Quotes with self-important

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  • Ben Bernanke Honest error in the face of complex and possibly intractable problems is a far more important source of bad results than are bad motives.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Zig Ziglar Honesty and integrity are by far the most important assets of an entrepreneur.
    Zig Ziglar
    American author, salesman, and motivational speaker. (1926 - 2012)
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  • Stephen Vincent Benét Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.
    Stephen Vincent Benét
    American poet, short story writer, and novelist (1898 - 1943)
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  • George Carlin Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.
    George Carlin
    American stand-up comedian, actor and author (1937 - 2008)
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  • Ann Oakley Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.
    Ann Oakley
    British sociologist, writer (1944 - )
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  • Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is.
    Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
    German statesman (1767 - 1835)
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  • Birch Bayh How come life is so important in the nine months before birth, but then we sort of forget about the importance, we're not worried about whether that baby lives in poverty once he or she is born.
    Birch Bayh
    American politician (1928 - 2019)
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  • Hanif Kureishi How disturbing it is that our illusions are often our most important beliefs.
    Intimacy (2010) 83
    Hanif Kureishi
    British playwright, filmmaker and novelist (1954 - )
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  • Derek Wall How to be green? Many people have asked us this important question. It's really very simple and requires no expert knowledge or complex skills. Here's the answer. Consume less. Share more. Enjoy life.
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  • B. C. Forbes How you start is important, but it is how you finish that counts. In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina. The sticker outlasts the sprinter.
    B. C. Forbes
    American Publisher (1880 - 1954)
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  • Carl Sagan Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
    Cosmos (1980)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Abraham H. Maslow Human beings seem to be far more autonomous and self-governed than modern psychological theory allows for.
    Motivation and Personality (1954) p. 123
    Abraham H. Maslow
    American psychologist (1908 - 1970)
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one's well-being.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • Elbert Hubbard Human service is the highest form of self-interest for the person who serves.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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  • Albert Einstein Hunger, love, pain, fear are some of those inner forces which rule the individual's instinct for self preservation.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Anne Dudley I always think it's important to choose your initial theme very carefully because you're going to be married to it for a long time. You might have to generate an hour's worth of music from a very short, little piece of theme.
    Anne Dudley
    English composer, keyboardist and conductor (1956 - )
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  • June Jordan I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.
    June Jordan
    American poet and civil rights activist (1939 - )
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  • Martin Luther I am more afraid of my own heart than the Pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great Pope, Self.
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  • Jose Ferrer I am more important than my problems.
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