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Jim Rohn Author, Motivational Speaker
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"The most important question to ask on the job is not 'What am I getting?' The most important question to ask on the job is 'What am I becoming?'"

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Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author
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"Important thing to realize is the world is not here to make me happy. When you don't demand that the situation, or place, or person should make you happy, then actually the situation, place, or person is quite satisfying."

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Peter Sagan Cyclist
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"You 'mustn't' nothing in your life. I don't 'must' nothing in the life, just die. It's important, yeah, but I have also a future in front of me."

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Zig Ziglar Author, Motivational Speaker
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"It's not where you start or even what happens to you along the way that's important. What is important is that you persevere and never give up on yourself."

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Pablo Picasso Painter, Sculptor
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"It is important to remember that great things have no fear of time. We've got to let go of the idea that what we want to manifest has to be done on our time schedule."

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J. K. Rowling Novelist, Screenwriter
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"You think it - wise - to trust Hagrid with something as important as this?" "I would trust Hagrid with my life," said Dumbledore."

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Jim Doyle Politician
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"I do not understand how anyone can, in good conscience, tell a family whose child is suffering from a life-threatening disease that politics is more important than finding a cure."

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Albert Einstein Physicist
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"No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?"

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Thomas Merton Writer, Monk
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"Weaknesses and deficiencies . . . play a most important part in all our lives. It is because of them that we need others and others need us. We are not all weak in the same spots, and so we supplement and complete one another, each one making up in himself for the lack in another."

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Adrienne Rich Poet, Essayist, Feminist
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"The most notable fact that our culture imprints on women is a sense of our limits. The most important thing a woman can do for another is to illuminate her actual possibilities."

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Stella Adler Actress, Director
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"When you stand on the stage you must have a sense that you are addressing the whole world, and that what you say is so important the whole world must listen."

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D. A. Carson Theologian
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"A billion years or so into eternity, how many toys we accumulated during this life will not seem too terribly important."

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Baba Hari Dass Spiritual Teacher, Author
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"No one can please everyone. Your mental peace is more important. If you are in peace, then others around you will feel peace. So your best effort should be to work on yourself."

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Byron Katie Author, Speaker
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"The most important relationship is the mind's relationship with itself. In other words, the ultimate - and, really, the only - relationship you have is the relationship with your own thoughts."

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