Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

There are three secrets to managing. The first secret is have patience. The second is be patient. And the third most important secret is patience.

Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children before they are aware of their own self-importance learn so easily.

Thus we hope to teach mythology not as a study but as a relaxation from study to give our work the charm of a story-book yet by means of it to impart a knowledge of an important branch of education.

The most important thing I learned as a foreign correspondent in about 80 countries is that it takes a very shallow knowledge of history to think that there are solutions to most problems.

A lot of knowledge in any kind of an organization is what we call task knowledge. These are things that people who have been there a long time understand are important but they may not know how to talk about them. It's often called the culture of the organization.

A number of scientists with greatly different backgrounds can come up with completely different assessments. The discussions or controversies are endless. Once a year we try to bring the most important discoverers together to exchange their experiences and knowledge.

So no one should rely on television either for their knowledge of music or for news. There's just more going on. It's an adjunct to the written word which I think is still the most important thing.

And most importantly perhaps children can learn about their rights share their knowledge with the children of other nations identify problems with them and establish how they might work together to address them.

As a physician I understand how important it is to collect data on people so we can understand what's happening with them. I will be in the position to help enable that knowledge.

I thought they may have presumed too much knowledge of certain things for people who are not comedians. Like Montreal. A comic understands what it is and its importance but someone else may not know about it.

But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory.

The most important seed I can sow in this life is my children and the love and knowledge that I can bestow upon them and the help I can give them.

You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives and not abstract.

Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with a man one man.

There is still the feeling that women's writing is a lesser class of writing that what goes on in the nursery or the bedroom is not as important as what goes on in the battlefield that what women know about is a less category of knowledge.

You don't have to be a brain surgeon to be a valuable person. You become valuable because of the knowledge that you have. And that doesn't mean you won't fail sometimes. The important thing is to keep trying.

The truth is often terrifying which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew's cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films they explore the consequences of Neo's choice to know the truth. It's a beautiful beautiful story.

Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.

A toothache or a violent passion is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes its character its importance or insignificance.

I'm a student of world religion so to me it's hugely important to have knowledge and to understand what people are doing.

The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.

Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance therefore not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

I think it's important to get your surroundings as well as yourself into a positive state - meaning surround yourself with positive people not the kind who are negative and jealous of everything you do.