What Is Important Quotes

Formal courtesy between husband and wife is even more important than it is between strangers.

Jill: 'I don't pay attention to politics.' Ben: 'You should. It's barely less important than your own heart beat.' Jill: 'I don't pay attention to that, either.'

Silence is, after all, the context for the deepest appreciation of art: the only important evaluations are finally, personal, interior ones.

Developing your own style became something very interesting, very important to me.

Any artwork is part of something larger, grander and, you know, the situation that it's in is very important.

The space between things is important to me. The projections, that darkness between the words or the images is very important.

I do like certain kinds of frames for work. That's important.

The most important question facing the planet is: Is it worth it?

Aesthetic pleasure is not to be taken lightly; it's very important for the spirit and therefore the health.

Having one perfect thing was less important than having a range of ideas, realizing they were all taking you in a certain direction.

After a lifetime of deep thought, I've decided that life is a distraction, but probably not from anything important.

Every Native North American text I've ever grappled with has taught me something important about how to live on the continent where I was born.

The most important job you will ever have is your commitment to a promise you made to someone.

Your health and well being should be your number one priority, nothing else is more important.

If in a tense or nervous situation, take a moment to center and ground yourself and make a thoughtful decision. Remember that nothing is as important as it first seems.

The most important thing I learned as a foreign correspondent in about 80 countries is that it takes a very shallow knowledge of history to think that there are solutions to most problems.

It's important to make clear to all the schools at Harvard the central role of the library.

Sometimes it's more important to change politicians than light bulbs.

There are three things, after all, that a poem must reach: the eye, the ear, and what we may call the heart or the mind. It is the most important of all to reach the heart of the reader.

A man has got to keep his extrication. The important thing is not to get bogged down In what he has to do to earn a living.

It's okay to doubt. It's important to test. The way to discover secrets is to be a student of your own efforts.

Liberal economists conceive of societies as black boxes connected by exchange rates; as long as exchange rates are correct, what goes on inside the black box is regarded as not very important.

... on every important issue life transcends logic and it is folly to depend on reason alone.

Nothing is more important than honesty in prayer. There are no pretensions in prayer, so the best place to begin is wherever you are.

History is too important to be left to the historians.

The message has to go to the streets, it's imperative that we reach those who may not get to a church. We receive their questions, it's important that the world asks questions.

I personally believe it's really important for the students to experience a particular culture.

Courage is the most important attribute of a lawyer.

Philanthropy is an important subject of liberal education because it examines the role of good works in shaping our conceptions of the good society and the good life.

Nobody wants to disappoint the boss and get fired. But if the boss hasn't said this is important, it's going to die a slow death in bureaucracy and that explains a lot of the problems.

This relates to the concept of time and our ability as dreamers to reach across time to a past or future self and do some good. This is very important as it relates to soul loss and soul recovery.

Tacit knowledge is one of the most important concepts of current scholarship in the humanities. Ambitious and important, Tacit and Explicit Knowledge is a well-written and original book.

Most people get overwhelmed by the insignificant decisions of their lives. I'm urging people to minimize the time spent on these when they're not critical to their most important goals.

The most important thing is to talk to people that have jobs that you might like and to see what they say the job involves.

If you want an active schedule, you have to husband your time so you can act on the things that are important.

The important thing about a sport is the people who devote their lives to it.

I have found over the years that the most important way of getting people to relax is self-deprecating humor.

We are paying teachers who are in charge of our human capital, arguably more important than our financial capital, a very tiny fraction of what Wall Streeters are paid.

If the president finds time to help the mentally retarded, what are you doing that's so important? [Written underneath:] Working to get them out of Washington.

I think it's very important to follow the lead of the South Koreans and the Chinese and not back North Korea even further into a corner, because that's when they'll be dangerous.

The British audience was very important to me. I have always looked away from American to non-American audiences and so this was important.

Over the past 20 years, I have presented many science programmes on BBC1. But none is, I think, more socially important, or of more human interest, than this ongoing series of 'Child of Our Time.'

I don't know whether it is important to study science at a young age, though current thinking emphasises the need.

Not conceding a goal at home is always important in a Cup tie. But despite that there is no doubt that this tie is still wide open.

My dear fellow, my whole life is moved by the principle that the one thing which is more important than peace is music. It is because I believe that I am poor.

Female beauty is an important Minor Sacrament which cannot be received too often; I am not at all sure that neglect of it does not constitute a sin of some kind.

Oh hearts! Nobody gets through life without a broken heart. The important thing is to break the heart so that when it mends it will be stronger than before.

I really love having smart and important conversations on TV.

Canada's most important -- that is to say consequential -- modern voice.

It was too important a matter, this talking to people, and listening to them, to do it lightly or often.