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“Socrates' way of life is the consequence of his recognition that we can know what it is that we do not know about the most important things and that we are by nature obliged to seek that knowledge.”

Knows Way Important Life Is Consequence Important Things Recognition Obliged

Author:Allan Bloom

“I remember a very important lesson that my father gave me when I was twelve or thirteen. He said, "You know, today I welded a perfect seam and I signed my name to it." And I said, "But, Daddy, no one's going to see it!" And he said, "Yeah, but I know it's there." So when I was working in kitchens, I did good work.”

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Author:Toni Morrison

“One of the many, many things I hate about war is how it trivializes the personal. The big themes, the broad sweep, the emergency measures, the national identity, all the things that a particular kind of man with a particular kind of power urge adores, these are the things that become important. War gives the lie to the personal, drowns it in meetings, alarms, sacrifices. The personal is only allowed to return as death.”

Men Giving Kind Important War Bigs Lying Hate Sacrifice Identity Particular He Man Return I Hate Meetings Theme Urges Broads Adore Emergencies Alarms National Identity Things I Hate

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system, and possibly program, of all time.”

Believe Important I Believe Program All Time Destined Operating Systems

Author:Bill Gates

“The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.”

Life Important Pondering

Author:Sinclair Lewis

“I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and that the preservation of this spirit is more important than any social system whatsoever. But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.”

Men World Has Beens Important Spirit Social Forever He Man Capable Critical Convinced Accomplished Ritual Preservation Barbarism Social Systems Inquiring Silencing Critical Spirit

Book:It Can't Happen Here

Source: It Can't Happen Here

“The most important thing about recovery is to pass the message on.”

Important Messages Important Things Recovery

Author:Maurice Gibb

“The outstanding coach is a teacher that gets all his squad to accept the role that he considers to be the most important for the welfare of all.”

Important Accepting Roles Teacher Coaches Welfare Outstanding Squad

Author:John Wooden

“I think a lot of times when people play superheroes, they stick with this, 'I am a superhero,' but the truth is that we're all human, and that human quality is really important to bring.”

People Thinking Humans Important Play Quality Truth Is Sticks Superhero Human Qualities

Author:Molly Quinn

“I'm really happy that I got to work with such fresh talent. In a day when record companies are not particularly good at encouraging young, talented songwriters to come forward and get exposure, I think it's important to give tomorrow's songwriters the opportunity.”

Thinking Giving Important Young Opportunity Company Records Talent Tomorrow Songwriters Exposure Really Happy Record Companies

Author:Robin Gibb

“The most important factor in determining whether you will succeed isn’t your gender, it’s you. Be open to opportunity and take risks. In fact, take the worst, the messiest, the most challenging assignment you can find, and then take control.”

Important Facts Opportunity Challenges Risk Worst Succeed Gender Factors Assignments Take Control

Author:Angela Braly

“So often in my life I've been with people and shared beautiful moments like travelling or staying up all night and watching the sunrise, and I knew it was a special moment, but something was always wrong. I wished I'd been with someone else. I knew that what I was feeling - exactly what was so important to me - they didn't understand.”

People Important Moments Feelings Beautiful Night Special Staying Sunrise All Night Always Wrong Up All Night Beautiful Moments Special Moments

Author:Julie Delpy

“Simplicity is simple. Perhaps this sounds redundant. But it's true, and it's important.”

Important Sound Simple Simplicity Redundant

Author:Blake Mycoskie

“For me, what is most important is the element of surprise. If I can surprise you with every film of mine, that is exactly what I am trying to do.”

Ifs Trying I Can Important Film Mines Elements Surprise Element Of Surprise

Author:Arjun Rampal

“Darkroom: A Memoir in Black and White is remarkable for its truth-telling about two important issues concerning Alabama's past and present: the civil rights movement and immigration. These stories, rendered through the words and eyes of a young Latina girl who came from Argentina to Marion, Alabama, are made vivid and immediate through Weaver's highly accessible drawings and dialogue. This is a book-about maturation, family, education, and social change-every schoolchild, parent, and citizen should experience.”

“For carbon-neutral cities, there are things worth talking about in how our consumption patterns can change - sharing goods, etc. - but those are a fraction of the impacts of transportation and building energy use. If we need to choose priority actions, the most important things are to densify, provide transit, and green the buildings.”

Ifs Needs Important Use Action Energy Cities Talking Building Green Important Things Impact Patterns Priorities Etc Goods Consumption Carbon Transportation Fractions Energy Use

Author:Alex Steffen

“It's not a man's working hours that are important--it's his leisure hours. That's the mistake we all make.”

Men Important Hours Mistake Leisure

Book:The Labours of Hercules (Poirot)

Source: The Labours of Hercules (Poirot)

“Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself.”

Men Firsts Two Important Levels Common Education Teacher Teaching Intellectual Every Man Rise Above

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Edward Gibbon (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edward Gibbon (Illustrated)

“The important thing is how we know, not what or how much.”

Knows Important Important Things

Book:Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

“The will the one thing it is most important to educate we neglect.”

