important Quotes

“There is nothing more important to true growth than realizing that you are not the voice of the mind- you are the one who hears it.”

“The most important conversations you’ll ever have are the ones you’ll have with yourself.”

You must never think of the whole street at once, understand? You must only concentrate on the next step, the next breath, the next stroke of the broom, and the next, and the next. Nothing else. That way you enjoy your work, which is important, because then you make a good job of it. And that’s how it ought to be.

“Tomorrow, the Beartown Ice Hockey Club’s junior team is playing in the semifinal of the biggest youth tournament in the country. How important can something like that be? In most places, not so important, of course. But Beartown isn’t most places.”

“Don’t kneel please. Sometimes people put people on pedestals so they can see them more clearly and knock them off more easily”

“The important part is to set an intention for your day and for your life. A daily mantra is one way to do that; another is creating a Leadership Constitution.”

“You is kind. You is smart. You is important.”

“The important thing, always, was to remember who you were.”

“It is difficult but important to believe that this precious pair may have been trying to do the best they could, considering the kind of people they were.”

‘Food,’ they said, ‘is the most important thing in the world. We love eating, and we mean to eat more and more.‘”

“She said that the more puffed up Pauline became, the greater would be the flatness after the matinées were over, and that then she would learn that most important lesson for an actress—that today’s success is easily nobody at all tomorrow”

“I flash to the ships of the air. But you are still master of the river. Quick, let your light shine again. Each to his own place, little brother!”

“I don’t know why, but it always seems very important that it should be sunny on the first day of a holiday.”

“The bridge wanted it. The man wanted it. The ships must need it still.”

“Observed from behind, however, you completely lose sight of the whiskers, and so fail to realize how immensely important they are.”

“Blinky Bill had water from the stream sprinkled on his head, much to his surprise, and the ceremony ended without any more interruptions. He was carried home again on his mother’s back, feeling very important after all the fuss and petting.”

“The object of all schools is not to ram Latin and Greek into boys, but to make them good English boys, good future citizens; and by far the most important part of that work must be done, or not done, out of school hours. To leave it, therefore, in the hands of inferior men, is just giving up the highest and hardest part of the work of education. Were I a private school-master, I should say, Let who will hear the boys their lessons, but let me live with them when they are at play and rest.”

“I love the way library books smell: more important than regular books, a grand olden-days smell, like the steps of a marble palace, or a senator.”

“I don’t believe that some people are more important than other people. We’re all very important in our own way.”

“I’m thinking of a queer feeling I sometimes get, a feeling that I’ve got something important to say and the power to say it--only I don’t know what it is, and I can’t make any use of the power. If there was some different way of writing... Or else something else to write about...”

“What the invention of oil-painting was to the Venetians, the face of Antinous was to late Greek sculpture, and the face of Dorian Gray will some day be to me.”