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“The letters of famous people can be placed into two categories: there is the type of letter which becomes itself a valuable contribution to literature through its wit, style or wisdom; another kind is that whose main importance lies in the provision of a background to their author's life. Especially in the correspondence of great writers and poets, these two factors are very often combined.”

Source: The Essence of the Brontes: A Compilation with Essays

“If your voice is heard by more people because you've earned some kind of name and fame, your silence on an issue of urgent moral importance is even more of a betrayal. Privilege is obligation.”

People Ifs Kind Names Voice Silence Moral Issues Heard Fame Importance Privilege Betrayal Obligation Urgent

Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

“Malcolm Fraser, in the marrow of his bones, despised racism. He despised people who discriminated against other people because they were different and in particular because of the colour of their skin, and I don't think there has been a time in Australian politics where there has been more attention to the importance of that value.”

People Thinking Has Beens Different Values Attention Particular Racism Skins Importance Bones Colour Australian Despised Marrow

Author:George Brandis

“How can we accept a situation in which there are no longer orchestras, choruses, libraries or art classes to nourish our children? We need more support for the arts, not less -- particularly to make this rich world available to young people whose vision is choked by a stark reality. How many children, who have no other outlet in their lives for their grief, have found solace in an instrument to play or a canvas to paint on? When you take into consideration the development of the human heart, soul and imagination, don't the arts take on just as much importance as math or science?”

“Curiously enough, while very small people have a never-failing sense of their own importance, very great ones are often easily disheartened and put out of conceit with themselves.”

People Enough Failing Importance Conceit Great Ones Disheartened

Author:Elizabeth Wordsworth

“The United States has become a place where entertainers and professional athletes are mistaken for people of importance.”

People States United United States Importance Athlete Mistaken Entertainers Professional Athlete Most Important Person

Author:Robert A. Heinlein

“What we feel at prayer is God's business, not ours, and we must strive to be totally abandoned to the presence of 'consolation' or of boredom when we pray. A clear understanding that the value of our prayer does not depend upon how we feel is extremely important if we are to persevere in prayer. So many people feel that if their prayer is distracted it cannot be pleasing to God, and are therefore led to abandon their efforts precisely when fidelity is of the most importance.”

People Ifs Feels Doe Important Values Understanding Prayer Effort Clear Depends Praying Importance Strive Boredom Abandon Abandoned Consolation Distracted Our Prayers Persevere Fidelity

Author:Sheila Cassidy

“Sex can be renounced -- but sexuality cannot. We can't avoid sexual issues by avoiding sex, or by dismissing its importance, or by showing disrespect to our own or other people's sexual feelings.”

People Feelings Sex Issues Importance Sexuality Avoiding Disrespect

Author:Sallie Tisdale

“There is something about participating; it is almost my religion. If the world is still here in 100 years, people will know the importance of participating, not just being spectators. Millions of small groups around the world, that don't necessarily all agree with one another, are made up of people who are not just sitting back waiting for someone to do things for them. No one can prove anything, but of course if I didn't believe it had some kind of power, I wouldn't be trying to do it.”

People Ifs Knows World Trying Years Believe Kind Made Stills Courses Waiting Millions Groups Prove Sitting Importance Agree Around The World Just Being Spectators Participating Small Groups

Author:Pete Seeger

“how ridiculous we often are in our negations, our strutting self importance, our penchant for making labels and sticking them on people. As though labelling a person disposed of him!”

People Persons Self Names Importance Ridiculous Labels Negation Self-importance Strutting

Book:It Occurred to Me

Source: It Occurred to Me

“About Mahatma Gandhi: Great in taking decisions, great in executing them, Mahatma Gandhi was incomparably great in the last stand which he made on behalf of his country. He is undoubtedly one of the greatest men the world has ever seen. The world hath need of him, and if he is mocked and jeered at by "the people of importance," "the people with a stake in this country," - the Scribes and Pharisees of the days of Christ - he will be gratefully remembered, now and always, by a nation which he led from victory to victory.”

People Ifs Men World Needs Made Country Lasts Nations Christ Decision Victory Importance Remembered Stakes Behalf Executing Greatest Man Pharisees Scribes Last Stand

Author:Chittaranjan Das

“Americans ... attach such a fantastic importance to their baths and plumbing and gadgets of all sorts. They talk as if people could hardly be human beings without all that; we in Europe are beginning to wonder if people can be human beings with it.”

People Ifs Humans Human Beings Wonder United States Comfort Europe Importance Fantastic Baths Gadgets Plumbing

Book:Singing Waters

Source: Singing Waters

“Take the life issue. This issue requires a president and an administration leading our nation to understand the importance of life. This whole faith-based initiative really ties into a larger cultural issue that we're working on. It begins to affect the life issue, as well as the human dignity issue, because when you're talking about welcoming people of faith to help people who are disadvantaged and are unable to defend themselves, the logical step is also those babies.”

