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• Although many of us probably didn't get a thorough education in the value of a positive attitude, we can teach ourselves. Simply by making a decision to look for the good, happy, and beautiful in all things and all people, you will have completed the first and most important step in learning to accentuate the positive.

  Sue Thoele

  Beautiful, Attitude, Positive Thinking

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• Children of a culture born in a water-rich environment, we have never really learned how important water is to us. We understand it, but we do not respect it.

  William Ashworth

  Children, Rain, Rivers

  William Ashworth (1982). “Nor any drop to drink”

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• To foster the people's willing spirit is often as important as to possess the more concrete forms of power.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Military, People, Spirit

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• I've discovered that numerous peak performers use the skill of mental rehearsal of visualization. They mentally run through important events before they happen.

  Charles Garfield

  Running, Skills, Important Events

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• Cats appear to have a wonderful ability to weed out everything they don't need to know, while honing in on what is important to them.

  Christina Hendricks

  Weed, Cat, Needs

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• What I have desired to do is to make the people of Boston realize that the most important office, and the one which all of us can and should fill, is that of private citizen.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Office, Citizens, Citizenship

  Boston Record, April 14, 1903.

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• Suppose there arise a dispute relative to some important question among us, should we not have recourse to the most ancient Churches with which the apostles held constant intercourse, and learn from them what is certain and clear in regard to the present question? For how should it be if the apostles themselves had not left us writings? Would it not be necessary, in that case, to follow the course of the tradition which they handed down to those to whom they did commit the Churches?

  Irenaeus of Lyons

  Writing, Church, Tradition

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• An extremely important part of our work toward emotional growth and change will come from examining our belief systems regarding all areas of life. To gain the courage to be yourself, you need to address the beliefs that are keeping you stuck where you are. What beliefs, assumptions, and attitudes are you holding onto even though they no longer enhance your life? It is possible to free yourself from worn-out beliefs and acquire ones that bring happiness, strength, and self-esteem. What we believe we may become.

  Sue Thoele

  Being Yourself, Attitude, Self Esteem

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• No discovery of modern psychology is, in my opinion, so important as its scientific proof of the necessity of self-sacrifice (or discipline) to self-realization and happiness.

  Henry C. Link

  Kindness, Sacrifice, Discovery

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• I think our animals are angels, earth-angels, pointing out for us the steadfast path of love, loyalty, optimism, faith, joy, hope. They teach us everything important about life.

  Sophy Burnham

  Loyalty, Angel, Thinking

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• If your primary focus is to get over your health problems or get past a relationship crisis so that you can return to your former life and old patterns- that is, get back to business as usual-you are not really living. The distinction is paradoxical and sometimes subtle. It's the difference between walking through your life on your way to somewhere, and walking as your life. Even if you believe that where you want to get is extremely important, that destination is secondary. Your immediate experience is what really matters. It is your life.

  Richard Moss

  Life, Believe, Past

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• Life's two most important questions are Why? and Why not? The trick is knowing which one to ask.

  Gordon Livingston

  Two, Knowing, Why Not

  Gordon Livingston (2009). “Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart: Thirty True Things You Need to Know Now”, p.45, Da Capo Press

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• Who you're becoming is far more important than what you're doing, and yet, it is what you're doing that is determining who you're becoming.

  Hal Elrod

  Positive, Law Of Attraction, Becoming

  FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from Jun 03, 2013

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• Know the moment when to work diligently. Even more important, know the moment when not to work, but to relax and play instead. This will not only benefit you immensely, but also will astonish your friends and competitors.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Inspirational, Play, Relax

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• To be more successful, learn to distinguish between the truly unimportant and the truly important. Eventually you will be considered not only a genius, but a messiah as well.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Inspirational, Successful, Genius

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• Anyone can achieve something important. Contrary to popular belief, the key is not hard work, but finding the right thing to achieve.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Inspirational, Hard Work, Keys

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• If you want to retire happy, great health is important. The foundation for all happiness lies in health. Physical, mental, or spiritual health - you must use it or lose it!

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Spiritual, Retirement, Lying

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• Your entire life begins to change the day that you decide you will no longer accept mediocrity for yourself. When you decide that TODAY is the most important day of your life, and that NOW matters more than any other time, because it is who you're becoming in every moment, based on the choices you're making and the actions you're taking, that is determining who and where you are going to be for the rest of your life.

  Hal Elrod

  Thinking, Choices, Becoming

  FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from Jul 05, 2013

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• Most of us are so busy trying to manage, maintain, or even just survive our life situation, that we don't make time to focus on what's most important - our LIFE.

  Hal Elrod

  Focus, Trying, Wake Up

  Hal Elrod (2016). “The Miracle Morning: The 6 Habits That Will Transform Your Life Before 8AM”, p.69, Hachette UK

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• Darwin's book, On the Origin of Species, was published in 1859. It is perhaps the most influential book that has ever been published, because it was read by scientist and non- scientist alike, and it aroused violent controversy. Religious people disliked it because it appeared to dispense with God; scientists liked it because it seemed to solve the most important problem in the universe-the existence of living matter. In fact, evolution became in a sense a scientific religion; almost all scientists have accepted it and many are prepared to 'bend' their observations to fit in with it.

  Henry Lipson

  Religious, Book, People

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• Conversation was never begun at once, nor in a hurried manner. No one was quick with a question, no matter how important, and no one was pressed for an answer. A pause giving time for thought was the truly courteous way of beginning and conducting a conversation. Silence was meaningful with the Lakota, and his granting a space of silence to the speech-maker and his own moment of silence before talking was done in the practice of true politeness and regard for the rule that, "thought comes before speech."

  Luther Standing Bear

  Meaningful, Native American, Space

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• Money is the most important subject intellectual persons can investigate and reflect upon. It is so important that our present civilization may collapse unless it is widely understood and its defects remedied very soon.

  Robert W. Hemphill

  Money, Civilization, Intellectual

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• (A manager) once confided in me she liked to picture in her mind's eye that every employee was wearing one of those sandwich billboard signs. On the front side, the sign would read 'Appreciate Me' and on the back side 'Make Me Feel Important.'

  James Hunter

  Eye, Appreciate, Mind

  James C. Hunter (2008). “The Servant: A Simple Story About the True Essence of Leadership”, p.109, Crown Business

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• Give me the discipline to get rid of the stuff that's not important, the freedom to savor the stuff that gives me joy, and the patience not to worry about the stuff that's messy but not hurting anybody.

  Vinita Hampton Wright

  Hurt, Discipline, Giving

  Vinita Hampton Wright (2010). “Simple Acts of Moving Forward”, p.30, Loyola Press

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• In every single job, in every single business, in every single profession - in whatever you do - there can be the satisfaction and the happiness that comes from knowing that what you do is important, that what you do makes a difference in the lives of the people you serve.

  Wayne D. Dosick

  Jobs, Work, Differences

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