Top 171 Important Things Quotes

As a music industry, if we remain in competition, then we die. We have to understand that we’re all in this together. Collaboration and synergy, it’s one of the most important things out there.

I think of the important things: how to prepare, how to practice, how to prepare to practice.

Google is in an amazing position to be the target of tons of lawsuits that will set precedent for many important things for us on the Internet.

The only important things are family and love.

I always wear the same thing at home. I can’t be bothered with jewelry. My pants have elastic waists. I like to be comfortable. There are so many more important things to worry about.

To achieve important things, we have to sacrifice what’s important to us. That’s an idea that’s very central to Indian thinking.

One of the important things about temptation is, if I’m going to deal with it I’m going to have to recognize, this is an area of weakness in my life. I have been tempted here before and before and before.

My career is really important to me, but there have to be other great, important things in your life besides work.

If you want to do really important things in life and big things in life, you can’t do anything by yourself. And your best teams are your friends and your siblings.

When I go home to Pennsylvania, my cousins who live in small towns and are twenty-three with kids are like ‘Krysten, when are you getting married?’ ‘When are you having a kid?’ Honestly, those aren’t the most important things to me right now.

One of the most important things in the digital world is being able to story-tell and help people envision the art of the possible with respect to different technologies.

One of the most ephemeral and important things is atmosphere and tone and it’s very hard to put your finger on what creates that.

I have never voted in any election – I usually have more important things to do, especially since I’ve had kids.

Physical health and mental health are the most important things that members should take care of.

We stand for more than just getting the cash and running out. This family is recognized by millions of people worldwide; we have something to stand for, and we have always thought there were more important things than money.

Movement is one of the most important things. My consistency, everything – there’s a lot to improve. Coaches are never happy. But I’d like to keep improving, go deeper in the tournaments, and get as high in the rankings as possible.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

You don’t get to see your family much. In the movie business, directors often go out of town for long periods of time, and even if you’re in town, you’re working 14-15 hour days. People tend to not balance out the important things in their lives with their career.

Every time somebody tries to go in and reinvent what we do, it always ends up being more about technology and sets, and flash and dash, forgetting the main thing, which is interesting people saying interesting, important things.

The keyboard is my whole life. My life is centered around either sitting at my keyboard or driving my car. Those are the two most important things, more than anything else. Being at my keyboard, it’s the happiest time for me.

My focus – even before becoming CEO – has always been memorable and unique content. And one of the most important things we did to reinforce that was create A+E Studios.

One win more, one defeat more. There are other important things: family, friendship, values.

We don’t expect Google as a first party service to provide all the answers. Part of the reason a platform is successful is because there are very very important things from other companies and other developers on top of the platform.

I think one of the important things around tournaments and qualifying tournaments is the jeopardy around it.

I have to do popcorn for movies. I can do more important things for television. You’re going down when you’re making a movie, not going up.

The bonds that women share around the world, wherever we come from, they’re very powerful and they have an ease of communication because we share those very important things of our families, our mothering, of improving opportunities for the next generation.

There would really be no reason to get up in the morning if Founders Fund was not willing to invest in companies that were doing important things, great businesses that very few people believe in.

One of the most important things for an actor is to observe humanity.

It is very difficult to get people to focus on the most important things when you’re in boom times.

One of the most important things about the geology on the moon is your descriptions of what you see, comparing them to things that you’ve seen on Earth so that the geologists and the scientists on the ground would know what you’re talking about; and then take pictures of them.

We’ve got ourselves into a very vain state of society and there’s more important things.

I always thought that was one of the single most important things a prosecutor could do is to seek justice for the families of victims.

It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things. The monkey wears an expression of seriousness which would do credit to any college student, but the monkey is serious because he itches.

A lot of the time we think finances are immediately linked to experience, opportunities, image, and all sorts of important things that can progress us in life. Sometimes they’re not. Finances can be completely irrelevant if you allow yourself to feel like things are going well.

