Important Quotes - Page 14

We're under some gross misconception that we're a good species, going somewhere important, and that at the last minute we'll correct our errors and God will smile on us. It's delusion.

It's not what you're faced with that's the problem, it's what you do with the situation. Your experience is not the important thing; what really matters is what you do with your experience.

The things which are most important don’t always scream the loudest.

Real Madrid is the most important thing that happened to me, both as a footballer and as a person.

Food is such an important part of our lives, and sometimes we tend to diminish the importance of that, because we rely on conveniences or because our lives are so complicated. We forget about those moments that we can actually share around the table with our family, with our friends, with our loved ones.

I want to say, and this is very important: at the end we lucked out. It was luck that prevented nuclear war. We came that close to nuclear war at the end. Rational individuals: Kennedy was rational; Khrushchev was rational; Castro was rational. Rational individuals came that close to total destruction of their societies. And that danger exists today.

The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.

The neuroscience area - which is absolutely in its infancy - is much more important than genetics.

Death is a very important part of life.

We are so busy doing the urgent that we don't have time to do the important.

I hear the words, the thoughts, the feeling tones, the personal meaning, even the meaning that is below the conscious intent of the speaker. Sometimes too, in a message which superficially is not very important, I hear a deep human cry that lies buried and unknown far below the surface of the person. So I have learned to ask myself, can I hear the sounds and sense the shape of this other person's inner world? Can I resonate to what he is saying so deeply that I sense the meanings he is afraid of, yet would like to communicate, as well as those he knows?

Homemaking is surely in reality the most important work in the world.

Sometimes you need to let people feel important by disliking you. It's their little happiness.

I think the important thing about my appointment is not that I will decide cases as a woman, but that I am a woman who will get to decide cases.

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.

The things we discover for ourselves are the most important.

Religion is an important institution. A nation without religion cannot survive.

I take things like honor and loyalty seriously. It's more important to me than any materialistic thing or any fame I could have.

The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.

The important thing is to know why we want to dance. We dance a solitude that we have inside us and cannot occupy with anything. This gap, that emptiness to which we put movement is the TANGO.

This is the moment — this is the most important moment right now. Which is: We are about contribution. That’s what our job is. It’s not about impressing people. It’s not about getting the next job. It’s about contributing something.

The quality of life is more important than life itself.

The important thing is allowing the whole world to wake up. Part of allowing the whole world to wake up is recognizing that the whole world is free—everybody is free to be as they are. Until the whole world is free to agree with you or disagree with you, until you have given the freedom to everyone to like you or not like you, to love you or hate you, to see things as you see them or to see things differently—until you have given the whole world its freedom—you’ll never have your freedom.

Fate and free will are equally powerful forces but I consider free will to be more important as it is your free will that determines your fate.

The important thing in life is not what you get, but what you throw out.