Top 100 Not As Important Quotes
#1. How much you achieve in Life is not as important as how much you enjoy each moment of Life. -RVM
R.v.m.
#2. In matters of climbing long staircases, how many stairs there are is not as important as how strong a will you have!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#3. Acting was important, but it was not as important as getting an education, and I credit my parents with a lot of that.
Alexander Gould
#5. Whether a watercolor is inferior to an oil [painting], or whether a drawing, an etching, or a photograph is not as important as either, is inconsequent. To have to despise something in order to respect something else is a sign of impotence.
Paul Strand
#6. Because I believe actually the more you do something, the less frightening it becomes because you start to realize the outcome is not as important as you think.
Hugh Jackman
#7. Face, to me, is a metaphor of sadness. And I want to share this sadness. I'm not really interested whether it's an Indian face or not - that's not as important for me. But it's still important to establish the relationships in order to bring about a consciousness of our fragility.
Luis Gonzalez
#8. I have a great career, and I have my daughter. Sio what I don't have is not as important to as what I do have.
Padma Lakshmi
#9. Let's set the record straight. Money is important! To say that it's not as important as any other things in life is ludicrous. What's more important, your arm or your leg? Could it be that both are important?
T. Harv Eker
#10. What is said is not as important as what [you] hear and what [you] feel.
Robert D. Hales
#11. I don't work all the time. That's why I waited to have children until I was ready for that. I try to organise my time according to them because they need me. I don't want to put my work first anymore because it's not as important as my children.
Monica Bellucci
#12. Yet in our enthusiasm for the idea that everyone should be able to read and write fluently, we may be missing a crucial point: in today's culture, finely honed literacy skills are simply not as important as they once were.
Hugh Mackay
#13. What happens outwardly in your life is not as important as what happens inside you. Your circumstances are temporary, but your character will last forever.
Rick Warren
#15. I wouldn't overestimate the importance of my popularity in the country and abroad but at the end of the day it's not as important because I believe that my presence here could make some difference and it could encourage people.
Garry Kasparov
#16. The abuse of political power is not as important as the loss of lives. Plus there is a process for curing the abuse of institutions.
Babatunde Fashola
#17. Whatever opens us is not as important as what it opens.
Mark Nepo
#18. When He returns is not as important as the fact that we are ready for Him when He does return.
A.W. Tozer
#19. What I do quite honestly and seriously and not in any way being humble is not as important as what the garbage collector does. People make actors important.
James Caan
#20. What you do is not as important as how you do it.
Tony Dungy
#21. What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.
Ellen Glasgow
#22. Great beginnings are not as important as the way one finishes.
James Dobson
#23. There is still the feeling that women's writing is a lesser class of writing, that what goes on in the nursery or the bedroom is not as important as what goes on in the battlefield, that what women know about is a less category of knowledge.
Erica Jong
#24. I'm not stupid, I realise selling it is not as important as it used to be that way, I think it's more important to get your music out there and if people want to hear it an mp3 form or whatever I'm fine with that, I just don't enjoy the sound of it at home for personal taste.
Butch Walker
#25. When you get cancer, it's like really time to look at what your life was and is, and I decided that everything I've done so far is not as important as what I'm going to do now.
Herbie Mann
#26. It's not as important what a woman is as what she's becoming
Linda Dillow
#27. I've been living out loud the Henry David Thoreau saying: "What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals." The quest of the Cuba
Diana Nyad
#28. Love and kindness are the basis of my religious beliefs. The rituals and outward signs are not as important as one's actions and deeds. Religion should be a path to God, not something to fight about.
Bernie Siegel
#29. The messenger is not as important as the message.
Frank Iero
#30. Whatever right the Second Amendment protects is not as important as it was 200 years ago ... The government should deconstitutionalize the subject by repealing the embarrasing Amendment.
George Will
#31. No matter what you are physically, male or female , strong or weak, sick or healthy , everything is not as important as what you have in the heart . If you have the soul of a warrior, you are a warrior . All those other things are just the glass of the lamp , but you're the light shining inside.
Cassandra Clare
#33. The trimmings of wealth are not as important to me and my generation as they were to my parents' generation.
Ian Schrager
#34. My priority is cricket. Everything that I get apart from it is a result of the effort on the field. Everything else follows. I am pretty aware of my priorities, and I don't really focus on things that are not as important to me as cricket.
Virat Kohli
#35. Who creates a thing is not as important as what the thing is. Who created baseball? Who created basketball? Who created the space program? Who created - we could go on and on. We could argue about who created something. We all are participants in it.
