Importance Quotes - Page 11

• I began to learn the importance of lifting things up and looking underneath.

  Deb Caletti

  Lifting

  Deb Caletti (2010). “The Secret Life of Prince Charming”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• Do you know that I am afraid that good people do a great deal of harm in this world? Certainly the greatest harm they do is that they make badness of such extraordinary importance.

  Oscar Wilde

  People, World, Harm

  Oscar Wilde (2000). “The Plays of Oscar Wilde”, p.168, Wordsworth Editions

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• The 'Soul Train' legacy and brand are of the utmost importance to me and to 'Soul Train's' millions of fans. After years of offers, I feel the time is now finally right to pass the torch.

  Don Cornelius

  Years, Soul, Torches

  "Next stop for 'Soul Train': new ownership" by Kimberly Nordyke, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 18, 2008.

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• I want to focus on the importance of supporting marriage. I always speak about the need to respect everyone's human dignity - regardless of their sexual orientation. I think strengthening marriage is something that benefits everyone.

  Salvatore J. Cordileone

  Thinking, Focus, Needs

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• I think the success of 'Downton' is partly because there are effectively 18 leading characters, all given equal importance, so it's enormously involving on many levels. But also, it's a new story. It's not like Dickens or Austen, where everyone knows the denouement.

  Michelle Dockery

  Character, Thinking, Stories

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Twenty-eight years in business and you understand the importance of problem solving and the importance of efficiency, because if you don't become efficient, you don't run a business well, and you are out of business. And I think some of those principles could be applied to leadership in Washington.

  Steve Daines

  Running, Thinking, Eight

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• Wikipedia was a big help for science, especially science communication, and it shows no sign of diminishing in importance.

  Aubrey de Grey

  Communication, Wikipedia, Helping

  "Speaker interview: Aubrey de Grey". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2010.

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• There's something missing about how we're informing the youngsters coming along about what matters in the world. We teach them the numbers and the letters, but we fail to communicate the importance of our connection to the living world.

  Sylvia Earle

  Numbers, What Matters, Missing

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• I wrote a great deal during the next ten [early] years,but very little of any importance; there are not more than four or five papers which I can still remember with some satisfaction.

  G. H. Hardy

  Science, Years, Paper

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• Some major churches overemphasize the importance of preaching as a means to increase membership and fail to reach out with compassion to their neighbors in need.

  Jimmy Carter

  Mean, Compassion, Church

  Jimmy Carter (2011). “Living Faith”, p.207, Three Rivers Press

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• A wise man in China asked his gardener to plant a shrub. The gardener objected that it only flowered once in a hundred years. "In that case," said the wise man, "plant it immediately." [On the importance of fundamental research.]

  John Charles Polanyi

  Wise, Wisdom, Science

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• Regimes are modes of self-discipline, but are not solely constituted by the orderings of convention in day-to-day life; they are personal habits, organised in some part according to social conventions, but also formed by personal inclinations and dispositions. Regimes are of central importance to self-identity precisely because they connect habits with aspects of the visible appearance of the body.

  Anthony Giddens

  Self, Discipline, Identity

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• In a world of alternative lifestyle options, strategic life planning becomes of special importance. Like lifestyle patterns, life plans of one kind or another are something of an inevitable concomitant of post-traditional social forms. Life plans are the substantial content of the reflexively organised trajectory of the self. Life-planning is a means of preparing a course of future actions mobilised in terms of the self's biography. We may also speak here of the existence of personal calendars or life-plan calendars, in relation to which the personal time of the lifespan is handled.

  Anthony Giddens

  Life, Mean, Self

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• The difficulties of living in a secular risk culture are compounded by the importance of lifestyle choices.

  Anthony Giddens

  Lifestyle Choices, Risk, Culture

  Anthony Giddens (2013). “Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age”, p.188, John Wiley & Sons

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• The importance of the assistant director cannot be overemphasized.

  John Frankenheimer

  Directors, Assistants

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• Playing on the streets of Iraq, or in Israel or the Gaza strip, I'd sing angry protest songs against war. People would say, 'Make us clap, make us dance, and laugh and sing.' It really made me think about the importance of happy music.

  Michael Franti

  Song, War, Thinking

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• My grandmother had great influence on me. She was secretary of state in the 1970's, and that's when I was born. She showed me the importance of public service, and she was admired by people regardless of their political party.

  Stephanie Herseth Sandlin

  Party, Grandmother, People

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• People place such importance on the external. It's disgusting.

  Tab Hunter

  People, Disgusting

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• I'm sure mothers are important across every culture, but particularly in Korean society, the role of the mother is of great importance.

  Bong Joon-ho

  Mother, Important, Culture

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• You don't have to convince Muslims of God's existence or importance.

  Peter Kreeft

  Existence, Convince

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• If you are reading this, and feel discouraged by an inability to communicate to others your own feelings about the importance of an active space development effort, comfort yourself with this thought. If you want to be on the leading edge of anything, you have by definition to be a couple of standard deviations away from most people. That makes you an odd-ball. The trick is to learn to accept it, then to like it-and keep on making lots of noise for what you believe in.

  Charles Sheffield

  Couple, Reading, Believe

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• There is no doubt that, as a society, we have become blase about the importance of marriage as a stabilising influence and less inclined to prize it as a worthwhile institution.

  Keith O'Brien

  Doubt, Influence, Institutions

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• Poetry and prose are of equal importance to me as a reader, and there doesn't seem to be much difference in my own writing.

  Kevin Powers

  Writing, Differences, Equal

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• I could give 48 penalties in every match if I wanted to. It is a question of sometimes choosing what is - in your own mind - of material importance and what isn't, what might be a crucial potential penalty and what might not be.

  Alan Lewis

  Giving, Mind, Might

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• Our legislation addresses broadcasts over the public airwaves, but I hope the cable and satellite industries see the importance of this issue and voluntarily create a family tier of programming and offer culturally responsible products.

  Charles W. Pickering

  Issues, Addresses, Responsible

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