"Being a songwriter, singer, and a great part of a unit is more important than being Joe Guitar Hero."
Read quote
54 likes
Important quotes
Important
11.5K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to Important
Browse quotes that often appear alongside important — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Important quotes (page 8 of 576)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"For me, thats one of the important things about cooking. What was good enough yesterday may not be good enough today."
Read quote
54 likes
"We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head."
Read quote
53 likes
"It's important to give it all you have while you have the chance."
Read quote
53 likes
"The true courage of civilized nations is readiness for sacrifice in the service of the state, so that the individual counts as only one amongst many. The important thing here is not personal mettle but aligning oneself with the universal."
Read quote
53 likes
"Only the small things in life are important"
Read quote
53 likes
"Security is still the most important issue facing Washington state residents and millions of Americans - the security of having a job, of access to affordable health care, of a quality education, and of protecting our homeland and defending our nation."
Read quote
52 likes
"We are so busy doing the urgent that we don't have time to do the important."
Read quote
52 likes
"Food simply isn't important to me."
Read quote
52 likes
"Peter Keating: "Do you always have to have a purpose? Do you always have to be so damn serious? Can't you ever do things without reason, just like everybody else? You're so serious, so old. Everything's important with you. Everything's great, significant in some way, every minute, even when you keep still. Can't you ever be comfortable-and unimportant?" | Howard Roark: "No.""
Read quote
52 likes
"It is important that spiritual advancement must keep pace with material advancement."
Read quote
52 likes
"That was Thorin's style. He was an important dwarf. If he had been allowed, he would probably have gone on like this until he was out of breath, without telling anyone there anything that was not known already. But he was rudely interrupted."
Read quote
52 likes
"You're too important to just... die."
Read quote
51 likes
"I still believe nonfiction is the most important literature to come out of the second half of the 20th century."
Read quote
51 likes
"The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are."
Read quote
51 likes
"There was a time when fast playing and fretboard pyrotechnics on the bass were important to me and when I am recording a bass track, that is still very important to me."
Read quote
51 likes
"It is important not to allow ever wider coalition-building to become an end in itself. As we saw in the Gulf War of 1990, international pressures, particularly those exerted from within an alliance, can result in the failure to follow actions through and so leave future problems unresolved."
Read quote
51 likes
"When you know what's important, it's a lot easier to ignore what's not."
Read quote
51 likes
"Every human being is trying to say something to others. Trying to cry out I am alive, notice me! Speak to me! Confirm that I am important, that I matter!!"
Read quote
51 likes
"I always forget how important the empty days are, how important it may be sometimes not to expect to produce anything, even a few lines in a journal. A day when one has not pushed oneself to the limit seems a damaged damaging day, a sinful day. Not so! The most valuable thing one can do for the psyche, occasionally, is to let it rest, wander, live in the changing light of a room."
Read quote
51 likes