Important Quotes

• Creativity is one of the most important brain functions in developing youth. It is the ultimate road to invention. I believe it is really important to both nurture and encourage this in children - and adults, too!

  

  Sarah Michelle Gellar
  • Believe
  • Children
  • Brain

• We always operated within a sense of community not just about the band. It's important to the way we define ourselves. It's the entire world in which we operate.

  

  Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth
  • Community
  • Band
  • Define

• One of the most important days of my life was when I learned to ride a bicycle.

  

  Michael Palin
  • Learned
  • Days
  • Bicycle

• We use important words too frequently and they lose value; for instance, charm and great. An actor or musician often is proclaimedgreat when we really mean he is outstanding.

  

  Eleanor Robson Belmont
  • Great
  • Words
  • Value

• Quite frankly, I just want to be playing at the highest level of football. That's the most important thing to me.

  

  Austin Seferian-Jenkins
  • Important
  • Football

• Packing is important because a lot of times I have to go places where I have to be in four different climates in three weeks. For example, Bosnia, Ireland, Rome. Different parts of Italy. You have to pack and get it down to a science.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Different
  • Week
  • Packing

• Part of any book is establishing the rules at the end of the world. My first book, 'The Intuitionist,' takes place in an alternative world where elevator inspectors are important, so you have to establish rules, and part of that is, How do people talk? How do they behave?

  Colson Whitehead
  • People
  • World
  • Book

• I'm nearly always at home at the weekends; that's important for every working woman today, not just me. I don't encourage people to come in at the weekend and work; I encourage people to go home and create great families.

  

  Angela Ahrendts
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• I think the reason why a lot of young people are such screw ups... is oftentimes they didn't have the luxury I had of forming important relationships and opinions and life experiences before having success.

  

  George Clooney
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Reason

• I think it's definitely important to look like yourself on a date. You don't want to look like someone else with too much makeup or too much hair.

  

  Lauren Conrad
  • Important
  • Hair
  • Makeup

• Benghazi is important because it demonstrates all that is wrong in Washington.

  

  Brandon Webb
  • Important

• It is just as important, perhaps more important, for the teacher to have the benefit of personal counseling when he needs it as it is for the student.

  

  William C. Menninger
  • Teacher
  • Students
  • Counseling

• I wear things that aren't in fashion. I wear colors that aren't in fashion. And as a result of that, I kind of bring it back. I feel like nothing really ever goes out of style. It's just what the media and what people tell people to wear. I think having your own sense of fashion is important.

  

  Ryan Potter
  • Fashion
  • Style
  • Nothing

• It is very important to transform every disadvantage into an advantage.

  

  Radhika Apte
  • Advantage
  • Transform
  • Disadvantage

• Obviously the more transparency we have as auditors, the more we can get, but the main goal is to understand important characteristics about a black box algorithm without necessarily having to understand every single granular detail of the algorithm.

  

  Cathy O'Neil
  • Black
  • Goal
  • Boxes

• During the Fifties, political and military activities in Vietnam were heavily influenced by the French, who as recent colonial masters, made all-important decisions.

  

  Nguyen Cao Ky
  • Important
  • Political
  • Military

• I just have to stay away from craft services. Having that routine allows me to keep absolute focus on the physical shape I want to be in. It's also important to allow yourself to have treats every once in awhile, so I indulge in dark chocolate. It's just a balance, for the most part!

  

  Darby Stanchfield
  • Focus
  • Dark
  • Balance

• A little girl who finds a puzzle frustrating might ask her busy mother (or teacher) for help. The child gets one message if her mother expresses clear pleasure at the request and quite another if mommy responds with a curt 'Don't bother me - I've got important work to do.'

  

  Daniel Goleman
  • Work
  • Help
  • Mother

• Financial literacy is not an end in itself, but a step-by-step process. It begins in childhood and continues throughout a person's life all the way to retirement. Instilling the financial-literacy message in children is especially important, because they will carry it for the rest of their lives. The results of the survey are very encouraging, and we want to do our part to make sure all children develop and strengthen their financial-literacy skills.

  

  George Karl
  • Children
  • Childhood
  • Financial

• I've said from the beginning that Obamacare is an imperfect piece of legislation that is designed to do a very important thing for this country. It's not perfect, and repealing it is a terrible idea.

  

  John Delaney
  • Country
  • Perfect
  • Beginning

• Sometimes in movies, I still have to be the hero, but it's not all that important to me anymore.

  

  Dennis Quaid
  • Important
  • Hero

• When I try to explain to people the big influences in my life, or at least when I first started, the most important ones were my friends who were also writing songs and were typically four or five years older than me.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • People
  • Trying
  • Song

• My agent and manager would sternly tell me exactly the number of projects that we've turned down at this point. But, I think it's really important to do the right thing next.

  

  David Slade
  • Important

• What our generation has forgotten is that the system of private property is the most important guarantee of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who do not. It is only because the control of the means of production is divided among many people acting independently that nobody has complete power over us, that we as individuals can decide what to do with ourselves.

  

  Friedrich August von Hayek
  • Acting
  • Individual
  • Forgotten

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