Eckhart Tolle
Spiritual Teacher, Author
"Ultimately what you do is secondary. But how you do it is primary."
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Primaries
41 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Alfred Hitchcock
Director, Producer, Screenwriter
"Our primary function is to create an emotion and our secondary function is to sustain that emotions."
Nikola Tesla
Inventor, Electrical Engineer
"All matter comes from a primary substance, the luminiferous ether"
Bruce Lee
Martial Artist, Actor, Director
"The primary Reality is not what I think, but that I live, for those also live who do not think."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
"The primary wisdom is intuition."
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"When I was in my 40s, Microsoft was my primary activity."
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"Work to recognize the primary importance of the present moment."
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"Customer service will become the primary value added function of every business."
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"The leading edge of reality is mind, and mind is the primary substratum of being."
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"The US is a business-run huckster society, and its primary value is deceit."
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"And what is the primary datum? It's the felt presence of immediate experience. In other words, being here now is the primary datum."
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"I campaigned for Hillary Clinton when she was in the primaries against [Barack] Obama, actually."
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"I've already supported Bernie Sanders in the primaries."
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"Her primary reason for living and my primary reason for living were awfully entangled."
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