As the power of Christianity declined through the centuries that have followed the Reformation, Calvinism played a less and less important part, while the new philosophies of mechanism and rationalism correspondingly increased.
~ Ralph Adams Cram
Chance determines our lives in important ways.
~ Gerhard Richter
It's important to give it all you have while you have the chance.
~ Shania Twain
The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.
~ David Bohm
Sometimes street knowledge can be as important as book knowledge.
~ Vikas Swarup
Knowledge is very important and one of the few things that accompanies us into the next life.
~ Joseph B. Wirthlin
Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.
~ David Gross
If you have time to get your pet rabbit its own Instagram account, you have time to at least tweet about something important.
~ Jameela Jamil
It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.
~ Ram Dass
It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last.
~ William Morris
It is important to express oneself... provided the feelings are real and are taken from your own experience.
~ Berthe Morisot
We know that al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has some very dangerous, very important leaders who are tied directly to the top leadership of al Qaeda central, including a man who was formerly Osama bin Laden's secretary.
~ Richard Engel
Charter laws do something really important. They give educators the freedom and flexibility that they need to attain results. But we also have to invest a lot in the leadership pipeline to take advantage of that freedom and flexibility.
~ Wendy Kopp
ISIS has leadership, just like al Qaeda has leadership. It's important to be able to eliminate the individuals that are leading the organization.
~ James Lankford
What I've really learned over time is that optimism is a very, very important part of leadership.
~ Bob Iger
I think it is important for people who are given leadership roles to assume that role immediately.
Evangelicals overwhelmingly voted for Ronald Reagan - not because he was the most religious candidate, but he possessed the quality evangelicals felt like was most important, and that is leadership.
~ Robert Jeffress
I forgot to shake hands and be friendly. It was an important lesson about leadership.
~ Lee Iacocca
As far as Iraq, the important thing is that the Taliban is gone in Afghanistan, three-quarters of the al-Qaida leadership is either dead or in jail, and we now have Saudi Arabia working with us, Pakistan working with us.
~ Peter T. King
California is a very important state. As goes California, so goes the nation. We need to have strong leadership. Someone who can hit the ground running.
~ Xavier Becerra
Integrity is a very important and an almost indispensable virtue that all leaders must possess. This is especially true in the Philippine context because we Filipinos really respond to leadership by example.
~ Grace Poe
Just like keeping a healthy diet is important to maintaining a healthy lifestyle, eating the right foods is just as important for getting the most out of your workout.
~ Marcus Samuelsson
Diet is really important, and I think vitamins are really important, also.
~ Glenn Danzig
The modern diet is grossly deficient in hundreds of important plant-derived immunity-building compounds which makes us highly vulnerable to viruses, infections and disease.
~ Joel Fuhrman
The important source of finance is now commercial papers, bonds, and so on.
~ Chanda Kochhar
Access to capital is important for all firms, but it's particularly vital for startups and young firms, which often lack a sufficient stream of earnings to increase employment and internally finance capital spending.
~ Janet Yellen
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
Medical researchers don't know much about head lice because they don't much care. The reason that they don't much care is, paradoxically, that they know a lot. That is, they know one important thing: there is no evidence that head lice transmit disease.
~ P. J. O'rourke
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
~ Albert Einstein
Truth, which is important to a scholar, has got to be concrete. And there is nothing more concrete than dealing with babies, burps and bottles, frogs and mud.
~ Jeane Kirkpatrick
Next to courage, willpower is the most important thing in politics.
~ Paul Johnson
To be a great motorbike racer, the most important thing is passion for the bike.
~ Valentino Rossi
Knowing your HIV status is so important for your future health and that of your loved ones.
~ David Furnish
Two forms of fat that are vitally important for brain health are cholesterol and saturated fat.
~ David Perlmutter
Medicines are unusual commodities. Important drugs can save the lives and protect the health of millions. Their consumption can bring huge benefits, by helping patients to avoid infection and preventing serious damage to the economies of families, nations and even humanity at large.
~ Thomas Pogge
Although oyster mushrooms have been studied extensively and support health in a number of ways, it is also extremely important to always cook oyster mushrooms!
~ Paul Stamets
The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount.
~ B. F. Skinner
The most important thing is to stay positive.
~ Saku Koivu
Sometimes in movies, I still have to be the hero, but it's not all that important to me anymore.
~ Dennis Quaid
Making movies has become such a golden ring, and it's all such a big business, that the rewards system has gotten totally out of whack. Suddenly, you're treated in a manner befitting someone who is actually an important person.
~ Ben Affleck
