Important Quotes

Bad things happen. And the human brain is especially adept at making sure that we keep track of these events. This is an adaptive mechanism important for survival.

The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president.

I think it's important that artists use their voices for so much more than just their talent.

How you spend your time is far more important than all the material possessions you may own or positions you may attain.

If my lyrics mean something special to someone... that's the most important thing to me.

I spend too much money on my sets and my gowns. I think the presentation is important. I don't think people want to see the old show all the time.

What's important for me is to give my daughters a well-rounded education and a mixture of people in their lives. They'll make their own choices. I think they would be good in show business.

The important thing was that I was still on the radio.

That fact that Jesus Christ died is more important than that fact that I will die.

We have to make you think it's an important seat - because you're in it.

It is important that both Japan and the United States continue to invest very heavily in the alliance to build up our defense.

Let's do this. November 8, let's win. You are going to look back at this election and say, this is by far the most important vote you have ever cast for anyone at any time.

You know, a lot of the people that are running. We want to go in; we want to have majorities. It's very important.

I have tried to hold my philanthropic passion to fashion, because I think this is very important, and I realize I need to delve even deeper into it.

You're as good as anyone else is, if you're good. You're no less important than anyone else is in the grand scope of things.

Humor is imperative, more important than food. You have a choice when someone dies. You can lie down or get back into life. Do something for someone else.

I hope to God I don't win an Oscar tomorrow night. It would really depress me if I did. I really don't deserve it. It wasn't that important a part anyhow.

If you make a good family movie, then everybody in the family can relate to somebody, or in this case something. That's always enjoyable. There's always an important place for family movies.

When I come home, I'm not a basketball player, but "dad". While everyone sees me as an NBA player, to my boys, I'm just "dad" and that's very important.

When you hug someone, you learn something else about them. An important something else.

You sit up there, and you see the whole gamut of human nature. Even if the case being argued involves only a little fellow and $50, it involves justice. That's what is important.

The people in your life are important. Meaningful relationships with those people are very important.

It's very important for a writer to be unnoticed, as quiet and unnoticed as possible.

What is urgent will always take precedence over what is important.

I think it is important for software to avoiding imposing a cognitive style on workers and their work.

The first thing you do is teach the person to feel that the vision is very important and nearly impossible. That draws out the drive in the winner.

Beyond the shadow of a doubt, food was more important than a woman's suffering.

Onstage, nothing is as important as truth, nothing. As soon as you lie, they know it.

After inside upheavals, it is important to fix on imperturbable things. Their imperturbableness, their air that nothing has happened renews our guarantee.

I believe that educating people to awaken into full consciousness is the most important thing we can do.

Be a mentor to others. Your most important legacy is preparing new leaders to carry on your goals.

I’m not a brain surgeon, I’m not saving anyone from any life-threatening illnesses. But I get to tell stories, and that’s a pretty important task.

I think it's really important to follow your intuition and gut, and try not to do things just for the sake of pleasing other people.

It's important to be fit, but you shouldn't get too skinny. You need to have curves.

Everything is so finite but that’s what makes our time and specific moments so important.

Since the beginning, a woman's first and most important role has been ushering into mortality spirit sons and daughters of our Father in Heaven.

My family and my friends are most important to me. These people are my foundation.

One moment cannot be the most important.

It is important to make the best out of every generation.

It's very important who the president of the United States is. America is a great idea, so that's why it's a great country.

The good life for me always meant connecting with those big, important issues that grown-ups get so excited about.

I regard reduction in Federal spending as one of the most important issues in this campaign. In my opinion it is the most direct and effective contribution that Government can make to business.

Indeed, this is an important characteristic of the globalization debate: the tendency toward glorifying all things indigenous even when they deserve to be left in the past.

I think the important point is the turning point in combining offense and defense in a reasonable way.

It's important to know when we need to stop, reflect, and receive. In our competitive world, that might be called a waste of time.

For children, play is exceedingly seriously & important

It is most important to have time alone. To be alone is not to be alone. It is only possible to truly feel immortality when we are by ourselves.

Least of all shall we preserve democracy or foster its growth if all the power and most of the important decisions rest with an organization far too big for the common man to survey or comprehend.

I was never that famous, but I do think going to college and really getting away from the business and taking a true break is incredibly, incredibly important if you start acting at a young age.

I am not minimizing emotions. Emotions are an important part of life.