Whats Important Quotes

As long as it's good music, that's what's important.
- Tom Araya

But who wants to hang aroundfrat guys ? I want to be with guys who have more on their minds than where the next keg party is. I want to be with guys who care about making this world a better placethe way Andrew does. I want to be with guys who know that what's important isn't the size of a girl's waistband but the size of her heartlike Andrew. I want to be with guys who are able to see past a girl's outward appearance, and into her soullike Andrew.
- Meg Cabot

The music is the last thing I'm thinking about right now, in order of what's important.
- Burt Bacharach

I don't think the amount of belief you have is what's important. I think it's what you have belief in that matters.
- P C Cast

You have to pay a lot of attention to what's important, what's permanent, what's real.
- Jim Balsillie

I want you to always hold your head up and follow your dreams wherever they take you. Don't you ever listen to the people out to hurt you or make you cry. Listen to your heart and be better than them. No one gets ahead by hurting others. The only real peace anyone will ever have is the one that comes from within. Live your life on your own terms and make it a happy life. Always. That's what's important, Torimou. (Theo)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon

Fella in business got to lie an' cheat, but he calls it somepin else. That's what's important. You go steal that tire an' you're a thief, but he tried to steal your four dollars for a busted tire. They call that sound business.
- John Steinbeck

You confuse what's important with what's impressive.
- E M Forster

What's important is promising something to the people, not actually keeping those promises. The people have always lived on hope alone.
- Hermann Broch

You know, who cares about seeing the girls when everybody wants to see the band. That's what's important, KISS is important. I think we look great, and the attitude is there, and I'm real happy with it.
- Eric Carr

Ideologies aren't all that important. What's important is psychology.
- James Carville

NINA:...what's important is...the ability to endure. To be able to bear one's cross and have faith. I have faith, and it's not so painful now, and when I think of my vocation, I'm not afraid of life.
- Anton Chekhov

I think what's important is to give space to the range of human experience.
- Judy Chicago

It's very confusing when fame comes early on in your career. You get a little bit bent out of shape in terms of what's important. Fame is like the dessert that comes with your achievements - it's not an achievement in itself, but sometimes it can overpower the work.
- Adam Clayton

For a short time, I hated them. But when you think about it, what good does that do?It takes so much to hold on to hateyou lose your grip on what's important, you know?
- Harlan Coben

You live in world, you collide with others. That's the way it is. We collide and sometimes someone gets hurt. They just wanted to steal a silly pair of boxers. It went wrong. For a short time, I hated them. But when you think about it, what good does that do? It takes so much hold on to hate - you lose your grip on what's important, you know?
- Harlan Coben

What's important is that a story changes every time you say it out loud. When you put it on paper, it can never change. But the more times you tell it, the more changes will occur. A story is a living thing; it moves and shifts
- Pat Conroy

Things aren't ever what they seem to be when you first look at them. What's important is that you keep your mind wide open and try to understand what's going on from a lot of different angles.
- Christopher Paul Curtis

What's important is to be able to see yourself, I think, as having commonality with other people and not determine, because of your good luck, that everybody is less significant, less interesting, less important than you are.
- Harrison Ford

What's important for me is to communicate the vision that I have in sound with the audience that's hearing it.
- John Eaton

What's important to have is a president that's focused on jobs, the economy, giving our children a better future and keeping our nation strong and safe.
- Mary Fallin

Beauty isn't worth thinking about; what's important is your mind. You don't want a fifty-dollar haircut on a fifty-cent head.
- Garrison Keillor

As a child, I didn't know what I didn't have. I'm thankful for the challenges early on in my life because now I have a perspective on the world and kind of know what's important.
- America Ferrera

Someone... tell us what's important, because we no longer know.
- Richard Ford

I want to keep doing different things. I'd like to do a more personal, dramatic movie next, I think. But as long as it's about characters and good writing and good parts for actors, that's what's important.
- Tony Goldwyn

Explaining something makes it go away, so to speak; what's important is left after you have explained everything else.
- Edward Gorey

I'm learning that you have to make time for what's important. You have to fight to carve little pieces of happiness out of your life, or the everyday emergencies will eat up everything.
- Laurell K Hamilton

What's important is the time we spent working on it together. What's important is that Sam is the kind of guy who will trade notes on a sketchpad and teach me how to make tuna melts and drop everything to drive to a parking lot
when I need him and throw stones at my window to make sure I'm okay.
- Hannah Harrington

