Only the small things in life are important — Joseph Roth
Don`t make unimportant things important — Dai Vernon
In quiet moments when you think about it, you recognize what is critically important in life and what isn't. Be wise and don't let good things crowd out those that are essential. — Richard G. Scott
The important things are children, honesty, integrity and faith. — Andy Williams
The things that matter most are not things. — Art Buchwald
The things that matter most should never be at the mercy of the things that matter least. — Leo Babauta
Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen. — John Wooden
These small things - nutrition, place, climate, recreation, the whole casuistry of selfishness - are inconceivably more important than everything one has taken to be important so far. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing. — Stephen Covey
The things that matter most in life....Aren't things. — Marie Avgeropoulos
Be wise and don't let good things crowd out those that are essential. — Richard G. Scott
What are the things that you can't see that are important? I would say justice, truth, humility, service, compassion, love...They're the guiding lights of a life. — Jimmy Carter
Things that really matter are the things that gold can't buy, so let's have another cup o' coffee and let's have another piece o' pie. — Irving Berlin
The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said. — Peter Drucker
The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't being said. — Unknown
The most important thing in life is to dare. The most complicated thing in life is to be afraid. The smartest thing in the world is to try to be a moral person. — Shimon Peres
The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities. — Charles Dickens
The most important thing we can do is inspire young minds and to advance the kind of science, math and technology education that will help youngsters take us to the next phase of space travel. — John Glenn
I have the best roommates in the world! It creates a fun sense of family... and that's really important to me. Things can get so lonely without it. — Kristen Bell
The most important thing I learned is that soldiers watch what their leaders do. You can give them classes and lecture them forever, but it is your personal example they will follow. — Colin Powell
Art is a guarantee of sanity. That is the most important thing I have
said. — Louise Bourgeois
The most important thing you wear is your personality. — America Ferrera
The most important thing a born again Christian can do is to pray. — Chuck Smith
The only important thing about design is how it relates to people. — Victor Papanek
But the most important thing is, Enron did not cause the California crisis. — Kenneth Lay
A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing. — Gertrude Stein
Money had never been the main thing for me. It's the legacy that was important. — Berry Gordy
The bikini is the most important thing since the atom bomb. — Diana Vreeland
Family is not an important thing. It's everything. — Michael J. Fox
The most important thing is to not stop questioning. — Albert Einstein
Loneliness does not come from having no people around you, but from being unable to communicate the things that seen important to you.
Focus On Important Things Quotes
Focus on what you know you can do. Know what you're capable of on any given day, and what you can count on. Do the simple things well, and then use the confidence to build up the rest of your game. Learn to differentiate between what is truly important and what can be dealt with at another time. — Mia Hamm
You simply can’t effectively focus on 2 important things at once. — Gary Keller
I’m going to say this a few hundred thousand more times before I die. Your mindset is the most important thing for you to focus on. And it’s about the only thing you have control over. — Peter Diamandis
Our lives begin to end the day we remain silent about things that matter.
The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence. — Robert J. Shiller
One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity. — Edward De Bono
Of all the things Christ wants for us, loving Him and focusing our attention on Him are the most important. — Charles Stanley
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
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
Journal what you love, what you hate, what's in your head, what's important. Journaling organizes your thoughts; allows you to see things in a concrete way that otherwise you might not see. Focus on what you think you need to find in your art. — Kay WalkingStick
Getting organized in the normal routines of life and finishing little projects you've started is an important first step toward realizing larger goals. If you can't get a handle on the small things, how will you ever get it together to focus on the big things? — Joyce Meyer
The first rule of success, and the one that supersedes all others, is to have energy. It is important to know how to concentrate it, how to husband it, how to focus it on important things instead of frittering it away on trivia. — Michael Korda
Make Time For Important Things Quotes
Stage acting is for me the basic form of acting. If you make films all the time, you have so few possibilities to rehearse. And it's important to rehearse, because it gives you the possibility to try things which are not good! — Erland Josephson
It was important to me that people know that you can make plays and raise children at the same time - for other mothers, for other parents, for other women considering having children and who want to be working and thinking and contemplating and making things while they're raising children. — Sarah Ruhl
I always say my God will take care of me. If it's my time I'll go, and if it's not I won't. I feel that He really has a lot of important things for me to do. And He's going to make sure that I'm here to do them. — Joycelyn Elders
In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how greatly you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you.
I think what we do is really, at times, a complicated thing. But at the end of the day it's so important that we make art for people that need to escape reality for a second. That's what music has always been for me. It's been a way to tap out of what's going on in my personal life. — Bethany Cosentino
That's one of the main things I do, work with choreographers. I've been doing it a long time, and it's a real important part of my life as a soundmaker, making music for dance. — Zeena Parkins
My education is the most important thing so I always have to make time for it. — Jackson Guthy
The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.
