- 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
- Owe
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- Nov 07, 2020
Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is important to me that I was not raised in Los Angeles.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, it's like we're already in the playoffs. Every game is important for our position. We can't relax at all.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sweating the small stuff is important in boxing and life. On a movie, we have production assistants who're 18 and 19 years old. If someone asks you for a cup of coffee, and you bring them a cup of coffee that's cold, I make a big deal of that. I make a really, really big deal of that. You have to pay attention to details.
- Dead
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tribal man is not an individual in the western sense. Psychologically and emotionally, he is the present living personification of a number of forces, among the most important of which are the ancestral dead.
- Questions
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- Nov 07, 2020
We do not ask the right questions when we are young, so we miss the important answers. Now it is too late to ask, too late for the illuminating answers, and the unanswered questions haunt us for a lifetime.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to be a poet when I was 20; I had no interest in fiction or biography and precious little interest in history, but those three elements in my life have become the most important.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dad was a chemistry professor at Saint Olaf College in Minnesota, then Oxford College in Minnesota, and a very active member of the American Chemical Society education committee, where he sat on the committee with Linus Pauling, who had authored a very phenomenally important textbook of chemistry.
- Reflect
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- Nov 07, 2020
What we learned quite early on is what was really important to early British pop that we produced-and this is where we were distinct from almost everybody else in this respect-is that it had to reflect exactly what the audience wanted us to say.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020