Important Quotes - Page 11

• What I have desired to do is to make the people of Boston realize that the most important office, and the one which all of us can and should fill, is that of private citizen.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Office, Citizens, Citizenship

  Boston Record, April 14, 1903.

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• Suppose there arise a dispute relative to some important question among us, should we not have recourse to the most ancient Churches with which the apostles held constant intercourse, and learn from them what is certain and clear in regard to the present question? For how should it be if the apostles themselves had not left us writings? Would it not be necessary, in that case, to follow the course of the tradition which they handed down to those to whom they did commit the Churches?

  Irenaeus of Lyons

  Writing, Church, Tradition

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• If your primary focus is to get over your health problems or get past a relationship crisis so that you can return to your former life and old patterns- that is, get back to business as usual-you are not really living. The distinction is paradoxical and sometimes subtle. It's the difference between walking through your life on your way to somewhere, and walking as your life. Even if you believe that where you want to get is extremely important, that destination is secondary. Your immediate experience is what really matters. It is your life.

  Richard Moss

  Life, Believe, Past

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• Life's two most important questions are Why? and Why not? The trick is knowing which one to ask.

  Gordon Livingston

  Two, Knowing, Why Not

  Gordon Livingston (2009). “Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart: Thirty True Things You Need to Know Now”, p.45, Da Capo Press

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• Know the moment when to work diligently. Even more important, know the moment when not to work, but to relax and play instead. This will not only benefit you immensely, but also will astonish your friends and competitors.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Inspirational, Play, Relax

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• To be more successful, learn to distinguish between the truly unimportant and the truly important. Eventually you will be considered not only a genius, but a messiah as well.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Inspirational, Successful, Genius

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• Your entire life begins to change the day that you decide you will no longer accept mediocrity for yourself. When you decide that TODAY is the most important day of your life, and that NOW matters more than any other time, because it is who you're becoming in every moment, based on the choices you're making and the actions you're taking, that is determining who and where you are going to be for the rest of your life.

  Hal Elrod

  Thinking, Choices, Becoming

  FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from Jul 05, 2013

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• Most of us are so busy trying to manage, maintain, or even just survive our life situation, that we don't make time to focus on what's most important - our LIFE.

  Hal Elrod

  Focus, Trying, Wake Up

  Hal Elrod (2016). “The Miracle Morning: The 6 Habits That Will Transform Your Life Before 8AM”, p.69, Hachette UK

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• Conversation was never begun at once, nor in a hurried manner. No one was quick with a question, no matter how important, and no one was pressed for an answer. A pause giving time for thought was the truly courteous way of beginning and conducting a conversation. Silence was meaningful with the Lakota, and his granting a space of silence to the speech-maker and his own moment of silence before talking was done in the practice of true politeness and regard for the rule that, "thought comes before speech."

  Luther Standing Bear

  Meaningful, Native American, Space

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• Money is the most important subject intellectual persons can investigate and reflect upon. It is so important that our present civilization may collapse unless it is widely understood and its defects remedied very soon.

  Robert W. Hemphill

  Money, Civilization, Intellectual

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• Manners will become important to children only if they are important to their parents.

  Thomas Lickona

  Family, Children, Parent

  Thomas Lickona (2012). “Raising Good Children: From Birth Through The Teenage Years”, p.84, Bantam

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• Whether or not anyone could have done it is not what's important. What is important is whether or not anyone would have done it.

  Derek R. Audette

  Art, Done, What's Important

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• We did not choose to believe that personal choice is the highest human virtue. Rather, we were taught, formed, forced to believe nothing is important in life other than that which we have personally chosen. The irony is that the belief that nothing is important in life other than that which we have personally chosen is a belief that we have not personally chosen! The supermarket and shopping mall have been our school.

  William Henry Willimon

  Believe, School, Shopping

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• It is important to recognize that behind the razzmatazz of consumerism, we all remain dependent on basic natural resources - land, air, water and biodiversity - for every product and service. There can be no free lunch on the environment.

  Klaus Topfer

  Air, Land, Lunch

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• Meditation is a very powerful time and you are very psychic. It is most important to not allow your attention, your mind, to wander.

  Frederick Lenz

  Powerful, Psychics, Meditation

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• (A manager) once confided in me she liked to picture in her mind's eye that every employee was wearing one of those sandwich billboard signs. On the front side, the sign would read 'Appreciate Me' and on the back side 'Make Me Feel Important.'

  James Hunter

  Eye, Appreciate, Mind

  James C. Hunter (2008). “The Servant: A Simple Story About the True Essence of Leadership”, p.109, Crown Business

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• So ensuring the integrity of the data and integrity and validity of the connection is a very important element in any company's strategy that is moving towards a Web service paradigm.

  John W. Thompson

  Integrity, Moving, Data

  "Interview: Symantec's John Thompson talks about big picture security". Interview with Ed Scannell, www.infoworld.com. June 16, 2004.

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• My dear citizens, fellow citizens, French people, this 6th of May, have just chosen change by bringing me the presidency of the French republic. I feel the honor, which has been given to me and the task, the important task faced beyond - in front of you to serve my country.

  Francois Hollande

  Country, People, Honor

  "Your Money", www.cnn.com. May 6, 2012.

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• Since you're going to die anyway, why not go do whatever it is you are in the mood to do. To postpone anything is ridiculous, if it's important to you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Death, Why Not, Ridiculous

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• I'm very lucky to be able to work in print and radio. I'm very lucky to be able to work at a time when finance and economics are really important. And the number of people who tell finance and economic stories in a kind of accessible storytelling way, there's much more demand than there is supply.

  David Plotz

  Numbers, People, Stories

  Source: www.slate.com

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• I think it's important that campaigns be aired all the way through, that people aren't voting three weeks before, before debates are held.

  Judy Woodruff

  Thinking, People, Voting

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• Artists see the world in a very different way than everyone else, and it's important when the artist points a lens at the law.

  Thane Rosenbaum

  Artist, Law, Different

  "The 'Ready for Her Close-Up' Transcript" by Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. May 26, 2015.

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• I think I've always been extremely conscious of the kind of empowerment that comes from realizing that you're in a position to express yourself. And the fact is that - and this is the thing about punk rock - that everyone is in a position to create culture, and that point has never been lost on me. To me, that's an important political aspect of doing this, and trying to live in a way that's about dialogue as opposed to like... spectacle.

  J. Robbins

  Thinking, Rocks, Political

  "Burning Airlines". Interview with Camilo Arturo Leslie, pitchfork.com. February 1, 2001.

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• There'll be some savings from preventing double dipping by public servants which are currently able to access not one but two fully tax payer funded schemes and of course there will be out paid parental leave levy. So all up not only is this an important economic reform, an important reform to have to grow our economy more strongly, it also will leave the budget better off which will help us fix the mess that Labor has created with the budget.

  Tony Abbott

  Two, Get Better, Reform

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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