Top 100 Really Important Quotes
#1. Remember that nothing really important ever happens until someone takes a chance.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
#2. But now that I've matured, I've realized that - at the end of the day - what's really important is the work, not what people think of me.
Jane Lynch
#3. I delight sometimes in saying to - as when I'm a teacher, I love saying, 'This is really important, so don't write it down.' To me, what you retain is a very important filter.
Robert Pinsky
#4. It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree. For the First Amendment, that is not good enough. So it is really important that we protect First Amendment rights of people no matter what side of the line they are on.
Floyd Abrams
#5. The faith-based thing is really important for me. There are certain situations that I would not have been able to make through without the promises He makes and gave for us.
Jordin Sparks
#6. It's really important to visit a site you are writing about. Even if you know it well, even if you have lived there, it's important to take a fresh look in terms of your characters and your story.
Marge Piercy
#7. I like to dry brush which is really detoxifying for the skin. Exercise is also really important for me for balance and to get those endorphins going.
Gwyneth Paltrow
#8. So as far as leadership and patriotism goes, I think it's really important that those things have to take place. And I think he's the best Democratic candidate we've had since Bill Clinton. And that's coming from a Democrat.
Toby Keith
#9. I do a lot for PETA. I do a lot of things I think are really important, I volunteer at school and I'm still amazed I can pay my bills because I feel like I don't work that much, I really don't.
Pamela Anderson
#10. There is no real magic to being a good leader. But at the end of every week, you have to spend your time around the things that are really important: setting priorities, measuring outcomes, and rewarding them.
Jeffrey R. Immelt
#11. I actually cut out some frames and kind of gave it a little grainier look so it looks a lot more like the first one. I think that is really important. Especially from user-generated content, people don't want overproduced-looking videos.
Judson Laipply
#12. In his experience, anything really important never got written down, because by then people were too busy shouting.
Terry Pratchett
#13. I think it's really important for the independent web to have a platform, and to the extent that WordPress can serve that role, I think it's a great privilege and responsibility.
Matt Mullenweg
#14. Clothes are my drug. I love Camden market - I have so many vintage pieces from there it's unbelievable. Clothes are really important to me, they give me that feeling of happiness. I love being a bit free with it all and not giving myself rules.
Kaya Scodelario
#15. I think that's it's really important to have good friends. Nowadays, you can text 24 hours a day and be in constant contact, but every once in a while, it's nice to just get out with your girlfriends and have fun.
Amanda Schull
#16. Being there every week for my teammates is really important to me. It's about accountability. I hear stuff about the 'toughest quarterback in the league' and all that; what's that mean?
Peyton Manning
#17. What's really important to remember is that this type of legislation exists in one form or another in every other province in the country. The right to refuse unsafe work is a right that is enjoyed by every other farm worker, paid farm worker, in the country and every other paid worker in Alberta.
Rachel Notley
#18. I want an iPhone 5, someone said something nasty on twitter, or my boyfriend isn't texting me back, like whatever the thing is that seems so major in your life, when a real disaster hits you suddenly strips it all away and you see what's really important and who you really are.
Eli Roth
#19. The really important thing is not live, but to live well.
Socrates
#20. That's always something that's really important for an actor - to find an opportunity to do a scene where there is a moment like that, where you manage to connect with everyone.
Bruce Davison
#21. I think it's really important to realize that small businesses are often the portal for immigrants into the New York City economy. I think we have something like 40,000 small businesses that are immigrant-run in New York.
Christine Quinn
#22. To me, a leader is someone who holds her- or himself accountable for finding potential in people and processes. And so what I think is really important is sustainability.
Brene Brown
#23. I believe in marriage. I believe marriage is a really important institution, it's one of the most important institutions we have.
Theresa May
#24. Getting married and becoming the father of young children has taught me that I am a narcissist. The good news is that I am a really great, really important, and really special narcissist.
Jim Gaffigan
#25. As she always did on any really important day, Penelope Hayes wore red.
Anna Godbersen
#26. The architecture or look fo a line is really important to me, and often ice can add something to the look of the wall. A dry rock wall is often not very dramatic. You add ice and snow and the features stand out in greater relief and it looks much wilder.
Jeff Lowe
#27. The first decade of your life is really important; it's formative.
Viggo Mortensen
#28. Empathy is really important.. Only when our clever brain and our human heart work together in harmony can we achieve our full potential.
Jane Goodall
#29. Exercise is really important to me - it's therapeutic. So if I'm ever feeling tense or stressed or like I'm about to have a meltdown, I'll put on my iPod and head to the gym or out on a bike ride along Lake Michigan with the girls.
Michelle Obama
#30. I took some me time. I think that's a really important thing to do for yourself, especially in this business. And now I feel like I'm in a really good, positive place in my life.
