Quotes about import

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“I will compensate all your one-inch, two-inch losses because I know how important every inch is to you aged, decrepit men.”

“The most important thing about education is appetite.”

“Virtually no idea is too ridiculous to be accepted, even by very intelligent and highly educated people, if it provides a way for them to feel special and important. Some confuse that feeling with idealism.”

“And most important, listen.”

“I read somewhere… how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong, but to feel strong… to measure yourself at least once.”

“Life isn't long enough to enjoy and understand all at the same time. You have to decide which is more important”

“I smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists”

“Sometimes you dance with a partner, and sometimes you dance alone. But the important thing is to keep dancing.”

“Being wrong about important things is exhausting.”

“Like me, he has a searing belief that books are sacred. They might not be to other people, but when you have a passion, you hold on to it. You defend it. You dont pretend it isn't important at the risk of offending others." -Carrie.”

“But somethings in life are more important than being happy. Like being free to think for yourself.”

“Chocolate is not a matter of life and death--it's more important than that.”

“When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.”

“The most important things in your life are almost always impossible to predict.”

“I have one major rule: Everybody is right. More specifically, everybody — including me — has some important pieces of truth, and all of those pieces need to be honored, cherished, and included in a more gracious, spacious, and compassionate embrace.”

“These years are still the years of my prime. It is important to recognise the years of one's prime, always remember that.”

“Becoming vegan is the most important and direct change we can immediately make to save the planet and its species.”

“If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”

“The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.”

“Stories are the most important thing in the world. Without stories, we wouldn't be human beings at all.”

“It is very important in life to know when your cue comes.”

“It is important to have questionable friends you can trust unconditionally.”

“Dear Daddy-Long-Legs,

You never answered my question and it was very important.

ARE YOU BALD?”

“Faith isn't knowledge, Rachel. Faith is a tool. Faith keeps us going until we get the knowledge. Faith keeps us striving until we reach the consequences of our most important decisions.”

“Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, "Make me feel important." Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.”

“The father hesitated only a moment. He felt the vague pain in his chest. If I run, he thought, what will happen? Is Death important? No. Everything that happens before Death is what counts. And we've done fine tonight. Even Death can't spoil it.”

“For a short time, I hated them. But when you think about it, what good does that do? It takes so much to hold on to hate—you lose your grip on what's important, you know?”

“She was aware that in love even the most passionate idealism will not rid the body's surface of its terrible, basic importance.”

“The most important talent for a shinobi is not the numberof jutsu. The important thing is… HAVING THE GUTS TO NEVER GIVE UP.”

“Working on our own consciousness is the most important thing that we are doing at any moment, and being love is a supreme creative act.”

“He held her close enough to kiss, close enough to whisper the most important secrets in the world, and he spoke to her as he would have wanted some good angel to speak to his family, to his own shivering young soul, long ago and in a land far away.”

“Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark. That’s where the most important things come from, where you yourself came from, and where you will go.”

“Every individual has a place to fill in the world, and is important, in some respect, whether he chooses to be so or not.”

“The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.”

“But everybody has exactly the same smiling frightened face, with the look that says: "I'm important. If you only get to know me, you will see how important I am. Look into my eyes. Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.”

“Knowing when to fight is just as important as knowing how.”

“It doesn't matter where or how far you go - the farther commonly the worse - the important thing is how alive you are. Writing of every kind is a way to wake oneself up and keep as alive as when one has just fallen in love.”

“The importance of our connection, what it meant to find each other again, the way it made what happened to us and between us not be a waste, not be for nothing. He would know, he had to know, that not saying good-bye would be the worst end of all.”

“Even in its darkest passages, the heart is unconquerable. It is important that the body survives, but it is more meaningful that the human spirit prevails.”

“What if I’ve forgotten the most important thing?”

“Character, I think, is the single most important thing in fiction. You might read a book once for its interesting plot—but not twice.”

“What was important wasn't the fireworks, it was that we were together this evening, together in this place, looking up into the sky at the same time.”

“Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God's final word on where your lips end.”

“Passion comes after you put in the hard work to become excellent at something valuable, not before. In other words, what you do for a living is much less important than how you do it.”

“they thought I had guts
they were wrong
I was only frightened of
more important things”

“Never be ruled by possessions, and never, ever make wealth more important to you than your self-respect and your dignity." - Lady Taylor”

“Reading is more important to me than eating.”

