Your Unimportant Quotes

#1. I don't believe I asked for a glass of your unimportant opinion.

Suzanne Wright

#2. Your critics want you to be as unhappy, unfulfilled and unimportant as they are. Let your happiness eat them up from inside

Ricky Gervais

#3. I keep your soul
In my ageing wallet,
The unimportant stuff
(Money, cards, coins)
Stay loose in my pocket,
A place as fickle as they.

Phen Weston

#4. The world is unimportant and whoever recognizes this conquers his liberty.

Albert Camus

#5. It's been mentioned or suggested that Paradise will not be well studied, because it's about this unimportant intellectual topic, which is religion.

Toni Morrison

#6. Another problem with worry is that it makes you forget your worth. Worry makes you feel worthless, forgotten, and unimportant.

Charles R. Swindoll

#7. Venezuela's oil is unimportant for Bolivia. We are not dependent on Venezuela. We complement each other. Venezuela shares its wealth with other countries, but that doesn't make us subordinate.

Evo Morales

#8. I might have felt unimportant pitted against the awesome might of the mountains. I did not. Rather, on that mountain top I found something important that I had never known before: an awareness of a vital connection between me and the Authority behind all this beauty.

Catherine Marshall

#9. Plot is unimportant. Family is everything, and 'Furious 7' is a blast.

Drew McWeeny

#10. She had learnt long ago that common sense, intelligence, good-nature, and strength of character were unimportant in comparison with a pretty face.

W. Somerset Maugham

#11. Any thing is interesting if you can communicate it. There are no unimportant subjects for the enlivened mind.

Kris Saknussemm

#12. I believe that Chess possesses a magic that is also a help in advanced age. A rheumatic knee is forgotten during a game of chess and other events can seem quite unimportant in comparison with a catastrophe on the chessboard.

Vlastimil Hort

#13. So what if man's body evolved from the monkeys? Whether he came from monkeys or fish is unimportant. The important idea is that when the body became "human" enough, the first human soul slipped into it.

Garth Stein

#14. The medium is as unimportant as I myself. Essential is only the forming.

Kurt Schwitters

#15. The elderly man, flushed with pleasure, was recounting in voluble fashion his experiences and impressions. His wife joined in periodically, with meticulous corrections involving completely unimportant points; these being given and taken in the best of humor.

Isaac Asimov

#16. The idea that beauty is unimportant is the real beauty myth.

Nancy Etcoff

#17. The events of my life are too unimportant, and have too little interest for any person not of my immediate family, to render them worth communicating or preserving.

John Marshall

#18. Anyone who believes he has caught him in a fantastic lie is apt to find out that the fantastic story is the truth. And some unimportant statement, like just having bought an evening paper a half-hour ago, is the lie."

--On Orson Welles

Bernard Herrmann

#19. Conflicting economic interest is relatively unimportant as a cause of war.

Frank Knight

#20. To simplify is about enhancing our ability to focus on things that really matter, to deliberately choose our priorities, and to refuse to let unimportant things take over the things of real importance.

Carolyn J. Rasmus

#21. There is nothing unimportant in the universe.

Ruth Bernhard

#22. If sex isn't an important part of your marriage, you can't beef if your wife or husband does this unimportant thing with somebody else every once in a while, if you have no interest in it.

Dan Savage

#23. As they sang, this nondescript and indifferent street audience gazed, held by the peculiarity of such an unimportant-looking family publicly raising its collective voice against the vast skepticism and apathy of life.

Theodore Dreiser

#24. One of the most dangerous of literary ventures is the little, shy, unimportant heroine whom none of the other characters value. The danger is that your readers may agree with the other characters.

C.S. Lewis

#25. Accept disgrace willingly ... Accept being unimportant ... Surrender yourself humbly; then you can be trusted to care for all things. Love the world as your own self; then you can truly care for all things.

Laozi

#26. It's amazing how important your job is when you want the day off - and how unimportant it is when you want a raise.

Robert Orben

#27. Knowing that somewhere in the world there is someone who cares what you wore, an insignificant detail of your life that would seem unimportant to anyone else, makes you feel more connected to that person and less alone in the world.

Deborah Tannen

#28. In your mindfulness practice, notice how often, without thinking, you try to manipulate, control, or exploit others - sometimes in tiny and apparently unimportant ways.

