Important Quotes - Page 18

• A fop sometimes gives important advice.

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Giving, Advice, Sometimes

  "The Art of Poetry (Canto IV)". Book by Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, 1674.

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• It's important to keep the eccentric spirit alive, because when that goes, the work will go.

  Nicolas Cage

  Alive, Eccentric, Spirit

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• The things which cannot be adequately represented by words are more important than those which can.

  James Fitzjames Stephen

  Importance

  James Fitzjames Stephen (1873). “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity”, p.298

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• It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical

  Boris Yeltsin

  Thinking, Unorthodox, Situation

  Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (1990). “Against the grain: an autobiography”, Simon & Schuster

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• What we make is more important than what we are, particularly if making is our profession.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Work, Profession, Ifs

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2014). “The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers Vol II: 1937-1943: From Novelist to Playwright”, p.222, St. Martin's Press

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• I have done nothing important or distinguished since we met except to win the handicap prize, worth ?4 10/- at North Berwick.

  Arthur Balfour

  Winning, Done, Mets

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• My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important.

  Sidney Poitier

  Father, Men, Race

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• I suspect that the most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention And especially if it's given from the heart. When people are talking, there's no need to do anything but receive them. Just take them in. Listen to what they're saying. Care about it. Most times caring about it is even more important than understanding it. Most of us don't value ourselves or our love enough to know this.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Powerful, Communication, Heart

  Rachel Naomi Remen (2006). “Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.112, Penguin

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• The drive to resist compulsion is more important in wild animals than sex, food, or water... The drive for competence or to resist compulsion is a drive to avoid helplessness.

  Martin Seligman

  Sex, Animal, Water

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• The thing with kids is that you only get one chance to do it right. It's really important to share their gifts while they're discovering them. That's why spelling bees are such a compelling story. They stimulate them intellectually, they awaken their competitive spirit, but it's fun. There's something fun about words.

  Laurence Fishburne

  Fun, Kids, Stories

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• It may indeed prove to be far the most difficult and not the least important task for human reason rationally to comprehend its own limitations. It is essential for the growth of reason that as individuals we should bow to forces and obey principles which we cannot hope fully to understand, yet on which the advance and even the preservation of civilization depend.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Civilization, Growth, Principles

  "The Counter-Revolution of Science". Book by Friedrich Hayek, "Conscious" Direction and the Growth of Reason (ch. 9), 1952.

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• America has the greatest reputation in the world for helping others whenever and wherever disaster strikes. Now, more than ever,it's important for us to contribute to those who are in need. Your assistance is really beneficial and will be greatly welcomed and appreciated.

  Bobby Knight

  Helping Others, America, Needs

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• Never work for a company that says people are its most important asset. If you wanted to get a mortgage and you said that your only asset was people you would end up living in a tent.

  Guy Browning

  People, Tents, Mortgage

  People, 2006.

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• Be as delicate as possible. If communication accomplishes something on the gross but damages something on the level of feeling then it is a spiritual loss! The feeling is more important for life.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Spiritual, Communication, Loss

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• Work out what is truly important to you. Research shows people with consistently high happiness scores prioritise their life according to the things they value. They've worked out what is most important to them and don't allow themselves to get sidetracked.

  Robert Holden

  Work Out, People, Research

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• Money is important but it is not everything... Think about everything you already have that money can't buy.

  Robert Holden

  Money, Thinking

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• The stuff that?s most important to me in life can?t be bought ? it can only be earned.

  Steve Pavlina

  Stuff

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• Of course, the simple explanation of the fact is that marriage is the most important act of man's life in Europe or America, and that everything depends upon it.

  Lafcadio Hearn

  Simple, Men, Europe

  Lafcadio Hearn (2012). “Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn”, p.24, tredition

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• I'm dealing with the most important things there are: life and nature. If this doesn't work, if this doesn't sustain me, I can't go back to nature. I'm right there. There's nowhere to go, and that frightens me.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Nowhere To Go, Importance, Ifs

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• I think there's more support today. I think there's better understanding today. And there's a better appreciation for the fact that if any community is going to prosper, if any community is going to be seen at its best, that the women in that community have to be viewed as equally as important as the men. And [women] have to be able to live outside of boundaries that are placed on them because of their gender. As well as their race or their religion.

  Anita Hill

  Appreciation, Communication, Men

  "Then & Now: Anita Hill". www.cnn.com. June 19, 2005.

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• China attaches great importance to the utilization of renewable resources, making it one of the important moves to promote economic and social development

  Hu Jintao

  Moving, Development, Renewable Resources

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• The single most important duty of the federal government is to protect and defend our national sovereignty. There are new and disturbing reports of American nuclear submarines passing though Canadian waters without obtaining the permission of, or even notifying, the Canadian government.

  Stephen Harper

  Government, Water, Navy

  "New Canada PM Challenges U.S. on Arctic Sovereignty", www.foxnews.com. January 26, 2006.

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• Unity is the most important thing on the road to stamping out terror. You need global rules of law and order, and they have to be enforced. Start with that principle.

  Chris Matthews

  Order, Law, Unity

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• Everyone has a right to an opinion. I can arrive in England and express my opinion. If criticism were ferocious and without intellectual objectivity they should show me the way to their airport. It is important to have an opinion and not be afraid to express it, knowing there will be criticism.

  Jose Mourinho

  Airports, Objectivity, Knowing

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• The most important thing is to just do it. If I work at a higher level I have responsibility to do better than what I've done before. Sometimes the best happens - beyond possibility. Just do it. Can't worry about it.

  LeRoy Neiman

  Responsibility, Worry, Done

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