Important Quotes

"I enjoy talking to young people, and talking to people about helping young people. That part is not a chore. It's pretty fun, and something I like to do because I think it's important"

Tony Dungy, Coach

"You have to remember that when you are a performer you become a celebrity, but you are not saving lives. It's not that important"

Victoria Beckham, Musician

"What you say in advertising is more important than how you say it"

David Ogilvy, Businessman

"I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments"

Jim Morrison, Musician

"I see myself as an intelligent, sensitive human, with the soul of a clown which forces me to blow it at the most important moments"

Jim Morrison, Musician

"The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people"

Theodore Roosevelt, President

"The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask"

Jim Morrison, Musician

"The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace"

David Ogilvy, Businessman

"I never studied with Balanchine, but his work was very important to me"

Twyla Tharp, Dancer

"Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come"

Robert H. Schuller, Clergyman

"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

"You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today"

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Actor

"The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn"

John Lubbock, Statesman

"Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own"

H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Author

"We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors"

Norman Vincent Peale, Clergyman

"In order for a long piece of work to engage a novelist over an extended period of time, it has to deal with questions that you find very important, that you're trying to work out"

Donna Tartt, Novelist

"But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know"

Donna Tartt, Novelist

"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

"Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are"

Norman Vincent Peale, Clergyman

"While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure"

Bryant H. McGill, Author

"Canadians tend to be a bit more religious than most Europeans - though not more than the Poles or Ukrainians. Most important, their attitude to immigration and ethnic minorities is more positive than that of most Europeans"

Timothy Garton Ash, Author

"One of the things that bothers me most is the growing belief in the country that security is more important than freedom. It ain't"

Lyn Nofziger

"I think the American people have become more reliant upon government and less reliant upon themselves and that they now tend to put security ahead of freedom, but I think freedom is the most important aspect of our lives"

Lyn Nofziger

"If you engage people on a vital, important level, they will respond"

Edward Bond, Playwright

"One of the most important things one can do in life is to brutally question every single thing you are taught"

Bryant H. McGill, Author

"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

"The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit... a reputation, character"

John D. Rockefeller, Businessman

"Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing"

John D. Rockefeller, Businessman

"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

"It is during difficult times like this that the true American spirit reveals itself. I am not talking only of the response of local, state, and federal governments, although they will each play an extremely important role in this effort"

Jo Bonner, Politician

"One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don't change diapers in midstream"

Don Marquis, Journalist

"While the debate on the Patriot Act is far from over, it is important that all Americans continue in this dialogue and work together to ensure greater security for our nation"

Jo Bonner, Politician

"There are things we can all do to help, including carpooling and traveling only when necessary, in order to save gas during this time. However, there is also something more important which we can all do: buy only the gas which you need"

Jo Bonner, Politician

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

Billie Jean King, Athlete

"While the level of support we can each provide certainly varies, it is very important at this time that we all do what we can to help our neighbors - not only our immediate neighbors here in Alabama, but those further away in Mississippi and Louisiana"

Jo Bonner, Politician

"Children make your life important"

Erma Bombeck, Journalist

"The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount"

Joseph Addison, Writer

"The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious"

Andre Gide, Novelist

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