“The people cannot be all, and always well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive.”

People Wells Facts Importance Proportion Patriotism Patriotic Tyrants Right To Bear Arms Bearing Arms American Liberty Lethargy Liberty Tree

Book:Memoirs, 2: Correspondence and Private Papers

Source: Memoirs, 2: Correspondence and Private Papers

“I entered a songwriting competition, I didn't win, and one of the judges on the panel was an A&R man at a record label that had no other acts and I signed to them. We sent my demo out to five people and David Kahne got back to me that day, and said I think you're amazing I want to start with you tomorrow. He was like my Harvard reach school, I couldn't believe it. I was really excited. It was the first time anyone of any importance said I was good and I ran with that validation for a long time.”

“I do know people and there are people in my family who have had Alzheimer's and dementia, and I appreciate the importance of communication and having contact with them. Communicating is an interesting thing with a condition like that. Sometimes it's difficult to communicate. If the brain becomes atrophied or certain channels of the brain become atrophied, then contact is what becomes really important.”

“Were not teaching our students the importance of relationships with other people: how you work with them, what the relational pathology consists of, how you examine your own conscience, how you examine the inner world, how you examine your dreams.”

People World Dream Teaching Students Conscience Importance Your Dreams Inner World Pathology Relationships With Others

Author:Irvin D. Yalom

“I think people underestimate the importance of lighting - layers of lighting, not just one light. I do a lighting seminar where I take a $300-a-yard fabric and a $3-a-yard fabric. I show what lighting can do to either one.”

People Thinking Shows Light Can Do Importance Just One Layers Fabric Yards Underestimate Lighting Seminars

Author:Candice Olson

“People attach too much importance to intangibles like heart, desire and clutch hitting.”

People Heart Desire Too Much Importance Hitting Clutch Hearts Desire

Author:Nate Silver

“A man of genius is not a man who sees more than other men do. On the contrary, it is very often found that he is absentminded andobserves much less than other people.... Why is it that the public have such an exaggerated respect for him--after he is dead? The reason is that the man of genius understands the importance of the few things he sees.”

People Men Reason Found He Man Genius Importance Contrary Exaggerated

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“In my public statements I have earnestly urged that there rested upon government many responsibilities which affect the moral and spiritual welfare of our people. The participation of women in elections has produced a keener realization of the importance of these questions and has contributed to higher national ideals. Moreover, it is through them that our national ideals are ingrained in our children.”

People Children Government Politics Women Responsibility Moral Higher Ideals Importance Our Children Election Statements Realization Welfare Participation

Author:Herbert Hoover

“There are of course people who are more important than others in that they have more importance in the world but this is not essential and it ceases to be. I have no sense of difference in this respect because every human being comprises the combination form.”

People World Humans Important Form Courses Differences Human Beings Essentials Importance Equality Cease Combination

Book:A primer for the gradual understanding of Gertrude Stein

Source: A primer for the gradual understanding of Gertrude Stein

“I believe that it is of the utmost importance that we all should feel and inculcate among the people and circulate amongst them what I call a sense of compatriotism. We should all feel that we are all nationals of one country, whatever our race, colour, creed, or sect.”

People Feels Should Believe Country I Believe Race Importance Colour Creeds Sects

Author:A. D. Patel

“A person unlearns arrogance when he knows he is always among worthy human beings; being alone fosters presumption. Young people are arrogant because they always associate with their own peers, those who are all really nothing but who would like to be very important.”

People Knows Humans Persons Important Young Human Beings Importance Worthy Arrogance Arrogant Peers Associates Presumption Unlearn

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“I can assure you that there is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life. You learn that which is of inestimable importance that there are a great many people in the world who are just as clever as you are. You learn to put your trust, by and by, in an economy and frugality of the exercise of your powers, both moral and intellectual; and you very soon find out, if you have not found it out before, that patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.”

People Ifs World I Can Purpose Found Moral Economy Exercise Benefits Intellectual Weight Importance Clever Practicals Great Men Tenacity Cleverness Frugality

Book:Collected essays

Source: Collected essays

“The importance of fear as a factor in war-making cannot be overlooked, and can hardly be overestimated. Any politician can play on panic when he wishes to stampede a people into war.”

People War Play Wish Fear Politician Importance Factors Panic Overlooked Stampede

Author:Maude Royden

“Being a black artist, the first thing people want to talk about is your blackness, the importance of your blackness and your black presence.”

People Want Firsts Artist Black Importance Blackness

Author:Toyin Odutola

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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.”

“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 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

“Statistics and numbers are no good unless you have good people to analyse and then interpret their meaning and importance.”

