Top 100 Quotes About Important Things
#1. All parties attempt to represent important things that have developed outside themselves as unimportant, and where they fail in this they assail those things all the more bitterly the more admirable they are.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#2. Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent and urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things.
Stephen Covey
#3. I have to say that one of the most important things Scientology has given me is the ability to keep my integrity together. I understand how people can get into unethical situations, and Scientology has always helped me keep my head clear and be in present time.
Danny Masterson
#4. Things that we need to learn are the importance of establishing brand, establishing market presence. Technology-wise, it's things like ease of use, user interfaces; all of these things that tend to be less important in our other business segments are important things for us in the consumer market.
Charles Giancarlo
#6. One of the most important things to learn in life and love is that I can be responsible only for what I can control. While I can't control my husband (or anyone else), I can control me.
Linda Dillow
#7. For me, thats one of the important things about cooking. What was good enough yesterday may not be good enough today.
Thomas Keller
#8. Music is my favorite thing in the world. I grew up completely around it and I think it's one of the most important things to me, but at this point I can't see myself doing that professionally. Luckily, for the most part, I don't feel pressured.
Riley Keough
#9. The things we do are the most important things of all. They are more important than what we say or what we look like. The things we do outlast our mortality. The things we do are like monuments that people build to honor heroes after they've died.
R.J. Palacio
#10. The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence.
Robert J. Shiller
#11. The important things are not worth knowing because they are useful. They are worth knowing because they are true.
Andrew Sullivan
#12. I hate wasting time or money and that happens all the time for no good reason, and then people save money by skimping on the important things.
Rick Baker
#13. It's not that I had more important things to do or that I didn't want to help with whatever problems were interfering with her students being successful - rather, it's this horrible truth that life has taught me: misplaced hope is the most devastatingly painful thing you can give someone.
Tucker Elliot
#14. 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
#15. The important things are to train hard, and not give up hope.
Lasse Viren
#16. Most people understand that the important things in life are not things at all - they are the relationships we cherish.
John Paul Warren
#17. Christian joy isn't always laughing, always having a good, hilarious time. Christian joy is the deep, settled peace that comes to live within your heart when you know that the really important things are all right.
David Jeremiah
#18. In some circles where very heavy people think they have very heavy brains, words like "charming" and "clever" and "pretty" are all put-downs; all the lighter things in life, which are the most important things, are put down.
Andy Warhol
#19. The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital ones.
Brandon Sanderson
#20. One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.
Wallace Stevens
#21. I never pay attention to age or gender. There are just too many other more important things to consider.
Martha Stewart
#22. Effective leadership is doing important things first. Effective management is knowing what is important.
Debasish Mridha
#23. Clare's been called a lot of things- smart and funny, driven and talented- but memorable certainly isn't one of them. The most important things about her- the ones she's most proud of- are apparent only once you get to know her.
Jennifer E. Smith
#24. In the sphere of religion, as in other spheres, the things about which men are agreed are apt to be the things that are least worth holding; the really important things are the things about which men will fight.
J. Gresham Machen
#25. The important things were sensitivity to impressions, intuitive judgment, character assessment, and also patient bargaining skills. It had never so much as occurred to him to jump over walls or leap from roof to roof.
Amos Oz
#26. We depict hatred, but it is to depict that there are more important things. We depict a curse, to depict the joy of liberation.
Hayao Miyazaki
#27. One of the most important things a person can learn to do is to make something out of whatever he or she happens to have at the moment.
Fred Rogers
#28. Being halfway through my life, I think we start feeling less invincible and we start thinking more about the important things.
Pamela Anderson
#29. Men were made for war. Without it they wandered greyly about, getting under the feet of the women, who were trying to organize the really important things of life.
Alice Thomas Ellis
#30. The important things that in a campaign we talk about, let us not forget that once the election is over.
Mike Rounds
#31. I've not much interest in the important things of life. Only in the beautiful things. Just this lilac here makes me happy.
Erich Maria Remarque
#32. Don't fool yourself that important things can be put off till tomorrow; they can be put off forever, or not at all
Mignon McLaughlin
#33. Family is everything to me. Family and health are the two most important things to me.
Mehcad Brooks
#34. I suspect anyway that the important things we learn we never remember because they become a part of us, we absorb them ... we don't absorb multiplication tables.
William Alexander Percy
#35. Sometimes, he said, the important things take time, sometimes they don't just happen all at once, sometimes answers come out of time and struggle, and learning. sometimes you just have to try again in a different way.
