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"[A]t bottom, and just in the deepest and most important things, we are unutterably alone, and for one person to be able to advise or even help another, a lot must happen, a lot must go well, a whole constellation of things must come right in order once to succeed."
"Our culture difinitely takes an egocentric dominator view. The fear of the psychedelic experience is quite literally the fear of losing control. Dominator types today don't understand that it's not important to maintain control if you are not in control in the first place."
"The important thing is to be in love with something."
"I am a little deaf, a little blind, a little important and on top of this are two or three abominable infirmities, but nothing destroys my hope."
"It's not how long you live, but how you live that's important. Therefore, don't make your life just livable, make it memorable."
"Wrong turns are as important as right turns. More important, sometimes."
"It's not all been rosy; I've had difficult situations where I've failed. But when you fail you learn a lot about yourself and come back stronger. The message is: life need not have limits. Having an opportunity in life is important but what defines you is what you do with that opportunity."
"My old man says when it's time to be counted, the important thing is to be man enough to stand up."
"One very important thing I learned from Monk was his complete dedication to music. That was his reason for being alive. Nothing else mattered except music, really."
"Anything less than a conscious commitment to the important is an unconscious commitment to the unimportant."
"The most important thing is a person. A person who incites your curiosity and feeds your curiosity; and machines cannot do that in the same way that people can."
"Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow."
"Relationships are more important than punch lines, ya know?"
"We are the creatives with teeth. We know ideas are more important than our personal wellbeing."
"I like ornament at the right time, but I don't want a poem to be made out of decoration ... When I read the poems that matter to me, it stuns me how much the presence of the heart-in all its forms-is endlessly available there. To experience ourselves in an important way just knocks me out. It puzzles me why people have given that up for cleverness. Some of them are ingenious, more ingenious than I am, but so many of them aren't any good at being alive."
"Extraordinary results happen only when you give the best you have to become the best you can be at your most important work."
"They taught me that all life forms are important to each other in our common quest for happiness and survival. That there is more to life than just yourself, your own family, or your own kind."
"At heart, I guess I'm a saloon singer because there's a greater intimacy between performer and audience in a nightclub. Then again, I love the excitement of appearing before a big concert audience. Let's just say that the place isn't important, as long as everybody has a good time."
"To make your unknown known - that's the important thing."
"I never thought of myself as the leader. The most important person, perhaps."
