The Most Important Thing Quotes

#1. But the most important thing is, Enron did not cause the California crisis.

Kenneth Lay

#2. Coffee's the most important thing they sell because most of us need it to keep us going, like gas in the car.

Emma Donoghue

#3. Sure, and fatherhood is super important too. I'm not trying to make this a women-only club by any means. Just that even men rarely view their role in child rearing as the most important thing they do, when in fact it is clearly the most important thing that anybody does.

Rufi Thorpe

#4. Confidence is the most important thing, more important than gold or currency.

Wen Jiabao

#5. The most important thing in a piece of music is to seduce people to the point where they start searching.

Brian Eno

#6. Risk management is the most important thing to be well understood. Undertrade, undertrade, undertrade is my second piece of advice. Whatever you think your position ought to be, cut it at least in half.

Bruce Kovner

#7. I think, we can only write very personal matters through our experience. When I named my first novel about my son A Personal Matter, I believe I knew the most important thing: there is not any personal matter; we must find the link between ourselves, our personal matter, and society.

Kenzaburo Oe

#8. I think the number one thing that I find important is the importance of honesty with your friends and your parents, if you can be. But I think that telling people how you really feel, being who you truly are, being safe and taking care of yourself is the most important thing.

Emma Stone

#9. When I'm writing, the romance is always the most important thing to me, but I really love adding in slices of real life, and for me that real life always includes animals.

Jill Shalvis

#10. The kids growing up is a separate strand to your life. However bad a day you've had, that's the most important thing, and you have to remember that.

Michael Palin

#11. Cats don't think they're owned by anybody.
Even behind doors and windows, like amiable Wally, they're free. Always.
That may, in fact, be the most important thing about them.

Michael Korda

#12. The most important thing about music that I've learned after all this time is that to me, it's a way of reaching the truth.

Serj Tankian

#13. Pound's translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a little bit later.

Robert Morgan

#14. When you get down to it, the way that the music affects you individually is the most important thing, and when you let things like the location of a band get in the way or have an effect on your overview, you're cheating yourself out of a really good time.

Steve Vai

#15. The moment always dictates in my work. What I feel, I do. This is the most important thing for me. Everybody can look, but they don't necessarily see. I never calculate or consider; I see a situation and I know that it's right, even if I have to go back to get the proper lighting.

Andre Kertesz

#16. I mean, it's nice to get a dinner reservation ahead of other people, but when it comes down to it, the most important thing to me is the actual work.

Scarlett Johansson

#17. The most important thing is not what others are planning against us, but what our reaction is to what is happening

Sunday Adelaja

#18. The idea was that you could grow a system like the Internet one network at a time and then interconnect them. In some sense, the most important thing was the invention of the architecture protocols that enabled the Internet.

Vint Cerf

#19. For me, the director is the most important thing. He is steering the boat. If you don't trust him, you won't be able to give him your all.

Michelle Yeoh

#20. The most important thing is to believe in yourself and know that you can do it.

Gabby Douglas

#21. While the most important thing for a woman to have is money, the second most important is options. A lady must have her options.

Michelle Gable

#22. The most important thing we can pray about for others is that they will know God better and that He will help them understand His will, grow in spiritual wisdom, and live lives that honor Him. We can pray that they will become more like Him and bear the fruit of His Spirit.

Stormie O'martian

#23. We will always be attracted to the situation or person that we need, in any given moment, in order to learn whatever lesson that we need to learn. The most important thing is to learn the lesson quickly, let go, and then move on.

Robert Anthony

#24. The most important thing is to be strong. With strength, one can conquer others, and to conquer others gives one virtue.

Mao Zedong

#25. You didn't hurt me, babe," he said. "You marked me. Big difference. That night was the most important thing that's ever happened in my life. Holding you, catching Noah - it changed me forever. I didn't want to forget. So when the bruises started to fade, I went and got them inked, so I couldn't.

Joanna Wylde

#26. Looking good has never been the most important thing to me. Maybe it's because I'm more conventionally, um, acceptable, so it's not an issue for me. I don't know.

Kim Cattrall

#27. Naturally, there are times when every woman likes to be flattered ... to feel she is the most important thing in someone's world. Only a man can paint this picture.

Marilyn Monroe

#28. And when you get married, the most important thing isn't being in love. It's making sure you marry your best friend. A partner - the person you want to share the good times, the shitty times, and everything in between with.

Emma Chase

#29. Wearing a breathable fabric is the most important thing for me. I also love to keep it simple and keep the number of garments I'm wearing ideally at one (a sundress for example), and then add some great jewelry.

Hilary Rhoda

#30. The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit ... a reputation, character.

John D. Rockefeller

#31. But the most important thing is that we keep loving. We have to believe that at the end of the day, the love we have is worth all the bad stuff, because all the good stuff is what makes it so amazing.

Kandi Steiner

#32. Truth is always the most important thing, even when it leads us into dark places.

