Important Quotes

Grades were important in our house. I was reading by two. My mom would sit there and read with me, read with me, read with me. It was wonderful.

That charity fund, inside and outside Scotland is a very important identity of Celtic Football Club.

Religion was important to me. My family and I were very religious. I acctualy believe the work I did was a calling from God himself.

[On not reading newspapers:] If something important happens, your mother calls you.

Liberalism is a most important by-product of Rationalism, and its origins and ideology must be clearly shown

I don't think we can go into important local elections next year... with Tony Blair as leader and expect to keep many of the councillors we've got now.

The greatest and most important problems of life cannot be solved. They can only be outgrown.

The most important survival ability for any life form is the ability to change.

You cannot lie ever, because a lie destroys the credibility of the product, and credibility is more important than anything. Credibility's even more important than clarity.

The most important thing an institution does is not to prepare a student for a career but for a life as a citizen.

On the European Front the most important development of the past year has been the crushing offensive of the Great Armies of Russia.

Conceptual integrity is the most important consideration in system design.

I think it is important to maintain a sense of self and confidence, not letting either falter for the sake of a particular part or project, no matter how great it might be.

And it's difficult for the average American to understand why something like that could be so important and why a little small place like Taiwan would be so important to the PRC

My story is important not because it is mine, God knows, but because if I tell it anything like right, the chances are you will recognize that in many ways it is also yours.

Humility is the most important quality in the spiritual life. When it is lacking spiritual growth stops.

It's important to remember that there are countless views in infinity.

I think it's important to be extremely proud of one's origins, especially when you are a foreign actress with ethnic features.

The freedom that will be used by only one man in a million may be more important to society and more beneficial to the majority than any freedom that we all use.

An important species of pleasure, and therewith the source of morality, arises out of habit.

Unexplained, obscure matters are regarded as more important than explained, clear ones.

Your first realization when you become an important person is that all day and all night, whatever the circumstances, people want to hear you talk about yourself.

It's much more important to write than to be written about.

It's important for survival that children have their own experiences, the kind they learn from. The kind their parents arrange for are not as useful. Good parents are the hardest to get rid of.

The use of talent is far more important than the possession of talent.

You need to take your gut feeling as an important data point, but then you have to consciously and deliberately evaluate it, to see if it makes sense in this context.

Taking risks, breaking the rules, and being a maverick have always been important but today they are more crucial than ever.

Who I've been is not as important as who I'm becoming.

There is magic in knocking down your most important domino day after day. All you have to do is avoid breaking the chain, one day at a time, until you generate a powerful new habit in your life.

It's really important for boys to see that girls take up half of the planet - which we do.

What are we doing that for in the 21st century? Why on earth would we teach kids that girls are less important than boys? It just made no sense to me.

With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet.

The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.

Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.

Some things are too important to be left to the private sector.

Power can be very addictive, and it can be corrosive. And it's important for the media to call to account people who abuse their power, whether it be here or elsewhere.

When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty.

Strategy is the most important department of the art of war, and strategical skill is the highest and rarest function of military genius.

The important question is, how many hands have I shaked?

Innovation is very important to me, especially professionally. The alternative, standing pat, leads to complacency, rigidity and eventually failure.

This is the year of Katrina and Iraq. How the war ends is more important than how it began. However you feel about the war, you have to be compassionate and loving towards our troops

If I don't know what's coming - that is, if I have no hard-and-fast image, as I have with a photographic original - then arbitrary choice and chance play an important part.

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.

Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking.

I'm old fashioned with my cell phone. I like that human contact and I think it's important.

Trifling favors are readily acknowledged, though cheaply esteemed; but important ones are most rarely remembered.

Leaving [from EU] will allow us to return real democratic control to important areas of national life; from international trade, the right to work and live in Britain to business regulation.

What is the most important duty? One's duty toward one's parent.

Instead of receiving the help that she had hoped for, Mr. Cain instead decided to provide her with his idea of a stimulus package.

While there's been much progress on terrorism, there's still much work to do and it is very important that the countries work together in order to address this threat together.