What's Important Quotes - Page 9

• 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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• 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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• I love being a mom. And I think what I love the most is the way it makes me think about what's important and what's not important. What to fight for and what to just be cool with. What it is that I'm teaching through example and what it is that I was taught that I don't want to teach.

  Alicia Keys

  Mom, Teaching, Fighting

  Source: www.glamour.com

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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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• 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

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• What's important is to be able to see yourself, I think, as having commonality with other people and not determine, because of your good luck, that everybody is less significant, less interesting, less important than you are.

  Harrison Ford

  Good Luck, Thinking, People

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. January 20, 2010.

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• Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them.

  Steve Jobs

  Smart, Technology, People

  "Steve Jobs in 1994: The Rolling Stone Interview". Interview with Jeff Goodell, www.rollingstone.com. January 17, 2011.

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• With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else's ideas about you, but what's important is how you feel about yourself - for survival and living day to day with what comes up.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Ideas, Survival, Important

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• We've all led raucous lives, some of them inside, some of them out. But only the poem you leave behind is what's important. Everyone knows this. The voyage into the interior is all that matters, Whatever your ride. Sometimes I can't sit still for all the asininities I read. Give me the hummingbird, who has to eat sixty times His own weight a day just to stay alive. Now that's a life on the edge.

  Charles Wright

  Giving, Important, Alive

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• See that's what people don't get about food. It's never the food, it's the love that goes into making it. That's what's important.

  Sarah Strohmeyer

  People, Important, What's Important

  Sarah Strohmeyer (2008). “Sweet Love”, p.84, Penguin

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• Never be ready to play yesterday. Being ready to play today is what's important

  Pat Riley

  Basketball, Nba, Play

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• My advice for an entrepreneur just starting out is to differentiate yourself. Why are you different? What’s important about you? Why does the customer need you?

  Sara Blakely

  Entrepreneur, Advice, Important

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• It takes practice to hear your true desires. Your passion will often come as a whisper or serendipitous event that reminds you of what's important and what makes you happy.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Motivational, Passion, Practice

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• I do believe that separation can be a bit damaging at times. To be happy about yourself and your culture and all of that is necessary and fulfilling, but the whole tapestry is what's important.

  Chita Rivera

  Believe, Important, Culture

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• My homies in Gadsden aren't as exposed as I am culturally, which is awesome - that's why I love going home. I'm in the kitchen with people who don't know anything but the simple life, what's important to them, and what's dope.

  Yelawolf

  Home, Dope, Simple

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• Museums collect what's important in their respective countries. In Berlin's National Gallery, however, this isn't the case. They're interested neither in me nor the other usual suspects. It's simply a German reality.

  Georg Baselitz

  Country, Reality, Museums

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• One of the nice things about being busy is it makes you focus on what's important to you and how you use your time.

  Lorne Michaels

  Nice, Focus, Important

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• What's important in the filmmaking process has stayed the same. Keep it small, keep it personal, keep it authentic, work with people you like and trust. That process is much longer than the filmmaking process. The development process is a long one, so try and say something of importance.

  Simon Beaufoy

  Long, People, Important

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• What's important is not just to develop the technology; it's to develop the processes.

  Hal Abelson

  Technology, Important, What's Important

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• My idea as far as comedy goes has always been to push the limits of what's acceptable for a woman to do or say or be. My hero in that would be Lenny Bruce, who teaches us that words have no meaning. It's the intent behind them that is what's important.

  Lea DeLaria

  Hero, Ideas, Important

  "You & A Guest". Live chat, www.breakupgirl.net. July 15, 1999.

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• If you're lucky enough to be able to have therapy -- because I know it's very privileged -- it gets rid of so much garbage and enables you to focus on what's important. When I first went into analysis, my mother was absolutely horrified. She thought I'd be a loony!

  Julie Andrews

  Mother, Focus, Important

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• But I know what's important to me, and what isn't. And I think I know what people can get used to, and what they can even learn to like. (It just takes some people longer than others. :-)

  Larry Wall

  Thinking, People, Important

  Usenet article, 1998.

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• Being a working mother is not easy, but I think it helps you choose what's important in your life. If I think about starting a new project - whether it be music, a movie or a fragrance - I always stop and think: Is this something I feel really passionate about? That way, if I'm not at home at least it's for something I really love, and my son can look up to that.

  Christina Aguilera

  Mother, Home, Son

  "Sexy As Sin: Christina Aguilera Reveals Why She Finally Feels Sexy In Her Own Skin". Interview with Laura Schreffler, hauteliving.com. March 28, 2014.

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• But who wants to hang aroundfrat guys ? I want to be with guys who have more on their minds than where the next keg party is. I want to be with guys who care about making this world a better place-the way Andrew does. I want to be with guys who know that what's important isn't the size of a girl's waistband but the size of her heart-like Andrew. I want to be with guys who are able to see past a girl's outward appearance, and into her soul-like Andrew.

  Meg Cabot

  Girl, Party, Heart

  Meg Cabot (2010). “Queen of Babble Bundle with Bonus Material”, p.87, Harper Collins

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• I stopped worrying about the start. The end is what's important.

  Usain Bolt

  Worry, Important, What's Important

  "Usain Bolt Wins Gold In 100 Meters, Setting Olympic Record At London Games" by Chris Greenberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 5, 2012.

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