Top 100 The Important Things Quotes
#1. Statistics are like miniskirts: They give you good ideas but hide the important things.
Ebbe Skovdahl
#2. All the important things in life lie beyond reason ... and that's just the way things are.
Alister E. McGrath
#3. It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things. The monkey wears an expression of seriousness which would do credit to any college student, but the monkey is serious because he itches.
Robert M. Hutchins
#4. Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
Bertolt Brecht
#5. You have to establish in your life some sense of prioritizing things, of giving emphasis to the important things and of laying aside the unimportant things that will lead to nothing.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#6. You're kind and patient and honorable, and yes, maybe those aren't flashy, magical, extraordinary traits. Maybe being all those things does make you a bit ordinary, but the ordinary things are the important things.
H.L. Burke
#7. Do fewer things and do them well. Focus on the things only you can do. Do the important things which must be done now.
Eric Barker
#8. The important things to me are your faith, your family and your friends. If you have that, you have everything.
John Wooden
#9. We live in a changing world, but we need to be reminded that the important things have not changed, and the important things will not change if we keep our priorities in proper order.
S. Truett Cathy
#10. 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
#11. For me, one of the important things about keeping vocally healthy is warming up and making sure I'm aware where my voice is at, drinking lots of water and getting plenty of sleep, and just taking care of myself with exercise and eating healthy.
Adam Lambert
#12. Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?
Dennis Prager
#13. Girls are not just put on earth for men's amusement while they do the important things.
Cris Mazza
#14. Blessings available in the temple. He said: I consider that the building of temples is one of the important things required by the Lord of the Latter-day Saints in the dispensation of the fulness of times, that we may go into those temples and not only redeem the living but redeem our
The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-day Saints
#15. Here we are, worrying about whether we're thin enough or whether our bottom looks too big in this pair of trousers or even whether or not I should wear a hat - does it really matter in comparison to the important things that are going on in the world?
Cherie Blair
#16. ...he had impressed her as a man delightfully open to suggestion, with an imagination large enough to find time, even in the depths of despair, for the important things in life, those accidents without which our existence was little more than a schedule of dry routines.
Matthew Thomas
#17. If school principals have given up on the important things and are focusing on discipline, they are creating a certain, diluted reality. In an organization that functions properly, discipline should be a marginal issue.
Itay Talgam
#18. Success in business hinges mostly on the ability to get the important things done.
William Feather
#19. Music is one of the important things for me in cinema.
Guillaume Canet
#20. If you look at the literature of the 19th century, you get things like Kafka and Dostoevsky, who basically write about feeling bored and alienated. That's because we lost contact with the important things in life like work that you enjoy, or the garden, nature, your family and friends.
Tom Hodgkinson
#21. One of the important things about temptation is, if I'm going to deal with it I'm going to have to recognize, this is an area of weakness in my life. I have been tempted here before and before and before.
Charles Stanley
#22. I understand them. I understand where they came from, what their lifestyle was there. But my parents didn't push us to be like them. They said do whatever you think right, but remember the important things in life.
Ofra Haza
#23. 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
#24. Markets can't think about anything beyond about three months. This is very long-term for markets, which is why the important things in life have got to be taken outside of the marketplace.
Susan George
#25. Not the spectacular things are the important things - the unspectacular things are the important things, especially in the future.
Dieter Rams
#26. One passes through the world knowing few, if any, of the important things about even the people with whom one has been from time to time in the closest intimacy.
Anthony Powell
#27. Death cures psychoneurosis. In a sense all these neurotic concerns
fear of rejection, interpersonal concerns
seem to melt away, and people get another perspective on their lives. The important things are really important, and the trivia of life is trivialized.
Irvin D. Yalom
#28. Scientists never study the important things. Like why some animals seem to have evolved the ability to gloat.
Joe Hill
#29. The important things are children, honesty, integrity and faith.
Andy Williams
#30. One of the important things to learn about parenting is that the more you worry about a child, the less the child will worry abouthim- or herself ... instead of worrying, watch with fascination and wonder as your child's life unfolds, and help the child take responsibility for his or her own life.
Charlotte Sophia Kasl
#31. One of the important things is that a lot of people forget that a biker club is a secret society.
Ryan Hurst
#32. Homework, root canals, and deadlines are the important things in life, and only when we have these major dramas taken care of can we presume to look at the larger questions.
Cynthia Heimel
#33. Little kids grow up discovering the world that's shown to them and then when you become a teenager, it kind of shrinks a little bit. I think when you get past that point, one of the important things is that you see there is more to the world than yourself.
Kenneth Lonergan
#34. Poverty has its advantages. When you're that poor what would you have that anyone would want?
Except your peace of mind. Your dignity. Your heart.
The important things.
Ana Castillo
#35. You could never teach other people anything that mattered. The important things they had to learn for themselves, almost always by making mistakes, so that the lessons arrived too late to help. Experience was in that sense useless. It was precisely what could not be passed along in a lesson.
Kim Stanley Robinson
#36. Not everything," he said. "Not the important things. My kids are safe. You're safe. That's all I really care about. This" - he said motioning - "is just stuff. Most of it can be replaced. It just takes time.
Nicholas Sparks
#37. You will never have enough time to do everything you need to do, so what you need is a crystal clear understanding of the important things you have to do.
David Cottrell
#38. The important things. Where should I find them? In the detail, like God? In the risk, like the Devil?
Jeanette Winterson
#39. I always try to write from memory, and I always try to use memory as an editor. So when I'm thinking of something like a relationship or whatever, then I'm letting my memory tell me what the important things were.
Jeffrey Brown
#40. His mind docketing the important things for future transcription.
James Clavell
#41. Sometimes what's important is dull. Sometimes it's work. Sometimes the important things aren't works of art for your entertainment, X.
