Importance Quotes - Page 3

• The most important thing I learned [from running] is that there is only one runner in this race, and that is me.

  George A. Sheehan

  Sports, Running, Race

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• No one is any more or any less important than you are.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Positive, Meaningful

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from May 19, 2011

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• The things which cannot be adequately represented by words are more important than those which can.

  James Fitzjames Stephen

  Important

  James Fitzjames Stephen (1873). “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity”, p.298

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• The most important thing is to just do it. If I work at a higher level I have responsibility to do better than what I've done before. Sometimes the best happens - beyond possibility. Just do it. Can't worry about it.

  LeRoy Neiman

  Responsibility, Worry, Important

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• Do I really believe that my work is crucial to the planet's survival? Of course not. But it's as important to me as catching that mouse is to the hawk circling outside my window. He's hungry. He needs a kill. So do I.

  Steven Pressfield

  Believe, Survival, Important

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• The more you love your art/ calling/ enterprise, the more important its accomplishment to the evolution of your soul, the more you will fear it and the more Resistance you will experience facing it.

  Steven Pressfield

  Art, Love You, Accomplishment

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.73, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• The object becomes aesthetically significant when it becomes metaphysically significant.

  Joseph Campbell

  Significant, Objects

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• Let them understand above all that the artist works from necessity; that he, too, is a minute element of the world to whom one should ascribe no more importance than so many things in nature which charm us but which we do not explain to ourselves.

  Pablo Picasso

  Artist, Elements, World

  "Futurism," ed. Didier Ottinger; Centre Pompidou / 5 Continents Editions, 2008.

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• I'm dealing with the most important things there are: life and nature. If this doesn't work, if this doesn't sustain me, I can't go back to nature. I'm right there. There's nowhere to go, and that frightens me.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Important, Nowhere To Go, Ifs

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• The conscious life of the mind is of small importance in comparison with its unconscious life.

  Gustave Le Bon

  Mind, Conscious, Comparison

  Gustave Le Bon (2013). “The Crowd”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go.

  Yann Martel

  Letting Go, Important, Life Of Pi Book

  Marilyn Herbert, Yann Martel (2005). “Life of Pi”, p.62, Bookclub-in-a-Box

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• The most important thing is to just be good at what you do.

  Victoria Pratt

  Important, Be Good, Important Things

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• The thing about real life is that important events don't announce themselves... Usually something that is going to change your whole life is a memory before you can stop and be impressed about it.

  Edith Schaeffer

  Memories, Real, Important Events

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• The importance of colour is as nothing compared with that of form, chiaroscuro and arrangement. They are the true and enduring bases of pictorial art.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Art, Chiaroscuro, Form

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• The system is the work of art; the visual work of art is the proof of the System. The visual aspect can't be understood without understanding the system. It isn't what it looks like but what it is that is of basic importance.

  Sol LeWitt

  Art, Understanding, Looks

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• Over the years I have met a lot of important people, but no one as important as Elvis Presley.

  Art Buchwald

  Years, People, Important

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• You know when I think about what I'm doing - what I'm doing and the way I'm doing it is more important to me than any amount of money or anything like that because it's my artistic work.

  Jimmy Wales

  Thinking, Important, Way

  "Q&A" with Brian Lamb, www.c-span.org. September 12, 2005.

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• I think it's more important to show your work to the public.

  Ai Weiwei

  Thinking, Important, Shows

  "Zodiac sculptures display jailed Chinese artist's vision" by Alexandra Munroe, www.cnn.com. June 2, 2011.

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• The most important thing for you to do is see that in hoping to be affected by other things as fully as possible, you become more yourself.

  Eli Siegel

  Important, Important Things, Affected

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• It is important to know: 1) You are OK just the way you are. You need a strong stomach, a tough hide, and to be able to take rejection well. 2) Do your homework. Check out galleries. Don't just walk in with your work. Be as professional as you can. 3)... there is a gallery for everybody.

  Kay WalkingStick

  Strong, Rejection, Important

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• It's important to me to say what I really mean.

  Christopher Reeve

  Mean, Important, Really Mean

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• Perhaps the importance that we must attach to the achievement of an artist or a group of artists may properly be measured by the answer to the following question: Have they so wrought that it will be impossible henceforth, for those who follow, ever again to act as if they had not existed?

  Walter Sickert

  Artist, Achievement, Groups

  Walter Sickert, Anna Gruetzner Robins (2003). “Walter Sickert: The Complete Writings on Art”, p.253, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time.

  Eileen Caddy

  Matter, Instant

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• When one lives with problems of importance, the prostitute is ideal. You pay, and whether or not you fail is of no importance. She doesn't care.

  Alberto Giacometti

  Care, Pay, Problem

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• And, to help society at large to understand that in the equation of life, fathers are of equal importance as mothers.

  Malik Yoba

  Mother, Father, Helping

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