Important Quotes - Page 15

• It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical

  Boris Yeltsin

  Thinking, Unorthodox, Situation

  Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (1990). “Against the grain: an autobiography”, Simon & Schuster

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• What we make is more important than what we are, particularly if making is our profession.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Work, Profession, Ifs

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2014). “The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers Vol II: 1937-1943: From Novelist to Playwright”, p.222, St. Martin's Press

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• Nothing is more important than to war on war.

  Pope Leo XIII

  Peace, War

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• I have done nothing important or distinguished since we met except to win the handicap prize, worth ?4 10/- at North Berwick.

  Arthur Balfour

  Winning, Done, Mets

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• My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important.

  Sidney Poitier

  Father, Men, Race

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• The most important element in a picture cannot be defined.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Elements, Defined

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• It is important to use all knowledge ethically, humanely, and lovingly.

  Carol Lynn Pearson

  Knowledge, Use

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• One's self-image is very important because if that's in good shape, then you can do anything, or practically anything.

  John Gielgud

  Confidence, Self, Shapes

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• Shock is shock. Your body goes into shock, regardless of it being real blood or fake blood. The mind sends powerful messages to all the various glands and secretions in the body. It's impossible trying to act it; it just happens. It's a very important question: no acting.

  Ben Kingsley

  Powerful, Real, Blood

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• I suspect that the most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention And especially if it's given from the heart. When people are talking, there's no need to do anything but receive them. Just take them in. Listen to what they're saying. Care about it. Most times caring about it is even more important than understanding it. Most of us don't value ourselves or our love enough to know this.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Powerful, Communication, Heart

  Rachel Naomi Remen (2006). “Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.112, Penguin

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• The drive to resist compulsion is more important in wild animals than sex, food, or water... The drive for competence or to resist compulsion is a drive to avoid helplessness.

  Martin Seligman

  Sex, Animal, Water

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• Pleasure is the least consequential... engagement and meaning are much more important.

  Martin Seligman

  Engagement, Pleasure

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• The thing with kids is that you only get one chance to do it right. It's really important to share their gifts while they're discovering them. That's why spelling bees are such a compelling story. They stimulate them intellectually, they awaken their competitive spirit, but it's fun. There's something fun about words.

  Laurence Fishburne

  Fun, Kids, Stories

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• It may indeed prove to be far the most difficult and not the least important task for human reason rationally to comprehend its own limitations. It is essential for the growth of reason that as individuals we should bow to forces and obey principles which we cannot hope fully to understand, yet on which the advance and even the preservation of civilization depend.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Civilization, Growth, Principles

  "The Counter-Revolution of Science". Book by Friedrich Hayek, "Conscious" Direction and the Growth of Reason (ch. 9), 1952.

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• The first step in freeing yourself from social restrictions is the realization that there is no such thing as a safe code of conduct - one that would earn everyone's approval. Your actions can always be condemned by someone - for being too bold or too apathetic, for being too conformist or too nonconformist, for being too liberal or too conservative. So it's necessary to decide whose approval is important to you.

  Harry Browne

  Realization, Safe, Firsts

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• The thing about real life is that important events don't announce themselves... Usually something that is going to change your whole life is a memory before you can stop and be impressed about it.

  Edith Schaeffer

  Memories, Real, Important Events

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• America has the greatest reputation in the world for helping others whenever and wherever disaster strikes. Now, more than ever,it's important for us to contribute to those who are in need. Your assistance is really beneficial and will be greatly welcomed and appreciated.

  Bobby Knight

  Helping Others, America, Needs

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• Never work for a company that says people are its most important asset. If you wanted to get a mortgage and you said that your only asset was people you would end up living in a tent.

  Guy Browning

  People, Tents, Mortgage

  People, 2006.

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• What is important is not what someone is but what he is waiting for. Not the events of life but its possibilities.

  Dorothee Solle

  Waiting, Events, Possibility

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• Be as delicate as possible. If communication accomplishes something on the gross but damages something on the level of feeling then it is a spiritual loss! The feeling is more important for life.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Spiritual, Communication, Loss

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• The most important things in a painting are Form and Value. Color comes last - like a friend you welcome.

  Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

  Color, Lasts, Welcome

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• It seems to me very important to begin by an indication of the darkest values (assuming that the canvas is white), and to continue in order to the lightest value. From the darkest to the lightest I would establish twenty shades...

  Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

  Order, Twenties, Shade

  "Artists on Art - from the 14th - 20th centuries" edited by Robert Goldwater and Marco Treves; Pantheon Books, London, (p. 240), 1972.

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• The painters have no copyright on modern art!... I believe in, and make no apologies for, photography: it is the most important graphic medium of our day. It does not have to be, indeed cannot be - compared to painting - it has different means and aims.

  Edward Weston

  Photography, Art, Believe

  Edward Weston (1971). “Edward Weston: The Flame of Recognition: His Photographs Accompanied by Excerpts from the Daybooks & Letters”

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• Work out what is truly important to you. Research shows people with consistently high happiness scores prioritise their life according to the things they value. They've worked out what is most important to them and don't allow themselves to get sidetracked.

  Robert Holden

  Work Out, People, Research

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• Money is important but it is not everything... Think about everything you already have that money can't buy.

  Robert Holden

  Money, Thinking

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