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• Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self- importance.

  Goswami Kriyananda

  Acceptance, Opportunity, Self

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• A jest often decides matters of importance more effectively and happily than seriousness.

  Horace

  Humor, Matter, Jest

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• Every part of the journey is of importance to the whole.

  Teresa of Avila

  Journey, Suffering, Whole

  Teresa of Avila (2017). “The Way of Perfection”, p.127, Whitaker House

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• Nothing that actually occurs is of the smallest importance

  Oscar Wilde

  Smallest

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.1006, GENERAL PRESS

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• Exaggerated self-importance is deemed an individual fault, but a racial virtue.

  Kelly Miller

  Self, Faults, Virtue

  Kelly Miller (1908). “Race Adjustment: Essays on the Negro in America”

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• A painting with a message does not happen by accident. It happens when you place elements in their order of importance.

  Mike Svob

  Order, Doe, Elements

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• The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Writing, Literature, Firsts

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• Light is one of the most important factors in photography.

  Laura Gilpin

  Photography, Light, Important

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• Think about it: what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellow men. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Thinking, Men, Self

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Fire from Within”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Failure, Laughing, Immense

  Katherine Mansfield, Margaret Scott (1997). “The Katherine Mansfield notebooks”

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• I cannot emphasize enough the importance of a good teacher.

  Temple Grandin

  Teacher, Autism, Enough

  Interview with Dr. Stephen Edelson, www.autism.com. February 1, 1996.

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• To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.

  Alan Greenspan

  Success, Education, Business

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• The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Art, Important, Language

  "What is Art?". Book by Leo Tolstoy, 1897.

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• Very idle is all curiosity concerning other people's estimate of us, and all fear of remaining unknown is not less so.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  People, Curiosity, Idle

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.159, Penguin

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• Let not the author eat up the man, so that he shall be all balcony and no house.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, House, He Man

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1979). “Emerson's Literary Criticism”, p.105, U of Nebraska Press

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• The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brain and in your hands, wherever you go.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Hands, House, Brain

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• In this life we have to make many choices. Some are very important choices. Some are not. Many of our choices are between good and evil. The choices we make, however, determine to a large extent our happiness or our unhappiness, because we have to live with the consequences of our choices. Making perfect choices all of the time is not possible. It just doesn't happen. But it is possible to make good choices we can live with and grow from.

  James E. Faust

  Life, Happiness, Struggle Between Good And Evil

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• Knowing is NOT the most important thing. To be able to FIND OUT is more important than knowing.

  Sugata Mitra

  Education, Knowing, Important

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• It's really important for people who are HIV positive to reach out to let other people know that they can be tested, they can find out they can still live a life -- a positive life, a happy life.

  Laura Bush

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  "First Lady Winds Up West Africa Trip". www.foxnews.com. January 18, 2006.

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• What is the most important thing you could be working on in the world right now? ... And if you're not working on that, why aren't you?

  Aaron Swartz

  Motivational, Work, Important

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• To judge of the real importance of the individual, we should think of the effect his death would produce.

  Francis de Gaston, Chevalier de Levis

  Death, Real, Thinking

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• You cannot be afraid to present yourself. And sometimes that takes practice. If you're not comfortable with public speaking - and nobody starts out comfortable, you have to learn how to be comfortable - practice. I cannot overstate the importance of practicing. Get some close friends or family members to help evaluate you, or somebody at work that you trust.

  Hillary Clinton

  Helping, Sometimes, Close Friends

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• I never went into physics or the astronaut corps to become a role model. But after my first flight, it became clear to me that I was one. And I began to understand the importance of that to people. Young girls need to see role models in whatever careers they may choose, just so they can picture themselves doing those jobs someday. You can't be what you can't see.

  Sally Ride

  Girl, Jobs, Bad Ass

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• Every effort to make society sensitive to the importance of the family, is a great service to humanity.

  Pope John Paul II

  Effort, Humanity, Saint

  Pope John Paul II (1981). “African Addresses”

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• People without imagination are beginning to tire of the importance attached to comfort, to culture, to leisure, to all that destroys imagination. This means that people are not really tired of comfort, culture and leisure, but of the use to which they are.

  Raoul Vaneigem

  Tired, Mean, People

  Guy Debord, Ivan Chtcheglov, Asger Jorn, Raoul Vaneigem, Mustapha Khayati (2014). “Situationism: A Compendium”, p.100, Bread and Circuses Publishing

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