Ashlee Simpson
#31. I think everyone's had a brother or a father or a cousin, uncle or grandfather who's had health issues because they've neglected things. I think that's almost been part of Australian culture, which is why I think Movember is really important. We need to change that outlook.
James Magnussen
#32. I think it's really important that we understand that we share this world and we're connected to it.
Tim Hetherington
#33. I can be a voice. I can use my platform to help the younger generation. I think it's really important for them to understand how to do things the right way, and not just in sports, in life in general.
Allyson Felix
#34. A really important point for me is that I don't use any brand or corporate sponsors. So I have no responsibility to anyone but myself and the subjects.
JR
#35. If you have something really important you want to say, you have to read your audience, I guess.
Cary Fukunaga
#36. 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
#37. The weekends are really important to me; the use of technology is really important to me.
Angela Braly
#38. I think it's really important for your mental health to think about the big questions, to discuss them and open your mind, in order to prepare you for both life and death.
Freddie Stroma
#39. It's really important for me to do the fundamentals of this job really, really well. And to let people know that I think the core responsibilities of a member of Congress aren't seeking the national headlines or being the spokesperson on this issue or that issue when you just get there.
Joseph P. Kennedy III
#40. I think it is really important to have a sense of business. As a designer you can get so wrapped up in the design and fashion side that you forget the business side.
Tommy Hilfiger
#41. But really important, perhaps most important is the craft; how you make your record, the creation of these sonic worlds you want your listener to hear.
Duncan Sheik
#42. It is really important that we promote competitive support in schools. It is very important that we recognise that has to be underpinned by good quality physical education and by getting people into patterns of exercise.
Sebastian Coe
#43. It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.
Mackenzie Rosman
#44. You can be labelled but if it doesn't speak to people then it won't work. The social media and online has been really important. Fans are really smart too: they don't want to hear something manufactured or something that has too much marketing behind it.
Mac Miller
#45. Something that I've struggled with for awhile is looking at our country voting on sound bites, and to me, character is really important.
Taya Kyle
#46. Sometimes I dream to be alone and that nobody would talk to me. But I understand that football is really important and that everybody watches it. When you're famous, you have to do photos or autographs, especially for the kids.
Mario Balotelli
#47. I'd be like, alright, I don't know anything about sales. So I would search for sales on Amazon, get the three top-rated books and just go at it. I did that for marketing, finance, product, engineering. If there was one thing that was really important for me, that was it.
Drew Houston
#48. 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
#49. If you haven't noticed so far, I think sleep is really important.
Lisa Loeb
#50. One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.
Agatha Christie
#51. With fantasy and sci-fi, it's based in a real fandom. You're presenting to experts, and their source material is really important to them. They'll come up and ask: 'so when you turned your head slightly in that scene, what were you thinking?'
Lena Headey
#52. When you talk about avant-garde cuisine, the surprise factor is really important. For example, I love looking at blogs and the photos, but I'm not that keen on other people taking photos of my dishes.
Ferran Adria
#53. I think it's really important to follow your intuition and gut, and try not to do things just for the sake of pleasing other people.
Erin Davie
#54. It's really important for me to live purposefully, and I feel that way putting music out in the world and having people connect with it. That means everything to me.
Steve Grand
#55. 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
#56. I give everyone upmost respect, and when people feel that, you end up getting the most out of your interaction with them. That connectivity is really important in my life.
Adam Rodriguez
#57. Stories are really important to people and can really change the way they understand, and even live, their lives. As such, I don't agree much with people who say, 'Calm down, it's just a story.'
Tim Pratt
#59. [Hillary Clinton] isinsatiably curious, she's a natural leader, she's a good organiser, and she's the best darn change maker I ever met in my entire life. This is a really important point for you to take out of this convention.
William J. Clinton
#60. You need to take care of your time and practice, you need to rest and talk to media. So it's really important to organize those things.
Yani Tseng
#61. It's hard when I get to the end of the movie and am held hostage and am supposed to be very upset and the funniest things I've ever heard in my life are coming out. All I can do is pretend there's something really important behind me to hide my face from it.
Brie Larson
#62. 'Watchmen' is not only the greatest comic ever written, it's a really important work of fiction.
Gerard Way
#63. Creating a world that reflects the inner voyage of our characters was really important. Also, because this isn't a black and white show, and this isn't about bad guys and good guys, but it's about good men being capable of bad things and vice versa, I wanted to be in a city that had contradiction.
Veena Sud
#64. I'm one of those hovering mothers and I know it's really important to have an independent child, so I'm trying to back off, but it's hard. I love him so much, and he's so funny and cute to me.
Selma Blair
#65. It's really important to go back to where you come from.
Henry Thomas
#66. If some event happens and it seems really important to me and moving to me, I'll write it down in my lyric book knowing that it will come out in a song.
