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Source: The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers Vol II: 1937-1943: From Novelist to Playwright

“Nothing is more important than to war on war.”

“I have done nothing important or distinguished since we met except to win the handicap prize, worth ?4 10/- at North Berwick.”

Important Done Winning Mets Prize Distinguished Handicaps

Author:Arthur Balfour

“My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important.”

Men Important Father Poor Race Class Possession British Poor Man

Author:Sidney Poitier

“The most important element in a picture cannot be defined.”

Important Elements Defined

Author:Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“It is important to use all knowledge ethically, humanely, and lovingly.”

Important Use Knowledge

Author:Carol Lynn Pearson

“One's self-image is very important because if that's in good shape, then you can do anything, or practically anything.”

Ifs Important Self Can Do Confidence Shapes Self Confidence

Author:John Gielgud

“Shock is shock. Your body goes into shock, regardless of it being real blood or fake blood. The mind sends powerful messages to all the various glands and secretions in the body. It's impossible trying to act it; it just happens. It's a very important question: no acting.”

Trying Mind Important Real Body Happens Powerful Acting Impossible Blood Messages Various Your Body Fake Shock Being Real Important Questions Glands

Author:Ben Kingsley

“I suspect that the most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention And especially if it's given from the heart. When people are talking, there's no need to do anything but receive them. Just take them in. Listen to what they're saying. Care about it. Most times caring about it is even more important than understanding it. Most of us don't value ourselves or our love enough to know this.”

Source: Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition

“The drive to resist compulsion is more important in wild animals than sex, food, or water... The drive for competence or to resist compulsion is a drive to avoid helplessness.”

Important Sex Water Animal Competence Compulsion Helplessness Wild Animal

Author:Martin Seligman

“Pleasure is the least consequential... engagement and meaning are much more important.”

Important Pleasure Engagement

Author:Martin Seligman

“The thing with kids is that you only get one chance to do it right. It's really important to share their gifts while they're discovering them. That's why spelling bees are such a compelling story. They stimulate them intellectually, they awaken their competitive spirit, but it's fun. There's something fun about words.”

Important Stories Kids Spirit Fun Chance Share Discovering Bees Compelling Spelling One Chance Competitive Spirit

Author:Laurence Fishburne

“It may indeed prove to be far the most difficult and not the least important task for human reason rationally to comprehend its own limitations. It is essential for the growth of reason that as individuals we should bow to forces and obey principles which we cannot hope fully to understand, yet on which the advance and even the preservation of civilization depend.”

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Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“The thing about real life is that important events don't announce themselves... Usually something that is going to change your whole life is a memory before you can stop and be impressed about it.”

Important Real Whole Life Is Memories Events Importance Whole Life Real Life Impressed Important Events

Author:Edith Schaeffer

“America has the greatest reputation in the world for helping others whenever and wherever disaster strikes. Now, more than ever,it's important for us to contribute to those who are in need. Your assistance is really beneficial and will be greatly welcomed and appreciated.”

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Author:Bobby Knight

“Never work for a company that says people are its most important asset. If you wanted to get a mortgage and you said that your only asset was people you would end up living in a tent.”

People Ifs Said Important Ends Wanted Company Assets Mortgage Tents

Author:Guy Browning

“What is important is not what someone is but what he is waiting for. Not the events of life but its possibilities.”

Important Waiting Events Possibility

Author:Dorothee Solle

“What others think of us is not our concern - it is their concern... It is important only that we radiate life. Every individual must be a joy to himself, to his family and to his society.”

Thinking Important Joy Individual Concern

Author:Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

“I work very hard, but when God opens that door for you - when life opens that door for you, I should say - I think it's important to be giving, to return the love back.”

Thinking Giving Should Important Hard Doors Return

Author:Lady Gaga

“Be as delicate as possible. If communication accomplishes something on the gross but damages something on the level of feeling then it is a spiritual loss! The feeling is more important for life.”

