Important Quotes - Page 20

One of the hardest things to teach a child is that truth is more important than consequences.

You are not important because of how long you live, you are important because of how effective you live.

As a manager the important thing is not what happens when you are there, but what happens when you are not there

I do not understand how anyone can, in good conscience, tell a family whose child is suffering from a life-threatening disease that politics is more important than finding a cure.

You think it - wise - to trust Hagrid with something as important as this?" "I would trust Hagrid with my life," said Dumbledore.

We are not jumping on the austerity bandwagon. A healthy economy is by far the most important thing for Social Democrats.

The most important thing is to live a fabulous life. As long as it's fabulous I don't care how long it is.

Character is more important than talent.

I know how important it is to have people who believe in you even when you don't believe in yourself.

I once wrote a lecture for Manchester University called « Moments of Discovery » in which I said that there are two moments that are important. There's the moment when you know you can find out the answer and that's the period you are sleepless before you know what it is. When you've got it and know what it is, then you can rest easy.

I use computers for email, staying current with my own website as well as finding important information through other websites. I also use it for creating MP3 files of new music I'm working on.

Pell Grants are, and have been, critically important tools in making higher education a possibility for lower- and middle-income students.

The most notable fact that our culture imprints on women is a sense of our limits. The most important thing a woman can do for another is to illuminate her actual possibilities.

More and more I think about the role of the arts, and as an artist, I think that it's important that I share the love and peace.

A failed experiment can be more important than a trivial design

Knowing is NOT the most important thing. To be able to FIND OUT is more important than knowing.

When you stand on the stage you must have a sense that you are addressing the whole world, and that what you say is so important the whole world must listen.

I’ve learned many things from him [George Soros], but perhaps the most significant is that it’s not whether you’re right or wrong that’s important, but how much money you make when you’re right and how much you lose when you’re wrong.

I have never doubted the importance of melody. I like melody very much, and I consider it the most important element in music, and I labour many years on the improvement of its quality in my compositions.

Liberalism is the philosophy for our time, because it does not try to conserve every tradition of the past, because it does not apply to new problems the old doctrinaire solutions, because it is prepared to experiment and innovate and because it knows that the past is less important than the future.

The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly.

Foreign aid is neither a failure nor a panacea. It is, instead, an important tool of American policy that can serve the interests of the United States and the world if wisely administered.

Always try the problem that matters most to you.

How we feel about our kids isn't as important as how they experience those feelings and how they regard the way we treat them.

Once upon a time, a historian told me that the most important choice a new historian could make was of his or her specialist subject. Most of the good stuff was far too overcrowded, so you had to pick about in the exotic and extinct. His recommendations were the Picts or the Minoans, because hardly anything was known about them and you could spend a happy lifetime of speculation.