Quotes About Not Being Important

#1.
All that because Promethea is a woman? All this uproar, this trembling, this resistance?
Yes. No. Y-Yes ... Naynayno. Whynoyes.
Yes, Promethea is a woman.
Yes, but "because is a woman," that is not important.
But no it precisely its not being important that is so important.

Helene Cixous

#2. As a human being on Earth, you can't imagine friendship not being important in some other solar system or some other planet, or some other context of beings that are conscious. We even see it in animals. It is important for people on Earth to reach out or reach into someone.

Steve Martin

#3. The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance.
Remember, the greatest failure is to not try. Once you
find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.

Debbi Fields

#4. It's not a hard-and-fast rule, but I believe that one of the key factors in being a good sister wife is having the ability to see the needs of another sister wife and considering her needs more important than your own.

Meri Brown

#5. The idea of being in control for the sake of control is not really important to me. If everyone is sharp and doing what they're doing well, you don't really need to be in control all the time.

Tina Fey

#6. But there's not enough time in life to go sit at a party, have a drink, and make idle conversation. There's too many important things to do. Just being together with my husband, spending time alone, which I have very little of.

Pia Zadora

#7. We will be happy if we can get around to the idea that art is not an outside and extra thing; that it is a natural outcome of a state of being; that the state of being is the important thing; that a man can be a carpenter and be a great man.

Robert Henri

#8. My responsibility is simply being who I am and not buying into any projection as real. No projection is finally real, but projection does play a very important role.

Gangaji

#9. Second chances are not that important. What's important, is being ready when the first chance
is given.

Jay Long

#10. What people don't understand is when punk started it was so innocent and not aware of being looked at or being a phenomenon and that's what everyone gets wrong. You can't consciously create something that's important, it's a combination of chemistry, conditions, the environment, everything.

Siouxsie Sioux

#11. Loneliness does not come from being alone, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important.

C. G. Jung

#12. Nothing is more important than empathy for another human being's suffering. Nothing. Not a career, not wealth, not intelligence, certainly not status. We have to feel for one another if we're going to survive with dignity.

Audrey Hepburn

#13. It is important to tell good stories. You can tell stories even if they are not huge, epic, and wonderful. You can still take the responsibility for being a scribe of your tribe.

Ajay Naidu

#14. I never wanted fame, of all things, and I'm not just being cheeky. There are benefits that come with being famous, but there's also confusion. It's important to make sure your feet stay on the ground.

Grace Park

#15. The most important thing you can do as a performer is to be yourself, or be an onstage version of yourself. If you're not being true to yourself, and somebody likes that other version of you, you're kind of stuck.

Lyle Lovett

#16. An important key to not becoming overwhelmed by what is going on around us is looking for evidences of God's hand at work in the midst of the turmoil and being "simply overwhelmed with thankfulness to Him.

Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#17. If you're going through friendship issues, I would say, first of all take a step back. How important is the friendship to you? Sometimes, if someone's not being a good friend to you and isn't treating you the way you should be treated, then you kind of have to move on sometimes.

Victoria Justice

#18. Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

John Lennon

#19. Every day I would wake up and think, 'Today is another missed opportunity to do something important.' After enough days like this, you start feeling like you are getting old, even when you are relatively young. We are all natural entrepreneurs, and being manacled to a desk job is not for us.

Brian Chesky

#20. Being popular is important. Otherwise people might not like you.

Mimi Pond

#21. Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.

C. G. Jung

#22. What is more, I have come to the conclusion that whether or not a person is a religious believer does not matter much. Far more important is that they be a good human being. I

Dalai Lama XIV

#23. Life is like a chess. The most important is being a player not a figure. It doesn't matter you will win or lose.

Me

#24. I am happiest when I am working though, when I am being creative. I realized at a very young age what I loved doing. I think it is so important for people to pursue the things that they love and not give up on their dreams.

Josh Peck

#25. In film, it's very important to not allow yourself to get sentimental, which, being British, I try to avoid. People sometimes regard sentimentality as emotion. It is not. Sentimentality is unearned emotion.

