Top 100 What S Important Quotes
#1. So is that what's important to you? To be able to freeze in the middle of a scene and to have somebody give you your line? Wouldn't it be much better to go through Africa and show them how to dig wells and how to make vegetables grow and inspire them to plant?
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#2. Forget about the 10,000-hour rule you've heard so much about. It's a red herring. What's important is not the hours you've practiced, but the kind of practice in your hours. Focus on the tree, not the forest.
Jonathan Harnum
#3. It's not what's happened or what's about to happen; what's important is the sense of emotional uncertainty between the characters and the delicacy of the mutual trust being established.
Diana Gabaldon
#4. I think what's important for myself and anyone else who wants to create a film, or art, is [to] make sure that they have something to say, that they want to share something important, express something important.
Tom Ford
#5. 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
#6. Well, with facts what's important is their weight and accuracy. Warmth is secondary.
Haruki Murakami
#7. What's important is promising something to the people, not actually keeping those promises. The people have always lived on hope alone.
Hermann Broch
#8. What's important about an actor is his acting, not his life.
Vincent Price
#9. What's important to me is people just being people.
Vince Staples
#11. Because I've made a film with such an amazing director as Tarantino, I'm much more conscious of working with good directors from now on, so that's what's important to me. I don't really care about making a big movie - I just want to make good ones.
Melanie Laurent
#12. But she's a nice lass."
"Addolgar, she poisoned you."
"But she didn't kill me. That's what's important.
G.A. Aiken
#13. Art is great fun but it's not important. What's important is to be healthy and love.
Marty Rubin
#14. Train yourself to listen to that small voice that tells us what's important and what's not.
Sue Grafton
#17. What's important is that you can be a wife and mother or you can be a devoted daughter all your life. You can't be both. Not when Thomas Jefferson is your father. You have to choose, Patsy. His
Stephanie Dray
#18. What's important now are the characteristics of the brain's right hemisphere: artistry, empathy, inventiveness, big-picture thinking. These skills have become first among equals in a whole range of business fields.
Daniel H. Pink
#19. If you listen to your people they'll tell you what's important.
Johnny Hunt
#20. What's important to me is that all of my books are in print - and, in a way, that becomes the challenge, not winning this prize or getting that review. It's that the work is there, and you can walk into many bookshops throughout the world and buy it.
William Boyd
#21. What you really want to do in investments is figure out what's important and knowable. If it's unimportant or unknowable you forget about it.
Warren Buffett
#22. According to George Soros, what's important is not whether you're right or wrong about the market. What's important is how much money you make when you're right about a trade, and how much money you lose when you're wrong.
Mark Tier
#23. When you are living in the present, you know what's important now for you and you act on that knowing.
John Kuypers
#24. As a child, I didn't know what I didn't have. I'm thankful for the challenges early on in my life because now I have a perspective on the world and kind of know what's important.
America Ferrera
#25. Your time, energy, and money always go to what's important to you.
Larry Winget
#26. My photographs are subjective and personal-they'r e intended to be accessible, to relate to people's lives ... People-their well-being and survival-are the crux of what's important to me.
Roy DeCarava
#27. I don't think about whether people will remember me or not. I've been an ok person. I've learned a lot. I've taught people a thing or two. That's what's important.
Julia Child
#28. Learning how to recognize and act on your Inner Knowing is the greatest tool for discovering what's important now by living in the present.
John Kuypers
#29. Fight for what you love. For what's important. Cherish it. Only a fool believes there's a good enough reason to le love go.
A.L. Jackson
#30. That really is the best part of being a dad. You remember what's important in life.
Russell Simmons
#31. Journal what you love, what you hate, what's in your head, what's important. Journaling organizes your thoughts; allows you to see things in a concrete way that otherwise you might not see. Focus on what you think you need to find in your art.
Kay WalkingStick
#32. But we know what's important. We know that family is precious, that love is rare, that fate is unkind.
Susan Sey
#33. What's important for me is staying healthy.
Eli Roth
#34. People that go through serious illness - you can either go one way or the other. You can either become despondent about it all. Or it kind of rejuvenates you, makes you focus on what's important.
Jack Layton
#35. And every day, the world will drag you by the hand, yelling "This is important! And this is important! And this is important! You need to worry about this! And this! And this!"
And each day, it's up to you, to yank your hand back, put it on your heart and say "No. This is what's important.