Ifs Important Feelings Spiritual Loss Levels Communication Accomplish Damage Shock Delicate Gross

Author:Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

“The most important things in a painting are Form and Value. Color comes last - like a friend you welcome.”

Important Lasts Form Values Color Painting Important Things Welcome

Author:Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

“It seems to me very important to begin by an indication of the darkest values (assuming that the canvas is white), and to continue in order to the lightest value. From the darkest to the lightest I would establish twenty shades...”

Important Seems Values Order Study Twenties Shade Preparing Indication

Author:Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

“The painters have no copyright on modern art!... I believe in, and make no apologies for, photography: it is the most important graphic medium of our day. It does not have to be, indeed cannot be - compared to painting - it has different means and aims.”

Source: Edward Weston: The Flame of Recognition: His Photographs Accompanied by Excerpts from the Daybooks & Letters

“Work out what is truly important to you. Research shows people with consistently high happiness scores prioritise their life according to the things they value. They've worked out what is most important to them and don't allow themselves to get sidetracked.”

People Important Shows Values Research Importance Work Out Score Consistently

Author:Robert Holden

“Money is important but it is not everything... Think about everything you already have that money can't buy.”

Thinking Important Money

Author:Robert Holden

“The board is currently undertaking what could be its most important task, ... We are confident that we're going to make a choice that is in the best interest of the company, shareholders and others.”

Important Choices Interest Company Tasks Boards Undertakings Shareholders

Author:George J. Mitchell

“The stuff that?s most important to me in life can?t be bought ? it can only be earned.”

Important Stuff

Author:Steve Pavlina

“Of course, the simple explanation of the fact is that marriage is the most important act of man's life in Europe or America, and that everything depends upon it.”

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Book:Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn

Source: Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn

“A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more peace and content in life than simply being a good husband and father.”

“Diplomacy has been exhausted .. Continued instability in the Balkans threatens important U.S. national interests,.”

Has Beens Important Interest Exhausted Diplomacy Instability National Interests Balkans

Author:Tom Daschle

“Dreams, puns, elisions, plays on words and similar tricks that we ordinarily think of as frivolous, all play a surprising and somewhat disconcerting role in the communication of important and serious feelings.”

Thinking Important Play Feelings Dream Roles Serious Communication Tricks Surprising Frivolous Pun Play On Words

Book:The Wisdom of Milton H. Erickson: Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy

Source: The Wisdom of Milton H. Erickson: Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy

“What you do is infinitely more important than how you do it.”

Important Work 4 Hour Work Week

Author:Tim Ferriss

“I'm dealing with the most important things there are: life and nature. If this doesn't work, if this doesn't sustain me, I can't go back to nature. I'm right there. There's nowhere to go, and that frightens me.”

Ifs I Can Important Importance Important Things Nowhere To Go

Author:Andy Goldsworthy

“I think there's more support today. I think there's better understanding today. And there's a better appreciation for the fact that if any community is going to prosper, if any community is going to be seen at its best, that the women in that community have to be viewed as equally as important as the men. And [women] have to be able to live outside of boundaries that are placed on them because of their gender. As well as their race or their religion.”

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Author:Anita Hill

“To me, it's simple: if you've got the time, use it to get ready. What else could you possibly have to do that's more important? Yes, maybe you'll learn how to do a few things you'll never wind up actually needing to do, but that's a much better problem to have than needing to do something and having no clue where to start.”

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Book:An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth

Source: An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth

“China attaches great importance to the utilization of renewable resources, making it one of the important moves to promote economic and social development”

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Author:Hu Jintao

“The single most important duty of the federal government is to protect and defend our national sovereignty. There are new and disturbing reports of American nuclear submarines passing though Canadian waters without obtaining the permission of, or even notifying, the Canadian government.”

Important Government Water Duty Protect Nuclear Passing Passings Reports Permission Federal Government Sovereignty Navy Disturbing Obtaining Submarines National Sovereignty Canadian Government

Author:Stephen Harper

“Perhaps the most important ingredient in my work... is my brain - particularly the right brain... the free spontaneous side, and the left brain, which is careful and methodical.”

