Someone Important Quotes

#1. All connections are infused with dreams of what is possible in the future. Thus, when we lose something or someone important to us, we aren't just grieving the loss, we are grieving the shattered dream.

Bill Crawford

#2. There are two ways to make someone important in our lives ... we can either love them or hate them.

Bill Crawford

#3. People say you have someone important in your life when you can reconnect with them easily. When picking up with them right where you left off, even after being apart for a long time, comes naturally.

Paige Laurens

#4. Have you noticed the words which Old Testament people use when someone important calls them by name? They don't say "What?" or "Yes?" They answer with the curious sentence, "Here I am". So much is in that sentence: readiness to respond, a willing servitude, an offering of oneself to the other.

Walter Wangerin Jr.

#5. Yeah, the club was dark but so's the whole country. When someone important goes missing, or the case is interesting enough, everybody has the same fetish. Whole world, really. No one admits it, but it's true.

Charlie Donlea

#6. 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

#7. If you're cooking for someone important - whether it's your boss or a date - never try a new recipe and a new ingredient at the same time.

Marcus Samuelsson

#8. I wanted to be someone, someone important. I wanted to be revered, I wanted to be respected, I wanted to be loved. I wanted it all so much that I remember thinking I would do anything for it. I would give anything for it.

Karina Halle

#9. No matter what you do in life, someone important to you isn't going to like it.

Sonia Friedman

#10. Funny how losing someone important is the thing that finally makes me decide to step outside my comfort zone. Now I wish I would've done it sooner.

Helena Hunting

#11. [To a woman whose cellphone rang during a formal meeting:] You'd better answer that. It could be someone important.

Queen Elizabeth II

#12. Pain only matters when it happens to someone important.

John Barnes

#13. Lie as convincingly as I can and pray she doesn't kill someone important.

Robin LaFevers

#14. Sadly, I haven't been able to find my earliest stories, but the impact of being told by someone important to me that I could do something special is immeasurable.

Doreen Cronin

#15. As far as I know, you only get one shot at this life. It only goes round once and time is precious. When I'm not working, you'd better spend that time with someone important.

Benjamin Bratt

#16. Beauty is fleeting. I know someone important said that, but I have no idea who it was. I jut know it's true. So I'm gonna grab this second chance with everything I've got and I'm gonna ride this wave until it spits me back out on the beach of bullshit.

J.A. Huss

#17. Everyone you know and all the people you meet have the potential to be someone important in the lives of others.

John C. Maxwell

#18. In life you must often choose between getting a job done or getting credit for it. In science, the most important thing is not the ideas you have but the decision which ones you choose to pursue. If you have an idea and are not doing anything with it, why spoil someone else's fun by publishing it?

Leo Szilard

#19. For me, the singer is actually the most important element. When I work with someone, it all comes down to whether I like the singer or not.

Steve Lillywhite

#20. Words may help you understand something, but experience allows you to know. Never ever trade your own experience for someone else's words about anything that is really important ... like God, for instance, or Love, or what is true about another.

Neale Donald Walsch

#21. When introducing a character, you're usually better off sticking with broad strokes. The important thing at that point is not what color hair someone has or how tall they are, but rather, what kind of person they are.

Jason Black

#22. Sometimes, it's not so bad to listen to some one talk about weapons or horses - or medicine. Honestly, when someone is trying to talk to you about those things, the important thing they're always saying is that they care enough about what you think to try to share themselves with you.

Breeana Puttroff

#23. Love is more than feelings, yet feelings are important.
Love is more than words, yet words are important.
Love is a commitment to do, say and be the best you you can be for someone else.

Manuela George-Izunwa

#24. It's really important to not allow rejection to define who you are. Just because someone did not value or approve of you does not mean you should give up on yourself or let go of the amazing dreams you have on the inside.

Jamie Larbi

#25. I mean, I come from a hippie mentality where I just think to know someone, you need to look into their eyes. Eyes are so important. Until they start melon-balling eyes out, I won't be able to get to know someone another way.

Drew Barrymore

#26. A more important reason is that the bands will intuitively trust someone they think is a peer, and who speaks fondly of the same formative rock and roll experiences.

