Knowing What Is Important Quotes

#1. Effective leadership is doing important things first. Effective management is knowing what is important.

Debasish Mridha

#2. I'm not sure that it's up to me to sum up what I've done with it in the past. I'm not sure there's a way of knowing what we have done that is useful or important.

Gloria Steinem

#3. Knowing the why is vastly more important than knowing the how.

Debasish Mridha

#4. What is most important subject you have to learn in life? To learn how to love. This is the challenge that life offers you: to learn bow to love. Not just to accumulate information without knowing what to do with it. But through that love, let that information bear fruit.

Pope Francis

#5. I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

Lucille Ball

#6. Knowing what to leave out is just as important as knowing what to focus on.

Warren Buffett

#7. Learning how to recognize and act on your Inner Knowing is the greatest tool for discovering what's important now by living in the present.

John Kuypers

#8. You can never know everything. Part of what you know is always wrong. Perhaps the most important part. A portion of wisdom lies in knowing that. A portion of knowledge lies in going on anyway.

Robert Jordan

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

Debasish Mridha

#10. The answers aren't important really ... What's important is- knowing all the questions.

Zilpha Keatley Snyder

#11. What is important is not the quantity of your knowledge but its quality. You can know many things without knowing the most important.

Leo Tolstoy

#12. One of the important things about being a small-town reporter is knowing what not to put in the paper.

Terry Pratchett

#13. Always try clothes on before you buy them. Stand, sit, walk and inspect yourself from all angles before you buy it so you don't regret it later. Knowing what it looks like on you is very important, as your body shape must suit the cut of the outfit.

Tena Desae

#14. The identity of the Antichrist is, of course, less important than the fact that there is an Antichrist. No one cares much what the Antichrist says or does, but they feel better knowing he's around. In this way, he is much like the pope or the United Nations.

Robert Kroese

#15. She had discovered early that what we want out of life can change; that the important thing is to learn to recognize or even simply just to admit what we really want, and then to have the courage to reach for it.

Candice Proctor

#16. Conjurer: Oh, I don't mind anyone knowing everything, Miss Carleon. There is something that is much more important than knowing how a thing is done.
Morris: And what's that?
Conjurer: Knowing how to do it.

G.K. Chesterton

#17. Sometimes it's more important to seize the chance and do what you can even knowing that it won't likely account for everything, that it is to do nothing.

Terry Goodkind

#18. Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.

A. C. Benson

#19. Knowledge is not the same as morality, but we need to understand if we are to avoid past mistakes and move in productive directions. An important part of that understanding is knowing who we are and what we can do ... Ultimately, we must synthesize our understandings for ourselves.

Howard Gardner

#20. No director directs 'Game of Thrones' without reading all the episodes and knowing what's going on. All the episodes are written in advance, so you can do that, which is an important point.

Alex Graves

#21. Never expect that your startup can cover every aspect of the market. The key is knowing what segment will respond to your unique offering. Who your product appeals to is just as important as the product itself.

Jay Samit

#22. Knowing what doesn't make you happy is equally important as knowing what does!

T. Anderson

#23. Knowing what is big and what is small is more important than being able to solve partial differential equations.

Stanislaw Ulam

#24. I think teaching keeps me honest because if I'm up in front of a class talking about what I think is important about fiction while knowing I myself have just failed to do that hours earlier at my computer - it's a good and humbling reminder.

Aimee Bender

#25. I don't know you very well, and i'm almost afraid to know you better. Maybe i love you because i don't know you. Maybe if i knew what you were really like and what you wanted out of life and what you think is important, I wouldn't care for you at all and that would be the end of this.

Elliot Mabeuse

#26. Change is both exciting and scary. Learning new skills is the same. Having an idea of what to expect emotionally is as important as knowing what to expect from both real and imagined limitations.

Melinda West Seifert

#27. I only ask to go where the Lord would have me go, and only to receive what the Lord would have me receive, knowing that more important than sight is the witness that one may have by the witness of the Holy Ghost to his soul that things are so and that Jesus is the Christ, a living personage.

Harold B. Lee

#28. Knowing whose advice to take and on what topic is the single most important decision an entrepreneur can make.

Vinod Khosla

#29. One of Job's great strengths was knowing how to focus. " Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do, " he said. " That's true for companies, and it's true for products.

Walter Isaacson

#30. Knowing the strike zone is very important, but I think the first thing is knowing yourself, knowing what things you do well.

Tony Gwynn

#31. Knowing that what you are doing is the most important thing for you to be doing at that moment is surprisingly powerful.

Daniel J. Levitin

#32. Knowing the songs - and I'm still learning - lets one envision birds you can hear but can't see. And as always, the ability to envision what is just out of sight is more important than merely seeing what's right in front of you.

Carl Safina

#33. That isn't about money, fame, or power. It's about will, dedication, commitment, and knowing your self-worth. You can be poor as dirt and have those traits. Money can't buy you values. You just need to know what is important to you and then feel secure in your pursuit to achieve that.

Jennifer Hudson

#34. We all know our dates of birth but ... every year there is another date that we pass over without knowing what it is but it is just as important it is the other date the death date.

Ali Smith

#35. The single most important tool to being in balance is knowing that you and you alone are responsible for the imbalance between what you dream your life is meant to be, and the daily habits that drain life from that dream.

Wayne Dyer

#36. Science is not an intelligence test. Intuition is important, knowing what kind of questions to ask. The other thing is a passion for getting to the core of the problem.

Torsten Wiesel

#37. Knowing "why" (an idea) is more important than learning "what" (the fact).

James D. Watson

#38. I think guys overtrain and they burn out. And also just knowing what your body needs. Again, I think rest is really important.

Andre Reed

#39. You can try to control people, or you can try to have a system that represents reality. I find that knowing what's really happening is more important than trying to control people.

Larry Page

#40. Leadership is knowing what to do next, knowing why that's important, and knowing how to bring the appropriate resources to bear on the need at hand.

Bobb Biehl

#41. Hiding what you know is sometimes as important as knowing it ...

Charles Duhigg

#42. In every single job, in every single business, in every single profession - in whatever you do - there can be the satisfaction and the happiness that comes from knowing that what you do is important, that what you do makes a difference in the lives of the people you serve.

Wayne D. Dosick

#43. So what is true for life itself is no less true for the universe: knowing where you came from is no less important than knowing where you are going.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#44. You can never know everything, and part of what you know is always wrong. Perhaps even the most important part. A portion of wisdom lies in knowing that. A portion of courage lies in going on anyway.

Robert Jordan

#45. The second most important attribute of winners, after understanding the human dimension, is knowing what questions to ask, the rhetorical nature.

Frank Luntz