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Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.
Apologetics has an important place in the local church as we seek to influence our communities for Christ in an increasingly skeptical culture.
To feel grateful is one of the most important experiences we need as humans. When we feel it, there is an acceptance of everything in our life.
I'm estranged from my father and that relationship, as a young man, is incredibly important. It's probably responsible for the man I've become.
Don't believe that winning is really everything. It's more important to stand for something. If you don't stand for something, what do you win?
This crusade is much more important than the anti- lynching movement, because there would be no lynching if it did not start in the schoolroom.
I hate it when people use the word 'sorry' aggressively, as in, 'Sorry, but I hate you.' Sorry's an important word, and it shouldn't be abused.
Both my parents were actors. I was schooled to think that acting was an important social service, that it was something that human beings need.
Cooking might be the most important factor in fixing our public health crisis. It's the single most important thing you can do for your health.
Every Native North American text I've ever grappled with has taught me something important about how to live on the continent where I was born.
I will get a loan and pay the money the court asks for. But I will not lay down my writing and I still say this was an important book to write.
You can make the case that slacktivism is important because it makes people feel affiliated to a movement and be part of it, and talk about it.
I feel that public service is so important and giving back, being a role model and helping people in need is something that I would love to do.
I'm definitely very careful about the things that I want to be a part of, but it's also important for me to get dance out there to more people.
Not everything needs changing. Some things need protecting. And that can be just as important, challenging and rewarding as changing the world.
The idea that the reader is important enough to me that I'd tailor my words to either please or offend them always seems amusingly alien to me.
Images of resentment and revenge only have us spending the precious moments of our lives imagining the 'other' as both dangerous and important!
You can never entirely stop being what you once were. That's why it's important to be the right person today, and not put it off till tomorrow.
I think the most important thing is to have fun, and not to take things too seriously. Once you start doing that, then you'll start to crumble.
Honestly, that is the most important thing to me: Can I continue to live up to my own expectations of myself - and not fall back into slacking?
The missionary experience is part of Christian formation and it is important for adolescents and young people to be able to live it personally.
A news sense is really a sense of what is important, what is vital, what has color and life - what people are interested in. That's journalism.
Swift calls discretion low prudence; it is high prudence, and one of the most important elements entering into either social or political life.
letting be is as important as mastering. Our tradition has encouraged us to be effective, to make or fabricate but not to let be born or let be.
The most important thing is to never give up, never give in to circumstances, believe yourself, and to soldier on, no matter what's in your way.
I know that an important message is not a novel. To say that we should all be kind to our neighbors is an important statement; it's not a novel.
I tend to find comedy in dark places. I also tend to find comedy in taking on the status quo - which has always been something I find important.
The outstanding coach is a teacher that gets all his squad to accept the role that he considers to be the most important for the welfare of all.
I think it's important to move people beyond just dreaming into doing. They have to be able to see that you are just like them, and you made it.
Product procedure...must securely protect the crown jewels, but, equally important, it must eschew building high fences around the garbage cans.
One of the most important leadership lessons is realizing you're not the most important or the most intelligent person in the room at all times.
So as I thought about it, the most important "tool" you can have today in business is insatiable curiosity. The minute you lose it, you're dead.
I always believed that style was more important than fashion. They are rare, those who imposed their style while fashion makers are so numerous.
My mom was really vigorous about making sure that we saw things and that we questioned things. Education was so important to both of my parents.
It's important to stop and realize what we have, why we have it and how privileged we are. And from that place, start caring and get a lot done.
The perfect tools aren't going to help us if we can't face each other and give and receive fearlessly, but more important, to ask without shame.
Never be late. When you're late, what you're saying is that your time is more important than the other person's time. That's pretty egotistical.
If government were less important in our lives, politicians would have fewer goodies to trade. In return, we'd have more money and more freedom.
I'm an extremely, extremely persistent person. Extremely. And when I believe I am right, and it is important, I will go to the end of the earth.
Hard is trying to rebuild yourself, piece by piece, with no instruction book, and no clue as to where all the important bits are supposed to go.
When scoring a film, empathy is the key. And it is just as important to use music to express the actors' emotions as it is to move the audience.
Sound and sound design has always been very important to my approach to film, because it is a more subversive and allusive aspect of the medium.
For me, the audience is the most important thing in the whole chain, so finding out how they respond to things is a learning curve at all times.
The important thing here to understand is that the people that are at Guantanamo are bad people. I mean, these are terrorists for the most part.
We're going to see leadership emerge as the most important element of business - the attribute that is highest in demand and shortest in supply.
Manipulating [is] just the way to proceed, to convince that what you're doing is important. Is nothing more than that. Everyone is manipulating.
The point to me is not what Donald Trump is saying because we keep reacting to just things he says in his tweets. What he is doing is important.
People don't like preaching, but discussion, presenting a case, and that's important. Therefore, I think we need to learn to dialogue much more.
That's one of the most important things to me is that Detroit and Ann Arbor got my back. If you don't have hometown love, then what's the point?
There's no path to success. Everyone constructs their own path. The important thing is to follow your heart. Find your niche, is my best advice.