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What Is Important Quotes

I am trying to show the world that we are all human beings and that color is not important. What is important is the quality of our work.
- Alvin Ailey

The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said. Looking for metaphors, for example: When I was a young man I was always hunting for new metaphors. Then I found out that really good metaphors are always the same.
- Jorge Luis Borges

When she cried, he would say, there is nothing wrong with crying. Your feelings tell you who are. They tell what is important. Don't ever be ashamed of them.
- Terry Brooks

It's not where you start or even what happens to you along the way that's important. What is important is that you persevere and never give up on yourself.
- Zig Ziglar

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Often I hear people say they do not have time to read. That's absolute nonsense. If one really wants to learn, one has to decide what is important. Spending an evening on the town? Attending a ball game? Or learning something that can be with you your life long.
- Louis L Amour

What is important for kids to learn is that no matter how much money they have, earn, win, or inherit, they need to know how to spend it, how to save it, and how to give it to others in need. This is what handling money is about, and this is why we give kids an allowance.
- Barbara Coloroso

What is important is not what you hear said, it's what you observe.
- Michael Connelly

Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.
- Stephen Covey

The purpose of history is to explain the present - to say why the world around us is the way it is. History tells us what is important in our world, and how it came to be. It tells us what is to be ignored, or discarded. That is true power - profound power. The power to define a whole society.
- Michael Crichton

The fact that a person loves one particular person is what is important; the life lesson, whether you are homosexual or heterosexual, is that you not be promiscuous, and true to one person.
- Loretta Devine

What is important is the moment of opening a life and feeling it touch--with an electric hiss and cry--this speckled mineral sphere, our present world.
- Annie Dillard

What is important is that one utilizes one's intellect and not to be 100 percent sure about one's convictions. One should always leave room for doubt.
- Shirin Ebadi

The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.
- Martin Luther King Jr

We never remember what is important, only what matters to us
- Suzanne Finnamore

Capital isn't that important in business. Experience isn't that important. You can get both of these things. What is important is ideas.
- Harvey S Firestone

I said, names aren't important," he repeated. There was a silence between them for some seconds, then the Ranger said: "Do you know what is important?"
Will shook his head.
"Supper is important!
- John Flanagan

What is important is the story. Because when we are all dust and teeth and kicked-up bits of skin - when we're dancing with our own skeletons - our words might be all that's left of us.
- Alexandra Fuller

There are only two worlds - your world, which is the real world, and other worlds, the fantasy. Worlds like this are worlds of the human imagination: their reality, or lack of reality, is not important. What is important is that they are there. these worlds provide an alternative. Provide an escape. Provide a threat. Provide a dream, and power; provide refuge, and pain. They give your world meaning. They do not exist; and thus they are all that matters.
- Neil Gaiman

Take a step back, evaluate what is important, and enjoy life.
- Teri Garr

What is important is to win.
- Haile Gebrselassie

Anybody who has gone through a life-changing experience will tell you there is a different understanding of what is real and what is important, and when you are going through different moments, you can reflect and go, 'I have been through worse.'
- Delta Goodrem

The secret is to write just anything, to dare to write just anything, because when you write just anything, you begin to say what is important.
- Julien Green

What is important is family, friends, giving back to your community and finding meaning in life.
- Adrian Grenier

What is important is to believe in something so strongly that you're never discouraged.
- Salma Hayek

The story of a love is not important-what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
- Helen Hayes

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity - love. And the story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
- Helen Hayes

What is important for a leader is that which makes him a leader. It is the needs of his people.
- Frank Herbert

We women have a lot to learn about simplifying our lives. We have to decide what is important and then move along at a pace that is comfortable for us. We have to develop the maturity to stop trying to prove something. We have to learn to be content with what we are.
- Marjorie Pay Hinckley

I think that what is important is that the music be honest and direct and that it is relevant to today. I think music needs to be of its time and speak to that time.
- Dave Holland

