Top 100 More Important Things Quotes
#1. While a lab Director can get done the things that he regards as important, he has the more important job of bringing out the best ideas of the broader scientific community.
Burton Richter
#2. One realized all sorts of things. The value of an illusion, for instance, and that the shadow can be more important than the substance. All sorts of things.
Jean Rhys
#3. I was aggressively nonpolitical. I believed that people who make a fuss about politics do so because their heads are too empty to think about more important things. So I felt nothing but impatient contempt for Osborne's Jimmy Porter and the rest of the heroes of social protest.
Colin Wilson
#4. These then are some of my first memories. But of course as an account of my life they are misleading, because the things one does not remember are as important; perhaps they are more important.
Virginia Woolf
#5. Strong faith is more important than high intelligence. Moral force is the only force that can accomplish great things in the world,
Lucas Delattre
#6. I learned from a very young age that if I persued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness.
Brandon Boyd
#7. There are few things it is more important to learn than how to live on little and be therewith content: for the less we need what is without, the more leisure have we to live within.
John Lancaster Spalding
#8. I grew up in kind of the last generation of Canadians who thought things that were happening in Britain were more important, almost, than what was happening in Canada. And my mother was fervently of that opinion.
Robert MacNeil
#9. Once you feel like you can safely quit a melody, you are free to explore more important things.
Dan Bejar
#10. Earlier, looking lighter or slimmer never mattered to me. Frankly, I didn't care. I had more important things to do. But when I figured that it's not that hard, and I have the time, passion and patience to take it up, I jumped onto the health-wagon. I started working out.
Kajol
#11. We were taught that things like grades, being good enough, money, and doing things the right way, are more important than love.
Marianne Williamson
#12. Kids don't even read comic books anymore. They've got more important things to do - like video games.
Ang Lee
#13. There are several things that keep me grounded and focused ... When you can humble yourself to say 'I'm no more important than anyone else. I just have a gift.'
Tim Tebow
#14. Why always repeat the same stories - husband with lover, husband with wife and sick child, husband with wife, lover, and sick child? There were more important things in the world to talk about.
Paulo Coelho
#15. When you go to a country, you must learn how to say two things: how to ask for food, and to tell a woman that you love her. Of these the second is more important, for if you tell a woman you love her, she will certainly feed you.
Louis L'Amour
#16. The more I got into presenting things to the world, the further it was taking me away from what I was, which was someone who just used to sit quietly at a piano and sing and play. It became very important to me not to lose sight of that.
Kate Bush
#17. It is a different world than when I was growing up, and you started to just kind of maintain at thirty-five and just hope you can hope it together. People are a lot more vital than I am and doing all kinds of things and leading really important movements.
Susan Sarandon
#18. A lover was affectionate and a husband was authoritative. His work was always way more important than his family. His work and his needs were to be accepted as uppermost in every way. She could take leave from her work for one day to take her child to the carnival but he could not.
Anuradha Bhattacharyya
#19. My mother keeps things in perspective for me. She makes me realize that the acting I do and love is no more important than what one of my brothers does-he works in a shoe repair shop. If my career ever tapers off, I'll go to college.
Dana Hill
#20. It seems cruel," she said, "that after a while nothing matters ... any more than these little things that used to be necessary and important to forgotten people, and now have to be guessed at under a magnifying glass and labelled: 'Use unknown.'"
"Yes, but meanwhile -"
"Ah, meanwhile -
Edith Wharton
#21. To each his own, I supposed, and I had more important things, like my impending death, to worry about.
Sage Kafsky
#22. Lord, I feel so small sometimes in this great big old world.
Yeah, I know there are more important things.
But don't forget to remember me.
Carrie Underwood
#23. So I accept these awards on behalf of the cake bakers and all of those other women who can do some things quite as important, if not more important, than flying, as well as in the name of women flying today.
