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- Nov 07, 2020
Important Quotes
On priorities and knowing what really matters.
These quotes weigh what matters most across very different fields: holding an alliance together ahead of any single military strike, and staying musically open instead of narrowing yourself to one sound. For more, see our Life quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Perspective
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- Nov 07, 2020
Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.
- Reality
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- Nov 07, 2020
In reality, every single negotiation involves another commodity that's far more important to us, which is time - minutes, hours, our investment in time. So even if you're talking about dollars, the commodity of time is always there because there has to be a discussion about how the commodity of dollars is moved.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my years as the FBI's lead international kidnapping negotiator, I learned an important fundamental lesson: Hostage negotiation is often nothing more than a business transaction.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are a lot of negotiators that really will give in on a deal because being understood is more important than getting what they want. And there's a particular type in particular, the assertive negotiator: being understood is actually more important to them than actually making the deal.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most important thing is to be passionate and ready to accept the pains that sometimes go along with the business.
- Propaganda
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- Nov 07, 2020
Propaganda in the ordinary sense of the term plays a less important part in a consumer society, where people greet all official pronouncements with suspicion.
- Nov 07, 2020
The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters.
- Great Responsibility
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most important film I made, in terms of its subject and the great responsibility I had as an actor, was a film I did about the founder of Pakistan called 'Jinnah.'
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
What's really important for me is, as an old man, I'm known by my own generation and the next generation know me, too.
- Story
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- Nov 07, 2020
The medium is less important than the story we're trying to tell and the funniest way to tell it.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pell Grants are, and have been, critically important tools in making higher education a possibility for lower- and middle-income students.
- Integrity
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have to say that the most important thing Scientology has given me is the ability to keep my integrity together.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020