Maria Montessori
Educator, Physician
"The most important period of life is not the age of university studies, but the first one, the period from birth to the age of six."
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Maya Angelou
Poet, Memoirist
"When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time. People know themselves much better than you do. That's why it's important to stop expecting them to be something other than who they are"
Nelson Mandela
Political Leader
"If you want the cooperation of humans around you, you must make them feel they are important - and you do that by being genuine and humble."
Banana Yoshimoto
Novelist
"What was important wasn't the fireworks, it was that we were together this evening, together in this place, looking up into the sky at the same time."
Henri Nouwen
Theologian, Author
"It is in solitude that we discover that being is more important than having and that we are worth more than the results of our efforts. In solitude we discover that our life is not a possession to be defended but a gift to be shared."
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"Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important."
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"Remember to keep yourself alive, there is nothing more important than that."
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"To be a great motorbike racer, the most important thing is passion for the bike."
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"God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof. You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole."
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"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else."
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"The most important hour is always the present. The most significant person is precisely the one sitting across from you right now. The most necessary work is always love."
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"It is important not only to have the awareness and to feel impelled to become involved, it's important that there be a forum out there to which one can relate, an organization- a movement."
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"One of my keys to success is a lot of pillows. I feel like a lot of pillows is important to relax each piece of your body."
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"Breathing is so important with physical activity, then how much more important is it with psychological activity?"
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"In music, silence is more important than sound."
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"The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount."
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"Light is the most important person in the picture."
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"What is most important of this grand experiment, the United States? Not the election of the first president but the election of its second president. The peaceful transition of power is what will separate this country from every other country in the world."
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"What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe."
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"Everything matters. Nothing's important."
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"I find freedom to be the most important issue facing any human being today, because without freedom, then life is pointless. The more dependent you become on centralized power, the more easily you are lead around."
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"Sanitation is more important than Independence."
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"I like women who can cook. That's first. Love is very important, but you've got to have a friend first - you want to finally come to a point where you say that the women you're with is also your friend."
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"Perspective. You start looking at things differently, like everything's not so important. You don't take things so personally. Everyone changes, becomes better people. We all should get that chance."
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"It is more important to outhink your enemy, than to outfight him"
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