Karen Armstrong

#29. Take patiently the petty annoyances, the trifling discomforts, the unimportant losses which come upon all of us daily; for by means of these little matters, lovingly and freely accepted, you will give Him your whole heart, and win His.

Francis De Sales

#30. Any wrong decision you have ever made will become unimportant when your attention has shifted from it to a creative reason for living right here and now.

Raymond Charles Barker

#31. One of the greatest threats to your husband's position of priority would be if you were to earnestly pursue a career ... If you finally reach a pinnacle of success, you would overshadow him and make him feel unimportant.

Helen Andelin

#32. Lord, when I feel that what I'm doing is insignificant and unimportant, help me to remember that everything I do is significant and important in your eyes, because you love me and you put me here, and no one else can do what I am doing in exactly the way I do it.

Brennan Manning

#33. Gilbert White discovered the formula for complete happiness, but he died before making the announcement, leaving it for me to do so. It is to be very busy with the unimportant.

A. Edward Newton

#34. You are not here to fritter away your precious hours when you have the ability to accomplish so much by making a slight change in your routine.

Og Mandino

#35. I don't think you ever realized how unimportant high school and your role in it really was. High school is what happens before your life begins. You can be the top dog in that big brown building and a nobody outside it.

Lindy Zart

#36. Fearful leaders love to stay in the morass of insignificant details. Because the details are usually unimportant, it is difficult to make a mistake of consequence. Of course, it's impossible to do anything of consequence when your focus is on those things that really don't make a difference.

Thom S. Rainer

#37. Your core, lying deep within you, is what makes you what you are. Some call it the soul, the Higher Self, the true self, the being and so on. The name is unimportant once you realize that you are more than your looks and outward appearance.

Stephen Richards

#38. It was the silly little things that seemed so unimportant at the time that could end up meaning the most after, the things that came at you all at once and reminded you that you took so much for granted when you thought your world was unbreakable.

Kirsty Moseley

#39. So long as you are going in the right direction then the speed of your travel is unimportant.

Stephen Richards

#40. All of the real heroes are not storybook combat fighters either. Every single man in this Army plays a vital role. Don t ever let up. Don t ever think that your job is unimportant. Every man has a job to do and he must do it. Every man is a vital link in the great chain.

George S. Patton Jr.

#41. I learned it many, many years ago from a man who didn't know who he was, Your Majesty. It was a distant place where two lands meet and gods have died. But that is unimportant.

Brandon Sanderson

#42. The unfairness of your current status is unimportant. What matters is, can you do what you need to do? If

Augusten Burroughs

#43. The richest most meaningful stories are found in small places: made, carried, crafted, told, and retold by apparently unimportant people.

Louise Brown

#44. We can no longer afford to throw away even one 'unimportant' day by not noticing the wonder of it all. We have to be willing to discover and then appreciate the authentic moments of happiness available to all of us every day.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#45. A photograph can, by the addition of an unimportant spot of color, become a photomontage, a work of art of a special kind.

John Heartfield

#46. In many respects, theater is still grappling with problems of reality and representation that the visual art movement realized were unimportant many years ago.

Tim Crouch

#47. It is amazing that, though I am small and ungifted and barely educated, even I can appreciate the scale of the universe. And from this perch in space, for this moment at least, it seems unimportant whether someone made it, or if it made itself.

Stephanie Oakes

#48. Even the most exalted states and the most exceptional spiritual accomplishments are unimportant if we cannot be happy in the most basic and ordinary ways, if we cannot touch one another and the life we have been given with our hearts.

Jack Kornfield

#49. Give the public what they want. What you want is unimportant.

Pete Waterman

#50. Urgent equals ephemeral, and ephemeral equals unimportant.

John Le Carre

#51. Penetrating a company's security often starts with the bad guy obtaining some piece of information that seems so innocent, so everyday and unimportant, that most people in the organization don't see any reason why the item should be protected and restricted.

Kevin Mitnick

#52. I blur things to make everything equally important and equally unimportant. I blur things so that they do not look artistic or craftsmanlike but technological, smooth and perfect. I blur things to make all the parts a closer fit. Perhaps I also blur out the excess of unimportant information.

Gerhard

#53. The secret to life, she had said, was to find the little things, the unimportant ones that would nonetheless always remind you of the precious things they accompanied - and hold onto them.

Karl Schroeder

#54. In order to do a good job of those things that we decide to do, we must eliminate all of the unimportant opportunities.