And what's important to you?" I asked.
...
"Success at work. Having fun doing it. Caring for someone and supporting their interests because you like to see them happy. Having them care about and support yours simply becausethey want to see you happy
- Kim Harrison

And what's important to you?" I asked.
Marshal thought while we maneuvered around Darth Vader, who was struggling to keep from hitting the wall with his helmet blocking his vision. "Success at work. Having fun doing it. Caring for someone and supporting their interests because you like to see them happy. Having them care about and support yours simply because they want to see you happy.
- Kim Harrison

She taught me what's important, and what isn't. And I've never forgotten. And that's what mothers do, I say.
- Steven Herrick

My family is my life, and everything else comes second as far as what's important to me.
- Michael Imperioli

Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That's what's important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times.
- Lebron James

The United States is a strong and ardent ally of Israel. The fact of the matter is that friends can disagree. I think what's important is that world leaders are able to sit down with one another, have frank conversations and move forward.
- Valerie Jarrett

Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them.
- Steve Jobs

Consequently, most of us really exist at the mercy of other people's formulations of what's important.
- June Jordan

I want to import what's important, and export the trivial out of my life.
- Jarod Kintz

Hopefully, imparting what's important to me, respect for the food and that information about the purveyors, people will realize that for a restaurant to be good, so many pieces have to come together.
- Thomas Keller

What's important to me now is to uphold my good name and achieve a fair court decision - the past cannot be recovered anyway.
- Mikhail Khodorkovsky

But sometimes you have to be brave. Sometimes you have to show people what's important in life.
- Sophie Kinsella

It's just that what's important there is different there than what's important is here. Here, people care that you wrote a book or that you work in the media.
- Chuck Klosterman

We need to remember what's important in life: friends, waffles, work. Or waffles, friends, work. Doesn't matter, but work is third.
- Leslie Knope

You cannot do what's important now for you if your mind cannot accept what is happening in this present moment.
- John Kuypers

When you do what's important now for you, you create a past that leaves you ready to handle the present. By default, the future is taking care of itself as you make decisions that are acceptable to you no matter what happens tomorrow.
- John Kuypers

Learning how to recognize and act on your Inner Knowing is the greatest tool for discovering what's important now by living in the present.
- John Kuypers

When you are living in the present, you know what's important now for you and you act on that knowing.
- John Kuypers

In general...there's no point in writing hopeless novels. We all know we're going to die; what's important is the kind of men and women we are in the face of this.
- Anne Lamott

There's no point in writing hopeless novels. We all know we're going to die; what's important is the kind of men and women we are in the face of this.
- Anne Lamott

We all know we're going to die; what's important is the kind of men and women we are in the face of this.
- Anne Lamott

Dying ain't important. Everyone does that. What's important is how well you do your living.
- Julius Lester

The mainstream media today has the biggest disconnect with its audience that it's ever, ever had. And as the disconnect grows and as more and more people distrust them, then the media digs in more and more and says you don't know what you're talking about, you don't know how we do our jobs, you don't know what's important.
- Rush Limbaugh

You can watch someone on-stage cry and cry - but in the audience you feel nothing. It's easy to become indulgent. For me, what's important is the story first.
- Laura Linney

There are no simple answers in life. There is a good and bad in everyone and everything. No decision is made without consequence. No road is taken that doesn't lead to another. What's important is that those roads always be kept open, for there's no telling what wonder they might lead to.
- D J Machale

Having children is my greatest achievement. It was my saviour. It switched my focus from the outside to the inside. My children are gifts, they remind me of what's important.
- Elle Macpherson

We've all had to rewrite the scripts of our lives the last few weeks. We've learnt a lot and we've had to figure out what's important, what matters what really matters. It's been quite a time.
- John Marsden

I don't live in as much fear as I used to. I'm not afraid of the music business. Life is too damn short. I know what's important, and the tasks are very clear.
- Kathy Mattea

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

My name is October Christine Daye; I live in a city by the sea where the fog paints the early morning, parking is more precious than gold, and Kelpies wait for the unwary on street corners. Neither of the worlds I live in is quite mine, but no one can take them away from me. I did what had to be done, and I think I may finally be starting to understand what's important. It's all about finding the way home, wherever that is. I plan on finding out.
I have time.
- Seanan Mcguire

What would you say you've taken away from all this? ... That running away solves nothing? That my desperate need for a man to fill my life, to make me feel whole, blinded me to what's important?..
- Joan Medlicott

I went through a long period where I was afraid of doing things I wanted to do, and you get your courage back, which is what's important.
- George Michael

