Quotes on Important

Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant.

The most important office, and the one which all of us can and should fill, is that of private citizen.

It's important to be heroic, ambitious, productive, efficient, creative, and progressive, but these qualities don't necessarily nurture soul. The soul has different concerns, of equal value: downtime for reflection, conversation, and reverie; beauty that is captivating and pleasuring; relatedness to the environs and to people; and any animal’s rhythm of rest and activity.

Relational skills are the most important abilities in leadership.

We shouldn't live as if [other worlds] mattered more than this life in this world, because where we are is always the most important place.

If you're living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.

The one thing I have never been afraid of is standing before important people and speaking my mind. I represent women who may never have the opportunity to go to the UN or meet with a president. I'm never afraid to speak truth to power.

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

Artists today think of everything they do as a work of art. It is important to forget about what you are doing - then a work of art may happen.

This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.

I like to spend time in the past, with the things that have been important to me.

What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player.

It's fortunate that I am a writer, because that has helped me understand the properties of words. They are what have made life complex. In the battle for status in the animal kingdom, power and aggressiveness have been all-important. But among humans, once they acquired speech, all that changed.

One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.

The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.

I think it's always important for academics to study popular culture, even if the thing they are studying is idiotic. If it's successful or made a dent in culture, then it is worthy of study to find out why.

People used to laugh that academics would study Disney movies. There's nothing more important for academics to study, because they shape the minds of our children possibly more than any single thing.

Fashion is here to help make people look very important. If they have good taste and choose what suits them, I give them options on how they can do that. It's always sexy, and it's always with the same result: making women look fantastic.

Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well.

The essence of competitiveness is liberated when we make people believe that what they think and do is important - and then get out of their way while they do it.

When I sing, I think mostly about the music. But I know that, through singing, my body shows everything that I am. I am a very passionate man and I suffer a lot and have a lot of joy also. In my opinion, it is very important for me to find this stimulus and motivation for singing.