What's Important Quotes:

What's important is to remain human.

- Katerina Gogou

topic: Important, What's Important, Humans

The connection, that's what's important - that through this medium we can, perhaps, understand and touch each other.

- Paolo Pellegrin

topic: Important, Connections, What's Important

What's important to me is to share, and being inspired, and inspiring.

- Diane von Furstenberg

source: "It's a wrap". Interview with Polly Vernon, www.theguardian.com. April 9, 2006.

topic: Important, What's Important, Inspired

We've got to teach history based not on what's in fashion, but what's important.

- Ronald Reagan

source: Farewell Address to the Nation, delivered 11 January 1989, Washington D.C.

topic: Fashion, Important, What's Important

As your attorney, it is my duty to inform you that it is not important that you understand what I'm doing or why you're paying me so much money. What's important is that you continue to do so.

- Hunter S. Thompson

topic: Important, What's Important, Duty

You've got to do things that promote what's important.

- Russell Simmons

topic: Important, What's Important

You've got to keep reminding yourself of what's important.

- Russell Simmons

topic: Important, What's Important, Reminding Yourself

'May the Force be with you' is charming but it's not important. What's important is that you become the Force - for yourself and perhaps for other people.

- Harrison Ford

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Success, People, Important, What's Important

If you continually ask yourself, "What's important now?", you won't waste time on the trivial.

- Lou Holtz

topic: Priorities, Important, Waste, What's Important

Whether you're keeping a journal or writing as a meditation, it's the same thing. What's important is you're having a relationship with your mind.

- Natalie Goldberg

topic: Writing, Meditation, Mind, Keeping A Journal, What's Important

Keep reminding people of what's important and that their fates are correlated.

- Warren G. Bennis

source: Source: bobmorris.biz

topic: Fate, People, Important, What's Important

What's important is that a story changes every time you say it out loud. When you put it on paper, it can never change. But the more times you tell it, the more changes will occur. A story is a living thing; it moves and shifts

- Pat Conroy

source: Pat Conroy (2010). “South of Broad”, p.260, Atlantic Books Ltd

topic: Moving, Important, Stories, What's Important

In romance or friendship, what's important is how much you love the other person." - Gackt

- Gackt

topic: Romance, Important, What's Important

What's important is that you stay true to yourself. Because when you enter the real world, the most valuable thing you can bring is all your you-ness. The world doesn't need any more hot chicks or tough guys or smooth talkers - the world needs more you. And don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

- Bo Burnham

topic: Real, Guy, Important, Valuable Things, Hot Chick

You can't get back what you've lost, What's important now is "What is it that you still have. —Jimbei

- Eiichiro Oda

topic: Important, One Piece, Lost, What's Important

The size of your audience doesn't matter. What's important is that your audience is listening.

- Randy Pausch

topic: Listening, Important, Matter, What's Important

The Principle of Priority states (a) you must know the difference between what is urgent and what is important, and (b) you must do what’s important first.

- Steven Pressfield

source: Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.65, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

topic: Differences, Priorities, Important, What's Important

What cancer does is, it forces you to focus, to prioritize, and you learn what's important. I mean, I don't sweat the small stuff. I used to get angry at cab drivers. It's not worth it.... And when somebody says you have cancer, you realize it's all small stuff.

- Joel Siegel

topic: Cancer, Mean, Sweat, Cab Drivers, Sweat The Small Stuff

Regardless of what happens, I still honor my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, because at the end of the day, that's what's important, win or lose. ... We need to get back to one nation under God, and be role models for kids.

- Tim Tebow

topic: Jesus, Kids, Winning, One Nation Under God, Win Or Lose

Those who practice deserve your respect. If you respect them, you respect yourself. It's easy to be critical, but it does no good. What's important is to be supportive of all who practice.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Buddhist, Buddhism, Practice, What's Important

You can read about yourself but what's important is how you feel about yourself.

- Marilyn Monroe

topic: Important, How You Feel, Fame, What's Important

What he [Barack Obama] does to change the world - that's what's important.

- Danny Glover

source: Source: progressive.org

topic: Important, Doe, World, What's Important

What's important is that I'm working with very talented young people.

- Maria Tallchief

topic: Dance, People, Important, What's Important

[D]on't ever apologize to an author for buying something in paperback, or taking it out from a library (that's what they're there for. Use your library). Don't apologize to this author for buying books second hand, or getting them from bookcrossing or borrowing a friend's copy. What's important to me is that people read the books and enjoy them, and that, at some point in there, the book was bought by someone. And that people who like things, tell other people. The most important thing is that people read...

