Important Quotes - Page 358

When you want to say something very important, tell it with a short sentence! There is no time for long stories!

When somebody speaks a language that we don't know, we often imagine that some important things are being said!

One of the most important jobs of the youth is to make the elderly happy.

Since male and female incarnations are equally necessary for self-knowledge, it is not right to look upon one as being more important than the other.

Family is everything to me. Family and health are the two most important things to me.

I don't even watch Fox News usually in the prime time hours because I'm home with my kids and that's more important to me.

And why the hell should you do a really hard, important job that you don't want to do? That has extremely high stakes? That just blows my mind.

What I think is important about essayists, about the essay as opposed to a lot of personal writing is that the material has to be presented in a processed way. I'm just not interested in writing, "Hey, this is what happened to me today." You get to a place that has very little to do with your personal experience and talks about some larger idea or something in the culture. I don't think you can get to that unless you have had a lot of time to gestate and maybe if I was taking a lot of notes while stuff was going on, I wouldn't be able to get to that place as easily.

To look back at history, during WWII, Rosie the Riveter and all that, when women needed to get to work, the US opened a LOT of daycare centers very fast. When we have the will, we do it; we're capable of doing these things. Continuing to raise awareness is important.

When you say too much about anything important, it always ends up sounding more trivial than it is. Words trash it.

The real world, whether we like it or not, is right here, right now. All of this, every day, is important. Everybody matters. Everything we do has an effect on other, directly or indirectly, whether we realize it or not.

Adulthood is knowing that a fully realized character is always more important than the lines.

I love women being the heroes of the piece. There is just something so dramatic and important about this story [The Nightingale ].

Both my mother and I have close groups of friends that include other writers, and these friendships are very important to us.

I paid more attention to the way I looked before my children were born. Afterward, it wasnt important to look exactly right.

I think it is important to say that though, of course, it is wonderful to have children, it is a disservice to others not to also say how hard it is to do it alone.

Suze, your whole life," my dad went on, not without sympathy, "you've always made the right decisions. Not necessarily the easiest ones. The right ones. Don't mess that up now, when you're facing what's probably the most important decision you'll ever have to make.

I believe what I have to say is important, and I believe the people coming to hear me are important, and so the occasion of itself alone has an importance, which forces me to stare down my nerves.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, without it, you can practice no other.

Your life is much more important that you can imagine... it is your first treasure.

I am convinced that courage is the most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you cannot practice any other virtue consistently. You can be kind for a while; you can be generous for a while; you can be just for a while, or merciful for a while, even loving for a while. But it is only with courage that you can be persistently and insistently kind and generous and fair.

If you're serious, you really understand that it's important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you're the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you're funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity.

When it comes to the important things one is always alone.

In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place.

As soon as the error has been recognized and corrections made, it's equally important that the error be forgotten and the successful attempt remembered and dwelt upon.