Importantly Quotes

#1. But more importantly, you are a gift, to all who know you, whether or not they realize it. If they don't, they are blind. You have a special place in this world. All you hvae to do is find it.

Ellen Hopkins

#2. Perhaps, more importantly, I think that most human beings realise only a fraction of the true potential of their minds, so the spiritual or mystical, the things which remain mysterious or unexplained have always drawn me to include them in any scheme for a novel.

Rose Tremain

#3. The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.

Abbie Hoffman

#4. Because a football game is just sixty minutes, but I'm training six, seven hours in every day. So, going for sixty minutes becomes easy. More importantly, I think that your muscles mature and can move in all different directions.

Ray Lewis

#5. I'd take pasta over skinny any day. More importantly, I'd take health over looks.

Kathryn Budig

#6. After a week passed it had dawned on me what I was and, more importantly, that I needed to do a little more research before climbing into one of you people.

Michael Siemsen

#7. But it's not just "Do you want a hit?" More importantly, it has to be something we - the artist and I - like. If you go in just wanting a hit song, it's not going to happen that way. You have to first be committed to making music you like.

Lukasz Gottwald

#8. The women's movement, not only here in the U.S., but worldwide, is bigger and stronger than ever before and in places where it has never been. It has arms. It has legs. And most importantly, it has heads.

Bella Abzug

#9. I hate that word, CAN'T. I wish it had never been dreamed
up, spoken, or defined. I wish the concept of CAN'T could be
eradicated not only from language, but more importantly from
the psyche of a girl who I know is filled with so much CAN it seeps out of her pores and scents the air.

Tiffanie DeBartolo

#10. To some extent, we are all labeled by what we're able to achieve. But more importantly, we are defined by what we attempt.

Scott Tinley

#11. If you have to say something, you have to say it now. And now more importantly, you have to do it yourself. It's your life, you're the one who dies, you're the one who loses it.

Cecelia Ahern

#12. Politics, life, and business are not spectator sports. You have to get involved to get ahead. Most importantly, when you reach that level of success, keep the door open and the ladder down for others to follow.

Ron Brown

#13. I'm a conservative. I believe in the idea of freedom and liberty, but more importantly, look at my voting background. I voted against bailing out Wall Street. I voted against, never voted for, a tax increase.

Kevin McCarthy

#14. How do you tell someone that you weren't the person he thought you were? And more importantly, how did you tell him that you'd meant the things you'd said, when everything else about you turned out to be a lie.

Jodi Picoult

#15. What we witness at the fea is not just a celebration of the multiplicity of modernities but also, and more importantly, a critical commentary on local structures of inequality that take for granted that both tradition and modernity are the prerogatives of the high ranking and wealthy.

Niko Besnier

#16. I realize that for many New Yorkers, this is the first time you've heard my name, and you don't know much about me. Over these next two years you will get to know me, but more importantly, I will get to know you.

Kirsten Gillibrand

#17. Love is when you can completely trust one another, you feel like you can conquer the world together, you know that person will be there for you, and most importantly, you make each other laugh.

Chelsea Krost

#18. It is my contention that most people are not mugged every day, that most people in this world do not encounter violence every day. I think we prepare people for violence, and I think just as importantly we prepare people for the definition of being gentle.

Bob Keeshan

#19. The roots of India's soft power run deep. India's is a civilization that, over millennia, has offered refuge and, more importantly, religious and cultural freedom, to Jews, Parsis, several varieties of Christians, and Muslims.

Shashi Tharoor

#20. Dennis, please. I don't know what-"
"Shut the fuck up, and stop playing me for an idiot. And secondly, and more importantly, I've unearthed some disturbing information about you which I want to discuss in more detail before I fill you with holes.

Simon Kernick

#21. Meditation will bring back the powers and awareness from the past; more importantly, it will expand your consciousness today.

Frederick Lenz

#22. In the first years of our lives we learn how to shit, talk, walk, sleep, eat and, most importantly, how to royally piss off our parents.

A.G. Phillips

#23. Low self-confidence is simply a problem of Awareness. Once you are aware of the Truth about yourself, you will be able to understand why you are the way you are and, most importantly, learn to love and accept yourself.

Robert Anthony

#24. If you can identify humor in problems then you will have less difficulties in solving them ... Most importantly, "you should be able to laugh on yourself".

