Quotes about import

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“Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.”

“Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.”

“Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about it.”

“Everyone wears a sign that says "Make me feel important”

“The Departure Aria, a very important and romantic song”

“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed, is more important than any other one thing.”

“Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste.”

“One day all of us will die but - and this is the important thing - we are not dead yet.”

“I learned to create a little more space between my thoughts and actions—actually between my feelings and reactions. This is extremely important; without it, life can be a real roller coaster ride.”

“For me, the subject of the picture is always more important than the picture.”

“Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.”

“The most important thing is not to think very much about oneself. To investigate candidly the charge; but not fussily, not very anxiously. On no account to retaliate by going to the other extreme -- thinking too much.”

“Come back!" the Caterpillar called after her. "I've something important to say."
This sounded promising, certainly. Alice turned and came back again.
"Keep your temper," said the Caterpillar.”

“Personal isn't the same as important.”

“Destiny is important, see, but people go wrong when they think it controls them. It's the other way around.”

“You are your own teacher. Looking for teachers can’t solve your own doubts. Investigate yourself to find the truth - inside, not outside. Knowing yourself is most important.”

“It's vital to remember who you really are. It's very important. It isn't a good idea to rely on other people or things to do it for you, you see. They always get it wrong.”

“~ I've made the most important discovery of my life. It's only in the mysterious equation of love that any logical reasons can be found. I'm only here tonight because of you. You're the only reason I am… you're all my reasons.~”

“The importance of repetition until automaticity cannot be overstated. Repetition is the key to learning.”

“We should not forget that it will be just as important to our descendants to be prosperous in their time as it is to us to be prosperous in our time.”

“Don't follow after the object of hatred, look at the angry mind. Anger liberated by itself as it arises is mirrorlike wisdom.

Don't chase after the object of pride, look at the grasping mind. Self-importance liberated as it arises is the wisdom of equanimity.

Don't hanker after the object of desire, look at the craving mind.”

“In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.”

“Reality is harsh. It can be cruel and ugly. Yet no matter how much we grieve over our environment and circumstances nothing will change. What is important is not to be defeated, to forge ahead bravely. If we do this, a path will open before us.”

“I think it's so foolish for people to want to be happy. Happy is so momentary--you're happy for an instant and then you start thinking again. Interest is the most important thing in life; happiness is temporary, but interest is continuous.”

“There is nothing wrong with crying. Your feelings tell you who are. They tell what is important. Don't ever be ashamed of them.”

“The important thing about having lots of things to remember is that you’ve got to go somewhere afterwards where you can remember them, you see? You’ve got to stop. You haven’t really been anywhere until you’ve got back home.”

“How do you make your pictures?
— I don’t know, it’s not important.”

“It is very good that Wikipedia also gives a page to "Internet Meme". Internet memes are arguably the most important subset of memes today”

“Vain trifles as they seem, clothes have, they say, more important offices than to merely keep us warm. They change our view of the world and the world's view of us.”

“Romancin’ is verra important, ye ken. Basically it’s a way the boy can get close to the girl wi’oot her attackin’ him and scratchin’ his eyes oot.”

“I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life. If you are interested in something, no matter what it is, go at it full speed ahead. Embrace it with both arms, hug it, love it and above all become passionate about it. Lukewarm is no good. Hot is no good, either. White hot and passionate is the only thing to be.”

“the most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.”

“Never forget the nine most important words of any family-

I love you.
You are beautiful.
Please forgive me.”

“That the truest experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.”

“Great lovers will always be unhappy, because, for them, love is of supreme importance. Consequently they demand of their beloved the same intensity of thought as they have for her, otherwise they feel betrayed.”

“The most important thing to do in your life is to not interfere with somebody else's life.”

“The fate of animals is of far greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous.”

“Be courageous when the mind deceives you
Be courageous
In the final account only this is important”

“Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.”

“Machines deprive us of two things which are certainly important ingredients of human happiness, namely, spontaneity and variety.”

“The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!”

“The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.”

“Think about it: what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellow men. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.”

