Important Quotes

Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.

~ Nathaniel Hawthorne

I firmly believe that respect is a lot more important, and a lot greater, than popularity.

~ Julius Erving

It's important for couples to be friends first and to respect each other as individuals.

~ Anupam Kher

It is so important to get respect for what you do and at the same time give it.

~ Estelle Parsons

Suspense is very important. Even though this is humor and they're short stories, that theory of building suspense is still there.

~ Sergio Aragonés

Humor is so important to the American scene throughout history.

~ Bob Newhart

When we can find some humor in our upsets, they no longer seem as large or as important as they once did.

~ Allen Klein

It is important to emphasize that guerrilla warfare is a war of the masses, a war of the people. The guerrilla band is an armed nucleus, the fighting vanguard of the people. It draws its great force from the mass of the people themselves.

~ Che Guevara

Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.

~ Mao Zedong

Today continuing poverty and distress are a deeper and more important cause of international tensions, of the conditions that can produce war, than previously.

~ Lester B. Pearson

The Japanese scored an important victory at Pearl Harbor, but the attack pulled the United States into World War II, and four years later, Japan was in ruins, utterly defeated.

~ Peter L. Bergen

If something's important enough, you should try. Even if you - the probable outcome is failure.

~ Elon Musk

Foreign aid is neither a failure nor a panacea. It is, instead, an important tool of American policy that can serve the interests of the United States and the world if wisely administered.

~ Lee H. Hamilton

The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures.

~ Humphry Davy

I have always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

~ T. Boone Pickens

I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

~ T. Boone Pickens

It's important for us to latch onto the people that we love.

~ Connie Stevens

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

~ George Bernard Shaw

The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.

~ Peter Drucker

I find that communication as an actor and person is an important part of who I am. And I'm really drawn into the psychology of those dynamics.

~ Zachary Quinto

Clear communication is always important in central banking, but it can be especially important when economic conditions call for further policy stimulus but the policy rate is already at its effective lower bound.

~ Ben Bernanke

Music and politics are in essence about communication. Without over-stretching the analogy I do feel a sense of rhythm is important in getting your message across.

~ Charles Kennedy

Communication is very important. And the arts do that, whether it's film or theater.

~ Anne Archer

I was lucky enough when it came to sports and work ethic to be taught some basics that continue to be important.

~ Joe Namath

What's more important than who's going to be the first black manager is who's going to be the first black sports editor of the New York Times.

~ Bill Russell

The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it.

~ R. Buckminster Fuller

Then I became a mother and it just fills every space, that isn't filled with something else important. It's just like this incredible balloon that blows up and fills life up.

~ Thandie Newton

In so many and such important ways, then, do the planets bear witness to the earth's mobility.

~ Nicolaus Copernicus

We felt it was very important for an entity like CCTV to make its presence felt... To generate a space and to define a space, that is the main thing.

~ Rem Koolhaas

It's important to bring things back from the Space Station because, unlike somebody living at the house where the garbage truck comes by twice a week, they don't have that in space.

~ Mark Kelly

Lighter computers and lighter sensors would let you have more function in a given weight, which is very important if you are launching things into space, and you have to pay by the pound to put things there.

~ Ralph Merkle

I've never been much of a computer guy at least in terms of playing with computers. Actually until I was about 11 I didn't use a computer for preparing for games at all. I was playing a bit online, was using the chess club mainly. Now, obviously, the computer is an important tool for me preparing for my games.

~ Magnus Carlsen

It's important to be informed about issues like usability, reliability, security, privacy, and some of the inherent limitations of computers.

~ Brian Kernighan

It is only in our decisions that we are important.

~ Jean-Paul Sartre

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

~ Abraham Lincoln

For many years, I've wanted to do one, and I've always mentioned it to the chieftains, and they would say things like, 'Oh well. Christmas albums don't sell,' and things like that. But that's not the point. Christmas albums are important. The music is important. The season is important.

~ Aretha Franklin

In Denmark, the annual Christmas party is probably the most important cultural institution in the country.

~ Joshua Oppenheimer

When I was in college, my graduation thesis was called 'Female Directors.' I interviewed all of the important female directors from Mexico. There were four. That was it.

~ Patricia Riggen

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

~ Plato

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

~ Bertrand Russell