Quotes with self-important

Quotes 1061 till 1080 of 1435.

  • David Ogilvy The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.
    David Ogilvy
    American businessman, Advertising Expert (1911 - 1999)
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  • Bertrand Russell The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • George S. Patton The most vital quality a soldier can possess is self-confidence.
    George S. Patton
    American Army General during World War II (1885 - 1945)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton The Museum is not meant either for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to see with awe. It is meant for the mere slave of a routine of self-education to stuff himself with every sort of incongruous intellectual food in one indigestible meal.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Burt Bacharach The music is the last thing I'm thinking about right now, in order of what's important.
    Burt Bacharach
    American composer, songwriter and pianist (1928 - 2023)
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  • Ben Shapiro The Muslim world just doesn't believe that skin color is all that important. Obama may be half-black, but he's still all-Western, according to them. It doesn't matter whether you're black, white or green - if you're not a devotee of Muhammad, you don't matter.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Bob Cousy The MVP award was very satisfying in terms of personal accomplishments, but the championship was the most important thing of all.
    Bob Cousy
    American basketball player (1928 - )
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  • Barbara Hepworth The naturalness of life... the sense of community is, I think, a very important factor in an artist's life.
    A Pictorial Biography
    Barbara Hepworth
    English artist and sculptor (1903 - 1975)
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  • Carlos Fuentes The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.
    Carlos Fuentes
    Mexican novelist and essayist (1928 - 2012)
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  • Stephen Nachmanovitch The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge.
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  • Bill Kurtis The one important thing you do as boss is you set the standard. The minute you go in and say 'we'll let it go this time,' you set a new standard, which is lower. So you cannot do that.
    Bill Kurtis
    American television journalist (1940 - )
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  • Francis H. Bradley The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.
    Francis H. Bradley
    British Philosopher (1846 - 1924)
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  • Bum Phillips The only discipline that last is self discipline.
    Bum Phillips
    American football coach (1923 - )
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  • Brenda Ueland The only good teachers for you are those friends who love you, who think you are interesting, or very important, or wonderfully funny.
    Brenda Ueland
    American journalist, editor, and teacher
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  • Hosea Ballou The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.
    Hosea Ballou
    American Theologian, Founder of ''Universalism'' (1771 - 1852)
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  • Annie Dillard The painter... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits himself to the paint. The self is the servant who bears the paintbox and its inherited contents.
    Annie Dillard
    American author (1945 - )
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  • Confucius The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Brian Tracy The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.
    Brian Tracy
    Canadian-American motivational public speaker and self-development aut (1944 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments; its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to poetry.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Thornton Wilder The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.
    Thornton Wilder
    American writer and playwright (1897 - 1975)
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