Important Quotes - Page 170

Religion is not the most important thing.

Energy and time are finite resources; conserving them is very important.

You have to get new knowledge and force yourself to really implement what you've learned. You have to set boundaries in place for yourself. The important thing is if you don't know real love, someone will teach youself hate.

Talent is not enough. It's an important component in a successful performance, but it's really only a starting point.

Those that say it is the taking part and not the winning that is important are, for me, wrong. It is the other way round.

When you stiffen, you know that whatever you stiffen about is very important. The stuff is important, the fear itself is information.

I tend to find comedy in dark places. I also tend to find comedy in taking on the status quo - which has always been something I find important.

From the time we're born until we die, we're kept busy with artificial stuff that isn't important.

Nothing is more important in the face of a war than cutting taxes.

Artists should re-emphasize performance and de-emphasize recording. You always make more money if you have a healthy performing life than you will if you have even a moderately healthy recording life. Don't make recording the most important thing you do. Make performing the most important thing you do, and then you can make recordings and sell them at your shows, because record labels aren't going to be around to help you get on the radio stations, and the radio stations probably aren't going to play you anyway.

I know how important good mental health care can be because I personally benefited from it.

Look. You all do things that are beautiful and magical and... and important. But me... there's gotta be more to my life than just pots and kettles. All I'm asking you is that you give me a chance.

Canadians tend to be a bit more religious than most Europeans - though not more than the Poles or Ukrainians. Most important, their attitude to immigration and ethnic minorities is more positive than that of most Europeans.

As you get older you're told to be sensible, but it's important for writing if you're a comic that you're able to still access that childlike thing.

Avoid results-by volume approach, instead focus on few critically important but uncomfortable actions.

Information is useless if it is not applied to something important or if you will forget it before you have a chance to apply it.

Meanwhile, hard-working Americans are increasingly faced with workplace conditions in which critically important safeguards are watered down, emerging problems are ignored, and enforcement is scaled back.

One of the most important-and most neglected-elements in the beginning of the interior life is the ability to respond to reality, to see the value and the beauty in ordinary things, to come alive to the splendour that is all around us.

It isn't myself that's important in this transaction apparently; the individual doesn't count much in the situation...all of us are more or less pawns. We're moved about like chessmen by circumstances over which we have no control.

He stared at his feet. “I’m still very ignorant,” he said, “but at least I’m ignorant about really important things.

It is important that we know where we come from, because if you do not know where you come from, then you don't know where you are, and if you don't know where you are, you don't know where you're going. And if you don't know where you're going, you're probably going wrong.

Basically, I want to spend my time in retreat, but to my own amazement, I agreed to help with a project to start a training center for nuns. I agreed because I think it's really very important for the Western Sangha. I don't know how I'm going to help, but it's important.

Without question, the Red Ryder BB gun is the most important gun in the history of American weaponry.

It's definitely important to stay true to yourself and stay close to those people who you were close to before [becoming famous]. Family, your friends, and just not let that outside stuff get to you.

What gives me the greatest satisfaction is the number of people I can affect with my gift, with what I do. That's the most important thing to me, more important than any trophy or award.