The Knowledge of the Holy (1978)
— Saddam Hussein Iraqi politician and President 1937 - 2006
Interview by FBI Senior Special Agent George L. Piro (7 February 2004); National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 279 http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB279/index.htm.
Attributed
— Tsunetomo Yamamoto, libro Hagakure
Hagakure (c. 1716)
Contesto: Among the maxims on Lord Naoshige's wall there was this one: "Matters of great concern should be treated lightly." Master lttei commented, "Matters of small concern should be treated seriously." Among one's affairs there should not be more than two or three matters of what one could call great concern. If these are deliberated upon during ordinary times, they can be understood. Thinking about things previously and then handling them lightly when the time comes is what this is all about.
„I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape.“
— Thom Yorke English musician, philanthropist and singer-songwriter 1968
— Jane Goodall British primatologist, ethologist, and anthropologist 1934
As quoted in Going Blue: A Teen Guide to Saving Our Oceans, Lakes, Rivers, & Wetlands (2010) by Cathryn Berger Kaye and Philippe Cousteau, p. 14
— Richard Rohr American spiritual writer, speaker, teacher, Catholic Franciscan priest 1943
Origine: Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemplative Prayer (1999), p. 110
„What do you think about me is not my business the important thing is what I think about myself…“
— Robert T. Kiyosaki American finance author , investor 1947
Origine: Rich Dad's Cashflow Quadrant: Rich Dad's Guide to Financial Freedom
— John Bonica Anesthesiologist; pioneer in pain management 1917 - 1994
After having read 14,000 pages of medical textbooks and finding only 7 1/2 pages mentioning "pain," as quoted by Latif Nasser, "The amazing story of the man who gave us modern pain relief" (2015) TED Talks
— Jonathan Safran Foer, libro Molto forte, incredibilmente vicino
Origine: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
„The most important things about the individual are what he cannot or will not say.“
— Lawrence K. Frank American cyberneticist 1890 - 1968
Origine: Projective methods for the study of personality (1939), p. 395
— Barbara Kingsolver, libro Flight Behavior
Dellarobia Turnbow speaking to her son, Flight Behavior, page 589 (ISBN 978-0-571-29081-9).
Flight Behavior (2012)
„The most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it. “
— Edwin H. Land American scientist and inventor 1909 - 1991
— Carlos Castaneda Peruvian-American author 1925 - 1998
Variante: Self-importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it - what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellowmen. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.
Origine: Fire from Within
„The most important thing about education is appetite.“
— Winston S. Churchill Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1874 - 1965
„Whatever you get paid attention for is never what you think is most important about yourself.“
— David Foster Wallace American fiction writer and essayist 1962 - 2008
„It doesn't matter what we believe about God. It's what He knows about us.“
— Morris West Australian writer 1916 - 1999
London: Coronet Books, 1984, p. 316
The speaker is an eighty-year-old Mother Superior explaining why she allowed the burial in the convent cemetery of a foreign woman, a collaborator in a charitable enterprise, who was an unbeliever.
The World Is Made of Glass (1983)
— Kim Stanley Robinson, libro Galileo's Dream
As quoted in John Clute, "Scores" http://www.strangehorizons.com/2010/20100118/clute-c.shtml, in Strange Horizons (18 January 2010)
Galileo's Dream (2009)
— Simone Weil French philosopher, Christian mystic, and social activist 1909 - 1943
Origine: Lectures on Philosophy (1959), p. 90
