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“The vote on the Peacekeeper is also a vote on Geneva. Rejecting the Peacekeeper will knock the legs out from under the negotiating table. (On importance of the MX missile)”

Vote Importance Tables Legs Missiles Rejecting Negotiating Geneva Peacekeepers

Author:Ronald Reagan

“Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.”

Source: Passages from the American Note-books of Nathaniel Hawthorne

“The man who suffers from a sense of sin is suffering from a particular kind of self-love. In all this vast universe the thing that appears to him of most importance is that he himself should be virtuous. It is a grave defect in certain forms of traditional religion that they have encouraged this particular kind of self-absorption.”

Men Love Should Kind Self Form Certain Suffering Universe Sin Particular He Man Self Love Importance Graves Traditional Virtuous Defects Absorption Self Absorption

Book:The Conquest of Happiness

Source: The Conquest of Happiness

“The confusion between temperament and character has had serious consequences for ethical theory. Preferences with regard to differences in temperament are mere matters of subjective taste. But differences in character are ethically of the most fundamental importance.”

Matter Character Differences Serious Theory Taste Consequence Importance Regard Fundamentals Mere Confusion Ethical Preference Subjective Temperament

Book:Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics

Source: Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics

“A smile costs nothing in money, time, or effort but it is literally true that it can be of supreme importance in ones life.”

Effort Cost Importance Supreme

Book:Make Your Life Worthwhile

Source: Make Your Life Worthwhile

“We do not see and estimate the relative importance of objects so easily and clearly from the level or the waving land as from the elevation of a lone peak, towering above the plain; for each looks through his own mist.”

Looks Levels Land Objects Importance Relative Mist Lone Elevation

Book:Morals and Dogma : Scottish Rite in Freemasonry

Source: Morals and Dogma : Scottish Rite in Freemasonry

“Good leadership is pervasive, persuasive, and persistent. Bad leadership is poisoned with pedanticism, posturing, self-importance.”

Self Leadership Importance Persistent Persuasive Good Leader Self-importance Good Leadership

Book:Toxic leaders: when organizations go bad

Source: Toxic leaders: when organizations go bad

“It is rather a problem of how to secure the best use of resources known to any of the members of society, for ends whose relative importance only those individuals know.”

Knows Ends Use Problem Individual Known Members Resources Importance Secure Relative

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“A man who does not endeavour to seem more than he is will generally be thought nothing of. We habitually make such large deductions for pretence and imposture that no real merit will stand against them. It is necessary to set off our good qualities with a certain air of plausibility and self-importance, as some attention to fashion is necessary.”

Men Doe Real Self Seems Certain Attention Quality Air Fashion Importance Merit Endeavour Good Quality Deductions Pretence Self-importance

Book:Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

“The day you start giving importance to the life of even a little fly, you turn into a holy man!”

Men Life Giving Littles Turns Holy Importance Holy Man

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“A country is not developed by constructing bridges, houses or roads but it is developed only if the brains of the people living in that country are developed, only if their level of culture is raised and only if an infinite importance is given to the science and to the knowledge!”

People Ifs Country Science Culture House Given Levels Brain Importance Infinite Raised Bridges

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Our mission goes beyond commerce, it goes beyond technology. Our intent is to preserve music's importance in our lives, music is the language of love, of laughter, of heartbreak, of mystery. It's the world's true, true, without question, universal language.”

World Love Language Music Technology Our Lives Mystery Music Is Laughter Universal Importance Missions Preserves Commerce Universal Language Language Of Love

Author:Alicia Keys

“From the Anarchist standpoint, these artificial hindrances which are the cause of three main forms of usury-interest, profit, and rent, are, in the order of their importance, monopoly in the control of the circulating medium-money and credit, private property in land not based on occupancy and use, patent rights and copyrights, and tariffs.”

Use Form Order Three Causes Interest Rights Land Importance Property Profit Credit Mediums Artificial Monopoly Anarchist Standpoint Private Property Patents Copyright Hindrance Tariffs Usury

Book:Selected essays

Source: Selected essays

“The government and the opposition need to think about their people, if they actually went out and saw the conditions in which their people are living, it might actually mean that they would pause and think again about the importance of peace.”

