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“It's of very little importance to me that I was born gay. It doesn't make me a better athlete, it doesn't make me a stronger person, it doesn't really do anything to enhance my life. It's just something I was born with, the same as green eyes.”

Inspirational Littles Persons Eye Born Gay Importance Stronger Green Athlete Lgbt Green Eyes Stronger Person Born Gay

Author:Johnny Weir

“Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.”

Littles Fame Solitude Ego Importance Patience Complaining Openness Receptivity Keep Patience

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke

“People are always a little disconcerted when you don't recognize them, they are so important to themselves, it is a shock to discover of what small importance they are to others. [The human element]”

People Humans Littles Important Elements Importance Shock

Author:W. Somerset Maugham

“Never neglect the little things. Never skimp on that extra effort, that additional few minutes, that soft word of praise or thanks, that delivery of the very best that you can do. It does not matter what others think, it is of prime importance, however, what you think about you. You can never do your best, which should always be your trademark, if you are cutting corners and shirking responsibilities. You are special. Act it. Never neglect the little things.”

Source: A Better Way to Live: Og Mandino's Own Personal Story of Success Featuring 17 Rules to Live By

“What's with all the running, anyway? I mean, I realize the importance of stamina and all that, but shouldn't I be moving on to something with a little hitting? They're still killing me in group practice.” "Maybe you should hit harder.”

Should Mean Littles Stills Running Moving Realizing Practice Groups Importance Harder Rose Killing Hitting Stamina Dimitri Rose Hathaway Dimitri Belikov

Book:Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection

Source: Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection

“The question has often been asked; Is Buddhism a religion or a philosophy? It does not matter what you call it. Buddhism remains what it is whatever label you may put on it. The label is immaterial. Even the label 'Buddhism' which we give to the teachings of the Buddha is of little importance. The name one gives is inessential.... In the same way Truth needs no label: it is neither Buddhist, Christian, Hindu nor Moslem. It is not the monopoly of anybody. Sectarian labels are a hindrance to the independent understanding of Truth, and they produce harmful prejudices in men's minds.”

Source: What the Buddha Taught

“Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance. The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of. An apparently trivial indulgence in lust or anger today is the loss of a ridge or railway line or bridgehead from which the enemy may launch an attack otherwise impossible.”

“Plans are of little importance, but planning is essential.”

Littles Plans Essentials Importance Planning

Author:Winston Churchill

“We need to understand that we are not each others' enemies in this country. And it is only the political class that derives its power by creating friction. It is only the media that derives its importance by creating friction... that uses every little thing to create this chasm between people. This is not who we are.”

People Needs Littles Country Use Political Enemy Class Media Creating Importance Who We Are Little Things Friction Chasms

Author:Benjamin Carson

“I know I can walk through the world, along the shore or under the trees, with my mind filled with things of little importance, in full self-attendance. A condition I can't really call being alive.”

Knows World Mind Littles I Can Self Walks Alive Tree Conditions Importance Filled Shore Attendance

Book:A Thousand Mornings: Poems

Source: A Thousand Mornings: Poems

“If we are ever to enjoy life, now is the time-not tomorrow, nor next year, nor in some future life after we have died. The best preparation for a better life next year is a full, complete, harmonious, joyous life this year. Our beliefs in a rich future life are of little importance unless we coin them into a rich present life. Today should always be our most wonderful day.”

“God help us! it is a foolish little thing, this human life, at the best; and it is half ridiculous and half pitiful to see what importance we ascribe to it, and to its little ornaments and distinctions.”

Life Humans Littles Helping Half Importance Foolish Ridiculous Human Life Distinction Little Things Ornaments God Help Pitiful God Help Us

Author:Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey

“There's a good case to be made that having fun is a key evolutionary advantage right next to opposable thumbs in terms of importance. Without that little chemical twist in our brains that makes us enjoy learning new things, we might be more like the sharks and ants of the world.”

Source: Theory of Fun for Game Design

“Good work is no done by "humble" men. It is one of the first duties of a professor, for example, in any subject, to exaggerate a little both the importance of his subject and his own importance in it. A man who is always asking "Is what I do worth while?" and "Am I the right person to do it?" will always be ineffective himself and a discouragement to others. He must shut his eyes a little and think a little more of his subject and himself than they deserve. This is not too difficult: it is harder not to make his subject and himself ridiculous by shutting his eyes too tightly.”

