"I always believed that style was more important than fashion. They are rare, those who imposed their style while fashion makers are so numerous."
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"There are two ways of forming an opinion. One is the scientific method; the other, the scholastic. To the scientific mind, experimental proof is all-important, and theory is merely a convenience in description, to be junked when it no longer fits. To the academic mind, authority is everything, and facts are junked when they do not fit theory."
"What do you think about me is not my business the important thing is what I think about myself."
"Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what's urgent, learn to focus on what is really important."
"... the most important concept ever put forth was that matter, ALL matter, with no exceptions from stone to star to starfish to student to sovereign, is as divine as all else in the cosmos, for all flows from Consciousness, the Word that came before the World - and all, in time, will flow back."
"Church membership was so important that Paul and Silas baptized the Philippian jailer into the membership of Christ's church at midnight with Paul's back still bloody from a beating! He did not even wait till morning! Identification with Christ's church is important; without it, one must be treated 'as a heathen and publican.'"
"The only moral lesson which is suited for a child--the most important lesson for every time of life--is this: 'Never hurt anybody."
"I feel like I've lived the dream for sure, I'm the luckiest guy in the world and I never forget that. I always feel like I'm proof of positive thought and manifestation, and that faith is more important than talent. But if you have both you're really doing something."
"It's more important to do the right thing than to do things right."
"Whether one traces his Americanism back three centuries to the Mayflower, or three years to the steerage, is not half so important as whether his Americanism of today is real and genuine. No matter by what various crafts we came here, we are all now in the same boat."
"Parenting is the most important job on the planet next to keeping Gary Busey off the nation's highways."
"The important thing is to never stop questioning. Never lose a holy curiosity."
"It is important to reclaim for humanity the ground that has been taken from it by various arbitrarily narrow formulations of the demands of rationality"
"escapism isn't good or bad in itself. what is important is what you are escaping from and where you are escaping to."
"I can make dough in a machine faster than I can make it by hand, but I want to make it by hand, because I want to remember the way it feels. It's so important for me to make it by hand - whether it's a pasta dough or a pâte brisée. You become involved in it. You become personal with it. For me it's such a wonderful way to get satisfaction and gratification when I'm cooking."
"The transition strategies are more important than understanding what the outcome state will be."
"Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one."
"Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it."
"School has no task more important than to teach strict thought, cautious judgment, and logical conclusions, hence it must pay no attention to what hinders these operations, such as religion, for instance."
"Being nervous isn't bad. It just means something important is happening."