Important Quotes

• What's crucial is to never get stuck. Making hard decisions is such an important part of being a startup in order to keep moving forward.

  

  Payal Kadakia
  • Important
  • Moving

• My mother, whose interest in chemistry was rather minimal, nevertheless went to graduate school in the subject and married my father, for whom it was as important as life itself.

  

  George Akerlof
  • Life
  • School
  • Mother

• If I ever took a business public, I wouldn't want to take the shares off the table. I don't want people thinking I'm doing it just to make money and then going to run for the hills. I think that's a very important distinction.

  

  Marcus Lemonis
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Money

• It is, for me, clear that the world needs a United States that is engaged in security issues, in development issues, in human rights issues. The contribution of the United States for global affairs is absolutely crucial. And the cooperation with the U.N. is very important from our perspective.

  

  Antonio Guterres
  • World
  • Perspective
  • Security

• Once upon a time, an editor could try out one or two wacky books, knowing full well that their list would counterbalance any risk with a stable of best-sellers and safe bets. Nowadays, every book must earn its own bread. With low overheads and an often episodic operating status, the small independent press is nicely placed to snap up the most innovative literature going at the moment. To take the risks. Meaning that small presses are no longer just outfits set up to publish your or your friends' work. They have something genuinely important to offer.

  

  Andrew Latimer Camel
  • Trying
  • Book
  • Moments

• Every actor is alive because of her fans. I'm glad that my fans love me so much. I have an immense responsibility towards them. That's why I'm careful while signing a film. What is also important is to judge whether I would like to watch the film as an audience or not.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • Responsibility
  • Judge
  • Actor

• Many things are good, many are important, but only a few are essential.

  

  D. Todd Christofferson
  • Good
  • Important

• The elevation of appearance over substance, of celebrity over character, of short term gains over lasting achievement displays a poverty of ambition. It distracts you from what's truly important.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Character
  • Poverty
  • Ambition

• Compression is a tremendous challenge. Five paragraphs on a topic is a lot for all but the most important issues.

  

  Alan Brinkley
  • Issues
  • Tremendous
  • Compression

• When you're writing two books a year, you really need some time off and don't want to use that down time for touring. I do like talking with readers, though; they can tell you important stuff.

  

  John Sandford
  • Time
  • Important
  • Writing

• Google is in an amazing position to be the target of tons of lawsuits that will set precedent for many important things for us on the Internet.

  

  Joichi Ito
  • Important
  • Amazing

• From the long range point of view, I do not know of anything we can do more important than to make some contribution to the preservation of religion as a vital force in America.

  

  Louis Finkelstein
  • Important
  • Long
  • America

• I just think it's so much more rewarding and important to go around the world and bring people together as opposed to pushing people away.

  

  Drake Bell
  • People
  • World
  • Together

• Eating well is really important to me. That means having balanced meals, never missing a meal, never skipping a meal, having a balanced diet, and never doing anything extreme.

  

  Lizzie Armitstead
  • Important
  • Missing

• I want to be a dad. That's floating to the top of my list. I think it's such an important thing. I'm at the age where everyone has kids, and I ask them, 'Is it like a puppy?' And they go, 'It's 10 times a puppy.'

  

  Jimmy Fallon
  • Kids
  • Age
  • Dad

• It's about being true to my artistry, which I've been doing. It's super important to do smart films.

  

  Ashton Sanders
  • Important
  • True
  • Smart

• It's important to set a tone and get some momentum.

  

  Ben Zobrist
  • Important

• The important thing is to get yourself born. You’re entitled to that. But you’re not entitled to life. Because if you were entitled to life, then the life would have to be quantified. How many years? Seventy? Sixty? Shakespeare was dead at fifty-two. Keats was dead at twenty-six. Thomas Chatterton at seventeen.

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Life
  • Important

• All human beings - not merely neuro-typicals - need to be seen in ethics in the light of a conception of what is humanly important.

  

  Alice Crary
  • Important
  • Human
  • Ethics

• When you regularly take continuous action toward your most important goals, you activate the Momentum Principle of success. This principle says that although it may take tremendous amounts of energy to overcome inertia and get started initially, it then takes far less energy to keep going.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • May
  • Success
  • Energy

• Embracing failure is the most important trait I've developed in my career. I have tried to learn from my failures, and I believe it has made me stronger, more confident and more resilient.

  

  Reshma Saujani
  • Confidence
  • Lawyer
  • Stronger

• Taking care of my skin so that it's healthy and glowing, especially with all the travelling and training, is important and makes me feel presentable. I don't wear makeup when I compete, and that's when I'm photographed the most, so I have to make sure it looks good!

  

  Kelita Zupancic
  • Good
  • Training
  • Makeup

• I try to be a partygoer. But at some point I don't know why I'm doing it and fall back. I've been using repression, the struggle between behaving as a social animal. You're seeking to be honest with your free will, less conflict. I think that's an important subject with me. That's who I am, how I was brought up. I think I use that a lot. I mistrust everything I think. Things you think you can trust, believe in, or hang on to, changes. That's the essence of life.

  

  Ang Lee
  • Life
  • Up
  • Believe

• You hope people won't be tricky or miserable. If you're in public life, it's important not to be. If someone says, 'I like your programme, thank you,' you should be grateful. I am. Why be nasty?

  

  Alan Titchmarsh
  • Important
  • Miserable
  • Public Life

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