Amy Ray
#67. It's really important for boys to see that girls take up half of the planet - which we do.
Geena Davis
#68. I think it's really important to always kind of stretch your boundaries and your limits and get out of your comfort zone. And for me, that's very important.
Joshua Bell
#69. Health is really important to me and my family. It's something that we value and that I strive for on a daily basis. MedImmune, the makers of Flumist Quadrivalent, knew about that and knew how important health is for me, so it was a no brainer for me to collaborate with them.
Tia Mowry
#70. I think it's really important to bring your own personality to the space you're in.
Jeremiah Brent
#71. It takes too much energy to be against something unless it's really important.
Madeleine L'Engle
#72. It's so important to unclutter the mind. For me, creativity is greatly impeded just by the chatter and visual clutter of life. It's really important to have a space that is really clear for whatever is emerging to come.
Alice Walker
#73. I usually get up between 7 A.M. and 8 A.M., have coffee, and go right to work. It's really important not to get sidetracked in the morning so I'm still in that dreamy state for my writing.
Rachel Kushner
#74. I get so much out of being married and raising my kids - that's really important to me.
Tracy Pollan
#75. A lot of people thought I got famous as a studio artist, then decided to cash in on it. But it actually was just a matter of survival for many years, and I felt it was really important for me to be able to say whatever I wanted with my street art and fine art.
Shepard Fairey
#76. I think another way that you can really harm yourself as an artist is by buying into the mythology that it's really important.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#77. I think it's really important to have good quality drama on TV.
Jaime Winstone
#78. 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
#79. So curiosity, I think, is a really important aspect of staying young or youthful.
Goldie Hawn
#80. The Gmail app is definitely the app I use the most. I am always running from meeting to meeting, so it keeps me up-to-date with everything going on. I actually e-mail more often from my iPhone than my laptop, so having a nicely designed e-mail app is really important.
Leah Busque
#81. I love hearing strong, confident beats in music because I love to dance. At the same time, melody is really important to me because I love singing.
Manika
#82. It was really important in my relationship with James Caan that I understood the relationship between the family and the father.
Jeanne Tripplehorn
#83. It's always extremely interesting to speak at colleges. My books are taught in many colleges in America and are part of the educational system, so it's really important to me. I don't believe in so many things in life, but something I believe in is education.
Marjane Satrapi
#84. It's really important to be attentive to the people who have less - who are less fortunate than you are.
Paul Newman
#85. I'm a writer, first and foremost, and I sort of take my cues from the songwriters of the '70s, who are talking about what's really important to them.
Tift Merritt
#86. I think it's really important for actors to have another creative outlet, or for anyone, really.
Mia Wasikowska
#87. There are certain zip codes that generate a disproportionate share of patents, of startups, of wealth, of jobs. And it's really important if other parts of the country are going to want to create these tech centers.
Juan Enriquez
#88. I felt it was really, really important, not just in the vein of feminist erasure or whatever but also just as an artist that I honored my work.
Kathleen Hanna
#89. I've definitely become more aware and conscious of what directors I'm working with because it's so important. The director is really more than half the battle of the film. You really rely on that. That's become really, really important to me, for sure.
Kate Mara
#90. I feel like I'm missing something really important when you're gone. So important I don't feel like myself. I've never felt like someone was mine before. But you're mine, Jocelyn. I've known that from the moment we met. And I'm yours. I don't want to be anyone else's, babe.
Samantha Young
#91. As opposed to a movie [Real Steel] where everything feels fantastical, it was really important to me, and I recognise it's not the first movie with robots in it, but that blend of naturalism in performance, writing and design with the futurism of this sport. That was the idea.
Shawn Anthony Levy
#92. It's not really important that Tip was a good dog to hunt over, but it is important to me that she was a good dog to be with. She was my pal. We enjoyed being with each other. I don't know that you can ask for much more.
Gene Hill
#94. Developing a personal connection with anyone you're trying to do a big deal with is really important.
Sam Altman
#95. It's an awful feeling to write something that you feel is really important ... and to feel that you're being published by people who really don't get it and/or don't really care.
Alice Walker
#96. It's really important for our troops to understand our country supports them.
George W. Bush
#97. I have a really grounded group of friends, and they like me no matter what. I think it's really important to know who your real friends are.
Jackson Guthy
#98. I think it's really important with kids just to show them the beauty of nature and teach them a profound respect for nature.
Jack Johnson
#99. Don't get starry-eyed about somebody you can't have, especially if it blinds you to somebody who's really important.
Rick Riordan
#100. On the personal side, family is really important to me. I have a big family - five kids and 12 grandkids - so keeping that going is wonderful. And I do a lot of philanthropy. I'm chairman of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Charles Schwab
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