Thinking Important Left Sides Brain Careful Ingredients Spontaneous Methodical Left Brain

Author:Brian Johnson

“Using the Japan-U.S. alliance as a basis, it is important that we maintain and develop cooperative relations with our neighboring countries such as China, South Korea, and Russia.”

Important Country Bases Relation South China Russia Japan Korea Alliances Cooperatives South Korea

Author:Junichiro Koizumi

“So no one should rely on television either for their knowledge of music or for news. There's just more going on. It's an adjunct to the written word, which I think is still the most important thing.”

Thinking Should Stills Important Literature Written Television News Important Things Rely Written Word

Author:Kurt Loder

“Irritability is immaturity of character. If you are subject to being cross and unpleasant with others for no apparent reason, you need to come face-to-face with the fact that you are thinking too much of yourself. After all, your feelings are not the most important thing in this world.”

Ifs Thinking World Needs Important Reason Character Facts Feelings Faces Too Much Subjects This World Crosses Important Things Face To Face Immaturity Thinking Too Much

Author:Lawrence G. Lovasik

“To be outspoken when truth is under attack, when charity is being bruise, or when important issues of life are at stake is a good and courageous thing. To be outspoken when nothing is at stake except the feelings of someone else is a small and contemptible thing.”

Important Feelings Issues Truth Is Charity Courageous Stakes Bruises Important Issues Outspoken

Book:The Hidden Power of Kindness: A Practical Handbook for Souls who Dare to Transform the World, One Deed at a Time

Source: The Hidden Power of Kindness: A Practical Handbook for Souls who Dare to Transform the World, One Deed at a Time

“I've been in a bad accident on I-95, as well as my friend. Having this kind of organization is important so that change can occur. I'll be around whenever they need me.”

Needs Wells Kind Important My Friends Organization Accidents

Author:Jeremy Miller

“Unity is the most important thing on the road to stamping out terror. You need global rules of law and order, and they have to be enforced. Start with that principle.”

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Author:Chris Matthews

“The history of science knows scores of instances where an investigator was in the possession of all the important facts for a new theory but simply failed to ask the right questions.”

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Book:The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritance

Source: The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritance

“Everyone has a right to an opinion. I can arrive in England and express my opinion. If criticism were ferocious and without intellectual objectivity they should show me the way to their airport. It is important to have an opinion and not be afraid to express it, knowing there will be criticism.”

Ifs Way Should I Can Important Shows Opinion Knowing Intellectual Criticism England Show Me Airports Objectivity

Author:Jose Mourinho

“Yet in a kingdom containing seven constituent parts, which is upheld like the triple staff ,of an ascetic , there is no ,single part more important ,than the others , by reason of the importance of the qualities of each for the others.”

Important Reason Quality Importance Seven Kingdoms Staff Parting Constituents Containing Asceticism

Author:Guru Nanak

“The most important thing is to just do it. If I work at a higher level I have responsibility to do better than what I've done before. Sometimes the best happens - beyond possibility. Just do it. Can't worry about it.”

Ifs Important Sometimes Done Happens Levels Responsibility Worry Possibility Higher Importance Important Things Just Do It Higher Level

Author:LeRoy Neiman

“Financial firms are sending their back-office jobs overseas. But what do fine artists do? They create something new, unexpected, and delightful that changes the world. MFA abilities are harder to outsource and more important in an abundant world.”

World Important Jobs Artist Ability Fine Office Harder Financial Profession Firm Changing The World Unexpected Something New Delightful Fine Arts Fine Artists Office Jobs

Author:Daniel H. Pink

“Do I really believe that my work is crucial to the planet's survival? Of course not. But it's as important to me as catching that mouse is to the hawk circling outside my window. He's hungry. He needs a kill. So do I.”

Needs Believe Important Courses Planets Survival Window Importance Hungry Crucial Mice Catching Hawks

Author:Steven Pressfield

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