- Neil Gaiman

topic: Book, Healing, Hands, Buying Books, Buying Something

I think the fact that this was a essentially a person under [China] protection and the North Koreans went and assassinated [Kim Jong-nam], this made be the straw that really does it. And as you know, just a couple of weeks ago, the Chinese stopped all coal imports from North Korea.So there are signs that are getting serious. I guess from the policy perspective from the U.S., I mean, we got to decide what`s important to us with China?

- Christopher R. Hill

source: Source: www.msnbc.com

topic: Couple, Mean, Thinking, What's Important, North Korean

Many people say, "Well, I'd love to make a decision like that, but I'm not sure how I could change my life." They're paralyzed by the fear that they don't know exactly how to turn their dreams into reality. And as a result, they never make the decisions that could make their lives into the masterpieces they deserve to be. I'm here to tell you that it's not important initially to know how you're going to create a result. What's important is to decide you will find a way, no matter what.

- Tony Robbins

source: Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

topic: Inspirational, Dream, Reality, What's Important

But sometimes you have to be brave. Sometimes you have to show people what's important in life.

- Sophie Kinsella

topic: People, Brave, Important, What's Important

Things aren't ever what they seem to be when you first look at them. What's important is that you keep your mind wide open and try to understand what's going on from a lot of different angles.

- Christopher Paul Curtis

source: Christopher Paul Curtis (2009). “Bucking the Sarge”, p.91, Laurel Leaf

topic: Mind, Important, Trying, Different Angles, What's Important

I think we need to do some deep soul searching about what's important in our lives and renew our spirit and our spiritual thinking, whether it's through faith-based religion or just through loving nature, or helping your fellow man.

- Louis Schwartzberg

topic: Spiritual, Men, Thinking, Loving Nature, Deep Soul

What's important is the tolerance. If people are not beating other people up, or shooting them for being different, then that's progress. Even if the ideas that go through their head are fodder for novelists.

- Nell Zink

source: "Subjects That Interest Most People". Interview with Amy Feltman, logger.believermag.com. July 20, 2015.

topic: Ideas, People, Tolerance, Fodder, What's Important

I feel a lot more comfortable being me these days. I'm constantly told that my work is good. A lot of fans and a lot of other artists say my songs and albums mean a lot to them. Isn't that what's important?

- Lucinda Williams

topic: Song, Mean, Artist, What's Important

Everybody gets hurt. Sometimes a big hurt, sometimes a little hurt. But the person who's suffered a lot isn't especially strong. And the person who's been hurt a little isn't especially weak. What's important is being able to get over it.

- Sakura Tsukuba

topic: Strong, Hurt, Important, What's Important

Women are more in touch with their feelings, they're more emotionally developed, they know what's important in life, and the men run around like idiots trying to figure that out until they meet a woman that can show them what's important.

- Rob Reiner

source: Source: www.foxnews.com

topic: Running, Men, Feelings, What's Important

Writing is what's important to me, and anything that helps me do that - or enhances and prolongs and deepens and sometimes intensifies argument and conversation - is worth it to me. [It is] impossible for me to imagine having my life without going to those parties, without having those late nights, without that second bottle.

- Christopher Hitchens

source: "RIP Christopher Hitchens: Provocateur and Damn Good Writer" by Monika Bauerlein, www.motherjones.com. December 16, 2011.

topic: Late Night, What's Important

Sometimes, a person who likes your work and a person who don’t will show up within milliseconds of each other to let you know how they feel. One does not need to cancel out the other, positively or negatively; if you’re proud of the work, and you enjoyed the work, that is what’s important.

- Wil Wheaton

topic: Important, Needs, Proud, What's Important

Constantly take inventory of what's important to you.

- Dave Chappelle

topic: Important, Inventory, What's Important

Measurement is fabulous. Unless you're busy measuring what's easy to measure as opposed to what's important

- Seth Godin

topic: Important, Fabulous, Measurement, What's Important

What's important is that children have an opportunity to bond with the natural world, to learn to love it and feel comfortable in it, before being asked to heal its wounds.

- David Sobel

topic: Children, Opportunity, Important, What's Important

Meditation is helping me learn to sit still. Twenty minutes of meditation in the morning is a nice way to start my day. If you can actually sit still and really get to that place of silence, you realize what's important and what's not important. Little things don't usually get to me anymore.

- Ellen DeGeneres

topic: Morning, Nice, Silence, What's Important

I remember reading scripts when I started in the business, and [Latino roles] were either nonexistent or written as the maid or a drug dealer. We're no longer just that. I'll play any part that challenges me. What's important is that all races have choices.

