Was Important Quotes

#1. A wise purpose underlay every act of Christ's life on earth. Everything He did was important in itself and in its teaching.

Ellen G. White

#2. If my parents didn't push me and didn't support education, I probably wouldn't be here today ... Regardless of whatever they went through and how they may have been treated, they felt education was important. So, it's easier when you have the parents who support it, rather than those who don't.

Anne Sullivan Macy

#3. People did not spend enough time sitting and talking, she thought, and it was important that sitting and talking time be preserved.

Alexander McCall Smith

#4. Getting a book published made me feel a little bit sad. I felt driven by the need to write a book, rather than the need to write. I needed to figure out what was important to me as a writer.

Nicole Krauss

#5. She'd made those choices out of fear, and she wasn't afraid anymore. From now on, if something was important to her, she would demand it. Because the truth was that she belonged anywhere she wanted to be, and she was beautiful just for being brave.

Victoria Helen Stone

#6. But, it was a funny thing: every day something happened that was important enough to be on the front page of the newspaper. She'd never bought it and seen a little sign that said 'Not much happened yesterday, sorry about that'.

Terry Pratchett

#7. It was important to him that i know who she was, so im glad for that. but it makes me sad too. they loved each other so much, and now she's gone. it doesn't seem fair.

Nicholas Sparks

#8. Once I realized I wanted live in New York, I saved enough money that I wouldn't have to get a job right away. That was important to me, to focus on acting; I didn't want to come here and just fall into the mix.

Christopher Abbott

#9. It was important to me to find a label that wouldn't back out after a first single. Everyone's so used to hearing me with Hootie, they're going to be skeptical.

Darius Rucker

#10. Costumes say a lot about a character. When it came to 'Palo Alto,' it was important for me that the kids didn't look perfect. In most teen movies today, all of the clothes are expensive. I remember wearing a lot of dirty vintage clothes.

Gia Coppola

#11. Silence made space for other people's words, which was important for those who needed to be listened to.

Rachel Simon

#12. It was important for me early on to find the voice of each character and figure out what was unique about them and their individual worldview that I could use for comedy or conflict.

Maria Semple

#13. It was important for me to remind people that there's no formula ... there's no boundary to R&B music.

Miguel

#14. The word "fronting" was important to Rob. A coward who acted tough was fronting. A nerd who acted dumb was fronting. A rich kid who acted poor was fronting. Rob found the instinct very offensive, and in college he saw it all around.

Jeff Hobbs

#15. Knowing his coach likes him is more important to a player than anything else. To me, it was important to be able to chew out a player for screwing up and for him to accept it because he knew I liked him anyway.

John Madden

#16. Fussing over food was important. It gave a shape to the day: breakfast, lunch, dinner; beginning, middle, end.

Robert Hellenga

#17. I don't think I deviated from what I'm all about and what I thought was important. Whether you want to call that a legacy, or whatever you want to call it.

Joe Paterno

#18. My mother said I broke her heart ... but it was my integrity that was important. Is that so selfish? It sells for so little, but it's all we have left in this place. It is the very last inch of us ... but within that inch we are free.

Alan Moore

#19. The news did not trouble her particularly; all news was bad, like wage demands, strikes, or war, and the wise person paid no attention to it. What was important was that it was a bright, sunny day; her first narcissi were in bloom, and the daffodils behind them were already showing flower buds.

Nevil Shute

#20. I think that the opportunity to be a kid another year and not have to not worry about the responsibilities of paying bills, and worry about getting an agent and worry about getting an accountant was important.

Jason Williams

#21. Nevertheless, when you did not know what you were looking for, it was important to avoid all prejudices and preconceptions; something that at first sight seemed irrelevant, or even nonsensical, might turn out to be a vital clue.

Arthur C. Clarke

#22. It's not big," Veck said, "but it's flawless. That was important to me. I wanted to give you something ... flawless

J.R. Ward

#23. Sex, like death, was important, and yet why did no one seem to care enough to ask the questions that mattered?

Sharon Guskin

#24. Zappa was very technical and impressed by things that were musically challenging - weird time signatures, strange keys, awkward chord sequences. Zappa was important to me as an example of everything I didn't want to do. I'm very grateful to him, actually.

