"I think that there is incredible prejudice about witches while there is no prejudice about wizards. Words are very important, and I'm really into destroying myths."
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"There is always somthing to learn, always somthing that is important to understand"
"It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think."
"Planning a dinner party in a way that you're actually capable of getting it done without panicking is important. It's bad hospitality for the host to be freaked out."
"To me - the choice of life is become less important; I hope hereafter to think only on the choice of eternity."
"If you're living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important."
"Ultimately, I consider people to be more important than computers."
"What is absolutely clear is that we have, with the U.S., an extradition treaty which is important, I believe it is an important treaty, for both sides, the United States and the United Kingdom. It is a treaty that I believe is balanced and we work on that basis."
"It's very easy to confuse confident motion with being productive - and they're not the same thing. Productive to me means measurable outcomes that apply to my most important to-dos that positively affect my life. That's it."
"Do not expect work to fill a void that non-work relationships and activities should Work is not all of life. Your co-workers shouldn't be your only friends. Schedule life and defend it just as you would an important business meeting. Never tell yourself "I'll just get it done this weekend.""
"There are two synergistic approaches for increasing productivity that are inversions of each other: 1. Limit tasks to the important to shorten work time (80/20). 2. Shorten work time to limit tasks to the important (Parkinson's Law). The best solution is to use both together: Identify the few critical tasks that contribute most to income and schedule them with very short and clear deadlines."
"Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship."
"Most of the really good literature I've read in my life was political, meaning it was important - about something going on in the history of the world - or contemporary."
"You know, we just buy music now. We don't make it any more. And that goes for just about everything. I think it's so important that people develop and subscribe to and have confidence in their own ability to make music, however rough it is."
"Truth is more important, freedom is more complex, and Jesus is more liberating than you think."
"It's important to remember the Gospel is a story; not a set of bullet points."
"The first thing to say about Finnegans Wake is that it is, in an important sense, unreadable."
"Desire is action. In the inner world, your desires bring about their own fulfillment, effortlessly. That inner world, and the exterior one, intersect and interweave. They only appear separate. In the physical world, time may have to elapse, or whatever. Conditions may have to change, or whatever, but the desire will bring about the proper results. The feeling of effortlessness is what is important."
"Before you'll change, something important must be at risk."
"You know if they said kindness or funniness was really most important to them then they will be more likely to say yes to the person that they thought was kind and funny."