Important Things Quotes - Page 12

• Things look different depending on your perspective. As I see it, fighting to bridge those gaps isn't what really matters. The most important thing is to know them inside and out, as differences, and to understand why certain people are the way they are.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Fighting, Differences, Bridges

  Banana Yoshimoto (2011). “The Lake”, p.127, Melville House

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• "You're important," Nicholas interrupted quietly catching her face and turning her to peer at him. "You're the most important thing in the world to me Jo. I love you. Let me have this moment."

  Lynsay Sands

  Love You, Important, Peers

  "The Renegade Hunter". Book by Lynsay Sands, September 29, 2009.

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• What do you think about me is not my business the important thing is what I think about myself.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Thinking, Important

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• Tell me when it's over " Thalia said. Her eyes were shut tight. The statue was holding on to us so we couldn't fall but still Thalia clutched his arm like it was the most important thing in the world. "Everything's fine " I promised. "Are... are we very high " I looked down. Below us a range of snowy mountains zipped by. I stretched out my foot and kicked snow off one of the peaks. "Nah " I said. "Not that high.

  Rick Riordan

  Fall, Eye, Feet

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• ‎Sometimes we have to lie so that we do not needlessly hurt others. The important thing is that we are honest with ourselves. That we know how to bend without breaking ourselves. -Crepusculo Lepidoptera

  F. Sionil José

  Hurt, Lying, Important

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• Power can do everything but the most important thing: it cannot control love.

  Philip Yancey

  Important, Can Do

  Philip Yancey (2009). “Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud”, p.53, Harper Collins

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• PICARD: There is no greater challenge than the study of philosophy. WESLEY: But William James won't be in my Starfleet exams. PICARD: The important things never will be. Anyone can be trained in the mechanics of piloting a starship. WESLEY: But Starfleet Academy PICARD: It takes more. Open your mind to the past. Art, history, philosophy. And all this may mean something.

  Gene Roddenberry

  Art, Philosophy, Mean

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• Remember, 'No one's more important than people'! In other words, friendship is the most important thing--not career or housework, or one's fatigue--and it needs to be tended and nurtured.

  Julia Child

  Friendship, Careers, People

  Julia Child, Alex Prud'homme (2006). “My Life in France”, p.243, Anchor

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• It seems that most of us could benefit from a brush with a near-fatal disaster to help us recognise the important things that we are too defeated or embittered to recognise from day to day.

  Alain de Botton

  Important, Benefits, Helping

  Alain de Botton (2010). “A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary”, p.32, Profile Books

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• A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.

  Gertrude Stein

  Mind, Important, Novelists

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• Intelligent, thinking people could take things like this in their stride, just as they took the larger absurdities of deadly dull jobs in the city and deadly dull homes in the suburbs. Economic circumstances might force you to live in this environment, but the important thing was to keep from being contaminated. The important thing, always, was to remember who you were.

  Richard Yates

  Jobs, Home, Intelligent

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• No matter what happens, always Keep your childhood innocence. It's the most important thing.

  Federico Fellini

  Childhood, Important, Matter

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• I learned to read at the age of five, in Brother Justiniano's class at the De la Salle Academy in Cochabamba, Bolivia. It is the most important thing that has ever happened to me. Almost seventy years later I remember clearly how the magic of translating the words in books into images enriched my life, breaking the barriers of time and space.

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Brother, Book, Years

  Mario Vargas Llosa (2011). “In Praise of Reading and Fiction: The Nobel Lecture”, p.3, Macmillan

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• The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Journey, Reality

  "Old Man's Advice to Youth: 'Never Lose a Holy Curiosity'". Life magazine, p. 64, May 02, 1955.

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• Prayer does change things, all kinds of things. But the most important thing it changes is us. As we engage in this communion with God more deeply and come to know the One with whom we are speaking more intimately, that growing knowledge of God reveals to us all the more brilliantly who we are and our need to change in conformity to Him. Prayer changes us profoundly.

  R. C. Sproul

  Prayer, Growing Knowledge, Important

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• Poverty has its advantages. When you're that poor what would you have that anyone would want? Except your peace of mind. Your dignity. Your heart. The important things.

  Ana Castillo

  Heart, Mind, Important

  Ana Castillo (2000). “Peel My Love Like an Onion: A Novel”, Anchor

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• And after I act as your intermediary and he takes you back to Faery, then what?" "Then all will be made right, and I'll be invincible again." She rolled her eyes. "I meant, what happens to me? While you may be the most important thing to your egotistical little self in your narcissistic little world, guess what— so am I in mine.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Eye, Self, Important

  Karen Marie Moning (2012). “The Highlander Series 7-Book Bundle”, p.1307, Dell

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• Don't be too ambitious. Do the most important thing you can think of doing every year and then your career will take care of itself.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Thinking, Years, Careers

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• My father told me once that the most important thing every man should know is what he would die for.

  Tana French

  Father, Pride, Men

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• The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.

  Steven Pressfield

  Art, Writing, Positive Thinking

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.108, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• Making fiction for children, making books for children, isn't something you do for money. It's something you do because what children read and learn and see and take in changes them and forms them, and they make the future. They make the world we're going to wind up in, the world that will be here when we're gone. Which sounds preachy (and is more than you need for a quotebyte) but it's true. I want to tell kids important things, and I want them to love stories and love reading and love finding things out. I want them to be brave and wise. So I write for them.

  Neil Gaiman

  Wise, Children, Book

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  The most important thing to do in your life is to not interfere with somebody else's life.

  Frank Zappa

  Funny Life, Important, Life Is

  "The Howard Stern Show", 1987.

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• The most important thing for everyone in Gringolandia is to have ambition and become 'somebody,' and frankly, I don't have the least ambition to become anybody.

  Frida Kahlo

  Ambition, Important

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• I suppose the important thing is to make some sort of difference.

  David Nicholls

  Differences, Important

  "One Day". Book by David Nicholls, www.abc.net.au. June 11, 2009.

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• The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital ones.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership

  Brandon Sanderson (2011). “The Alloy of Law: A Mistborn Novel”, p.69, Macmillan

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