Unimportant Quotes

But there are things that happen between a man and a woman in the dark -- that sort of make everything else seem -- unimportant.

Tennessee Williams

Dark, Men, Happens

Tennessee Williams (2004). “A Streetcar Named Desire”, p.81, New Directions Publishing

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Simplify your life. Don't waste the years struggling for things that are unimportant. Don't burden yourself with possessions. Keep your needs and wants simple and enjoy what you have. Don't destroy your peace of mind by looking back, worrying about the past. Live in the present. Simplify!

Henry David Thoreau

Struggle, Past, Simple

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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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Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

Charlie Chaplin

Courage, Failure, Humility

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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The tendency of modern scientific teaching is to neglect the great books, to lay far too much stress upon relatively unimportant modern work, and to present masses of detail of doubtful truth and questionable weight in such a way as to obscure principles.

Ronald Fisher

Stress, Book, Teaching

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Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.

Georgia O'Keeffe

Life, Travel, Attitude

Dennis Abrams, Georgia O'Keeffe (2009). “Georgia O'Keeffe”, p.13, Infobase Publishing

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History - an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant

John Barth

History, Knaves, Events

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Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.

Robert A. Heinlein

Cat, Protocol, Kitty Cat

"The Cat Who Walks Through Walls". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, 1985.

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Whatever else has been said about me personally is unimportant. When I sing, I believe. I'm honest.

Frank Sinatra

Music, Believe, Jazz

"And I Quote: The Definitive Collecton of Quotes, Sayings, and Jokes for the Contemporary Speechmaker". Book by Ashton Applewhite, 2003.

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In a true zero-defects approach, there are no unimportant items.

Phil Crosby

Zero, Defects, Approach

"Let's Talk Quality: 96 Questions You Always Wanted to Ask Phil Crosby". Book by Philip B. Crosby, 1989.

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History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.

Ambrose Bierce

Lying, History, Soldier

Cynic's Word Book (1906) p. 161

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Where life is colorful and varied, religion can be austere or unimportant. Where life is appallingly monotonous, religion must be emotional, dramatic and intense. Without the curry, boiled rice can be very dull.

C. Northcote Parkinson

Life, Emotional, Religion

C NORTHCOTE PARKINSON (1965). “EAST AND WEST”

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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, Unimportant Things

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Amongst all unimportant subjects, football is by far the most important.

Pope John Paul II

Football, Important, Subjects

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First, it is not unimportant that the legislative texts of the Old Testament are placed in the mouth of Moses and within the narrative framework of the sojourn at Sinai.

Paul Ricoeur

Mouths, Narrative, Firsts

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Because love encompasses everything, nothing is unimportant, including tonight's dinner menu. Think about it for a minute. If you were pure love, the loving parent of all life, how would you want people to eat?

Victoria Moran

Thinking, People, Parent

Victoria Moran, Sonnet Pierce (1998). “Love Yourself Thin: The Revolutionary Spiritual Approach to Weight Loss”, Signet Book

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When I worked in Los Angeles covering hard news, very often when something important would happen I'd be off in the woods covering something unimportant, which was more interesting to me.

Charles Kuralt

Interesting, Important, Covering

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It's been mentioned or suggested that Paradise will not be well studied, because it's about this unimportant intellectual topic, which is religion.

Toni Morrison

Intellectual, Paradise, Topics

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Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.

Gerald Brenan

Boredom, Bores, Oneself

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Here then is a great #‎ truth . In the #‎ pain , the #‎ agony , and the #‎ heroic endeavors of life, we pass through a #‎ refiner 's #‎ fire , and the insignificant and the unimportant in our lives can melt away like dross and make our #‎ faith #‎ bright , #‎ intact , and #‎ strong .

James E. Faust

Strong, Pain, Adversity

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Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom.

Sandra Day O'Connor

Time, Learning, Tasks

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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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Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.

Francis Chan

Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

Francis Chan (2013). “Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God”, p.92, David C Cook

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The world is unimportant and whoever recognizes this conquers his liberty.

Albert Camus

Liberty, World, Conquer

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It is interesting seeing young people these days and watching how unimportant music is in their lives compared with our generation.

Alison Moyet

Our Generation, People, Interesting

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