Quotes on Important Things

Remember, 'No one's more important than people'! In other words, friendship is the most important thing--not career or housework, or one's fatigue--and it needs to be tended and nurtured.

Memory is so crazy! It's like we've got these drawers crammed with tons of useless stuff. Meanwhile, all the really important things we just keep forgetting, one after the other.

The power to concentrate was the most important thing. Living without this power would be like opening one’s eyes without seeing anything.

The thing is to understand myself: the thing is to find a truth which is true for me, to find the idea for which I can live and die. That is what I now recognize as the most important thing.

In the sphere of religion, as in other spheres, the things about which men are agreed are apt to be the things that are least worth holding; the really important things are the things about which men will fight.

The divorce has lasted way longer than the marriage, but finally it's over. Enough about that. The point is that for a long time, the fact that I was divorced was the most important thing about me. And now it's not.

Finding one important thing in your life doesn’t mean you have to give up all the other important things.

The most important things are the hardest to say

As you grow older you will discover that the most important things that will happen to you will often come as a result of silly things, as you call them --"ordinary things" is a better expression. That is the way the world is.

The important thing is that your teammates have to know you're pulling for them and you really want them to be successful.

Of what real value is a title? The power is the only important thing

The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.

Now, if you ask me, what’s going on is that we’re all up to here in it, and probably the most important thing is that we not yell at one another.

To me, all creativity is magic. Ideas start out in the empty void of your head - and they end up as a material thing, like a book you can hold in your hand. That is the magical process. It's an alchemical thing. Yes, we do get the gold out of it but that's not the most important thing. It's the work itself.

And here is a doctrine at which you will laugh. It seems to me, Govinda, that love is the most important thing in the world.

Stories are the most important thing in the world. Without stories, we wouldn't be human beings at all.

The most important thing about education is appetite.