Important Things Quotes - Page 30

• At present we educate people only up to the point where they can earn a living and marry; then education ceases altogether, as though a complete mental outfit had been acquired. ... Vast numbers of men and women thus spend their entire lives in complete ignorance of the most important things.

  Carl Jung

  Ignorance, Men, Numbers

  Carl Gustav Jung (1953). “Collected Works of C.G. Jung: The development of personality”

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• I know that you, ladies and gentlemen, have a philosophy, each and all of you, and that the most interesting and important thing about you is the way in which it determines the perspective in your several worlds.

  William James

  Philosophy, Interesting, Perspective

  William James (1987). “Writings, 1902-1910”, p.487, Library of America

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• Good health is the most important thing. More than success. More than money. More than power.

  Lee Strasberg

  Important, Good Health

  "Fictional character: Hyman Roth". "The Godfather Part II", 1974.

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• The most important thing in my life is Christ.

  Tim Howard

  Winning, Important, Companionship

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• The most important thing in my life is Christ. He’s more important to me than winning or losing or whether I’m playing or not. Everything else is just a bonus.

  Tim Howard

  Christian, Winning, Jesus Christ

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• In your career you have a lot of good moments and bad ones. The important thing is to have enough motivation to keep working all the days with humility and trying to be a better player than before. I am going to try to continue doing this.

  Rafael Nadal

  Motivation, Humility, Player

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• For the last five or six years the most important thing in my life has been my family.

  Jimmy Connors

  Years, Important, Lasts

  Jimmy Connors (2013). “The Outsider: My Autobiography”, p.364, Random House

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• The most important thing to realize is that everyone is capable of telling a story.

  Maeve Binchy

  Important, Stories, Realizing

  FaceBook post by Maeve Binchy from Mar 05, 2013

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• Associative indexing, the basic idea of which is a provision whereby any item may be caused at will to select immediately and automatically another. This is the essential feature of the Memex. The process of tying two items together is the important thing.

  Vannevar Bush

  Ideas, Two, Important

  Vannevar Bush (1946). “Endless horizons”

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• We must first realize that dancing is an absolutely independent art, not merely a secondary accompanying one. I believe that it is one of the great arts. . . . The important thing in ballet is the movement itself. A ballet may contain a story, but the visual spectacle . . . is the essential element. The choreographer and the dancer must remember that they reach the audience through the eye. It's the illusion created which convinces the audience, much as it is with the work of a magician.

  George Balanchine

  Art, Believe, Independent

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The most important thing as a leader is your relationship with God.

  Manny Pacquiao

  Motivation, Leader, Important

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• The most important thing in life is not simply to capitalize on your gains. Any fool can do that. The important thing is to profit from your losses. That requires intelligence, and makes the difference between a man of sense and a fool.

  Dale Carnegie

  Life, Loss, Men

  Dale Carnegie (2010). “How to Stop Worrying and Start Living”, p.240, Simon and Schuster

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• I’m still me, Malala. The important thing is God has given me my life.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Important, Malala, Given

  Malala Yousafzai (2013). “I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World (Young Readers Edition)”, p.256, Hachette UK

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• The important thing to note is that it is not important whether Malala was shot or not - Malala is not asking for personal favors or support. She is asking for support with girls' education and women's rights. So don't support Malala, support her campaign for girls' education and women's rights.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Girl, Rights, Support

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• The important thing is not establishing if you are afraid or not but it's to be able to live with your own fear without being influenced by it. Otherwise it's not courage anymore, but recklessness.

  Giovanni Falcone

  Important, Able, Ifs

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• It's normal that there be fear, in every man, the important thing is that it be accompanied by courage

  Paolo Borsellino

  Men, Important, Normal

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• And it seems to be today, image is a real important thing once again.

  Phil Anselmo

  Real, Important, Today

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose.

  John McEnroe

  Loss, Optimism, Important

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• The most important thing to a lot of people, is to belong to something that's hip or whatever. To be a part of something that's not society, just a clique. And they get real sidetracked trying to think like everyone else. They don't realize that you have to motivate yourself to do things you want to do. Some people just like going along for the ride. And those are the kind of people I don't get along with too well.

  Ric Ocasek

  Real, Thinking, People

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• The important thing is to create. Nothing else matters; creation is all.

  Pablo Picasso

  Creative, Important, Matter

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• The important thing was that I got the win. It's good for confidence and the season.

  Usain Bolt

  Motivational, Winning, Track

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• The only important thing I have to say is that my father never fought against his country.

  Zinedine Zidane

  Fathers Day, Country, Dad

  "ZZ top" by Andrew Hussey, www.theguardian.com. April 3, 2004.

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• I have got so low that I have asked to be hospitalized and for deep narcosis (sleep). I cannot stand being awake. The pain is too much... Something has happened to me, this vital spark has stopped burning - I go to a dinner table now and I don't say a word, just sit there like a dodo. Normally I am the centre of attention, keeps the conversation going, - so that is depressing in itself. It's like another person taking over, very strange. The most important thing I say is 'good evening' and then I go quiet.

  Spike Milligan

  Depression, Depressing, Pain

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• The most important thing about leadership is your character and the values that guide your life.

  Brenda Barnes

  Leadership, Character, Important

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• Winston Churchill said that appetite was the most important thing about education. Leadership guru Warren Bennis says he wants to be remembered as 'curious to the end.' David Ogilvy contends that the greatest ad copywriters are marked by an insatiable curiosity 'about every subject under the sun.'

  Tom Peters

  Leadership, Education, Curiosity

  Tom Peters (1999). “The Project50 (Reinventing Work): Fifty Ways to Transform Every "Task" into a Project That Matters!”, p.29, Knopf

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