Quotes about import

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“Your "I CAN" is more important than your IQ.”

“… for the shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear.”

“And suddenly she knew exactly why Catherine had fallen in love with him. It wasn't that he was unusually attractive, or ambitious, or even charming. He was partly those things, but more important, he seemed to live life on his own terms.”

“My survival was up to me. I had nothing and I had no one. What I did have, I told myself, was my mind, my imagination, my memory, my feelings, my spirit. These were important and powerful things.”

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

“Nothing important, or meaningful, or beautiful, or interesting, or great ever came out of imitations. The thing that is really hard and really amazing is to give up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.”

“It's a good idea always to do something relaxing prior to making an important decision in your life.”

“That's the wonderful thing about man; he never gets so discouraged or disgusted that he gives up doing it all over again, because he knows very well it is important and WORTH the doing.”

“I think that the most important thing a woman can have - next to talent, of course - is her hairdresser.”

“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”

“Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud…”

“Never forget that anticipation is an important part of life. Work's important, family's important, but without excitement, you have nothing. You're cheating yourself if you refuse to enjoy what's coming.”

“The rulers of this country have always considered their property more important than our lives.”

“It is a good idea sometimes to think of the importance and dignity of our every-day duties. It keeps them from being so tiresome; besides, others are apt take us at our own valuation.”

“We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us — Martins felt the little jab of dispensability.”

“Even if we no longer have much in common, we would have always had the past, which, in some ways, is just as important as the present or future. It is where we come from, what makes us who we are.”

“Nothing comes unannounced, but many can miss the announcement. So it's very important to actually listen to your own intuition rather than driving through it.”

“We're just fragile machines programmed with a false sense of our own importance. And every now and then the universe sends a reminder that we don't really matter to it…”

“But sometimes you have to be brave. Sometimes you have to show people what's important in life.”

“really important meetings are planned by the souls
long before the bodies see each other.”

“Answers were always important, but they were seldom easy.”

“There is nothing more important than appearing to be religious.”

“There is a tendency at every important but difficult crossroad to pretend that it's not really there.”

“If everything is important, then nothing is.”

“Everything in my own immediate experience supports my deep belief that I am the absolute center of the universe, the realest, most vivid and important person in existence.”

“Words are not that important when you recognize intentions.”

“Ragnor's important business was probably getting together to write a burn book with Raphael. Magnus could see them now, sharing a bench and scribbling happily away about Magnus's stupid hair.”

“I have learned that trying again is important and decisivness is good.

I have learned that silence hurts.

I have learned about starting over
and releasing pride.”

“True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do.”

“… it's not just learning that's important. It's learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things that matters.”

“Before embarking on important undertakings sit quietly calm your senses and thoughts and meditate deeply. You will then be guided by the great creative power of Spirit.”

“Remember that the most important thing is to try and love other people as much as they love you.”

“Memory is so crazy! It's like we've got these drawers crammed with tons of useless stuff. Meanwhile, all the really important things we just keep forgetting, one after the other.”

“Important things are inevitably cliché.”

“In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be, by remaining what we are.”

“Their mother had always stressed the importance of taking care of yourself first, your family second and everyone else not at all..

darkest surrender”

“The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.”

“You confuse what's important with what's impressive.”

“Life is like a snowball. The important thing is finding wet snow and a really long hill.”

“Chick Lit uses humor to reflect life back to us. It's a very comforting genre, and it's the first time our generation has had a voice. It's a very important genre for all of those reasons.”

“Don't diss me, Danvers. I'm warning you.'

'I'm not dissing you,' Claire sighed. 'I'm ignoring you. There's a difference. Dissing you implies I think you're actually important.”

“Roger speaking to Brianna:
It's too important. You don't forget having a dad."
You do remember your father?"
No. I remember yours.”

“But I think the most important thing those books gave me was a kind of faith. My books promised me that life wasn’t just made up of workaday tasks and prosaic things. The world is bigger and more colorful and more important than that.”

“Sorry but nothing of much importance ever happened to me… I'm just a girl who forgot to look both ways before crossing the street.”

“It is not as important how we start (our past), but how we finish.”

“It’s not so important who starts the game but who finishes it.”

“Reminding ourselves of the gospel is the most important daily habit we can establish.”

“When life doesn't meet your expectations, it was important to take it with grace.”

“The way I see it, ignoring things is important.”

“Everything has boundaries. The same holds true with thought. You shouldn't fear boundaries, but you should not be afraid of destroying them. That's what is most important if you want to be free: respect for and exasperation with boundaries.”

“You're the last Olympian,' I said. 'And the most important.'
And why is that, Percy Jackson?'
Because Hope survives best at the hearth,' I said.”

