Important Quotes

"I first came to think about media and politics in the late 1960s, having observed some distortions up close, but since then I wouldn't say that my personal experience has remained an important motive for my writing about media"

Todd Gitlin, Sociologist

"We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations, the important thing is not to achieve but to strive"

Aldo Leopold, Environmentalist

"This was an important part of my life. But it was also sad that we didn't play there, cause we had such alot of fans that were waiting for us and Brazilians are great people. It's now my second home"

Jim Capaldi, Musician

"The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in"

Morrie Schwartz, Educator

"So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things"

Morrie Schwartz, Educator

"You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing"

Arthur Ashe, Athlete

"I don't think at that time I realized how important it was and how important it was for me to be here and carry on that legacy in our family of being a photographer"

Kim Weston, Photographer

"But it's important, while we are supporting lessons in respecting others, to remember that many of our youngest kids need to learn to respect themselves. You learn your worth from the way you are treated"

Anna Quindlen, Journalist

"I don't know what my favorite film of mine is... But I think the most important film I was in was 'Glory'"

Morgan Freeman, Actor

"I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can"

Lucille Ball, Comedian

"For me, the most important thing is to create music that people can connect with and that can bring them some form of happiness"

Alan Walker, Musician

"I think it's important to stay true to yourself and your own sound, even if it means taking risks"

Alan Walker, Musician

"I think it's really important to be true to yourself and trust your instincts; that way, you can't have any regrets"

Sophie Ellis Bextor, Musician

"I think it's very important to create your own style and be unique because that's what sets you apart from others"

Alan Walker, Musician

"The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said"

Blaine Lee, Author

"It is important to make the fans that support me feel supported"

Mackenzie Astin, Actor

"I think it's more and more important to spend time with your children, because it seems to be harder and harder for them to succeed as their parents have succeeded"

Dan Marino, Athlete

"It is increasingly important to be open-minded"

Tucker Carlson, Journalist

"Every actress has a line she'll draw, where she'll say, This I will do and this I won't. For me, everything has to be important to the story and the director has to be able to tell me why"

Sheryl Lee, Actor

"Our enemy is motivated by hatred and will not stop planning more plots against until they are ultimately defeated. Today was an important and necessary victory in the war, but there is a long road ahead. We must remain committed if we are to succeed and protect our liberty"

Timothy Murphy, Soldier

"To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations have perished from their failure to achieve it"

Irving Babbitt, Critic

"I happen to think that computers are the most important thing to happen to musicians since the invention of cat-gut which was a long time ago"

Robert Moog, Inventor

"It's very important that you focus on winning games and being consistent down the stretch. I think that's what we're focused on. All of the other stuff about who wins and who loses and how many wins do we need, if we're focusing on that, then that's not good"

Mike Singletary, Athlete

"There are considerable advantages to using many degrees of freedom to store information, stability and controllability being perhaps the most important"

Seth Lloyd, Educator

"The will to survive is not as important as the will to prevail... the answer to criminal aggression is retaliation"

Jeff Cooper, Celebrity

"Touring and promoting and recording take a lot of time, it's just getting the right balance that's important"

Jamelia, Musician

"My father always taught me to appreciate what you're fortunate to have and give back to those who need it. No part of our society is more important than the children, especially the ones who need our help"

Dan Marino, Athlete

"The HoLee model was the first term structure model. I remember reading their paper soon after it was published and as it was fairly different from many of the other papers that I had read, I had to read it quite a few times. I realized that it was a really important paper"

John C. Hull, Professor

"I am expressing myself truthfully. That is an important thing"

Ziggy Marley, Musician

"It's so very important as to what a child watches on TV. I feel for every parent that knows this, and cares, because they only have control of the child's viewing to a certain point"

Ruth Buzzi, Actress

"How you looked was not important. It was what you did and how you did it. Decide to do it and then do it the best way you can"

Nana Mouskouri, Musician

"Young people can get very discouraged and get hooked on drugs or on alcohol because of problems they perceive as insurmountable. It is important that they realize a mistake need not ruin their future, but they must also know that not everything in life is a bed of roses"

Maureen Forrester, Musician

"But the most important thing is, Enron did not cause the California crisis"

Kenneth Lay, Businessman

"Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability"

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Novelist

"The important thing in life is not to triumph but to compete"

Pierre de Coubertin, Leader

"I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world power can really provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety?"

Zbigniew Brzezinski, Politician

"The great increase of our population throughout the Union will alone produce an important effect, and in no quarter will it be so sensibly felt as in those in contemplation"

James Monroe, President

"A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry"

Walter Pater, Critic

"Like most North Americans, I'd been raised on the notion that milk is the first food, and everybody must like it because it's so good and so important for growing up and for being healthy"

Marvin Harris, Scientist

"Working with Benny was important for me and for black musicians in general"

Lionel Hampton, Musician

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