Important Quotes

• You don't look in the eyes of a carrot seed quite in the way you do a panda bear, but it's very important diversity.

  

  Cary Fowler
  • Eyes
  • Diversity
  • To Do

• A good moral character is the first essential. It is highly important not only to be learned but to be virtuous.

  

  George Washington
  • Character
  • Moral
  • Virtuous

• Sports don't matter in the grand scheme of things. But in the moment, when things are just right, they're the most important thing in the world. That's what makes them so great.

  

  David Poole
  • Moments
  • Sports
  • Schemes

• I think you should just wear something you feel comfortable in. It's important to make a statement, but don't kill yourself over it.

  

  Alexandra Roach
  • Important

• The myth is that IP rights are as important as our rights in castles, cars, and corn oil. IP is supposedly intended to encourage inventors and the investment needed to bring their products to the clinic and marketplace.

  

  John Sulston
  • Important

• The most important thing we can do is to make sure that we've got very high standards, we expect a lot out of all of our young people, and we make sure that we have the best teachers possible in every classroom.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • High
  • Teacher

• You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.

  

  Arthur Ashe
  • Life
  • Winning
  • Stage

• I feel that one of the most important things I can do is connect climate change to the values, the faith, and the issues we already care about. And if, in the process, I have to sidestep around some very explosive mines, I will do that.

  

  Katharine Hayhoe
  • Change
  • Things
  • Process

• I tried to minimize exposure to technology before two. After that, I've taught the kids to use devices in moderation. It's important for them to learn how to control their behaviour themselves. Simply restricting access makes them want it more.

  

  Anne Wojcicki
  • Kids
  • Control
  • Technology

• The best start-ups might be considered slightly less extreme kinds of cults. The biggest difference is that cults tend to be fanatically wrong about something important. People at a successful start-up are fanatically right about something those outside it have missed.

  

  Peter Thiel
  • People
  • Up
  • Important

• More than any other instrument, the relationship between an acoustic guitar and a microphone is super-important. The kind of mics that you use and your placement of the mics to the guitar can radically alter your sound.

  

  Mat Kearney
  • Important
  • Relationship

• What is important to me is there has been consensus and clarity, (and) much better coordination. We'll be much quicker to control avian influenza as a result.

  

  David Nabarro
  • Clarity
  • Consensus
  • Coordination

• Individual talent is too sporadic and unpredictable to be allowed any important part in the organization society. Social systems which endure are built on the average person who can be trained to occupy any position adequately if not brilliantly.

  

  Stuart Chase
  • Talent
  • Individual
  • Social

• To give the best of the day to your work is most important.

  

  John le Carre
  • Work
  • Important

• Nearly everything I do is part of a master plan to make me the most important entertainer in the world.

  

  Bobby Darin
  • World
  • Important

• The most important thing to remember is that the composer is a senior partner. You cannot force a subject on a composer if it doesn't inspire him. He has to take the lead, you are an enabler, and you are creating the enabling conditions under which he can write great music. Your words are secondary. Many librettists in opera collaborations in the past have forgotten this, or not known it, or refuse to accept it and tried to get out in front of the creative process and it just doesn't work that way.

  

  Terry Teachout
  • Writing
  • Remember
  • Past

• Complexity is looking at interacting elements and asking how they form patterns and how the patterns unfold. It's important to point out that the patterns may never be finished. They're open-ended. In standard science this hit some things that most scientists have a negative reaction to. Science doesn't like perpetual novelty.

  

  W. Brian Arthur
  • Important
  • May
  • Science

• It's important to me that I don't spend too much time away from the family. I try to pick jobs that will keep me as close to home as possible or, if I have to go far away, for as little time as possible.

  

  Mark Strong
  • Time
  • Family
  • Home

• Passion is too important to be without, but too fickle to be guided by. Which is why I’m more inclined to say, 'Don’t Follow Your Passion, But Always Bring it With You.'

  

  Mike Rowe
  • Important
  • Passion
  • Fickle

• I think the most important thing is to take the long view on things. We live in such a 24/7, Twitter-fed, constant news cycle, and everything's a crisis, everything is terrible, everything is doomsday, everything is - if it doesn't get solved tomorrow, your presidency is going off the rails.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Important
  • Long
  • Live

• If it's important to you and you want to do it 'eventually', just do it and correct course along the way.

  

  Tim Ferriss
  • Important
  • Way
  • Correct

• At the end of the day, it's my players play against their players, and the end of the day, that's what's important.

  

  Pep Guardiola
  • Important

• The important questions focus on what matters most-Heavenly Father's plan and the Savior's Atonement.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • Important
  • Father
  • Focus

• I don't think I'm really interested in having a celebrity relationship. The music is the most important thing.

  

  Alex Parks
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Important

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