Unimportant Things Quotes

• I used to let a lot of unimportant things bother me. I don't anymore. Right now, things are going great in my life. It used to be when that happened, I would be waiting for something to go wrong. Now I don't expect that - if something negative does happen, I'll deal with it, learn from it and realize it is the way it is supposed to be.

  Doug Davidson

  Waiting, Negative, Doe

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• You are not here to fritter away your precious hours when you have the ability to accomplish so much by making a slight change in your routine.

  Og Mandino

  Inspirational, Routine, Hours

  Og Mandino (2010). “A Better Way to Live: Og Mandino's Own Personal Story of Success Featuring 17 Rules to Live By”, p.80, Bantam

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• A day merely survived is no cause for celebration.

  Og Mandino

  Inspirational, Causes, Celebration

  Og Mandino (2010). “A Better Way to Live: Og Mandino's Own Personal Story of Success Featuring 17 Rules to Live By”, p.85, Bantam

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• No more busy work. No more hiding from success. Leave time, leave space, to grow. Now. Now! Not tomorrow!

  Og Mandino

  Inspirational, Space, Tomorrow

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• There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day.

  Alexander Woollcott

  Life, Motivational, Encouragement

  Alexander Woollcott (1951). “The Indispensable Woollcott”

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• Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge when it comes along. This applies to play as well as work. A day merely survived is no cause for celebration. You are not here to fritter away your precious hours when you have the ability to accomplish so much by making a slight change in your routine. No more busy work. No more hiding from success. Leave time, leave space, to grow. Now. Now! Not tomorrow!

  Og Mandino

  Life, Change, Real

  Og Mandino (2010). “A Better Way to Live: Og Mandino's Own Personal Story of Success Featuring 17 Rules to Live By”, p.85, Bantam

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• Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge when it comes along.

  Og Mandino

  Inspirational, Real, Night

  Og Mandino (2010). “A Better Way to Live: Og Mandino's Own Personal Story of Success Featuring 17 Rules to Live By”, p.80, Bantam

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• We are told No, you're unimportant, you're peripheral - get a degree, get a job, get a this, get that, and then you're a player. You don't even want to play that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that's being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.

  Terence McKenna

  Jobs, Player, Games

  "Reclaim Your Mind". Part of the Terence McKenna's lecture "Eros and the Eschaton", www.youtube.com. 1984.

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• It has been rightly said that nothing is unimportant, nothing powerless in the universe; a single atom can dissolve everything, and save everything! What terror! There lies the eternal distinction between good and evil.

  Gerard De Nerval

  Lying, Evil, Atoms

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• Anything that isn't opposed by about 40 percent of humanity is either an evil business or so unimportant that it simply doesn't matter.

  Russell Baker

  Evil, Humanity, Matter

  "Observer; Don't Worry, Feel Good". www.nytimes.com. April 21, 1990.

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• Movies are not about the weekend that they're released, and in the grand scheme of things, that's probably the most unimportant time of a film's life.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Movie, Weekend, Film

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• The activity at this very moment must be the only thing that matters, to which one is fully given. If one is concentrated, it matters little what one is doing. The important, as well as the unimportant things, assume a new dimension of reality, because they have one's full attention.

  Erich Fromm

  Reality, Littles, Matter

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.114, Open Road Media

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• What is important, what isn't important, and how do you clean yourself from all of the unimportant things. And then you can be content, and feel good with life, which is metaphorically speaking, "walking on water."

  Eytan Fox

  Water, Feel Good, Clean

  "Exploring Masculinity and Modern Views of Israeli’s, Eytan Fox Discusses 'Walk on Water'". IndieWire Interview, www.indiewire.com. March 3, 2005.

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• If sex isn't an important part of your marriage, you can't beef if your wife or husband does this unimportant thing with somebody else every once in a while, if you have no interest in it.

  Dan Savage

  Sex, Husband, Wife

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. February 8, 2006.

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• I had a sense then of how if we truly understood how many of the unimportant things we do will end up outliving us, we'd never be able to go on.

  David Levithan

  Goes On, Able, Ends

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• Don`t make unimportant things important

  Dai Vernon

  Important, Unimportant

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• I'm sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Sorry, Inability, Important

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.132, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• But why do only unimportant things?" asked Milo, who suddenly remembered how much time he spent each day doing them. "Think of all the trouble it saves," the man explained, and his face looked as if he'd be grinning an evil grin--if he could grin at all. "If you only do the easy and useless jobs, you'll never have to worry about the important ones which are so difficult. You just won't have the time. For there's always something to do to keep you from what you really should be doing, and if it weren't for that dreadful magic staff, you'd never know how much time you were wasting.

  Norton Juster

  Jobs, Men, Thinking

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• I mean you're given all these lessons for the unimportant things--piano-playing, typing. You're given years and years of lessons in how to balance equations, which Lord knows you will never have to do in normal life. But how about parenthood? Or marriage, either, come to think of it. Before you can drive a car you need a state-approved course of instruction, but driving a car is nothing, nothing, compared to living day in and day out with a husband and raising up a new human being.

  Anne Tyler

  Husband, Mean, Thinking

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• It may be in seemingly unimportant things that a man expresses his passion for perfection, yet they will count heavily in the long run.

  Charles M. Schwab

  Running, Passion, Men

  Charles M. Schwab (2005). “Succeeding With What You Have”, p.15, Cosimo, Inc.

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