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“You know, I think when people are in important positions in big organizations, they often get tied up with the minutia of managing money, managing things. They often forget that people deserve to be led.”

People Thinking Knows Important Bigs Forget Position Deserve Organization Tied Tied Up

Author:Chesley Sullenberger

“Gym class was, of course, where the strongest, best-looking kids were made captains and chose us spazzes last. More important, it was where the figures of supposed authority allowed them to do so. Forget the work our parents did molding our minds and values. Everything fell apart as soon as we put on those maroon polyester gym suits.”

Source: Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace

“I think it’s important that nobody forgets that although Hollywood commercially dominates the world cinema, in fact what comes out of the filmmaking here is only a tiny slice out of the massive amount of operation that goes on around the world.”

Thinking World Important Facts Forget Goes On Amount Hollywood Tiny Around The World Operations Cinema Massive Filmmaking

Author:Mike Leigh

“You can never forget the time you are living in because the past is the past and it will never come back. So to adjust your philosophy and creativity in fashion to the time you’re living in is the most important thing.”

Important Philosophy Past Forget Creativity Fashion Important Things Never Forget

Author:Donatella Versace

“The best novels are those that are important without being like medicine; they have something to say, are expansive and intelligent but never forget to be entertaining and to have character and emotion at their centre.”

Important Character Forget Emotion Novel Intelligent Medicine Never Forget Entertaining Centre

Author:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“I don't think forgetting is an important feature of human memory. I think it's important to be able to remember things accurately.”

Thinking Humans Important Able Remember Memories Forget Features

Author:Gordon Bell

“Beginning authors often get in their own way … They forget that they’ve been telling stories since they could talk. … The important thing to remember is, you know how to do this. You’ve been doing this your whole life.”

Knows Way Important Whole Stories Remember Forget Know How Important Things Whole Life Telling Stories

Author:Cynthia Leitich Smith

“This novel has it all--mystery, psychological insight, emotional truth, and--most important--characters whose lives matter. You'll fall in love with these families. Solti writes with such passion it is inescapable, lyrical, and profoundly moving. The Forgetting Tree goes on my top ten list.”

Writing Important Matter Character Moving Fall Passion Forget Novel Mystery Tree Emotional Goes On Ten Falling In Love Insight Lists Psychological Lyrical

Author:Jonis Agee

“If you want to make something clear to someone, you mustn't forget the main point, the most important thing, and if you bring in something else as an illustration you mustn't wander off into endless irrelevancies.”

Ifs Want Important Forget Clear Important Things Endless Wander Illustration

Author:Anton Webern

“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

“The most offensive egotist is he that fears to say "I" and "me." "It will probably rain" - that is dogmatic. "I think it will rain" - that is natural and modest. Montaigne is the most delightful of essayists because so great is his humility that he does not think it important that we see not Montaigne. He so forgets himself that he employs no artifice to make us forget him.”

Thinking Doe Important Natural Forget Humility Rain Offensive Modest Delightful Dogmatic Artifice Essayists Forget Him

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

“And I hear from time to time people say, hey, wait a second, we have civil liberties we have to worry about. But don't forget the most important civil liberty I expect from my government is my right to be kept alive, and that's what we're going to have to do.”

People Important Government Waiting Forget Liberty Worry Alive Hey Civil Liberties

Author:Mitt Romney

“I guess you have to be a little arrogant to be a writer. I decided early on that just because a lot of other writers were bothered by getting bad reviews didn't really mean that the things were particularly important. By the same token, the good ones didn't mean all that much either. So I just forget about reviews and I wrote what I wanted.”

Mean Littles Important Wanted Forget Decided Reviews Arrogant Bothered Really Mean Tokens Bad Reviews

Author:Roger Zelazny

“Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down.”

Source: Wild Mind: Living the Writer’s Life

“It takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a phonograph, or a photograph, or a telephone or any other important thing-and the last man gets the credit and we forget the others. He added his little mite - that is all he did. These object lessons should teach us that ninety-nine parts of all things that proceed from the intellect are plagiarisms, pure and simple; and the lesson ought to make us modest. But nothing can do that.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)