“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

“The history of men of science has one peculiar advantage, as it shows the importance of little things in producing great results. Smeaton learned his principle of constructing a lighthouse, by noticing the trunk of a tree to be diminished from a curve to a cyclinder ... and Newton, turning an old box into a water-clock, or the yard of a house into a sundial, are examples of those habits of patient observation which scientific biography attractively recommends.”

“The operating management, providing as it does for the care of near thirty thousand miles of railway, is far more important than that for construction in which there is comparatively little doing.”

Littles Doe Important Care Science Thousand Importance Management Miles Operations Thirty Construction Providing Railway Thousand Miles

Book:A TREATISE ON THE CONSTRUCTION AND MANAGEMENT OF RAILWAYS

Source: A TREATISE ON THE CONSTRUCTION AND MANAGEMENT OF RAILWAYS

“Gradually, ... the aspect of science as knowledge is being thrust into the background by the aspect of science as the power of manipulating nature. It is because science gives us the power of manipulating nature that it has more social importance than art. Science as the pursuit of truth is the equal, but not the superior, of art. Science as a technique, though it may have little intrinsic value, has a practical importance to which art cannot aspire.”

Source: The Scientific Outlook

“Our notions with respect to the importance of life, and our attachment to it, depend on a principle which has very little to do with its happiness or its misery. The love of life is, in general, the effect not of our enjoyments, but of our passions.”

Littles Life Is Passion Principles Effects Depends Importance Misery Notion Enjoyment Love Life Attachment Importance Of Life

Book:Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

“I will say little of the importance of a good education; nor will I stop to prove that the current one is bad. Countless others have done so before me, and I do not like to fill a book with things everybody knows. I will note that for the longest time there has been nothing but a cry against the established practice without anyone taking it upon himself to propose a better one. The literature and the learning of our age tend much more to destruction than to edification.”

Knows Littles Has Beens Book Done Age Literature Practice Cry Prove Destruction Importance Notes Currents Educational Propose Good Education Edification

Book:Jean-Jacgues Rousseau Emile or On Education

Source: Jean-Jacgues Rousseau Emile or On Education

“A thesis has to be presentable... but don't attach too much importance to it. If you do succeed in the sciences, you will do later on better things and then it will be of little moment. If you don't succeed in the sciences, it doesn't matter at all.”

Ifs Littles Matter Moments Success Science Too Much Succeed Importance Hypothesis Thesis Little Moments

Author:Paul Ehrenfest

“The body was so little a part of him that its final stillness seemed nothing of importance. He was half out of it anyway and death was only a slipping out of it altogether and being at last what he always was, a spirit. We buried the pearly shell upon the mountain top.”

Littles Body Lasts Spirit Grief Half Mountain Importance Finals Buried Stillness Shells Slipping Mountain Top

Author:Pearl S. Buck

“Again the early-morning sun was generous with it's warmth. All the sounds dear to a horseman were around me-the snort of the horses as they cleared their throats, the gentle swish of their tails, the tinkle of irons as we flung the saddles over their backs-little sounds of no importance, but they stay in the unconscious library of memory.”

Littles Sound Memories Morning Sun Importance Horse Library Dear Gentle Generous Unconscious Iron Throat Warmth Tails Early Morning Saddles Horsemen Morning Sun

Book:Madly in all directions

Source: Madly in all directions

“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.”

“I feel like creating things without getting too hung up on little details, and paying more attention to the importance to the concept itself, is the way to move forward.”

Way Feels Littles Moving Attention Creating Concepts Importance Details Moving Forward Hung Creating Things

Author:Takashi Tokita

“I try to paint what I have found and not what I look for. In art, intentions are of little importance.”

Trying Looks Littles Art Found Importance Intention Paint

Author:Pablo Picasso

“Let divines and philosophers, statesmen and patriots, unite their endeavors to renovate the age by impressing the minds of men with the importance of educating their little boys and girls, inculcating in the minds of youth the fear and love of the Deity... and leading them in the study and practice of the exalted virtues of the Christian system.”

Source: The Writings of Samuel Adams: 1778-1802

“But, you may ask, if the two departments [i.e., federal and state] should claim each the same subject of power, where is the common umpire to decide ultimately between them? In cases of little importance or urgency, the prudence of both parties will keep them aloof from the questionable ground; but if it can neither be avoided nor compromised, a convention of the States must be called to ascribe the doubtful power to that department which they may think best.”

Ifs Thinking Should May Littles Two States Asks Party Common Cases Subjects Importance Claims Department Conventions Prudence Avoided Urgency Umpires Doubtful Questionable Aloof

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from the rest of mankind their minds are early poisoned by importance; and the world they act in differs so materially from the world at large, that they have but little opportunity of knowing its true interests, and when they succeed to the government are frequently the most ignorant and unfit of any throughout the dominions.”