The most important things in life aren’t things.

It will be great to live in a world where we don’t discuss sex anymore because we have managed to go beyond it. And then we can focus on more important things.

The whole world, it’s a problem that there’s too much stuff being produced. We don’t have time to reflect on the important things in life.

In certain situations, players should protect themselves by not losing track of the most important things in their job.

The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.

Ensuring quality higher education is one of the most important things we can do for future generations.

Previous experience, key skills, and education. They’re undoubtedly all important things you consider when filtering through applicants in order to make a new hire. But, what’s another major determining factor of whether or not that hopeful interviewee deserves an offer letter? Cultural fit.

‘Life, Love & Hope’ is… I’m thinking ‘larger picture.’ I’m not trying to preach to anyone. We all get lost and caught up in our everyday problems. Your cellphone doesn’t work or you got a parking ticket, you had a bad day at work. You can lose sight of the really important things in life; that’s what the song is about.

Deciding not to decide is, of course, among the most important things done by the Supreme Court. It takes a lot of doing, but it can be done.

My wife Patrice, in addition to being enormously supportive, has taught me a lot about life. She might argue it’s because I have so much to learn. One of the most important things I’ve learned is the art of listening.

Little kids grow up discovering the world that’s shown to them and then when you become a teenager, it kind of shrinks a little bit. I think when you get past that point, one of the important things is that you see there is more to the world than yourself.

Naturalism teaches one of the most important things in this world. There is only this life, so live wonderfully and meaningfully.

One of the most important things, especially when you’re leaving school, is to realize you’re going to be dealing with a lot of idiots. And a lot of those idiots are in charge of things, so if you’re in an interview and you really want to tell the person off, don’t do it.

When you’re trying to lose weight, one of the most important things you can do is eat three decent meals a day so that you’re not so hungry that you can’t get food off your mind. Habit and hunger have long been the basic, insidious enemies of the overweight. We can’t fight hunger, but we can fight habit.

I hope I have important things to say.

Free speech is one of the most important things to me, but I think it gets confusing when it comes to offense. Because for one, just because you have the right to say anything, it doesn’t mean you have to.

Being halfway through my life, I think we start feeling less invincible and we start thinking more about the important things.

I’ve got more important things to think about. I’ve got a yogurt to finish by today, the expiry date is today.

The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.

Listening is a crucial aspect of democracy. Listening creates understanding, and understanding permits one of the most important things about every democracy, which is civilized disagreement.

Nobody can predict the future. You just have to give your all to the relationship you’re in and do your best to take care of your partner, communicate and give them every last drop of love you have. I think one of the most important things in a relationship is caring for your significant other through good times and bad.

Football is just a game. Everybody takes it so much more seriously than it is, but there are many more important things in my life.

I have very intense conversations with friends, people I really interconnect with. We talk about politics, important things. I like to talk about ideas and get people to be specific.

There have to be more important things going on in the world than my past.

I adapt my idea of football to my players, not adapt my players in my idea of football. It’s important because there are others players that must play. The players are the most important things in football. I adapt my idea within my players.

I believe that reforming our intelligence community is one of the most important things that we can do in order to ensure that our country is in fact safer, stronger and wiser.

The two important things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision.

Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?

The two most important things that can be done to promote democracy in the world is first, to bring moral clarity back to world affairs and second, to link international policies to the advance of democracy around the globe.

When you’re in the NBA, you think about playing time, how to make your coach happy or if you’re winning. It really just took my focus off some of the most important things.

Sometimes you have to park things you’re not happy with, because there are more important things to be done.

Music is part of life. It is not the real life. I belong to that first: family, children. The important things.

Civil lawsuits do two important things: they compensate people who are injured by the bad acts of others, and they penalize people and companies for bad behavior.

There are far more important things in life than making a putt or missing a putt or winning a championship or losing a championship.