People Ifs Thinking Needs Mean Government Might Peace Saws Conditions Importance Opposition Pauses

Author:Valerie Amos, Baroness Amos

“Those who served, and those who continue to serve in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, and Coast Guard took an oath to uphold and protect the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic, and we can never forget the importance of their commitment to our Nation.”

Force Nations Forget Enemy Air Protect Commitment Importance Constitution Army Never Forget Coast Navy Marine Oath Air Force Army Navy Coast Guard

Author:Robin Hayes

“Do not underestimate the importance of feeling special.”

Feelings Special Importance Underestimate

Author:Benjamin Carson

“I'm merely a baseball player, guys. In the great scheme of things, my thoughts, opinions and attitudes are of little importance.”

Littles Guy Attitude Opinion Player Baseball Importance Schemes My Thoughts Baseball Player

Author:John Rocker

“It may be that the invention of the aeroplane flying-machine will be deemed to have been of less material value to the world than the discovery of Bessemer and open-hearth steel, or the perfection of the telegraph, or the introduction of new and more scientific methods in the management of our great industrial works. To us, however, the conquest of the air, to use a hackneyed phrase, is a technical triumph so dramatic and so amazing that it overshadows in importance every feat that the inventor has accomplished.”

“What importance can we attach to the things of this world? Friendship? It disappears when the one who is liked comes to grief, or the one who likes becomes powerful. Love? it is deceived, fleeting, or guilty. Fame? You share it with mediocrity or crime. Fortune? Could that frivolity be counted a blessing? All that remains are those so-called happy days that flow past unnoticed in the obscurity of domestic cares, leaving man with the desire neither to lose his life nor to begin it over.”

“Executives will talk about the importance of passion, but what they really mean is finding somebody who will work nights and weekends on their assigned task but predictably and reliably follow orders and just work harder.”

Mean Night Order Passion Hard Work Findings Tasks Importance Harder Executives Weekend Really Mean Work Harder

Author:John Hagel

“The longer I live, the longer I realize that batting is more a mental matter than it is physical. The ability to grasp the bat, swing at the proper time, take a proper stance; all these are elemental. Batting is rather a study in psychology, a sizing up of a pitcher and catcher and observing little details that are of immense importance. It's like the study of crime, the work of a detective as he picks up clues.”

Littles Matter Realizing Ability Study Psychology Crime Picks Importance Details Swings Immense Bats Clue Observing Detectives Pitcher Stance Elementals Batting Catchers Proper Time

Author:Ty Cobb

“A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual, and only the individual reader is important to me. I don't give a damn for the group, the community, the masses, and so forth.”

Giving Art Important Individual Community Groups Reader Mass Importance Damn Works Of Art Don't Give A Damn I Don't Give A Damn

Author:Vladimir Nabokov

“Although I do not care for the slogan "art for art's sake", there can be no question that what makes a work of fiction safe from larvae and rust is not its social importance but its art, only its art.”

Art Care Social Fiction Safe Importance Sake Slogans Rust

Book:Strong opinions

Source: Strong opinions

“To me, desert has the quality of darkness; none of the shapes you see in it are real or permanent. Like night, the desert is boundless, comfortless, and infinite. Like night, it intrigues the mind and leads it to futility. When you have flown halfway across a desert, you experience the desperation of a sleepless man waiting for dawn which only comes when the importance of its coming is lost.”

Men Mind Real Night Lost Waiting Quality Darkness Shapes Importance Infinite Flight Desert Permanent Dawn Aviation Desperation Intrigue Halfway Boundless Futility

Book:West with the Night

Source: West with the Night

“I can never suppose this country so far lost to all ideas of self-importance as to be willing to grant America independence; if that could ever be adopted I shall despair of this country being ever preserved from a state of inferiority and consequently falling into a very low class among the European States.”