Ridley Scott

#26. Being a strong woman is very important to me. But doing it all on my own is not.

Reba McEntire

#27. With mental illness the trick is to not take your feelings so seriously; you're zooming in and zooming away from things that go from being too important to being not important at all.

Mark Vonnegut

#28. If you are not personally free to be yourself in that most important of all human activities ... the expression of love ... then life itself loses its meaning.

Harvey Milk

#29. It was really important to try to reach a whole new audience so we had a lot of people in who not only had not seen the last film but were not Star Trek fans, or thought of themselves as not being Star Trek fans, or they had seen bits and pieces of Star Trek in the past and it was just not for them.

Bryan Burk

#30. Learning what all you can overcome as a person, as a human being, is very important. It's very important to understand your strength. Which is not to say you become hardened or bitter.

Katrina Kaif

#31. You have to really prove yourself to young people, and if your answer is clear and consistent and loving - even if it's angry and disappointed - what's important is that you're being real and honest and not going anywhere.

Vanessa Diffenbaugh

#32. I felt landscapes would sell more readily, and not being equipped psychologically to be a teacher or commercial artist, that was important.

E. J. Hughes

#33. It's not important, believe me; the past has a way of being past.

William Goldman

#34. A sense of community has always been important to me. I understood very early that I could not grow as an artist or as a person without being connected to institutions and clients that served the community.

Jerry Pinkney

#35. When we limit ourselves by being the person we "should" be, we limit our aliveness. We may achieve success but not fulfillment because we are not living out all the important truths about ourselves, truths we need to slow down to excavate.

Henna Inam

#36. There's something very important about films about black women and girls being made by black women. It's a different perspective. It is a reflection as opposed to an interpretation, and I think we get a lot of interpretations about the lives of women that are not coming from women.

Ava DuVernay

#37. It's very important that you focus on winning games and being consistent down the stretch. I think that's what we're focused on. All of the other stuff about who wins and who loses and how many wins do we need, if we're focusing on that, then that's not good.

Mike Singletary

#38. It is important to emphasize again and again and again that finding a cure is not the problem The cures for many cancers, if not most cancers, exist. But they are not being offered to the patient who has cancer ... Being legally permitted to use an alternative cancer therapy is the problem

Barry Lynes

#39. It is important to not be hostile to what a greater part of society has embraced, whether as Christians, Hindus or Muslims. It is important to respect that because whether you believe or not in the existence of a superior being, humanity does believe in that.

Nelson Mandela

#40. Good education is so important. We do need to look at the way people are taught. It not just about qualifications to get a job. It's about being educated.

Zaha Hadid

#41. I try not to read reviews. It's hard not to hear what the critics are saying, but as an actor, I try not to let it in and to just give the best performances I can. At the end of the day, if you're trying to please the critics, you're missing what's really important: being creative and having fun.

Reid Scott

#42. I don't have Paul's calling - I'm not out there being all things to all men to win them for Christ - but sometimes I can be a signpost. Sometimes I can sow a seed. And post-hole diggers and seed sowers are mighty important in the building of the Kingdom.

Johnny Cash

#43. It's so important to raise people to grow up to be who they are and not be forced to be who they're not. What an awful thing to do to people - it's like being in prison.

Marlo Thomas

#44. Food is an important part, not just in our physical well-being, but in our psychological well-being.

Ziggy Marley

#45. When you lose someone important, not everything makes sense. Being angry was easier than being hurt. Being alone was easier than letting people get too close.

Audrey Bell

#46. Trust is the most important aspect of being a journalist. If people don't trust or find you relatable - you will not have success.

Gretchen Carlson

#47. Is this going anywhere? I have some important "Not being in the same room as you" to get done.

Brian Clevinger

#48. It's more than just high quality food for the family table; it's growing the food in a way that does not harm the environment. That gives me emotional well-being that is important to me.

Robert Patterson

#49. Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it'll always get you the right ones.

John Lennon

#50. One of my greatest fears is not being able to change, to be caught in a never-ending cycle of sameness. Growth is so important.

Matt Dillon

#51. I think it is important for girls to see movies where it is not all just about 'the boy' or it's simply being about 'the relationship' or 'Am I pretty enough?' or 'Am I cute enough?'.