“The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without it.”

“Reading is important - read between the lines. Don't swallow everything.”

“The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.”

“Yes, but humans are more important than animals,' said Brutha.
'This is a point of view often expressed by humans,' said Om.”

“The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity.”

“You are here to enable the divine purpose of the universe to unfold. That is how important you are!”

“This transformation of competition into monopoly is one of the most important—if not the most important—phenomena of modern capitalist economy”

“Curiosity is more important than knowledge.”

“The important thing is not to stop questioning.”

“You imagination is more important than your knowledge.”

“I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape.”

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.”

“The really important thing is not to reject anything.”

“No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.”

“intuition is always right in at least two important ways;
It is always in response to something.
it always has your best interest at heart”

“Everything changed the day she figured out there was exactly enough time for the important things in her life.”

“it’s important to make sure that we’re talking with each other in a way that heals, not in a way that wounds.”

“Don't be a fool. Don't give up something important to hold onto someone who can't even say they love you.”

“This is perhaps one of the most important things I learned during this investigation: We see what we believe, and not just the contrary; and to change what we see, it is sometimes necessary to change what we believe.”

“The only thing of importance, when we depart, will be the traces of love we have left behind.”

“Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.”

“The thing about football - the important thing about football - is that it is not just about football.”

“The heart is what is important." There is nothing more vulnerable, nothing more corruptible than the human mind; nor is there anything as powerful, steadfast and ennobling.”

“Solemnity, I don't know what it's for. I mean, what is the point of it? The two most beautiful memorial services that I've ever attended both had a lot of humor. It somehow freed us all and made the services inspiring and cathartic. But solemnity, it serves pomposity. The self important always know at some level of their consciousness that their egotism is going to be punctured by humor. That's why they see it as a threat! And so, dishonestly, they pretend that their deficiency makes their views more substantial.”

“I will simply express my strong belief, that that point of self-education which consists in teaching the mind to resist its desires and inclinations, until they are proved to be right, is the most important of all, not only in things of natural philosophy, but in every department of daily life.”

“It is not easy to learn much about love, but one thing I discovered, that Lady Harleigh taught me: it is not whom you love that is important, but only that we love.”

“Loneliness does not come from having no people around you, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to you.”

“But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.”

“The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way.”

“Mistakes,’ he said with effort, ‘are also important to me. I don’t cross them out of my life, or memory. And I never blame others for them.”

“Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.”

“Smoking kills. If you’re killed, you’ve lost a very important part of your life.”

“Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.”

“The most important things to remember about back story are that (a) everyone has a history and (b) most of it isn’t very interesting.”

“It's not where you start or even what happens to you along the way that's important. What is important is that you persevere and never give up on yourself.”

“Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.”

“Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwhile careers in the street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack of understanding of this simple fact.”

“Best friends are important. They're the closest thing to a sister you'll ever have.”

“Even the smallest of the starlings' concerns grew in importance until it seemed equal to the worries of kings.”

“Creativity is as important as literacy”

“High school isn't a very important place. When you're going you think it's a big deal, but when it's over nobody really thinks it was great unless they're beered up.”

“Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.”

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

“Whatever anybody says, the most important thing in life is to be happy.”

“Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.”

“When someone leaves you once, you expect it to happen again. Eventually you stop getting close enough to people to let them become important to you, because then you don't notice when they drop out of your world.”

“If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.”

“The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be learned at school.”

“The first thing every mage should learn is that magic makes fools of us. Now you may call yourself a mage. You have learned the most important lesson.”

“Never do anything complicated when something simple will serve as well. It's one of the most important secrets of living.”

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

“It is the struggle itself that is most important. We must strive to be more than we are. It does not matter that we will not reach our ultimate goal. The effort itself yields its own reward.”

“Your life is just about craving, and making something else tremendously more important than you.”

“It is important to bear in mind that political campaigns are designed by the same people who sell toothpaste and cars.”

“Drama is very important in life: You have to come on with a bang. You never want to go out with a whimper.”

“We talked about nothing in particular, but it felt like we were talking about the most important things…”