Steve Albini

#27. I really enjoy playing with someone else and whether it's chess or tennis or games, I love card games. I love that, but I think there's something so important to gain from winning and losing and learning how to lose and how you can be better from that.

Hilary Swank

#28. I think meeting someone like, meeting Sam Shepard, that was someone who was kind of important for me, because I'd read so much of his work and watched him as an actor since I was a kid, then being on set doing a scene with him and thinking, 'This is really surreal.'

Richard Madden

#29. Be real, because a mask only fools people on the outside. Pretending to be someone you're not takes a toll on the real you, and the real you is more important than anyone else.

Alex Gaskarth

#30. Judge Fang got to eat this way only when someone really important was trying to taint him, and though he had never knowingly allowed his judicial judgment to be swayed, he did enjoy the chow.

Neal Stephenson

#31. You used to be able to just call people. You didn't have to be on someone's calendar to have a phone conversation. The telephone was an important and valuable domain of communication, both for casual, friendly chats and for professional exchanges of ideas and information. But no more.

Dan Pallotta

#32. Why would you cry for someone who's already gone? You should cry for someone who is still here but is about to go away. That way, they'd have a chance to know that they are important and would be missed.

Jessamine Verzosa

#33. When I was a kid, I got really great advice from someone who is so important to me and someone who I respect so much, and they told me, 'Don't do too many endorsements. Don't throw your name on things; think of your longevity.'

Drew Barrymore

#34. It is impossible to say why we love something or someone. We can come up with reasons if we have to, but the important part happens in the dark, beyond our control. We just know when it is there. And when it goes away.

John Ajvide Lindqvist

#35. It is very important to always hold the thought of an enlightened teacher in your mind in a very positive way. When you direct negative energy towards someone who is powerful, it has a terrible bounce-back effect.

Frederick Lenz

#36. You can watch someone on-stage cry and cry - but in the audience you feel nothing. It's easy to become indulgent. For me, what's important is the story first.

Laura Linney

#37. Of all the advice I can give someone...this is the most important: Never mess with a coconut salesman. A sharp machete is always at hand.

Dean MacAllister

#38. I think it's important for me to keep my childhood friends so that later on someone can appreciate how far I've come.

Jeff Kinney

#39. It's a luxury to have so much time, especially with someone so important and busy. You have to get a feel for the person.

Igor Babailov

#40. Someone's energy and aura and soul are so much more important - they don't compare to what you have on.

Rachel Roy

#41. It's easy to get stuck thinking one particular way. And a lot of times it's even good to be rooted in your beliefs. But every once in a while someone comes along and blows everything you ever thought to be true right out of the water. Sometimes it's more important to be flexible than right.

Rachel Higginson

#42. I guess its because we all want to believe that what we do is very important, that people hang on to our very word, that they care what we think. The truth is, you should consider yourself lucky if you even occasionally get to make someone-anyone-feel a little better.

J.D Scrubs

#43. With her through an angel that someone nearby could relate. The two women had one important predicament in common - questionable pregnancies, sure to stir up some talk. Elizabeth hadn't been out of the house in months. It

Beth Moore

#44. Acting is a very important thing for me, and I love doing it. But when I'm acting, I spend 14 hours a day and months a time being someone else. When I'm singing, I just get to be me.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

#45. Making decisions is probably the most important thing people ever do. Nothing happens until someone makes a decision.

Ezra Taft Benson

#46. The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist. We wish to absorb this person. We wish to devour someone who has experienced the tragic. In our society this person is much more important than anything he might create.

David Mamet

#47. It's important for people to figure out their own lives before involving someone else - to gauge where you are and work on your own issues.

Scarlett Johansson

#48. My mother is a ball of fire in the world, and I love that about her. But what I have learned from my stepdad is something as important, which is patience and compassion. Because when you are living with someone else, those two qualities go a long way.

Justin Timberlake

#49. Someone once told me how things begin isn't nearly as important as how they end.

A.E. Croft

#50. Women of worth are those who want positive change for themselves, their families, community or society, which I think is important. For me, a woman of worth is someone who has self -espect, who believes that she can change things in society.

