As quoted in New Leaves (1986) by Louise Matteoni
“The important business of man is life, and the important business of life is death.”
It's not like it's all about me.
Interview in The Guardian (14 October 2000)
short quotes, 2 November 1971 pp. 84-85
1970's, Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde (1970 - 1972)
“No matter what happens, always Keep your childhood innocence. It's the most important thing.”
“We mean by "politics" the people's business — the most important business there is.”
Speech in Chicago, Illinois (19 November 1955)
Source: Chicken Soup for the Single's Soul (Chicken Soup for the Soul
“What do you think about me is not my business the important thing is what I think about myself…”
Source: Rich Dad's Cashflow Quadrant: Rich Dad's Guide to Financial Freedom
Quote in a letter to Sherwood Anderson, October 1923; as quoted in Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life, Roxana Robinson, University Press of New England, 1999
1917 - 1929
Context: I have been thinking of what you say about form... I feel that a real living form is the natural result of the individual’s effort to create the living thing out of the adventure of his spirit into the unknown.... and from that experience comes the desire to make the unknown known. By unknown I mean the thing that means so much to the person that he want to put it down - clarify something he feels but does not clearly understand... Making the unknown known.... if you stop to think of form as form you are lost.
Keynote speech at Christian Management Association conference in Denver, Colorado (March 2006)
“A thing is important if anyone think it important.”
Source: 1890s, The Principles of Psychology (1890), Ch. 28, Note 35
