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“In studying the fate of our forest king, we have thus far considered the action of purely natural causes only; but, unfortunately, man is in the woods, and waste and pure destruction are making rapid headway. If the importance of the forests were even vaguely understood, even from an economic standpoint, their preservation would call forth the most watchful attention of government”

Source: JOHN MUIR Ultimate Collection: Travel Memoirs, Wilderness Essays, Environmental Studies & Letters (Illustrated): Picturesque California, The Treasures of the Yosemite, Our National Parks, Steep Trails, Travels in Alaska, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf, Save the Redwoods, The Cruise of the Corwin and more

“The Buddha’s last words instructed us to be heedful—to see our actions as important and to keep that importance in mind at all times.”

Mind Important Action Lasts Importance All Time Last Words Our Actions

Author:Thanissaro Bhikkhu

“Whenever Alexander heard Philip had taken any town of importance, or won any signal victory, instead of rejoicing at it altogether, he would tell his companions that his father would anticipate everything, and leave him and them no opportunities of performing great and illustrious actions.”

Action Father Opportunity Taken Heard Victory Importance Towns Performing Companion Rejoice Signals Anticipate Philip

Book:The life of Alexander the Great

Source: The life of Alexander the Great

“I'm in the action, but I'm not in the action. A lot of the interpreting I do sometimes borders on performance. It gives me a personality and a presence to show the importance of interpreters in the life of a person who is Deaf.”

Giving Persons Sometimes Shows Action Personality Performances Importance Give Me Borders Deaf Interpreting Interpreter

Author:Jack Jason

“To take the place of emigration, and with the prior approval of the Führer, the evacuation of the Jews to the East has become another possible solution. Although both courses of action emigration and evacuation, must, of course, be considered as nothing more than temporary expedients, they do help to provide practical experience which should be of great importance in view of the coming Endlösung (Final Solution) of the Jewish question.”

Should Helping Action Courses Views Solutions Importance Finals Jew East Practicals Temporary Approval Emigration Evacuation Practical Experience

Author:Reinhard Heydrich

“Be concerned with the welfare of others without any sense of self-importance that one is better because one meditates or leads a certain type of life.”

Self Action Certain Type Concerned Importance Welfare Sense Of Self Self-importance Right Action

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Trifles discover a character, more than actions of importance.”

Character Action Importance Trifles

Book:Essays on Men and Manners

Source: Essays on Men and Manners

“Remember the importance of small actions. They're the building blocks in the architecture of your life, the quiet victories you win for yourself each day.”

Action Remember Winning Building Victory Quiet Importance Architecture Block Each Day Building Blocks Small Actions

Author:Diane Dreher

“Our pride and self-importance are European, while our development and actions are Asiatic.”

Self Action Pride Development Importance Self-importance

Author:Anton Chekhov

“Oddly, though, lists are reassuring. We become aware of this if we scrupulously follow a recipe, which is essentially a list of ingredients and actions; but if we give this 'list' too much importance, we leave no room for the imagination.”

Ifs Giving Action Imagination Rooms Too Much Importance Lists Ingredients Recipes Reassuring

Author:Jean-Claude Ellena

“It is certainly of great importance for a general to keep his plans secret; and Frederick the Great was right when he said that if his night-cap knew what was in his head he would throw it into the fire. That kind of secrecy was practicable in Frederick's time when his whole army was kept closely about him; but when maneuvers of the vastness of Napoleon's are executed, and war is waged as in our day, what concert of action can be expected from generals who are utterly ignorant of what is going on around them?”

Ifs Kind Said War Whole Action Night Secret Fire Plans Importance Army Expected Ignorant Concerts Secrecy Caps Vastness

Author:Antoine-Henri Jomini

“Human memory awakens and extinguishes at will. It dulls and sharpens actions, enlarges and shrinks those who perform them. It humbles and exalts as it desires. When summoned, it slips away, and when it returns, it will do so at the time and place that suits it. It recognizes no chief, no overseer, no classifier, no ruler. Stories mix and mingle, facts sprout new shoots. The situations and words and scents-oh, the scents!-encrusted there are stored in the most disorganized and wonderful manner, not chronologically, not according to size or importance or even the alphabet.”

