A Quote by William Pickens

An insignificant right becomes important when it is assailed. — © William Pickens
An insignificant right becomes important when it is assailed.
The assailant is often in the right; that the assailed is always.
I always wanted to write a book about a common food that becomes a commercial commodity and therefore becomes economically important and therefore becomes politically important and culturally important. That whole process is very interesting to me. And salt seemed to me the best example of that, partly because it's universal.
If both factions, or neither, shall abuse you, you will probably be about right. Beware of being assailed by one and praised by the other.
There's nothing tiny or insignificant. Everything is significant. And everything flows on the same basis of Laws. Whether you are looking at world events or something that's happening in your kitchen drawer, broad and important, or narrow and seemingly insignificant, there's potential for connection or disconnection in either case. And it is only the connection or the disconnection that is of really any importance.
Life is very fleeting. It’s important to be gentle and optimistic. We look behind and think what we’ve done in this life has been good. It was simple; it was modest. Everyone creates their own story and moves on. That’s it. I don’t feel particularly important. What we create is not important. We’re very insignificant.
As there is no insignificant work, there is not an insignificant leader. All leaders need training...not just a few.
Everything that we do is insignificant...and...it is very important that we do it!
It is better to be doing the most insignificant thing than to reckon even a half-hour insignificant.
Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.
Tiny-perhaps." Rovender kept his eyes fixed on the rings. "Insignificant-never, Eva Nine. No living thing is insignificant.
If a consensus of the majority is all it takes to determine what is right, then having and controlling information becomes extraordinarily important.
I see no reason to believe that a creator of protoplasm or primeval matter, if such there be, has any reason to be interested in our insignificant race in a tiny corner of the universe, and still less in us, as still more insignificant individuals. Again, I see no reason why the belief that we are insignificant or fortuitous should lessen our faith.
Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.
When any person of really eminent virtue becomes the object of envy, the clamor and abuse by which he is assailed is but the sign and accompaniment of his success in doing service to the public. And if he is a truly wise man, he will take no more notice of it than the moon does of the howling of the dogs. Her only answer to them is to shine on.
Stop attaching so much weight to being right. In the grand scheme of things, being right is insignificant compared with being happy.
It's bad enough to feel insignificant, but it's unbearable to have it grained into your soul that you will never, can never, be anything but insignificant.
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