I learned from Ridley [Scott] how to come out of the trailer at a fast walk and make your decisions and keep it going. We were very much on time and under budget, as they say. That was a very important thing for me and very satisfactory. — William Monahan
It is vitally important that you prioritize your film and use your time and energy and resources to make it happen. Stop waiting for things to fall into place. Start doing things right now to make it happen. — Jenni Olson
We make time for what we truly value. We build habits and routines around the things that really matter to us. This is an important principle to understand as we seek to build our lives around the gospel. Do you want a cross centered life? A cross centered life is made up of cross centered days. — C. J. Mahaney
Make it plain that you have no time for war, that you have more important things to do....let the diplomats and marshals of the earth shoot each other. — Wilhelm Reich
Focus On More Important Things Quotes
I'm not promoting myself as the next great American driver, as some people are describing me. If that's what people want to call me, fine. But I've got more important things to focus on. — Buddy Rice
My marriage is the most important thing in my life, but in a weird way I'm able to focus on other things more clearly by having it in my life. — Max Bemis
Few things infuse a member of Congress with more courage than self-imposed term limits or an imminent retirement. The issues they choose to focus on in their final months say a great deal about what are really the most important issues in the country. — Tom Coburn
The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.
In America, there seems to be more focus on the idea that it's important to do things differently. In Britain, it's not an issue. — Thom Yorke
As an observer of markets - whenever everyone focuses on one thing - like Greece and Europe - maybe they miss issues that are far more important - such as a meaningful slowdown in India and China. — Marc Faber
I don't call cut between the takes - it's my way to help the actor keep focused. As soon as you say 'cut' you have 10 people jumping on them and everybody's trying to do a great job, and they do, but sometimes they forget that the more important thing is the performance, creating the performance. — Michel Gondry
Family is not an important thing. It's everything.
There are more important things to focus on in life than how you look. — Arden Cho
Positively inclined people see everything in their right proportions. They put right things into perspective and are not envious of others. They attach importance to those things that give meaning to daily life, but they tend to focus more on others than themselves — Herman Van Rompuy
Life's Important Things Quotes
The most important thing in your life is not what you do; it's who you become. That's what you will take into eternity. — Dallas Willard
Giving kids clothes and food is one thing, but it's much more important to teach them that other people besides themselves are important and that the best thing they can do with their lives is to use them in the service of other people. — Dolores Huerta
The most important thing to do in your life is to not interfere with somebody else's life. — Frank Zappa
Time has a way of showing us what really matters in life.
Keep a good heart. That's the most important thing in life. It's not how much money you make or what you can acquire. The art of it is to keep a good heart. — Joni Mitchell
I think it's so foolish for people to want to be happy. Happy is so momentary--you're happy for an instant and then you start thinking again. Interest is the most important thing in life; happiness is temporary, but interest is continuous. — Georgia O'Keeffe
Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday. — John Wayne
Don't forget, it's the little things that matter.
The most important thing to remember is that you can wear all the greatest clothes and all the greatest shoes, but you’ve got to have a good spirit on the inside. That’s what’s really going to make you look like you’re ready to rock the world. — Alicia Keys
The greatest thing about having a child is putting yourself second in your own life. It's a massive gift to be able to say you're not the most important person to yourself. — Louis C. K.
I'd make a White Stripes record right now. I'd be in the White Stripes for the rest of my life. That band is the most challenging, important, fulfilling thing ever to happen to me. I wish it was still here. It's something I really, really miss. — Jack White
Figure out who you are separate from your family, and the man or woman you're in a relationship with. Find who you are in this world and what you need to feel good alone. I think that's the most important thing in life. Find a sense of self because with that, you can do anything else. — Angelina Jolie
The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well. — Pierre de Coubertin
The first and the most important thing is to know that life is one and immortal. Only the forms, countless in number, are transient and brittle. The life everlasting is independent of any form but manifests itself in all forms. Life then does not die... but the forms are dissolved. — Sri Aurobindo
The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.
The most important thing, the biggest love of my life, is my snooker. Ive never been so emotionally ingrained in something - in a person, an object, anything - as I have in snooker. — Ronnie O'Sullivan
Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important. — Stephen Covey
Of the five most important things in life, health is first, education or knowledge is second, and wealth is third. I forget the other two. — Chuck Berry
I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person.
