Important Quotes

"The very damaging, frightening part of postpartum is the lack of perspective and the lack of priority and understanding what is really important"

Brooke Shields, Actress

"I left the table where there were important people and had lunch with my husband and a few friends. The reception was organised in my honour, so it was rather amusing"

Nana Mouskouri, Musician

"Age is very important in the entertainment industry"

Rajendra Prasad, Statesman

"Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They're both important and schools are forgetting one of them"

Robert Kiyosaki, Author

"Being happy is very important. We won our second championship last season and we have our entire team coming back to try and defend our title again. I'm very proud of that"

Larry Dixon

"Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom"

Theodore Isaac Rubin, Psychologist

"The American people have been denied important information for their own protection"

Bob Graham, Politician

"God has more important things to worry about than who I sleep with"

Cyndi Lauper, Musician

"But I think that the most important thing was to really stop drinking"

Rick Allen, Musician

"Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you'll ever do on your film"

Yahoo Serious, Director

"It's really important to stay engaged and involved in the character"

David Ogden Stiers, Actor

"I felt strongly that since the pursuit of good science was so difficult it was essential that the problem being studied was an important one to justify the effort expanded"

Paul Nurse, Scientist

"Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good"

Alan Cohen, Businessman

"We are a studying nation. Scholarship from science is important to the whole world and those people need to be able to be safe and secure in what they do"

Malcolm Wallop, Politician

"When I left Barcelona, staying in Spain was an important factor in my decision to join Madrid. I did not have to change country or learn a new language, adopt a different sort of lifestyle, and so on"

Luis Figo, Athlete

"Of all the important relationships that Australia has with other countries, none has been more greatly transformed over the last 10 years than our relationship with China"

John Howard, Statesman

"Well, if storytelling is important, then your narrative ability, or your ability to put into words or use what someone else has put into words effectively, is important too"

Howard Gardner, Psychologist

"A lot of knowledge in any kind of an organization is what we call task knowledge. These are things that people who have been there a long time understand are important, but they may not know how to talk about them. It's often called the culture of the organization"

Howard Gardner, Psychologist

"It made me alive to the fact that the most important thing sometimes is what isn't said - to prepare for moments of revelation that can be read entirely on actors' faces without dialogue"

Robert Towne, Actor

"It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be borne with less important objects in view; for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master"

James F. Cooper, Novelist

"I think it's really important that the people who are going to make decisions for other people have fair, truthful and compassionate regard for all people, not just some people"

Sharon Stone, Actress

"Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort"

William Gibson, Writer

"I believe it is important for people to create a healthy mental environment in which to accomplish daily tasks"

Darren L. Johnson, Author

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

Helen Gurley Brown, Editor

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

George McGovern, Politician

"It's important not to indicate. People don't try to show their feelings, they try to hide them"

Robert De Niro, Actor

"If you have something that you know is important to you and vital to you... then this will perhaps help people understand the importance of confronting it and being brave about it"

Tom Wilkinson, Actor

"My focus is not on solving nature's deeper mysteries. It is on using nature's deeper mysteries to solve important societal problems"

Philip Emeagwali, Scientist

"It's nice to look good, but the most important thing is to be you"

Nana Mouskouri, Musician

"Finally we are a nation with some conscience. It means alliances are extremely important when they're based on a national interest. We have to have the ability to sustain our presence within those alliances"

Malcolm Wallop, Politician

"That a majority of women do not wish for any important change in their social and civil condition, merely proves that they are the unreflecting slaves of custom"

Lydia M. Child, Activist

"And thus it was that I started to wonder why Robert Burns is so important to us. We have other poets, and other writers, and other heroes, yet we do not afford them the veneration that we afford to Robert Burns"

Len G. Murray, Lawyer

"I hate to say it but I think it has become very obvious that our system for devising trade agreements, so very important to this country's functioning around the world, has not only broken, but it has broken completely"

Xavier Becerra, Politician

"I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same"

Iris Murdoch, Author

"Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men"

George Jean Nathan, Editor

"We didn't realize it at the time, but the release date, the ad campaign and the poster are so important"

David Zucker, Director

"So that, to me, is important that audiences are treated with an amount of respect toward their intelligence. Most Hollywood films don't respect their intelligence"

Eriq La Salle, Actor

"It's important we win and because of the players we have we should win some matches in style"

Jamie Redknapp, Athlete

"Keep writing. Try to do a little bit every day, even if the result looks like crap. Getting from page four to page five is more important than spending three weeks getting page four perfect"

Alan Dean Foster, Author

"I sometimes truly despair at ever being meaningfully altered and affected by the things I claim are so important to me"

Olympia Dukakis, Actress

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