Brian Eno

#25. There are guys on Tour who hit the ball further than me. I always thought it was important to have power, but more important to have power in reserve.

Tiger Woods

#26. When you were a Goth, it was important to at least imply the possibility you might burst into flames in direct sunlight.

Joe Hill

#27. "...What about my life? My blog?" Okay, my blog was seriously the least of my worries, but dammit, it was important to me.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#28. It was important that we kept moving the puck and moving forward as a team. It is good that we practiced today. The rivalry we have against Sweden is very intense. We have had some very physical games against Sweden and we are looking forward to them. We know what to expect.

Caroline Ouellette

#29. After having my baby I felt like I'd been introduced to my life, I slowed down, I paid more attention to simple things, I addressed a few issues in my own life, I even got married, I looked at what was important and what wasn't, and so I used that experience for inspiration.

Cecelia Ahern

#30. Money was important, but really only because it afforded opportunity for my family and me. With money, we were healthier, we were less stressed, we had more time, and we enjoyed life.

Gregg Russell

#31. What was important wasn't the fireworks, it was that we were together this evening, together in this place, looking up into the sky at the same time.

Banana Yoshimoto

#32. Portraying Pocahontas' story well was important to me because she was a real person and these were real events in her life.

Q'orianka Kilcher

#33. Warp was important to Thom about two years ago when he was looking for different sounds.

Colin Greenwood

#34. Certainly the existence of these huge nuclear force was important for the ultimate confrontation, let's say, over western Europe. You just can't use them to deal with a situation like Afghanistan.

Lloyd Cutler

#35. It was important to remember who you were and where you came from, no matter how successful you became.

Candace Bushnell

#36. I also think it was important for me and Freddie to be able to have a lot of time to share our lives at the beginning of our marriage rather than my coming home at 9 or 10 at night from the set. Things have really worked out for the best for both of us.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

#37. It was important to me that people know that you can make plays and raise children at the same time - for other mothers, for other parents, for other women considering having children and who want to be working and thinking and contemplating and making things while they're raising children.

Sarah Ruhl

#38. I was always drawn to teachers who made class interesting. In high school, I enjoyed my American and English literature classes because my teachers, Jeanne Dorsey and Dani Barton, created an environment where interaction was important.

Ellen Ochoa

#39. I'd just known I wanted her happy. It was important to me.
But I knew why now. She was special. The kind of special that is hard to find in this life. The kind of special most people don't get to touch. It's the rare kind that, when you find it, you know it's worth fighting for.

Abbi Glines

#40. Whatever Kurt Vonnegut's ultimate status will be in the annals of literature, he was important to a lot of people right now. That's what most writers really care about.

Michael Dirda

#41. It was important to one's confidence, she'd found of late, to wear something one loved when facing a difficult task.

Manda Collins

#42. I think it was the preparation and every thing Lombardi represented, you know, about hard work and that every game was important. So when you get to the real important games, you were ready to go.

Ray Nitschke

#43. Gandhi was important for another reason as well: his country was suffering under the British Empire, and yet he was leading a very singular kind of resistance to it. At the time he was speaking about the violence in Europe, his followers were in jail as prisoners of the British government.

Nicholson Baker

#44. It was important to focus on working-class women because we so rarely focus, particularly in period films, on the working people. The suffragettes brought together women of all classes, which was one of the striking things about the movement.

Sarah Gavron

#45. Sometimes it was important simply to get out. It did not matter where you went, as long as you got out of the office, or the kitchen, or any other place where duty required you to be, and went to some place that you did not have to be.

Alexander McCall Smith

#46. While the two of them might never be the closest of friends, they had developed a connection that was important for each of them. When they'd needed someone, they'd found one another.

Lurlene McDaniel

#47. ...what was important, what mattered, was not the fact of being afraid, but what you did, the choices you made, when you were afraid. And maybe that was something to do with being alive--or staying dead.

Graham Gardner

#48. ...it was important to hit the ground running and not fall into the lifestyle traps of newly found free time.

Alex Adam

#49. It was important, I know, for my father as a product of his times not to be vulnerable, so he chose, and I can't say that I blame him, to live his life rather than create it.

Marita Golden

#50. I used to comfort myself when I became an actor that it was a useful job, entertaining people. And it was important to do it as well as you possibly can.

