What's Important Quotes - Page 8

• I want to keep doing different things. I'd like to do a more personal, dramatic movie next, I think. But as long as it's about characters and good writing and good parts for actors, that's what's important

  Tony Goldwyn

  Writing, Character, Thinking

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• What's important to me is that I put messages out, whether it's a TED talk, whether it's a book.

  Simon Sinek

  Book, Important, Ted Talks

  Source: advisor.tv

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• The fact that you're having disagreements with each other isn't a problem -that just shows that there are some areas of your relationship that need to be worked on. And that's normal. People are different, so of course you're going to run into times where your differences come out and rub each other the wrong way. But what's important is that you both commit to work on those differences until both of you are satisfied. When you do that, you're walking the right road together and over the long-run you'll do just fine.

  Cindy Wright

  Running, Differences, Long

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• I don't agonize over decisions as much these days. The criteria of what's important to me is clear. The insecurity that you feel, and the paranoia that you feel, have been around for a long time - you know it's a liar because it's been lying to you all along - every time you start something new.

  John Cusack

  Time, Liars, Lying

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• Keeping a journal of what's going on in your life is a good way to help you distill what's important and what's not.

  Martina Navratilova

  Important, Way, Helping

  Martina Navratilova (2007). “Shape Your Self: My 6-Step Diet and Fitness Plan to Achieve the Best Shape of Your Life”, p.21, Rodale

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• Stories are not like the real world; they aren't held back by what we know is false or true. What's important is how a story makes you feel inside.

  Tahir Shah

  Real, Important, Stories

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• I live for the moment. I'm basically a Buddhist-type person. I'm just here right now, and I don't think about what's going to happen a hundred years from now. I try to concentrate on what's going on right now. But I'm really trying to run this company like it is going to be here a hundred years from now. That's what's important.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Running, Buddhist, Business

  "The TH Interview: Yvon Chouinard, founder of Patagonia". Interview with Jacob Gordon, www.treehugger.com. February 7, 2008.

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• Behind every flinch is a fear or an anxiety - sometimes rational, sometimes not. Without the fear, there is no flinch. But wiping out the fear isn't what's important - facing it is.

  Julian Smith

  Anxiety, Important, Wiping Out

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• I think what's important is to give space to the range of human experience.

  Judy Chicago

  Thinking, Space, Giving

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• Dying ain't important. Everyone does that. What's important is how well you do your living.

  Julius Lester

  Important, Dying, Doe

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• I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

  Diane Frolov

  Thinking, Everyday, Important

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• The world doesn’t fully make sense until the writer has secured his version of it on the page. And the act of writing is strangely more lifelike than life….every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understood…. Your job is to marshal the talent you do have and find people who believe in your work. What’s important, finally, is that you create, and that those creations define for you what matters most, that which cannot be extinguished even in the face of silence, solitude, and rejection.

  Betsy Lerner

  Jobs, Believe, Writing

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• As a Jewish man who has no interest in Judaism whatsoever, there's something in me that says when bad things have happened in the past, people were supposed to get more active and speak up and prevent them. That's what's important to me is that everybody - and I don't care what side you're on. You can disagree with me, but everyone better get active. Everybody better vote and be thoughtful.

  Judd Apatow

  Men, Thoughtful, Past

  "Judd Apatow On His Characters: 'If Everyone Is Mature, There Is No Comedy'". Interview with Kelly Mcevers, wkms.org. February 17, 2017.

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• Fella in business got to lie an' cheat, but he calls it somepin else. That's what's important. You go steal that tire an' you're a thief, but he tried to steal your four dollars for a busted tire. They call that sound business.

  John Steinbeck

  Business, Lying, Important

  John Steinbeck (2016). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.95, Hamilton Books

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• The United States is a strong and ardent ally of Israel. The fact of the matter is that friends can disagree. I think what's important is that world leaders are able to sit down with one another, have frank conversations and move forward.

  Valerie Jarrett

  Strong, Moving, Thinking

  "WH Sr Adviser Valerie Jarrett". "This Week", abcnews.go.com. March 28, 2010.

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• Over the years, so many of the barriers that prevented people from getting married, crossing lines of faith or color or ethnicity have just disappeared. Because what's important is: 'Are you making a responsible decision? Have you thought it through? Do you understand the consequences?' And I think in the world that we're in today we need more of that.

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, Color, Years

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• I don't agonize over decisions as much these days. The criteria of what's important to me is clear.

  John Cusack

  Decision, Important, Criteria

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• Telling what you feel, trying to talk about what's important to you, does not make you weaker.

  Aimee Mann

  Important, Trying, Doe

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• Anything that you are achieving that undermines and threatens systems of power will meet with oppression. Systems of power don't say 'thank you.' What's important is not to focus all your efforts on the oppression, but to continue the constructive work.

  Noam Chomsky

  Focus, Effort, Important

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• What's important? That which is dug out of books, or out of the guts?

  Theodore Roethke

  Book, Important, Importance

  Theodore Roethke, Carolyn Kizer (2013). “On Poetry and Craft: Selected Prose”, p.179, Copper Canyon Press

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• Spreadsheets are fiction. Believing in what you're doing and what you're building is what's important.

  Vinod Khosla

  Believe, Important, Fiction

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• We must remember how to love, remember what's important, and remember God's truth as it applies to our relationships.

  Karen Kingsbury

  Important, How To Love, Remember

  Karen Kingsbury, Gary Smalley (2009). “Remember”, p.373, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• To be 'on purpose' means you're doing what you love to do, doing what you're good at, and accomplishing what's important to you.

  Jack Canfield

  Mean, Doing What You Love, Important

  FaceBook post by Jack Canfield from Sep 15, 2009

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• Braque always said that the only thing that counts, in painting, is the intention, and it's true. What counts is what one wants to do, and not what one does. That's what's important.

  Pablo Picasso

  Important, Doe, Want

  Hélène Parmelin, Pablo Picasso (1965). “Picasso; the artist and his model: and other recent works”

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• Life's what's important. Walking, houses, family. Birth and pain and joy - and then death.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Life, Pain, House

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