Important Quotes

• It was important to me that the book didn't comment on being a teenager, but felt instead like a story told by a teenager.

  

  David Crabb
  • Important
  • Teenager
  • Comment

• We're looking to rebrand L.A. Not in some sort of radical way, but we've forgotten to sell this city, internationally and nationally... it's important for us to say who we are.

  

  Eric Garcetti
  • Important
  • City
  • Forgotten

• Charles Murray, however, clearly believes that being able to cure fatal diseases is more important than some other things and that Rembrandt was a greater artist than your local sidewalk cartoon sketcher. Most people might regard this as obvious common sense but some of the intelligentsia may be seething with resentment at seeing their pet fetishes ignored.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • People
  • Believe
  • Artist

• Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • Important
  • Giving
  • inspirational

• The most important thing for me is the image, not the thought.

  

  Andrey Zvyagintsev
  • Important
  • Thought
  • Image

• This road trip is very important that we're going on. This is our season, right here.

  

  Bobby Abreu
  • Important
  • Season
  • Road Trip

• A sense of humor has been linked with longevity. It is a possibility that the mental attitude reflected in a lively sense of humor is an important factor predisposing some people toward long life.

  

  Raymond Moody
  • Attitude
  • Humor
  • Possibility

• It's important not to look like a tool in front of your posse.

  

  Dick Pound
  • Important
  • Like
  • Front

• I never thought about how important the sky was until I didn't have one.

  

  Beth Revis
  • Important
  • Sky

• I don't want to be separate from something that's important to me.

  

  Michael Morpurgo
  • Important
  • Want

• You are your own teacher. Looking for teachers can’t solve your own doubts. Investigate yourself to find the truth - inside, not outside. Knowing yourself is most important.

  

  Ajahn Chah
  • Teacher
  • Doubt
  • Knowing

• There is nothing more important than hard work.

  

  Dana Bash
  • Work
  • Important
  • Nothing

• One of the most important reasons for studying history is that virtually every stupid idea that is in vogue today has been tried before and proved disastrous before, time and again.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Today
  • Reason
  • Stupid

• One of the first, and most important of those duties which are incumbent upon us, is fervent and united prayer.

  

  William Carey
  • Prayer
  • Firsts
  • Duty

• Every day I am on this Earth, I will do all I can for so many important causes.

  

  Stewart Rahr
  • Important
  • Everyday
  • Causes

• I assume most people trust me, if they vote for me in elections. And it is the most important thing. It places great responsibility on me, immense responsibility. I am grateful to the people for that trust, but I surely feel great responsibility for what I do and for the result of my work.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • People
  • Responsibility
  • Grateful

• Virtually no idea is too ridiculous to be accepted, even by very intelligent and highly educated people, if it provides a way for them to feel special and important. Some confuse that feeling with idealism.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • People
  • Feelings
  • Intelligent

• We don't let a car company just throw out a car and start driving it around without checking that the wheels are fastened on. We know that would result in death; but for some reason we have no hesitation at throwing out some algorithms untested and unmonitored even when they're making very important life-and-death decisions.

  

  Cathy O'Neil
  • Reason
  • Decision
  • Car

• I was never writing for commercial success. It's nice that it has come, but it is not important.

  

  Ethan Canin
  • Important
  • Writing
  • Success

• Every once in a while, there comes a story. A story that blows your mind. One where you know you've made a difference. That's what makes it all worthwhile. That and the anticipation. It's addictive, because you never know when it will happen, but when it does, nothing in the world is as important.

  

  Edna Buchanan
  • Story
  • Difference
  • Anticipation

• I really liked them, not just Syd, but all of them. Roger was very important, I thought, his contribution. And so was Rick's organ playing. It was a good band. It became something else completely, obviously.

  

  Robert Wyatt
  • Band
  • Contribution
  • Organs

• It is important to use all knowledge ethically, humanely, and lovingly.

  

  Carol Lynn Pearson
  • Important
  • Knowledge
  • Use

• Navalny is doing a very important thing in his segment of society. Gudkov is a doing a very important thing in his segment of society. Yabloko, or more accurately, some of the leaders of the Yabloko party, are doing a very important job in their segment of the population, people such as Schlosberg. And our organization Open Russia is also doing important work with its segment of society, because those people who are focused on us, our segment, they're not part of those other segments.

  

  Mikhail Khodorkovsky
  • Important
  • Leader
  • Focused

• I think What Dreams May Come is the most important (read effective) book I've written. It has caused a number of readers to lose their fear of death the finest tribute any writer could receive. ... Somewhere In Time is my favorite novel.

  

  Richard Matheson
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Reader

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