Source: My Russian Grandmother and Her American Vacuum Cleaner: A Family Memoir

“We have emphasized the importance of applied action research because it allows evidence-based policy and program development and a focus on learning. We are also committed to using a participatory approach in which local people, local program managers and providers, local researchers, women's health activists, and national decision-makers play the leading role. International "experts" from technical assistance agencies or universities can make important contributions, but they certainly don't have all the answers.”

“Those engaged in directing the actions of others are always in danger of overlooking the importance of the sequential development of those they direct.”

Action Danger Development Direct Importance Engaged Overlooking

Book:Democracy and Education - An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education

Source: Democracy and Education - An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education

“There is great significance and importance in all our day-to-day actions in both words and deeds.”

Inspirational Action Importance Deeds Significance Day To Day

Author:Jennifer Youngs

“We have no reason to expect the quality of intuition to improve with the importance of the problem. Perhaps the contrary: high-stake problems are likely to involve powerful emotions and strong impulses to action.”

Reason Problem Action Strong Powerful Emotion Quality Importance Intuition Contrary Impulse No Reason Stakes Powerful Emotions

Author:Daniel Kahneman

“I also think we need unconventional political action, and I increasingly think that there is a need for people of faith to be able to do the kind of things that people of faith did 40 years ago in the heat of the civil rights revolution. This is a moral issue of every bit as much importance requiring every bit as much sacrifice, courage, and energy as that crisis did.”

“I believe in the utmost importance of one human being's actions toward another. This is actually what I believe in. How we handle one another, that's what makes us feel isolated, feel like outsiders sometimes. These questions are overwhelming. "What do you do in this world?" I believe in that more than anything.”

World Believe Sometimes Action I Believe Importance Overwhelming Outsiders

Author:Ramin Bahrani

“Leaders instill purpose through their words and their actions. Their communications demonstrate a commitment to vision and mission, but their behaviors underscore its real importance. What a leader does is far more important than what he or she says. People want to see action and help achieve results.”

People Important Real Helping Action Purpose Leader Vision Achieve Communication Behavior Commitment Importance

Author:John Baldoni

“Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.”

Reality Motivational Action Next Focus Importance Aim Triggers Pulling The Trigger

Author:David Letterman

“One problem with our current society is that we have an attitude towards education as if it is there to simply make you more clever, make you more ingenious... Even though our society does not emphasize this, the most important use of knowledge and education is to help us understand the importance of engaging in more wholesome actions and bringing about discipline within our minds. The proper utilization of our intelligence and knowledge is to effect changes from within to develop a good heart.”

“One way or another the no doubt mad idea entered my mind that my own actions had historic importance and this fantasy (?) made it appear that people who harmed me were interfering with an important experiment.”

People Way Mind Made Important Ideas Action My Own Fantasy Doubt Importance Mad Experiments Made It One Way No Doubt Interfere Historic

Book:Herzog

Source: Herzog

“When desire is still in this pure state, the man and the woman fall in love with life, they live each moment reverently, consciously, always ready to celebrate the next blessing. When people feel like this, they are not in a hurry, they do not precipitate events with unthinking actions. They know that the inevitable will happen, that what is real always finds a way of revealing itself. When the moment comes, they do not hesitate, they do not miss an opportunity, they do not let slip a single magic moment, because they respect the importance of each second.”

“By giving too much importance to fine actions one may end by paying an indirect but powerful tribute to evil, because in so doing one implies that such fine actions are only valuable because they are rare, and that malice or indifference are far more common motives in the actions of men.”