People Numbers Importance Statistics Good People

Author:Brendan Rodgers

“A lot of political people, especially people on the left, have forgotten the importance of humor as an incredible weapon, and a vehicle through which to affect change.”

People Humor Political Politics Left Weapons Importance Incredibles Forgotten Vehicle

Author:Michael Moore

“People who say they're too busy to have lunch have a false impression of their own importance.”

People Importance Busy Impression Lunch Too Busy

Author:John Howard

“I know some people say that high fashion should not be worn at synagogue. I, on the other hand, think that it is of the utmost importance that the Goldbergs from down the street see you in the new Chanel Fall 2010 Yom Kippur line.”

People Thinking Knows Should Hands Fall Lines Streets Fashion Importance Worn Synagogue High Fashion Yom Kippur

Author:Rachel Zoe

“Another strand of my writing is the importance of the idea. If you think about fiction writing as a spectrum, where at one end of the spectrum in the infrared, are the story tellers, and the people for whom creation of wonderful characters and telling a good story is the most important thing.”

People Ifs Thinking Writing Important Ideas Ends Character Stories Fiction Wonderful Creation Importance Important Things Spectrum Good Story Fiction Writing Strands Infrared

Author:Alan Lightman

“In truth, there never was any remarkable lawgiver amongst any people who did not resort to divine authority, as otherwise his laws would not have been accepted by the people; for there are many good laws, the importance of which is known to be the sagacious lawgiver, but the reasons for which are not sufficiently evident to enable him to persuade others to submit to them; and therefore do wise men, for the purpose of removing this difficulty, resort to divine authority.”

People Men Has Beens Reason Law Purpose Known Wise Divine Authority Importance Difficulty Accepted Remarkable Submit Evident Resorts

Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

“When we make the choice to care, we set into motion a snowball effect that touches many people, most of whom we will never know about . . . never underestimate the importance of a kind act.”

People Knows Kind Care Choices Effects Importance Underestimate Never Underestimate Snowball Snowball Effect

Author:Alan Cohen

“It's a historical fact that the Stasi did horrible things and that they monitored a lot of people in East Germany, but I find it very interesting to think about the importance of the Western secret services back then and still working today.”

People Thinking Stills Facts Today Interesting Secret Importance Historical Western East Horrible Germany Very Interesting Horrible Things Secret Service Historical Facts East Germany

Author:Christian Schwochow

“Don't listen to other people's advice unless it is rooted in irrepressible enthusiasm (e.g., "Be afraid but do it anyway"), or about the importance of being a good colleague.”

People Advice Importance Enthusiasm Rooted Colleagues Irrepressible

Author:Torill Kove

“The mistakes that people will make are of much less importance than the mistake that management makes if it tells them exactly what to do.”

People Ifs Mistake Importance Management

Author:William L. McKnight

“I had to sign the paper to shut down the government. It's terrible.... [But] what the shutdown showed many, many people is the importance of the role of government. And as frustrated [as people get with] Washington, there are so many things [the government does] that are so important to people's lives every day. The panda cam, paying small businesses their loans - these are all things that shut down.”

People Doe Important Government Roles Terrible Paper All Things Importance Frustrated Small Business Loan Pandas Live Every Day Role Of Government

Author:Sylvia Mathews Burwell

“We've lived through a time in which people have felt they could forge their own future and make a better world. We may not have achieved our dreams in the time frame that we once believed was realistic, but the magnitude of what is yet to be achieved only confirms the importance of our commitment. Knowing this, we can't stop now.”

People World May Dream Felt Knowing Commitment Importance Realistic Our Dreams Magnitude

Author:Peter Yarrow

“I think that everything changes when it goes through the Mac; it's cheap. I think people then don't pay too much importance to the take, if you can do 40 takes.”

People Ifs Thinking Can Do Pay Too Much Importance Things Change Macs

Author:Jaume Collet-Serra

“The movie industry places such importance on first-week numbers-which means what to people, I don't know. It's very strange. They hope to sell tons of records the first week, and then what?”

People Knows Firsts Mean Numbers Records Week Strange Industry Importance Sells Movie Industry

Author:Brendan Benson

“I do not think I exaggerate the importance or the charms of pedestrianism, or our need as a people to cultivate the art. I think it would tend to soften the national manners, to teach us the meaning of leisure, to acquaint us with the charms of the open air, to strengthen and foster the tie between the race and the land. No one else looks out upon the world so kindly and charitably as the pedestrian; no one else gives and takes so much from the country he passes through.”

People Thinking World Needs Giving Looks Art Country Race Teach Air Land Importance Manners Ties Charm Leisure Give And Take Pedestrians

Book:The Art of Seeing Things: Essays

Source: The Art of Seeing Things: Essays

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