Quotes with self-important

Quotes 1261 till 1280 of 1435.

  • Bruce Babbitt We had kind of a rocky start, but I spent a lot of time working with the President and handing him statistics and showing him what we were doing as we went along and kind of saying to him, you know, this is really important.
    Bruce Babbitt
    American attorney and politician (1938 - )
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  • Konstantin Stanislavisky We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most important word stands out most vividly defined in the very foreground of the sound plane. Less important words create a series of deeper planes.
    Konstantin Stanislavisky
    Russian Actor, Theatre director, Teacher (1863 - 1938)
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  • John Naisbitt We have for the first time an economy based on a key resource [Information] that is not only renewable, but self-generating. Running out of it is not a problem, but drowning in it is.
    John Naisbitt
    American author and public speaker (1929 - )
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  • David Herbert Lawrence We have lost the art of living; and in the most important science of all, the science of daily life, the science of behavior, we are complete ignoramuses. We have psychology instead.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • May Sarton We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.
    May Sarton
    American poet, novelist, pen name of Eleanore Marie Sarton (1912 - 1995)
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  • Gloria Steinem We have to learn to stand up for our interests. To seek purity is self-defeating and a stereotype in itself: women have to be pure, women are not concerned about money.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Swami Ramdas We have to take the whole universe as the expression of the one Self. Then only our love flows to all beings and creatures in the world equally.
    Swami Ramdas
    Indian saint, philosopher, philanthropist and pilgrim (1884 - 1963)
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  • Thomas Jefferson We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness…
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Atal Bihari Vajpayee We hope the world will act in the spirit of enlightened self-interest.
    Atal Bihari Vajpayee
    Indian statesman (1924 - 2018)
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  • Norman Cousins We in America have everything we need except the most important thing of all-time to think and the habit of thought.
    Norman Cousins
    American Editor, Humanitarian, Author (1915 - 1990)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II We mean by ''politics'' the people's business - the most important business there is.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Grace Speare We must realize that the subconscious mind is the law of action and always expresses what the conscious mind has impressed on it. What we regularly entertain in our mind creates a conception of self. What we conceive ourselves to be, we become.
    Grace Speare
    American author (1927 - )
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  • Brit Hume We need more foreign reach; no question about that. And we're working on getting that. We need more people abroad; we need some more bureaus. That is really an important job.
    Brit Hume
    American journalist and political commentator (1943 - )
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  • Bill Haslam We need to have people who are talking about, 'Here's exactly what I would do differently.' That's what's important as we go vote.
    Bill Haslam
    American businessman and politician (1958 - )
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  • Kwame Nkrumah We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.
    Kwame Nkrumah
    Ghanaian politician and revolutionary (1909 - 1972)
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  • John F. Kennedy We prefer world law, in the age of self-determination, to world war in the age of mass extermination.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Aldo Leopold We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations, the important thing is not to achieve but to strive.
    Aldo Leopold
    American author, philosopher, naturalist and conservationist, (1887 - 1948)
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  • Baba Kalyani We should have an inclusive growth model in India. Agro-interest is also as important as industrial interest.
    Baba Kalyani
    Indian businessman (1949 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Mohsin Hamid We think of the romance novel as a lesser form of literature, but I don't think that's true. Love is a very important aspect of human life and worth exploring.
    Mohsin Hamid
    British Pakistani novelist, writer (1971 - )
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