Wynton Marsalis
#36. What happens to us is not as important as the meaning we assign to it. Journaling helps sort this out.
Michael Hyatt
#37. You have to understand, in this fight, the physical condition and technical preparation are not as important as character and will. The one who's willing to go until the end will win the match.
Ruslan Provodnikov
#38. It is a grave disservice to the heart, soul, body and spirit of a woman when she is given the subtle message that the truth of her own pain is not as important as the reputation of the ones who inflict it.
Hillary McFarland
#39. I'm not being disrespectful of the medium; it's just not as important as the work that I actually do [books].
Alice Walker
#40. I might not be a psychiatrist, but I am convinced that sex is not as important as we tend to make it. First there is that little feeling, that little red flame, called love. Blow on the flame and make it get bigger like a fire, don't blow it out like a candle.
Xaviera Hollander
#41. You must play for the love of music. Perfect technique is not as important as making music from the heart.
Mstislav Rostropovich
#42. My passion is becoming involved in good work, whether that means as an actor or writer or director or producer or all - that is not as important to me.
Bryan Cranston
#43. RVM Thoughts for today
How much you achieve in life is not as important as how much you enjoy each moment of Life.
R.v.m.
#44. I like to be with my children - not just quality time, but quantity time. I like to be there in the morning when they're waking up. I like to practice piano with them. I like to be there at supper. I need them as much as they need me. Working is not as important to me as being a mother is.
Jane Kaczmarek
#45. We are not as important to most people as we are to ourselves. As a matter of fact, we are - to most people - not important at all.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#46. About 1990 there was a huge shakeup in the music industry and the 6 major record companies fired all the music people and hired business graduates to take over the spots. So the music became not as important. What really became important was the bottom line, how much money you could make.
Geoff Tate
#47. For me, personally, getting a podium is not as important as feeling super comfortable on my skiing.
Julia Mancuso
#48. What is objectively true about your situation is not as important as how you come to see the situation, how you choose to measure it and value it.
Mark Manson
#49. Sometimes the path you're on is not as important as the direction you're heading.
Kevin Smith
#50. I realized the preserving a relationship at all costs was not as important as affirming the human right to be free from abusive treatment.
Rebecca Ann Parker
#51. But by this time I was acutely conscious of the gap between law and justice. I knew that the letter of the law was not as important as who held the power in any real-life situation.
Howard Zinn
#52. 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
#53. Your body is a vessel for your experience, and you will be trapped until you realize that what the vessel looks like is not as important as what it can do.
Brianna Wiest
#54. Everything started coming into my head, ... I was the youngest world champ and now I'm the oldest world champ; it's been seven years since I won my last title and this is my seventh one ... but all those numbers and things are not as important as the feeling.
Kelly Slater
#55. What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Henry David Thoreau
#56. We like to think that the fate of the Earth and the fate of human worlds are the same thing, but we're not as important as that.
Paul Kingsnorth
#57. Taking a job for the cash is not as important as taking a job for the joy.
Simon Sinek
#58. 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
#59. Every parent will leave a personal legacy (though not all parents will leave behind an inheritance). what i give to my children or what i do for my children is not as important as what i leave in them.
Reggie Joiner
#60. Where you start is not as important as where you finish.
Zig Ziglar
#61. Love is not as important as good health. You cannot be in love if you're not healthy. You can't appreciate it.
Bryan Cranston
#62. He knows that in leadership cleverness is not as important as content, that charisma and dash are not as vital as character and doctrine.
Neal A. Maxwell
#63. As I feel this life growing and moving inside of me, all of a sudden everything else is not as important. There's a level of perspective that is changing.
Judy Reyes
#64. What we are waiting for is not as important as what happens to us while we are waiting. Trust the process.
Mandy Hale
#65. Counting time is not as important as making time count.
Jimmy Walker
#66. It is not as important how we start (our past), but how we finish.
Joyce Meyer
#67. We all say data is the next white oil. [Owning the oil field is not as important as owning the refinery because what will make the big money is in refining the oil. Same goes with data, and making sure you extract the real value out of the data.]
Maurice Levy
#68. Your past is not as important as your future. Did you know that? Can't change anything about what you've been, but you can change who you'll become.
Siri Mitchell
#69. Why life is so dark sometimes we do not know, but we do know this: what happens is not as important as what we do with what happens.
Marvin J. Besteman
#70. The truth of some promises is not as important as whether or not you can believe in them, with all your heart.
