The vast material displacements the machine has made in our physical environment are perhaps in the long run less important than its spiritual contributions to our culture.
Lewis Mumford

Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.
Robert H. Schuller

If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.
Lee Iacocca

I forgot to shake hands and be friendly. It was an important lesson about leadership.
Lee Iacocca

The most important thing when ill is to never lose heart.
Vladimir Lenin

I hope to have communion with the people, that is the most important thing.
Pope John Paul II

Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act.
Jack Welch

The essence of competitiveness is liberated when we make people believe that what they think and do is important - and then get out of their way while they do it.
Jack Welch

I work very hard, but when God opens that door for you - when life opens that door for you, I should say - I think it's important to be giving, to return the love back.
Lady Gaga

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.
Brian Tracy

For a creative writer possession of the "truth" is less important than emotional sincerity.
George Orwell

We humans are an extremely important manifestation of the replication bomb, because it is through us - through our brains, our symbolic culture and our technology - that the explosion may proceed to the next stage and reverberate through deep space.
Richard Dawkins

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

"Sex" is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.
Marquis de Sade

In so many and such important ways, then, do the planets bear witness to the earth's mobility.
Nicolaus Copernicus

Taxes are important. President Bush's tax proposals leave no rich person behind. Voters approve of President Bush helping the kind of people they wish they were one of.
Andy Rooney

This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.
Virginia Woolf

The role of Rimbaud is one of the most important roles to play for a young actor.
Leonardo DiCaprio

Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.
Marcel Proust

It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician.
Meryl Streep