Quotes with self-important

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  • Sam Walton Outstanding leaders go out of the way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.
    Sam Walton
    American businessman, founder Wal-Mart Stores (1918 - 1992)
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  • Barry Eisler Overall, one of the things that excites me most about self-publishing is that the highest-value use of my time in promoting the books will be found in writing more of them.
    Barry Eisler
    American novelist
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  • Audre Lorde Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Balthus Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
    Balthus
    Polish-French modern artist (1908 - 2001)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Parentage is a very important profession; but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of children.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Brad Feld Part of the power of having startup communities is it continues to challenge the status quo. So for many of these cities that were once very important and powerful that today are struggling, startup communities are a way for them to rejuvenate themselves.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Calvin Coolidge Parties do not maintain themselves. They are maintained by effort. The government is not self-existent. It is maintained by the effort of those who believe in it. The people of America believe in American institutions, the American form of government and the American method of transacting business.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • B. W. Powe Passion was animal flesh, raw desire gnawing and ripping at its early limitations. These passions were to be feared only if undirected by the conscience of the higher self. Mind was the key to the process of enlightenment. Hence reason was the first principle, light itself.
    Mystic Trudeau - The Fire And the Rose Emanations, Destinies, p. 4
    B. W. Powe
    Canadian poet, novelist and teacher (1955 - )
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Patience means self-suffering.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Adam Garcia People do more important jobs than acting in film that should be recognised, but for some reason it's big money, so people are elevated in status. If I was a bus driver, I'm sure you wouldn't be interviewing me.
    Adam Garcia
    Australian actor (1973 - )
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  • Richard Thalheimer People expect a certain reaction from a business and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold.
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  • Robert Redford People have been so busy relating to how I look, it's a miracle I didn't become a self-conscious blob of protoplasm.
    Robert Redford
    American actor (born 1936) (1936 - )
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  • Calvin Klein People in their 70s can still have incredible lives. Health is the most important thing.
    Calvin Klein
    American fashion designer (1942 - )
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  • Thomas Szasz People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something that one finds. It is something one creates.
    Thomas Szasz
    American psychiatrist (1920 - 2012)
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  • Benoit Mandelbrot People want to see patterns in the world. It is how we evolved. We descended from those primates who were best at spotting the telltale pattern of a predator in the forest, or of food in the savannah. So important is this skill that we apply it everywhere, warranted or not.
    The (Mis)Behavior of Markets Ch. 12, p. 245
    Benoit Mandelbrot
    Polish-born French and American mathematician and polymath (1924 - 2010)
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  • Bill Hybels People who are serious about something always make room for it in their schedules. If prayer is important to you, then you'll find time to do it.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • James Baldwin People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.
    Doom and glory of knowing who you are
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • W. M. Thackeray People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
    W. M. Thackeray
    Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
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  • Bell Hooks People with healthy self-esteem do not need to create pretend identities. - From (2003) Rock My Soul
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • John Updike Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self-solitude is the enemy of well-being.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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