Important But Quotes

#1. But when you lose a family member or something tragic happens, that stays with you forever. You never get over it. Knowing that you have to deal with that for the rest of your life ... Football is important, but not as important as you once thought it was.

Brett Favre

#2. It's not all been rosy; I've had difficult situations where I've failed. But when you fail you learn a lot about yourself and come back stronger. The message is: life need not have limits. Having an opportunity in life is important but what defines you is what you do with that opportunity.

Richard Whitehead

#3. I think people who struggle to define themselves might never be satisfied because there is no definition. Living with responsibility is important, but I don't really think you have to grow up.

Kristen Bell

#4. What college is all about is some kind of 4-year game about who is going to end up with the highest grades. And I don't mean to say that academic achievement isn't important. But it is, after all, a means to an end.

Derek Bok

#5. One has to live in the present. Whatever is past is gone beyond recall; whatever is future remains beyond one's reach, until it becomes present. Remembering the past and giving thought to the future are important, but only to the extent that they help one deal with the present.

S. N. Goenka

#6. Perhaps you have always known everything important but will need a lifetime to discover what you know.

Dean Koontz

#7. When you read with your child, you show them that reading is important, but you also show them they're important - that they are so important to you that you will spend 20 minutes a day with your arm around them.

Laura Bush

#8. Remembering the fallen was important, but working to protect the living was more so.

Brandon Sanderson

#9. I know exercise is important, but I hate it!

Gayle King

#10. Technological measures are important, but equally important is ... a consciousness of the commonality of all living beings and an emphasis on shared responsibility.

Vaclav Havel

#11. Success in ministry is important, but when I assume it is all-important, I have made it an idol ... It is possible to make such an idol of success that you prize it more than God.

Brad Bigney

#12. I was living with this sense that there was something going on, something important, but I didn't know what it was. It was like ... I knew the secret was there, and it was a dark one, but I just couldn't reach it. Nearly drove me mad.

J.R. Ward

#13. Fitness is important, but the most important thing is how you adapt and the way you feel physically. To adapt to a new position. To try to change your game.

Fernando Torres

#14. You don't only have the need to do it well because leading a country is something quite important, but also because I am the first woman I have the obligation to do it the best possible way so my country can continue voting for women in the future. It is a big responsibility.

Laura Chinchilla

#15. His Divine Goodness asks that we never do good in any place to make ourselves look important but that we always consider Him directly, immediately, and without intermediary in all our actions.

Vincent De Paul

#16. It's so easy to get caught up in your own experiences. They can seem so important. But there are billions and billions of other experiences going on.

Ray Lamontagne

#17. There is never too much care when choosing shoes. Many women consider themselves important but the real evidence of that is on their legs.

Christian Dior

#18. The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.

Bobby Knight

#19. Having a great idea is important. But having a great team is also important.

Steve Case

#20. Winning is important, but survival is even more important. If you don't survive, you don't get to fight the next battle.

Donald Trump

#21. It is nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.

John Templeton

#22. Scholarships that allow students to get a good education are important, but first we want to measure the progress that the schools are teaching our students, we want to hold them accountable for the progress, we want to hold the schools accountable for teaching the young people in America.

Andrew Card

#23. There are five fundamental qualities that make every team great: communication, trust, collective responsibility, caring and pride. I like to think of each as a separate finger on the fist. Any one individually is important. But all of them together are unbeatable

Mike Krzyzewski

#24. Sometimes I've found that by getting into a certain drag, or a certain feeling, you can cast off your mortal coil and really do something. I don't know if it's important, but it's something. It's entertainment.

David Johansen

#25. Instruction is important but inspiration kindles the candle for a life time.

Debasish Mridha

#26. It's like when you read a book and you know that the words are important, but the images blossoming in your imagination are even more important because it's your mind that allows the words to come to life.

Jack Gantos

#27. I do not want to be president because I am a woman. Being a woman is important, but it's not the most important. I want to be president because we have the talent and the platform and the vision of a Mexico that we want for all Mexicans, not only for a select few.

Josefina Vazquez Mota

#28. I think compassion is important but love fizzles out eventually. But if there is compassion in a relationship, things can always be worked out.

Anushka Sharma

#29. I need to feel like the work I'm doing is not necessarily important, but meaningful, at least to me, because otherwise it just becomes a day job. It just becomes factory work and I get really frustrated.

Alan Ball

#30. We strive toward a goal, and whether we achieve it or not is important, but it's not what's most important. What matters is how we move toward that goal.

Scott Jurek

#31. There are a couple of things that I'm sure people don't think are important, but I do. I don't like hair changes unless there's a reason for it. Clothing - I don't like to see an outfit worn more than one time in an hour - you can wear it again a few weeks later.

