Top 100 Quotes About What Is Important
#1. What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it.
Salvador Dali
#2. You might be anything. You might be having any organization, you might be having any position in life, you might be any great personality, makes no difference to God. What is important is that: are you seeking?
Nirmala Srivastava
#3. What is important is to keep our mind high in the world of true understanding, and returning to the world of our daily experience to seek therein the truth of beauty. No matter what we may be doing at a given moment, we must not forget that is has a bearing upon our everlasting self which is poetry.
Matsuo Basho
#4. What is important is that you're honest with the American people.
Jon Huntsman Jr.
#5. What is important for a leader is that which makes him a leader. It is the needs of his people.
Frank Herbert
#6. It is not important what is said, what is important is what is heard.
Jeffrey Fry
#7. Memory is the mother of the muses, prototype Artist. As a rule picks and highlights what is important, omitting what is accidental or trivial. Occasionally, however, is mistaken as all the other artists. Nevertheless it is what I take as a guide page.
Frank Harris
#8. What is important is to try to develop insights and wisdom rather than mere knowledge, respect someone's character rather than his learning, and nurture men of character rather than mere talents.
Inazo Nitobe
#9. Sharing our ideas with others is a way of showing what is important to us. We are sending out signals about ourselves as we highlight what we value and care about.
Alfred Hermida
#10. One of the chief purposes of emotions is to give us values, so we can decide what is important, what is expensive, what is pretty, and what is precious.
Anonymous
#11. What is important is that one strives to achieve a goal.
Ronald Reagan
#12. Escapism isn't good or bad in itself. what is important is what you are escaping from and where you are escaping to.
Terry Pratchett
#13. It is not important who you are; what is important is what you have done to change humanity for the better.
Debasish Mridha
#14. It is not important to have said a thing first, or best - or even most interestingly. What is important is to say it on the right occasion.
Idries Shah
#15. The secret of success in life is to know what is important and what is not.
Debasish Mridha
#17. Avenues - television, magazines, movies, music, friends, malls, and catalogs, to name a few. A steady diet of these worldly influences will shape our view of what is valuable, what is beautiful, and what is important in life.
Nancy Leigh DeMoss
#18. I really feel that we need to scale back and get to what is important on so many levels.
Donna Karan
#19. I'm not a historian. I'm a politician. What is important for us is that the countries of the region and the people grow closer to each other, and that they are able to prevent aggression and injustice.
Hassan Rouhani
#20. Searching is everything - going beyond what you know. And the test of the search is really in the things themselves, the things you seek to understand. What is important is not what you think about them, but how they enlarge you.
Wynn Bullock
#21. What is important in meditation is the quality of the mind and the heart.It is not what you achieve, or what you say you attain, but rather the quality of a mind that is innocent and vulnerable.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#22. What is important for me is that the people who know me for real know Mario how he really is. People who don't know me, they read newspapers and they watch TV. TV is made to give a lot of opinions ... so I can't show the real Mario to everybody.
Mario Balotelli
#23. Absolute faith is not the place of self-affirmation, but the place of self-negation. Life of faith is not limited to our spiritual life. What is important is how our spiritual sensitivity is applied to our relative environment.
Sun Myung Moon
#24. Bury yours feelings and forget what is important and make you happy, it is an easy way to avoid hurt, but it is the short way for unhappiness.
Marcia Weber Martins
#25. What is important is to deeply understand things and their relations to each other. This is where intelligence lies. The fact of being quick or slow isn't really relevant.
Laurent Schwartz
#26. What is important is to maintain integrity of the story, of the character, of the movie, even if it's a big production.
Adam Driver
#27. There is nothing wrong with loving your work and wanting to apply yourself to it. But there is so much more to life. Balance is what is important, maintaining balance.
Bronnie Ware
#28. If your life means nothing to anyone, it does mean a lot to you and that's what is important.
Abdulazeez Henry Musa
#29. 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
#30. Occasionally, some brother sings very earnestly through his nose, often disturbing those around him, but it does not matter how the voice sounds to the ears of man. What is important is how the heart sounds to the ears of God.
Charles Spurgeon
#31. I still find the best way to understand a hospitalized patient whose care I am taking over is not by staring at the computer screen but by going to see the patient; it's only at the bedside that I can figure out what is important.
Abraham Verghese
#32. I think that what is important is that the music be honest and direct and that it is relevant to today. I think music needs to be of its time and speak to that time.
Dave Holland
#33. I've come to realize that being a mother makes me a better executive, because motherhood forces prioritization. Being a mom gives you so much more clarity on what is important.
Marissa Mayer
#34. Because being witness to all types of human experience is important to understanding the world, but also to understanding myself. To define what is important to me, and who is important, and why.
Nina Sankovitch
#35. What sculptors do is represent the essence of gesture. What is important in mime is attitude.