Lynne Cox
#36. That was the trouble with hiding things. Sometimes, if you were in a hurry, you left them behind. Even important things.
Neil Gaiman
#37. As a rule, people tend to forget the most important things in life when money, power and lust are involved.
Cristiane Serruya
#38. 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
#39. The idea of right and wrong, being righteous, acknowledging when you make a mistake, repentance - all these important things I got from my Catholic background.
Jon Voight
#40. Photography belongs to a fraternity of its own. I was young and enthusiastic and wanted to take good pictures to show the other photographers. That, and the professional pride of convincing an editor that I was the man to go somewhere, were the most important things to me.
Don McCullin
#41. I can't say I'm devastated by the way I'm ignored. I guess I have more important things on my mind. The
Jodi Picoult
#42. Maybe every couple lived in the gaps between conversations, unable to say the important things for fear they had already been said, or couldn't be said; maybe every relationship started over every time two people came together.
Jess Walter
#43. I should hate to be employed and have no time for my needlework and my painting and playing the piano and seeing people. I find I have little enough spare time as it is." "Rubbish, caro, one can find time for important things if one makes an effort." conversation between Georgie and Lucia
Tom Holt
#44. To focus energy on the less important things in life, hinder creating a solution to solve those problems that are of the most importance.
Ellen J. Barrier
#45. The two most important things in my life were academics and sports. I had to do my schoolwork first.
Gabriel Luna
#46. The real important things are kindness and a sense of humor. I've been fortunate to have dated and could have easily married women who have those qualities, and time and circumstances didn't work out. Timing plays a big part.
Hill Harper
#47. The kitchen may not get cleaned, and I have to accept that. I do the important things.
Jasmine Guy
#48. Marxism: The theory that all the important things in history are rooted in an economic motive, that history is a science, a science of the search for food.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#49. For me, one of the most important things I look for in an actor is whether we can converse. Do we have a similar ability to discuss a character?
Jennifer Lynch
#50. The important things that stay are the moments spent listening to people singing, telling stories, enjoying life.
Paulo Coelho
#51. The three most important things for a sportscaster are knowledge of the game, a passion for sports and the profession, and the stamina to struggle.
Lesley Visser
#52. It is so hard and long before a student comes to a realization that these [first] few large simple spots in right relations are the most important things in the study of painting. They are the fundamentals of all painting.
Charles Webster Hawthorne
#53. Few people take objectives really seriously. They put average effort into too many things, rather than superior thought and effort into a few important things. People who achieve the most are selective as well as determined.
Richard Koch
#54. The serious fact is that the bulk of the really important things economics has to teach are things that people would see for themselves if they were willing to see. - Frank Knight, "The Role of Principles in Economics and Politics
Bryan Caplan
#55. Is he well educated?"
"Yes, I think so, as far as he's gone," I answered. "Of course he will go on being educated every day of his life, same as father. He says it is all rot about 'finishing' your education. You never do. You learn more important things each day ...
Gene Stratton-Porter
#56. As simple as it sounds, I think understanding who you are - and who you are not - is not the most important thing of all Important Things.
David Arnold
#57. I suspect that children want their parents to be busy; they don't want to have to fill your schedule with their paltry needs. Children want to be assured that there are other things to do, important things; more important, on occasion, than they are.
Lionel Shriver
#58. One of the important things about being a small-town reporter is knowing what not to put in the paper.
Terry Pratchett
#60. There's music in my films but you seldom hear it. Very early I got the idea that the important things in films were people - the actors. They are the intermediary between the director and the audience. They make direct contact. People to people communication.
Frank Capra
#61. I always thought that was one of the single most important things a prosecutor could do is to seek justice for the families of victims.
Nancy Grace
#62. All of the important things ... will turn out to be universally shared. It's why there will be no true aliens.
Jack McDevitt
#63. The important things happen by chance. Only the rest gets planned.
Jeanette Winterson
#64. Well, Mr Katagiri, I have not been frogging all these years for nothing. I keep my eye on the important things in life.
Haruki Murakami
#65. There are two very important things you need to realize from this verse of Scripture. The first one is: Whatever we must receive from God must come as an act of faith, because God is a Faith-God.
Chris Oyakhilome
#66. I used to love the way everyone talked about food as if it were one of the most important things in life. And, of course, it is. Without it we would die. Each of us eats about one thousand meals each year. It is my belief that we should try and make as many of these meals as we can truly memorable.
