Important Quotes

"The referee is going to be the most important person in the ring tonight besides the fighters"

"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing"

"Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important"

Bill Gates, Businessman

"A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself"

John Stuart Mill, Philosopher

"People want a cop-out, listen I'm a realist and I talk about motivation, talk about all the things it takes to be greater or are important to win and people want to use excuses all the time"

Mike Ditka, Coach

"When the PC was launched, people knew it was important"

Bill Gates, Businessman

"I think it's important to stretch as you get older, but I try to do basically all the things I did when I played, except I can't do them as well and as much"

Mike Ditka, Coach

"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"Imagination is more important than knowledge"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself"

John Stuart Mill, Philosopher

"I think the most important factor in getting out of the recession actually is just the regenerative capacity of - of American capitalism"

Warren Buffett, Businessman

"It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure"

Bill Gates, Businessman

"The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That's the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!"

George S. Patton, Soldier

"I feel like the thing we can do is celebrate people doing great work and create more cultural momentum and awareness that this is an important thing in the world. So when the next economic crisis hits and people are talking about where to cut from the budget, science isn't the thing"

Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman

"Health is certainly extremely important, and we've done a number of things at Facebook to help improve global health and work in that area, and I am excited to do more there, too. But the reality is that it's not an either-or. People need to be healthy and be able to have the Internet as a backbone to connect them to the whole economy"

Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman

"There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented, and we believe this is the most important problem we can focus on"

Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman

"The real question for me is, do people have the tools that they need in order to make those decisions well? And I think that it's actually really important that Facebook continually makes it easier and easier to make those decisions... If people feel like they don't have control over how they're sharing things, then we're failing them"

Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman

"The beginning is the most important part of the work"

Plato, Philosopher

"The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery"

Plato, Philosopher

"For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions"

Plato, Philosopher

"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of today"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"So without that Canadian invention we were grounded. And so that was a really important and key part of the mission and Canadians should take real pride in it"

Chris Hadfield, Astronaut

"I loved my life, but my choices were overloading and overwhelming me. Listening to inner feelings and fulfilling some of these urges when they come along is incredibly important"

Pamela Stephenson, Actress

"I feel now it's useless to keep hoping. The way things are today, we live in a world that needs laughter, and I've decided if I can make people laugh, I'm making a more important contribution"

Paul Lynde, Comedian

"I think it's important to do smaller films because I think that's where a lot of new things are happening"

Kyra Sedgwick, Actress

"I do it because I want to exercise people's compassion and I do it because I really believe that for some reason what I do is important and meaningful"

Kyra Sedgwick, Actress

"At 62 you want to keep moving; that's important"

Billie Jean King, Athlete

"Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one's well-being"

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Author

"No person is important enough to make me angry"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"Before I speak, I have something important to say"

Groucho Marx, Comedian

"Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon"

Dag Hammarskjold, Diplomat

"The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go rather further than that and our opportunities are unlimited"

Neil Armstrong, Astronaut

"Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important"

C. S. Lewis, Author

"I think it's important for girls to be confident. Believe in yourself and... everybody's hot"

Paris Hilton, Celebrity

"Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do"

Will Rogers, Actor

"Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end"

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Poet

"Fans are really important for me. And if they take pains to write me, it's the minimum that I answer myself"

Daniel Radcliffe, Actor

"Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance"

Susan Sontag, Author

"Discovering witnesses is just as important as catching criminals"

Simon Wiesenthal, Activist

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