Amelia Earhart
#24. Try to think about more important things,' he said. 'Think about your soul, your character. Think about the freezer. It's a solid block of ice. It needs defrosting. There might a steak in there. Concentrate on things like that. There could be a meal in it.
Jonathan Ames
#25. You're probably better at math than I am, because pretty much everyone's better at math than I am, but it's okay, I'm fine with it. See, I excel at other, more important things - guitar, sex, and consistently disappointing my dad, to name a few.
Jennifer Niven
#26. Don't forget the small things, above all, don't forget the small things - the smaller the trace, the more important it sometimes is.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#27. What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in.
Simone De Beauvoir
#28. I always wear the same thing at home. I can't be bothered with jewelry. My pants have elastic waists. I like to be comfortable. There are so many more important things to worry about.
Barbra Streisand
#29. Sometimes your instincts were wrong. Your body wants you to survive but sometimes there are more important things than just surviving.
Karina Halle
#30. I knew it was going to be important that if I had an audience understand who she was, then all those things had to come from a place that was grounded, as opposed to being tics and manners and twitches. I didn't think it was going to be as rich, perhaps, as if I was going to make it more emotional.
Kate Winslet
#31. Record things in your heart. It's more important than trying to show people what you're experiencing.
Paulo Coelho
#32. For me, the family is more important, of course! I don't want to change my family, or situation, for work. But I think it is possible for these things not to fight each other.
Paz Vega
#33. There are some things more important than your own life. Like friendship, and love, and trust, and goodness.
David Estes
#34. I've always felt that anyone who wants to talk about my private life is only demonstrating the paucity of his/her imagination when there are so many more important and exciting things to discuss.
David Gerrold
#35. The audience I'm targeting doesn't care about the language spoken in the films they watch. They're interested in more important things like story, performance, cinematography etc.
Chika Anadu
#36. When displaying the riches of God's love and pleasing him is more important than holding onto worldly things and pleasing yourself, it becomes increasingly natural to respond to conflict graciously, wisely, and with self-control.
Ken Sande
#37. Getting your letters or pictures digitized. I don't think it's that important. The more you spend on your materials, you're given the sense that those things are more important due to the total amount spent. You'd probably be better off giving that money to a soup kitchen.
Ian MacKaye
#38. More important than efficiency is effectiveness - getting the right things done. In other words, productivity is not first about getting more things done faster. It's about getting the right things done.
Matt Perman
#39. Through my grandmother's eyes, I can see more clearly the way things used to be, the way things ought to be, and most important of all, the way things really are.
Ed Cunningham
#40. One of the hardest things to teach a child is that the truth is more important than the consequences.
Orlando Aloysius Battista
#41. It's a different point of view on the world and it's different issues and it's important. It's healthy to have both, and more and more women are becoming of aware of that. And when you are aware of how strong of an impact it has on people - it changes things.
Nadine Labaki
#42. The real direction of your vision is as important as your vision. Notwithstanding how large the goal post might be, the power behind your shots least matter as its direction, for it is more of the direction that will determine the goals you shall score and the final score in the end
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#43. I am artistic so I reserve the right to change my mind at any point. I just like to do different things. What is more important than the name is that people know that I really like acting, I enjoy it and I want people to know that I am serious.
LL Cool J
#44. The older I get, the more things change as to what is important.
Tony Gonzalez
#45. The things you spend so much time on
all this work you do
might not seem as important. You might have to make room for some more spiritual things.
Mitch Albom
#46. {Lucy} knew other things too, more important non-school things. She knew that when grown-ups lowered their voices it meant you had to listen harder.
Jodi Picoult
#47. You learn to exploit genre for the more important things - to my mind - like story, character, image, language.
Julianna Baggott
#48. I'm not being condescending, I'm too busy thinking about far more important things you wouldn't understand.
Jimmy Carr
#49. My books promised me that life wasn't just made up of workday tasks and prosaic things. The world is bigger and more colorful and more important than that.