Sonam Kapoor

#51. I think that in order to get better as an athlete and to see whatever kind of results you're after, you have to make goals. Whether you write them down or tell someone about them, it's important to set goals for yourself in order to achieve any kind of success.

Abby Wambach

#52. Eugene McCarthy is definitely an inspiration to me as a Democrat and as someone going to the university. It is definitely important to me.

Vanessa L. Williams

#53. The fact is, for most of us, what happens to ourselves is so much more important than what happens to other people that the smallest mote in our own eye will prevent us from being unduly harrowed by someone else's beam.

Patricia Wentworth

#54. 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

#55. To love someone is not first of all to do things for them,but to reveal to them their beauty and value, to say to them through our attitude: 'You are beautiful. You are important. I trust you. You can trust yourself.'

Jean Vanier

#56. She said she thought there were different ways of loving someone, and there were some she used to think were the most important, and now she had changed her mind.

Jodi Lynn Anderson

#57. Sometimes you get submerged by emotion. I think it's very important to express it - which doesn't necessarily mean hitting someone.

Eric Cantona

#58. Positive and powerful: Sometimes people won't like me, and it's okay. Positive and powerful: I like me, and that's all that matters. Positive and powerful: It's more important what I think of me than what someone else thinks of me.

Beverly Engel

#59. Films really can change a conversation and change someone's thinking and perception, especially with people of color at the center. It rarely happens. I think it's important for both the community but also the world to see people of color in all genres, especially love stories.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

#60. Whenever I meet someone, I try to imagine her wearing an invisible sign that says: MAKE ME FEEL IMPORTANT. I respond to this sign immediately, and it works wonders.

Mary Kay Ash

#61. At the time I thought this was my big chance for love, that I was going something very romantic and important, but looking back on it now, it all seems part of a very simple equation: I left the house where I lived with someone who loved me to go to the house of someone who did not love me at all.

Ann Patchett

#62. Birthdays need to be celebrated. i think it is more important to celebrate a birthday than a successful exam or promotion or a victory. because to celebrate a birthday means to say to someone "thank you for being you".

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#63. To be outspoken when truth is under attack, when charity is being bruise, or when important issues of life are at stake is a good and courageous thing. To be outspoken when nothing is at stake except the feelings of someone else is a small and contemptible thing.

Lawrence G. Lovasik

#64. I want to be someone who is respected and not just in terms of my music. I want to be respected in terms of the way that I treat people ... Music is my creative outlet in terms of expressing what is important to me; what has importance, what has a value. And I wanna be respected for that.

Macklemore

#65. Being in a hurry seems so fiercely important when you yourself are the hurrier and so comically ludicrous when it is someone else.

Christopher Morley

#66. You will find, that when you have someone to love, that the face is less important than the brain, and the body is less important than the heart.

Adrian Tan

#67. You can always tell in a movie when they are setting you up for something. If someone leaves an important object on the table and walks away, the camera will have some way of indicating that to you.

Bill Viola

#68. You know someone's right for you when the things they don't have to say are even more important than the things they do.

Jodi Picoult

#69. Clothes can be important. I am learning this. For instance, often when I design and I wonder what is the point, I think of someone having a bad time in their life.

Miuccia Prada

#70. You have to get new knowledge and force yourself to really implement what you've learned. You have to set boundaries in place for yourself. The important thing is if you don't know real love, someone will teach youself hate.

Tony Gaskins

#71. Whoever we were - and it was not really important what religion we belonged to, whether we wished to wear the veil or not, whether we observed certain religious norms or not - we had become the figment of someone else's dreams.

Azar Nafisi

#72. Someone taught me how to eat properly. Learning from others is important when it's not working for yourself.

Geri Halliwell

#73. Your mind is right now filled with old thoughts. Not only old thoughts, but mostly someone else's old thoughts. It's important now, it's time now, to change your mind about some things. This is what evolution is all about.

Neale Donald Walsch

#74. Someone once told me that something they really liked about me was that they thought that I was really down to earth and not high-maintenance. I think that was cool. It's important to stay grounded.

