Top 100 Be Important Quotes
#1. 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.
Bernie Glassman
#3. Every actress has a line she'll draw, where she'll say, 'This I will do and this I won't.' For me, everything has to be important to the story and the director has to be able to tell me why.
Sheryl Lee
#4. At a distance, they looked just boring enough to be important.
Craig Schaefer
#5. What do you think of Adolf Hitler?" Einstein replied, "He is living on the empty stomach of Germany. As soon as economic conditions improve, he will no longer be important.
Walter Isaacson
#6. How little the color of a life jacket matters when we fall overboard. If something is important, it will be important under all circumstances. Otherwise, it's not important.
Pat McBride
#7. I can never be important to any one.'
'What is to prevent you?'
'Every thing - my situation - my foolishness and awkwardness.
Jane Austen
#8. The target of preventive war must have several characteristics. It must be virtually defenceless; it must be important enough to be worth the trouble; it must be possible to portray it as the ultimate evil and an imminent threat to our survival.
Noam Chomsky
#9. A conventional truth can be important - it's essential to learn elementary mathematics, for example - but it won't give you an edge. It's not a secret.
Peter Thiel
#11. Your guess [about the future of technology] is as good as mine. The only thing I'm sure of is (a) most of the predictions I hear are almost certainly wrong, and (b) the things that will turn out to be important will come as a surprise, even though in hindsight they'll seem perfectly obvious.
Steve Krug
#12. Would be important to ascertain whether a man's son was his own through a wife's purity, but where marriage was not involved it was
Iris Johansen
#13. It may not be important what you say, but it is very important who you are.
Debasish Mridha
#14. These small things - nutrition, place, climate, recreation, the whole casuistry of selfishness - are inconceivably more important than everything one has taken to be important so far.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#15. What would help us preserve our natural resources are genetic traits that let us sacrifice the present for the sake of the future. You need wisdom to sacrifice something that is immediately useful or advantageous for the sake of something that will be important in the future.
Christian De Duve
#16. My work is incredibly important to me personally. It brings me joy and it brings me life and it brings me meaning. It doesn't necessarily have to be important to the people who read it.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#17. There is a reason flight attendants tell you to put your mask on first in an emergency ... you cannot be important to anyone else if you are not first and foremost important to yourself. Appreciate and love yourself then use that to do the same for others. In other words, save yourself first.
Shelley K. Wall
#18. There is no reason in the world why you should not be important where you are known. You have good sense, and a sweet temper, and I am sure you have a grateful heart, that could never receive kindness without hoping to return it. I do not know any better qualifications for a friend and companion.
Jane Austen
#19. It does not mean much to be important. The most important man at a burial is dead.
C.J. Langenhoven
#20. Literature professes to be important while at the same time considering itself an object of doubt. It confirms itself as it disparages itself. It seeks itself: this is more than it has a right to do, because literature may be one of those things which deserve to be found but not to be sought.
Maurice Blanchot
#21. I think of my actions every day: what seems to be important and what isn't.
James Rosenquist
#22. Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.
T. S. Eliot
#23. It will be important to restore those provisions, those disclose provisions, those release provisions so that presidents are indeed held accountable and their information and papers are made public.
Ted Gup
#24. I think we have more athleticism, I think we have more pace and that's going to be important to deal with Ghana.
Tim Howard
#25. I was lucky enough when it came to sports and work ethic to be taught some basics that continue to be important.
Joe Namath
#26. The focus of entertainment is taking away from what the public needs as news. I think investigative journalism will always be important and always find its way, be it on the Internet or wherever.
Robert Redford
#27. Then what he said and how he said it won't be important any more. What will be important are all the things you never got to say.
Sarra Manning
#28. Choose the least important day in your life. It will be important enough.
Thornton Wilder
#29. At the end of your life, when you strip away all the accessories that are important to us now, only 3 things will be important: 1. Have you lived wisely? 2. Have you loved richly? 3. And have you served the world greatly?
Robin S. Sharma
#30. It seems to me to be important to distinguish a good idea from poor implementations of it
Ron Jeffries
#31. It's one of the most beautiful things in the world, to go off and make a film. At the heart of it, making a film - it's pretend. It's a silly thing to do. But it can be important, and to have that experience with people you love is one of the best things you can do.
Christopher Abbott
#32. It's nice to be important, but more important to be nice.
Someone
#33. And this, I believe, is where my third grade teacher had it wrong: Answers can only aspire to be important. Questions remain forever relevant, forever eloquent. Answers are science, questions are poetry.