Source: THOMAS PAINE Ultimate Collection: Political Works, Philosophical Writings, Speeches, Letters & Biography (Including Common Sense, The Rights of Man & The Age of Reason): The American Crisis, The Constitution of 1795, Declaration of Rights, Agrarian Justice, The Republican Proclamation, Anti-Monarchal Essay, Letters to Thomas Jefferson and George Washington…

“If sometimes our great artists have been the most critical of our society, it is because their sensitivity and their concern for justice, which must motivate any true artist, makes him aware that our nation falls short of its highest potential. I see little of more importance to the future of our country and our civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist.”

“In the war to come correspondents would assume unheard of importance, plunging through flame to feed the public its little gobbets of dehydrated excrement.”

Littles War Importance Assuming Flames Unheard

Book:Under the Volcano: A Novel

Source: Under the Volcano: A Novel

“Therefore, in order not to have to rob his subjects, to be able to defend himself, not to become poor and contemptible, and not to be forced to become rapacious, a prince must consider it of little importance if he incurs the name of miser, for this is one of the vices that permits him to rule.”

Ifs Littles Able Order Poor Subjects Importance Vices Reputation Permit Misers

Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

“Moderation, which consists in indifference about little things, and in a prudent and well-proportioned zeal about things of importance, can proceed from nothing but true knowledge, which has its foundation in self-acquaintance.”

Wells Littles Self Importance Foundation Indifference Contentment Little Things Moderation Acquaintance Zeal Prudent True Knowledge

Author:Plato

“My diary entries during this period constantly refer to the importance of learning how to take criticism. If you shut yourself in your own little world, that will be the death of your theory. On the other hand, many of the criticisms you receive are pointless and simply reflect the view that anything new is bad. In such a delicate situation it is crucial to tread gingerly and be careful to appreciate the difference between pertinent and idiotic comments.”

“Second, the reason to embrace and celebrate these novels as the countercultural event that they are is due largely to the subliminal messages delivered by Harry and friends in their stolen wheelbarrows. Readers walk away, maybe a little softer on the occult than they were, but with story-embedded messages: the importance of a pure soul; love's power even over death; about sacrifice and loyalty; a host of images and shadows about Christ and how essential 'right belief' is for personal transformation and victory over internal and external evils.”

“I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. [...] It is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent. [...] It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.”

Thinking Men Littles Facts Rooms Mistake Brain Wall Highest Empty Importance Useless You Choose Furniture Scarlet Attics Study In Scarlet

Book:A Study in Scarlet

Source: A Study in Scarlet

“Why is one a slave to thought ? Why has thought become so important in all our lives -thought being ideas, being the response to the accumulated memories in the brain cells? Perhaps many of you have not even asked such a question before, or if you have you may have said, "it's of very little importance- what is important is emotion." But I don't see how you can separate the two. If thought does not give continuity to feeling, feeling dies very quickly. So why in our daily lives, in our grinding, boring, frightened lives, has thought taken on such inordinate importance?”

“No tools have yet been met with in any of the gravels occurring at the higher levels of the valley of the Seine; but no importance can be attached to this negative fact, as so little search has yet been made for them.”

Littles Made Facts Levels Higher Mets Negative Tools Importance Valleys Higher Level Gravel

Book:The Geological Evidence of Man

Source: The Geological Evidence of Man

“From my father, I learned the importance of working sincerely at things to which I had committed myself, and to persevere untiringly even in the face of little progress.”

Littles Faces Father Progress Importance Committed Sincerely Persevere

Author:Koichi Tanaka

“A person may be a moron or an imbecile if he is lacking in judgment; but with good judgment he can never be either. Indeed the rest of the intellectual faculties seem of little importance in comparison with judgment.”

Ifs May Littles Persons Seems Judgment Intellectual Importance Comparison Faculty Lacking Moron Imbeciles Good Judgment

Book:Significant contributions to the history of psychology: 1750-1920

Source: Significant contributions to the history of psychology: 1750-1920

“It seems to us that in intelligence there is a fundamental faculty, the alteration or the lack of which, is of the utmost importance for practical life. This faculty is judgment, otherwise called good sense, practical sense, initiative, the faculty of adapting one's self to circumstances. A person may be a moron or an imbecile if he is lacking in judgment; but with good judgment he can never be either. Indeed the rest of the intellectual faculties seem of little importance in comparison with judgment.”