“It becomes more important to me as time goes on to make every album the best thing I've ever done, so it's a lot of self-imposed pressure that also kind of slows me down a bit.” KindImportantSelfDoneBitsGoes OnPressureAlbumsBest ThingsTime Goes On Author:Al Yankovic
“I think it’s important that nobody forgets that although Hollywood commercially dominates the world cinema, in fact what comes out of the filmmaking here is only a tiny slice out of the massive amount of operation that goes on around the world.” ThinkingWorldImportantFactsForgetGoes OnAmountHollywoodTinyAround The WorldOperationsCinemaMassiveFilmmaking Author:Mike Leigh
“What goes on in this one little lifetime is not so important as you might like to think it is because you're in it. When you can see the larger picture, it's just a tiny breath in a succession of breaths.” ThinkingLittlesImportantMightGoes OnBreathsLifetimeTinyReincarnationSuccession Author:Frederick Lenz
“Personal matters have diverted attention away from the important work Sesame Street is doing, and I cannot allow it to go on any longer. I am deeply sorry to be leaving and am looking forward to resolving these personal matters privately.” ImportantMatterAttentionStreetsGoes OnSorryLeavingLooking ForwardImportant WorkSesame StreetPersonal Matter Author:Kevin Clash
“This novel has it all--mystery, psychological insight, emotional truth, and--most important--characters whose lives matter. You'll fall in love with these families. Solti writes with such passion it is inescapable, lyrical, and profoundly moving. The Forgetting Tree goes on my top ten list.” WritingImportantMatterCharacterMovingFallPassionForgetNovelMysteryTreeEmotionalGoes OnTenFalling In LoveInsightListsPsychologicalLyrical Author:Jonis Agee
“It's easy to be a bad ass, it's easy to act like a bad ass, easy to act like a tough guy, it's easy to be a diva, and it's easy to be self absorbed. The list goes on and on but to me, I always just find it more important to be nice and kind.” KindImportantSelfGuyEasyNiceGoes OnToughListsAssBeing NiceBad AssSelf AbsorbedTough Guy Author:Dwayne Johnson
“Liberal economists conceive of societies as black boxes connected by exchange rates; as long as exchange rates are correct, what goes on inside the black box is regarded as not very important.” LongImportantBlackGoes OnRateBoxesConnectedEconomistBlack Boxes Author:Robert Gilpin
“A lot of artists give up because it's just too damn hard to go on making art in a culture that by and large does not support its artists. But the people who don't give up are the people who find a way to believe in abundance rather than scarcity. They've taken into their hearts the idea that there is enough for all of us, that success will manifest itself in different ways for different sorts of artists, that keeping the faith is more important than cashing the check, that being genuinely happy for someone else who got something you hope to get makes you genuinely happier too.” PeopleWayGivingBelieveHeartDoeArtImportantIdeasDifferentHardEnoughArtistCultureSupportTakenGoes OnGiving UpChecksDamnDifferent WaysAbundanceManifestDon't Give UpScarcityKeep The Faith Author:Cheryl Strayed
“It's important to me that the reader goes on a ride with the characters, that you set context enough to know, "Okay, here's where we are in the world. Now we're just going to go inside this person's head, this guy's heart, this woman's ambitions and take it down to very, very small scale."” KnowsWorldHeartPersonsImportantEnoughCharacterGuyGoes OnReaderAmbitionOkayScalesThis Guy Author:Don Winslow
“Our father has an even more important function than modeling manhood for us. He is also the authority to let us relax the requirements of the masculine model: if our father accepts us, then that declares us masculine enough to join the company of men. We, in effect, have our diploma in masculinity and can go on to develop other skills.” IfsMenImportantEnoughFatherCompanyAcceptingEffectsGoes OnSkillsAuthorityModelsFunctionRelaxRequirementsManhoodMasculinityMasculineModelingOur FatherDiploma Author:Frank Pittman
“... The Book is more important than your plans for it. You have to go with what works for The Book - if your ideas appear hollow or forced when they are put on paper, chop them, erase them, pulverise them and start again. Don't whine when things are not going your way, because they are going the right way for The Book, which is more important. The show must go on, and so must The Book.” IfsWayWritingImportantBookIdeasShowsPlansGoes OnPaperRight WayHollowErase Author:E. A. Bucchianeri
