Important Quotes

• I'm all for cafeteria religion. I think there's nothing wrong with cafeterias - I've had some great meals at cafeterias. I've also had some horrible meals, so it's important to pick the right things. Take a heaping helping of compassion and mercy, and leave the intolerance on the table.

  

  A. J. Jacobs
  • Great
  • Compassion
  • Mercy

• After the training session, video analysis. You can see the good and the bad, show players how to improve. Not because I want to find blame. Sometimes 20 or 30 minutes of video is more important than three training sessions.

  

  Antonio Conte
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Training

• Every day when I'm thinking about something or want to do something, I say, "Hey, can we shoot some stuff?" or "Hey, can you come with me to the grocery store?" or "Hey, can you..." Just so I can share my personality and who I am, and also use it as a platform to do bigger, more important things.

  

  Zendaya
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Personality

• The ability to find meaning in the most difficult times, I think, is one of the most important skills of life.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Thinking
  • Difficult
  • Ability

• A lifestyle involves a cluster of habits and orientations, and hence has a certain unity - important to a continuing sense of ontological security - that connects options in a more or less ordered pattern. (...) The selection or creation of lifestyles is influenced by group pressures and the visibility of role models, as well as by socioeconomic circumstances.

  

  Anthony Giddens
  • Habit
  • Security
  • Circumstances

• The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by failures.

  

  Humphry Davy
  • Important
  • Failures
  • Discoveries

• The Sonics I found later and that was pretty important.

  

  Eric Reed Boucher
  • Important
  • Pretty

• There isn't only one way that black art or entertainment is represented, and that's the most important thing. We're permeating every style. We're claiming and, when necessary, appropriating all kinds of forms. Nothing is forbidden, because it's not what black people do: because it's not what we think of as black art.

  

  Margo Jefferson
  • People
  • Art
  • Black

• What I really intend to achieve is to be that fly on the wall, and to try and observe as much as I can without affecting what I've seen. I want to get a sense that what I'm seeing in a place would have happened had I not be there. Were I to make myself an important presence, that would be lost. The danger of a certain other kind of reporting is that people give you what they think you are seeking. People know what you want. When I was traveling in Congo and Rwanda and people asked me what I wanted, I would say, "Nothing. I just want to be here." And that immediately disarmed them.

  

  Anjan Sundaram
  • People
  • Trying
  • Giving

• I think that affirmative action programs can be very important.

  

  Janet Reno
  • Important
  • Action

• When people talk about the good old days, I say to people, 'It's not the days that are old, it's you that's old.' I hate the good old days. What is important is that today is good.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • Today
  • Hate

• It's important to remember that there are many different types of people, styles of teaching and that we won't agree with all of them.

  

  Kathryn Budig
  • Different
  • Remember
  • Style

• It is important to find a publisher and equally important not to be noticed until your third or fourth book.

  

  Colm Toibin
  • Important
  • Book

• American Lives Are Not More Important Than Other People's Lives.

  

  Bob Avakian
  • Important
  • American Lives

• I'm a staunch civil libertarian; I really believe that the individual is more important than any societal value.

  

  Richard Grossman
  • Important
  • Values
  • Libertarian

• Your most important tasks and priorities are those that can have the most serious consequences, positive or negative, on your life or work. Focus on these above all.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Life
  • Work
  • Focus

• In this film George presents issues that are important, essential and vital, whoever you are, about constitutional rights and the bedrock of a democracy. I am drawn to those kinds of stories because they inspire me - they are responsible to a populace and responsible to man.

  

  David Strathairn
  • Important
  • Democracy

• Any story that gets us thinking, and particularly young people, thinking why? Whether it's as a result of reading the book, or coming out of the theatre or the cinema, I think we should just simply be asking the question 'why'? Why did it happen to those people? Was it necessary? And anything that gets us thinking like that is really important.

  

  Michael Morpurgo
  • People
  • Book
  • Reading

• Europe needs an engine, and the Franco-German motor has provided that when the two nations have converged on important topics during critical periods. But that partnership shouldn't be a directorate for other EU members.

  

  Francois Hollande
  • Important
  • German

• The most important thing for a director is being able to communicate.

  

  Kevin Hart
  • Important

• The most important civil liberty... is to stay alive and to be free from violence and death...

  

  John Howard
  • Death
  • Free
  • Violence

• 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

• It's important sometimes to have pictures that are not as retouched and show more of the real skin.

  

  Doutzen Kroes
  • Important
  • Real

• Poetry isn't just different from prose, it's more important for the human species.

  

  Joseph Brodsky
  • Different
  • Important
  • Poetry

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