Important Quotes
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I do believe in the power of story. I believe that stories have an important role to play in the formation of human beings, that they can stimulate, amaze and inspire their listeners.
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I feel it's important to make a mark somewhere.
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We're in a strange state in our world where we sort of have that belief - and I have it too - that if it's written down there's got to be some truth in it. We haven't quite got to the spot where you go: "Well, it doesn't necessarily mean it's true." It could actually be completely made up and made to look very nice. So, we have to get to the point where scandal and those kinds of things are less and less important because otherwise we won't have anyone willing to run as politicians.
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What I really learned from Tim Burton is that it's important to have your own person in a role because you can't play a character unless there are elements of human behaviour that you yourself understand. I was really struck by how Tim Burton would like to sit and chat about you... or question things which then you had never thought about. It is a good thing to always step back a bit with things like that. But I try my damned hardest to learn something from everything I do.
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How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.
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The most important fact of this century is not that Earth is threatened in many ways, It is that for the first time in all of its history a decisive means of protecting the home planet exists. It is by using space.
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It's very important to be as transparent, as real as possible, as a person.
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I do appreciate that the most important thing as manager is to get good results.
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It is important to use all knowledge ethically, humanely, and lovingly.
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But in the new (math) approach, the important thing is to understand what you're doing, rather than to get the right answer.
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I had no cares. I was one of those kids: ‘If you laugh at me, laugh at me.’ I don’t have that censor, which is important in this business because you’re constantly told: ‘Gosh, you didn’t look very good. You don’t look pretty in that scene, or you didn’t do that right, or you’d look so much better if your hair looked lighter.’ You really have to have tough skin or you’d end up like a heaping, crying mess all the time.
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You can't get back what you've lost, What's important now is "What is it that you still have.
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Soldiering is a very important profession, is it not?
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The struggle comes when we sense a gap between the clock and the compass - when what we do doesn't contribute to what is most important in our lives.
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To be in the privileged position where I am able to give something back is, for me, perhaps the single most important measure of success.
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Names are very important for humans, aren't they? How do I translate for you the name of this town as it seems to me, the true name that tells of its history and people and lands and weather and . . . everything?
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In any organization there ought to be the possibility of discussion... fence sitting is an art, and it's difficult, and it's important to do, rather than to go headlong in one direction or the other. It's just better to have action, isn't it than to sit on the fence? Not if you're not sure which way to go, it isn't.
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The most important thing you can ever know, is that whatever your purpose is, that's not your only choice.
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Fanzines are very important for sharing stuff that you're in to, with the readers and listeners. We met through the love of discovering music and it makes sense, to want to share that music with other people.
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If you don’t want to deal with that, don’t dress so loud,’ but it’s about the way I felt. It was really important to me as a young queer person to express myself artistically and wear makeup and live my life, even if people confused me for a girl and I got my ass kicked. As long as I looked pretty, I felt important.
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It's much more important to write than to be written about.
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The longer the title, the less important the job.
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I watch a film and the most important thing to me is what I think of the movie.
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One of the keys to learning for me has been to not get so hung up on the past. It's important to remember the past, but that doesn't mean you have to torture yourself with it by reliving it every single day.
