Important Quotes
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Children have such vibrant minds. They need to play. They need to be creative. They need to imagine. It's so important for their sense of self discovery. And it helps them learn problem-solving.
Jan Brett
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I do it because I want to exercise people's compassion and I do it because I really believe that for some reason what I do is important and meaningful.
Kyra Sedgwick
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We live in a multi-cultural world, so embracing diversity is important in every industry.
Elaine Welteroth
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One of the most difficult parts of 'The Trans List' was coming up with a list of 11 people. For me, what was important was to ensure that we were as diverse as possible across a lot of different intersections.
Janet Mock
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As a standup comedian, you have to develop a sense of fearlessness. It's really important for your livelihood and your well-being. And if you don't do that, you're going to fail; you're never going to be able to stand up on the cliff and jump off.
John DiMaggio
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The biggest message I've given our team, and I think it's really important, is first of all, no one can take away what happened last year. It's obviously a fun year, a terrific year. But I think a big mistake would be to try to compare themselves or ourselves to last year's team. I think the key really is, and I told them this: for you as a group, you're a different team.
Tony Bennett
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You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.
Patrick Ness
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Many of the cognitive enhancement drugs serve to increase focus and concentration. But 'letting your mind wander' is very often an important part of the creative process.
Jamais Cascio
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I'm so pleased to see us talking gender specific messages that are focusing on men on a way I think it needs to be focused in on and I think it's important.
T. D. Jakes
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It's so important to adapt, think outside the box, and stay ahead if you want to grow.
Marie-Chantal Claire
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You can publish a poem you think is a very important poem, and you don't hear a word from anyone. You can publish a book of poetry by dropping it off a cliff and waiting to hear an echo. Quite often, you'll never hear a thing. So doing that, using older work, puts it in a context, and that sort of forces the reader to realize what its importance is-if it has any. Everything needs a context. You're not going to recognize a poet unless you have a context.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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It's a pretty important conference regarding Internet trends, because people are talking a lot about what's really happening. Not just the technology, but what it means for our culture in general.
Craig Newmark
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Every action (or inaction) involves a choice between what is more important and what is less important.
Brian Tracy
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Testifying has helped me understand that one individual's behavior and actions make a difference. That my actions are important to people other than myself.
Anita Hill
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It was important for me early on to find the voice of each character and figure out what was unique about them and their individual worldview that I could use for comedy or conflict.
Maria Semple
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Persistence is a pretty important part of making it in this business, which, in retrospect, is the easy part. Maintaining a profile is the difficult part of the job. Somehow or another, I muddled through that system and somehow am around to still enjoy playing for people.
Chris Squire Yes
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To be totally honest, if I could be thinner without it causing a lot of pain and anxiety in my life, I would be. But today the reality is my life is more important to me than my weight - and thank God for that.
Courtney Thorne-Smith
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I'm a storyteller. I feel like the issue of discourse is an important one because there's a lot of political and ideological discourse that goes around, and we relate to that on an intellectual level.
Ayad Akhtar
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From the moment you are born, you could die. I think as an artist it is important to meditate on that.
Marina Abramovic
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Man, I'm not trying to be important; I just go out and play.
Carmelo Anthony
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I'm not in the business of telling people 'DIY or die,' but I do think it's important to be as hands-on with what you're doing as possible.
Lauren Mayberry Chvrches
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Ask yourself for a moment what is really important to you-not by anyone else's definition but your own.
Prem Rawat
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It is important to pray for peace. . . But you must also take actions to make that happen. Every single day.
Dalai Lama
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Of course, China is a key to the North Korea if we're going to solve that riddle, but they could also be helpful on Iraq, which is why it's important that we maintain a constructive dialogue with China.
Frank Carlucci