The way that light hits objects, I think, is one of the more important things that sculpture and photography share.

I always try to write from memory, and I always try to use memory as an editor. So when I’m thinking of something like a relationship or whatever, then I’m letting my memory tell me what the important things were.

One of the most important things you need when you’re doing big shows, like Rock in Rio, is consistency, and that starts with the sound in your ears. If it isn’t just right, it throws you off and makes it hard to focus on the music and the performance.

One of the most important things about leadership is that you have to have the kind of humility that will allow you to be coached.

Finding someone to share your life with is one of the most important things a human can do and was preached to me by my mother.

I’m amusing and crazy on Twitter. I talk about important things, stupid things.

The thing about ‘Next to Normal’ is that it really is an ensemble piece for six actors. They are all asked to do very important things in the show, and I think all six are equal in terms of telling the story.

When you are not in power for 20 years and several leaders are in the race, it is tough to put forth one face. The most important things are our policies and principles.

I learned not to fight against the many bad things in football and try to always battle through injuries. That’s one of the most important things I learned.

Being humble is one of the most important things, and not being afraid to put yourself out there is important. I think really successful chefs put themselves out there on a daily basis.

I think one of the most important things in a relationship is caring for your significant other through good times and bad.

Music is one of the important things for me in cinema.

One of the most important things that I want for my kids is I want them to live. You know, I want them to live to see 21 and beyond.

Skin care is one of the most important things for the body and feeling good.

All of us, we know, not just in football but in life, that we cannot achieve important things without consistency.

I can pour myself into Bon Iver. It’s a thing about self- and mental discovery, and those are all important things. But it’s not 148-shows-over-a-year-and-a-half important, though. It’s a machine, and it’s money, and you just get put on this indie rock cart, and it’s embarrassing.

I don’t want to be romantic, but one of the most important things is to have happy buildings… it’s like having a family with a lot of children.

Music is my favorite thing in the world. I grew up completely around it and I think it’s one of the most important things to me, but at this point I can’t see myself doing that professionally. Luckily, for the most part, I don’t feel pressured.

If you’re a friend or a relative of George Herbert Walker Bush, Prez 41, or George W. Bush, Prez 43, or any other Bushes, then you know an 18-hole round of golf shouldn’t take more than three hours out of your day – there are other important things to do.

There are always games where you play for important things, but the semifinal of the Champions League is a responsibility.

We humans lack imagination, to the point of not even knowing what tomorrow’s important things will look like.

One of the most important things for a CEO is not to get insulated.

Compared to politics, I think sports is funnier, because it’s inconsequential. And politics can be real important and all that. The more pointless something is, the funnier it is, you know? And the more grave or important things are… You know, some comedians can get this disease where they get serious all the time.

You have to starve the Beast. That’s one of the most important things about tax cuts. If you leave the money in Washington, it’s going to be spent.

Venture funds get beaten up for not investing in important things. Okay, if you want venture funds to invest in important things, then don’t penalize or make fun of them when those important things don’t work.

I think that lunch is one of the most enjoyable and important things in the day. But you need to create the space and the time to do just that. And in Italy, we do that.

When you focus on the important things and keep your head, that’s when good things will come to you.

Babies are wonderful, important things. Having kids, even the thought of having kids, is a big emotional deal. But sometimes it can cause people to change their financial plans and directions.

The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say – because they were too obvious.

I have to say that one of the most important things Scientology has given me is the ability to keep my integrity together. I understand how people can get into unethical situations, and Scientology has always helped me keep my head clear and be in present time.

I try to have a picture when I receive the ball and know where everyone is. That’s one of the most important things for a midfielder.

The two most important things to do for self-defense are not to take a martial arts class or get a gun, but to think like the opposition and know where you’re most at risk.

In a sense, children who live on a farm become sophisticated, too – but about more important things.

The two most important things in my life were academics and sports. I had to do my schoolwork first.

