Georges St-Pierre Quotes

One of the important lessons I learned from my parents is always to respect authority figures like teachers.

Georges St-Pierre

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• There is almost nothing more painful for a leader than seeing good people leave a growing organization, whether it's a priest watching a Sunday school teacher walk out the door or a CEO saying goodbye to a co-founder.

  

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• Rule-following, legal precedence, and political consistency are not more important than right, justice and plain common-sense.

  

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• Personally, coming out was one of the most important things I've ever done, lifting from my shoulders the millstone of lies that I hadn't even realized I was carrying.

  

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• You can play professional lacrosse, but they make less than a teacher's salary now. I always thought about that. And it's a very difficult career, a short career, as a pro athlete.

  

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• Cofounder relationships are among the most important in the entire company.

  

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• It's very important for Taiwan to maintain its international contact.

  

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• Design certainly has a cosmetic, aesthetic aim. It always aims at making things beautiful. But relevance is just as important. I often say, 'If it isn't ethical, it can't be beautiful. But if it isn't beautiful, it probably shouldn't be at all.'

  

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• Prayer is the most important thing that I do.

  

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• I kind of fell backwards into acting. I was studying to be a high school teacher. I look now and I understand completely, or actually barely, how much work it is to be a teacher. It's an incredible amount of work.

  

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• Home has always been one of the most important things. If I don't feel at home in my space, then I feel really unmoored.

  

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• While the Passover narrative in Exodus energizes Israel's imagination toward justice, Israel's hard work of implementation of that imaginative scenario was done at Mt. Sinai. . . . Moses' difficult work at Sinai is to transform the narrative vision of the Exodus into a sustainable social practice that has institutional staying-power, credibility, and authority.

  

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• Cultural export worldwide is dominated by the world's superpowers, who have the finances, operatives and media machine to export what they deem important.

  

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• When I came to Congress, like our first panel, small business people, 64 percent of the people had health insurance. We'd buy it. Now, we're down to about 34 percent. That's why we have to do something on health care in this country because the cost is killing us.

  

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• People talk about Wall Street greed, but one of the things many people don't understand is that there are a lot of organizations that have been the recipient of largess from the same Wall Street.

  

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• One of the important lessons I learned from my parents is always to respect authority figures like teachers.

  

  Georges St-Pierre
  • Important
  • Teacher
  • Parent