The Most Important Quotes

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.
Robert B. Parker

Life, Important, Give

In the most important sense a creationist is a person who believes in creation, and that includes people who believe that Genesis is a myth and that creation involved a process called evolution and consumed billions of years.
Phillip E. Johnson

Important, Person, Sense

Wins are the most important measure for goalies, I think. Certainly it's a great accomplishment.
Curtis Joseph

Great, Important, Measure

Originality is, for me, the most important quality in a script.
Douglas Wood

Important, Quality, Script

Tone is often the most important part of a conversation - and listening is so much more important than what you say.
Hoda Kotb

Important, Often, Listening

The most important thing for anyone, I think, is to be engaged, whether you're an artist or a journalist is to be engaged in the process at some level.
Billy Bragg

Important, Artist, Anyone

It's been argued that of all the animals humans have domesticated, the horse is the most important to our history. For thousands of years, horses were our most reliable mode of transportation.
Elton Gallegly

History, Important, Horse

I think the most important thing my wife Cynthia and I can do for Kristen is to teach her how to grow up to be a woman and make her own decisions. Meanwhile, we sometimes have to guide her.
Kent McCord

Wife, Important, Woman

The most important thing a mayor does is hire talented people to run the city.
John Hickenlooper

Important, Run, City

I do have to earn a living, so I'm conscious of probable reactions from readers, but the most important one is still the awareness that if I'm not enjoying a story, the reader won't either.
Thomas Perry

Important, Living, Story

I think the tricky balance, the most important thing more than the horror is to have a compelling story, compelling drama, a show about great characters that you care about and you want to come back every week to see what they're up to.
Oren Peli

Great, Care, Important

One of the most important elements in teaching, conducting, and performing, all three, is listening.
Itzhak Perlman

Important, Three, Listening

I'm now doing three things: concerts, conducting, and teaching, and they each support each other. I learn to see things from different perspectives and listen with different ears. The most important thing that you need to do is really listen.
Itzhak Perlman

Important, Different, Learn

You know to me, being a good actor, the most important quality is you've got to love to play, and to just be open to anything.
Peter Berg

Love, Good, Important

Highly educated young people are tutored, taught and monitored in all aspects of their lives, except the most important, which is character building. When it comes to this, most universities leave them alone.
David Brooks

Alone, Character, Important

I want to continue to make beautiful movies. The most important thing is to be a part of beautiful stories, that's all I want. So I don't care if it's a Hollywood movie or an independent movie or a Spanish or American movie. I care about telling stories.
Melanie Laurent

Movies, Beautiful, Care

The most important thing is story-telling. It's as singular and old-fashioned as that.
David Soul

Important, Singular

They think I'm depressed because I look serious in photos. It's usually because I'm just nervous. But I've stopped dressing for other people. If I think I look good, that's the most important thing.
Rose Byrne

Good, Important, Serious

You know, I'm Australian, so I'm not too flashy or glitzy... I've stopped dressing for other people. If I think I look good, that's the most important thing.
Rose Byrne

Good, Important, Dressing

One of the most important accomplishments of the Caucus is raising awareness with law enforcement and communities nationwide on the issues of child safety and Internet safety.
Nick Lampson

Important, Law, Child

The most important thing in my life is my work.
Rod Taylor

Life, Work, Important

To investigate the history of man's development, the most important finds are, of course, hominid fossils.
Richard Leakey

History, Important, Finds

A number of scientists with greatly different backgrounds can come up with completely different assessments. The discussions or controversies are endless. Once a year, we try to bring the most important discoverers together to exchange their experiences and knowledge.
Richard Leakey

Knowledge, Important, Together

But I think that the most important thing was to really stop drinking.
Rick Allen

Important, Stop, Drinking

The choice of personnel, perhaps the most important choice (because 'people are policy'), never proceeds according to plan, but there have been some successful transitions that upheld high standards.
Richard V. Allen

Successful, Important, Choice

Politicians need a better understanding of global ecology. We need to be freed from our species-specific arrogance. No evidence exists that we are 'chosen', the unique species for which all the others were made. Nor are we the most important one because we are so numerous, powerful and dangerous.
Lynn Margulis

Powerful, Important, Made

Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher - the most important elements are colour, light and shadow.
Toru Takemitsu

Teacher, Important, Self

One of the most important improvements in the No Child Left Behind Act for migrant students was the requirement for electronic transfer of migrant student records.
Ruben Hinojosa

Important, Child, Student

Do we tend to recall the most important parts of a novel or those that speak most directly to us, the truest lines or the flashiest ones?
Julian Barnes

Important, Speak, Novel

And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition.
Karlheinz Stockhausen

Important, Become, Musical

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