Deborah Ellis

#33. There are a lot of people building small ideas now. There's an idealization of being an entrepreneur, but the most important thing is to have a really great idea.

Dustin Moskovitz

#34. Do you have experience?" "Well, no. But I undress myself every day, and that seems to be the most important thing I need to know.

Cambria Hebert

#35. Though teenagers are generally very interested in sports, they must realise that education is the most important thing in their lives. They must find the right balance.

Kapil Dev

#36. Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.

John D. Rockefeller

#37. A belief in God is vitally important, not just in show business, but stability in life. You know, to recognize deity is the most important thing that you can do. I mean, it comes to the Ten Commandments. They weren't ten suggestions. They were Ten Commandments.

Donny Osmond

#38. It's important for me to win the fight, but it's not the most important thing. The most important thing is to show people who spend their hard-earned money that they can be entertained by the way I fight.

Manny Pacquiao

#39. The most important thing that I know about living is love. Nothing surpasses the benefits received by a human being who makes compassion and love the objective of his or her life. For it is only by compassion and love that anyone fulfills successfully their own life's journey. Nothing equals love.

Sargent Shriver

#40. For ecommerce, the most important thing is trust.

Jack Ma

#41. We in America have everything we need except the most important thing of all-time to think and the habit of thought.

Norman Cousins

#42. Creating a warm, caring, supportive, encouraging environment is probably the most important thing you can do for your family.

Stephen Covey

#43. The light is really the most important thing, so if you don't have skylights and if you don't have north light, this is like having a natural skylight. Light is the crucial factor. With wet oil paints, you don't want any hot spots or bounce.

Pierre Coupey

#44. If I weren't a theatre designer, I wouldn't be any other kind of designer. Design is interesting to me as it relates to narrative: the design has to support the narrative. Storytelling is the most important thing.

Christine Jones

#45. The most important thing for me is the tone, the feeling, the pace. But why I'm doing this is not very clear to me. It's much more of an instinctual thing than an analytical process.

Eran Kolirin

#46. The most important thing will be building a bench of powerhouse progressives in elected office and in the next administration. [Bernie] Sanders has an enormous spotlight that he can shine on champions that are following the Sanders path of really building from the left.

Ben Wikler

#47. Fatherhood changes you completely. If things didn't go my way before, I became withdrawn and didn't want to see or listen to anyone. Now, when I arrive home, I see my son and everything is OK. He's the most important thing to me now.

Lionel Messi

#48. The most important thing in our war preparations is to teach all our people to hate U.S. imperialism. Otherwise, we will not be able to defeat the U.S. imperialists who boast of their technological superiority.

Kim Il-sung

#49. We must imitate Christ's life and his ways if we are to be truly enlightened and set free from the darkness of our own hearts. Let it be the most important thing we do, then, to reflect on the life of Jesus Christ.

Thomas A Kempis

#50. I think the most important thing is to have fun, and not to take things too seriously. Once you start doing that, then you'll start to crumble.

Alexandra Roach

#51. Why be fearful of saying no to someone or of leaving something undone when the most important thing of all was to enjoy life fully?

Paulo Coelho

#52. Peter Pan is perhaps the most important thing, to me, that I have ever done in theater.

Mary Martin

#53. The most important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative, and the second disastrous.

Margot Fonteyn

#54. By the early '70s I had gotten reasonable and I started to get in hundreds of groups that rehearsed and never played at all. I mean, the most important thing was to look good and have a great name.

Andy Partridge

#55. These little daily choices that we're so used to thinking are irrelevant are the most important thing we do all day long.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#56. I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing.

Bill Veeck

#57. But the most important thing of all, to which she kept returning like a tongue probing a sore tooth, was the realization that she had fallen in love with her gaurdian.

Patricia C. Wrede

#58. As big a deal as the Super Bowl is, it's not the most important thing going on in the planet.

Tony Dungy

#59. Money is the most important thing in the world, you know. Money can buy you happiness, and I don't care what anyone else thinks. It'll buy you relief, status, friends, safety ... all sorts of things.

Marie Lu

#60. When I found something I believed in and I cared about and thought I could market and sell and could be thought of creatively - the most important thing to me - I did it.

Jerry Weintraub

#61. I always thought I would have boys, but as a father, when your kids are born and they're healthy and happy, that's the most important thing.

Rob Mariano

#62. The actor has to develop his body. The actor has to work on his voice. But the most important thing the actor has to work on is his mind.

Stella Adler

#63. The most important thing today is that Mark Webber is safe and OK. After a very nasty accident, he's fine.

Christian Horner

#64. What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.

Eddie Albert

#65. We have found ways ... to torture and maim animals and make their lives a misery, almost a living hell ... in the multinational food industry, ... and in laboratories where often the most important thing being researched is the latest in lipstick or face cream.

David

#66. Being a talented artist is good, it's nice, but it's not the most important thing. I think being a good storyteller, having a good idea, a good gag, is probably more important than being a great artist.