What is important is that you're honest with the American people.
- Jon Huntsman Jr

What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
- Jean Paul Sartre

The heart is what is important. There is nothing more vulnerable, nothing more corruptible than the human mind; nor is there anything as powerful, steadfast and ennobling.
- Daisaku Ikeda

Reality is harsh. It can be cruel and ugly. Yet no matter how much we grieve over our environment and circumstances nothing will change. What is important is not to be defeated, to forge ahead bravely. If we do this, a path will open before us.
- Daisaku Ikeda

I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet.
- Joan Jett

One day each of us will run out of tomorrows. Let us not put off what is important.
- Thomas S Monson

What these critics forget is that printing presses in themselves provide no guarantee of an enlightened outcome. People, not machines, made the Renaissance. The printing that takes place in North Korea today, for instance, is nothing more than propaganda for a personality cult. What is important about printing presses is not the mechanism, but the authors.
- Jaron Lanier

To transform the world, we must begin with ourselves; and what is important in beginning with ourselves is the intention. The intention must be to understand ourselves and not to leave it to others to transform themselves or to bring about a modified change through revolution, either of the left or of the right. It is important to understand that this is our responsibility, yours and mine..
- Jiddu Krishnamurti

When people talk about the good old days, I say to people, 'It's not the days that are old, it's you that's old.' I hate the good old days. What is important is that today is good.
- Karl Lagerfeld

Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
- Yves Saint Laurent

What sculptors do is represent the essence of gesture. What is important in mime is attitude.
- Marcel Marceau

He reflected that what is important is not things, but the meaning we give to things. Sooner or later death comes for everyone. More important than putting off death, is giving it a meaning.
- Silvana De Mari

What is important is to have values in life. What's important is how you are, not how you look.
- Valeria Mazza

It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the benefit of the opposition. The naming of what is there is what is important.
- Ian Mcewan

I'm going to continue to talk about what is important to the people of Connecticut which is jobs, getting people back to work, the economy.
- Linda Mcmahon

...: we live blindly. We repeat the same mistakes by rote until an emotional punch to the gut brings us up short. ...Sometimes it requires intense pain before we can take a good hard look at ourselves, before we ask the important questions. ... Who am I? What is important? What do I believe? What do I want?
- Joan Medlicott

It is better to do what you love for work, but if it is your day job that enables an unpaid passion, then your life is still sweeter. What is important is that you make time for your dreams, not whether or not you get paid for it.
- Tara Moss

It is not important for me as a writer that you leave a piece of writing of mine with either an agreement or even a resonance with what I have said. What is important is that you leave with the resonance of what you have felt and what you thought in reaction to that.
- Ben Okri

What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects.
- Walter Pater

The Principle of Priority states (a) you must know the difference between what is urgent and what is important, and (b) you must do what's important first.
- Steven Pressfield

Being real is what is important.
- Gavin Rossdale

So this anchoring in some way, in some important way in the past without repeating the past, but on the basis of the past building something new: that is what is important.
- Gunther Schuller

It is not important to have said a thing first, or best - or even most interestingly. What is important is to say it on the right occasion.
- Idries Shah

The 150th anniversary of Penn State will highlight what is important and good about this distinguished institution and the fine people and research that it produces.
- Don Sherwood

What is important is not what someone is but what he is waiting for. Not the events of life but its possibilities.
- Dorothee Solle

No, what is important is neither linearity or non-linearity, but the change, the degree of change from something that doesn't move to other events with different tempos in particular.
- Karlheinz Stockhausen

Fall leaves are brilliant with gold and red. You can cup them in your hand and wonder at them, be amazed at their uniqueness and glory. But eventually they are gone, brown, crumbling, scattered on the wind. But the tree remains. The tree is what is important. The tree lives on. That was a difficult knowledge to bear, and an even more difficult life to live. Of course, being the leaf wasn't exactly desirable either.
- Rob Thurman

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.
- Earl Warren

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