“The imprint of Miss Hepburn is absolutely, totally present. Like it or not, she will be the most important look of the twentieth century.”

“Once you've chosen a man, don't try to change him', I wrote with more confidence. 'It can't be done. More important-don't let him try to change you.”

“It was important for him to believe that he'd spent his life among people who kept missing the point.”

“It's important to read a book, but also to hold the book, to smell the book… it's perfume, it's incense, it's the dust of Egypt…”

“The important task of literature is to free man, not to censor him, and that is why Puritanism was the most destructive and evil force which ever oppressed people and their literature: it created hypocrisy, perversion, fears, sterility.”

“How disturbing it is that our illusions are often our most important beliefs.”

“No, this trick won't work. The same trick does not work twice. How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?”

“The importance of reading, for me, is that it allows you to dream.

Reading not only educates, but is relaxing and allows you to feed your imagination - creating beautiful pictures from carefully chosen words.”

“I've forgotten most of what I've read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.”

“Choose the least important day in your life. It will be important enough.”

“Never forget that anticipation is an important part of life.”

“In the phrase ' human being,' the word 'being' is much more important than the word 'human.”

“Why do people give each other flowers? To celebrate various important occasions, they’re killing living creatures? Why restrict it to plants? 'Sweetheart, let’s make up. Have this deceased squirrel.”

“Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives.”

“Benjamin, we’re meant to lose the people we love. How else would we know how important they are to us?”

“Diversity and independence are important because the best collective decisions are the product of disagreement and contest, not consensus or compromise.”

“We depict hatred, but it is to depict that there are more important things. We depict a curse, to depict the joy of liberation.”

“physical beauty should have no importance in a lasting relationship.”

“You know, I think that only if one feels immensely important can one feel truly light.”

“I didn't set out to discover a truth. I was actually sent to the Outer Fringes to conduct a chair census and learn some humility. But the truth inevitably found me, as important truths often do, like a lost thought in need of a mind.”

“… because where we are is always the most important place.”

“What kind of scholar was I? Or was I a scholar at all? My ignorance was enormous. Beside it my knowledge was nothing. My hunger for learning, not so much to improve my lot as to understand my world, had led me to study and to thought. Reading without thinking is as nothing, for a book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think.”

“Don't get starry-eyed about somebody you can't have, especially if it blinds you to somebody who's really important.”

“Most important thing in life is learning how to fall.”

“If it's easy to be friendly she will be. If the wind blows the other way her friendship will be gone. And I'm thinking the wind is blowing the other way. She has found some other way to be an important person in her own right by hating others.”

“It was in a way a comforting idea; if there was all the time in the world, then the happenings of a given moment became less important.”

“Just because something doesn't last forever, it doesn't mean it wasn't meaningful while it did last. It doesn't mean it wasn't important.”

“Reading is more important than writing.”

“Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too.”

“One of the most important resources that a garden makes available for use, is the gardener's own body. A garden gives the body the dignity of working in its own support. It is a way of rejoining the human race.”

“It is the message, not the man, which is important to the Sufis.”

“The important question is, How many hands have I shaked?”

“You forgot something important!
-What?
-It's under my sweater!
-WHAT?!
-Me!”

“Courage is not the absence of fear but the awareness that something else is more important.”

“It is important for this country to make its people so obsessed with their own liberal individualism that they do not have time to think about a world larger than self.”

“It's important to have your private enjoyments because sometimes that's all we have.”

“The key thing is managed awareness of your role in the world and history. Think too much and you know you are nothing. Think just enough and you know you are small, but important to some. That's the best you can do.”

“A book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think.”

“The Eskimo has fifty-two names for snow because it is important to them; there ought to be as many for love.”

“A photo says, you were happy, and I wanted to catch that. A photo says, you were so important to me that I put down everything else to come watch.”

“You know what my philosophy of life is? That it’s important to have some laughs, but you got to suffer a little too, because otherwise you miss the whole point to life.”

“Teach us…… that we may feel the importance of every day, of every hour, as it passes.”

“Finding one important thing in your life doesn’t mean you have to
give up all the other important things.”

“When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.”

“Have you ever been going somewhere with a crowd and you're certain it's the wrong road and you tell them, but they won't listen, so you just have to plod along in what you know is the wrong direction till somebody more important gets the same idea?”

“Well, actually it carried Cadmus. Europa fell off and died along the way, but that's not important.'
It was probably important to her.”

“When your children are teenagers, it's important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you.”

“Now, if you ask me, what’s going on is that we’re all up to here in it, and probably the most important thing is that we not yell at one another.”