Victoria Justice

#75. An important part of dating is communicating. We communicate by sharing our thoughts, ideas, and feelings. We enjoy being with someone when we have an easy time communicating or when we have a lot to talk about.

John Bytheway

#76. The conversation between your fingers and someone else's skin. This is the most important discussion you can ever have.

Iain Thomas

#77. I am not against marriage. I lived with someone for 11 years. But we weren't in love, and I thought that was quite important.

Lynne Truss

#78. Not only is writing more important than ever, but visual literacy is vital. We don't teach enough design, art, visual things. We have to recognize what we're seeing. It matters if you send someone a cluttered design. It matters more than ever.

Marissa Moss

#79. I learned something through the experiences in my life, and that is that you never judge how someone may be reacting to a situation because you don't know what they may be going through. It's important that you treat people well, and I try to make people feel good about themselves always.

Kimberly Schlapman

#80. You know something is important when you're willing to let someone else take the credit if that's what it takes to get it done.

Seth

#81. i really like when someone reads my book and then review and rate it. this is very important to me because it shows me where i stand as an author and where i can improve as a writer.

Robert Trouble Johnson

#82. These stories are important to me, not because they happen to be about South Asians, but because they're circling around a certain strain of loneliness that goes deeper than cultural dissonance, that has to do with the yearning to connect with someone else, or with some unreachable vision of home.

Tania James

#83. I don't believe in having one partner for your whole life, but I hope I get married. I want to have a husband and two kids and a nice little life baking pies. I'm quite romantic. It's definitely important to have someone make you feel special.

Hilary Duff

#84. I know what the important things are in life. I know that just because I pretend to be someone else for two hours on the silver screen doesn't make me a better person than the next man. So, I mind all those things. Simple things.

Colin Farrell

#85. I think in all cultural organizations there has to be renewal. I'm also of a certain age that someone new can come in with a breath of fresh air. Things change, and I think that's important.

Zarin Mehta

#86. If you love someone, you should say it often,
You never know when they'll be layin' in a coffin.
Wake up, it's important that you know that
No one on Earth is promised tomorrow.

MC Lyte

#87. But there's a part of me that wonders what it would be like to be the most important person to someone else, to always feel like you were missing a piece of yourself when he wasn't near you.

Jodi Picoult

#88. We must study things we will never use, but which someone told us were important to know.

Paulo Coelho

#89. But ours was intended to be a citizen government. It is what of, by and for the people means. And when our most important issue in California is the creation of jobs, I think it's quite helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate or in the governor's seat who actually knows where jobs come from.

Carly Fiorina

#90. I needed a piece of a story, something real and full of life and blood and breath and heartache, something that someone had lived through, a piece of wisdom earned the hard way. That's why telling our stories is so important.

Shauna Niequist

#91. He takes himself far too seriously and thinks he is very important. I don't like it when someone glorifies themself.

Jens Lehmann

#92. When you love someone and they love you, you deserve to be the most important thing to them, as important as breathing.

Courtney Cole

#93. The most important job you will ever have is your commitment to a promise you made to someone.

Robert Cheeke

#94. The most important things in a romantic relationship are compromise, honesty, openness, humility and trust. If you don't have these with someone, you don't have anything.

C. JoyBell C.

#95. I think that it is real important for someone to be really honest and open emotionally. I'm really an emotional person. If I'm that way and the guy isn't that way I just really feel like a jerk.

Molly Ringwald

#96. I didn't used to overthink my choices quite so much. Then someone made what I've always been told is a very important choice for me, and now I tend to overthink everything else.

E.K. Johnston

#97. It's important to fall in love with someone you don't want to change.

Jessica Simpson

#98. Anti-drug fanatics and cops are the criminals - it's like McCarthyism. They need someone to dislike to distract the public from the really important problems.

Ken Kesey

#99. Life wants you to know that feelings are more important than facts, and you should never hurt someone just to be right.

Bryant McGill

#100. Whenever someone says the words 'Our friendship is more important than this,' watch out, because it almost never is.

Nora Ephron