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"The legends of fieldwork locate all important sites deep in inaccessible jungles inhabited by fierce beasts and restless natives, and surrounded by miasmas of putrefaction and swarms of tsetse flies."
"The more important the subject and the closer it cuts to the bone of our hopes and needs, the more we are likely to err in establishing a framework for analysis."
"See and feel who you are. Love like you have never loved before. The practial point is to live and enjoy from where you are. You can feel every movement because you are not here. The logic is only important to the body-mind."
"But it's a disservice to constantly put things in this radical new light - that it's going to change everything. Things don't have to change the world to be important."
"I think books find their way to you when you need them. Whenever I feel like I'm not going to live to read all the books I want to read, I remind myself that the important ones find their way to me."
"Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due."
"You've got to do things that promote what's important."
"I keep telling my kids - whether you achieve your goal or not is not the most important thing. Putting yourself in position to achieve those goals is what's important."
"The most important lesson in the writing trade is that any manuscript is improved if you cut away the fat."
"What is important is how much service you can give the world and how much you can get done and how much better you can make things."
"You are equally important to me, and I love you all."
"I never care personally what people say about me. The music, and the message - this will always be more important to me than people thinking I'm the best."
"I start with a beat sheet, which is more of an abbreviated outline. It hits all the major plot points. From there, I move to note cards. But the most important part of my process is my inspiration board."
"As a rapper, I feel like image is always important but even more so than image, I really love clothes, that's why I don't use stylists. I want to do it myself because I really love it."
"Your first realization when you become an important person is that all day and all night, whatever the circumstances, people want to hear you talk about yourself."
"My family is more important than my party."
"I already have success. I had it a long time ago. It's nothing to do with my music. Music is secondary, at this point. The good stuff is really good, but I have success because I'm at peace and I'm a good person in my everyday life and that's important."
"Sometimes when you're relegated to your neighborhood, you forget that there's more important things than your neighborhood going on out in the world. And that just gave me a chance to see how life could be. And it gave me a chance to interact with everybody, not just black people or Mexicans. It made me just a little more worldly."
"So food is important part, not just in our physical well-being, but in our psychological well-being. The more chemicals that are in our food and the more outside of the way it is intended by nature, the more we are messing with things that we probably don't know the full effect of."
"It's not the situation, but whether we react, or respond, to the situation that's important."