“Furthermore, consider that as one of its most important purposes, stewardship of creation should sustain nature's worshiping capacity. The more I reflect on Scriptures and the more I sense how God thrills to the adoration He receives from all that He has created, the more I realize He has given us the awesome responsibility of caring for His creation so that it can go on praising Him until the end of time.” ShouldImportantEndsPurposeGivenRealizingResponsibilityCreationGoes OnCapacityPraiseEnvironmentalCaringScriptureEnd TimesStewardshipAdoration Author:Tony Campolo
“I think most children who are adopted ultimately want to meet their biological parents and often do. I think that is an important journey for children who are adopted to go on.” ThinkingWantChildrenImportantParentJourneyGoes OnAdopted Author:Madonna Ciccone
“When I turn in my list, obviously every record was important to me. I didn't just put records on there to put records on there. I was excited that "All I Do Is Win" could go on there because you hear it at the end of the game and that represents victory. That's undeniable. You can't hate on that, it's impossible.” ImportantEndsHateTurnsGamesWinningRecordsImpossibleGoes OnVictoryExcitedLists Author:DJ Khaled
“As the day goes on you get more and more tired. Even if people say they're afternoon people or evening people, it's always best to start out first thing in the morning with your most important task as opposed to your email, phone calls, or checking the internet. If you start out with that then basically you'll just do that all day long.” PeopleIfsFirstsLongImportantMorningGoes OnInternetTasksTiredPhonesEveningAfternoonEmailPhone Calls Author:Brian Tracy
“Of course love is a force in life. People will go on falling in love forever. And more important, sexual infatuation will enrapture everyone. Otherwise, no babies!” PeopleImportantFallCoursesForceLove IsForeverBabyGoes OnFalling In LoveInfatuationForever Love Author:Vivian Gornick
“The right thing to do is to thank them for their work, let people know that they're moving on, and ... you don't really have to explain all their personal details. It's more important to leave them with their dignity... and let them go on to live another day. Remember, what you say at that meeting, that's their reputation.” PeopleKnowsImportantRememberMovingGoes OnDignityManagementMeetingsDetailsReputationThings To DoRight ThingAnother Day Author:Ben Horowitz
“But the doctors in the past, as the review of the evidence showed, branded Jenner, Semmelweis, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Pasteur, Lister, Koch and Keen as charlatans...Napoleon said that war is too important to be left to the generals. We go on the assumption in the Senate that foreign relations are too important to be left to the diplomats...this question (on a novel cancer cure) is too important to leave purely to doctors.” SaidImportantWarAgePastLeftDarkNovelGoes OnEvidenceDoctorsRelationCancerMedicalCuresAssumptionReviewsSenateDark AgesHolmesDiplomatsCharlatansBrandedForeign RelationsPasteurCancer Cure Author:Paul Douglas
“To let go of the illusion that I'm in control is an important lesson, because I tend to be a person who likes to be in control, not only of my art but of my life and things around me, and it can be healthy up to a certain point, but at the end of the day, we have to go on faith and learn to let go and ride the wave.” PersonsArtImportantEndsCertainGoes OnHealthyLessonsLetting GoIllusionWaveLikesThe End Of The DayImportant LessonsLearn To Let Go Author:Lenny Kravitz
“My bodysuit is how I start everyday. I wear a bodysuit everyday of my life. It's how I start my yoga practice. It's underneath it all. For me, what goes under the clothes is as important as what goes on top of the clothes. It's a layering aspect, so it's inside.” ImportantPracticeGoes OnClothesYogaAspectEverydayYoga Practice Author:Donna Karan
“I know that the arts are important. I'm not denying that, but I can't associate myself with all the claptrap that goes on around it.” KnowsArtI CanImportantGoes OnAssociates Author:Anthony Hopkins
“Who creates a thing is not as important as what the thing is. Who created baseball? Who created basketball? Who created the space program? Who created - we could go on and on. We could argue about who created something. We all are participants in it.” ImportantSpaceGoes OnBasketballProgramBaseballArguingParticipantsSpace Program Author:Wynton Marsalis
“The vast majority of golfers don't go on to play golf as a profession, but they do go onto other professions where there will heat on them from time to time. Some people choke under pressure. If you have that as part of your character - that you don't perform well under pressure - it's really important for you to know that. The game teaches you about that.” PeopleIfsKnowsWellsImportantPlayCharacterGamesTeachGoes OnPressureMajorityGolfProfessionHeatGolfersChokeUnder Pressure Author:Stewart Cink
