What's Important Quotes - Page 8

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

  Julius Lester

  Important, Dying, Doe

  14 Copy quote

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

  Judy Chicago

  Thinking, Space, Giving

  16 Copy quote

• I'm learning that you have to make time for what's important. You have to fight to carve little pieces of happiness out of your life, or the everyday emergencies will eat up everything.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Fighting, Everyday, Important

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 11-15”, p.431, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• You want to play video games twenty-four hours a day?" "Or watch. I just want to not be me. Whether it's sleeping or playing video games or riding my bike or studying. Giving my brain up. That's what's important.

  Ned Vizzini

  Sleep, Games, Play

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• My name is October Christine Daye; I live in a city by the sea where the fog paints the early morning, parking is more precious than gold, and Kelpies wait for the unwary on street corners. Neither of the worlds I live in is quite mine, but no one can take them away from me. I did what had to be done, and I think I may finally be starting to understand what's important. It's all about finding the way home, wherever that is. I plan on finding out. I have time.

  Mira Grant

  Morning, Home, Thinking

  4 Copy quote

• When faced with conflicting thoughts and emotions, we must decide what to trust, what we fear, or what we know. What's important is that this decision be made by the knowledgeable versus the anxious part of who we are.

  Bill Crawford

  Decision, Important, Who We Are

  6 Copy quote

• 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

  4 Copy quote

• Seventy-five years. That's how much time you get if you're lucky. Seventy-five years. Seventy-five winters, seventy-five springtimes, seventy-five summers, and seventy-five autumns. When you look at it like that, it's not a lot of time, is it? Don't waste them. Get your head out of the rat race and forget about the superficial things that pre-occupy your existence and get back to what's important now.

  Eddie Murphy

  Summer, Autumn, Winter

  "Fictional character: 'G'". "Holy Man", www.imdb.com. 1998.

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• Everything I do, I do on the principle of Russian borscht. You can throw everything into it beets, carrots, cabbage, onions, everything you want. What's important is the result, the taste of the borscht.

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko

  Vegetables, Important, Onions

  80 Copy quote

• She taught me what's important, and what isn't. And I've never forgotten. And that's what mothers do, I say.

  Steven Herrick

  Mother, Important, Taught

  Steven Herrick (2004). “A Place Like this”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• What's important for my daughter to know is that... if you are fortunate to have opportunity, it is your duty to make sure other people have those opportunities as well.

  Kamala Harris

  Daughter, Mother, Opportunity

  60 Copy quote

• You know, who cares about seeing the girls when everybody wants to see the band. That's what's important, KISS is important. I think we look great, and the attitude is there, and I'm real happy with it.

  Eric Carr

  Girl, Attitude, Real

  6 Copy quote

• What's important is not the accolades and memories of success but the way you respond when opportunities are denied.

  Tony Dungy

  Motivational, Leadership, Football

  Tony Dungy (2011). “Quiet Strength: The Principles, Practices, and Priorities of a Winning Life”, p.34, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  4 Copy quote

• What's important is that all human knowledge be made available to all intelligent people who want to learn it.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Reading, Intelligent, People

  5 Copy quote

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

  Katharine Hepburn

  Life, Pain, House

  4 Copy quote

• What’s important is that you make the leap. Jump high and hard with intention and heart. Pay no mind to the vision that the commission made up. It’s up to you to make your life. Take what you have and stack it up like a tower of teetering blocks. Build your dream around that.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Dream, Block, Heart

  Cheryl Strayed (2013). “Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There”, p.90, Atlantic Books Ltd

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Reality is such a pain. Those of us who were fed up with that kind of reality decided to remake it. We’d set up a partition, separate what’s important to us from what was trash, put only the things we loved on our side, and got rid of the rest.

  Ryohgo Narita

  Pain, Reality, Important

  8 Copy quote

• I don't think the amount of belief you have is what's important. I think it's what you have belief in that matters.

  P. C. Cast

  Thinking, Important, Matter

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2011). “Destined”, p.202, Macmillan

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Your heart always knows what's important. It always knows how to guide you. It's pure, and trustworthy--though it will never shout to be heard. it will never speak above a whisper. But if you learn how to heed it, how to hear it, you will never feel lost in the world.

  Alyson Noel

  Heart, Important, World

  10 Copy quote