“In times of crisis, it is of the utmost importance that one does not lose her head.
Marie Antoinette”

“She woke up and realized she had forgotten the definition of the word ‘impossible.’ She decided it must not have been that important.”

“Every new & successful example therefore of, is of importance. And I have no doubt that every new example, will succeed, as every past one has done, in shewing that.

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“Relational skills are the most important abilities in leadership.”

“When faced with the scariest of things, all you want to do is turn away, hide in your own invisible place. But you can't. That's why it's not only important for us to be seen, but to have someone to look for us, as well.”

“There is no time to leave important words unsaid.”

“It's not a man's working hours that is important, it is how he spends his leisure time.”

“The more important the emotion is, the fewer words required to express it”

“It's the choosing that's important, isn't it?”

“You know how I know she's your most important person? You pick her every time.”

“It is not half so important to know as to feel.”

“Above all things physical, it is more important to be beautiful on the inside - to have a big hear and an open mind and a spectacular spleen.”

“Any fact becomes important when it's connected to another.”

“There are so many more important things to worry about than how you're perceived by strangers.”

“Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.”

“I should be doing my homework now. But the way I look at it, playing in the snow is a lot more important. Out here I'm learning real skills that I can apply throughout the rest of my life.

- Such as?

- Procrastination and rationalization.”

“The news just came in from the County of Keck
That a very small bug by the name of Van Vleck
Is yawning so wide you can look down his neck.
This may not seem very important, I know, but it
Is, so I'm bothering telling you so.”

“Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the judgement that something is more important than fear; The brave may not live forever but the cautious do not live at all.”

“The important thing is not to think much but to love much; and so do that which best stirs you to love.”

“If it looks like a hallway, feels like a hallway, and acts like a hallway—is it important to figure out that it isn’t a hallway?”

“People will tell you most of the story… and I’ve learned that the part they neglect to tell you is often the most important part. People hide the truth because they’re afraid.”

“We’re on this planet for too short a time. And at the end of the day, what’s more important? Knowing that a few meaningless figures balanced—or knowing that you were the person you wanted to be?”

“We're constantly being told what other people think we are, and that's why it is so important to know yourself.”

“The most important tactic in an argument next to being right is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without an embarrassing loss of face.”

“But the most important thing is, even if we're apart, I'll always be with you.”

“Morality is of the highest importance -- but for us, not for God.”

“Rule of thumb: The more important a call or action is to our soul's evolution, the Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it.”

“We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?”

“Age is not important unless you're a cheese.”

“The most important part of education — to teach the meaning of to know”

“I smiled back, the importance of manners, my mother always said, is inversely related to how inclined one is to use them, or, in other words, sometimes politeness is all that stands between oneself and madness.”

“My father told me once that the most important thing every man should know is what he would die for.”

“When you are young, there are many things which appear dull and lifeless. But as you get older, you will find these are the very things that are most important to you.”

“A person's last moments are an important thing. You can't choose how you're born but you can choose how you die.”

“It's far less important to me to be liked these days than to be understood.”

“Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.”

“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.”

“I began to realize that I had tended to avoid some people because of my instant conclusions about who they were and what they would have to say. I discovered that everyone, speaking honestly and openly, had important things to tell me.”

“Where happiness was not a possibility, the illusion of it was always more important.”

“What is important is not what you hear said, it's what you observe.”

“It's important to know the past, but your survival depends on knowing the present.”

“I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.”

“It's important to tell your story. It's important to listen.”

“My mother said I broke her heart… but it was my integrity that was important. Is that so selfish? It sells for so little, but it's all we have left in this place. It is the very last inch of us… but within that inch we are free.”

“He meant the Kingdom was over, the Kingdom of Heaven, it was all finished. We shouldn’t live as if it mattered more than this life in this world, because where we are is always the most important place.”

“A desire not to butt into other people's business is at least eighty percent of all human 'wisdom'… and the other twenty percent isn't very important.”

“May you walk a lighted path. May you fight for truth - your truth, not someone else's - and may you understand, above all things, that you are the most important concept, theory, and philosophy I have ever known.”

“A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake.”

“A girl’s relationship with her father is the most important male relationship of her life.”

“As you grow up, always tell the truth, do no harm to others, and don't think you are the most important being on earth. Rich or poor, you then can look anyone in the eye and say, 'I'm probably no better than you, but I'm certainly your equal.”

“Sighs and silences and avoided conversations are just as important as the things you do talk about.”

“Lord, I feel so small sometimes in this great big old world.
Yeah, I know there are more important things.
But don't forget to remember me.”