Mike Markkula

#55. A man can look upon his life and accept it as good or evil; it is far, far harder for him to confess that it has been unimportant in the sum of things.

Murray Kempton

#56. Who the hell let you animals into my office?
I'll have you know I was playing a VERY unimportant game of chess right now with a man that kept saying King me.

Matt Fraction

#57. But then comes a time when forgetting isn't possible. And I do mean a particular time when no amount of dreaming, not then and maybe not ever, can change how naked and unimportant we become in our own eyes.

Stig Dagerman

#58. A day merely survived is no cause for celebration.

Og Mandino

#59. All life is linked together in such a way that no part of the chain is unimportant. Frequently, upon the action of some of these minute beings depends the material success or failure of a great commonwealth.

John Henry Comstock

#60. Did I express my personality? I think that's quite unimportant because it's not people's selves but what they have to say about life that's important.

Paul Strand

#61. He went three hundred yards up the slope to the other hotel, he engaged a room, and found himself washing without a memory of the intervening ten minutes, only a sort of drunken flush pierced with voices, unimportant voices that did not know how much he was loved.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#62. We fill too many gutters while we argue unimportant points and confuse issues.

John Howard Griffin

#63. "One and one make two" assumes that the changes in the shift of circumstance are unimportant. But it is impossible for us to analyze this notion of unimportant change.

Alfred North Whitehead

#64. When it comes to art, money is an unimportant detail. It just happens to be a huge unimportant detail.

Iggy Pop

#65. Through humour, we see in what seems rational, the irrational; in what seems important, the unimportant

Charlie Chaplin

#66. Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself

Charlie Chaplin

#67. Today I discovered two kinds of people who go to high school: those who wear new clothes to show off on the first day, and those who wear their oldest clothes to show they think school is unimportant.

Beverly Cleary

#68. Mental reflection os so much more interesting than tv [that]it's a shame more people don't switch over to it. They probably think what they hear is unimportant, but it never is.

Robert M. Pirsig

#69. Of what use the friendliest disposition even, if there are no hours given to Friendship, if it is forever postponed to unimportant duties and relations? Friendship first, Friendship last.

Henry David Thoreau

#70. It has been rightly said that nothing is unimportant, nothing powerless in the universe; a single atom can dissolve everything, and save everything! What terror! There lies the eternal distinction between good and evil.

Gerard De Nerval

#71. As I progressed further with my project, it became obvious that it was really unimportant where I chose to photograph. The particular place simply provided an excuse to produce work ... you can only see what you are ready to see - what mirrors your mind at that particular time.

George A Tice

#72. Because love encompasses everything, nothing is unimportant, including tonight's dinner menu. Think about it for a minute. If you were pure love, the loving parent of all life, how would you want people to eat?

Victoria Moran

#73. Please understand, I am not saying that technology is unimportant. I understand that technology is important. But if we are just focusing on technology and investing in an IT manufacturing plant to come up with higher performance processing [chips], we will not succeed.

Satoru Iwata

#74. The four stages of acceptance:
1. This is worthless nonsense.
2. This is an interesting, but perverse, point of view.
3. This is true, but quite unimportant.
4. I always said so."

(Review of The Truth About Death, in: Journal of Genetics 1963, Vol. 58, p.464)

J.B.S. Haldane

#75. I was at an all-girls' school, so there were a lot of us who were really awkward. I was this tall when I was 11, so I was really awkward and self-conscious. No one would really have wanted to be mean to me. I was too unimportant.

Sigourney Weaver

#76. Nothing that ever happens is so unimportant that it doesn't change things.

David Eddings

#77. Take our 20 best people away, and I will tell you that Microsoft will become an unimportant company

Bill Gates

#78. It's funny. I used to look up at the stars and feel so small and unimportant. But I've come to realize that the only thing that can ever make you feel alive and important is the one person who takes you for you.

Tillie Cole

#79. Ordinary-size people, they don't know: their lives have been rehearsed and rehearsed by every single person who ever lived before them, inventions and improvements and unimportant notions each generation, each year. In 600BC somebody did something that makes your life easier today; in 1217, 1892.

Elizabeth McCracken

#80. But at the same time who would ever think, "I'm an unimportant little person, and if I end up just a cog in society's system, gradually worn down until I die, hey - that's okay"?

Haruki Murakami

#81. 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

#82. Death suddenly seemed unimportant and life seemed everything

Hugh MacLennan