Steven and I have worked together a lot and I'm far ahead of the curve than most people in knowing what he wants, but he knows far more than I know about what's important for the story. So, most of the changes he will make will involve story changes.
- Dennis Muren

I like good stories. Quality products and character are what's important. Even if the script isn't that strong, if I challenge myself with a great character, I'll go for it.
- Corin Nemec

What's important about morality in politics is us. We own the chicken farm. We must give our bird-brained, feather-headed politicians morals. Politicians love to think of themselves as "free-range" but they do not have the capacity to hunt or gather morals in the wild. If we fail to supply them with morality, politicians begin to act very scary in the barnyard. These are enormous headless chickens and they have nukes.
- P J Orourke

Well, I was lucky enough to be involved in about 19 failures at an early age, so I'm realistic about the success I'm having and how quickly it can go away. What's important is to be smart about it.
- Matthew Perry

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

What's important about an actor is his acting, not his life.
- Vincent Price

Perhaps it's time, I muse, to close those chapters and remember the enduring lesson of my entrapment: that relationships, not accomplishments, are what's important in life.
- Aron Ralston

And that's where I'm finally at today - my life is about being with my family. This is what's important.
- Aron Ralston

I'm a parent, and I try to take care of my health and keep my life in order. In the last few years I've really had to decide what's important to me, and it seems to me that my family and my health are top on the list. And those have nothing to do with show business.
- Diana Ross

Now I began to understand art as a kind of black box the reader enters. He enters in one state of mind and exits in another. The writer gets no points just because what's inside the box bears some linear resemblance to "real life" -- he can put whatever he wants in there. What's important is that something undeniable and nontrivial happens to the reader between entry and exit.
- George Saunders

For sure, the American people have access to more information now than any other people who have ever lived on earth. And I think we do a pretty good job of sorting out what's important.
- Bob Schieffer

No matter how long you play rock n roll songs might change just as the balls are there, the rock balls. And that's what's important to us.
- Bon Scott

Stories are not like the real world; they aren't held back by what we know is false or true. What's important is how a story makes you feel inside.
- Tahir Shah

Remember this... develop a sense of nostalgia for something, or you'll never figure out what's important.
- Gary Shteyngart

The answers aren't important really... What's important is- knowing all the questions.
- Zilpha Keatley Snyder

Everybody gets hurt. Sometimes a big hurt, sometimes a little hurt. But the person who's suffered a lot isn't especially strong. And the person who's been hurt a little isn't especially weak. What's important is being able to get over it.
- Sakura Tsukuba

What's important is that you make the leap. Jump high and hard with intention and heart. Pay no mind to the vision that the commission made up. It's up to you to make your life. Take what you have and stack it up like a tower of teetering blocks. Build your dream around that.
- Cheryl Strayed

See that's what people don't get about food. It's never the food, it's the love that goes into making it. That's what's important.
- Sarah Strohmeyer

Being on a boat that's moving through the water, it's so clear. Everything falls into place in terms of what's important and what's not.
- James Taylor

What's important is that twice two is four and all the rest's nonsense.
- Ivan Turgenev

You want to play video games twenty-four hours a day?"
"Or watch. I just want to not be me. Whether it's sleeping or playing video games or riding my bike or studying. Giving my brain up. That's what's important.
- Ned Vizzini

What's important is self-appreciation.
- Donnie Wahlberg

It's for all the women who embrace my aesthetic, but can't afford a Vera Wang dress. If women can get anything out of it - a little bit of me or a lot of me, that's what's important.
- Vera Wang

What's important at the grocery store is just as important in engines or medical systems. If the customer isn't satisfied, if the stuff is getting stale, if the shelf isn't right, or if the offerings aren't right, it's the same thing. You manage it like a small organization. You don't get hung up on zeros.
- Jack Welch

I feel a lot more comfortable being me these days. I'm constantly told that my work is good. A lot of fans and a lot of other artists say my songs and albums mean a lot to them. Isn't that what's important?
- Lucinda Williams

We've all lead raucous lives,
some of them inside, some of them out.
But only the poem you leave behind is what's important.
Everyone knows this.
- Charles Wright

We've all led raucous lives,
some of them inside, some of them out.
But only the poem you leave behind is what's important.
Everyone knows this.
The voyage into the interior is all that matters,
Whatever your ride.
Sometimes I can't sit still for all the asininities I read.
Give me the hummingbird, who has to eat sixty times
His own weight a day just to stay alive.
Now that's a life on the edge.
- Charles Wright

There are some things I'd like to get into in terms of what's important to me.
- Michael Zaslow