Things Are Important Quotes

#1. The little things are important, Mr. Wind-Up Bird,

Haruki Murakami

#2. In trench warfare five things are important: firewood, food, tobacco, candles, and the enemy. In winter on the Zaragoza front they were important in that order, with the enemy a bad last

George Orwell

#3. 80% of the results come from 20% of the causes. A few things are important; most are not.

Richard Koch

#4. The charity work is just a part of what I do. Like ... I make time to clean my house, to care for my pets, to visit my extended family, because those things are important to me. Same with helping others.

Lori Foster

#5. India was ... a country filled for the most part with people who live so close to the necessities of existence that only important things are important to them.

Santha Rama Rau

#6. Parents matter, buildings count, curriculum choices, materials, resources - all these things are important in a top-class education. But, in the end, it comes down to the teachers.

Kimberly Quinn

#7. Global warming, the ongoing destruction of the planet, Third World debt, the uselessness of the railways, the takeover by the corporations, the scary George Bush person: all these things are important and should be animating me into outrage. Yet somehow they do not.

Arthur Smith

#8. Nothing is very important, and few things are important at all.

Isobel English

#9. Individual responsibility, hard work, paying attention in school, faith, family all these things are important.

J. C. Watts

#10. I like things to feel a touch unfinished; sweatpants with heels, or tennis shoes with a trouser. Those things are important.

Jenna Lyons

#11. Little things are important. Eating, sleeping, being clean, exercise. Regaining control.

Patricia Cornwell

#12. I don't miss my prayers and I don't miss my yoga. Those things are important to me.

Russell Simmons

#13. Exactly. You can shoulder all the blame and become a martyr. Provided anyone knows what or who you're martyring for. Or you can accept that some things are important enough to fight for and realize there will be sacrifices along the way.

Maria V. Snyder

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. Statistics are like miniskirts: They give you good ideas but hide the important things.

Ebbe Skovdahl

#18. The aspect of things that are most important to us are hidden because of their familiarity and simplicity.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#19. Life wants you to know that people are more important than things.

Bryant McGill

#20. The script's always important, but there are some things that have come out in the past year that, when we read them, everyone was like, "Oh my god, this is going to be the next best thing!" Then the movie falls completely flat on its face.

Douglas Booth

#21. In life, there are many hills and valleys to pass and you cannot avoid them! The most important thing you need is to know this: You must pass them!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#22. All the important things in life lie beyond reason ... and that's just the way things are.

Alister E. McGrath

#23. [A]t bottom, and just in the deepest and most important things, we are unutterably alone, and for one person to be able to advise or even help another, a lot must happen, a lot must go well, a whole constellation of things must come right in order once to succeed.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#24. I remember saying to myself, those things are very, very important to hear, but there must be another way to say them so that they will truly be heard. I mean, that's what art is. Art is about being provocative; art is also about beauty and if you leave the latter out, the former doesn't matter.

Nikky Finney

#25. Always remember that there are more important things than being rich.

Robert Gardner

#26. all the things we think are important really aren't, and he had no time to think about the things that really are. His whole life was going by and he had never contemplated the big, simple truths: loneliness and longing, desire and death.

Amos Oz

#27. Once you get very clear about the things that are the most important to you in your life, those things that truly give meaning and purpose to your existence, purging and de-cluttering will become a natural process.

Cary David Richards

#28. There are little details in everything you do, and if you get away from any one of the little details, you're not teaching the thing as a whole. For it is little things which, together, make the whole. This, I think, is extremely important.

John Wooden

#29. It's really important to remember that most people in the public eye are human for a start and a lot of things that you read in the media get slightly misconstrued and manipulated.

Geri Halliwell

#30. At the end of the day, the position is just a position, a title is just a title, and those things come and go. It's really your essence and your values that are important.

Queen Rania Of Jordan

#31. We give our children everything, because they are the most important things in our lives. They are why we exist, to give life to others so that they can carry forward what we have started.

David Jackson

#32. There are only two things you can invest: Time & Money. Of the two, Time is more important.

Robert Kiyosaki

#33. Things are just that - things. They don't make us who we are. They make us look better on the outside, even when we're hollow on the inside. They're an illusion - the shiny objects that distract us from the really important things.

Chelle Bliss

#34. Effort is one of those things that gives meaning to life. Effort means you care about something, that something is important to you and you are willing to work for it.

Carol S. Dweck

#35. I was aggressively nonpolitical. I believed that people who make a fuss about politics do so because their heads are too empty to think about more important things. So I felt nothing but impatient contempt for Osborne's Jimmy Porter and the rest of the heroes of social protest.

