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• Forgiveness is the most important thing. We all have to forgive what was done to us - the Irish people have to forgive. The African people. The Jewish people. We all have to forgive and understand the only way to stop the cycle of hate and abuse is not to allow yourself to get caught in it.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Hate, Thinking, People

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• The important thing is that when your come to understand something you act on it, no matter how small that act is. Eventually it will take you where you need to go.

  Helen Prejean

  Fitness Motivational, Important, Needs

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• The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.

  Charles Dickens

  Inspirational, Motivational, Determination

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• The technology at the leading edge changes so rapidly that you have to keep current after you get out of school. I think probably the most important thing is having good fundamentals.

  Gordon Moore

  Wisdom, School, Knowledge

  "An Interview with Gordon Moore". Ingenuity 5 (2), May 2000.

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• Since most of us spend our lives doing ordinary tasks, the most important thing is to carry them out extraordinarily well.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Greatness, Important, Ordinary

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• The important thing is to bring people with Parkinson's into our world and for the public to have a real understanding of it, as they've beginning to have with autism.

  Helen Mirren

  Real, Our World, Autism

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• I learned three important things in college-to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes. What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.

  Agnes de Mille

  Inspirational, College, Thinking

  Agnes De Mille (2015). “Dance to the Piper”, p.79, New York Review of Books

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• The important thing is being capable of emotions, but to experience only one's own would be a sorry limitation.

  Andre Gide

  Sorry, Emotional, Justice

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• You really do learn by example... Especially women, sometimes we think somebody's going to rescue us, or somebody's going to teach us how to do it, when in fact we have to understand that the biggest resource we have is inside of ourselves. I know that I can count on me to take care of me. That's a very important thing to know.

  Marlo Thomas

  Inspirational, Motivational, Suicide

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• My father can not finish a sentence. When we were kids he would go, 'Girls the most important thing in life to remember is...' 'Daddy, what is it?' 'What's what, honey?' 'The most important thing in life to remember.' 'Oh, what's that?'

  Caroline Rhea

  Girl, Fathers Day, Kids

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• I'm certainly not a saint out there on the golf course. In fact, far from it. Like when you make a three-putt and become upset. I take one step back and remember there are more important things going on in the world than golf.

  Bernhard Langer

  Golf, Upset, Important

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• The single most important thing is to make people happy. If you are making people happy, as a side effect, they will be happy to open up their wallets and pay you.

  Derek Sivers

  Educational, People, Important

  Interview with Nithya Rajaram, supportbee.com. June 14, 2011.

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• The single most important thing to remember about any enterprise is that there are no results inside its walls. The result of a business is a satisfied customer.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Wall, Educational

  Peter Ferdinand Drucker (2006). “Classic Drucker: Essential Wisdom of Peter Drucker from the Pages of Harvard Business Review”, p.196, Harvard Business Press

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• The most important thing people did for me was to expose me to new things.

  Temple Grandin

  People, Autism, Important

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• I think the most important thing about coaching is that you have to have a sense of confidence about what you're doing. You have to be a salesman and you have to get your players, particularly your leaders, to believe in what you're trying to accomplish on the basketball floor.

  Phil Jackson

  Basketball, Believe, Player

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• Deep down, your players must know you care about them. This is the most important thing. I could never get away with what I do if the players feel I didn't care for them. They know, in the long run, I'm in their corner.

  Bo Schembechler

  Basketball, Running, Player

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• I try not to think about marks, the first place or gold medal. The most important thing is to show what you are capable of on ice. The rest will come on its own.

  Evgeni Plushenko

  Bad Ass, Thinking, Ice

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• The most important thing for a forward is speed of thought. Top players read the game.

  Samuel Eto'o

  Soccer, Player, Games

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• Genius is a will-o'-the-wisp if it lacks a solid foundation of perseverence and fanatical tenacity. This is the most important thing in all of human life.

  Adolf Hitler

  Important, Foundation, Genius

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• Make it plain that you have no time for war, that you have more important things to do....let the diplomats and marshals of the earth shoot each other.

  Wilhelm Reich

  War, Important, Earth

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• Scoring goals is a great feeling, but the most important thing to me is that the team is successful - it doesn't matter who scores the goals as long as we're winning.

  Cristiano Ronaldo

  Inspirational, Sports, Team

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• Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Money, Successful, Should Have

  The Irrational Knot (1905) preface

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• Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Life, Success, Beauty

  Major Barbara (1907) preface

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• Don't be afraid if things seem difficult in the beginning. That's only the initial impression. The important thing is not to retreat; you have to master yourself.

  Olga Korbut

  Recovery, New Beginnings, Gymnastics

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• The most important thing about motivation is goal setting. You should always have a goal.

  Francie Larrieu Smith

  Motivational, Sports, Goal

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