Important Quotes - Page 17

• Military simulation is an important way of training people for an emergency

  Greg Gutfeld

  Military, People, Training

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I don't worry about things that aren't important.

  Benjamin Carson

  Worry

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Not to discount my music, but I'm always suspicious of the music that I make on some level, as to how valid it is. Or maybe not "valid," but how important.

  Ryan Adams

  Levels, Discounts, Suspicious

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 28, 2007.

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• Ecology more important than saving animals from slavery??? Humans suffer the raping of the earth but animals suffer DOUBLY: the raping of the earth PLUS their own raping by humans. They are innocent/they are not the ones who raped the earth/they enrich it for us all from the tiniest microscopic beings to the largest ones.

  Adela Popescu

  Animal, Suffering, Slavery

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• My homies in Gadsden aren't as exposed as I am culturally, which is awesome - that's why I love going home. I'm in the kitchen with people who don't know anything but the simple life, what's important to them, and what's dope.

  Yelawolf

  Home, Dope, Simple

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• There are two ways of forming an opinion. One is the scientific method; the other, the scholastic. To the scientific mind, experimental proof is all-important, and theory is merely a convenience in description, to be junked when it no longer fits. To the academic mind, authority is everything, and facts are junked when they do not fit theory.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Two, Mind, Scientific Method

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• Controlling my temper is important, ... Sometimes it's hard, but I try.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Trying, Sometimes, Temper

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• All of us, in a sense, struggle continuously all the time, because we never get what we want. The important thing which I've really learned is how do you not give up, because you never succeed in the first attempt.

  Mukesh Ambani

  Giving Up, Struggle, Want

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• Energy and time are finite resources; conserving them is very important.

  Twyla Tharp

  Energy, Resources, Finite

  Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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• I find that it is important to work slowly. Anyone who looks at such a canvas will follow the same path the artist took, and he will experience that it is the path which counts more than the outcome of it, and that the route taken has been the most interesting part.

  Georges Braque

  Taken, Artist, Interesting

  "Cahiers d'art" by Dora Vallier, p. 14, 1954.

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• Memory is very important, the memory of each photo taken, flowing at the same speed as the event.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Memories, Taken, Events

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• It is well known that "problem avoidance" is an important part of problem solving. Instead of solving the problem you go upstream and alter the system so that the problem does not occur in the first place.

  Edward de Bono

  Doe, Firsts, Problem

  Edward De Bono (1992). “Serious Creativity: Using the Power of Lateral Thinking to Create New Ideas”, Harpercollins

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• My responsibility is simply being who I am and not buying into any projection as real. No projection is finally real, but projection does play a very important role.

  Gangaji

  Real, Responsibility, Who I Am

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• The point is that profound but contradictory ideas may exist side by side, if they are constructed from different materials and methods. and have different purposes. Each tells us something important about where we stand in the universe, and it is foolish to insist that they must despise each other.

  Neil Postman

  Ideas, Profound, May

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• Ideas, as the raw material from which knowledge is produced, exist in superabundance, but that makes the production of knowledge more difficult rather than easier. Many ideas- probably most- will have to be discarded somewhere in the process of producing authenticated knowledge. Authentication is as important as the raw information itself, and the manner and speed of the authentication process can be crucial.

  Thomas Sowell

  Ideas, Raw Materials, Information

  Thomas Sowell (1996). “Knowledge And Decisions”, p.4, Basic Books

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• The most important thing in industry is the person who does the industry, which is the worker... Labor is the only source of wealth.

  Eli Siegel

  Doe, Wealth, Source

  Eli Siegel (1970). “Goodbye Profit System: 8 Aesthetic Realism Lectures May 22 to July 10, 1970, Reported by Students of Aesthetic Realism”

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• Whereas God, for reasons of His own, sometimes chooses to let the machine answer. 'The Supreme Being is unavailable to come to the phone at this time, but He wants you to know what your call is important to Him. In the meantime, for sins of pride, press one. For avarice, press two.

  Sherwood Anderson

  Pride, Phones, Two

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• Responsibility is the most important ability that a person can possess.

  John C. Maxwell

  Responsibility, Ability, Persons

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• The most important thing to do before you die is live.

  Simon Sinek

  Things To Do, Dies, Important Things

  Twitter post from Jan 27, 2010

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• Of course quality is important but is it not the quality of an individual's originality that is most important?

  Robert Owen

  Quality, Originality, Individual

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• It is important to remember always that the principle of egolessness does not mean that there was an ego in the first place, and the Buddhists did away with it. On the contrary, it means there was never any ego at all to begin with. To realize that is called "egolessness.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Buddhist, Mean, Ego

  FaceBook post by Sogyal Rinpoche from Sep 13, 2013

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• People really want to think that these things really happened. I don't know why that is important, but I know that when I finish reading a novel or something, I want to know how much of that really happened to this author.

  Alison Bechdel

  Book, Reading, Thinking

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• A white lace curtain on the window was for me as important as a great work of art. This gossamer quality, the reflection, the form, the movement. I learned more about art from that than I did in school.

  Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

  Art, School, Reflection

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• Many years ago I was fishing, and as I was reeling in the poor fish, I realised, 'I am killing him - all for the passing pleasure it brings me'. Something inside me clicked. I realised as I watched him fight for breath that his life was as important to him as mine is to me.

  Paul McCartney

  Fighting, Years, Fishing

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

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• I am interested in the size of your intention. It is better to overstate the important than to understate it.

  Robert Henri

  Size, Intention, Importance

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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