Men Giving May Ends Action Evil Powerful Common Too Much Fine Importance Valuable Indifference Motive Malice Tribute Indirect Giving Too Much

Author:Albert Camus

“Within the framework of the Buddhist Path, reflecting on suffering has tremendous importance because -realizing the nature of suffering, you will develop greater resolve to put an end to the causes of suffering and the unwholesome deeds which lead to suffering. And it will increase your enthusiasm for engaging in the wholesome actions and deeds which lead to happiness and joy.”

Ends Action Joy Suffering Spirituality Causes Realizing Path Greater Importance Increase Deeds Enthusiasm Buddhist Resolve Engaging Framework Reflecting Joy And Happiness

Author:Dalai Lama

“Every act of charity, every thought of sympathy, every action of help, every good deed, is taking so much of self-importance away from our little selves and making us think of ourselves as the lowest and the least, and, therefore, it is all good. Here we find that Jnâna, Bhakti, and Karma - all come to one point.”

Thinking Littles Self Helping Action Importance Charity Very Good Deeds Karma Lowest Good Deeds Self-importance Bhakti Acts Of Charity

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“All life is linked together in such a way that no part of the chain is unimportant. Frequently, upon the action of some of these minute beings depends the material success or failure of a great commonwealth.”

Way Life Action Together Success Science Life Is Minutes Materials Failure Depends Importance Chains Linked Unimportant Commonwealth Success Or Failure

Book:Insect Life: An Introduction to Nature-study and a Guide for Teachers, Students, and Others Interested in Out-of-door Life

Source: Insect Life: An Introduction to Nature-study and a Guide for Teachers, Students, and Others Interested in Out-of-door Life

“I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of individuals, or would directly sit in judgment on creatures of his own creation. I cannot do this in spite of the fact that mechanistic causality has, to a certain extent, been placed in doubt by modern science. My religiosity consists in a humble admiration of the infinitely superior spirit that reveals itself in the little that we, with our weak and transitory understanding, can comprehend of reality. Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.”

“The ability to qualify for, receive, and act on personal revelation is the single most important skill that can be acquired in this life.”

Important Action Ability Personality Skills Importance Personal Growth This Life Revelations Acquire Receiving Qualifying Skills Development Personal Revelation Relief Society

Author:Julie B. Beck

“If we were given one word of information in our entire history, how we'd treasure it! how we'd pore over ever syllable, divining it's meaning, arguing its importance; how we'd examine it and wring every lesson we could from it. Yet today we have trillions of words, tidal waves of information and the smallest detail of every action our government and businesses take is easily available to us at the touch of a button. And yet...we ignore it, and learn nothing from it. One day we'll die of voluntary ignorance”

“Teachers, who are really good create that environment where you can be very satisfied by the process of learning. If you do something and you find it a very satisfying experience then you want to do more of it. The great teachers somehow convey in their very attitude and their words and their actions and everything they do that this is an important thing you're learning. You end up wanting to do more of it and more of it and more of it. That's a real talent some people have to convey the importance of that and to reflect it back to the students.”

People Ifs Want Important Real Ends Action Process Attitude Environment Teacher Teaching Talent Students Importance Important Things Satisfied Satisfying Great Teacher Real Talent

Author:Jeff Bezos

“Over the years, many Americans have made sacrifices in order to promote freedom and human rights around the globe: the heroic actions of our veterans, the lifesaving work of our scientists and physicians, and generosity of countless individuals who voluntarily give of their time, talents, and energy to help others-all have enriched humankind and affirmed the importance of our Judeo-Christian heritage in shaping our government and values.”

“Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.”

Giving Action Next Speak Water Forever Progress Pride Terrible Importance Holes Remove Traps Next Time Tempted Fists Boast Conceit Halt False Pride

Author:Og Mandino

“We do want our fellow citizens to respect our deeply held conviction that the absence of an afterlife lends a greater, not a lesser, moral importance to our actions on earth.”

Want Action Earth Moral Greater Citizens Importance Fellows Conviction Absence Afterlife Our Actions

Author:Susan Jacoby