Important People Quotes

So many people spend so much time on things that aren't important. It's the difference between success and failure.

Secrecy is for losers. For people who do not know how important the information really is.

There are a lot of people building small ideas now. There's an idealization of being an entrepreneur, but the most important thing is to have a really great idea.

I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.

There is no more important rule of conduct in the world than this: attach yourself as much as you can to people who are abler than you and yet not so very different that you cannot understand them.

Life is too precious to spend it with important people.

I think that occasionally running away and crashing where people can't find you is important.

It's important to be self-aware about what people are saying about you, but even more so, be very aware of who you actually are, and to have that be the main priority.

If future competitiveness depends on treating people as an important part of the institution, the least respectful thing I can imagine doing to a human being is asking him to urinate in a cup.

The most important innovators often don't need any technologies - just imagination and acute sensitivity to people's needs.

What's important is promising something to the people, not actually keeping those promises. The people have always lived on hope alone.

I can't seem to fathom that the things important to me are not important to other people as well, and so I come off sounding like a missionary, someone whose job it is to convert rather than listen.

Sometimes with people their work is the most important thing to them, and sometimes the work enables you to do other things that are more important to you. I probably am closer to that.

You need to have honest things in the world. Even if people don't understand it, if it's coming from you, that's already important.

The most important thing about a family is that all the people in it love each other.

What important truth do very few people agree with you on?

Unselfish love for all people without exception is the most important point of convergence among all significant spiritualities and religions.

Circumstances can be very important. Find the right people to work with.

Caring about policy is important - people in washington forget.

What gives me the greatest satisfaction is the number of people I can affect with my gift, with what I do. That's the most important thing to me, more important than any trophy or award.

[There is] the need to feel unique, special, important or needed. Everybody has those needs, including the people that say I don't need to be special.

I hope to have communion with the people, that is the most important thing.

Consequently, most of us really exist at the mercy of other people's formulations of what's important.

Keep reminding people of what's important and that their fates are correlated.

The first and most important necessity is the creation of a modus vivendi with the Arab people.

Over the years I have met a lot of important people, but no one as important as Elvis Presley.

I kind of think of engineering like the chefs at a restaurant. Nobody's going to deny chefs are integrally important, but there's also so many other people who contribute to a great meal.

There are three stages in scientific discovery. First, people deny that it is true, then they deny that it is important; finally they credit the wrong person.

Self-acceptance begins in infancy, with the influence of your parents and siblings and other important people.

It's important for people to realize I don't want to be the It guy. I want to crawl before I walk. I want to learn about things before I jump into them.

I think good theaters are really important. They allow you to exist in a space with other people.

Eventually, most people felt MoMA had filled a very important gap.

I talk about my team a lot. I feel like people are the most important part of the puzzle.

If people are really excited about their music, and that's their primary motivation, then that comes through in demo tapes. That's the most important ingredient.

We do very little re-writing in the office. We often take on people who show great promise and who we hope will develop into somebody important and someone good.

Water is important to people who do not have it, and the same is true of control.

I think it's really important to find out why people hurt you or try to oppose you or whatever.

I never care personally what people say about me. The music, and the message - this will always be more important to me than people thinking I'm the best.

What I have desired to do is to make the people of Boston realize that the most important office, and the one which all of us can and should fill, is that of private citizen.

It is not important to convince people; they should convince themselves, they should look with their own eyes.

Everybody wants to be somebody. Everybody wants to be noticed. Everybody wants to be somebody important. Importance is just treating people good. That's important.

I think in my twenties I tended to think of all people as sort of more or less alike. In now think that people are really different in all these subtle ways that are very important.

Maybe, just maybe, we shall at last come to care for the most important, most challenging, surely the most satisfying of all architectural creations: building cities for people to live in.

Allowing my people to have a good work-life balance by working flexibly is very important to me.

It's important to give back to people.

A proper education enables young people to put their lives in order, which means knowing what things are more important than other things; it means putting first things first.

I think it's important for the people to see the government is functioning.

I think America causes cancer, longevity is less important than fun, and young people should be discouraged from voting.

The most important thing in a piece of music is to seduce people to the point where they start searching.

Sport and health are so important to our nation that they deserve to be right at the front of people's minds.