Guillermo Del Toro
#34. As the BBC approaches the final phase of decisions about its future, it will be important for those involved to be established in post and ready to take responsibility for implementation of the outcome.
Pauline Neville-Jones
#35. Outlaws are not members of society. However, they may be important to society.
Tom Robbins
#36. I can turn an idea into a business before you know it's going to be important. My first step will blow by you.
Mark Cuban
#37. A first kiss, I think, should be important, special. It should be with the person you want to kiss more than anybody in the world.
Lauren Baratz-Logsted
#38. Mine is studying script and being very academic and trying to be important.
Christoph Waltz
#39. My God, must I always wear a low-cut dress to be important?
Jean Harlow
#40. Someday you're going to have to learn to separate what seems to be important from what really is important.
George Lucas
#41. I did the first study because I had been exposed to something that I took to be important and interesting - this thought reform process - in the military.
Robert Jay Lifton
#42. Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.
Bill Bradley
#43. The goal has its importance. But the doing is what is truly fulfilling. Every enthusiastic person has a goal that may be important, but the doing is intensely fulfilling, and it is the essence of enthusiasm.
Eckhart Tolle
#44. One emphasis of my research has been on the question of how people spend their time. Time is the ultimate finite resource, or course, so the question of how people spend it would seem to be important.
Daniel Kahneman
#45. One of the many difficult things about women was that they tended to pick the most unsuitable times to tell you something they considered to be important, and then became irrationally upset when you failed to remember it.
Ruth Downie
#46. I want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.
Sylvia Plath
#47. The insecurities from your past are not the truth in your life either. As we look at our doubts and develop confident hearts, it's going to be important to recognize negative emotions from our past that keep us from living confidently in our present and future.
Renee Swope
#48. I was brought up in a Christian environment where, because God had to be given pre-eminence, nothing else was allowed to be important. I have broken through to the position that because God exists, everything has significance.360
Mark A. Noll
#49. To be entirely happy in marriage, the same thing must be important to both.
Marie Of Romania
#50. Just like people, stars can be important without being terribly bright.
Phil Plait
#51. As the heated debate continues, it will be important that nonproliferation experts play a critical role in the discourse. Science-based statements, not snarky sound bites, should be the weapons of choice.
David Corn
#52. 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.
Barbara Smith
#53. I thought about him everyday until then. I started having these conversations with him in my head that you have when you meet someone you sense is going to be important in your life.
Deb Caletti
#54. At the end of our lives, we mostly regret the risks we didn't take, the dreams we didn't do and the love we failed to give. If those things are going to be important to you at the end, make them important to you right now.
Robin S. Sharma
#55. I think everyone needs a goal. And what kind of goal will be important. And for that we have to study and we have to be intelligent.
Tadao Ando
#56. A great idea goes through three stages on its way to acceptance: 1) it is dismissed as nonsense, 2) it is acknowledged as true, but insignificant, 3) finally, it is seen to be important, but not really anything new.
William James
#57. Things don't have to change the world to be important.
Steve Jobs
#58. This had better be important."
"Perhaps if you hadn't been reading all night, you wouldn't be so exhausted," snapped the young man seated across from her.
Sarah J. Maas
#59. Caro needed to be important. It was boring and typical and transparent as hell, even to her, but she couldn't turn it off any more than she could quit having arms.
Kelly Braffet
#60. We all have the drum major instinct. We all want to be important, to surpass others, to achieve distinction, to lead the parade.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#61. Your governing values should be important enough to you that you will invest your time, resources, and energy in making them a fundamental part of your life.
Hyrum W. Smith
#62. Do not let anything that happens in life be important enough that you're willing to close your heart over it.
Michael A. Singer
#63. It must be important or he wouldn't dare disturb me now," he muttered.
Then he drew away to look at me. "If it's not, I'll kill him and return to you directly.
Jeaniene Frost
#64. To discuss endlessly what silly people mean when they say silly things may be amusing but can hardly be important.
Bertrand Russell
#65. It is nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.
John Templeton
#66. He who works with the door open gets all kinds of interruptions, but he also occasionally gets clues as to what the world is and what might be important.
Richard Hamming
#67. You ever notice that? Any time you see two groups of people who really hate each other, chances are good they're wearing different kind of hats. Keep an eye on that, it might be important.
George Carlin
#68. We are all living history, and it's hard to say now what will be important in the future. One thing's certain, though: if we throw it away, it's gone.