Ifs I Can Ideas Self Country States America Fall Lost Class Willing Despair Lows Importance Independence Grants Adopted Inferiority Self-importance

Author:George III

“I didn't really understand the importance of little things. I didn't really understand that it was the little foxes that spoil the vine. And if we're not faithful in little things, that God will never be able to make us ruler over great things.”

Ifs Littles Able Importance Gods Will Great Things Faithful Little Things Rulers Foxes Spoil Vines

Author:Joyce Meyer

“We're at a period where our society is at the end of a cycle, where all the sudden the values that we were told were important don't seem to have that much importance nowadays.”

Important Ends Seems Values Periods Importance Our Society Cycles

Author:Jean-Marc Barr

“I always wanted and enjoyed sex, but I never put much importance on scoring or having an athletic sex life. I guess I define myself more by my career and my commitment to a relationship than by my ability to have a lot of chicks or achieve ten orgasms in an evening.”

Wanted Sex Ability Careers Achieve Ten Commitment Importance Evening Enjoyed Athletic Chicks

Author:George Carlin

“I've just always been a reader. My grandmother just expressed the importance of literacy, if I said that correctly. She just always expressed the importance of being able to write and being able to read.”

Ifs Writing Said Able Reader Importance Grandmother Literacy My Grandmother

Author:Kevin Gates

“If you keep your perspective correct and understand that people are coming to you because your gift makes room for you in the world, then you do not need to wonder or worry about having to misplace your importance as a person.”

People Ifs World Needs Persons Rooms Wonder Worry Perspective Importance

Author:Myles Munroe

“I feel it's my duty as a human being, as a person who is trying - like everybody else who thinks about the state of the world - to enhance the importance of multicultural connection.”

Thinking World Feels Trying Humans Persons States Human Beings Duty Connections Importance Multicultural

Author:Paulo Coelho

“I don't know what acting is, but I enjoy it. I think we ask too many questions of ourselves. We make too much importance of stuff. But I do say to actors when I have taught in classes, or when I sometimes do a talk to a group. I'll say, “If I never acted again, the world wouldn't stop, nor would it stop if I didn't stop acting. That's how important it is. I know it [seems] important when you're young. But I say, “Lighten up. Don't take it all so seriously.” All the gurus and teachers will take your money and run.”

Ifs Thinking Knows World Important Sometimes Seems Running Young Actors Asks Stuff Enjoy Acting Class Too Much Teacher Groups Taught Importance Guru

Author:Anthony Hopkins

“A good friend of mine took me out and had me hit off a tee. He made me understand what was my strike zone and - with my speed - the importance of making contact. So I give him a lot of credit for changing my game and making me the player I became. He showed me how to work on me and my game, and not worry about patterning myself after someone else and focusing on what they were capable of doing rather than what I was capable of doing.”

Giving Made Games Worry Player Mines Capable Importance Credit Speed Strikes Contact Zone Good Friend Tees

Author:Rickey Henderson

“In the light of consciousness all sorts of things happen and one need not give special importance to any. The sight of a flower is as marvelous as the vision of God. Let them be. Why remember them and then make memory into a problem? Be bland about them; do not divide them into high and low, inner and outer, lasting and transient. Go beyond, go back to the source, go to the self that is the same whatever happens.”

“I give to my friends the assurance that if they will recast their ideas and attitudes about the relative importance of the spiritual to the material, and bring themselves to participate in the mighty cause of establishing God's kingdom in the earth, they will find a satisfaction, a sureness of purpose, a peace and contentment, surpassing anything they have ever known.”

Ifs Giving Ideas Earth Spiritual Purpose Causes Peace Attitude Known Materials My Friends Importance Satisfaction Kingdoms Contentment Relative Assurance Surpassing

Author:Stephen L. Richards

“It might sound crazy, but filming in a conflict zone, in Afghanistan, and being a female filmmaker was the easy part. I found people open and understanding of the importance and beauty of filmic storytelling. I never had to explain why Jake Bryant, my Director of Photography, and I were climbing up a ladder to get a high shot, or running ahead to get an arrival shot, or filming weeks after weeks, months after months, collecting so much material. The process was respected and honored.”