Aaron Spelling

#32. Sure, equal pay, maternity leaves, and pro sports are important. But a girl can't make a free throw from the foul line if her head's not in the game.

Emma McLaughlin

#33. It seems everyone knows a college degree is important, but few have a plan to keep it affordable.

LZ Granderson

#34. Obviously, raw talent is important, but the difference-maker between first and the rest of the pack is usually desire.

Zig Ziglar

#35. Men aren't asked about age. Men aren't asked about their children. Not that these things aren't important, but I do feel like it becomes reductive when a woman's life becomes, 'Talk to me about your kids and how you feel about plastic surgery.'

Julianne Moore

#36. Taking risks, breaking the rules, and being a maverick have always been important but today they are more crucial than ever.

Gary Hamel

#37. Listening to the data is important ... but so is experience and intuition. After all, what is intuition at its best but large amounts of data of all kinds filtered through a human brain rather than a math model?

Steve Lohr

#38. A goal is important, but what you become to achieve that goal is much more important.

Debasish Mridha

#39. Having a great idea for a product is important, but having a great idea for product distribution is even more important.

Reid Hoffman

#40. Look. You all do things that are beautiful and magical and ... and important. But me ... there's gotta be more to my life than just pots and kettles. All I'm asking you is that you give me a chance.

Tink

#41. Sexual harassment law is very important. But I think it would be a mistake if the sexual harassment law movement is the only way in which feminism is known in the media.

Judith Butler

#42. Characters are incredibly important, but I tend to build them around the plot during the outline stage. However, once I'm writing the manuscript, the characters I'm writing dictate how the plot unfolds.

Aimee Carter

#43. Finishing races is important, but racing is more important.

Dale Earnhardt

#44. Andy [Warhol] put on his fey kind of act, but he wanted to be number one and he succeeded. But you never know. Fifty years from now he might not be seen as so important, but the way our whole culture has gone, and the way it continues to go, is his way - for better or for worse.

Bob Colacello

#45. If you don't say anything it can't become important, but if you say it everyone's ever after got to walk round it like a pile of rocks in the living room.

Philip Hensher

#46. 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

#47. How much we know and understand ourselves is critically important, but there is something that is even more essential to living a Wholehearted life: loving ourselves. Knowledge is

Brene Brown

#48. Figuring out who you are and being true to yourself is not just important, but it is critical to being authentic.

Kim Garst

#49. Giving English to an American is like giving sex to a child. He knows it's important but he doesn't know what to do with it.

Adam Cooper

#50. In Asia, personal relationships are important, but you cannot personalise diplomacy.

Ananda Krishnan

#51. Firsts were important. But I was pretty sure lasts were even more important.

Jenny Han

#52. I think about all these influences and musical cultures, then the opinion of the audience is of course important, but when I'm working on an album or a new project, I'm not all the time thinking about what the audience will think about it.

Rokia Traore

#53. 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.

Ben Silbermann

#54. Money was important, but really only because it afforded opportunity for my family and me. With money, we were healthier, we were less stressed, we had more time, and we enjoyed life.

Gregg Russell

#55. To a man of liberal education, the study of history is not only useful, and important, but altogether indispensable, and with regard to the history contained in the Bible ... it is not so much praiseworthy to be acquainted with as it is shameful to be ignorant of it.

John Quincy Adams

#56. At school, I was never given a sense that poetry was something flowery or light. It's a complex and controlled way of using language. Rhythms and the music of it are very important. But the difficulty is that poetry makes some kind of claim of honesty.

Tobias Hill

#57. Career is important, but nothing really supersedes my roles as a mother.

Halle Berry

#58. If we are to pray aright, perhaps it is quite necessary that we pray contrary to our own heart. Not what we want to pray is important, but what God wants us to pray.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#59. I am at a stage in my life where I want to only do thing that I love. I only want to do things that make me happy. Making money is important, but it's not my ultimate driver.

Monita Rajpal

#60. As for discipline - it's important, but sort of overrated. The more important virtue for a writer, I believe, is self-forgiveness. Because your writing will always disappoint you. Your laziness will always disappoint you.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#61. The computer is important, but not to mathematics.

Paul Halmos

#62. Error handling is important, but if it obscures logic, it's wrong.

Robert C. Martin

#63. Knowing the truth is important, but following the truth is much more important.

Debasish Mridha

#64. I made so many films which were more important, but the only one people ever want to talk about is that one with Bogart.

Ingrid Bergman

#65. I started thinking about the endings of novels not because I think endings are so important, but because I think they're actually not as important as they're sometimes given credit for.