I think that space exploration as a broad activity is the most important things that humans can do. I’ve always found it fascinating, interesting, compelling, and I have a drive to go out into space.

One of the most important things that a Thatcher government did was change the mood of the nation to give it back its confidence.

Throughout a lot of my 20s, my sexual allure and power was one of the most important things about me, my currency.

What Cristiano has been doing is huge, but Madrid have a great team with players who can still offer more. The important things is that they keep working as a unit.

I don’t enjoy hearing the sound of my voice. The most important things for me are impossible to articulate extemporaneously.

People say that one of the most important things about being an actor is to have thick skin, but I don’t think that’s it. Because you can’t just walk around being tough, you have to be able to be vulnerable to do this. So really, it’s about not being defensive.

One of the important things about familiar form and metricality is that it draws attention to the physical nature of language: the spell-binding nature of it and the ceremony of articulation.

Kids don’t even read comic books anymore. They’ve got more important things to do – like video games.

The art of doing science is doing the important things first.

I think that inexpensive sources of planet-friendly energy are one of the most important things for us to pursue.

In time of war steamships and improved arms are the most important things.

There are two important things to remember about ‘entitlements’: They are hugely popular programs for a very good reason, and actual sensible ‘reform’ would mean improving them, not sacrificing them at the altar of ‘fiscal responsibility.’

During the season, one of the most important things to eat is the carbs. Protein’s really important, too, but it’s the carbs that are important because I have to consistently refuel for the next day.

One of the most important things that I have learned in my 57 years is that life is all about choices. On every journey you take, you face choices. At every fork in the road, you make a choice. And it is those decisions that shape our lives.

Taking the time to identify and infuse values certainly does affect outcomes and is one of the most important things to get right as the CEO.

A pick-up artist gave me a good piece of advice: the three most important things in a relationship are honesty, trust and respect, and if you don’t have those, you don’t have love.

Earlier, looking lighter or slimmer never mattered to me. Frankly, I didn’t care. I had more important things to do. But when I figured that it’s not that hard, and I have the time, passion and patience to take it up, I jumped onto the health-wagon. I started working out.

One of the most important things for me is my family. You know, they keep me grounded, they keep me humble. They always made sacrifices with me.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

Deep reading refers to a whole continuum of processes that include some of the most important things about thinking and how we connect thought to what we read – critical analysis, analogical reasoning, how we infer from the text, how do we take another’s perspective.

If you’re changing the world, you’re working on important things. You’re excited to get up in the morning.

A three-to-six month course can give priority and direction on the five or six important things that entrepreneurs need to do first.

There are more important things in life than winning or losing a game.

Sometimes when you’re relegated to your neighborhood, you forget that there’s more important things than your neighborhood going on out in the world.

Here we are, worrying about whether we’re thin enough or whether our bottom looks too big in this pair of trousers or even whether or not I should wear a hat – does it really matter in comparison to the important things that are going on in the world?

My only focus is on our games and my performances – they are the most important things.

For me, family and football are the most important things. They are in the same level.

Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow.

I do not want to waste any time. And if you are not working on important things, you are wasting time.

I think living with humility, and serving with humility, is one of the most important things humans can do.

My religion and my family are the two most important things in my life. But I love basketball.

We get the exciting result that the total energy of the universe is zero. Why this should be so is one of the great mysteries – and therefore one of the important questions of physics. After all, what would be the use of studying physics if the mysteries were not the most important things to investigate?

I am not the one who fights unnecessary things. In my life Ive always stood for important things and I have received a lot of flak also for that sometimes but I havent stopped doing it. At the end of the day, I know who I am.

Is only a tennis match. At the end, that’s life. There is much more important things.

I think one of the important things that’s happened in the course of the century is that life expectancy has doubled.

For many, many people, getting married is one of the most important things they will ever do in the pursuit of happiness.