Important One Thing Neglect Educate

Book:Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

“There are few things it is more important to learn than how to live on little and be therewith content: for the less we need what is without, the more leisure have we to live within.”

Needs Littles Important Leisure

Book:Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

“Birth control is the first important step woman must take toward the goal of her freedom. It is the first step she must take to be man's equal. It is the first step they must both take toward human emancipation.”

Men Firsts Humans Important Women Goal Steps Birth Equal First Steps Emancipation Birth Control

Author:Margaret Sanger

“An Englishman does not joke about such an important matter as a bet.”

Doe Important Matter Jokes Englishmen

Author:Jules Verne

“The gods of the Disc have never bothered much about judging the souls of the dead, and so people only go to hell if that's where they believe, in their deepest heart, that they deserve to go. Which they won't do if they don't know about it. This explains why it is so important to shoot missionaries on sight.”

People Ifs Knows Believe Heart Important Soul Hell Judging Deserve Sight Bothered Discworld Go To Hell Discs

Author:Terry Pratchett

“Like it or not, to reach middle age with less money or less prestige than our father had is somewhat to lose face. Stupid of course, when put like that, but who is prepared to argue that we are not stupid in several important ways?”

Way Important Age Faces Courses Father Loses Middle Stupid Prepared Arguing Middle Ages Our Father Prestige Not Stupid

Author:Robertson Davies

“For almost every character I've played in the 43 years I've been working as a professional actor, I've found parts of myself. We are all bipolar in the tiniest essence of what it is. We are all multiple personalities, in a sense, and to be healthy mentally, I think, learning what those multiple personalities are and inviting them in your life is really important.”

Thinking Years Important Character Life Is Actors Found Acting Personality Healthy Essence Multiple Inviting Bipolar Multiple Personalities

Author:Sally Field

“Men have been taught that their first concern is to relieve the suffering of others. ... To make that the highest test of virtue is to make suffering the most important part of life. Then man must wish to see others suffer in order that he may be virtuous. Such is the nature of altruism.”

Men Firsts May Has Beens Important Suffering Order Wish Virtue Taught Highest Concern Tests Virtuous Altruism Parts Of Life Fountainhead Suffering Of Others

Book:For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)

Source: For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)

“It is important to understand what I mean by semiosis. All dynamic action, or action of brute force, physical or psychical, either takes place between two subjects, whether they react equally upon each other, or one is agent and the other patient, entirely or partially, or at any rate is a resultant of such actions between pairs. But by "semiosis" I mean, on the contrary, an action, or influence, which is, or involves, a cooperation of three subjects, such as a sign, its object, and its interpretant, this tri-relative influence not being in any way resolvable into actions between pairs.”

Way Mean Two Important Action Three Force Influence Subjects Objects Patient Rate Contrary Agents Pairs Cooperation Relative Brutes Brute Force

Author:Charles Sanders Peirce

“Those who have tried meekness know the importance of being important.”

Knows Important Importance Meekness

Book:True bills

Source: True bills

“It's very important that people aspire to be successful. The only way you can do it is if you look at somebody who is.”

People Ifs Way Looks Important Can Do Successful Being Successful Aspire You Can Do It

Author:Donald Trump

“How could the USA champion individual freedom in the world generally while denying it to an important minority in its own country.”

World Important Country Individual Champion Usa Minorities Individual Freedom

Author:Dean Acheson

“Any musician who says he is playing better either on tea, the needle, or when he is juiced, is a plain, straight liar. When I get too much to drink, I can't even finger well, let alone play decent ideas. You can miss the most important years of your life, the years of possible creation.”

Years Wells I Can Important Ideas Play Too Much Missing Creation Drink Musician Fingers Tea Decent Liars Needles

Author:Charlie Parker

“For me, the most important thing is the element of chance that is built into a live performance. The very great drawback of recorded sound is the fact that it is always the same. No matter how wonderful a recording is, I know that I couldn't live with it--even of my own music--with the same nuances forever.”

Knows Important Matter Facts Sound Chance My Own Forever Wonderful Elements Built Performances Important Things Nuance Drawbacks Live Performance

Author:Aaron Copland

“His [Turgot's] first important literary and scholastic effort was a treatise On the Existence of God. Few fragments of it remain, but we are helped to understand him when we learn that he asserted, and to the end of his life maintained, his belief in an Almighty Creator and Upholder of the Universe. It did, indeed, at a later period suit the purposes of his enemies, exasperated by his tolerant spirit and his reforming plans, to proclaim him an atheist; but that sort of charge has been the commonest of missiles against troublesome thinkers in all times.”

“This whole theory [of John Law and Jean Terrasson], as dear to French financial schemers in the eighteenth century as to American "Greenbackers" in the nineteenth, had resulted, under the Orleans Regency and Louis XV, in ruin to France financially and morally, had culminated in the utter destruction of all prosperity, the rooting out of great numbers of the most important industries, and the grinding down of the working people even to starvation.”