Colin Wilson

#36. These then are some of my first memories. But of course as an account of my life they are misleading, because the things one does not remember are as important; perhaps they are more important.

Virginia Woolf

#37. I realized that health is the most important thing and that all the other things come with time if you are devoted enough.

Blanka Vlasic

#38. Personally, love is very important for me. There are lots of ordinary things in life, so love should be extraordinary. I hope I achieve that.

Ranbir Kapoor

#39. Sometimes with people their work is the most important thing to them, and sometimes the work enables you to do other things that are more important to you. I probably am closer to that.

James Spader

#40. We actually look to the scientific community to kind of come back to NASA and tell us what the priorities should be. And then at NASA, we try to look within our budget and say, 'What can we accommodate, and what are the most important things for the nation?'

Ellen Stofan

#41. Save lies for things that are important.

Sean Michael

#42. When little things are so important, it's because there aren't any big ones.

Benedict Freedman

#43. There's no need for us to be held back by the past or how things have been so far. The important thing is what seeds we are sowing now for the future.

Daisaku Ikeda

#44. Remember, despite the fact that this book is being sold as a 'fantasy' novel, you must take all of the things it says extremely seriously, as they are quite important, are in no way silly, and always make sense.
Rutabaga.

Brandon Sanderson

#45. The most important thing you can do is make the distinction between customer service and guest hospitality. You need both things to thrive, but they are completely different.

Danny Meyer

#46. Women are racing all the time to try to have a perfect house and perfect kids and be a perfect cook. Men, somehow, for whatever reason, seem to be better able to pick and choose, to focus on things they like and that are important to them, and let the other things go.

Debora Spar

#47. Study the scriptures and study the mortals who have been most consistently accurate about the most important things. When your freedom and your eternal welfare are at stake, your information best be accurate.

Ezra Taft Benson

#48. All important things are hard.

Toni Morrison

#49. There are so many more important things to worry about than how you're perceived by strangers.

Dennis Lehane

#50. It is true there are more important things than dinner, but it is difficult to keep those things in mind when you haven't had dinner.

Lemony Snicket

#51. I only ask to go where the Lord would have me go, and only to receive what the Lord would have me receive, knowing that more important than sight is the witness that one may have by the witness of the Holy Ghost to his soul that things are so and that Jesus is the Christ, a living personage.

Harold B. Lee

#52. Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.

Bertolt Brecht

#53. Optimism is important. You have to be a little silly about the goals you are going to set. There is a phrase I learned in college called, 'having a healthy disregard for the impossible.' That is a really good phrase. You should try to do things that most people would not do.

Larry Page

#54. The closet does have a benefit. It provides safety. Which at times is important. But remember, as long as you are in there, two other things will be too. Fear and shame.

Anthony Venn-Brown

#55. To put it bluntly, if you don't have AD/HD, you do things because they are important. If you have AD/HD, you do things because they are interesting.

Jeffrey Freed

#56. Things are always less important once you're assured of having them.

Mary Gaitskill

#57. If you're a friend or a relative of George Herbert Walker Bush, Prez 41, or George W. Bush, Prez 43, or any other Bushes, then you know an 18-hole round of golf shouldn't take more than three hours out of your day - there are other important things to do.

Dan Jenkins

#58. Being an individual takes effort. Most people are pretty lazy. And that's OK! I mean, there are more important things than fashion. If it's going to stress you out to have a sense of style, don't do it. The important thing is to be comfortable so you can get on with your life.

Iris Apfel

#59. But I know who I am, and I've chosen the things that are important to me. I think the best decisions I make about what to do in my life come when I'm being true to both of those things." She

April White

#60. When people ask me if I'm liberal or conservative, I say, 'Yeah.' I'm both of them. To be a liberal means to be open-minded and generous and open to new ideas. And to be conservative means to hold onto things that are important, things that shouldn't be cast aside.

Adam Hamilton

#61. I'm tired of saying, "How wonderful you are!" to fool men who haven't got one-half the sense I've got, and I'm tired of pretending I don't know anything, so men can tell me things and feel important while they're doing it.

Margaret Mitchell

#62. History is above all else an argument. It is an argument between different historians; and, perhaps, an argument between the past and the present, an argument between what actually happened, and what is going to happen next. Arguments are important; they create the possibility of changing things.

John H. Arnold

#63. To me the most important thing is the sense of going on. You know how beautiful things are when you're traveling.

Edward Hopper

#64. One may be doing all good and right things, but if they aren't done with good intentions, they are futile. Having right intentions is the most important! Even the prayers are of no use if not done in the right earnest!