Winning is the most important thing in my life, after breathing. Breathing first, winning next. — George Steinbrenner
One of the most important things that I have learned in my 57 years is that life is all about choices. On every journey you take, you face choices. At every fork in the road, you make a choice. And it is those decisions that shape our lives. — Mike DeWine
To lead the good life in New York, the two most important things for a woman are a chauffeur and a fur-lined raincoat. If you have those two things, you’re made. — Iris Apfel
The single most important thing in life is to believe in yourself regardless of what everyone else says. — Hikaru Nakamura
Important Things In Your Life Quotes
Live life to the fullest. You have to color outside the lines once in a while if you want to make your life a masterpiece. Laugh some every day. Keep growing, keep dreaming, keep following your heart. The important thing is not to stop questioning. — Albert Einstein
The best things in life are free. And it is important never to lose sight of that. So look around you. Wherever you see friendship, loyalty, laughter, and love...there is your treasure. — Neale Donald Walsch
The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles. — Sayings
The most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and to not give in to peer pressure to try to be something that you're not. — Ellen DeGeneres
I believe that one of the most important things to learn in life is that you can make a difference in your community no matter who you are or where you live. — Rosalynn Carter
You look at things you enjoy in your life, but much more important is what you can do to make the world a better place. — Paul Allen
Everything in high school seems like the most important thing that's ever happened in your life. It's not. You'll get out of high school and you never see those people again. All the people who torment and press you won't make a difference in your life in the long haul. — Mark Hoppus
I think the most important thing in life is self-love, because if you don't have self-love, and respect for everything about your own body, your own soul, your own capsule, then how can you have an authentic relationship with anyone else? — Shailene Woodley
If you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you'll spend your life completely wasting your time. You'll be doing things you don't like doing in order to go on living, that is to go on doing thing you don't like doing, which is stupid. — Alan Watts
Never sacrifice your family. They are the most important thing in life. — James May
Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten. — Chinua Achebe
Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible in us be found. — Pema Chodron
Living fire begets cold, impotent ash. — Chinua Achebe
There is no story that is not true, [...] The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others. — Chinua Achebe
No matter how prosperous a man was, if he was unable to rule his women and his children (and especially his women) he was not really a man. — Chinua Achebe
An old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb — Chinua Achebe
Significant Things Quotes
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
The little boy nodded at the peony and the peony seemed to nod back. The little boy was neat, clean and pretty. The peony was unchaste, dishevelled as peonies must be, and at the height of its beauty.(...) Every hour is filled with such moments, big with significance for someone. — Robertson Davies
Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance, to sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal. — Abraham Joshua Heschel
Life is too short to waste time on things that have no lasting significance. — T. B. Joshua
Don’t ignore the small things — the kite flies because of its tail. — American Proverbs
I used to like fishing because I thought it had some larger significance. Now I like fishing because it's the one thing I can think of that probably doesn't. — John Gierach
I'm definitely scared about newspapers. The problem is nobody wants to catch a falling knife, and nobody knows where things will stabilize. The value of newspapers has dropped significantly. I think we still have more pain to be felt. — Jared Kushner
Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things. — Rem Koolhaas
I’ve learned many things from him [George Soros], but perhaps the most significant is that it’s not whether you’re right or wrong that’s important, but how much money you make when you’re right and how much you lose when you’re wrong. — Stanley Druckenmiller
We're at unique point in history where the things that we are building are going to significantly impact our social, political, economical, and personal lives. — Anita Borg
Key Things Quotes
Do the right thing because it is right. — Immanuel Kant
Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you. — Mary Lou Retton
An observer of men who finds himself steadily repelled by some apparently trifling thing in a stranger is right to give it great weight. It may be the clue to the whole mystery. A hair or two will show where a lion is hidden. A very little key will open a very heavy door. — Charles Dickens
Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists - with it all things are possible. — Ida Tarbell
Reading is the key that opens doors to many good things in life. Reading shaped my dreams, and more reading helped me make my dreams come true. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Attention is the key to life. Whatever you really give your attention to, you become. Whatever you really concentrate upon will come into your life. We grow into the thing that fills our thoughts as inevitably as the stream merges into the ocean at last. — Emmet Fox
I wish I could remember where I put things. I spend half my life looking for my keys. With the other half I look for my glasses. — Sara Paretsky
Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity. — W. Clement Stone
The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have. — Randy Pausch
To me, that's the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That's the basic, ultimate freedom. — Jerry Garcia
God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof. You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole. — Ramakrishna
From all these experiences the most important thing I have learned is that legibility and beauty stand close together and that type design, in its restraint, should be only felt but not perceived by the reader. — Adrian Frutiger
If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together... there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart... I'll always be with you. — A. A. Milne
It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there'll be any fruit. But that doesn't mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result. — Mahatma Gandhi
The most important thing is to have a good relationship with the bike... you have to understand what she wants. I think of a motorcycle as a woman, and I know that sounds silly, but it's true. — Valentino Rossi
Effort is one of those things that gives meaning to life. Effort means you care about something, that something is important to you and you are willing to work for it. — Carol S. Dweck
You can be everything in life but the important thing is to be a good person. — Shams Tabrizi
The most important thing about marriage is that the man must not let the woman feel downtrodden simply because she is a woman and he is a man. — Saddam Hussein
Money is not the most important thing in the world. Love is. Fortunately, I love money. — Jackie Mason
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. — Theodore Hesburgh
The only thing of real importance that leaders do is to create and manage culture. If you do not manage culture, it manages you, and you may not even be aware of the extent to which this is happening. — Edgar Schein
I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're Doing Something. — Neil Gaiman
Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing. — Georgia O'Keeffe
There is no amount of darkness that can extinguish the inner light. The important thing is not to spend our lives trying to control the environment around us. The task is to control the environment within us. — Joan D. Chittister
What's important is that you stay true to yourself. Because when you enter the real world, the most valuable thing you can bring is all your you-ness. The world doesn't need any more hot chicks or tough guys or smooth talkers - the world needs more you. And don't let anyone tell you otherwise. — Bo Burnham
Perspective. You start looking at things differently, like everything's not so important. You don't take things so personally. Everyone changes, becomes better people. We all should get that chance. — Tupac Shakur
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