Bill Plympton

#67. Irritability is immaturity of character. If you are subject to being cross and unpleasant with others for no apparent reason, you need to come face-to-face with the fact that you are thinking too much of yourself. After all, your feelings are not the most important thing in this world.

Lawrence G. Lovasik

#68. It's been my belief that learning how to do something in your hometown is the most important thing.

Pete Seeger

#69. I promise my students that if they take the time to figure out their life purpose, they'll look back on it as the most important thing they discovered while at school. If they don't figure it out, they will just sail off without a rudder and get buffeted in the very rough seas of life.

Clayton Christensen

#70. I try not to think about marks, the first place or gold medal. The most important thing is to show what you are capable of on ice. The rest will come on its own.

Evgeni Plushenko

#71. All the craft skills that I have, I feel like I developed and honed in drama school. It's the most important thing for me.

Andre Holland

#72. The most important thing is to be proud of the work that you put into something, and put the ego aside.

Alicia Keys

#73. The most important thing is to be passionate and ready to accept the pains that sometimes go along with the business.

Christopher Lambert

#74. We're born, we live, we die. The most important thing out of those three is to live your life the way you want to.

Shannon Leto

#75. The most important thing a man has to tell you is what he's not telling you," he said. "The most important thing he has to say is what he's trying not to say.

Robert A. Caro

#76. The core truth of our marriage, the most important thing for me to remember, was that Michael and I loved each other. Our love had gotten pushed aside and bruised and buried, but it has always existed.

Sarah Pekkanen

#77. The most important thing you ever did was learn how to survive. Do not let anyone make you feel like you shouldn't have - like you deserved to be in that camp.

Amanda Bracken

#78. Writing from memory like this, I often feel a pang of dread. What if I've forgotten the most important thing? What if somewhere inside me there is a dark limbo where all the the truly important memories are heaped and slowly turning into mud?

Haruki Murakami

#79. For me, the brand of the camera is not the most important thing. I think you can take good pictures with the camera on your phone.

Anja Niedringhaus

#80. It's okay," he said. "We're together." He didn't say you're okay, or we're alive. After all they'd been through over the last year, he knew that the most important thing was that they were together. She loved him for saying that.

Rick Riordan

#81. And then at the end of the day, the most important thing is how good are you at risk control. Ninety-percent of any great trader is going to be the risk control.

Paul Tudor Jones

#82. Physical strength is the most important thing in life. This is true whether we want it to be or not.

Mark Rippetoe

#83. Family being the most important thing in the world. The most important. Why, it's your family that tells you who you are. Without a family, you're a nobody.

Lauren Groff

#84. Always be ready for criticism for there shall always be people who shall be ready always to criticize you. The positive lesson you learn from your critics, is the most important thing which matter and not just the matter!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#85. The most important thing about my profession is finding the truth, finding the reality of these shows.

Shuler Hensley

#86. You can never forget the time you're living in because the past is the past and it will never come back. So to adjust your philosophy and creativity in fashion to the time you're living in is the most important thing.

Donatella Versace

#87. The most important thing is how we react at the time of trials

Sunday Adelaja

#88. First figure out your partners, then figure out what ideas to pursue. The most important thing isn't the market you target, the product you develop or the financing, but the founding team.

James C. Collins

#89. What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.

A.W. Tozer

#90. The most important thing whenever we're connecting kids to books, is that we try to match the book to the kid and make sure that reading is a fun, rewarding experience outside the classroom.

Rick Riordan

#91. A good mother loves fiercely but ultimately brings up her children to thrive without her. They must be the most important thing in her life, but if she is the most important thing in theirs, she has failed.

Erin Kelly

#92. The most important thing to say is that Sinn Fein isn't going back to anything. We are a party on the move.

Martin McGuinness

#93. Friendship is the most important thing in my life. It's rare to have friends like I've got. If I had as great a taste in husbands as I have in friends, what an even better life I would have had!

Andrea Michaels

#94. I think being a mum gives you extra qualities. I'm more feisty, fiercely protective and less selfish. The main trait I want to instill in my kids is kindness. I think it's the most important thing. If you're kind, you'll go a long way.

Rebecca Ferguson

#95. When you're a child, the most important thing is to be able to live a life of comfort. You want to be sure that the moon goes up at night and the sun comes up in the morning and dad comes home from work.

Keegan-Michael Key

#96. What I think is the most important thing to learn about any instrument is the basics of music. Learn your ABCs before you write a Hemingway novel.

Yngwie Malmsteen

#97. Never sacrifice your family. They are the most important thing in life.

James May

#98. For me the most important thing is to continue to work with the best people that I can find, and that will have me.

David Caruso

#99. I wasn't the typical pageant girl - I was a little more nerdy, and they gave me a voice. I created the Queen of the Universe pageant, which is charity-based, to benefit UNESCO. For me, the most important thing is that contestants have a charity-based platform or charity ambition.

Joyce Giraud

#100. The most important thing is team morale.

Dean Smith