Ian McKellen

#51. You look back, and it was important to bring back instrumental music, and it was great to be a part of that wave of instrumental rock music. And clearly it was something I was destined to do.

Stuart Hamm

#52. Dad taught us about morals, values and goals. Having a tight-knit family was important to him.

Junior Seau

#53. First, President Reagan was not enthusiastic. But I built up a relationship with him in other areas and then persuaded him that this was important to us and to me, and that we had to at least be in the process of looking at this seriously.

Brian Mulroney

#54. Defending the United States was important and there were few higher honours, yet ... was it worth making such a commitment when one's political leaders were worse than the enemy?

Christopher G. Nuttall

#55. Asceticism for St. Anthony and others like him was never the end, only the means. Ward explains, "The aim of the monk's life was not asceticism, but God. It was important to follow Christ's example, to help the poor and sick, and to love the neighbor.

Norris J Chumley

#56. School is the same as anything else. You do it because you're told to do it when you're little enough to listen. You continue because someone told you it was important. It's like you're a train in a tunnel. Graduation is the light at the end.

A.S. King

#57. Yes, it was. The process of writing was important. Even though the finished product is meaningless.

Haruki Murakami

#58. It was important that I experience disappointments and work for what I wanted, for it to have meaning. Besides, if life always comes easily, there would be very little passion to pour into one's work.

Miralee Ferrell

#59. It's now time for me to pass Star Wars on to a new generation of filmmakers. I've always believed that Star Wars could live beyond me, and I thought it was important to set up the transition during my lifetime.

George Lucas

#60. While looking one's best was important to my mother, looking natural took precedence.

Betty Jamie Chung

#61. It was not the size of things that mattered but their perfection, it was not what one had that was important, but what one made.

Elizabeth Goudge

#62. The reception for 'Enemy?' I don't care. No matter what other people think, it was important for me. I will stand for that movie, even if I stand alone.

Denis Villeneuve

#63. It's so crude' complained her mother, who believed in Good Taste the way Sunday worshipers believed in the Immaculate Conception. She wasn't quite sure what it was but she was sure it was important.

Jeanette Winterson

#64. I was on dialysis for 18 months before the transplant, so it was important I tried to look ahead to days like my comeback this Saturday. You need those big goals to drive you on.

Jonah Lomu

#65. It was important for the Supreme Court to say it's a matter of constitutional law that everyone is equal, to say everyone is entitled to the dignity that comes from being married to the person you love.

David Boies

#66. As I experienced life on the island, without electricity, plumbing or telephone, I thought it was important to show that people can live as I did without dying or falling apart. I wanted people to understand that we don't need everything that our culture tells us we have to have to be satisfied.

Alix Kates Shulman

#67. When things started to get dangerous, it was important to have people who knew as much as you did. That way, when you stupidly got yourself killed, someone would have a starting place to look for your murderer.

Patricia Briggs

#68. Growing up in my family, it wasn't important that we always be the best; it was important that we were going to try to be our best and give it our all.

Daphne Oz

#69. I think it was important that I learned to love to dance eventually for its own sake, as opposed to wanting to be a ballerina.

Suzanne Farrell

#70. Just listening carefully to what the musicians are really doing, putting the music in the right time ... I became aware of the degree to which time, and therefore duration, was important in music and in art. It had a direct influence on my painting.

Guido Molinari

#71. I was the youngest of six kids, so yeah, feeding myself was important, but it's not like I was obsessed with food growing up.

Jim Gaffigan

#72. People responded to body language without even thinking. It was important to get it absolutely right.

Sara Sheridan

#73. There were a series of moments when I decided that art was important, and it was an important vehicle for me to express my interest in spaces.

Theaster Gates

#74. My grandparents knew it was important that I understood Christianity and the Bible. But they never took me to church; they sent me to church.

Lee Greenwood

#75. I just thought it was important that people knew right from the jump that I've got problems. But in all seriousness, that's a huge part of my writing process.

Joshua Mohr

#76. It seemed as though, being the only two people in this small, closed-in space, we couldn't help but have a relationship, and if we couldn't help but have a relationship, I felt that it was important to be upset now so that he would not shift the blame to me in the future.