Honeya

#25. My name," the boy said importantly, "is Stacey de Lacey."
"But that's a girl's name!" blurted Oliver.
Stacey de Lacey's face turned a dark shade of red. "Silence!" he shouted. "Stacey is one of those names that can be for a boy or a girl! Like Hilary, or Leslie, or...um... Anyway...!

Philip Reeve

#26. I want to try different things but, most importantly, always be true to my roots and keep it organic. I'm never going to leave bachata behind. I'm always going to be a bachatero first.

Romeo Santos

#27. Individuals who are obsessed with competing with themselves alone don't have time to compete with others and, most importantly, to judge others...

Assegid Habtewold

#28. Since red is a signal for many vital things, most importantly danger (blood) and sex

Guy Deutscher

#29. I was a fan of Hitchcock, but more importantly than that, he is such an inscrutable man, and a very carefully inscrutable man. He apparently was blank-faced with a calm and controlled presence. I was immediately anxious and thought, 'How am I going to get behind that?'

Toby Jones

#30. Mental toughness is many things and rather difficult to explain. Its qualities are sacrifice and self-denial. Also, most importantly, it is combined with a perfectly disciplined will that refuses to give in. It's a state of mind-you could call it character in action.

Vince Lombardi

#31. You can't lead without love, and more importantly, you can't leave a legacy without love.

Farshad Asl

#32. The second-hand artist blindly following his sensei or sifu accepts his pattern. As a result, his action is and , more importantly, his thinking become mechanical. His responses become automatic, according to set patterns, making him narrow and limited.

Bruce Lee

#33. I am announcing my resignation from Congress so my colleagues can get back to work, my neighbors can choose a new representative and most importantly that my wife and I can continue to heal from the damage I have caused.

Anthony Weiner

#34. Nothing is sacred. And, more importantly ... the 'nothing' you end up with is truly sacred.

Douglas Rushkoff

#35. The question of modernization is central to disturbances in the Middle East and in Africa. Everyone is after modernization, no matter where they come from. But you have to be careful about it, and more importantly, you have to have sense about it.

Youssou N'Dour

#36. Most importantly, I agree that the truth of these matters should be determined by interpretation of scientific evidence - experiments, fossil studies and the like.

Phillip E. Johnson

#37. California is the third largest oil producer. More importantly, California burns more oil, consumes more oil than any state or collection of states in America.

Jerry Brown

#38. Don't let fear or insecurity stop you from trying new things. Believe in yourself. Do what you love. And most importantly, be kind to others, even if you don't like them.

Stacy London

#39. So we strive for perfection in the areas in which we can control, and that isn't necessarily what provides contentment and joy for ourselves and, more importantly, for our children.

Sarah Jessica Parker

#40. I will barnstorm American living rooms. Mainstream media will be unable to ignore me, but more importantly they will be unable to overlook the needs of average Americans in the run-up to the 2012 election.

Roseanne Barr

#41. How come no one understood me, and more importantly, how come I was starting to not understand myself?

Kimberly Lauren

#42. Think deeply about things. Don't just go along because that's the way things are or that's what your friends say. Consider the effects, consider the alternatives, but most importantly, just think.

Aaron Swartz

#43. I think original voices get noticed. But most importantly, I think you should have a story to tell.

Chetan Bhagat

#44. My success was due to good luck, hard work, and support and advice from friends and mentors. But most importantly, it depended on me to keep trying after I had failed.

Mark Warner

#45. What children need most are the essentials that grandparents provide in abundance. They give unconditional love, kindness, patience, humor, comfort, lessons in life. And, most importantly, cookies.

Rudy Giuliani

#46. I have rooms full of little dongly things and don't want any more. Half the little dongly things I've got, I don't even know what gizmo they're for. More importantly, half the gizmos I've got, I don't know where their little dongly thing is.

Douglas Adams

#47. George Rochberg once said that 'to be a composer, you need to have fire in the belly, fire in the brain, but most importantly, an iron stomach.' I feel this is for the most part true, and hope I might convey something of it to younger composers.

Michael Hersch

#48. I should have guessed Kashmir would become a nuisance. And a bad influence. But most importantly, a friend.

Heidi Heilig

#49. To me, more importantly, I want to make films that I believe in, that I find value in that I think folks will like.

