Important Quotes - Page 246

Among the songs I love best were those that I see as historically important, and helped change and develop my taste.

Busy does not equal important. Measured doesn't mean mattered.

In the long run, doing work that's important leads to more happiness than doing work that's merely profitable.

I've dealt with losing close ones before, and I've been around friends that have lost friends at a young age. I think it's important to think about - not necessarily death, but about life and think about where you're going and how you want to be remembered and the legacy you want to leave.

We want Ollie to go to all the different events and see Republicans and see Bernie Sanders and just kind of experience it and be able to make up his own mind for what he wants, none of his friends know anything about politics. Granted, they're only 9, they don't vote for a while. They just completely don't understand why are all these people coming to New Hampshire, why this is so important.

I don't have children, but my work life is as important to me as anything could be. I've dedicated a lot of time and energy and years to it. Some might say some of my childbearing years to it. In and of itself, my work is like a child to me. That is my reality.

This is suffering's lesson: pay attention. The important part might come in a form you do not recognize.

My falling in love with spoken word poetry definitely came out of that time period where all the adults around me were failing to supply me with any answers. Everyone was too busy dealing with things that were more important. I was pretty lost and invisible. And all of a sudden, this world opened up where I could get on stage and perform in front of my peers. People would listen to me and see me, and people would say, "That thing you created was important." And that was so validating and necessary at that specific moment.

If your child is more important than your vision of your child, life becomes easier.

Packing is important because a lot of times I have to go places where I have to be in four different climates in three weeks. For example, Bosnia, Ireland, Rome. Different parts of Italy. You have to pack and get it down to a science.

It's also very important to make sure that the main character and the player are completely in synch.

I felt very honored, and I knew that people would be watching very closely, and I felt it was very, very important that I do a good job.

It is so important that you don't stay with someone just for the children and for the wrong reasons.

As friends go it is less important to live.

I am a man that has a lot of respect for faith and spirituality. I think it is important that we talk about religion in today's world.

You're a musician, it is important that you suffer!

The Never Trumpers, many of them are establishment types or - and very important here - wannabe establishment types.

We still have a tradition certainly in English television; it's faded a bit in the last five years, but we still have a tradition where the important thing is the quality and the challenging nature of the programming.

There have been people who've understood it for a long time, who've gone, okay, this is a medium I get. It's not a phase; it's not a fad; it's actually something quite vital and important, and it's pretty fascinating to watch that.

Language both reflects and shapes society. Culture shapes language and then language shapes culture. Little wonder that the words we use to talk to each other, and about each other, are the most important words in our language: they tell us who I am, they tell us who you are, they tell us who 'they' are.

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

From its earliest days, stem cell research has been important to the people of Wisconsin.

I feel that it's important to fail now and again. For instance, if I go for a job and I don't get it, that makes me not a better person, but more balanced, more aware of what life is really like.

If you really want to be part of something and you have that much passion towards it, you'll know enough to research it and find the history of it; and history is so important, history is everything.

The owners don't win by having a lockout. Shutting down your business is not good for anybody and it's certainly not good for the players, it's certainly not good for the fans. And that's most important to us.