- Eva Mendes

source: Source: www.glamour.com

topic: Reading, Race, Play, What's Important

If you do things to the limit, and don’t purposely go over that limit, then I think it’s fine to do whatever you want. So long as you enjoy it. That’s what’s important.

- Michael Schumacher

source: "Schumacher keeps his foot down" by Maurice Hamilton, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2002.

topic: Thinking, Long, Important, What's Important

I'm almost 50, so I obviously don't have the same body that I had when I was 20. But I also don't have the same mindset either, when I was wracked with self-consciousness and insecurity. Now I really appreciate my maturity as a woman, my depth of spirit and soul and my understanding of who I am and what's important to me.

- Elle Macpherson

topic: Maturity, Self, Who I Am, Spirit And Soul, What's Important

The Boy Scouts of America stands for a set of principles. These principles have a lot of staying power. The values you learn as a Scout are like a compass. They can help you find your way through difficult and sometimes unchartered terrain. The principles of Scouting give you a sense of what's important. I feel I owe the Boy Scouts a great deal, both personally and professionally.

- Bill Bradley

topic: Boys, America, Giving, Staying Power, Scouting

What's important is a great set of objective ears, years of experience and a great room with a true sound. Look at this way: If the equipment in a studio is a high performance car, and the mastering engineer is the driver, putting the car on ice and trying to achieve a good lap time is like trying to master music in a bad room, all the equipment in the world wont help you connect with the music and let you hear what's really happening. The room is the environment in which the mix performs to its potential, as the road is to the car. It's hugely important.

- Chris McCormack

source: Source: www.hkclubbing.com

topic: Years, Ice, Car, Years Of Experience, What's Important

I live for the moment. I'm basically a Buddhist-type person. I'm just here right now, and I don't think about what's going to happen a hundred years from now. I try to concentrate on what's going on right now. But I'm really trying to run this company like it is going to be here a hundred years from now. That's what's important.

- Yvon Chouinard

topic: Running, Buddhist, Business, What's Important

Sooner or later the public will forget you; the memory of you will fade. What's important are the individuals you've influenced along the way.

- Julia Child

source: "Julia Child: What I've Learned" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. August 15, 2014.

topic: Memories, Important, Way, What's Important

What's important about the artists we learn about in art history and see in all the art books is that they have somehow pushed the boundaries of what people think art is or should be, and that's how they've made their work relevant. That's what I'm trying to figure out for myself.

- Kadir Nelson

source: "In-depth Written Interview". TeachingBooks Interview, www.teachingbooks.net. September 7, 2010.

topic: Art, Book, Thinking, What's Important, Art History

Everything that truly makes us happy is quite simple - love, sex and food!

- Meryl Streep

topic: Sex, Simple, Simple Love, What's Important

Artistry has to define the Artist so there is no other way but to create the kind of music that speaks about who you are and what's important to you, therefore individualizing the Artist.

- Truth Hurts

topic: Artist, Important, Way, What's Important

If I tell the audience what they should think, then I am robbing them of their own imagination and their own capacity of deciding what's important to them.

- Michael Haneke

source: "Michael Haneke Talks AMOUR, His Inspiration for the Film, His Casting Decisions, Physical and Emotional Demands of the Film and Shooting the Film in French". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. December 14, 2012.

topic: Thinking, Imagination, Important, What's Important

What's important to remember politically about this, is if you’re a state and you don’t set up an Exchange, that means your citizens don’t get their tax credits. But your citizens still pay the taxes that support this bill. So you’re essentially saying to your citizens, you’re going to pay all the taxes to help all the other states in the country. I hope that’s a blatant enough political reality that states will get their act together and realize there are billions of dollars at stake here in setting up these Exchanges, and that they’ll do it. But you know, once again, the politics can get ugly around this.

- Jonathan Gruber

source: "Jonathan Gruber: 'It Was Just a Mistake'" by Jonathan Cohn, newrepublic.com. July 25, 2014.

topic: Country, Mean, Reality, What's Important

If we can find ways to love life and be joyful without being wasteful or destructive--that's what's important.

- Natalie Portman

topic: Love Life, Important, Way, What's Important

I don't care if the average guy on the street really knows what I'm like, as long as he knows I'm not really a mean, vicious guy. My friends and family know what I'm really like. That's what's important.

- Don Rickles

source: "What I've Learned: Don Rickles". Interview with Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

topic: Mean, Average, Long, What's Important

What's important is you wake up in the morning and something doesn't exist, and when you finish you day's work something is in the world that wasn't there before.

- Steve Earle

source: Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. October 8, 2007.

topic: Morning, Important, Wake Up, What's Important