“I also thank Bill McKibben and his 350. org colleagues for the most important work in the world, and the most unending.”

— Barbara Kingsolver , book Flight Behavior

"Author's note", Flight Behavior, page 599 (ISBN 978-0-571-29081-9).
Flight Behavior (2012)

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American author, poet and essayist 1955

James Clavell (1921–1994) American novelist

François Delambre (Vincent Price) to André's son, Philippe.
The Fly (1958)

“The most important thing is not the work I can do for God. The most important thing is to make God the most important thing.”

Phil Vischer (1966) American puppeter

Keynote speech at Christian Management Association conference in Denver, Colorado (March 2006)

“But just to work, just to live in this world with this understanding is the most important point, and that is our practice. That is true zazen.”

Shunryu Suzuki (1904–1971) Japanese Buddhist missionary

Lecture in Los Altos, CA (1 September 1967)
Context: So it is not a matter of whether it is possible to attain Buddhahood, or if it is possible to make a tile a jewel. But just to work, just to live in this world with this understanding is the most important point, and that is our practice. That is true zazen.

“If letting go, if letting people and things work themselves out in the way that they needed to without your help was the most important thing, then it was also the hardest.”

Deb Caletti (1963) American writer

Source: The Six Rules of Maybe

“At the coast you can see the most beautiful sea. I also made my panorama there. I regard it as my most important work; because it gives such a huge impression of nature. But I don't like to start it all again; to paint sixteen hundred meters of canvas there..”

Hendrik Willem Mesdag (1831–1915) painter from the Northern Netherlands

translation from original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek

(original Dutch: citaat van Hendrik Willem Mesdag, in het Nederlands:) Aan de kust zie je de mooiste zee. Daar heb ik ook mijn panorama gemaakt. Dat beschouw ik als mijn belangrijkste werk; omdat 't zoo'n groote impressie geeft van de natuur. Maar'k zou 't niet graag nog's weer beginnen; daar zestien honderd meter doek te schilderen..

Quote of Mesdag (after 1881), cited by Godfried Bomans?, in magazine De Volkskrant, 23 July, 1966
after 1880

“Family is the most important thing in the world.”

Diana, Princess of Wales (1961–1997) First wife of Charles, Prince of Wales

Princess Diana: 10 most inspiring quotes from the 'people's princess', Hello Magazine Daily News, (1 July 2015) http://us.hellomagazine.com/royalty/1201411051084/princess-diana-s-10-most-inspiring-quotes/

“As the head of Taiwan Affairs Office, this (first visit of him to Taiwan) is very important to me, especially when most of my colleagues have visited Taiwan before.”

Zhang Zhijun (1953) Chinese politician

Zhang Zhijun (2014) cited in " Top mainland Chinese official Zhang Zhijun arrives in Taipei to sound out public https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1541249/top-mainland-chinese-official-zhang-zhijun-arrives-taipei-sound-out" on South China Morning Post, 27 June 2014.

“Luiza (his oldest daughter) expressed this option in college. At the time, talked with her and school counselors. It was important to let the choice be hers and that any pressure was accompanied by homophobic colleagues. Fortunately, there was no question about their most serious option. That, remember, is personal.”

Marcelo Tas (1959) Brazilian actor

In a news magazine Alfa, talks about his daughter being gay. Vote em mim, Ronaldo Bressane, September 12, 2010, Alfa, Portuguese http://web.archive.org/web/20101006030234/http://revistaalfa.abril.com.br/cultura-e-sociedade/cultura-entretenimento/vote-em-mim/,

“What's the most important thing in the world? Walking the walk.”

Jack Terricloth (1970)

What Would Jack Do?

“The hell this ain't the most important hole in the world. I'm in it.”

Bill Mauldin (1921–2003) American editorial cartoonist

Mud & Guts : A Look at the Common Soldier of the American Revolution (1978) Foreword
Context: My outlook on warfare is best illustrated by a cartoon I did some thirty-odd years ago of a soldier in an Italian foxhole reading about the Normandy invasion and observing to his buddy that: "The hell this ain't the most important hole in the world. I'm in it."

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