David Foster Wallace
#42. The important things for a mom is that her kids are watched, and are safe and it's a good care environment.
Gary Myers
#43. 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
#44. you cannot "save" a church without focusing on the important things that make it a church - scriptural authority, biblical leadership, teaching and preaching, ordinances, covenant community, and mission.
Ed Stetzer
#45. I used mythology to tell the story [in Living with Love], with the story of the minotaur and the matador and fighting and fighting for love and the color red and flowers and horns and death and naked men. You know, the important things in life.
Madonna Ciccone
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. I think one of the important things that's happened in the course of the century is that life expectancy has doubled.
Ron Chernow
#50. I think probably one of the important things that happened to me was growing up in Idaho in the mountains, in the woods, and having a very strong presence of the wilderness around me. That never felt like emptiness. It always felt like presence.
Marilynne Robinson
#51. When life gets too cluttered, we neglect the important things.
Emilie Barnes
#52. Prioritize activities under the captions "important" and "urgent". Do the urgent things first and the important things later.
Israelmore Ayivor
#53. 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
#54. The important things happen by chance. Only the rest gets planned.
Jeanette Winterson
#55. All of the important things ... will turn out to be universally shared. It's why there will be no true aliens.
Jack McDevitt
#56. 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
#58. One of the important things about being a small-town reporter is knowing what not to put in the paper.
Terry Pratchett
#59. The important things that stay are the moments spent listening to people singing, telling stories, enjoying life.
Paulo Coelho
#60. 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
#61. The kitchen may not get cleaned, and I have to accept that. I do the important things.
Jasmine Guy
#62. 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
#63. 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
#64. 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
#65. 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
#66. The important things that in a campaign we talk about, let us not forget that once the election is over.
Mike Rounds
#67. Being halfway through my life, I think we start feeling less invincible and we start thinking more about the important things.
Pamela Anderson
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. Most people understand that the important things in life are not things at all - they are the relationships we cherish.
John Paul Warren
#71. The important things are to train hard, and not give up hope.
Lasse Viren
#72. 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
#73. The important things are not worth knowing because they are useful. They are worth knowing because they are true.
Andrew Sullivan
#74. For me, thats one of the important things about cooking. What was good enough yesterday may not be good enough today.
Thomas Keller
#75. I will consistently strive to learn by what I hear, see, and feel. I will write down the important things I learn, and I will do them.
Richard G. Scott
#76. The more articulate somebody is, the more suspicious I am of them. I like to feel that the important things remain unsaid.
Daniel Day-Lewis
#77. When I was a kid, I knew the black and white version of 'Jane Eyre,' and I guess I became interested in the idea of romantic love - of unrequited love and the tragedies of that; of what are the important things in life; what should one value over other materials.
Cary Fukunaga
#78. The important things usually prove to be very simple. They are also open secrets in the sense that no one is hiding the knowledge from us except ourselves.
Robert Moss
#79. I'm sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#80. You can't understand most of the important things from a distance, Bryan. You have to get close,
Bryan Stevenson
#81. Everything changed the day she figured out there was exactly enough time for the important things in her life.
Brian Andreas
#82. Christmas gives us the opportunity to pause and reflect on the important things around us - a time when we can look back on the year that has passed and prepare for the year ahead.
David Cameron
#83. Love makes you weak. It distracts you from the important things. It can make you lose sight of the objective.
-Uncle Paolo
Jessica Khoury
#84. Where did feelings go when they disappeared? Did they leave a chemical trace somewhere in our minds, so that if we could look inside ourselves we would see via the patterns of neurons some of the important things that had happened to us in our lifetimes?
Evelyn Lau
#85. When you didn't say a lot, he thought, you said the important things.
Guy Gavriel Kay
#86. It's about the important things, like the way their face lights up when they laugh, or the way they move as they're walking towards you, or the way their freckles create a map of the stars.
Jennifer Niven
#87. If you get the important things right, than there is a lot of room in life to make little mistakes.
Keith Koeneman
#88. Books can do many things, but not everything. We have to live the important things, not read them.
Nina George
#89. You have to fight to hold on to the important things.
Anna Jarzab
#90. You don't get to see your family much. In the movie business, directors often go out of town for long periods of time, and even if you're in town, you're working 14-15 hour days. People tend to not balance out the important things in their lives with their career.
Jon Favreau
#91. How could anyone get anything important done if they didn't plan to get anything important done? You couldn't leave the important things in life to accident.
Anonymous
#92. When it comes to the important things one is always alone ...
May Sarton
#93. Sometimes, when we're fixated on reaching the end, we miss the important things along the way.
Cameron Jace
#94. I think always staying focused and not taking things too seriously, but taking the important things seriously.
Chris Colfer
#95. In elections in Iceland, I have always been an abstainer. It seems like politics is such a small bundle of self-important people, who don't have much to do with things I'm interested in.
Bjork
#96. You'll see, you'll come to understand. These big things, these terrible things, are not the important ones. If they were, how could one go on living? No, it is the small, little things that make up a day, that bring fullness and happiness to a life.
Benedict Freedman
#97. The Tragedy of the human condition is that the very things that make us interesting and culturally important and progressively brilliant are our differences; and these are also the principle reasons for our prejudices
Bryce Courtenay
#98. I wouldn't change anything. I think that it's important to let things happen, and stay 'happened'. I think that's all part of the learning curve, part of fate. I'm just glad that it happened.
Mike Peters
#99. You will need to know the difference between Friday and a fried egg. It's quite a simple difference, but an important one. Friday comes at the end of the week, whereas a fried egg comes out of a hen. Like most things, of course, it isn't quite that simple.
Douglas Adams
#100. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.
Vince Lombardi