Vince Vaughn

#50. And most importantly, my dearest Jemma, I want you to remember the good times for those are what will keep you alive when all else is lost.

Katlyn Charlesworth

#51. Never try to be better than somebody else. But most importantly, never cease trying to be the best you can be.

John Wooden

#52. Most importantly fighters in my day knew the most important art in boxing - feinting.

Jack Johnson

#53. most importantly, this prediction is less of a prophecy and more a way of discussing our present choices. If the discussion makes us choose differently, so that the prediction is proven wrong, all the better. What's the point of making predictions if they cannot change anything?

Yuval Noah Harari

#54. The parallels between a stage and a book are compelling. You, like all authors, create 'characters' in a 'setting' who speak 'dialogue' encased in 'scenes.' Most importantly, you - like the playwright - have an 'audience.'

Nancy Kress

#55. Meaningful rules in the consumer credit market can accelerate economic recovery. Rules would increase consumer confidence and, more importantly, weed out all the tricks and traps that sap families of billions of dollars annually.

Elizabeth Warren

#56. Competitive Skaters must be prepared for a lot of work, challenges, self-discipline, and motivation. The desire must be there, but more importantly, your love for the sport.

Oksana Baiul

#57. I don't regard the fact that there's a disparity in test scores nearly as importantly as I do the need for diversity, because I know from long experience that test scores, though useful, are a very limited measure of things that matter in choosing students.

Derek Bok

#58. Just real. I want to have the freedom to do whatever I want. And more importantly, I want to have the freedom to bring everyone else along with me.

Paul Walker

#59. Traditionally, an engineer is responsible for capturing sound - microphone choice, gear, etc. A producer can have a number of different responsibilities - anything from songwriting to judging performances - setting mood, and (perhaps most importantly) choosing which songs to work on!

Matt Squire

#60. The gun dealer is not only paying these two police officers, but more importantly, the gun dealer has said he will never again sell more than one gun to a customer. This is exactly what we're trying to get the gun industry across the country to do.

Michael D. Barnes

#61. It's my job to get us in good plays, or more importantly, out of bad plays. That's what I did.

Drew Brees

#62. I take very seriously the notion that you have to get out in your community; you have to talk to people, but, more importantly, you have to listen to people.

Gary Peters

#63. Happiness is a very personal feeling, and it's nobody's right to declare what it means to you. And most importantly, happiness is impossible if you're not willing to chase it.

Cara Alwill Leyba

#64. I love radio - its immediacy and especially its intimacy ... it is part of your life, whispering into your ear. You can't see it, but equally importantly it can't see you.

Malcolm Turnbull

#65. Charity should be self-sustainable. That is, it should create more wealth rather than perpetuating the cycle of poverty and dependence. In this sense, the best form of charity would be providing quality education for children and more importantly, building a good character in them.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#66. Everyone has the right to live in a great place. More importantly, everyone has the right to contribute to making the place where they already live great.

Fred Kent

#67. One principle problem of educating software engineers is that they will not use a new method until they believe it works and, more importantly, that they will not believe the method will work until they see it for themselves.

Watts Humphrey

#68. One thing I've learned is be comfortable in your skin, and more importantly, be comfortable in your shoes.

Octavia Spencer

#69. What would answers offer and
more importantly
what might they take away?

Laura Kelly

#70. I trust you with my life. I'm pretty sure I love you. But more importantly, I like you.

Lynsay Sands

#71. Anna wrote to her father that she found her new land "a barbarous country where the houses are gloomy, the churches ugly, and the customs revolting." Paris under Henry I was clearly not Constantinople, but more importantly, in Anna's eyes, it did not rank even with Kyiv.

Serhii Plokhy

#72. Custom is a shroud that conceals everything. Not without first encountering the uncustomary will we be able to recognize what is customary and, more importantly, to change it. Such is the impulse behind our conversation with the vampryoteuthis

Vilem Flusser

#73. It is easy to say, but there is no way I could personally address every single problem in my nation, they are too many. Oh yea, you cannot fix all problems, but you can fix some problems, more importantly you could bring enlightenment to all others around you

Sunday Adelaja

#74. Relationship networking is about who you know and more importantly, who knows you. Building the right network can open new doors to future success in your business.

