Important Quotes - Page 87

It's more important you learn what to make movies about than how to make movies

The biggest pests are the people who use altruism as an alibi. What they passionately wish is to make themselves important.

Courage is not the absence of fear. Courage is the recognition that some things are more important than fear - and what's more important to me is faith.

As your attorney, it is my duty to inform you that it is not important that you understand what I'm doing or why you're paying me so much money. What's important is that you continue to do so.

It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of today.

George Bush was for me the most important ally on the road to German unity.

English actors feel vaguely apologetic for being there at all. American actors know that the most important thing is to get one take out of fifty that is great, and they'll go to any length to get it. The English are used to working within consistently small, low-budget things and think, I mustn't waste their time.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity - love. And the story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

A day came when I should have died, and after that nothing seemed very important. So I have stayed as I am, without regret, separated from the normal human condition.

What is important is no longer either a signature or a number, but a code: the code is a password.

Someday you're going to have to learn to separate what seems to be important from what really is important.

Fame is important, but to be rich is more important.

It's important to build a personal brand because it's the only thing you're going to have. Your reputation online, and in the new business world is pretty much the game, so you've got to be a good person. You can't hide anything, and more importantly, you've got to be out there at some level.

Scientists must venture outside their comfort zones to show the public how cool - and how important - their work really is.

Fitness is important, but the most important thing is how you adapt and the way you feel physically. To adapt to a new position. To try to change your game.

Having once found the intensity of art, nothing else that can happen in life can ever again seem as important as the creative process.

Do fewer things and do them well. Focus on the things only you can do. Do the important things which must be done now.

It is important to say all the great thoughts again, without knowing that they have already been said.

Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product.

If you're on Twitter, what you're saying is, 'I'm important enough for you to care what I think.'

Politics is still crucially important. Our choices are vital, and we've got to make them and not just say, 'Oh they're all the same.' They are all the same in certain ways, alas - a political animal is such an animal.

I think we have two very important missions in life. One is to find out who we really are and the other one is to taste as much of life and experience as much of life as we can.

Systematic theology will ask questions like "What are the attributes of God? What is sin? What does the cross achieve?" Biblical theology tends to ask questions such as "What is the theology of the prophecy of Isaiah? What do we learn from John's Gospel? How does the theme of the temple work itself out across the entire Bible?" Both approaches are legitimate; both are important. They are mutually complementary.

I have been blessed to see visions of eternity; and events in my future that have been important for me to foresee, have been revealed to me.

Important things are inevitably cliche, but nobody wants to admit that.