"The amount of time we give to something indicates it's importance to us."

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Source : Jim George (2008). “A Man After God's Own Heart: Devoting Your Life to What Really Matters”, p.47, Harvest House Publishers

Jim George

#Giving Quotes #Importance Quotes

“Even before I had an assistant, my calendar was color-coded and I had all these different e-mail rules for how to prioritize e-mails, so I made it a point years ago to figure all that stuff out because my life was a mess.”
“There are no ordinary lives.”

Source : "Ken Burns On “The Worst War Ever". Interview with Dave Gilson, www.motherjones.com. August 24, 2007.
“Well, thank you and that's for them, but for me, I want to look back at a body of work where when you do the research and you explore the psyche of a character, where she's been, where she is and where she's going.”
“In any period it is upon a very small minority that the discerning appreciation of art and literature depends ... They are still a minority, though a larger one, who are capable of endorsing such first-hand judgement by genuine personal response.”
“There is no philosophy that will help us to succeed if we doubt our ability to do so.”
“I tend to think having that extreme of color, that kind of black, is amazingly beautiful...and powerful. What I was thinking to do with my image was to reclaim the image of blackness as an emblem of power.”
“For the child whose impulsiveness is indulged, who retains his primitive-discharge mechanisms, is not only an ill-behaved child but a child whose intellectual development is slowed down. No matter how well he is endowed intellectually, if direct action and immediate gratification are the guiding principles of his behavior, there will be less incentive to develop the higher mental processes, to reason, to employ the imagination creatively. . . .”
“men love their wives not because of their virtues, but in spite of them.”

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