Marilyn Johnson
#69. That it might turn into music that would heighten emotion, but not be important in itself.
Bob Mondello
#70. It was so important to me, I thought it should be important to him. I thought that was love.
Mitch Albom
#71. The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
John Dewey
#72. It may be important to write a book that doesn't come up to what I would like to have rather than to write no book at all.
Sheri S. Tepper
#73. I've been fortunate enough to match up the material I'm producing with the right buyer, the company that will make it and that wants it, and that isn't saying yes to be nice, but is saying yes because they want and need that movie and it's going to be important on their slate.
Nina Jacobson
#74. It would be important for someone to understand how much our music means to us. Our music comes first right now and hopefully for ever.
Isaac Hanson
#75. I want to be IMPORTANT to you. Special. He shook his head and gave a soft laugh. Do You know how stupid I feel saying that? I think my balls just dropped to the floor.
Erin McCarthy
#76. I think perhaps I've learned to be myself. I have a theory that all artists who would be important - painters and writers - must learn to be themselves. It takes a very long time.
Margot Fonteyn
#77. Analysts estimate that emerging markets are expected to drive 90 percent of the world's pharmaceutical market growth, and differentiated products will be important to this growth.
Dilip Shanghvi
#78. Knowing English is important, but for us Venezuelans I think it would also be important to know Portuguese . For that reason, we should evaluate the possibility of it being taught in our schools.
Hugo Chavez
#79. [Art is] very great liberation for the suffering, struggling person, who always thinks that he is alone. This is why art is important. Art would not be important if life were not important, and life is important.
James Baldwin
#80. I want this book to be facts, to be important, to be history.
Anatoli Boukreev
#81. It's enough now of being unhealthy. I have a family, and I owe it to them to be as healthy as I can. A great sense of clarity comes when you have a child. It shows the important stuff to be important.
James Corden
#82. There may be few instances in which the superstition that only measurable magnitudes can be important has done positive harm in the economic field: but the present inflation and employment problems are a very serious one.
Friedrich August Von Hayek
#83. Sex must be important as it is so expensive.
Steve Jones
#84. Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important, but because they also convey universal truths about personal self-discovery and self-transcendence, one's role in society, and the relation between the two.
Alan Hirsch
#85. It's part of my game to occasionally send a message, one that may be unpopular to the outside world, but can be important for the team.
Oliver Kahn
#86. I've learned about leadership is that leaders are those individuals who do the things that failures aren't willing to do - even though they might not like doing them either. They have the discipline to do what they know to be important - and right - versus what's easy and fun.
Robin S. Sharma
#87. It may not be important how much you have, but it is important who you are in your heart.
Debasish Mridha
#88. If I don't get the service or if I don't the ball in the box, where I want it, I start drifting into midfield. I go and look for the ball. I try to be important for the team in other areas.
Ruud Van Nistelrooy
#89. I think I thought it would be important for electronics as we knew it then, but that was a much simpler business and electronics was mostly radio and television and the first computers.
Jack Kilby
#90. Small things may be important to us; to be a sometime anything is sometimes something.
Alexander McCall Smith
#91. The result may be important but it's not the actual measure. The measure is the feeling you have made contact with something.
Eric Maisel
#92. Always make the other person feel important. John Dewey, as we have already noted, said that the desire to be important is the deepest urge in human nature; and William James said: The
Dale Carnegie
#93. I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important.
David Rockefeller
#94. While I started out with a vague understanding that diversity would be important, my own observations have led me to realize that achieving greater levels of diversity is in fact vital to our long-term success.
Wendy Kopp
#95. When I am no longer controversial, I will no longer be important
Gustave Courbet
#96. If God is in a life, it doesn't have to be big to be happy and to be important in His kingdom.
Keith Miller
#97. I think rehearsal can be important if it's done in a way that works. Often, rehearsal can be a waste of time.
Ewan McGregor
#98. Time is very precious to me. I don't know how much I have left and I have some things that I would like to say. Hopefully, at the end, I will have said something that will be important to other people too.
Jim Valvano
#99. No highbrow literary type would ever say 'Moby Dick' is good but it's just about a whale, or a Jane Austen would be important if she wasn't just writing about romantic relationships.
Sophie Hannah
#100. Youth is seen as everything. You don't know anything when you're young. It's great being older, just having a more balanced perspective. I wake up and realise that what seemed to be important last year no longer is. I'm increasingly grateful for every day.
Val Kilmer
