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

The direction and constancy of the will is what really matters, & intellect & feeling are only important in so far as they contribute to that.

I've got better things to do than to find my individuality in that particular area. But if it's important to me, I've got to seek my own path.

I feel that one of the most important lessons that can be learned is that what we "see" may be different than what is actually in front of us.

I like drawing. I like to spend the day drawing, the process is important for me. Drawing is a just a pleasure and it's nice to keep it going.

You have no idea how unimportant is all that the teacher says or does not say on the surface, and how important what he himself is as teacher.

It is important to see that, in the critique of ideology, only those interventions will work which make sense to the mystified subject itself.

You have to focus on what's important to you and go for it. But don't stab people in the back. It poisons your whole life if you're like that.

To ensure continuing prosperity in the global economy, nothing is more important than the development and application of knowledge and skills.

Listening is more important than talking. Just hit your mark and believe what you say. Just listen to people and react to what they are saying.

The most important thing to strive for in life is some kind of personal and professional achievement. Not as a man or a woman, but as a person.

Punk was originally about creating new, important, energetic music that would hopefully threaten the status quo and the stupidity of the 1970s.

It is not so important that many should be good as you, as that there be some absolute goodness somewhere; for that will leaven the whole lump.

We are committed and if we succeed we'll succeed magnificently, and if we fail it will be a magnificent failure. The magnificence is important.

If the market does indeed embody the sum of all human wishes, then the secret ones are just as important as the ones that are openly displayed.

And why the hell should you do a really hard, important job that you don't want to do? That has extremely high stakes? That just blows my mind.

Lou Reed is the most important definitive writer in modern rock. Not because of the stuff that he does, but the direction that he will take it.

I see so many talented writers who have difficulties with that. And if you don't believe it's important, you won't put in the work you need to.

For the Divine to function through you, it is important to make every breath, every pulsation in the body, and your very existence an offering.

But to me the actual sound of the words is all important; I feel always that the words complete the music and must never be swallowed up in it.

Fate and free will are equally powerful forces but I consider free will to be more important as it is your free will that determines your fate.

I want people to hear musicians like Joe Cuba. He has done things to whole masses of Puerto Rican people. The music is fantastic and important.

I felt it was really, really important, not just in the vein of feminist erasure or whatever but also just as an artist that I honored my work.

I'm in a state of my life when the essential is very important to me. I don't like long songs with complicated arrangements and breaks anymore.

The Sherpas play a very important role in most mountaineering expeditions, and in fact many of them lead along the ridges and up to the summit.

Some of us are going to play faster than others. Hitting the right notes and getting your technique right is so much more important than speed.

It is important to say "sir" at these moments. And if they ever call you by your first-middle-last name, you better watch out. I'm telling you.

I'm terrified of marriage. I'm terrified of not doing something so important and at the same time I think you shouldn't rush into these things.

The most important thing is to have the conversation, and let people who do make mistakes feel comfortable enough to continue the conversation.

Surround yourself with really good people. I think that's an important thing. Because the people you surround yourself are a reflection of you.

Make-up is the last thing to enhance your beauty, but it's very important because it builds up your self-confidence and gives you more courage.

These last years are as important as any that have gone before, nor will any other of our years vitiate or excuse them. The struggle continues.

The secret is to write just anything, to dare to write just anything, because when you write just anything, you begin to say what is important.

Introverts are capable of acting like extroverts for the sake of work they consider important, people they love, or anything they value highly.

It is really important (to win). It's always like, "You should win; you should win," If I win, I've proven (it) to them... It'd be pretty cool.

It's very important to me to find ways to relate the audience to the characters. This is the first thing to go in most mainstream horror films.

Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated. So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.

Except for children (who don't know enough not to ask the important questions), few of us spendtime wondering why nature is the way it is . . .

If we choose to ignore science and refuse to fund important scientific research, we voluntarily cede our place as a world leader in innovation.

Just, always remember that it's important to be your own person, and as you grow up, you start appreciating the things that make you different.

Many of the most important stories in the history of modern journalism have come from sources who have taken information without authorization.

Even though I’m pro-globalization, I have to say thank God for the anti-globalization movement. They’re putting important issues on the agenda.

While it is well enough to leave footprints on the sands of time, it is even more important to make sure they point in a commendable direction.

Technique isn't important. Technique is in the blood. Events and mood are more important than good light and the happening is what is important

I take more to the subject than to my ideas about it. I am not interested in any idea I have had, the subject is so demanding and so important.

The dream arises from a part of the mind unknown to us, but none the less important, and is concerned with the desires for the approaching day.

If we are moved by a poem, it has meant something, perhaps something important, to us; if we are not moved, then it is, as poetry, meaningless.

It's much easier to be convincing if you care about your topic. Figure out what's important to you about your message and speak from the heart.

Trends come and go, and style evolves. It's important to have pieces of jewelry that are timeless and look chic despite ever-changing fashions.

Google is in an amazing position to be the target of tons of lawsuits that will set precedent for many important things for us on the Internet.

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