Alexandra Kleeman

#77. I couldn't understand what was important about school. Dropping out was the first adult decision I made. If I ever have kids, I would hate for them to drop out. But I wasn't a rebel. I never cared to be against school. I just wanted to do what I wanted to do.

Philipp Meyer

#78. I looked at Adrian's eyes, beautiful, mesmerizing. Not human. I didn't feel
lonely at all. "You'll take me places?" I asked. His answer was important, even
though my decision was already made.
"You can't imagine where we'll go." He said, sincerely.

Amy Lane

#79. Immediately after the September 11th attacks, I volunteered to go to Afghanistan in any capacity that the CIA wanted me. Four months passed before I was able to go overseas, just because my skill set was not one that was important in those really early days after the attacks.

John Kiriakou

#80. None of it meant anything, and all of it was important.

Sarah Dessen

#81. Death was a lens that would reveal things as they really were: what was important would assume its true importance; what was unimportant would recede into the shadows.

Robert Hellenga

#82. Every museum is full of nice things. That's the opposite of before. It was important things or serious things. Now we have interesting things.

Gerhard Richter

#83. mainly that it was important to treat oneself as a kind of stranger, to remain unattached and unprejudiced in your own case.

Zadie Smith

#84. My silence never means I don't have nothing to talk, but it was important who were audiences and what was the topic.

Ali Rezavand Zayeri

#85. There's the rub. The manifesto doesn't say; it leaves you with your mouth watering. But it was important; so important, it had to remain secret.

Umberto Eco

#86. I had to find my own language in jewelry. That was important to me; it really had to be what I would love to have myself.

Ann Demeulemeester

#87. It was important for me as a theater artist to allow myself and my interests to evolve over time and allow my notion of what success meant to evolve over time. I've always had a day job and never been just acting. But it didn't make me feel like I wasn't doing what I was supposed to be doing.

Allison Tolman

#88. We knew the people in Natick and knew the teachers that would be teaching our children. It was important for us to be involved in the Natick community because we think so highly of it.

Darren Flutie

#89. Very quickly the lawyers in the Justice Department pulled together a set of recommendations about how we ought to defend the law as a constitutional matter. And it was the lawyers in the Justice Department who thought that it was important to include the tax power argument as part of it.

Donald Verrilli Jr.

#90. Mr. Bergman was a man of great working discipline. He forced everyone to concentrate when it was important. No disturbing noise during rehearsal. A code of silence.

Max Von Sydow

#91. I thought that if I practiced doing melodies for a year or so at home, I would learn to think melodically, and when I went to work it would come out, and it did, on this album. What else was important to me ... ? I spend a lot of time in the grocery store, shopping.

Iggy Pop

#92. I used to get stressed out all the time when I thought winning was important. I wanted to try to win and help my kids win. Once I figured out it wasn't about winning or losing, it was about teaching these kids about being men, that's when I started to relax.

Snoop Dogg

#93. Because of the tension and difficulty, I remember trying to do the silliest things when we weren't rolling cameras, anything to lift the spirits. But once on set, it was important to have full concentration.

Madeleine Stowe

#94. But that incessant drive to be out there in the literary universe that was important to me when I was in my twenties, like going to a Paris Review party or whatever, that seems totally irrelevant now.

Rick Moody

#95. It was important to keep moving. Certain struggles continued. Others had to be brought to a close. The wisdom was in deciding which.

Robert Ludlum

#96. I was initially very interested in public policy, but then after my masters at Harvard, I felt that it was important to get a better handle on the economics of it as well. I did my Ph.D. in macroeconomics, and my thesis - 'Why Is It That Some Countries Save And Others Not?' - was on savings.

Dambisa Moyo

#97. Looking at the Batman pages is like revisiting my youth. My first seven years in New York were the first seven years of Batman itself. While my time on Batman was important and exciting and notable considering the characters that came out of it, it was really just the start of my life.

Jerry Robinson

#98. Because he believed in himself, he believed what he did was important. Or maybe it was the other way around.

Johnny Rich

#99. I think of you as a friend. I used to think "friend" was just another word ... Nothing more, nothing less. But when I met you, I realized what was important was the word's meaning.

Masashi Kishimoto

#100. It's not every day you get to create a band like the Sex Pistols, and what it changed, on a musical level. I love that we've done something that was important.

Steve Jones