Quotes with self-important

Quotes 1001 till 1020 of 1435.

  • Queen Victoria The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
    Queen Victoria
    Queen of Great Britain (1819 - 1901)
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  • Ray Bradbury The important thing is to be in love with something.
    Ray Bradbury
    American science-fiction writer (1920 - 2012)
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  • Harry Browne The important thing is to concentrate upon what you can do - by yourself, upon your own initiative.
    Harry Browne
    American financial adviser and writer (1933 - 2006)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brains and in your hands, wherever you go... It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • George Eliot The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Charles A. Lindbergh The improvement of our way of life is more important than the spreading of it. If we make it satisfactory enough, it will spread automatically. If we do not, no strength of arms can permanently oppose it.
    Charles A. Lindbergh
    American aviator and inventor
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  • Bob Knight The key is not the will to win... everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important.
    Bob Knight
    American basketball coach (1940 - )
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  • Caroline Knapp The kinds of roles dogs fill can be hard to come by in human relationships. We touch the dog or the pet at whim. There is a lack of self-consciousness and a fluidity to it that is absent from most human relationships. If someone acted that way to you, you'd feel claustrophobic pretty quickly. It's a boundary violation.
    Caroline Knapp
    American writer and columnist
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  • Arthur Scargill The labour movement had the best opportunity in 50 years to transform not merely an industrial situation and win an important battle for workers in struggle, but an opportunity to change the government of the day.
    Arthur Scargill
    British trade unionist (1938 - )
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  • Bertrand Russell The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as a means to other account, and not merely as a means to other things, are knowledge, art instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Raymond Chandler The making of a picture ought surely to be a rather fascinating adventure. It is not; it is an endless contention of tawdry egos, some of them powerful, almost all of them vociferous, and almost none of them capable of anything much more creative than credit-stealing and self-promotion.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Cyril Northcote Parkinson The man who is denied the opportunity of making decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to make.
    Cyril Northcote Parkinson
    British naval historian (1909 - 1993)
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  • Cyril Northcote Parkinson The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take.
    Cyril Northcote Parkinson
    British naval historian (1909 - 1993)
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  • Germaine Greer The management of fertility is one of the most important functions of adulthood.
    Germaine Greer
    Australian writer and public intellectual (1939 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The masses have no habit of self reliance or original action.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Reinhold Niebuhr The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.
    Reinhold Niebuhr
    American theologist, historian (1892 - 1971)
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  • Joseph Joubert The mind's direction is more important than its progress.
    Joseph Joubert
    French writer (1754 - 1824)
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  • Regis McKenna The more alike two products are, the more important their differences become.
    Regis McKenna
    American marketing expert (1939 - )
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  • Albert Einstein The most evident difference springs from the important part which is played in man by a relatively strong power of imagination and by the capacity to think, aided as it is by language and other symbolically devices.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Thomas Carlyle The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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