Important Quotes - Page 299

Being protective is important.

Unlike any other time in our history, we have to know that staying in school and getting an education is the most important thing you can do.

I think the most important thing is to have fun, and not to take things too seriously. Once you start doing that, then you'll start to crumble.

The most important thing you ever did was learn how to survive. Do not let anyone make you feel like you shouldn't have.

Knowing where you have come from is important in forming an idea of where you want to go.

Acting was important, but it was not as important as getting an education, and I credit my parents with a lot of that.

Hope. It is the most important thing in the world. I believe that now more than ever. Hope is what saved my life, hope is what gave me the courage and the strength to carry on. Hope – that unshakeable, golden belief that things can get better.

The old idea that words possess magical powers is false; but its falsity is the distortion of a very important truth. Words do have a magical effect - but not in the way that magicians supposed, and not on the objects they were trying to influence. Words are magical in the way they affect the minds of those who use them.

No important change in ethics was ever accomplished without an internal chage in our intellectual emphasis, loyalties, affections, and convictions.

Our society accepts the book as a given, but the act of reading -- once considered useful and important, as well as potentially dangerous and subversive -- is now condescendingly accepted as a pastime, a slow pastime that lacks efficiency and does not contribute to the common good.

The most important tool of the theoretical physicist is his wastebasket.

You say, "Something important really happened here. I really had hold of something I was visited by the muse." And that's enough to make you continue the months and years to finish the whole book.

When I started out as an actor, I thought, Here's what I have to say; how shall I say it? I began to understand that what I do in the scene is not as important as what happens between me and the other person. And listening is what lets it happen. It's almost always the other person who causes you to say what you say next. You don't have to figure out how you'll say it. You have to listen so simply, so innocently, that the other person brings about a change in you that makes you say it and informs the way you say it.

One of the unexpectedly important things that art can do for us is to teach us how to suffer more successfully.

Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.

The most important thing about you is what comes to your mind when you think of God.

Money is important yes, but not the most important. I don't need money to smile or breathe. I would still be breathing if all my money disappeared tomorrow.

Ladies, your happiness is very important to us. You have to understand that. Because when you're happy, you let us touch you.

Integrity is very important to me. I do what is right, not necessarily what is easy. My dealings with clients are fair and honest. I deal with issues immediately and dislike doing what can be done today, tomorrow.

The most important thing for us to do as beings is to be aware of our position in the world on a micro and macro level.

I care so much about fashion that I don't care. I'm like anybody else - if I have an important place to go and I want to look good, I try on a thousand outfits and they all end up on my floor and I come out wearing jeans and Adidas.

I try to make a lot of time for friends and family because I think that's really important and for pleasurable experiences.

Music and acting are the most prominent. But I don't like to compare them, since they're both very, very important to me.

Kids are an important audience to reach for the future of the planet.

Food is an important part, not just in our physical well-being, but in our psychological well-being.