Best 10800 quotes in «important quotes» category

Intelligence is playing a more important role in policymaker decisions than I think I've ever seen in my time in Congress or before.

Intent is all-important. Your intent determines what happens to you inwardly, in a karmic sense.

[International law] doesn't show what the Constitution originally meant, and it doesn't show what is fundamentally important to Americans today. It shows what's fundamentally important to somebody else today.

International unity of the workers is more important than the national.

In terms of justice, the most important thing is not to be part of organized crime.

In terms of trying to improve as an actor, for me it's always important to return to the stage. After doing a piece of theater for a prolonged period, I can think I must have surely improved in some way as an actor - you must be fitter than you were prior to doing it. For me, theater is very, very important in keeping things fresh and dangerous.

Interpretation is a task that we repeatedly have to take up and start again from the beginning, Sisyphus-like. But, as Camus said, we must always imagine Sisyphus happy, and this is not so difficult when it's a matter of texts that reveal important truths about being human.

Interplay and interaction are the integral parts of music - they're as important as the notes.

Intersectionality allow us to focus on what is most important at a given point in time.

In the '70s and '80s, the mentality of America was that everything was disposable. The notion of quality wasn't important.

In the '80s the band was 24/7. You were only as good as what you were producing at any given moment. Now my family is more important. I also think having the shock of your mum and dad dying humbles you slightly.

In the Baboon community, it is not how strong you are that is important, but who you know that counts

In the beginning I tried to accommodate everything there that was somewhere between art and garbage and that somehow seemed important to me and a pity to throw away. After a while, some sheets in the Atlas acquired another value, after all - that is, it seemed to me that they could stand on their own terms, not only under the protection of the Atlas.

In the beginning, there were bacteria.... [A] nearly universal assumption is that all subsequent life descended from the original life form through a continuous chain of ancestor-descendant pairs. This assumption looks good because all living organisms share biochemical traits. It is conceivable, of course, that life originated more than once on the early earth but that all except one life form died out early, leaving a single lineage as the ancestor of life as we know it. If this did happen, it was the first important species extinction.

In the Bhagavat culture worship of the spiritual master plays a very important role in our life.

In theatre, there's the director, the writer, and below them the actor. In film, it's the actors who are most important. That goes against the grain for me.

In the case of Game Change, the discussion in that film was how our politicians have become so much like celebrities - personality becomes more important than substance so that they can function in a 24-hour news cycle. So the question is, how do you feel about that? Is this what you want from a politician - somebody who's wildly charismatic, but has so little knowledge of substantive issues?

In the contest between talent and hard work as to which is the more important element of success, there's no comparison. A mediocre talent with lots of hard work will go further than a stellar talent who coasts.

In the corridors of diplomacy people  gradually tend to lose their capacity to distinguish between what is important and what isn't.

...in the end every one stands alone, and the important thing is who it is that stands alone.

In the end, it is the person you become, not the things you have achieved, that is the most important.

In the end, all men die. How you lived will be far more important to the Almighty than what you accomplished.

In the end of the film there is hope, ... There's beauty in ugliness. It's really important for us Latinos to acknowledge each other and not deny the reality, because our reality is fascinating.

In the end, life teaches us what is important, and that is family.

In the discharge of the duties of this office, there is one rule of action more important than all others. It consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.

In the end, I believe that the most important influence on my aesthetic has been the photographs I have taken.

In the end, there is really nothing more important than taking care of the earth and letting it take care of you.

In the end, the most important thing is not to do things for people who are poor and in distress, but to enter into relationship with them, to be with them and help them find confidence in themselves and discover their own gifts.

In the finished article, the only thing that is important is whether it moves you or not. There is nothing else that is important at all.

...in the end you are the only one who can make yourself happy. More important, ...it is never too late to find out how to do it.

In the end, the thing that's important about free expression is that it's the right from which all other rights are derived. If you can't articulate ideas and if you can't articulate critiques of other peoples' ideas, then you're powerless. What always increases the power of an authoritarian regime is whether it can successfully prevent people from expressing themselves.

In the end, what your own troops do is more important than who they are marching against.

In the end, yoga for me is all about three things: more joy; being able to collect your capacity so you can have more of what you want in real terms; and ultimately - this may be the most important of it all - less fear.

In the future, how we educate our children may prove to be more important than how much we educate them.

In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed by the deep inner needs of our nature.

In the game of life, nothing is less important than the score at halftime.

In the long term the most important question for a company is not what you are but what you are becoming.

In the last analysis, productivity of labour is the most important, the principal thing for the victory of the new social system.

In the long run, the replacement of the precise and disciplined language of science by the misleading language of litigation and advocacy may be one of the more important sources of damage to society incurred in the current debate over global warming.

In the long run, doing work that's important leads to more happiness than doing work that's merely profitable.

In the modern age where everything is connected to everything, the most important thing about what you can do is what you can do with others.

In the modern world, nationalism remains a very important force. We delude ourselves into thinking that globalization has made all of that redundant and that everyone just wants to be like America.

In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina.

In the rush for justice it is important not to lose sight of principles the country holds dear.

In the phrase ' human being,' the word 'being' is much more important than the word 'human.'

In the short term, some deadly virus might be more important, but in the long run there is hardly anything more important than asteroids.

In these times - where social appearance is more important than spiritual substance - what has become our longing to change is really the unconscious desire to control not just the shape of our bodies (according to prevailing values) but to dominate our environment as well, regardless of the cost.

In the shows I've done serialized storytelling with, there are big open questions, but you like every episode to be identifiable as what it is. It's also very important that each season is identifiable. There's usually some big thing that you're trying to wrap up. There are big bows that you're trying to tie, by the end of the season, that you would do anyway because it's just good storytelling to tie those things up.

In the sphere of religion, as in other spheres, the things about which men are agreed are apt to be the things that are least worth holding; the really important things are the things about which men will fight.

In the twentieth century the Reformed tradition was developed in several ways including additional confessions (Barmen, the Belhar Confession, the 1967 Confession of the PC(USA), and so on). It was also significantly augmented by the work of important thinkers like Karl Barth, T. F. Torrance, Jürgen Moltmann, Emil Brunner, Kathryn Tanner, and so on.