People Important Whole Law Numbers Century Theory Industry Destruction Financial Dear Prosperity Ruins France Starvation

Author:Andrew Dickson White

“Absolutely. I think, I think the American people, at their core, are a decent people. I think that we still have prejudice in our midst, but I think that the vast majority of Americans are willing, are willing to judge people on the basis of their ideas and their character. And in the case of the presidency, I think what's most important is whether the American people think that you understand their hopes and dreams and struggles and whether they think you can actually help them achieve those hopes and dreams.”

People Thinking Knows Stills Important Ideas Character Helping Dream Cases Struggle Achieve Willing Judging Bases Prejudice Majority Core Decent Midst Presidency Hopes And Dreams

Author:Barack Obama

“When I lie on the beach there naked, which I do sometimes, and I feel the wind coming over me and I see the stars up above and I am looking into this very deep, indescribable night, it is something that escapes my vocabulary to describe. Then I think: 'God, I have no importance. Whatever I do or don't do, or what anybody does, is not more important than the grains of sand that I am lying on, or the coconut that I am using for my pillow.' So I really don't think in the long sense.”

Thinking Feels Long Doe Important Sometimes Lying Night Stars Wind Importance Naked Beach Sand Grain Vocabulary Pillow Very Deep Indescribable Grains Of Sand Coconuts

Author:Marlon Brando

“You are different from the really great man in only one thing: The great man, at one time, also was a very little man, but he developed one important ability: he learned to see where he was small in his thinking, and actions. Under the pressure of some task which was dear to him he learned better and better to sense the threat that comes from his smallness and pettiness. The great man, then, knows when and in what he is a little man.”

Thinking Knows Men Littles Important Different Action Ability One Thing Tasks Pressure Threat Dear Great Men One Time Really Great Little Man Smallness Pettiness

Author:Wilhelm Reich

“There is no value-judgment more important to a man--no factor more decisive in his psychological development and motivation--than the estimate he passes on himself.”

Men Important Motivation Values Development Confidence Judgment Self Confidence Psychological Factors Psychological Development

Book:The Psychology of Self-Esteem: A Revolutionary Approach to Self-Understanding that Launched a New Era in Modern Psychology

Source: The Psychology of Self-Esteem: A Revolutionary Approach to Self-Understanding that Launched a New Era in Modern Psychology

“What men have thought about life in the past is less important than what you feel about it to-day.”

Men Feels Important Past

Book:Lifted Masks

Source: Lifted Masks

“Today it is generally accepted that although the earliest humans probably ate some meat, it was unlikely to have played a major role in their diet. Plants would have been a much more important source of food.”

Humans Has Beens Important Today Roles Source Majors Plant Accepted Meat Diets Unlikely

Author:Jane Goodall

“It seems important that the social value factor be more generally recognized as a powerful causal agent in its own right and something to be dealt with directly as such. No more critical task can be projected for the 1970s than that of seeking for civilized society a new, elevated set of value guidelines more suited to man's expanded numbers and new powers over nature, a frame of reference for value priorities that will act to secure and conserve our world instead of destroying it.”

“What's important is not just to develop the technology; it's to develop the processes.”

Important Process Technology What's Important

Author:Hal Abelson

“Getting every employee's mind into the game is a huge part of what a CEO job is all about. Taking everyone's best ideas and transferring them to others is the secret. There's nothing more important.”

Mind Important Ideas Jobs Games Secret Huge Employee Ceo

Author:Jack Welch

“Getting the right people in the right jobs is a lot more important than developing a strategy.”

People Important Jobs Strategy Developing

Author:Jack Welch

“It is so important for me to keep authentic Cuban sounds alive. All of these great artists have changed the landscape of Latin music and it's an honor to have them on this album ["90 Millas," released in September of 2007]. I believe this album will expose a new generation to the richness of Cuban music.”

Believe Important Artist I Believe Sound Alive Generations Changed Honor Albums Landscape Latin September Great Art Richness Great Artist New Generation Cuban Latin Music Cuban Music

Author:Gloria Estefan

“I thought it would be lovely to use [pet bulldog] Noelle as an example to teach the importance of being who you are. For me it's important to inspire children in a positive way, and at times they understand more messages through entertainment than when one is talking to them directly.”

Way Children Important Use Would Be Talking Teach Example Inspire Messages Importance Who You Are Entertainment Lovely Pet Bulldogs

Author:Gloria Estefan

“I was more of a Star Wars kid, actually. I always thought Star Trek was a lot of talk, and it felt a little self-important. It was hard for me to get into it.”

Littles Important War Self Hard Kids Stars Felt

Author:J. J. Abrams

“The goal is justice, the method? is transparency. It's important not to confuse the goal and the method.”

Important Goal Justice Method Transparency

Author:Julian Assange

“While our responses to the problems facing us immediately are also important, we cannot forget to carve out the future of Japan ten or one hundred years into the future. In doing so, we must not resort to superficial measures. Instead, it is imperative to engage in true reforms that ascertain the state of society we seek to achieve.”

Years Important States Problem Forget Achieve Ten Hundred Response Reform Japan Superficial Resorts Imperatives

Author:Shinzo Abe

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