Important Quotes - Page 57

It is important from time to time to slow down, to go away by yourself, and simply be.

My motto is very personal and may not fit anyone else or any other company. It is: Don't do anything that someone else can do. Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.

The most important lesson we can learn is how to pray. Prayers do not die, prayers live before God, and God's heart is set on them.

You know, I think I still have a sense that no matter what you do, no matter what you achieve, no matter how much success you have, no matter how much money you have, relationships are important.

If we are to pray aright, perhaps it is quite necessary that we pray contrary to our own heart. Not what we want to pray is important, but what God wants us to pray. The richness of the Word of God ought to determine our prayer, not the poverty of our heart.

Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success.

Every important choice we make is being guided by one of two places: either it is an act of faith or it is an act of fear. Faith opens the door to a new future.

I think an education is not only important, it is the most important thing you can do with your life.

Whatever you get paid attention for is never what you think is most important about yourself.

Context is so important, not to mimic but to become part of the place. I wanted a building that acknowledges its surroundings.

Constantly take inventory of what's important to you.

The family unit is the most important organization in time or in eternity.

The most holy and important practice in the spiritual life is the presence of God - that is, every moment to take great pleasure that God is with you

There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important thing.

The most important thing is growing old gracefully.

There is yet another illusion, that it is important to be respectable, to be loved and appreciated, to be important. Many say we have a natural urge to be loved and appreciated, to belong. That’s false. Drop this illusion and you will find happiness. We have a natural urge to be free, a natural urge to love, but not to be loved.

I can't say this strongly enough, but our feelings about ourselves are actually the most important barometer for determining the condition of our lives!

I am trying to show the world that we are all human beings and that color is not important. What is important is the quality of our work.

In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows, for details are swallowed up in principles. The details for knowledge which are important, will be picked up ad hoc in each avocation of life, but the habit of the active utilization of well-understood principles is the final possession of WISDOM.

I'm still a geek on the inside, that's the important thing.

For me, I think it's such an important thing to hear other people's stories, because you do find ways that either you can learn something from them, or you can identify with something that they've gone through. You realize that maybe what you're going through in life isn't just specific to you, that somebody else understands it, or you talk to someone and all of sudden you see something in a completely different way because of what they've said to you or shared with you.

As financial markets continue to broaden and deepen, the behavior of asset prices will play an important role in the formulation of monetary policy going forward, perhaps a more important role than in the past.

escapism isn't good or bad in itself. what is important is what you are escaping from and where you are escaping to.

When people express what is most important to them, it often comes out in cliches. That doesn't make them laughable; it's something tender about them. As though in struggling to reach what's most personal about them they could only come up with what's most public.

I think it is important that we rebuild an atmosphere of forgiveness and civility in every aspect of our lives.