things they really loved. And I think that’s an important lesson.

  Rooney Mara

  Thinking, People, Important

  "Rooney Mara: Playing with Fire". Interview with Jonathan Van Meter, www.vogue.com. October 17, 2011.

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• My mother taught me how to apply my own makeup at 13 years old, and the most important lesson I learned is to never touch my eyebrows and to cleanse, tone, and moisturize twice a day.

  Emilia Clarke

  Mother, Makeup, Years

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• My dad did teach me a very important lesson about people when he explained to me that everybody around you will have an invisible sign on their head, which says, "Make me feel important."

  Simon Cowell

  Dad, People, Important

  Interview with Dimitri Ehrlich, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 20, 2011.

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• Sports teaches you very important lessons that are many and varied. It's probably the closest thing to the lessons we learned in fighting and warfare, about loyalty and growing up.

  Tinker Hatfield

  Sports, Loyalty, Growing Up

  Source: www.revelinnewyork.com

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• It is very hard to say where you're going until you get there. That kind of thing is based very much on instinct. As a photographer, one of the most important lessons I have learnt is that you have to learn to listen to and trust your own instinct. It has helped to guide me - this far at least.

  James Nachtwey

  Photography, Important, Lessons

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• Some of the most important lessons I've learned have been from stumbling, and I am deeply grateful that my parents allowed me to fight my own battles.

  Anna Quindlen

  Grateful, Fighting, Parent

  Source: www.goodreads.com

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• F-A-I-L-I-N-G [is] Finding An Important Lesson, Inviting Needed Growth. So you don't actually fail, you find a better way to do whatever you're doing, and that's your ability, the truth of your core from past life experiences to where you are now in this life. It gives you the ability to be in your truth, without anything holding you down in a box that will never open.

  Gary Busey

  Past, Giving, Growth

  Interview with Chet Cooper and Lia Martirosyan, abilitymagazine.com. April 2014.

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• The most important lesson I received from Conceptual art consisted in the recording of simple and obvious things, and viewing them under a whole new light.

  Luigi Ghirri

  Art, Simple, Obvious Things

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• The only important lesson from the Vietnam War is this: Democrats lose wars.

  Ann Coulter

  War, Important, Vietnam

  Ann Coulter (2003). “Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism”, p.160, Crown Forum

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• There is another very important lesson: You must learn to be equipped to face your battles this year and be properly positioned on the wall. Pioneers will be challenged as they plow new ground, but I have new Body Armor I want to give you that will protect you in the days to come.

  Bob Hartley

  Wall, Years, Giving

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• My grandmother instilled in me two important lessons: I was just as good as anyone else, and education was my salvation. Fortunately, I was able to get scholarships to excellent schools, but I was one of the lucky ones. All of this is what draws me to anti-poverty organizations like Oxfam.

  Joy Bryant

  School, Grandmother, Organization

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• It was a very easy way to have a group of friends on a very large campus - a sense of identity. It was a great place to learn how to navigate a variety of personalities, which you kind of have to do in life. You've got the shy woman and you've got the obnoxious woman and you've got the brainiac and you've got the social climber and you've got the introvert and the extrovert, and you're all living together. I think it gave me valuable experience in learning how to live with people that are different than you are. And that's an important lesson. You can bet it comes in very handy in the Senate.

  Claire McCaskill

  Thinking, People, Personality

  Source: www.elle.com

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• The importance of selecting music and sequencing songs - making one song merge into another song. In retrospect, those are the most important lessons I got from DJs.

  Hans-Peter Lindstrøm

  Song, Important, Lessons

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My grandmother taught me two very important lessons before she passed: hold the door for everyone and always say "thank you." That means to treat everyone the same, no matter if it is the President or a homeless mother begging for food. And never forget to thank those who have helped you, whether it is the person serving you food at a restaurant or your third-grade teacher who taught you the multiplication tables.

  Michael Skolnik

  Mother, Teacher, Mean

  "Global Grind Editor Michael Skolnik". Interview with Rachel P. Goldstein, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Perhaps one of the most important lessons that I continue to have reinforced is to always have faith and believe in yourself. To never lose sight of who you are and to know yourself.

  Yanni

  Believe, Sight, Important

  "Yanni: A Global Inspiration". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 9, 2014.

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• Notwithstanding all the wrongs that slavery heaped upon me, I can bless it for one thing-youth's important lesson of self-reliance.

  Elizabeth Keckley

  Self, Important, Slavery

  Elizabeth Keckley (2016). “Slave Narrative Six Pack 2”, p.281, Enhanced Media Publishing

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