Important Quotes - Page 14

• A proper education enables young people to put their lives in order, which means knowing what things are more important than other things; it means putting first things first.

  Wendell Berry

  Education, Mean, Order

  Wendell Berry (2001). “In the Presence of Fear: Three Essays for a Changed World”

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• The most important thing for you to do is see that in hoping to be affected by other things as fully as possible, you become more yourself.

  Eli Siegel

  Importance, Important Things, Affected

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• The most important thing in industry is the person who does the industry, which is the worker... Labor is the only source of wealth.

  Eli Siegel

  Doe, Wealth, Source

  Eli Siegel (1970). “Goodbye Profit System: 8 Aesthetic Realism Lectures May 22 to July 10, 1970, Reported by Students of Aesthetic Realism”

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• Whereas God, for reasons of His own, sometimes chooses to let the machine answer. 'The Supreme Being is unavailable to come to the phone at this time, but He wants you to know what your call is important to Him. In the meantime, for sins of pride, press one. For avarice, press two.

  Sherwood Anderson

  Pride, Phones, Two

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• The presence of a body of well-instructed men, who have not to labor for their daily bread, is important to a degree which cannot be overestimated; as all high intellectual work is carried on by them, and on such work material progress of all kinds mainly depends, not to mention other and higher advantages.

  Charles Darwin

  Men, Intellectual, Society

  Charles Darwin (1871). “The Descent of man”, p.163

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• Responsibility is the most important ability that a person can possess.

  John C. Maxwell

  Responsibility, Ability, Persons

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• The most important thing to do before you die is live.

  Simon Sinek

  Things To Do, Dies, Important Things

  Twitter post from Jan 27, 2010

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• If there is one thing Britain should learn from the last 50 years, it is this: Europe can only get more important for us.

  Tony Blair

  Years, Europe, Lasts

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• The 'how' has a great effect on what we see. To say that 'what we see' is more important than 'how we see it' is to think that 'how' has been settled and fixed. When you realize this is not the case, you realize that 'how' often affects 'what' we see.

  David Hockney

  Thinking, Realizing, Cases

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• Of course quality is important but is it not the quality of an individual's originality that is most important?

  Robert Owen

  Quality, Originality, Individual

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• It is important to remember always that the principle of egolessness does not mean that there was an ego in the first place, and the Buddhists did away with it. On the contrary, it means there was never any ego at all to begin with. To realize that is called "egolessness.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Buddhist, Mean, Ego

  FaceBook post by Sogyal Rinpoche from Sep 13, 2013

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• You know when I think about what I'm doing - what I'm doing and the way I'm doing it is more important to me than any amount of money or anything like that because it's my artistic work.

  Jimmy Wales

  Thinking, Way, Artistic

  "Q&A" with Brian Lamb, www.c-span.org. September 12, 2005.

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• People really want to think that these things really happened. I don't know why that is important, but I know that when I finish reading a novel or something, I want to know how much of that really happened to this author.

  Alison Bechdel

  Book, Reading, Thinking

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• A white lace curtain on the window was for me as important as a great work of art. This gossamer quality, the reflection, the form, the movement. I learned more about art from that than I did in school.

  Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

  Art, School, Reflection

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• We have millions of questions that need answers because there are so many things that the reasoning mind cannot explain. It is not important if the answer is correct; just the answer itself makes us feel safe.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Mind, Needs, Answers

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• It is important to live each day with a positive perspective. It is not wise to pretend problems do not exist, but it is wise to look beyond the problem to the possibilities that are in it. When Goliath came against the Israelites, the soldiers all thought, "He's so big, we can never kill him." But David looked at the same giant and thought, "He's so big, I can't miss him.

  Dale E. Turner

  Wise, Perspective, Missing

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• The most important habit is solitude, quiet time. People who enter their day by taking 45 minutes or an hour for themselves - meditation, prayer, inspirational reading, taking a walk - before they go for it in the real world do best.

  Ken Blanchard

  Prayer, Real, Reading

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• Many years ago I was fishing, and as I was reeling in the poor fish, I realised, 'I am killing him - all for the passing pleasure it brings me'. Something inside me clicked. I realised as I watched him fight for breath that his life was as important to him as mine is to me.

  Paul McCartney

  Fighting, Years, Fishing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am interested in the size of your intention. It is better to overstate the important than to understate it.

  Robert Henri

  Size, Intention, Importance

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• A fop sometimes gives important advice.

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Giving, Advice, Sometimes

  "The Art of Poetry (Canto IV)". Book by Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, 1674.

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• It is precisely the way which is productive - this is the essential thing; becoming is more important than being.

  Paul Klee

  Essentials, Way, Becoming

  Paul Klee (2012). “Paul Klee”, p.115, Parkstone International

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• It's important to keep the eccentric spirit alive, because when that goes, the work will go.

  Nicolas Cage

  Alive, Eccentric, Spirit

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• The things which cannot be adequately represented by words are more important than those which can.

  James Fitzjames Stephen

  Importance

  James Fitzjames Stephen (1873). “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity”, p.298

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• One day, a new ideal will arise, and there will be an end to all wars. I die convinced of this. It will need much hard work, but it will be achieved… The important thing, until that happens, is to hold one's banner high and to struggle… Without struggle there is no life.

  Kathe Kollwitz

  Peace, War, Struggle

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• There are many reasons for keeping a diary: to make a note of facts that one considers important; to open one's heart, to give vent to one's feelings, to make confessions; from the instinct of economy which sometimes encourages a writer to make good use of even the smallest crumbs of his life, so that he may have one more book to publish; or again from vanity and self- satisfaction.

  Alberto Moravia

  Book, Heart, Vanity

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