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"Though business conditions may change, corporations and securities may change, and financial institutions and regulations may change, human nature remains the same. Thus the important and difficult part of sound investment, which hinges upon the investor's own temperament and attitude, is not much affected by the passing years."
"Both individual skill (art) and chance are important factors in determining success or failure."
"I like better for one to say some foolish thing upon important matters than to be silent. That becomes the subject of discussion and dispute, and the truth is discovered."
"Machines deprive us of two things which are certainly important ingredients of human happiness, namely, spontaneity and variety."
"Affection is the most important thing. And the quality of affection - with your friends, your lovers, your family. But particularly for your own generation."
"To be honest, I don't necessarily think you have to be an actor to act. You don't have to be a musician to make great music. If it comes along and you put your all into it, the outcome is what's important."
"More important than innate disposition, objective experience, and environment is the subjective evaluation of these. Furthermore, this evaluation stands in a certain, often strange, relation to reality."
"Deep within, you know that the only thing that is truly important is being in alignment with spirit."
"Neither a borrower nor a lender be, for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry."
"The work that we do during the winter is very important; we have a new bike and it's important to develop it during this time."
"The most important actions are never comfortable."
"Nothing is more important than to learn how to maintain a life of purpose in the midst of painful adversity."
"Turbulence is the most important unsolved problem of classical physics."
"Your Mentors in life are important, so choose them wisely"
"I know at times we feel that perhaps in our prayers we ask too much. Or possibly we feel something isn't important enough to be bothering God with it. Maybe we should let Him decide these things."
"When people talk about the good old days, I say to people, 'It's not the days that are old, it's you that's old.' I hate the good old days. What is important is that today is good."
"One of the things I appreciate more was how important struggle was as the instrument that helped to keep us knit together."
"It's important to build a personal brand because it's the only thing you're going to have. Your reputation online, and in the new business world is pretty much the game, so you've got to be a good person. You can't hide anything, and more importantly, you've got to be out there at some level."
"I do my own thing. I'm very much in the paradox of things. I enjoy the little things in life, what's big is small and what's small is big. It might not be the coolest thing to do, but it's important to me."
"There are many who hold, as I do, that the most important part of life is not the age of university studies, but the first one, the period from birth to the age of six. For that is the time when a man's intelligence itself, his greatest implement, is being formed. But not only his intelligence; the full totality of his psychic powers."
