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Antoine de Saint-Exupery Writer, Aviator
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"And they heard the roaring thunder of a third brilliantly lighted express. "Are they pursuing the first travelers?" demanded the little prince. "They are pursuing nothing at all," said the switchman. "They are asleep in there, or if they are not asleep they are yawning. Only the children are flattening their noses against the windowpanes." "Only the children know what they are looking for," said the little prince. "They waste their time over a rag doll and it becomes very important to them; and if anybody takes it away from them, they cry..." "They are lucky," the switchman said."

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Warren Buffett Investor, Businessman
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"The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect. You need a temperament that neither derives great pleasure from being with the crowd or against the crowd."

Needs Important Quality
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Umberto Eco Writer, Philosopher, Literary Critic
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"All the theories of conspiracy were always a way to escape our responsibilities. It is a very important kind of social sickness by which we avoid recognizing reality such as it is and avoid our responsibilities."

Important Reality Responsibility
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Tom Waits Singer-songwriter, Actor
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"There’s nothing more embarrassing than a person who tries to guess what the great American public would like, makes a compromise for the first time, and falls flat on his face… I would rather be a failure on my own terms than a success on someone else’s. That’s a difficult statement to live up to, but then I’ve always believed that the way you affect your audience is more important than how many of them are there."

Trying Important Fall
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Richard Bach Author
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"Sense of family is enormously important to me. In the larger sense, we're all of us family; we're all of us soulmates."

Important Soulmate
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Spike Lee Filmmaker, Actor
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"I think it would be very boring dramatically to have a film where everybody was a lawyer or doctor and had no faults. To me, the most important thing is to be truthful."

Thinking Important Doctors
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Stefan Zweig Writer
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"But don't despise error. When touched by genius, when led by chance, the most superior truth can come into being from even the most foolish error. The important inventions which have been brought about in every realm of science from false hypotheses number in the hundreds, indeed in the thousands."

Important Numbers Errors
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Stephen Covey Author, Speaker
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"The key to motivation is motive. It's the why. It's the deeper yes! burning inside that makes it easier to say no to the less important."

Important Keys Motivation
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Robert Smith Musician
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"I started out in the 'Cure' reflecting things that I thought were important, and it's reached a point where it takes over and becomes the thing that is important."

Important Cures Reflecting
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"If there's anything about someone's life that's important enough to make a movie about it, I have to take responsibility to get all of it right. It's a huge responsibility."

Important Responsibility Enough
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Steve Jobs Entrepreneur
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"LSD...reinforc ed my sense of what was important-creat ing great things instead of making money, putting things back into the stream of history and of human consciousness as much as I could."

Important Psychedelic Acid
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Scott Hicks Film Director
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"The visualization of my films is always very important to me and I work very closely with my cinematographers. I've never had the same cinematographer twice now that I think about it. I don't know why that is. Everyone is always busy. They do three or four films a year. It's vital to me."

Thinking Years Important
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