Quotes on Important

I am convinced that nothing we do is more important than hiring and developing people. At the end of the day you bet on people, not on strategies.

Kids who participate in school meal programs get roughly half of their calories each day at school. ... This is an extraordinary responsibility. But it's also an opportunity. And it's why one of the single most important things we can do to fight childhood obesity is to make those meals at school as healthy and nutritious as possible.

I figured as long as the music stayed hot and important and good, that there would always be a reason for 'Soul Train.'

Being a young black man, observing and sensing the need for race equality and women's rights, I wrote about what was important to me.

Great teams argue. Not in a mean-spirited or personal way, but they disagree when important decisions are made.

How you see your future is much more important that what has happened in your past.

I write stories that are already in the air, and I think it's important to have the correct listening device to tune in to that frequency.

Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.

It's much more important to write than to be written about.

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.

I can remember when I first went into the Himalayan area way back in 1951. Money, for instance, was not important at all to the local people. But now, finance has become just as important to them as it is to us, and this is a change maybe not for the better.

It is important to understand the continuing, confused fascination with the Second World War. For most of us, the great unspoken question is how would we have behaved in the face of danger and when forced to make major moral choices.

I'm not likely to forget where I've been and what I've done and learned. I think it's just as important to play new instruments as to play new pieces. The old ones are getting scarcer and the new ones more and more wonderful.

I've taken clowns into the war in Bosnia, the refugee camps of Kosovo, and none of those are any more important than clowning in a subway or an elevator or just walking down the street.

Remember that the revolution is what is important, and each one of us, alone, is worth nothing.

Humanity is moving in a circle. The progress in mechanical things of the past hundred years has proceeded at the cost of losing many other things which perhaps were much more important for it.

Early on, you talk about God because you consider Him to be most important. But later, you realize there are means by which God is known and portrayed.

My mom showed me how important it is to surround yourself with opportunities and make the most of them.

I promise my students that if they take the time to figure out their life purpose, they'll look back on it as the most important thing they discovered while at school. If they don't figure it out, they will just sail off without a rudder and get buffeted in the very rough seas of life.

How can the mind take hold of such a country? Generations of invaders have tried, but they remain in exile. The important towns they build are only retreats, their quarrels the malaise of men who cannot find their way home. India knows of their trouble. She knows of the whole world's trouble, to its uttermost depth. She calls "Come" through her hundred mouths, through objects ridiculous and august. But come to what? She has never defined. She is not a promise, only an appeal.

Work for black women has been an important and valued dimension of Afrocentric definitions of black motherhood.