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"You don't argue with a four-year old about why he shouldn't eat candy for dinner. You don't punch a mentally handicapped guy even if he punches you first. And you don't argue when a women tells you she's only making 80 cents to your dollar. It's the path of least resistance. You save your energy for more important battles."
"Common knowledge, but important nonetheless"
"To know yourself is the first and most important step in pursuing your dreams and goals."
"Your faith is very important. I have done the math, and you are going to be dead a whole lot longer that you will be alive."
"I've gone through too much, from beefs to divorce to my mom passing which I always expressed in my music, so there's not album that sticks out as more important than the other to me."
"To do what you wanna do, to leave a mark - in a way that you think is important and lasting - that's a life well-lived."
"PR is extremely important, and being able to use it in the right way means everything. You have to market your success"
"All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point."
"I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between."
"There is only one important resource which has shown a trend of increasing scarcity rather than increasing abundance. That resource is the most important of all—human beings. . . . [An] increase in the price of peoples’ services is a clear indication that people are becoming more scarce even though there are more of us."
"We expect all our businesses to have a positive impact on our top and bottom lines ... Profitability is very important to us or we wouldn't be in this business."
"Time is liquid. One moment is no more important than any other and all moments quickly run away."
"Vigilance in oneself is very important. Vigilance means to be alert to what happens inside, so you can catch an old, collective habit pattern."
"What the joke displays is a switch in perception. This is important in changing the way we think."
"The dream arises from a part of the mind unknown to us, but none the less important, and is concerned with the desires for the approaching day."
"Knowledge is only one ingredient on arriving at a stock's proper price. The other ingredient, fully as important as information, is sound judgment."
"Dancing is very important nowadays. No girl will look at you if you can't dance."
"The older I get, the more important the eternal becomes to me personally."
"No matter how convenient it is for us to reach out to people remotely, sometimes the most important task is to show up in person."
"When you regularly take continuous action toward your most important goals, you activate the Momentum Principle of success. This principle says that although it may take tremendous amounts of energy to overcome inertia and get started initially, it then takes far less energy to keep going."
