Important Quotes

"Originality is really important"

Jim Carrey, Comedian

"The motif of death plays an important role the human psyche in connection with archetypal and karmic material"

Stanislav Grof, Psychologist

"Learn how to be a loser, because it's important to be a loser to be a winner"

Sanford I. Weill, Businessman

"Acting's fun, but life's more important"

Margot Kidder, Actress

"Two points that are very important points to remember and ask: Is it real and does it work?"

Edward T. Hall, Scientist

"What's really important in life? Sitting on a beach? Looking at television eight hours a day? I think we have to appreciate that we're alive for only a limited period of time, and we'll spend most of our lives working"

Victor Kiam, Businessman

"Encouraging people to believe in it was the most important thing of all. It's one of the reasons I was always uncomfortable whenever film crews came on the set to shoot things. I didn't want our make-believe to be exposed"

Patrick Stewart, Actor

"It's so important to look relaxed"

Loretta Young, Actress

"Before, being a model, it was just a job, and I was making fun of it. But today, I take my career more seriously. The fact that a reader may buy an Armani item because she'd seen it on me in a magazine is very important to me. So much so that I intend to launch my own label"

Milla Jovovich, Model

"Especially in local elections, because hardly anybody pays attention to those - but it's really important who's mayor and who's on the city council, county commissioners, sheriffs, district attorney, and of course the school board"

Jello Biafra, Musician

"The experiences associated with death were seen as visits to important dimensions of reality that deserved to be experienced, studied, and carefully mapped"

Stanislav Grof, Psychologist

"Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise"

Stanislav Grof, Psychologist

"An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type"

Stanislav Grof, Psychologist

"Of all our dreams today there is none more important - or so hard to realise - than that of peace in the world. May we never lose our faith in it or our resolve to do everything that can be done to convert it one day into reality"

Lester B. Pearson, Politician

"I think achieving a higher fiscal stability is also a very important condition for restoring an environment which is conducive to growth"

Lucas Papademos, Politician

"I am confident that we can overcome this crisis, provided that we remain united in our effort to address our debt and competitiveness problems. And I think that the Greek people are united; it's important also that the political forces are united in line with the will of the Greek people"

Lucas Papademos, Politician

"Creating a believable world on the ship was very important, and technically they got better and better and better at showing the ship too"

Patrick Stewart, Actor

"The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come; if you don't, there's no hope for you"

Orson Scott Card, Writer

"I say this as a Democrat, for whom the Republican domination of government threatens many values that I hold to be important to America's role as a light among nations. But there are no values that matter to me that will not be gravely endangered if we lose this war"

Orson Scott Card, Writer

"Pell Grants are, and have been, critically important tools in making higher education a possibility for lower- and middle-income students"

Christopher Dodd, Politician

"Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work"

Jack Nicklaus, Athlete

"When our most important issue is the debt that we're piling on our children and grandchildren, I think it's pretty helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate who has actually managed billions of dollars and knows how to cut billions of dollars"

Carly Fiorina, Businessman

"In Aristotle the mind, regarded as the principle of life, divides into nutrition, sensation, and faculty of thought, corresponding to the inner most important stages in the succession of vital phenomena"

Wilhelm Wundt, Psychologist

"But it was hard to leave because the show's been so important in our lives"

Candice Bergen, Actress

"It's like when you want to make a house... the technique is very important"

Cecilia Bartoli, Musician

"Women would be disproportionately affected by the privatization of social security. It is one of the most important safety nets for American women in old age, or in times of disability, to insure financial income for their families"

Barbara Mikulski, Politician

"The most important thing in our war preparations is to teach all our people to hate U.S. imperialism. Otherwise, we will not be able to defeat the U.S. imperialists who boast of their technological superiority"

Kim Il-sung, Leader

"When I was younger, I was fascinated by David Bowie, for example. he had created an entire myth around himself. It was as important as his music"

Lars von Trier, Director

"I think it's important that we all try to give something to this medium, instead of just thinking about what is the most efficient way of telling a story or making an audience stay in a cinema"

Lars von Trier, Director

"It is wrong to try to avoid the struggle against imperialism under the pretext that independence and revolution are important, but that peace is still more precious"

Kim Il-sung, Leader

"I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you're actually sitting down putting words to the paper"

Wole Soyinka, Dramatist

"To get it first is important - but more important is to get it right"

Jessica Savitch, Journalist

"The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare mankind for all its later surprises"

Daniel J. Boorstin, Historian

"Nothing outside of my child is important"

Sarah McLachlan, Musician

"I find that communication as an actor and person is an important part of who I am. And I'm really drawn into the psychology of those dynamics"

Zachary Quinto, Actor

"But the important thing is to lie down and fall asleep. That little nap means you wake up fresh again and can continue"

James Levine, Musician

"There is no question that we must do more to secure our borders - but how we go about securing them is also important"

Mark Udall, Politician

"The most important thing is that you like the music"

Ken Hill, Playwright

"Everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas"

Orson Scott Card, Writer

"It's clearly more important to treat one's fellow man well than to be always praying and fasting and touching one's head to a prayer mat"

Naguib Mahfouz, Novelist

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