Neelam Saxena Chandra

#65. If I'm to die a mortal, why shouldn't the same fate be given to all, no matter how long they've lived or how important they think they are? All things must eventually come to an end.

Morgan Rhodes

#66. If you want to do really important things in life and big things in life, you can't do anything by yourself. And your best teams are your friends and your siblings.

Deepak Chopra

#67. I have won important things for myself, but I'm going to destroy them, because I tell myself they have lost their meaning. I know that is not true. I know they are important, and that if I destroy them, I'll be destroying myself, as well.

Paulo Coelho

#68. I never wanted fame, of all things, and I'm not just being cheeky. There are benefits that come with being famous, but there's also confusion. It's important to make sure your feet stay on the ground.

Grace Park

#69. Lahiri's characters, just like people all around us, are constantly telling each other important things, but not necessarily in words.

Will Schwalbe

#70. The things that are least important for our survival are the very things that make us human.

Savas Dimopoulos

#71. People think other things are more
important than prayer, but they are
mistaken.

Thomas Yellowtail

#72. The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen.

Bob Lemon

#73. The things that are important to me - being a mother, a businesswoman, an activist - are all things that were borne out of great passion.

Elizabeth Taylor

#74. The importance of detachment from things, the importance of poverty, is that we are supposed to be free from things that we might prefer to people. Wherever things have become more important than people, we are in trouble. That is the crux of the whole matter.

Thomas Merton

#75. One of the important lessons of the Internet is, how easy it is to get things done completely shapes what gets created. For that reason, technologies like Amazon's cloud service are very important. Even if they aren't technically impressive, they make things easy to do.

Patrick Collison

#76. 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

#77. We are unutterably alone essentially, especially in the things most intimate and most important.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#78. There are few things it is more important to learn than how to live on little and be therewith content: for the less we need what is without, the more leisure have we to live within.

John Lancaster Spalding

#79. THE TO NOT DO LIST There are a million important things to do. But none as important as lying here next to you.

Pleasefindthis

#80. There are so many things I would like to say. However, the most important thing that I do is allow myself to unplug, spend time with the people I love most, and not take the little things for granted.

Chelsea Krost

#81. If you don't get result-oriented with the kids, you can focus on the things in the process that are important to them being successful.

Nick Saban

#82. Once you feel like you can safely quit a melody, you are free to explore more important things.

Dan Bejar

#83. Wonder, and its expression in poetry and the arts, are among the most important things which seem to distinguish men from other animals, and intelligent and sensitive people from morons.

Alan Watts

#84. Let's remember that our children's spirits are more important than any material things. When we do, self-esteem and love blossoms and grows more beautifully than any bed of flowers ever could.

Jack Canfield

#85. 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

#86. For sure they didn't share sips from the same cup, give each other cheer-up hugs, or swear to keep real important things secret, which are all things that are done by a real 100 percent for real friend.

Charise Mericle Harper

#87. I feel every shot, every camera move, every frame, and the way you frame something and the choice of lens, I see all those things are really important on every shot.

Roger Deakins

#88. So many important things pass quickly without being understood at the time. So many powerful moments are buried beneath the absurd

Dan Simmons

#89. The importance of pedestrian public spaces cannot be measured, but most other important things in life cannot be measured either: Friendship, beauty, love and loyalty are examples. Parks and other pedestrian places are essential to a city's happiness.

Enrique Penalosa

#90. I am always giving advice to young players about how things are, how important it is to work hard every day to reach the glory days.

Milagros Cabral

#91. Marriages are buffeted by more important things, like money and sex and children and jobs and in-laws, in constantly changing combinations.

Beth Pattillo

#92. Streamlined time details are especially important, because by having to take a close look, we discover new things. Because of this, details will remain part of the building in the mind's eye

Gottfried Bohm

#93. The military infrastructure grew me. My faith in God is important, my belief in my country is important, my relationship to my family is important, the things that Mom and Dad tell you growing up are important.

Tommy Franks

#94. The most important thing about getting somewhere is starting right where we are.

Bruce Barton

#95. 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

#96. There are 3 or 4 important things in life: Books, Friends, Women ... and Messi

Antonio Lobo Antunes

#97. Sex? Unfortunately, as you get older - and I shouldn't admit this - there are other things that become more important in your daily life.

Alex Trebek

#98. The most important things to remember about back story are that (a) everyone has a history and (b) most of it isn't very interesting.

Stephen King

#99. Man needs two important things: Firstly, to know the truths; secondly, to change them if they are not ideal!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#100. Age isn't as important so long as you are surrounded by people you love, doing things you passionately believe in.

Richard Branson