Important Quotes

"It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures"

Vincent Van Gogh, Artist

"For success, attitude is equally as important as ability"

Walter Scott, Novelist

"Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them"

Alfred North Whitehead, Mathematician

"If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn't ask me, I'd still have to say it"

George Burns, Comedian

"In man, the things which are not measurable are more important than those which are measurable"

Alexis Carrel, Scientist

"Family is the most important thing in the world"

Princess Diana, Royalty

"It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has"

Hippocrates, Scientist

"While there's been much progress on terrorism, there's still much work to do and it is very important that the countries work together in order to address this threat together"

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, President

"The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world"

Marianne Williamson, Author

"After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money"

Helen Gurley Brown, Editor

"Having the right people around you all the time is important. I do take the acting seriously. But this is all fun. I look at it like smoke and mirrors. I still think it's a dream, but I ain't pinching myself yet"

Chris Brown, Musician

"I think a college education is important no matter what you do in life"

Phil Mickelson, Athlete

"It was also important for me to have a burning desire to achieve something worthwhile on that instrument, and I devoted many many many hours with little or no compensation to perfecting whatever I could, because I loved it so much"

Billy Sheehan, Musician

"On the one hand, the guns were there to help capture the imagination of the people. But more important, since we knew that you couldn't observe the police without guns, we took our guns with us to let the police know that we have an equalizer"

Bobby Seale, Activist

"Class action lawsuits are an important part of our legal system. All citizens should have the right to band together and settle grievances with bigger companies, but that system is broken and it needs fixing"

Thomas Carper, Economist

"The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

"Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's no dignity anymore and I think that's very important"

Mae West, Actress

"The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters"

Audrey Hepburn, Actress

"I never expected to be anybody important"

Elvis Presley, Musician

"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

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

Paris Hilton, Celebrity

"What is important for kids to learn is that no matter how much money they have, earn, win, or inherit, they need to know how to spend it, how to save it, and how to give it to others in need. This is what handling money is about, and this is why we give kids an allowance"

Barbara Coloroso, Author

"I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion"

Billie Jean King, Athlete

"The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself"

Bernard Baruch, Businessman

"The sex element is the most important in the business. You must sell sex"

Bobby Darin, Musician

"I am not a perfectionist, but I like to feel that things are done well. More important than that, I feel an endless need to learn, to improve, to evolve"

Cristiano Ronaldo, Athlete

"It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all"

Denis Diderot, Editor

"I have just begun a work in which an important part is given to a large chorus and with it I want to use several of your instruments - augmenting their range as in those I used for my Equatorial - especially in the high range"

Edgard Varese, Composer

"I think it's very important to maintain the classical Christian distinction between the Creator and creation"

John Polkinghorne, Physicist

"No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently"

Agnes de Mille, Dancer

"The longer the title, the less important the job"

George McGovern, Politician

"Pharmaceuticals have become an increasingly important part of modern medicine, and our seniors shouldn't have to worry about whether they can afford the medicines they need to stay healthy and maintain their independence"

Michael K. Simpson, Politician

"I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life"

Barbara Bush, First Lady

"The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos"

Stephen Jay Gould, Scientist

"Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture"

Lydia M. Child, Activist

"Information about the package is as important as the package itself"

Frederick W. Smith, Businessman

"The marketing department is really an important part of getting an animated film to work. If the people running it are used to selling live action films and the hard rock music and the sex and all those things... Anything outside that, they just don't know what to do with it"

Don Bluth, Artist

"Money's not important to me. Movie star acknowledgement is not important to me. I don't want to be a big studio actress. I don't want to be in the limelight"

Moira Kelly, Actress

"One of the most important post-9/11 efforts made to counter terrorism and the spread of weapons of mass destruction is President Bush's Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI)"

Frank Gaffney, Writer

"The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens"

John Maynard Keynes, Economist

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