I feel like I’m in a privileged position where I get to meet people and talk to them about the most important things in their lives. I appreciate that trust they’re putting in me.

One of the most important things for an actor is to know who you are.

I think the tennis is only a game. You can lose. You can win. After that? In life, there are much more important things than tennis.

One of the important things, which I wrote on yellow post-it notes and stuck on the wall during therapy, was that we are the product of our own thoughts.

Clinton has more important things to worry about. He not only risks being destroyed historically, like Afghanistan’s Buddha statues; he also could end up going to jail.

One of the most important things we do is we’ve organized our stores and our workforce into teams.

For me, the most important things are me, myself, and my family.

I’ve always been a big believer that you can use the elements of storytelling to bring the reader along and to hopefully illuminate a lot of the important things. It’s a challenge, but it’s something I kind of believe in.

I was just so focused on being healthy for my baby during pregnancy, and afterward I was not in a rush to lose the weight. I really wanted to be as healthy as I could. It wasn’t about getting my six-pack back. There are more important things in life than a six-pack, I realized.

There’s a lot of thought in art. People get to talk about important things. There’s a lot of sex, you know, in art. There’s a lot of naked women and men, and there’s intrigue, there’s fakery. It’s a real microcosm of the larger world.

I have understood that the most important things are tenderness and kindness. I can’t do without them.

I’ve always wanted male friends that I could be real intimate with and talk about important things with and be as affectionate with that person as I would be with a girl.

The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.

When I turned 30, I realised the value of time and with it, the other important things in life. That’s when I did up my house, started spending time with my family and friends and did all that a normal girl would do. All these things I was balancing with my work.

Personally, coming out was one of the most important things I’ve ever done, lifting from my shoulders the millstone of lies that I hadn’t even realized I was carrying.

There’s this perception of D.C. as a boring town run by old white men, but in reality, there are incredibly young people in charge of really important things.

I still wanna rap better than everybody else, and I wanna say important things.

Only one thing makes a man a man. He loves his wife, is faithful to her, and puts his wife and kids as the most important things in life.

I think one of the most important things is just being outside and in touch with nature. You need it!

I try to make my kids happy, so when they grow up they can look back and see a father who did important things for their country and tried to make history.

I think footwork is one of the most important things to becoming a great fighter. That’s where everything starts.

The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things.

I think the most important things my book does is to give readers the address of George Monbiot’s website and how to get hold of comic books by Grant Morrison.

Before the injury hockey was everything in my life. Now I know even if I am out of hockey, there are other important things in life. I am confident, calmer and wiser now.

Talking with my friends and family every day helps keep me grounded and connected to home. They are the most important things to me.

Every status update you read on Facebook, every tweet or text message you get from a friend, is competing for resources in your brain with important things like whether to put your savings in stocks or bonds, where you left your passport, or how best to reconcile with a close friend you just had an argument with.

If you look at the literature of the 19th century, you get things like Kafka and Dostoevsky, who basically write about feeling bored and alienated. That’s because we lost contact with the important things in life like work that you enjoy, or the garden, nature, your family and friends.

Christmas gives us the opportunity to pause and reflect on the important things around us – a time when we can look back on the year that has passed and prepare for the year ahead.

I think one of the most important things we can do as feminists is acknowledge that, even though we have womanhood in common, we have to start to think about the ways in which we’re different, how those differences affect us, and what kinds of needs we have based on our differences.

When you start living in with a person, over a period of time, you could start losing interest. That’s when you could lose out on important things and marriage is one of those big things.

Financial reward is important, but it shouldn’t be your end goal – you’ll reach your dreams much sooner if you focus your efforts on more important things.

Of the five most important things in life, health is first, education or knowledge is second, and wealth is third. I forget the other two.

Well, one of the most important things for Americans to be reminded of is that a lot of the exceptional nature of our country is founded in Judeo-Christian values that promotes individualism, personal responsibility, a strong work ethic, and a commitment to family, charity.