The coming week in The Hague may prove to be one of the most important in the three-and-a-half-billion year history of life on earth.

Perishability in a photograph is important in a picture. If a photograph looks perishable we say, "Gee, I'm glad I have that moment."

You can be stubborn and successful or you can give it up a bit and change things around. For me it's important to have a bit of both.

Texas has a lot of electrical votes. [During an election campaign, after George Bush stated that Texas was important to the election]

Many companies routinely do things that are not important. They fail to prioritize. They get involved with details that don't matter.

The conviction that Christian doctrine matters for Christian living is one of the most important growth points of the Christian life.

Cats appear to have a wonderful ability to weed out everything they don't need to know, while honing in on what is important to them.

I never, with important air, In conversation overbear. . . . . My tongue within my lips I rein; For who talks much must talk in vain.

It's important, when you see darkness, to understand that there's light ahead of that, and I'm the living testimony of that, you dig?

Each genre has something to teach me about the others. Not all the lessons are transferable, but many of the most important ones are.

What is important is not the quantity of your knowledge but its quality. You can know many things without knowing the most important.

The Buddha’s last words instructed us to be heedful—to see our actions as important and to keep that importance in mind at all times.

I think it's important we continue to find new ways for start-up businesses to get access to funding, mentorship and business advice.

Wherever I go meeting the public... spreading a message of human values, spreading a message of harmony, is the most important thing.

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

When you stiffen, you know that whatever you stiffen about is very important. The stuff is important, the fear itself is information.

Ocean rowing is very much what you make it. Rowing technique is pretty irrelevant on the ocean. It's the psychology that's important.

It's important that I make a difference in some way. It's not necessarily how I make a difference, but I want to make sure that I do.

I have to think it's possible to suffer a great wrong and walk away from it. To build a life of small, exquisitely important moments.

[A] journey becomes a pilgrimage as we discover, day by day, that the distance traveled is less important than the experience gained.

One of the first signs of being depressed is that you lose interest in things. That's why I think it is important to stay passionate.

I love lots of different types of music, but it's music that has this up-swelling of beauty and emotion that is most important to me.

I think that mathematics can benefit by acknowledging that the creation of good models is just as important as proving deep theorems.

As far as career goes, make sure you're in it for the right reasons - and make sure that the work itself is the most important thing.

I think it's better to not know certain things. It gives the world an extra bit of mystery, which is important to us as human beings.

The most important elements of faith [are] believing in something bigger than yourself, taking care of those less fortunate than you.

It's not irrelevant, those moments of connection, those places where fiction saves your life. It's the most important thing there is.

I had to get my camera to register things that were more important than how poor they were--their pride, their strength, their spirit.

We look back to the most important moment in our history, and that becomes the dividing line between what we were and what we are now.

It's important to understand the origins of ISIS were in the chaos of Iraq and Libya, and the origins of Al Qaeda were in Afghanistan.

Inflation has always been an important resource of policies of war and revolution and why we also find it in the service of socialism.

U.S. agricultural products, including safe, high-quality Montana beef, face unscientific trade restrictions in many important markets.

I read somewhere... how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong, but to feel strong... to measure yourself at least once.

This is why relays are so important, because you can find more in yourself for someone else, than what you can ever find for yourself.

The way I see it, commercial interests should manage a lunar base while NASA gets on with the really important task of flying to Mars.

The most important factor for the development of the individual is the structure and the values of the society into which he was born.

I thought film was more important than life itself for many years. But I was naive to the world until my first child was born in 1985.

We have lost a very important religious figure who dedicated his life to peace and justice for all. [on the death of Pope John Paul II

There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.

If we want to have the biggest impact, the best way to do this is to make sure we always focus on solving the most important problems.

You have to work with what you are given, even in Shakespeare. we have our form and it is important that we free ourselves through it.

At no period of the naval history of the world, is it probable that Marines were more important than during the War of the Revolution.

It's important to have a plan, a big picture. You can deviate from it or change it completely, but it gives you something to work for.

Poetry is important. No less than science, it seeks a hold upon reality, and the closeness of its approach is the test of its success.

Americans know very little about social statistics, but I am not sure that it's important that Americans know about social statistics.

I am very filmmaker oriented, as a producer. I think the most important thing is that you have to really choose the players carefully.

I will consistently strive to learn by what I hear, see, and feel. I will write down the important things I learn, and I will do them.

If you always tell people why, they'll understand it better, they'll consider it more important, and they'll be more likely to comply.

We have good corporals and good sergeants and some good lieutenants and captains, and those are far more important than good generals.

No communication technology has ever disappeared, but instead becomes increasingly less important as the technological horizon widens.

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