Monique Coleman

#52. Being lazy does not mean that you do not create. In fact, lying around doing nothing is an important, nay crucial, part of the creative process. It is meaningless bustle that actually gets in the way of productivity. All we are really saying is, give peace a chance.

Tom Hodgkinson

#53. The most important thing to the United States is not being able to attack our adversaries, the most important thing is to be able to defend ourselves. And we can't do that as long as we're subverting our own security standards for the sake of surveillance.

Edward Snowden

#54. The most important thing about reading is not the level of sophistication of the books on your shelf. There is no prerequisite reading regimen for being a bookworm.

Lauren Leto

#55. Journalism has been very important for me - for a long time I made my living as a journalist, and it also serves as a source of ideas. Many of the things I have written I would not have written without the experience of being a journalist.

Mario Vargas-Llosa

#56. Although labor income is by far the largest component of gross national product, a job is not just a commodity. For many, work is an important reason for living. Even for those who are less fortunate in their allocation of work, being unemployed is a miserable state.

Dale T. Mortensen

#57. I think being raised spending so much time outdoors was really important - while you're in it, you might not know, but now I think of the things I was thankful for.

Jewel

#58. I have always tried to be obedient regarding important matters like not being scalded to death by burning oil, but when public opinion takes a route far from one's inner conviction, one cannot value disobedience too highly.

Barbara Dana

#59. Leadership is not about being important, it's about serving something important.

Vanna Bonta

#60. An expert was once a beginner. Success does not lie in the results but in efforts. Being the best is not that all important. Doing it right is all what matters.

Osunsakin Adewale

#61. 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

#62. Obviously, I think being vegan is important. But no one should judge anybody. I'm not a dictator and I don't expect anyone to be any certain way.

Pamela Anderson

#63. The most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she really loves is to learn it by heart. Not by brain, by heart; the expression is vital.

George Steiner

#64. Giving a brief sermon, the Abbess once said, 'A hot furnace does not need to be heated. A loving heart does not need to be loved. Being loving is more important than being loved.

Gil Fronsdal

#65. Things you never thought were going to turn into something end up being the most important things in your life. You have to learn to not try to control it.

Michael Ian Black

#66. As a Dominican man, you're socialized to be a playboy. You spend a lot of time being taught that women are important, but without the really positive framework of why. You figure out quickly it's because of culo (ass). But there is a sense that it's not that simple.

Junot Diaz

#67. My mom always said fighting with me as a kid was like going to court. I'm trying to realize that being right is not the most important thing.

Gillian Jacobs

#68. What's important is the tolerance. If people are not beating other people up, or shooting them for being different, then that's progress. Even if the ideas that go through their head are fodder for novelists.

Nell Zink

#69. But I say these things in an objective dispassionate manner because, you know, and I can't explain why, but being one of the greatest guitarists in the world simply is not very important to me.

John Fahey

#70. Being from New York, if you're gay, you're gay. I think it's important that if you are gay, you not be afraid to say who you are.

Sue Wicks

#71. She wondered if it counted as being good if you did the good thing for purely selfish reasons. Probably not, but who cared. What was important was what you did, not how you felt.

Emily Gould

#72. I think it's very important to keep being frightened - if you're not frightening yourself, you should take a break. You need to keep experimenting. You also need to take time - that's how you do good stuff - layering and depth of knowledge.

Rebecca Miller

#73. It is a very important film, Life And Nothing More, in that what was filmed was inspired by a journey I had made just three days after an earthquake. And I speak not only of the film itself but also of the experience of being in that place, where only three days before 50,000 people had died.

Abbas Kiarostami

#74. Being negative is not how we make progress, and the most important things are not zero sum,

Larry Page

#75. Being yourself is the most important element for me, because, if you're trying to be something you're not, the audience will pick up on that.

Will Champlin

#76. Effectiveness is doing the things that get you closer to your goals. Efficiency is performing a given task (whether important or not) in the most economical manner possible. Being efficient without regard to effectiveness is the default mode of the universe.