“The art of moviemaking seems to get thrown away. The cinematography is gone, and the look of everything becomes of little importance. You lose the memorable images; everything looks like it's been shot at night with a security camera.”

Looks Littles Art Seems Night Loses Gone Security Shots Importance Cameras Memorable Thrown Cinematography

Author:Rob Zombie

“Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities. I've never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.”

Whole Problem Felt Issues Equal Importance Sensitive Sensibility Altered Macho

Book:Al Pacino

Source: Al Pacino

“The breath is seen to be the key between the emotional state, the mental state and physical state. It is perhaps the most important tool, and it's one whose importance is underestimated in the West.”

Important States Emotional Keys Tools Importance Breaths West Underestimated

Author:Paul Harvey

“I find most meetings are a waste of time, because they are so ill-prepared and there's little opportunity for true synergy in producing better solutions than what anyone originally thought of. So I work hard to only attend those meetings that have strategic importance and miss all kinds of other seemingly urgent meetings.”

Kind Littles Hard Opportunity Missing Hard Work Waste Solutions Importance Meetings Prepared Ill All Kinds Wasting Time Urgent Strategic Synergy

Author:Stephen Covey

“It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.”

Should Important Realizing Teacher Habit Importance

Book:Talks to Teachers on Psychology; And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals

Source: Talks to Teachers on Psychology; And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals

“Since ancient times the term awakening has been used as a kind of metaphor that points to the transformation of human consciousness. There are parables in the New Testament that speak of the importance of being awake, of not falling back to sleep.”

“Acting is everything to me and it's at the core of every decision. Whatever importance costumes, details, lights, camera, dialogue and everything else have, if the acting is bad, cheap, or overdone everything else is just gone.”

Ifs Light Decision Acting Gone Importance Cameras Details Core Dialogue Costumes

Author:Xavier Dolan

“A lot of people treat choosing their cofounder with even less importance than they put on hiring. Don't do this.”

People Team Treats Importance Hiring

Author:Sam Altman

“It means a lot to me that people appreciate what I do. That's why I give a lot of importance to my fans and I like to maintain a certain proximity to them. I already feel very thankful that people enjoy my work so much, and becoming famous is not my ultimate goal. I think it's important to keep a good balance between what I want to do and what people want to hear; otherwise I might fall into the dark side.”

“I never want to abandon my roots. I want to give my past and the history of painting the importance it deserves, including the masters like Rembrandt, who built up the surface of the canvas with transparent layers.”

Want Giving Past Painting Masters Deserve Built Roots Importance Including Surface Abandon Layers Canvas Transparent My Past

Author:Jose Parla

“I was always interested in science, truth, goodness and fairness. I have always been strongly individualistic and merit-oriented. This is probably because I was adopted and thus have always tended to cavalierly dismiss the importance of "blood ties" and any inherited or "unearned" group characteristics.”

Groups Blood Goodness Importance Merit Ties Characteristics Fairness Adopted Individualistic

Author:Stephan Kinsella

“I have always been conscious of the importance and the strength of nationalism, and this has led me straight to the acknowledgment of the nationalism of the Palestinian people.”

People Conscious Importance Nationalism Palestinian Acknowledgment

Author:Uri Avnery

“Being from a minority culture, I realised the importance of looking at non-Western cultures in a positive way.”

Way Culture Importance Western Minorities Realised Western Culture

Author:Ibn Warraq

“Hinduism, Confucianism, and Buddhism are huge traditions of enormous importance, and they aren't monotheistic. Again, this reflects the fact that our preconceptions about what religion is are so influenced by Protestantism - either real Protestantism or the secularized Protestantism that dominates our culture - and its assumption that beliefs are the most important thing.”

Important Real Facts Culture Belief Huge Buddhism Tradition Importance Important Things Enormous Assumption Hinduism Preconceptions Confucianism Protestantism

Author:Robert Neelly Bellah

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