“It's the choosing that's important, isn't it?”
Source: The Giver
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Lois Lowry59
American writer 1937Related quotes
“Personal isn't the same as important.”
Terry Pratchett book Men at Arms
Variant: Personal’s not the same as important. People just think it is.
Source: Men at Arms
Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer
Source: Sugar Daddy
“Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.”
Roald Dahl (1916–1990) British novelist, short story writer, poet, fighter pilot and screenwriter
“If it isn't a wonderful story first, who cares how "important" it is?”
Orson Scott Card book Future on Fire
Future on Fire (1991), introduction.
“The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.”
Peter F. Drucker (1909–2005) American business consultant
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.”
Eugéne Ionesco (1909–1994) Romanian playwright
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.”
Robert Jordan book The Eye of the World
Source: The Eye of the World