“It's the choosing that's important, isn't it?”
Source: The Giver
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Lois Lowry 59
American writer 1937Related quotes
“Personal isn't the same as important.”
Variant: Personal’s not the same as important. People just think it is.
Source: Men at Arms
“Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.”
“If it isn't a wonderful story first, who cares how "important" it is?”
Future on Fire (1991), introduction.
“The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.”
Variant: The most important thing in communication is to hear what is not being said.
“It isn't what people think that's important, but the reason they think what they think.”
As quoted in Peter's Quotations : Ideas for Our Time (1977) by Laurence J. Peter, p. 468; also in The Quantum Dice (1993) by Leonid Ivanovich Ponomarev, p. 50
“I will hate the man you choose because he isn't me, and love him if he makes you smile.”
Source: The Eye of the World