What Is Important Quotes

I like seeing women defined by what they do and what they're passionate about rather than the men that they're in love with or associated with. That's always more important to me, as a female.

As we get older, it's important for us to help hand back some of what we've gained as we've grown older. It should be one of your responsibilities - it's almost like being a mentor.

You will find that our enemies are our own kin. It is they who betray us. So learn this most important lesson-in the end, our worst enemy is ourselves

Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration.

For me, it's important to build good partnerships rather than score centuries. Once, you have those partnerships, you will also get centuries.

The most important factor in survival is neither intelligence nor strength but adaptability.

In a minimal interior, what you don't do is as important as what you do.

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

People piss you off but its always important to forgive and forget.

Trust is the most important aspect of being a journalist. If people don't trust or find you relatable - you will not have success.

One of the things I appreciate more was how important struggle was as the instrument that helped to keep us knit together.

There is an important distinction between barriers to entry and barriers to imitation.

The sun is the most important thing in everybody's life, whether you're a plant, an animal or a fish, and we take it for granted.

Records must not be the focus and that's the most important thing. It mustn't come at the cost of the team.

Who you are is more important than what you do. The goal is to bring what you do in alignment with who you are, so you don’t end up being someone you don’t want to be.

You can't look at the intrinsic value of gold as you can a business. Gold doesn't give you cash flow, and, at the end of the day, cash flow is what is important. Gold doesn't give you dividends.

History is important. More than any other topic, it is about us. Whether one deems our present society wondrous or awful or both, history reveals how we got to this point.

The general problem with ambitious systems is complexity. [...] it is important to emphasize the value of simplicity and elegance, for complexity has a way of compounding difficulties.

I asked Dalai Lama the most important question that I think you could ask - if he had ever seen Caddyshack.

Because technically actors are just public servants really. They just tell stories because people need to be told stories. That's all it is. And yet we get treated as though we're important.

Both individual skill (art) and chance are important factors in determining success or failure.

It is important to remember that some of the most serious thinkers once thought that democracy was not compatible with the cultures of Germany, Italy, Japan, Latin America and Russia.

I think when you’re dying you start looking for important things in the corners. You can’t let anything that seems even semi-important pass, because it passes forever. Things take on meaning.

Surveillance of power is one of the most important ways to ensure that power does not abuse its status. But, of course, power does not like to be watched.

A positive attitude is important, but it is only part of the story. Understanding how to surmount pain, doubt, and failure is a vital component in winning the game of life.

Human beings are too important to be treated as mere symptoms of the past. They have a value which is independent of any temporal process──which is eternal, and must be felt for its own sake.

To listen only to records is a sin of narcissism. It is important to hear live music, in concert, which is a source of emotions that a record can never convey.

There are a lot of things in this world that are more important than being popular. Being true to yourself is one of them.

I do it because I want to exercise people's compassion and I do it because I really believe that for some reason what I do is important and meaningful.

I believe that the only important structural obstacles to world prosperity are the obsolete doctrines that clutter the minds of men.

When it comes to our everyday habits, it's important to ask: 'Am I putting God first?'

As far as I can see, it's not important that we have free will, just as long as we have the illusion of free will to stop us going mad.

They’re all about where people come from. The only thing important is where somebody’s going.

Our work may be important, but we don't take it too seriously. Otherwise, we get attached to one relatively small thing and ignore the rest of life.

I think it's important that members of the United States Senate spend time not just on Capitol Hill but making contact with ordinary people and engaging them in the political process.

Great nations need organizing principles, and 'Don't do stupid stuff' is not an organizing principle.

Prayer is to the skeptic a delusion, a waste of time. To the believer it represents perhaps the most important use of time.

The most important quality of leadership is intellectual honesty. The reality principle - the ability to see the world as it really is, not as you wish it were.

Perfection is impossible. Trying to do your best is important, but loving yourself and loving others should come first.

Set your goals-without goals you cannot measure your progress. But don’t become frustrated because there are no obvious victories. Remind yourself that striving can be more important than arriving.

Machines deprive us of two things which are certainly important ingredients of human happiness, namely, spontaneity and variety.

My mother taught me how to apply my own makeup at 13 years old, and the most important lesson I learned is to never touch my eyebrows and to cleanse, tone, and moisturize twice a day.

Important things are inevitably cliche, but nobody wants to admit that.

The timing of your decision is just as important as the decision you make.

I always carry a camera because it is so important to me to take pictures and document all the incredible things and places I have been able to see through this experience.

The most important decision we make is whether we believe we live in a friendly or hostile universe.

If you're into what you're playing, that's the most important thing.

People do more for you when you make them feel important.

I think that's the most important thing you can do to be a real person - is to be honest with yourself.

In executing the duties of my present important station, I can promise nothing but purity of intentions, and, in carrying these into effect, fidelity and diligence.