Important Quotes

"I think it's important to always be open to new ideas and be willing to evolve as an artist"

Kygo, Musician

"It's important to stay true to yourself and make the music you want to make, not just follow trends"

Kygo, Musician

"I think the most important thing when you make music is that you have fun and that you're passionate about it"

Kygo, Musician

"An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea"

Edward de Bono, Psychologist

"I think there is a new awareness in this 21st century that design is as important to where and how we live as it is for museums, concert halls and civic buildings"

Daniel Libeskind, Architect

"The kitchen may not get cleaned, and I have to accept that. I do the important things"

Jasmine Guy, Actress

"It seems to me the most important issue in the LGBT community is the right to be queer-the right to be free of the heterosexual assumption"

Jasmine Guy, Actress

"Has feminism made us all more conscious? I think it has. Feminist critiques of anthropological masculine bias have been quite important, and they have increased my sensitivity to that kind of issue"

Clifford Geertz, Scientist

"The important thing is this Just because I'm doing well doesn't mean that they're going to do well if they get HIV. A lot of people have died since I have announced. This disease is not going anywhere"

Magic Johnson, Athlete

"A total nuclear freeze is counterproductive - especially now, when technology is rapidly changing and the Soviets have some important strategic advantages"

Herman Kahn, Scientist

"It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country"

Imran Khan, Politician

"We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement"

William Howard Taft, President

"When you get to fifty-two food becomes more important than sex"

Tom Lehrer, Musician

"As for the long-term future: I am prepared to see in this a vision, not a mystical way but in a realistic way, of a population exchange on a much more important scale and including larger territories"

Moshe Sharett, Statesman

"I hope it's enabling me to deal with another human being who's more important to me than I am"

Michael Zaslow, Actor

"I am not someone who sacrifice all for the cinema, my life will be always more important"

Natalie Portman, Actress

"A surprising number of government committees will make important decisions on fundamental matters with less attention than each individual would give to buying a suit"

Herman Kahn, Scientist

"Where I live, nobody who's fourteen is having sex and doing major drugs. And I think if you see it in the movies, you may be influenced by it. I think it's so important to preserve your innocence"

Natalie Portman, Actress

"Projecting a persuasive image of a desirable and practical future is extremely important to high morale, to dynamism, to consensus, and in general to help the wheels of society turn smoothly"

Herman Kahn, Scientist

"How strange are the tricks of memory, which, often hazy as a dream about the most important events of a man's life, religiously preserve the merest trifles"

Richard Burton, Actor

"The management of fertility is one of the most important functions of adulthood"

Germaine Greer, Activist

"I have a hard time with morals. All I know is what feels right, what's more important to me is being honest about who you are. Morals I get a little hung up on"

Brad Pitt, Actor

"Student journeys which were important to me were Sicily, Greece, and Egypt, where I really saw these buildings, and that is where you're able to grasp what things mean"

Ben Nicholson, Artist

"I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves"

Henry A. Kissinger, Statesman

"The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time"

Jackie Robinson, Athlete

"A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives"

Jackie Robinson, Athlete

"I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape"

Thom Yorke, Musician

"Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way"

Barbara Bush, First Lady

"Exercise is really important to me - it's therapeutic. So if I'm ever feeling tense or stressed or like I'm about to have a meltdown, I'll put on my iPod and head to the gym or out on a bike ride along Lake Michigan with the girls"

Michelle Obama, First Lady

"The most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the big issue is that it will make it more difficult for government to collect taxes"

Milton Friedman, Economist

"The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit"

Milton Friedman, Economist

"The fact is, with every friendship you make, and every bond of trust you establish, you are shaping the image of America projected to the rest of the world. That is so important. So when you study abroad, you're actually helping to make America stronger"

Michelle Obama, First Lady

"The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them"

Queen Victoria, Royalty

"The great and important duty which is incumbent on Christians, is to guard against all appearance of evil; to watch against the first risings in the heart to evil; and to have a guard upon our actions, that they may not be sinful, or so much as seem to be so"

George Whitefield, Clergyman

"It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important"

Arthur Conan Doyle, Writer

"What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class"

Alexis de Tocqueville, Historian

"Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners"

Alexis de Tocqueville, Historian

"Family is the most important thing in the world"

Princess Diana, Royalty

"Life is filled with tests, one after another, and if you don't recognize them, you are certain to fail the most important ones"

Brian Herbert, Author

"Originality is really important"

Jim Carrey, Comedian

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