Lev Grossman

#66. Opening new stores outside of Japan is important, but training our employees is even more important.

Tadashi Yanai

#67. There are people, even today, who thought and still think that it is all simply a matter of the left taking power in France, that with a change in the economic conditions the black question will disappear. I think that the economic question is important, but it is not the only thing.

Aime Cesaire

#68. We're important, but not essential; valuable, but not indispensable. We have a part in the play, but we are not the main act. A song to sing, but we are not the featured voice. God is.

Max Lucado

#69. Exercise is important, but exercise in a gym is not important. Go and take a walk outside. Skip the umpteenth coffee date and go for a hike instead. Take the stairs. Walk your errands.

Daphne Oz

#70. Maybe poetry's not so important, but ... it makes life worth living.

Arda Collins

#71. It isn't what people think that is important, but the reason they think what they think

Eugene Ionesco

#72. Working on ourselves is very important, but it's also important that we don't get so caught up in analyzing ourselves that we become the one thing standing in our own way.

Dannye Williamsen

#73. I look at power as the ability to get people motivated and to get them to do things that maybe they don't think are important but, in the end, are in pursuit of something greater than themselves.

Anne Sweeney

#74. Fuck me hard when you're mad, soft when you're not, bite my dick when I won't listen and deny me until I beg when I'm late or forget something important. But always, always love me?

S.E. Hall

#75. Majors are important but so is every other tournament I play.

Retief Goosen

#76. No-one gets an iron-clad guarantee of success. Certainly, factors like opportunity, luck and timing are important. But the backbone of success is usually found in old-fashioned, basic concepts like hard work, determination, good planning and perseverance.

Mia Hamm

#77. Story is important but the most important is the theme and how you're going to convey theme cinematically. I'm a believer also

Alfonso Cuaron

#78. Sex isn't all that important, but it is when you love someone very much.

Ava Gardner

#79. Preventing terrorist attacks is of the highest important, but trashing the Constitution is not the right way to do it.

Eliot Engel

#80. 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

#81. preparation is obviously important, but at some point, you must stop preparing content and start preparing mind-set. You have to shift from what you'll say to how you'll say it.

Amy Cuddy

#82. People say that being a mother is the most important job you will ever have. And it is very important. But it is even more important, I believe, to be a wife, a good wife.

Heather Gudenkauf

#83. Rules are important, but they're temporary and they're always supposed to be changed.

John Lydon

#84. It's not what happens to you that is most important, but what happens IN you because only you determine what happens through you."

~ Keith Craft

Mary Banos

#85. Many people have been positive influences in my life. My parents, whom I mentioned, were the most important, but many of my teachers were also a big help to me.

Samuel Alito

#86. Knowing is important, but understanding is everything.

Debasish Mridha

#87. Pictures, regardless of how they are created and recreated, are intended to be looked at. This brings to the forefront not the technology of imaging, which of course is important, but rather what we might call the eyenology (seeing).

Henri Cartier-Bresson

#88. Being interesting isn't important. But being happy is. As well as being a person you're proud of

Holly Bourne

#89. It was not the size of things that mattered but their perfection, it was not what one had that was important, but what one made.

Elizabeth Goudge

#90. Achieving a goal is important, but what is more important is the distance that you have to travel with its ups and downs, fears and failures.

Debasish Mridha

#91. Do not think you are important but unique.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#92. Sometimes horrible choices can lead to the right decision, its not where we start that's important but where we end.

Ava Harrison

#93. Laws are important. But they can only be effective if the people know about the particular laws.

Waris Dirie

#94. I think the risks that people see of terrorism are incredibly important but we are very confident we have got the right people on it and the risks have been minimised.

Boris Johnson

#95. I was the youngest of six kids, so yeah, feeding myself was important, but it's not like I was obsessed with food growing up.

Jim Gaffigan

#96. Change is important, but if you can't really change it, just keep calm, understand the situation and go through it with a good heart! Time will surely speak with time!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#97. I've always felt like my music would stand for itself and I would stand for myself. So I've kept my music a little bit esoteric, and I've kept the lyrics a little aloof. I try to say something important, but I don't necessarily preach.

Kenna

#98. I try to be really hippie about things. I'm uptight in all the ways that are really important, but the things my husband and family can benefit from my uptightness, I'm completely lacking.

Amanda Peet

#99. Everything must work in concert. Composition is important, but so are many other things, from content to the way colours work with or against each other.

William Eggleston

#100. I read in a periodical the other day that the fundamental thing is how we think of God. By God Himself, it is not! How God thinks of us is not only more important, but infinitely more important.

C.S. Lewis