Important Quotes

• But in the new (math) approach, the important thing is to understand what you're doing, rather than to get the right answer.

  

  Tom Lehrer
  • Important
  • Answers
  • Approach

• At a young age winning is not the most important thing... the important thing is to develop creative and skilled players with good confidence.

  

  Arsene Wenger
  • Age
  • Player
  • Confidence

• Before you speak, get very quiet, do the meditation, say, "Use me as a channel for what needs to get said to this community. This community needs to hear something very important that I'm the only person in the room who can say it. Please help open me so that I'm not frightened and speak through me. Let me be that channel so that I can help heal." You make yourself so humble that you really are like a flute and that music that comes out comes from el corazón. All the people you're connected to from that light that we call love.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • People
  • Community
  • Helping

• You can be stubborn and successful or you can give it up a bit and change things around. For me it's important to have a bit of both.

  

  Roger Federer
  • Important
  • Successful
  • Stubborn

• 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.

  

  George Clooney
  • World
  • Running
  • Nice

• 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?

  

  Karen Lord
  • People
  • Humans
  • Seems

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

  

  Michael Morpurgo
  • Important
  • Want

• To serve as prime minister while being too mindful of the approval rating is like serving as a prime minister on a roller coaster. What is important, I believe, is that I really act on promises that I make and leave results. Leave a track record and show that to the Japanese public, who will, at the end of the day, I hope, appreciate it.

  

  Shinzo Abe
  • Believe
  • Promise
  • Appreciate

• I don't think writing open-ended lyrics is necessarily an important part of writing good pop songs.

  

  Lewis Capaldi
  • Songs
  • Lyrics
  • Necessarily

• Let's try to protect everything that's important to us.

  

  Nick Szabo
  • Important
  • Protect

• It's more important for a photographer to have very good shoes, than to have a very good camera

  

  Sebastiao Salgado
  • Important
  • Cameras
  • Photographer

• I think what you learn, working on a film or TV set, is how to tune certain things out. You've got 60-100 people swirling around you, each of them with a very important job to do.

  

  Wentworth Miller
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Important

• 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 British are supposed to be particularly averse to intellectuals, a prejudice closely bound up with their dislike of foreigners. Indeed, one important source of this Anglo-Saxon distaste for highbrows and eggheads was the French revolution, which was seen as an attempt to reconstruct society on the basis of abstract rational principles.

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • Revolution
  • Prejudice
  • Abstract

• Sleep is an essential part of life-but more important, sleep is a gift.

  

  William C. Dement
  • Important
  • Essential

• It is precisely the way which is productive - this is the essential thing; becoming is more important than being.

  

  Paul Klee
  • Important
  • Productive

• We honor ambition, we reward greed, we celebrate materialism, we worship acquisitiveness, we commercialize art, we cherish success and then we bark at the young about the gentle arts of the spirit. The kids know that if we really valued learning, we would pay our teachers what we pay our lawyers and stockbrokers. If we valued art, we would not measure it by its capacity to produce profits. If we regarded literature as important, we would remove it from the celebrity sweepstakes and spend a little money on our libraries.

  

  Russell Baker
  • Art
  • Kids
  • Teacher

• Progress depends on our brain. The most important part of our brain, that which is neocortical, must be used to help others and not just to make discoveries.

  

  Rita Levi-Montalcini
  • Help
  • Depends
  • Others

• The most important thing for us is to save lives.

  

  Rick Perry
  • Important

• Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent and urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Life
  • Mind
  • inspirational

• In reality, the most important things happen when you don't look for them.

  

  Phil Donahue
  • Important
  • Things
  • Look

• Writers of novels live in a strange world where what's made up is as important as what's real.

  

  Sara Sheridan
  • World
  • Real
  • Strange

• I always ask my actors with whom they'd like to work. Before shooting we discuss how their characters are supposed to have sex. Everybody knows that communication is important; it's no problem to say you need a break.

  

  Erika Lust
  • Important
  • Problem
  • Communication

• Teaching is very important to me, and it has become more important as I get older.

  

  Alice Mattison
  • Important
  • Teaching

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