Marcel Marceau
#36. So this anchoring in some way, in some important way in the past without repeating the past, but on the basis of the past building something new: that is what is important.
Gunther Schuller
#37. Because we usually do not consider unimportant events stressful, stress can also be an excellent indicator of the significance we attach to an event--in other words, it highlights what is important to us.
U.S. Department Of The Army
#39. I think that nationality has no relation to that which gives rise to manga. Even among the Japanese, manga creators are making their creations everyday reflecting their own individuality, with none being the same. What is important isn't the differences between the creators but their love for manga.
Natsuki Takaya
#40. My biggest change is what is important to me, and what is not. What's worthy worrying about, and what is not. When we're younger, we tend to spend too much time worrying and going over the unnecessary. I'm no longer running the hamster wheel.
John Schneider
#41. What is ... important is that we - number one: Learn to live with each other. Number two: try to bring out the best in each other.
Jonas Salk
#42. Life always get busy.
There is always alot more to do.
It helps to define what is important for your life.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#43. What is important is any amount of breast milk that can be given to the baby is better than none, and breastfeeding is one of the many challenges along the way of being a great mother.
Simko Pharm. D., Lauren
#44. What is important is that our optical awareness rids itself of classical notions of beauty and opens itself more and more to the beauty of the instant and of these surprising points of view that appear for a brief moment and never return; those are what make photography an art.
Raoul Hausmann
#45. Maturity means the ability to see what is important and what is not.
Vatsal Surti
#46. As soon as it is held that any belief, no matter what, is important for some other reason than that it is true, a whole host of evils is ready to spring up.
Bertrand Russell
#47. Today, what is important for us is to realize that the old sacred ways are correct, and that if we do not follow them we will be lost and without a guide.
Thomas Yellowtail
#48. I believe seeing earth a small blue ball in the vast dark ocean of space, gives you a new perspective on life and what is important. You can see how small we are as compared to the universe and how fragile our lives are.
Anousheh Ansari
#49. It's not where you start or even what happens to you along the way that's important. What is important is that you persevere and never give up on yourself.
Zig Ziglar
#50. What is important to me as an actor is that, even if I have to spread my arms, take my shirt off on a mountain top with my heroine in a chiffon sari, it still has to be me and my twist or my funny take on it.
Vir Das
#51. What is important is how much service you can give the world and how much you can get done and how much better you can make things.
L. Ron Hubbard
#52. The key to the Toyota Way and what makes Toyota stand out is not any of the individual elements ... But what is important is having all the elements together as a system. It must be practiced every day in a very consistent manner, not in spurts.
Taiichi Ohno
#53. We all need a space to just let things be, a place to remember who we are and what is important to us, an interval of time that allows the happiness and joy of living back into our consciousness.
Nina Sankovitch
#54. Effective leadership is doing important things first. Effective management is knowing what is important.
Debasish Mridha
#55. But if you don't decide what needs to be done about your secretary's birthday, because it's "not that important" right now, that open loop will take up energy and prevent you from having a totally effective, clear focus on what is important.
David Allen
#56. Remember that the revolution is what is important, and each one of us, alone, is worth nothing.
Che Guevara
#57. What is important is to see how we can best lead a meaningful everyday life, how we can bring about peace and harmony in our minds, how we can help contribute to society.
Dalai Lama
#58. What is important is that we have the ability to create.
Stephen Hawking
#59. What is important-what lasts-in another language is not what is said but what is written. For the essence of an age, we look to its poetry and its prose, not its talk shows.
Peter Brodie
#60. What is important about graphene is the new physics it has delivered.
Andre Geim
#61. What is important is using one's talent, intellect and energy in order to gain an appreciation and affection for people and place.
Samuel
#62. Most people will be a great success if they focus on doing what is important and not what is urgent or pleasant.
Debasish Mridha
#63. Being In The Present Means Tuning Out Distractions And Paying Attention To What Is Important, Now. You Create Your Own Present By What You Give Your Attention To Today.
Spencer Johnson
#64. I sometimes say to people, I am a window frame - no more. The window frame is not that important. What is important is the light that comes through the window.
Eckhart Tolle
#65. Readers want what is important to be clearly laid out; they will not read what is too troublesome.
Jan Tschichold
#66. Speaking of important things, there are so many battles right now that people are fighting for that it's overwhelming, but I am always in favor of people who crusade for the sake of people's hearts and their well-being. That is what is important.
Drew Barrymore
#67. It is not important for me as a writer that you leave a piece of writing of mine with either an agreement or even a resonance with what I have said. What is important is that you leave with the resonance of what you have felt and what you thought in reaction to that.
Ben Okri
#68. It is not important for life to meet your great expectations. What is important is that you hold high expectations of yourself and meet them greatly.
