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"I have come to see more and more that one of the most decisive steps that the Negro can take is that little walk to the voting booth. That is an important step. We've got to gain the ballot, and through that gain, political power."
"My main interest in being a director, and the most important thing to me, is that world with the actors."
"Ritual is important to us as human beings. It ties us to our traditions and our histories."
"That education is the most important of all professions is a message the public should hear and understand. And, as importantly, a message that our educators need to hear as well."
"If life becomes hard to bear we think of a change in our circumstances. But the most important and effective change, a change in our own attitude, hardly even occurs to us, and the resolution to take such a step is very difficult for us."
"It's important to resolve to yourself, 'I will absolutely win!' Then this firm commitment will serve as the wellspring of great wisdom and courage that surges forth from within."
"The most important thing is to have a sense of responsibility, commitment, and concern for each of our fellow human beings."
"It is important early in life to acquire the power of reading sense wherever you happen to be."
"I would have I think made a bigger mistake if I had said, "Eh, chemical weapons. That doesn't really change my calculus." I think it was important for me as president of the United States to send a message that in fact there is something different about chemical weapons [in Syria]."
"Neither God nor Being nor any other word can define or explain the ineffable reality behind the word, so the only important question is whether the word is a help or a hindrance in enabling you to experience That toward which it points."
"There are times when product is more important than people and sometimes the people are more important than the product."
"I have won important things for myself, but I'm going to destroy them, because I tell myself they have lost their meaning. I know that is not true. I know they are important, and that if I destroy them, I'll be destroying myself, as well."
"Believing that power is much more important than money and that money is much more important than happiness."
"Our most important education system is in the employees' own organization."
"When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, 'Action, Action, Action.'"
"What is urgent will always take precedence over what is important."
"I’m not a brain surgeon, I’m not saving anyone from any life-threatening illnesses. But I get to tell stories, and that’s a pretty important task."
"While we teach knowledge, we are losing that teaching which is the most important one for human development: the teaching which can only be given by the simple presence of a mature, loving person."
"The most important things we talk about on Sundays are things to which we pay very little attention."
"The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone."
