Important Quotes

"Ensuring quality higher education is one of the most important things we can do for future generations"

"When I was about to break a world record and become well known, my mother used to say that for her the important thing was for me to become a doctor - a career which had not been possible in her generation and in her society. Sport was something to be set aside"

Roger Bannister, Athlete

"The endorsement of respected conservative Republican officeholders and politicians is particularly important at this time as to destroy Reagan's credibility as a loyal Republican"

Robert Teeter, Politician

"I wouldn't say I was organised at all. I just have to prioritise. Is it more important for them to be organised, or to have their dinner, do you know what I mean?"

Jo Brand, Comedian

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

William Osler, Scientist

"I think it's very important to have a sense of balance in covering the war, but you don't have to be morally neutral about terrorism"

Walter Isaacson, Writer

"I do think it's important, if you're going to be very creative, to be a seeker"

Walter Isaacson, Writer

"A good voice isn't so important. It's more important to sound really unique"

Stephen Malkmus, Musician

"And, of course, method is very important as is a high-quality specialist (trainer) working with you to keep you going in the right direction for your improvement and to help create results"

Sergei Bubka, Athlete

"It is important to consider whether the sample size selected by the Environmental Genome Project will provide sufficient power to discover most alleles relevant to gene-environment interactions"

Samuel Wilson, Public Servant

"It is important for me that a certain depth and variety of both exist next to each other. I am very careful not to sacrifice the one for the other"

Alva Noto, Artist

"Opera is a beautiful and important diversion for me"

Luciano Pavarotti, Musician

"Research has shown that the perceived style of leadership is by far the most important thing to most voters in evaluating officeholders and candidates"

Robert Teeter, Politician

"The Secure Fence Act, which authorizes the construction of 700 miles of security barriers along the southwest border, has now been sent to President Bush for his signature. This piece of legislation is an important piece of the border security puzzle"

Randy Neugebauer, Politician

"I have just joined the Board of the Population Institute because I am convinced that early stabilization of the world's population is important for the attainment of this objective"

Walter Kohn, Physicist

"That radio was very important for me. It meant I always knew what was going on in the world"

Lennart Meri, Statesman

"I think that it's really important to go away and come back"

Katherine Dunn, Novelist

"I believe that we as the leader of the Free World must provide important leadership on the ethical parameters, the ethical constraints that this research requires"

Ron Kind, Politician

"It'll be all of our efforts together. It won't won't ever be exactly the way I imagined it. And that is, I think, an important lesson as well, is that in any group enterprise it's going to be the sum total of the group"

James Cameron, Director

"Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life"

Theodore Sturgeon, Writer

"I also won one from the emperor of Japan, with a prize for the arts. That's important"

Marcel Carne, Director

"The most important thing in my life is my work"

Rod Taylor, Actor

"I can understand why Christians call us heretics. But most important, who will God call a heretic? From God's point of view, my revelation is deeply orthodox"

Sun Myung Moon, Clergyman

"I think it's really important to design things with a kind of personality"

Marc Newson, Designer

"Legislation has been and is still directed towards the protection of wealth, rather than towards the far more important interests of labor on which everything of value to mankind depends"

Leland Stanford, Businessman

"Especially in the realm of bringing an opportunity to do something creative to people, as I said, who wouldn't ordinarily have that opportunity. I think that's very important"

Phil Lesh, Musician

"So, the international community are all the countries that are important: the United States definitely everywhere; the European Union because it is very important, and also, they do show a great deal of international responsibility; and then the local players"

Lakhdar Brahimi, Public Servant

"The dramatic modernization of the Asian economies ranks alongside the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution as one of the most important developments in economic history"

Lawrence Summers, Economist

"There are, in truth, no specialties in medicine, since to know fully many of the most important diseases a man must be familiar with their manifestations in many organs"

William Osler, Scientist

"Just being the seeker, somebody whose open to spiritual enlightenment, is in itself the important thing and it's the reward for being a seeker in this world"

Walter Isaacson, Writer

"Working your core always, your foot speed, jumping rope, push-ups and sit-ups - things like that are really important. Those things will pay off more than just doing what a bench press will"

Mark Sanchez, Athlete

"If you look at the history of the American capital market, there's probably no innovation more important than the idea of generally accepted accountancy principles"

Lawrence Summers, Economist

"Or the other process that is important is that I compress longer sections of composed music, either found or made by myself, to such an extent that the rhythm becomes a timbre, and formal subdivisions become rhythm"

Karlheinz Stockhausen, Composer

"Every violinist has a different style, so it's important to be able to recognise their styles. You don't have to like everyone's style but you have to know these styles"

Ruggiero Ricci, Musician

"The single most important factor in determining America's success in the 21st century will be maintaining our ability to be an innovative and creative society"

Ron Kind, Politician

"More important is the fact that embryonic stem cell research could lead to new treatments and cures for the many Americans afflicted with life-threatening and debilitating diseases"

Ron Kind, Politician

"I can't tell you how important it was for us to be successful in japan"

Trip Hawkins, Businessman

"China is important to the world in that they are a force and on the move. Exposing them to figurative art opens up a potential for artistic expression far greater than anyone would ever have dreamed possible until today. It is this very spirit of the struggle and determination to triumph that inspires creative expression"

Richard MacDonald, Sculptor

"I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another when the best fruit is"

Terry Prachett, Author

"Security is still the most important issue facing Washington state residents and millions of Americans - the security of having a job, of access to affordable health care, of a quality education, and of protecting our homeland and defending our nation"

Patty Murray, Politician

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