Laura Amy Schlitz
#50. Many of us spend more time on the C's of life than on the A's of life. Don't allow trivial things to crowd out the important ones.
Douglas Merrill
#51. The truth is more important to me than anything - my personal wealth or health or any of these things. I think that it's not so difficult for me to say what I'm saying.
Harry Lennix
#52. Books! Cleverness! There are more important things--friendship, bravery.
J.K. Rowling
#53. I think that driving is the least important issue. We as women have a lot more things to tackle before we get to the issue of driving, such as the opportunity to work in any field we choose.
Lubna Olayan
#54. Not this again," I moaned. "Jonathon, there are more important things in this world than me."
He looked thoughtful. "You're right," he said and I thought I might finally be getting through to him. He continued, "Chocolate gelato," he grinned.
Micalea Smeltzer
#55. In my writing I'm trying to explore the violations people commit upon each other. And the important thing isn't whether I'm angry. The more important thing is, is it true? Do these things really happen?
Jamaica Kincaid
#56. I've always been able to decide what was more important at different points in my life, but I never gave up personal things to work, never.
Catherine Deneuve
#57. Heather: In any case, it really is very kind of you to give up so much time for the children. I'm quite sure you have a thousand more important things to attend to. Sergeant Kynper: If not for them, then who the hell is it all for?
Robert Radcliffe
#58. For God's sake, girl, there are more important things on our plates than your sex life." Like mine, I silently added sheepishly.
D.T. Dyllin
#59. But it's much more exciting to make Die Hard. One of the reasons that I think that movie is so successful is it deals with those very important blue-collar relationship themes. But it's more visually beautiful to show things blowing up. It just gives you more on the screen.
Penn Jillette
#60. Thanks to my father who, as it was to turn out, had already taught me most of what I needed to know about business in his butcher's shop in Belfast. Thanks to my mother, who taught me that there are many things in life much more important than business.
Russell Napier
#61. There are much more important things than a man going to the gym. Of course they have to take care of themselves on a certain level, but it's not essential. I think men do it more to impress other men.
Stephanie Sigman
#62. There are few things in life harder to find and more important to keep than love. Well, love and a birth certificate.
Barack Obama
#63. Those things for which the most money is demanded are never the things which the student most wants. Tuition, for instance, is an important item in the term bill, while for the far more valuable education which he gets by associating with the most cultivated of his contemporaries no charge is made.
Henry David Thoreau
#64. Few things are more important to each individual's future success or to our nation's prosperity than education.
Mark Kennedy
#65. No matter how wonderful things used to be, we cannot live in the past. The joy and excitement we feel here and now are more important.
Marie Kondo
#66. God is God and He lets things happen and that's all there is to it. But He has reasons, and His reasons for something happening would be more important than a man's reason for questioning whatever it might
Elmore Leonard
#67. That was the difference, he had always known, between his faith and theirs, the political leaders of the people who cared only for things like the state, the republic: this child was more important than a whole continent.
Graham Greene
#68. Genes are not destiny. They may define some of your physical features and give you a tiny head start on some things, but your lifestyle, your beliefs, and your hard work are much more important.
Jamie Le Fay
#69. Every evening, write down the six most important things that you must do the next day. Then while you sleep your subconscious will work on the best ways for you to accomplish them. Your next day will go much more smoothly.
Tom Hopkins
#70. Avoiding things that drain you is more important than gaining energy.
Frederick Lenz
#71. After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.
Helen Gurley Brown
#72. Ben [Peeler] and I have known each other for a decade. He trusts my crazy ideas and spontaneous combustion and he gets the players I want and knows the kind of personality players I like. He has taste that I trust and that to me is more important than any technical things.
Shelby Lynne
#73. Healthy foods are great, but it's important to keep your body active. Your muscles only get stronger and build more endurance for everyday things if you're moving and get the blood pumping. Exercising stimulates certain brain chemicals and can put you in a better mood!
