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«The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take.»
Author: C. Northcote Parkinson
(Writer)
| Keywords:
allowed, begins, decisions, denied, importance, opportunity, regard, regard as, taking, The Man Who
«One's condition on marijuana is always existential. One can feel the importance of each moment and how it is changing one. One feels one's being, one becomes aware of the enormous apparatus of nothingness -- the hum of a hi-fi set, the emptiness of a pointless interruption, one becomes aware of the war between each of us, how the nothingness in each of us seeks to attack the being of others, how our being in turn is attacked by the nothingness in others.»
Author: Norman Mailer
| Keywords:
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«Never neglect the little things. Never skimp on that extra effort, that additional few minutes, that soft word of praise or thanks, that delivery of the very best that you can do. It does not matter what others think, it is of prime importance, however, what you think about you. You can never do your best, which should always be your trademark, if you are cutting corners and shirking responsibilities. You are special. Act it. Never neglect the little things.»
Author: Og Mandino
(Essayist, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
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«The child thinks of growing old as an almost obscene calamity, which for some mysterious reason will never happen to itself. All who have passed the age of thirty are joyless grotesques, endlessly fussing about things of no importance and staying alive without, so far as the child can see, having anything to live for. Only child life is real life.»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
age of, Age of Reason, calamity, endlessly, For some, fussed, fussing, grotesques, growing, importance, joyless, mysterious, obscene, passed, real life, so far, staying, The Age, thirty, without reasoning
«Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
do it, Everything You, importance, important, nearly
«Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.»
Author: Og Mandino
(Essayist, Psychologist)
| About:
Obstacles
| Keywords:
careers, countless, defeats, importance, in all, necessary, Obstacles, selling, struggles, victory
«Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.»
«Teaching is of more importance than urging.»
«Nothing that actually occurs is of the smallest importance»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
actually, importance, occurring, occurs, smallest, the smallest
«No human thing is of serious importance»
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