Tim Ferriss

#77. And, sure, if you have a political point of view, you have every right to share it. But you have to be careful not to get too self-important. You have to find the balance between being entertaining and being preachy.

Patrick Dempsey

#78. Nowadays, people of many lands and cultures are being intermingled more and more. Christians, Muslims, and Buddhists may live in the same apartment building. In which case it is more important to accept each other's beliefs than to ask why everyone does not believe the same thing

Jostein Gaarder

#79. There's no way I can represent for everyone. I can't represent for all women or all big women or all black women. It's important for people not to make celebrities their source of who they should be in life. I can't take on the pressure of being perfect. Nobody is.

Queen Latifah

#80. An effective leader must step back, look at the big picture, and make sure the important things are not being pushed out of the way by the seemingly urgent needs of the moment.

Kenneth H. Blanchard

#81. The teaching which is written on paper is not the true teaching. Written teaching is a kind of food for your brain. Of course it is necessary to take some food for your brain, but it is more important to be yourself by practicing the right way of life.

Shunryu Suzuki

#82. I can tell you that the end of a live is the sun of the love that was lived in it, that whatever you think you have sworn, being here at the end of Jem's life is not what is important.
It was being here for every other moment. Since you met him you have never left him and never not loved him

Cassandra Clare

#83. I once had a dream and this one familiar god, who was probably one of my master teachers, said, 'You should not worry about being on the charts. That's not important.'

Nina Hagen

#84. I just think it's really important to be yourself and not trying to be something you're not.

Jared Leto

#85. It seems to me there's this tyranny that's not accidental or incidental, to make women feel compelled to look like somebody they're not. I think the effort is being made to get us to turn our time and attention to this instead of important political issues.

Eve Ensler

#86. For me, life isn't about being recognized or having everyone know who I am. That's not why I'm here. To me, my foundation is the most important thing I do or have ever done. That's what my life is about.

Tim Tebow

#87. It is important to experiment and endlessly seek after creating the best possible flavors when preparing foods. That means not being afraid to experiment with various ingredients.

Rocco DiSpirito

#88. If your friend is sick and dying, the most important thing he wants is not an explanation; he wants you to sit with him. He's terrified of being alone more than anything else. So, God has not left us alone.

Lee Strobel

#89. Being known is really fun, extremely strange, and not very important. This

Mindy Kaling

#90. I was just so focused on being healthy for my baby during pregnancy, and afterward I was not in a rush to lose the weight. I really wanted to be as healthy as I could. It wasn't about getting my six-pack back. There are more important things in life than a six-pack, I realized.

Marisa Miller

#91. Being one step ahead of a fashion trend is not so important to me. What matters is to always forge ahead.

Sonia Rykiel

#92. There is nothing wrong with you being tempted, the important thing is that you do not fall for the temptation

Sunday Adelaja

#93. The secret to your purpose is to find what you feel is important, and not pursue what others would think is important. When you think highly of yourself, me thinking highly of you will never be enough!

Shannon L. Alder

#94. The truth is, I'm a character guy. That's how I see myself. I always see the role as being far more interesting and important than I am ... not all actors approach it that way.

Stephen Lang

#95. Being in nature is very important to me. I'm not a glamour puss.

Sally Hawkins

#96. I do not care that the people is for or against me. The important thing is that I am appreciated by a response of boos or cheers. This is the important thing. it is important that people see me as a superstar talent that they want to see. I enjoy being heel.

Alberto Del Rio

#97. Why are we here? I think many people assume, wrongly, that a company exists solely to make money. Money is an important part of a company's existence, if the company is any good. But a result is not a cause. We have to go deeper and find the real reason for our being.

David Packard

#98. There are of course people who are more important than others in that they have more importance in the world but this is not essential and it ceases to be. I have no sense of difference in this respect because every human being comprises the combination form.

Gertrude Stein

#99. Kids make their mark in life by doing what they can do, not what they can't ... School is important, but life is more important. Being happy is using your skills productively, no matter what they are.

Howard Gardner

#100. The most important aspect of being in an innovative environment is not being afraid to fail.

Mike Haley