Roopleen
#69. I read obituaries first thing in the morning. With a cup of coffee. This is NOT MORBID. Just epic. Maybe it's a way of trying to figure out, before the day begins, what is important. And I am curious about all the little things that make up life. Little?
Maira Kalman
#70. It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the benefit of the opposition. The naming of what is there is what is important.
Ian McEwan
#71. Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.
Stephen R. Covey
#72. What is important to another person must be as important to you as the other person is to you
Stephen Covey
#73. That's your problem! No list. We are going to fix that now. Make a list of what is important to you. Write down everything that really matters to you.
Larry Winget
#74. Make sure you are doing what is important to God-not just what is important to everyone else you know.
Joyce Meyer
#75. I sort of don't believe in trends. I know that they exist, but what is important at the end of the day is to remain independent
Christian Louboutin
#76. Pretending that something doesn't exist if it's hard to quantify leads to faulty models. You've already seen the system trap that comes from setting goals around what is easily measured, rather than around what is important. So
Donella H. Meadows
#77. What is important is the reliability of my posts being there to greet my fans with a smile or a giggle every morning. That's how we keep on growing.
George Takei
#78. What is important is the story. Because when we are all dust and teeth and kicked-up bits of skin - when we're dancing with our own skeletons - our words might be all that's left of us.
Alexandra Fuller
#79. Don't ask a man what is important to him. Watch how he spends his time
Dale Carnegie
#80. a man must learn to forgive - to know what is important, that to live without forgiveness was a kind of death with breathing and movement.
Min Jin Lee
#81. Escapism isn't good or bad of itself. What is important is what you are escaping from and where you are escaping to. I write from experience, since in my case I escaped to the idea that books could be really enjoyable, an aspect of reading that teachers had not hitherto suggested.
Terry Pratchett
#82. To be strategic is to concentrate on what is important, on those few objectives that can give us a comparative advantage, on what is important to us rather than others, and to plan and execute the resulting plan with determination and steadfastness.
Richard Koch
#83. What is important is that one utilizes one's intellect and not to be 100 percent sure about one's convictions. One should always leave room for doubt.
Shirin Ebadi
#84. We women have a lot to learn about simplifying our lives. We have to decide what is important and then move along at a pace that is comfortable for us. We have to develop the maturity to stop trying to prove something. We have to learn to be content with what we are.
Marjorie Pay Hinckley
#85. The process of dreaming transfers psychical intensity from what is important, but also objectionable, onto what is insignificant.
Sigmund Freud
#86. It is better to do what you love for work, but if it is your day job that enables an unpaid passion, then your life is still sweeter. What is important is that you make time for your dreams, not whether or not you get paid for it.
Tara Moss
#87. God does not demand that I be succesful. God demands that I be faithful. When facing God, results are not important. Faithfulness is what is important.
Mother Teresa
#88. The heart is what is important. There is nothing more vulnerable, nothing more corruptible than the human mind; nor is there anything as powerful, steadfast and ennobling.
Daisaku Ikeda
#89. When we learn to deal directly with our complaints and difficulties, romanticized ideas about the spiritual path are no longer meaningful. We see that what is important is to take responsibility for ourselves, and to always be aware of our thoughts, feelings, and actions.
Tarthang Tulku
#90. What is important in correction is not venting your feelings, anger or hurt; it is, rather, understanding the nature of the struggle that your child is having. What is important is understanding the "why" of what has been done or said.
Tedd Tripp
#91. I think the inner person is the most important ... I would like to see an invention that keeps the mind alert. That's what is important.
Julia Child
#92. Values reflect what is important to the way you live and work.
Glenn C. Stewart
#93. I still follow the lifestyle of the Mormon church. I try to go to church every Sunday even when I'm on tour. It's not only my upbringing, but it helps me stay sane. It helps me remember my purpose and the overall picture of what is important to me and what makes me happy.
Lindsey Stirling
#94. Scripture assumes that we will be afraid and anxious sometimes. What is important is where we turn, or to whom we turn when we are afraid. The God who calls you to trust in Him when you are afraid will spend a great deal of time showing you that you can trust Him.
Edward T. Welch
#95. What is important to me in my work is the identity that is hidden behind so-called reality. I search for a bridge from the given present tot the invisible, rather as a famous cabalist once said, 'If you wish to grasp the invisible, penetrate as deeply as possible into the visible'.
Max Beckmann
#96. A man must be forced to choose. It is only when you are forced to choose that you know what is important to you.
Chaim Potok
#97. Do-- not what is important--but what makes you happy. Life is not about being important, it is about being happy.
Debasish Mridha
#98. My sculpture can last for days or a few seconds - what is important to me is the experience of making. I leave all my work outside and often return to watch it decay.
Andy Goldsworthy
#99. The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said. Looking for metaphors, for example: When I was a young man I was always hunting for new metaphors. Then I found out that really good metaphors are always the same.
Jorge Luis Borges