Jenna Ushkowitz
#74. Don't you think it would be better to legalize victimless crimes like drugs & prostitution & divert the resources to more important things like the rapes & assaults & things like that?
Larry King
#75. It is much more important to be oneself than anything else. Do not dream of influencing other people ... Think of things in themselves.
Virginia Woolf
#76. Substantial proportions of the population did not see health as the most important thing in life - and these were more likely to be people with more, rather than less, education.
Mildred Blaxter
#77. The keyboard is my whole life. My life is centered around either sitting at my keyboard or driving my car. Those are the two most important things, more than anything else. Being at my keyboard, it's the happiest time for me.
Brian Wilson
#78. Levels are just numbers. In this world, strength is just an illusion. There are more important things -Kirito
Reki Kawahara
#79. Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.
Sarah Caldwell
#80. See, because being Coll is obviously the most important thing on earth. It's more important than getting a job, or having a girlfriend, or political power, or money, because all those things are predicated by Coolness. They happen because of it. They depend on it.
Ned Vizzini
#81. Working your core always, your foot speed, jumping rope, push-ups and sit-ups - things like that are really important. Those things will pay off more than just doing what a bench press will.
Mark Sanchez
#82. The more articulate somebody is, the more suspicious I am of them. I like to feel that the important things remain unsaid.
Daniel Day-Lewis
#83. I would think a sense of the absurd is more important for a political cartoonist, because that could define things like a sense of hypocrisy or a sense of the things one has to be skeptical about.
Jonathan Shapiro
#84. There are more important things to focus on in life than how you look.
Arden Cho
#86. It seems the older people get, the more shit they ignore. Or, like Dad, they pay attention to stuff that distracts them from the more important things that they're ignoring.
A.S. King
#87. You look at things you enjoy in your life, but much more important is what you can do to make the world a better place.
Paul Allen
#88. My parents joined in the 60s and at that time it was really important - there was a group mentality. I could be pulling this out of my ass, but I feel our generation approaches things on a more individual basis, like we're more personal and don't need to be a part of a group.
Taraka Larson
#89. 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
#90. Sometimes all we have to do is to trust. Let go of things is an easy job but to stay with a strong heart full of trust is even much more important then all .
Arfa Zainab
#91. I'm not promoting myself as the next great American driver, as some people are describing me. If that's what people want to call me, fine. But I've got more important things to focus on.
Buddy Rice
#92. What would we be without the fans? They're more important than me, because they make our sport great; they make things happen. We put on the show, but if people don't react to it, we are nothing. So, the fans, basically we should roll out the red carpet for them.
Jens Voigt
#93. But some memories are more important than others,' she says. 'Because some memories belong to more than just one other person...Some memories tell us about who we are. They need to be kept safe so that things can change for all of us
Anna Smaill
#94. argues that it's our feeling of being in control more than the actual degree of control that's important to us. This is good news, in a way; lots of things can help us feel in control.
Anonymous
#95. It is not what you say, but how you say, that's important. 99% Fat Free product seems more healthy than a product with 1% Fat.
Manoj Arora
#96. I don't even know - for me, it's difficult to decide which is more important - the things or the thoughts. It seems to me that certain things came up more or less naturally.
Sergio Chejfec
#97. The thing to do with money is to put it back into yourself, into your work, into the thing that is important, into whatever you are so much interested in that it is more important than money.
Henry Ford
#98. You can learn more from the lows than the highs. The highs are great but the lows make you really look at things in a different way and want to improve. Every player will have both in their careers and I have, but what you get is that experience which is so important to perform at your best.
Wayne Rooney
#99. It's more important to do big things well than to do small things perfectly.
Anonymous
#100. One of the things that always comes up in my writing is the search for freedom, especially in women. I always write about women who are marginalized, who have no means or resources and somehow manage to get out of those situations with incredible strength - and that is more important than anything.
Isabel Allende
