Important Quotes - Page 34

• We read literature for a lot of reasons, but two of the most compelling ones are to get out of ourselves and our life stories and – equally important – to find ourselves by understanding our own life stories more clearly in the context of others.

  Maureen Corrigan

  Two, Understanding, Stories

  Maureen Corrigan (2007). “Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books”, p.55, Vintage

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• Laboratory tests are the next set of important numbers to know. Here are the key lab test numbers you need to know:   1. Complete blood count   2. General metabolic panel with fasting blood sugar and lipid panel   3. HgA1C   4. Vitamin D   5. Thyroid panel   6. C-reactive protein

  Daniel Amen

  Keys, Blood, Numbers

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• If the most important thing for your project is to put on a circus, then you have less chance of winning things.

  Luis Figo

  Winning, Circus, Chance

  "Figo slams 'galactico circus' at Real Madrid" by Sid Lowe, www.telegraph.co.uk. March 30, 2006.

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• For your friends and family, you are always a champion, but for the media and sponsors, not until you show a spark. Making a champ is more important than celebrating one. I want to be there for youngsters and help them do their best.

  Gagan Narang

  Media, Champion, Family And Friends

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• What's important in the filmmaking process has stayed the same. Keep it small, keep it personal, keep it authentic, work with people you like and trust. That process is much longer than the filmmaking process. The development process is a long one, so try and say something of importance.

  Simon Beaufoy

  Long, People, Trying

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• Our culture says Status is more important than Wealth, but we teach the opposite.

  Orrin Woodward

  Opposites, Culture, Wealth

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• The mercy of forgiveness is brought from the strength to accept any situation given and faced. Spiritual independence and humbleness toward life makes life like a flowing river of release. What happens will happen anyways, and everybody can make mistakes. The important thing is to learn how to make a better future from the mistake.

  Hiroko Sakai

  Spiritual, Mistake, Rivers

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• Saigon, U.S.A. aptly documents the birth of a new American community, uprooted in the aftermath of war and forever torn apart by the wounds of the past, yet one capable of healing against all odds. An engrossing yet succinct film that captures not only a major incident in Vietnamese American life, but also an important chapter of American history. A profound film that manages to confront us with the deepest sorrow while allowing us to be hopeful about what it means to be human.

  Nguyen Qui Duc

  War, Healing, Mean

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• But, as I understand it, your God is a universal God; He is God on all suns and all planets. Surely, then, He must have universal form? Would it not be a staggering vanity to imagine that He can manifest Himself only in the form that is appropriate to this particular, not very important planet?

  John Wyndham

  Vanity, Sun, Imagine

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• An important contribution to a much-neglected but very important subject. No other author has set out to do what Davenport accomplishes, which is a systematic study of how key representatives of America's rising tide of religion attempted a theoretical understanding of, and practical response to, America's rising tide of commerce.

  Mark Noll

  America, Keys, Understanding

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• Balance, or drivability, and the ability to accelerate while cornering are more important than maximum cornering power - every time. Until you reach teh top levels of professional motor racing you will achieve more results by optimizing the package that you have than by redesigning it.

  Carroll Smith

  Motor Racing, Balance, Levels

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• Planning, evaluation, reasoning and establishing prioritites are all more important than brilliance - either behind the wheel or at the drawing board.

  Carroll Smith

  Drawing, Wheels, Boards

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• Courage is a terribly important value. It means you don’t run away when things are tough. It means you don’t turn away from a friend when he or she is in trouble. It means standing up against the majority opinion... There’s a lot of people who won’t wear it on their sleeve, or display it through some heroic act. But courage is having the strength to do what’s honorable and decent.

  George H. W. Bush

  Running, Courage, Mean

  "Patriarch of a Political Dynasty". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 2, 1995.

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• It is a fallacy to think that carping is the strongest form of criticism: the important work begins after the artist's mistakes have been pointed out, and the reviewer can't put it off indefinitely with sneers, although some neophytes might be tempted to try: "When in doubt, stick out your tongue" is a safe rule that never cost one any readers. But there's nothing strong about it, and it has nothing to do with the real business of criticism, which is to do justice to the best work of one's time, so that nothing gets lost.

  Wilfrid Sheed

  Strong, Real, Mistake

  "Essays in Disguise" by Wilfrid Sheed, Knopf, (pp. xvi-xvii), 1990.

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• What is important in meditation is the quality of the mind and the heart.It is not what you achieve, or what you say you attain, but rather the quality of a mind that is innocent and vulnerable.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Heart, Meditation, Mind

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1993). “The Meditative Mind”, p.47, Krishnamurti Foundation of America

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• Liberalism is the philosophy for our time, because it does not try to conserve every tradition of the past, because it does not apply to new problems the old doctrinaire solutions, because it is prepared to experiment and innovate and because it knows that the past is less important than the future.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Philosophy, Past, Trying

  Liberal leadership convention, 1968.

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• While it will be desirable to achieve planned results, it will be even more important to avoid unplanned disasters.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Achieve, Disaster, Results

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2015). “The New Industrial State”, p.210, Princeton University Press

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• Very important functions can be performed very wastefully and often are.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Function

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1998). “The Affluent Society”, p.178, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Curiosity, which may or may not eventuate in something useful, is probably the most outstanding characteristic of modern thinking ... Institutions of learning should be devoted to the cultivation of curiosity, and the less they are deflected by the consideration of immediacy of application, the more likely they are to contribute not only to human welfare, but to the equally important satisfaction of intellectual interest, which may indeed be said to have become the ruling passion of intellectual life in modern times.

  Abraham Flexner

  Passion, Thinking, Curiosity

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• Mourning your first love is as important as meeting your first love. It's the whole cycle.

  Jane Anderson

  First Love, Love Is, Mourning

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• It is important to emphasize again and again and again that finding a cure is not the problem The cures for many cancers, if not most cancers, exist. But they are not being offered to the patient who has cancer.... Being legally permitted to use an alternative cancer therapy is the problem

  Barry Lynes

  Cancer, Use, Alternatives

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• It’s important to remember that Mark David Chapman really set a lot of trends: such as the trend of celebrities having bodyguards.

  Julie Klausner

  Trends, Remember, Mark

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• Thoughtful criticism and close scrutiny of all government officials by the press and the public are an important part of our democratic society.

  Jimmy Carter

  Thoughtful, Government, Criticism

  Carter, Jimmy (1981). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Jimmy Carter, 1980-1981”, p.2890, Best Books on

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• The government and the church are two different realms of service, and those in political office have to face a subtle but important difference between the implementation of the high ideals of religious faith and public duty.

  Jimmy Carter

  Religious, Government, Two

  Jimmy Carter (2014). “The Jimmy Carter Library”, p.465, Simon and Schuster

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• A writer can be compared to a well. There are as many kinds of wells as there are writers. The important thing is to have good water in the well, and it is better to take a regular amount out than to pump the well dry and wait for it to refill.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Water, Waiting

  Ernest Hemingway (2015). “Ernest Hemingway: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations”, p.14, Melville House

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