Heidi

#75. We run through the remnants of our pain, and more importantly, we run for our present and for our future.
Together we kick heartbreak's ass.

Jessica Park

#76. We are here lounging our time away, doing nothing, and having nothing to do. It gives me great regret to be passing my time so uselessly when it could have been so importantly employed at home.

Thomas Jefferson

#77. The open road. Seemingly my only friend for years upon end since leaving war. The road embraced me, let me breathe, and more importantly, did not judge me.

M.B. Dallocchio

#78. Most importantly, the epidemic was only news when it was not killing homosexuals. In this sense, AIDS remained a fundamentally gay disease, newsworthy only by the virtue of the fact that it sometimes hit people who weren't gay,

Randy Shilts

#79. But more importantly, know I love you more than I can say with simple words. Poets have attempted for centuries to find the perfect combination, and I don't imagine I shall have more luck than they.

Lissa Bryan

#80. Dreams won't always take you on a straight path to destiny but they're usually related to what your soul wants for you. They'll force you to ask yourself the hard questions, they'll kick your ass and more importantly, they'll turn you on.

Kelly Cutrone

#81. Watch your back, but more importantly when you get out the shower, dry your back. Its a cold world out there.

DJ Khaled

#82. F(r)iction is the best of everything we've ever loved. F(r)iction is experimental. F(r)iction is strange. F(r)iction pokes the soft spots, touches nerves most would rather remain protected. F(r)iction is secrets and truths and most importantly - stories. F(r)iction is weird, in every respect.

Tethered By Letters

#83. Europe is very critical to the United States in the sense not only do we have a fourth of our exports there, but more importantly, a significant proportion of the foreign affiliate profits in fact, half of U.S. corporations, are in Europe.

Alan Greenspan

#84. Dont confuse legibility with communication. Just because something is legible doesnt mean it communicates and, more importantly, doesnt mean it communicates the right thing.

David Carson

#85. If I could just capture each memory in a bottle the maybe you people would understand how much I've suffered, how much I've been through, but most importantly how far I have come.

Tommy Tran

#86. Success depends on managing knowledge in any area and, more importantly, if you are logged on, anywhere and anytime.

Jurgen Salenbacher

#87. My cats are really sassy and sophisticated, but most importantly, they are picky.

Jason Wu

#88. Designing memorable experiences is easier said than done. Most importantly, you need empathy and understanding for your fellow human. It's the love for mankind that ultimately makes UX interesting.

Safari Content Team

#89. I want to bring back the pride and tradition long associated with the Pittsburgh Steelers, and more importantly, with the people of Pittsburgh.

Bill Cowher

#90. I think faster and, maybe more importantly, more efficiently. Not only as the game goes on, but as the season goes on.

Dan Jansen

#91. Of course our most important role as a parent is to have our children know that they are loved and worthy. Even more importantly, it's to help them discover, and fan the flames of whatever it is that they are enthusiastic about!

Steve Karagiannis

#92. I've learned a huge amount because I've been tested and, more importantly, I've been trusted.

Pete Townshend

#93. But most importantly, we can all be donors. It does not matter how old you are, your race, where you live; all of us can give the gift of life.

Jay Inslee

#94. Since the tragedies, the Department of Homeland Security was established to prevent terrorist attacks within the United States, and most importantly, to share intelligence information among government agencies and departments.

Randy Forbes

#95. We need to be a leadership position about protecting minors on the Internet and, more importantly, giving the parents the tools they need to protect them.

Peter Chernin

#96. We authors, who trade in fictions for a living, are a continuum of all that we have seen and heard, and most importantly, all that we have read.

Neil Gaiman

#97. Romeo was cute ... "
"Cute?" Alessandro rolled his eyes. "What kind of man is cute?"
" ... and an excellent dancer ... "
"Romeo had feet of lead! He said so himself!"
" ... but most importantly," I concluded, "he had nice hands!

Anne Fortier

#98. People with high self esteem are risk takers, but more importantly, they are achievers.

Rick Pitino

#99. Life with through punches at you and sometimes knock you down. Learn to take the hit ,but more importantly learn to get back up and keep punching every single day!

Jerry Gladstone

#100. No matter who we are or what we look like or what we may believe, it is both possible and, more importantly, it becomes powerful to come together in common purpose and common effort.

Oprah Winfrey