On a very practical level, I've learned the importance of circulation socks for planes. I had this awful experience of getting off… — Lupita Nyong'o Copy Share Image
The stories leaders and others tell, few of which are true, are a lousy foundation on which to base any sort of… — Jeffrey Pfeffer Copy Share Image
Manners are made up of trivialities of deportment which can be easily learned if one does not happen to know them; manner… — Emily Post Copy Share Image
That we can never know," answered the wolf angrily. "That's for the future. But what we can know is the importance of… — David Clement-Davies Copy Share Image
The confusion between temperament and character has had serious consequences for ethical theory. Preferences with regard to differences in temperament are mere… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
If you're not comfortable with public speaking - and nobody starts out comfortable; you have to learn how to be comfortable -… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
One of the greatest barriers to connection is the cultural importance we place on "going it alone." Somehow we've come to equate… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
You know what I think?" she says. "That people's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive. Whether those memories… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
In terms of wilderness preservation, Alaska is the last frontier. This time, given one great final chance, let us strive to do… — Mo Udall Copy Share Image
“The moment a person learns he's got terminal cancer, a profound shift takes place in his psyche. At one stroke in the… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
My mom could have been a CEO of any company. She was very organized, very strict. She showed us the importance of… — Perry Bellegarde Copy Share Image
Do we now fight for the kind of passionate belief that I have about sexuality, about the importance of the erotic, of… — Amber Hollibaugh Copy Share Image
This mortal probation is a brief period-just a short span, linking the eternity of the past with the eternity of the future.… — ElRay L. Christiansen Copy Share Image
I also think we need unconventional political action, and I increasingly think that there is a need for people of faith to… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Each of the major sciences has contributed an essential ingredient in our long retreat from an initial belief in our own cosmic… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I can never suppose this country so far lost to all ideas of self-importance as to be willing to grant America independence;… — George III Copy Share Image
Those who understand the cross increasingly see their sin as God does, and therefore begin to feelabout sin as does God. We… — William F. Farley Copy Share Image
The military taught me the importance of getting something done in a timely manner and the importance of completing a mission on… — Don Young Copy Share Image
“But relevance is a matter of time and space. What matters to you can hardly be considered to be of importance to… — Tony Attwood Copy Share Image
Slavery naturally tends to destroy all sense of justice and equity. It puffs up the mind with pride: teaches youth a habit… — David Rice Copy Share Image
Mr. Brown had thought of nothing but numbers. He should have known that the kingdom of God did not depend on large… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Although a man may lose a sense of his own importance when he is a mere unit among a busy throng, all… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Self-importance is a trap, because the moment we start to think that we actually matter is the moment when things start to… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
Every session attended by the analyst must have no history and no future. What is 'known' about the patient is of no… — Wilfred Bion Copy Share Image
Ordinary facts are arranged within time, strung along its length as on a thread. There they have their antecedents and their consequences,… — Bruno Schulz Copy Share Image
Treating ourselves like appliances that can be unplugged and plugged in again at will or cars that stop and start with the… — William Bridges Copy Share Image
You know, our fundamentalist friends dislike the teaching of evolution in schools because of the effect they feel it has on our… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
There is something about participating; it is almost my religion. If the world is still here in 100 years, people will know… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
What is the importance of human lives? Is it their continuing alive for so many years like animals in a menagerie? The… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
Mary Kay was the wholesome personification of the American dream. For women everywhere, she brought the impossible dream to life by making… — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
“It makes absolutely no difference in the scheme of things whether all but a handful of people live or die. No more… — Jack L. Chalker Copy Share Image
“And here lies the vast importance of the novel, properly handled. It can inform and lead into new places the flow of… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
But there was a time when each of us stood naked before the world, confronting life as a serious problem with which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
French intellectual life has, in my opinion, been turned into something cheap and meretricious by the 'star' system. It is like Hollywood.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
(...) being right all the time acquires a huge importance in education, and there is this terror of being wrong. The ego… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
It may be that the invention of the aeroplane flying-machine will be deemed to have been of less material value to the… — Waldemar Kaempffert Copy Share Image
The letters of famous people can be placed into two categories: there is the type of letter which becomes itself a valuable… — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
Questions that pertain to the foundations of mathematics, although treated by many in recent times, still lack a satisfactory solution. Ambiguity of… — Giuseppe Peano Copy Share Image
The fundamental importance of the subject of molecular diffraction came first to be recognized through the theoretical work of the late Lord… — C. V. Raman Copy Share Image
Scientists may study mainly matter but they cannot ignore the human mind, or consciousness: spiritual practitioners may be engaging mainly in developing… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