Michael Chabon
#71. It's not really important to make skillful movies. I think expressing yourself really well, skill-wise, is not as important. I want it to be sort of raw and rough but new and fun to watch.
Takashi Miike
#72. Plays are not as important as players, and players are not as important as teammates
Don Meyer
#73. The will to survive is not as important as the will to prevail ... the answer to criminal aggression is retaliation.
Jeff Cooper
#74. What others think of you is not as important as what you think of yourself.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#75. The enemy of the moment is not as important as our own inner weakness. If this is not mended we are already defeated, though no foreign conqueror stands within our walls.
Roger Zelazny
#76. Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.
Norman Vincent Peale
#77. Maybe it's not as important to you as it was for me, but that's not for you to decide.
Jay Asher
#78. The universe is one of continual creation, so therefore we too are continually creating. The form of our creativity is not as important the loving essence within a given form, because that love is the foundation of our creative expression itself, eternal and indestructible.
Joseph Curiale
#79. History teaches that the level of unemployment is not as important as whether the rate's going down.
Austan Goolsbee
#80. For it is not merely the trivial which clutters our lives but the important as well
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
#81. It's important to avoid mirrors if one is unprepared to accept their daily news, and I think, in something as insignificantly devastating as appearance, denial is more socially constructive than despondency. Not that there's anything especially wrong with me
just the usual.
Rivka Galchen
#82. Economists who have studied the relationship between education and economic growth confirm what common sense suggests: The number of college degrees is not nearly as important as how well students develop cognitive skills, such as critical thinking and problem-solving ability.
Derek Bok
#83. It's going to be very important that we as women's rights advocates are involved in redistricting of both the states legislatures and of the House of Representatives and that we not lose seats but we gain seats for talented women and our country, but we're lacking behind.
Eleanor Smeal
#84. She goes through this world as of nothing touches her, as if no one can reach her, as though she's focused on something bigger and better and more important that she's not going to tell you a single thing about. It charms them.
Holly Black
#86. Where you have been is not nearly as important as where you are and where you're going.
Marvin J. Ashton
#87. You saw this as a travesty because, by marrying Mara, I was taking an important icon from you. But this is about starting a new life, not ending an old one.
Michael A. Stackpole
#88. I have been sitting around waiting for an opportunity to get to do something that matters for so long. Not just that matters in the world, which I think that season, in particular, had a very important meaning for a lot of people, but for me, as an actress.
Sarah Paulson
#89. It is not half so important to know as to feel.
Rachel Carson
#90. I have problems with the violence and the torture on '24.' What I'm trying to say is that that's not the only story, and I think that the cognitive complexity is as important.
Steven Johnson
#91. The deepest need of men is not food and clothing and shelter, important as they are. It is God.
Thomas R. Kelly
#92. His hands framed her face again, his amber eyes alive with love, with tenderness. "I want to make a vow to you. I'll love you with everything in me. I'll bring you as much happiness as I can give you. But I cannot allow your death, not at my hands. You're more important than I am.
Christine Feehan
#93. Many people open their mind through different things like music and painting, as well as Parkour. How is not important. What is important is to open your mind because you gain some freedom through it.
David Belle
#94. It is very important to embrace failure and to do a lot of stuff - as much stuff as possible - with as little fear as possible. It's much, much better to wind up with a lot of crap having tried it than to overthink in the beginning and not do it.
Stefan Sagmeister
#95. My name is Hazel. I started out as an idea, but I ended up something more. Not much more, to be honest. It's not like I grow up to become some great war hero or any sort of all important savior... but thanks to these two, at least I get to grow old.
Not everybody does.
Brian K. Vaughan
#96. I think that's really important, that kids get exposed to music as soon as they can - not necessarily to become musicians, but at least have an outlet. It's an art form that's easily accessible to young ears.
Joe Perry
#97. I don't care if the average guy on the street really knows what I'm like, as long as he knows I'm not really a mean, vicious guy. My friends and family know what I'm really like. That's what's important.
Don Rickles
#98. Doctrinal rightness and rightness of ecclesiastical position are important, but only as a starting point to go on into a living relationship - and not as ends in themselves.
Francis Schaeffer
#99. Taking care of your thoughts is at least as important as taking care of your body - if not even more important.
Felix Brocker
#100. I find that when you lead with vision and values, engaging employees and showing them that values are just as important as profits, everyone comes on board. And not only do they come on board, but they connect to their own individual creativity.
Shari Arison