Pleasefindthis
#36. We keep thinking of deity as a kind of fact, somewhere; God as a fact. God is simply our own notion of something that is symbolic of transcendence and mystery. The mystery is what's important.
Joseph Campbell
#37. It's not necessary to have read everything about a particular subject in order to get interested in it. The main thing is to sort out what's important and what is peripheral in order to be able to dive in.
Francois Englert
#38. Someone ... tell us what's important, because we no longer know.
Richard Ford
#39. What's important is passion, investment, and people laughing out loud as they work.
Dan Harmon
#40. Reality is such a pain. Those of us who were fed up with that kind of reality decided to remake it. We'd set up a partition, separate what's important to us from what was trash, put only the things we loved on our side, and got rid of the rest.
Ryohgo Narita
#42. She taught me what's important, and what isn't. And I've never forgotten. And that's what mothers do, I say.
Steven Herrick
#43. I had gone through a near-death experience, and that gives you an insight into how fleeting life is, and what's important.
Frank Serpico
#44. I don't have to be a 'gazillionaire;' what's important to me is to just being able to work.
Katharine McPhee
#45. The United States is a strong and ardent ally of Israel. The fact of the matter is that friends can disagree. I think what's important is that world leaders are able to sit down with one another, have frank conversations and move forward.
Valerie Jarrett
#46. What's important for my daughter to know is that ... if you are fortunate to have opportunity, it is your duty to make sure other people have those opportunities as well.
Kamala Harris
#47. Whether you're keeping a journal or writing as a meditation, it's the same thing. What's important is you're having a relationship with your mind.
Natalie Goldberg
#48. I don't waste time. I move. I finish things. I don't try and do things to the nth degree. I know what's important and what's not. I've really learned that. That's a judgement I've learned, what really matters.
Gail Kelly
#49. Keeping a journal of what's going on in your life is a good way to help you distill what's important and what's not.
Martina Navratilova
#50. What's important with writing is that it comes from a place you absolutely love. I'm writing for film and TV. In America, they call people like me 'multi-hyphenators.'
Cush Jumbo
#51. Cancer stops you in your tracks. It really makes you think about what's important. In a second, life can change. Don't ever forget to say thank you for love and family. What good is your success without them?
Jaclyn Smith
#52. Sometimes, a person who likes your work and a person who don't will show up within milliseconds of each other to let you know how they feel. One does not need to cancel out the other, positively or negatively; if you're proud of the work, and you enjoyed the work, that is what's important.
Wil Wheaton
#53. What's important," I say, taking his face in mine hands, looking him in the eye, "is that all this hesitation of yours is giving me a complex. And I feel annoying, insecure thoughts threatening to infiltrate the certainty of you liking me.
Brooklyn Skye
#54. I think we need to do some deep soul searching about what's important in our lives and renew our spirit and our spiritual thinking, whether it's through faith-based religion or just through loving nature or helping your fellow man.
Louie Schwartzberg
#55. What's important is to be able to see yourself, I think, as having commonality with other people and not determine, because of your good luck, that everybody is less significant, less interesting, less important than you are.
Harrison Ford
#56. I've come to understand that the truth isn't really what's important ... what really matters is what people agree is the truth. -Greymane
Ian C. Esslemont
#57. Don't wait too long to realize what's important. Your family might drive you mad sometimes, but they're worth more to you than you could ever imagine.
Kate Morton
#58. I like good stories. Quality products and character are what's important. Even if the script isn't that strong, if I challenge myself with a great character, I'll go for it.
Corin Nemec
#59. I think about my life and what's important to me sometimes. Working for WWE and being a Diva has really been the only thing that's made me feel great about myself.
Natalya
#60. What's important is finding out what works for you.
Thomas Moore
#61. No matter how long you play rock n roll songs might change just as the balls are there, the rock balls. And that's what's important to us.
Bon Scott
#62. You shouldn't be wasting your time worrying about what's going to happen after you die. It's pointless. Think about what's happening now. In your life. That's what's important. So change the subject, will you?
Clare Furniss
#63. The answers aren't important really ... What's important is- knowing all the questions.
Zilpha Keatley Snyder
#64. What's important is the preparation for adult life, and the training you'll receive in your Assignment.
Lois Lowry
#65. Explaining something makes it go away, so to speak; what's important is left after you have explained everything else.
