Important Quotes

The most important thing I learned [from running] is that there is only one runner in this race, and that is me.

History is organized memory, and the organization is all important!

There is nothing more important to this nation's future than investing in our young people.

Every Englishman believes that Handel now occupies an important position in heaven. If so, le bon Dieu must feel toward him very much as Louis Treize felt toward Richelieu.

When you're choosing the track list and the sequencing, it's important to make sure that there's some strong concepts on there and that it matters and it says something... that it sticks with people.

Maybe we judge people too much by their looks because it's easier than seeing what's really important.

You have to focus on what's important to you and go for it. But don't stab people in the back. It poisons your whole life if you're like that.

Scoring goals is a great feeling, but the most important thing to me is that the team is successful - it doesn't matter who scores the goals as long as we're winning.

Scale is extremely important. Scale is not dimensions. Dimensions are physical and scales are mental.

How to obtain freedom has been, and is, mankind's most important quest.

Perhaps the single most important therapeutic credo that I have is that the unexamined life is not worth living.

Some consider UNIX to be the second most important invention to come out of AT&T Bell Labs after the transistor.

Love is more important than what we can take...Please say with me three times-Love! Love! Love!

Casting ethnic characters is a very hard thing to do, but it's important. It's also interesting.

We've got babies raising babies, and it's important for us as responsible adults to go out and do what we can to make sure that our kids are steered in the right direction.

Every day, you always have to be cognizant of your brand. I know it can cost you [future] money, but there are a lot of things more important than money that affect your brand.

I believe it is important for people to create a healthy mental environment in which to accomplish daily tasks.

Whenever I'm making music I'm always waiting for the shivers to happen - that's an important thing for me.

The most important question to ask is "What am I becoming?"

I know of nothing more valuable, when it comes to the all-important virtue of authenticity, than simply being who you are.

Someday you're going to have to learn to separate what seems to be important from what really is important.

Technique isn't important. Technique is in the blood. Events and mood are more important than good light and the happening is what is important

You can't make the other fellow feel important in your presence if you secretly feel that he is a nobody

I will work day and night to avoid failure, but if I can't, I'll pick myself up the next day. The most important thing for entrepreneurs is not to be put off by failure.

When you draw a crowd of people in a street or room or landscape, decide whether you want to say that the people dominate the place or that the place is more important than the people.

An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: What does happen is that the opponents gradually die out.

It's not what a man has but what a man is that's important.

One of the most important things I've learned about acting is that you can't separate how you live your life and how you practice your art.

It's really important to draw the line on what we do as actors.

If you ask me, taking on risk and being more daring is a real important part of creativity.

The most important thing in making money is not letting your losses get out of hand.

It is terribly important to appreciate that some things remain obscure to the bitter end.

It's important to me that everyone is treated with respect.

It is extremely important for you to believe in yourselves, not only for what you are now, but for what you have the power to become.

I learned the most about myself, and you ask what I learned? Well, I learned my strengths and my weaknesses, and it's far more important to learn about your weaknesses than your strengths.

I'm doing what I think I was put on this earth to do. And I'm really grateful to have something that I'm passionate about and that I think is profoundly important.

Go to your checkbook and see what you spend money on. In an instant, you will know what is important to you because your money goes toward it.

The important thing is to remember what most impressed you and to put it on canvas as fast as possible.

I got my hair highlighted because I felt some strands were more important than others.

Having once found the intensity of art, nothing else that can happen in life can ever again seem as important as the creative process.

I came to mistrust my desire to explode the picture and supercharge it in some way… what is more important is a feeling of strength in reserve – tension beneath calm.

I have done nothing important or distinguished since we met except to win the handicap prize, worth ?4 10/- at North Berwick.

I try to have a real close connection with my fans. That's extremely important. They are the ones that have been there from the beginning and proved everyone else wrong.

It's so important to listen to music, to listen again and again. Eat, sleep and drink music.

A need to concentrate on each sound, so that every blade of grass would be as important as a flower.

You have the biggest impact on controlling, on affecting local lives as mayor. It's so much more important than being a state legislator.

The older you get, the more important it is to not act your age.

Enjoying the dream is more important than interpreting it. Therefore, don't work so hard that it stops being pleasant and exciting.

The important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle.

The important thing is that all stages from adolescent to mature man, work is done to spread the sporting spirit.