Paramount Quotes

• Fighting for your convictions is important. But finding peace is paramount.

  Wes Moore

  Fighting, Important, Finding Peace

  Wes Moore (2010). “The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates”, p.168, Spiegel & Grau

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• How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Children, Innocence

  Charles Darwin, Francis Darwin (1958). “Autobiography and Selected Letters”, p.171, Courier Corporation

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• Beauty, of course, is the most important requirement and the paramount asset of the applicant.

  Florenz Ziegfeld

  Beauty, Important, Requirements

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

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• Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our children.

  Joe Baca

  Teacher, Children, Teaching

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• Paris is paramount for fashion, always was - always will be.

  Manolo Blahnik

  Fashion, Paris

  “Manolo Blahnik spreads the love” by Dan Thawley, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 5, 2012.

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• Some people that work for Hot Pockets came to my Denver Paramount Theater show. They brought these hot pocket boxes the size of suit cases for me to sign. I wrote "these are WMD's" on the boxes. The HP people seem to have a good sense of humor about all of it.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Wmd, People, Pockets

  Brightest Young Things Interview, brightestyoungthings.com. May 21, 2007.

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• A total commitment is paramount to reaching the ultimate in performance.

  Tom Flores

  Life, Motivational Sports, Commitment

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• Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.

  Irving Berlin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Effort is the key, but direction and loyalty are paramount.

  Zig Ziglar

  Loyalty, Keys, Effort

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• Staying healthy and consistent is paramount.

  Shawn Johnson

  Fitness Motivational, Healthy, Consistent

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• It is a mighty error to suppose that none but violent and strong passions, such as love and ambition, are able to vanquish the rest. Even idleness, as feeble and languishing as it is, sometimes reigns over them; it usurps the throne and sits paramount over all the designs and actions of our lives, and imperceptibly wastes and destroys all our passions and all our virtues.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Strong, Passion, Ambition

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• A leader's responsibility to his team is paramount. It overshadows even his own personal feelings at any given time.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Team, Responsibility

  Mike Krzyzewski, Donald T. Phillips (2010). “Leading with the Heart: Coach K's Successful Strategies for Basketball, Business, and Life”, p.134, Hachette UK

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• We have found it of paramount importance that in order to progress, we must recognize our ignorance and leave room for doubt.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Ignorance, Order, Doubt

  Richard P. Feynman (2011). “"What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character”, p.263, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Although idea and form are ultimately paramount in my work, so too are chance, accident, and rawness.

  Martin Puryear

  Ideas, Rawness, Chance

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• Conceptual art, for me, means work in which the idea is paramount and the material form is secondary, lightweight, ephemeral, cheap, unpretentious and/or ‘dematerialized’

  Lucy R. Lippard

  Art, Mean, Ideas

  Lucy R. Lippard (1973). “Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972 ...”, p.7, Univ of California Press

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• There has been no clearer principle of English or American constitutional law than that, in criminal cases, it is not only the power and duty of juries to judge what are the facts, what is the law, and what is the moral intent of the accused; but that it is also their power, and their primary and paramount duty, to judge the justice of the law, and to hold all laws invalid, that are, in their opinion, unjust or oppressive, and find all persons guiltless in violating, or resisting the execution of, such laws.

  Lysander Spooner

  Life, War, Law

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• Mothers, your relationship with your daughter is of paramount importance, and so is your example. How you love and honor her father, his priesthood, and his divine role will be reflected and perhaps amplified in your daughter’s attitudes and behavior.

  Elaine S. Dalton

  Daughter, Mother, Attitude

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• Intelligence is of paramount importance to live life sensibly, because without intelligence, there is no clarity. And Clarity is intelligence everyone is capable of.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, Live Life, Perception

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• I am much afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labour in explaining the Holy Scriptures, and engraving them in the hearts of youth. I advise no one to place his child where the scriptures do not reign paramount. Every institution in which means are not unceasingly occupied with the Word of God must be corrupt.

  Martin Luther

  Education, Children, Heart

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• We aren't upset when Paramount makes a $200 million movie that flops, but if a charity experiments with a $5 million fundraising event that fails, we call in the attorneys. So charities are petrified of trying bold new revenue-generating endeavors and can't develop the powerful learning curves the for-profit sector can.

  Dan Pallotta

  Powerful, Curves, Fundraising

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• The leap of faith is a strategic impasse that confronts every Christian in search of converts; and, as he sees the matter, there is no wrong way to become a Christian. It is the end that is importnat, not the means; it does not matter why you believe, so long as you believe. For the philosopher, in contrast, the paramount issue is the justification of belief, not the fact of belief itself.

  George H. Smith

  Christian, Believe, Mean

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• In Science the paramount appeal is to the Intellect-its purpose being instruction; in Art, the paramount appeal is to the Emotions-its purpose being pleasure.

  George Henry Lewes

  Art, Science, Purpose

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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• The effect of the corporation, under the prevailing policy of the free, go-as-you-please method of organization and management, has been to drive the bulk of our people, other than farmers, out of property ownership; and, if allowed to go on as present, it will keep them out... The paramount problem is not how to stop the growth of property, and the building up of wealth, but how to manage it so that every species of property, like a healthy growing tree will spread its roots deeply and widely in the soil of a popular proprietorship.

  Peter S. Grosscup

  Building Up, Organization, Roots

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• Chilvalry's essential function, Maurice Keen has written, is always to hold up an idealised image of armed conflict in defiance of the harsh realities of actual warfare. By definition, chivalry also reaffirms the paramount importance of custom, hierarchy and inherited rank.

  Linda Colley

  Reality, Essentials, Warfare

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• I'm from Chicago, my family started a chain of movie theaters in Chicago that were around for 70 years and then one of them became the head of Paramount and the other was the head of production at MGM and we all came out of Chicago.

  Bob Balaban

  Years, Chicago, My Family

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