Important Quotes

• The only moral lesson which is suited for a child--the most important lesson for every time of life--is this: 'Never hurt anybody.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Life
  • Time
  • Children

• The living together is very important in a way. It's important for writing. It wouldn't be important if we were like just getting other people's numbers together, we'd just have to meet at rehearsals, but writing is something almost completely different.

  

  Steve Winwood Blind Faith
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Together

• The most important thing you can ever know, is that whatever your purpose is, that's not your only choice.

  

  Dan Wells
  • Important
  • Purpose
  • Whatever

• Spreadsheets are fiction. Believing in what you're doing and what you're building is what's important.

  

  Vinod Khosla
  • Believe
  • Building
  • Fiction

• I've always felt that music is more expressive than dialogue. I've always said that my best dialogue and screenwriter is Ennio Morricone. Because, many times, it is more important a note or an orchestration than a line said.

  

  Sergio Leone
  • Music
  • Lines
  • Dialogue

• Strategy is important, but trust is the hidden variable. On paper you can have clarity around your objectives, but in a low-trust environment, your strategy won't be executed.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Environment
  • Strategy
  • Paper

• With the chronic obesity in America, it's more important than ever to not only feed kids healthy foods but to teach them how to make healthy choices on their own.

  

  Jennie Garth
  • Kids
  • America
  • Choices

• It's really important for the bass and the drums to somehow blend.

  

  Mike Gordon
  • Important
  • Bass

• I have serious concerns about whether it's prudent to give any foreign country substantial leverage over the U.S. economy. Instead of spending $80 billion on important programs here at home, we're sending this money overseas just to pay interest on our debt.

  

  Tim Johnson
  • Country
  • Home
  • Serious

• Stress says that the things we are involved in are important enough to merit our impatience, our lack of grace toward others, or our tight grip of control.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Enough
  • Stress
  • Grace

• If voting wasn't important, why would they be spending so much time and so much energy trying to stop you from doing it?

  

  Andrew Aydin
  • Important
  • Doing
  • Voting

• Within Easy Company they had made the best friends they had ever had, or would ever have. They were prepared to die for each other; more important, they were prepared to kill for each other.

  

  Stephen Ambrose
  • Easy
  • Company
  • Made

• Sometimes it's important to watch what the president does rather than what he says.

  

  John McCain
  • Important

• I feel like the internet has encouraged people to look into things and try to find issuesthat because people have a lot of opinions. I think it's really important to encourage artistic freedom. I think if you inhibit that, that could be dangerous.

  

  Sofia Coppola
  • People
  • Trying
  • Opinion

• Rather marvelously, the older brain only permits change when it judges that change to be important, rewarding or good for it.

  

  Michael Merzenich
  • Important
  • Judging
  • Permit

• Do you have agendas for your children that are more important than the children themselves? Lost in the shuffle of uniforms, practices, games, recitals, and performances can be the creative and joyful soul of your child. Watch and listen carefully. Do they have time to daydream? From their dreams will emerge the practices and activities that will make self-discipline as natural as breathing.

  

  William Martin
  • Children
  • Discipline
  • Performances

• Many people say, "Well, I'd love to make a decision like that, but I'm not sure how I could change my life." They're paralyzed by the fear that they don't know exactly how to turn their dreams into reality. And as a result, they never make the decisions that could make their lives into the masterpieces they deserve to be. I'm here to tell you that it's not important initially to know how you're going to create a result. What's important is to decide you will find a way, no matter what.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • People
  • Dream
  • Reality

• I grew up loving Etta James and Aretha Franklin and Al Green and Otis Redding, and I just love old-school R&B. It's just music that moves you and grooves you, and it was very important, I think, for music.

  

  Elle King
  • Up
  • Music
  • School

• It’s important that someone celebrate our existence," she objected amiably. "People are the only mirror we have to see ourselves in. The domain of all meaning. All virtue, all evil, are contained only in people. There is none in the universe at large. Solitary confinement is a punishment in every human culture.

  

  Lois McMaster
  • People
  • Culture
  • Evil

• In everything I do, my children come first, and my husband. I just think it's so important to maintain family stability.

  

  Cindy McCain
  • Thinking
  • Children
  • Husband

• It's important to accept your body for what God gave you.

  

  Alex Morgan
  • God
  • Important

• Talent acquisition, knowledge transfer, generational diversity, and retention will continue to be serious concerns. I think the golden thread is equipping management to work with Millennials. Let's face it. We are going to see organizations needing to replace 40% to 60% of their workforce. Management has never been more important!

  

  Chip Espinoza
  • Serious
  • Talent
  • Management

• One of the most important things, that we in US have to engage is unleashing our domestic energy production opportunities. It does come down to "drill, baby, drill," in addition to an "all of the above" energy policy.

  

  Sarah Palin
  • Opportunity
  • Energy
  • Baby

• The single most important technique for making progress is to write ten words. Doesn't matter if you're badly stuck, or your day is completely jam-packed, or you're away from your computer - carry a small paper notebook and write a sentence of description while you're waiting on line at a coffee shop. I think of this as baiting a hook. Even if you have a few days in a row where nothing comes except those ten words, I find that as long as you have to think about the novel enough to write ten words, the chances are that more will come.

  

  Naomi Novik
  • Writing
  • Progress
  • Chance

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