A lot of the changes are so gradual that they don't even qualify as news, or even as interesting: they're so mundane that we just take them for granted. But history shows that it's the mundane changes that are more important than the dramatic 'newsworthy' events.
What is said is not as important as what [you] hear and what [you] feel.
The right of a minority is so important in a democracy.
On private transactions, I'll just go very quickly now, a major difference between the United States and Euroland is that in Europe banks are much more important in financial transactions than in the United States.
The most important lesson in the writing trade is that any manuscript is improved if you cut away the fat.
I love people. I love being in a band. I love making music. I had to figure out that was way more important than being addicted.
Your imagination is the single most important asset you possess. Your imagination is your power to create mental pictures of things that don't exist yet and that you want to bring into being. Your imagination is what you use to shape your future. And so in your own way, you are a prophet. You generate countless predictions every day. Your imagination is the source,tirelessly churning out mental pictures of what you'll be doing in the future.
During labor the most important thing is to get primal and surrender to the process.
This drive to always want more is based on the misconceptions that having more will make me more happy, more important, and more secure, but all three ideas are untrue. Possessions only provide temporary happiness. Because things do not change, we eventually become bored with them and then want newer, bigger, better versions.
But that incessant drive to be out there in the literary universe that was important to me when I was in my twenties, like going to a Paris Review party or whatever, that seems totally irrelevant now.
I hate wasting time or money and that happens all the time for no good reason, and then people save money by skimping on the important things.
It is so important to balance orthodoxy with orthopraxy.
Walt Disney was a story man, and he knew that we were thinking story. That's why he dug us so much and he hired us to work for him. We always thought about the story. That was more important than any words and any music. That's all it's about.
To investigate the history of man's development, the most important finds are, of course, hominid fossils.
The thing is to sift out the important sounds, little syllables and vowels that bring hints of their lost words, and not to mistake the fossil for the life, or the kiss for the love, not to mistake the fragment for the sentence.
It was important for me to have a partner who was ballsy.
The three most important aspects of debugging and real estate are the same: Location, Location, and Location.
It's very important to try to inculcate into children moral rules, such as "do as you would be done by."
As an entrepreneur, you've got to protect against the company going bust. And as an adventurer, you've got to protect against losing your life. It's even more important as an adventurer to get it right.
I think it's important we continue to find new ways for start-up businesses to get access to funding, mentorship and business advice.
Every aspect of life is magnificent and wonderful. It's so important to keep fit and healthy.
Allowing my people to have a good work-life balance by working flexibly is very important to me.
It is important to remember that life is not a dress rehearsal and that none of us should waste our time on doing things that don’t spark fires within us. My golden rule for business and life is: We should all enjoy what we do and do what we enjoy.
Individuals somehow are led to find my books at times that are important to them. The mail that I get very, very often will say, "I was at a difficult time in my life, and someone gave me a copy."
There's this wonderful and very important event when we're born, and we forget everything that's gone before, or else we'd be such a mass of rememberings that we couldn't operate successfully on this planet.
