Importance Quotes - Page 27

• I think it's really important to give yourself a very big question that you're working on that you can come home to.

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Home, Thinking, Giving

  "High Honors For Actress Deavere Smith". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. February 25, 2013.

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• The adhesion of Coca-Cola is an affirmation of the expansion of the Global Pact and the importance it assumes worldwide, especially on the US market where more and more enterprises have decided to get involved.

  George Kell

  Expansion, Affirmation, Assuming

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• The first half of fiscal 2006 has been exceptional for Cochlear. Importantly, Cochlear capitalized on a number of opportunities in this half with worldwide market share estimated to be in excess of 70%.

  Chris Roberts

  Opportunity, Numbers, Excess

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• I moved here when I was 20 to go to college. After I moved here, I became much more aware of the importance of the culture and literature to my life. Sometimes when you're immersed in something, you just don't notice it very much. Moving away makes you appreciate your culture. Living here, I've thought more and more about India, and what being Indian-American means to me. And it's made me incorporate things from Indian literature into my own writing.

  Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

  Moving, Writing, Mean

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• I think faster and, maybe more importantly, more efficiently. Not only as the game goes on, but as the season goes on.

  Dan Jansen

  Thinking, Games, Goes On

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• I have always found it a testament to the importance of painting that the first thing many people do when their home is on fire is to grab their paintings and then run out.

  Robert Genn

  Running, Home, Fire

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• Before starting work go thru all the former material. Many things of vital importance have been lost sight of.

  Charles E. Burchfield

  Sight, Lost, Starting

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• To attach no importance to public opinion, is a proof that you do not merit its suffrage.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Public Opinion, Merit, Proof

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• Malcolm was a firm believer in the value and importance of our heritage. He believed that we have valuable and distinct cultural traditions which need to be institutionalized so that they can be passed on to our heirs.

  Betty Shabazz

  Needs, Heritage, Heirs

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• Nothing is more important than a good education.

  Roy Wilkins

  Important, Good Education

  Roy Wilkins, Tom Mathews (1982). “Standing Fast: The Autobiography of Roy Wilkins”, Viking Adult

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• I always thought of myself as a humanities person as a kid, but I liked electronics. Then I read something that one of my heroes, Edwin Land of Polaroid, said about the importance of people who could stand at the intersection of humanities and sciences, and I decided that's what I wanted to do.

  Steve Jobs

  Hero, Kids, Land

  "The Genius of Jobs" by Walter Isaacson, www.nytimes.com. October 29, 2011.

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• It is not as if our homeopathic brothers are asleep: far from it, they are awake - many of them at any rate - to the importance of the scientific study of disease.

  William Osler

  Brother, Dark, Age

  Sir William Osler (1932). “Aequanimitas”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• Sensible of the importance of Christian piety and virtue to the order and happiness of a state, I cannot but earnestly commend to you every measure for their support and encouragement

  John Hancock

  Christian, Encouragement, Order

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• The most ultimately righteous of all wars is a war with savages, though it is apt to be also the most terrible and inhuman. The rude, fierce settler who drives the savage from the land lays all civilized mankind under a debt to him. ...[I]t is of incalculable importance that America, Australia, and Siberia should pass out of the hands of their red, black, and yellow aboriginal owners, and become the heritage of the dominant world races.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  War, Land, Yellow

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• Ego synthesized is selfhood, the sense of self-importance, that you really matter ... nothing could be further from the truth.

  Frederick Lenz

  Humility, Buddhism, Self

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• What a crock. I could easily overemphasize the importance of good grammar. For example, I could say: Bad grammar is the leading cause of slow, painful death in North America, or Without good grammar, the United States would have lost World War II.

  Dave Barry

  War, Humorous, Painful Death

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• President Bush is often out there talking about the importance of staying the course, and about the sacrifice, but he has not attended a funeral of a soldier who has fallen in Iraq.

  Dana Milbank

  Sacrifice, Talking, Iraq

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• Imperialism is capitalism at that stage of development at which the dominance of monopolies and finance capitalism is established; in which the export of capital has acquired pronounced importance; in which the division of the world among the international trusts has begun, in which the division of all territories of the globe among the biggest capitalist powers has been completed.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Development, World, Territory

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• In brainwashing and the eliciting of confessions, the physiological importance of inducing a sense of guilt and conflict can hardly be over emphasized.

  William Sargant

  Guilt, Conflict, Confession

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• The Depression taught me what frugality means and the importance of not losing money.

  Irving Kahn

  Mean, Taught, Losing

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• I grew up in Sierra Leone, in a small village where as a boy my imagination was sparked by the oral tradition of storytelling. At a very young age I learned the importance of telling stories - I saw that stories are the most potent way of seeing anything we encounter in our lives, and how we can deal with living.

  Ishmael Beah

  Boys, Imagination, Age

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• Perfume has a long and fascinating history and the beautifully crafted bottles used to store it over the centuries demonstrate its importance. Each has mirrored the latest tastes in fashion technology, design and art.

  Judith Miller

  Fashion, Art, Technology

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• It’s not our job to assess the merit of our vision or judge its importance. It is our job to receive the vision and act upon it.

  Debbie Ford

  Jobs, Judging, Vision

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• Young people have many pleasures and many sorrows, because they only have themselves to think of, so every wish and every notion assume importance; every pleasure is tasted to the full, but also every sorrow, and many who find that their wishes cannot be fulfilled, immediately put an end to their lives.

  Hermann Hesse

  Thinking, People, Sorrow

  "Gertrude". Book by Hermann Hesse, p. 32, 1910.

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• Besides the five senses, there is a sixth sense, of equal importance--the sense of duty.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Five Senses, Duty, Equal

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