Robert Carrier
#67. I can't do it anymore ... The way you consume my mind when we aren't together? I don't have time for it anymore. I've got more important things to think about now than your little weak moments
Colleen Hoover
#68. The really important things are said over cocktails and are never done.
Peter Drucker
#69. By keeping the truly important things front and center, we often get the perspective we need to make better decisions.
Michael Hyatt
#70. 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
#71. If I set for myself a task, be it so trifling, I shall see it through. How else shall I have confidence in myself to do important things?
George S. Clason
#72. The most important things to know in life are how to love unconditionally and how to be happy.
Debasish Mridha
#73. Oceans are one of the most important things in the world now and that is a national security threat of the United States of America, to be honest with you. That is why seeing the habitat destroyed is so short-sighted by us.
Ian Somerhalder
#74. I don't enjoy hearing the sound of my voice. The most important things for me are impossible to articulate extemporaneously.
Annie Baker
#75. I would say there are three important things about graphene. It's two-dimensional, which is the best possible number for studying fundamental physics. The second thing is the quality of graphene, which stems from its extremely strong carbon-carbon bonds. And finally, the system is also metallic.
Andre Geim
#76. Most evangelicals have bought into the need for apparent indifference when writing about massively important things.
John Piper
#77. What do you think of all this? Am I a friend or foe - or a little of each? Are the important things black and white, or maybe a little gray?
Svetlana Chmakova
#78. I find that one of the most important things, as a writer, is to just show up - to just stay in the chair and fight through the difficult patches. As long as you're at the desk, and you're willing to fight it out, eventually the right words will come.
Eric Schlosser
#79. The truly important things in life - love, beauty, and one's own uniqueness - are constantly being overlooked.
Pablo Casals
#80. I don't think my moped could outrun a cheetah."
"Hun," Claire says. "There are more important things you need to outrun, and a moped isn't going to help you with any of those.
Jonathan Messinger
#81. Connecting to another is one of the most important things in the world and you can keep expanding that connection - one person, a family, a community, a country, a society, a culture.
Eric Fischl
#82. There are some lines you just can't let another person cross. They don't always make sense, they might not always seem like the most important things, but only you can know what they are, and when you butt up against one, you have to defend it.
Karen Marie Moning
#83. It's one of the most important things at the end of the day, being able to say no to an investment.
Henry Kravis
#84. I'd forgotten so many important things. I'd stolen away my own past. It made me feel like a coward.
Suzanne Palmieri
#85. A lot of the time we think finances are immediately linked to experience, opportunities, image, and all sorts of important things that can progress us in life. Sometimes they're not. Finances can be completely irrelevant if you allow yourself to feel like things are going well.
Natalia Kills
#86. Can you carry me to bed? Can you last long enough to make me come? Those are the important things. Get me to bed, get me off. If you can manage those things, I'll be impressed.
Jasinda Wilder
#87. Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Dale Carnegie
#88. That the poor are invisible is one of the most important things about them. They are not simply neglected and forgotten as in the old rhetoric of reform; what is much worse, they are not seen.
Michael Harrington
#89. I think carrying your gut, or your instincts, through all the learning, is one of the most important things. You learn to prepare for a part in different ways, you learn to experiment, what you do for the character - you try working in different ways.
Paul Dano
#90. 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
#91. The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.
Brendan Behan
#92. Cooking is a caring and nurturing act. It's kind of the ultimate gift for someone, to cook for them. It creates all this beautiful stuff, conversation, appreciation, romance. All the most important things in life you do around a dinner table.
Curtis Stone
#93. I'm not as cool as you think I think I might be, and the most important things in my life are God, love and peace. Everything else is b.s. And art's kind of important, too.
Corey Feldman
#94. Books! Cleverness! There are more important things--friendship, bravery.
J.K. Rowling
#95. The two most important things to do for self-defense are not to take a martial arts class or get a gun, but to think like the opposition and know where you're most at risk.
Barry Eisler
#97. Ensuring quality higher education is one of the most important things we can do for future generations.
Ron Lewis
#98. I'm not being condescending, I'm too busy thinking about far more important things you wouldn't understand.
Jimmy Carr
#99. The digital transformation scorecard allows you to focus on the most important things. Without scorecards, it will become like searching for a needle in the haystack.
Pearl Zhu
#100. It seems that most of us could benefit from a brush with a near-fatal disaster to help us recognise the important things that we are too defeated or embittered to recognise from day to day.
Alain De Botton
