Important Quotes - Page 168

The late W. Edwards Deming, guru of Quality management, once declared, 'The most important things we need to manage can't be measured.' If that’s true of what we need to manage, it should be even more obvious that it’s true of what we need to teach.

Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners.

A durable, long-term U.S.-China strategic relationship is even more important now than in previous decades. The relationship will continue to grow and prosper to the mutual benefit of all peoples.

Technology should be an important ingredient. It may be and should be a tool for social development.

I try to spend as much time as possible with God and my family. That's more important than anything I'm doing in baseball.

The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions.

The gut-feel of the 55-year old trader is more important than the mathematical elegance of the 25-year old genius.

We need a home in the psychological sense as much as we need one in the physical: to compensate for a vulnerability. We need a refuge to shore up our states of mind, because so much of the world is opposed to our allegiances. We need our rooms to align us to desirable versions of ourselves and to keep alive the important, evanescent sides of us.

This is the tragedy and woe of the hour--that we neglect the most important One who could possibly be in our midst--the Holy Spirit of God. Then, in order to make up for His absence, we have to do something to keep up our own spirits.

Today it is even more important to dominate the . . . highly sophisticated weapon systems, perhaps even more important than being a good pilot; to make the best use of this system.

Being an African filmmaker, Africa is what's important for me. If I were to shot a film in France or elsewhere it would only be because the story that was being told was something that concerned me, and that really called me or needed to be shown on the screen.

It's not so much a question of whether we've shot it through 35mm or digital video; what is important is whether the audience accepts it as real.

There is a difference between standard of living and quality of life. Quality of life is more important.

My family is more important than my party.

I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world power can really provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety?

It is important that the Iraqi people have confidence in the election results and that the voting process, including the process for vote counting, is free and fair.

Ill health is an important factor that forces the poor to remain poor. If they make a little bit of money, one episode of illness can wipe them out.

Food is everything. Food, friends, family: Those are the most important things in life.

I always thought that I was an important musician. If you don't have that confidence, why would you go on and do it?

When people ask me what the most important thing is in life, I answer: 'Just breathe.'

I think that love is very important and exists in many forms for all of us.

It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go.

The rebuilding of New Orleans is an important point in the history of the United States.

The most important question for me when I begin working on a film is where to start. For a book, what makes you convinced there is a story that is worthwhile?

The most important sentence in any article is the first one. If it doesn't induce the reader to proceed to the second sentence, your article is dead. And if the second sentence doesn't induce him to continue to the third sentence, it's equally dead.