Edward Gorey
#66. I choose movies that I think will speak to what's important.
Sean Penn
#67. The only advice I can give you ... is to examine who you are ... Figure out what's important to you. Know yourselves. Know what's in your heart. Don't be swayed by fear or history or the opinions of outsiders. Find your own truth. It will lead you to the things you love.
J-Ax
#68. If you want to know what's important to a culture, learn their language.
Joanne Harris
#69. I understand that in our work - doesn't matter whether it's acting or writing - what's important isn't fame or glamour, none of the things I used to dream about, it's the ability to endure.
Anton Chekhov
#70. Good can be a stifling word, a word that makes you hesitate and stare at a blank page and second-guess yourself and throw stuff in the trash. What's important is to get your hands moving and let the images come. Whether it's good or bad is beside the point. Make art.
Austin Kleon
#71. Never be afraid to express yourself in the stories you tell. There will always be those out there who don't agree, but doing what you love is what's important.
Laura Burke
#72. It is a great thing about having young children, is that they don't really care whether you're the chief justice or whatever, and they do make sure that you have a good perspective on life and what's important.
John Roberts
#73. When you're following your dreams, you quickly learn who wants you to succeed and who desires to see you fail. Pay attention and stay focused on what's important.
Delano Johnson
#74. Perhaps it's time, I muse, to close those chapters and remember the enduring lesson of my entrapment: that relationships, not accomplishments, are what's important in life.
Aron Ralston
#75. With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else's ideas about you, but what's important is how you feel about yourself - for survival and living day to day with what comes up.
Marilyn Monroe
#76. We talk about what's important to Hispanics: education, family, creating an environment in which you can achieve what you want to achieve because there aren't going to be obstacles in your way.
Lionel Sosa
#77. I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.
Diane Frolov
#78. Real giving is when we give to our spouses what's important to them, whether we understand it, like it, agree with it, or not.
Michele Weiner-Davis
#79. When you know what's important, it's a lot easier to ignore what's not.
Marie Forleo
#80. As long as it's good music, that's what's important.
Tom Araya
#81. I think my life has been a long, slow process of trying to move closer and closer to the spirit by moving closer and closer to the heart. The heart is what's important.
Burl Ives
#82. I think what's important and extraordinarily practical about Buddhism, is that it offers very concrete methods for people to work with.
Pankaj Mishra
#83. I think what's important for kids to know is that your decisions here on earth matter, your behavior matters and how you treat other people matters.
Matt Damon
#84. To be 'on purpose' means you're doing what you love to do, doing what you're good at, and accomplishing what's important to you.
Jack Canfield
#85. Being on a boat that's moving through the water, it's so clear. Everything falls into place in terms of what's important and what's not.
James Taylor
#86. Everyone tells tiny lies, what's important really is the size.
Stephen Sondheim
#87. When I'm focusing on what's important to God, I live differently. I invest my time differently.
Craig Groeschel
#88. The gods know what's important, what's wrong about you. They know everything. If you go out searching for the Holy Grail, they won't let you find it.
Tom Spanbauer
#89. See that's what people don't get about food. It's never the food, it's the love that goes into making it. That's what's important.
Sarah Strohmeyer
#91. Slowed time is -- or should be -- a way of pointing to what's important.
Joan Silber
#92. The connection, that's what's important - that through this medium we can, perhaps, understand and touch each other.
Paolo Pellegrin
#94. I think you grow up every year, every day. You learn something new and try to really worry about what's important in life.
Patrick Kane
#95. I thought I needed to go to one of the top five schools in the nation and never even thought 'What's important to me?' Instead of figuring out what was important, which was obviously being near home, I kind of just went with what everyone thought I should do.
Elena Delle Donne
#96. Measurement is fabulous. Unless you're busy measuring what's easy to measure as opposed to what's important
Seth Godin
#97. ..the good life warrants an ongoing struggle to be clear about what's important, and to seek it with lucidity and passion; not to be distracted by false ambitions, or waylaid by dissipated conscious
Damon Young
#98. You cannot do what's important now for you if your mind cannot accept what is happening in this present moment.
John Kuypers
#99. What's important at this time is to re-clarify the difference between hero and villain.
J. Edgar Hoover
#100. Life's what's important. Walking, houses, family. Birth and pain and joy - and then death.
Katharine Hepburn
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