Here we are, worrying about whether we’re thin enough or whether our bottom looks too big in this pair of trousers or even whether or not I should wear a hat – does it really matter in comparison to the important things that are going on in the world?
I wanted to make some of the really important things of my generation and some of the biggest.
I really do prioritise humour in people. It’s a sign of intelligence. One of the most important things I heard that moulded me was Derek and Clive. That sense of release when I heard them for the first time, crying and laughing, was akin to seeing Sonic Youth for the first time.
A three-to-six month course can give priority and direction on the five or six important things that entrepreneurs need to do first.
Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow.
One look at an email can rob you of 15 minutes of focus. One call on your cell phone, one tweet, one instant message can destroy your schedule, forcing you to move meetings, or blow off really important things, like love, and friendship.
If you’re changing the world, you’re working on important things. You’re excited to get up in the morning.
I think one of the important things that’s happened in the course of the century is that life expectancy has doubled.
Music is part of life. It is not the real life. I belong to that first: family, children. The important things.
Previous experience, key skills, and education. They’re undoubtedly all important things you consider when filtering through applicants in order to make a new hire. But, what’s another major determining factor of whether or not that hopeful interviewee deserves an offer letter? Cultural fit.
Venture funds get beaten up for not investing in important things. Okay, if you want venture funds to invest in important things, then don’t penalize or make fun of them when those important things don’t work.
Football is the most important of the less important things in the world.
Lowering the cost of prescription drugs is one of the most important things Congress can do to help people in western Pennsylvania.
The two important things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision.
One of the most important things that I want for my kids is I want them to live. You know, I want them to live to see 21 and beyond.
Christmas gives us the opportunity to pause and reflect on the important things around us – a time when we can look back on the year that has passed and prepare for the year ahead.
‘Life, Love & Hope’ is… I’m thinking ‘larger picture.’ I’m not trying to preach to anyone. We all get lost and caught up in our everyday problems. Your cellphone doesn’t work or you got a parking ticket, you had a bad day at work. You can lose sight of the really important things in life; that’s what the song is about.
Earlier, looking lighter or slimmer never mattered to me. Frankly, I didn’t care. I had more important things to do. But when I figured that it’s not that hard, and I have the time, passion and patience to take it up, I jumped onto the health-wagon. I started working out.
Clinton has more important things to worry about. He not only risks being destroyed historically, like Afghanistan’s Buddha statues; he also could end up going to jail.
Being halfway through my life, I think we start feeling less invincible and we start thinking more about the important things.
If you’re a friend or a relative of George Herbert Walker Bush, Prez 41, or George W. Bush, Prez 43, or any other Bushes, then you know an 18-hole round of golf shouldn’t take more than three hours out of your day – there are other important things to do.
Some leaders speak a lot in the dressing room, on the field and others do it with actions contributing important things in games, deciding big games.
The kitchen may not get cleaned, and I have to accept that. I do the important things.
Only one thing makes a man a man. He loves his wife, is faithful to her, and puts his wife and kids as the most important things in life.
As a mom, I always feel I have to protect them. I talk about them because they are the most important things in my life but they are private people. I won’t use them for my own press.
When you start living in with a person, over a period of time, you could start losing interest. That’s when you could lose out on important things and marriage is one of those big things.
One cannot spend one’s time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.
Empowering women is one of the most important things we – and indeed, every business – can do.
The best advice I ever received is that there is a difference between urgency and importance: Urgent tasks seem important, but they’re not. Important things need to get done.
One win more, one defeat more. There are other important things: family, friendship, values.
Kids don’t even read comic books anymore. They’ve got more important things to do – like video games.
That the poor are invisible is one of the most important things about them. They are not simply neglected and forgotten as in the old rhetoric of reform; what is much worse, they are not seen.
I think of the important things: how to prepare, how to practice, how to prepare to practice.
I had achieved the most important things in my life when I married Joan and had the sons. Given the choice between Joan and the boys, and being a writer, I world give up being a writer without a blink.
The two most important things in my life were academics and sports. I had to do my schoolwork first.
Compared to politics, I think sports is funnier, because it’s inconsequential. And politics can be real important and all that. The more pointless something is, the funnier it is, you know? And the more grave or important things are… You know, some comedians can get this disease where they get serious all the time.
There are far more important things in life than making a putt or missing a putt or winning a championship or losing a championship.
Here in L.A., you kind of get stuck in your own little dilemmas and your own little life, and hearing a story like Pocahontas’ reminds you there’s a bigger world out there, and there are so many more important things in life.
I still wanna rap better than everybody else, and I wanna say important things.
The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say – because they were too obvious.
I would say there are three important things about graphene. It’s two-dimensional, which is the best possible number for studying fundamental physics. The second thing is the quality of graphene, which stems from its extremely strong carbon-carbon bonds. And finally, the system is also metallic.
Deciding not to decide is, of course, among the most important things done by the Supreme Court. It takes a lot of doing, but it can be done.
I think the tennis is only a game. You can lose. You can win. After that? In life, there are much more important things than tennis.
We humans lack imagination, to the point of not even knowing what tomorrow’s important things will look like.
Well, one of the most important things for Americans to be reminded of is that a lot of the exceptional nature of our country is founded in Judeo-Christian values that promotes individualism, personal responsibility, a strong work ethic, and a commitment to family, charity.
I’m amusing and crazy on Twitter. I talk about important things, stupid things.
The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things.
The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings – words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
I think one of the most important things I can give my children is the right to be themselves.
Every museum is full of nice things. That’s the opposite of before. It was important things or serious things. Now we have interesting things.
I think you learn to value the important things in life.
If you’re going to have kids, there’s only one way to go. They have to know they’re the most important things in your life, and once you’re doing that, there’s no way that you could not learn from them, because they just give you stuff constantly.
Music is one of the important things for me in cinema.
One of the most important things for me is my family. You know, they keep me grounded, they keep me humble. They always made sacrifices with me.
Good governance, safety, a chance to grow economically and professionally – those are important things.
Hollywood is great for entertaining people, it’s a wonderful business but it’s make-believe, you must remember that. That’s one of the most important things to remember and the distinction in your own life, otherwise people get lost in their own fame, and it makes them unhappy.
What I look for in a role is a woman who is important – not on the sidelines, not arm candy: women who do important things.
I hate wasting time or money and that happens all the time for no good reason, and then people save money by skimping on the important things.