“Don't you loathe the word "workaholic"? It has nothing to do with an important thing, that you and your secretary are at the office until 6:30. But that's life, kiddo. 24-hour work doesn't go on in America. 24-hour work is what Italy and Holland did after the war. The lights never went out!” ImportantWarLightAmericaHoursGoes OnOfficeImportant ThingsSecretaryLoatheHollandWorkaholic Author:Diana Vreeland
“We [psychonauts] are all going to go into the books as pioneers, because it's too early for us to be anything else. There's no map, no finished database, just anecdotes of the crazy, crazy stuff that goes on. That's why it's so important to try and share [our stories].” TryingImportantBookStoriesStuffShareCrazyGoes OnFinishedMapsPioneersAnecdotesDatabases Author:Terence McKenna
“When I'm about to blow the candles on my birthday cake and everybody is telling me I must make a wish, I just go into a tailspin. I'm thinking: what do I wish?, and I just can't seem to think about anything. Then I close my eyes, take a deep breath and there comes my wish. I don't know how to explain what goes on inside of me, but that's what happens: breathing is the key to understand what's really important to me.” ThinkingKnowsImportantSeemsHappensEyeWishKnow HowKeysGoes OnBreathsBlowBreathingCakeCandleDeep BreathMy BirthdayMy WishTake A Deep BreathBirthday CakeMake A Wish Author:Kristen Stewart
“It seems to me that while it is very important to get a striking picture of a line of smoke stacks or a row of dynamos, it is becoming more and more important to reflect that life that goes on behind these photographs. (1935)” ImportantSeemsLinesBehindsGoes OnBecomingPhotographSmokeBecoming More Author:Margaret Bourke-White
“What's important to me is that [photographs] have the appearance of being documents of what goes on. I like the illusion of veracity, that they look like life rather than movie stills. I don't want them to look fabricated.” WantLooksStillsImportantGoes OnIllusionPhotographAppearanceDocumentsWhat's ImportantVeracity Author:Larry Sultan
“The important thing is first of all to have a real love for the visible world that lies outside ourselves as well as to know the deep secret of what goes on within ourselves.” KnowsWorldFirstsWellsImportantRealLyingSecretGoes OnImportant ThingsVisibleReal Love Book:Self-Portrait in Words: Collected Writings and Statements, 1903-1950 Source: Self-Portrait in Words: Collected Writings and Statements, 1903-1950
“It is important for everybody to insure that the process will go on, that the ceasefire will hold. Of course, there is no ceasefire against Daesh [the Islamic State], Jabhat al Nusra, and Al Qaeda.” ImportantStatesCoursesProcessGoes OnIslamicAlsAl QaedaIslamic StateCeasefire Author:Mohammad Javad Zarif
“The global warming is going on. These are not single cases. These are all part of a general way we've been looking at the world. As long as we look at the world that way it's going to go on. Because the idea that the important thing is for some people get rich while the rest of the people work for them is very deeply dug in...” PeopleWorldWayLooksLongImportantIdeasCasesRichGoes OnImportant ThingsGlobal WarmingGet RichVery Deep Author:W. S. Merwin
“One of the most important parts of the civil rights movement that people don't talk about was these mass meetings. It's like "Movement Church." It's a combination of the music of the movement and the church. Those mass meetings are where people got the energy to go on to the next day.” PeopleImportantNextEnergyChurchRightsMovementGoes OnMassMeetingsCivil RightsCombinationNext DayCivil Rights Movement Author:Stanley Nelson Jr.
“In medicine, we have invented an entirely new healing paradigm. Now we no longer simply look to the doctor and to medicine to heal us. We now recognize what has been substantiated scientifically everywhere from Harvard to Duke to Stanford - that the power of the mental and spiritual consciousness of the patient is as significant in healing as physical factors are. If we apply that same paradigm to politics, we see that the mind and the spiritual consciousness of the citizen are every bit as important as anything that goes on in the government.” IfsMindLooksHas BeensImportantGovernmentSpiritualBitsHealingConsciousnessGoes OnCitizensDoctorsMedicinePatientSignificantHealFactorsHarvardParadigmDukesStanford Author:Marianne Williamson
“There is still the feeling that women's writing is a lesser class of writing, that what goes on in the nursery or the bedroom is not as important as what goes on in the battlefield, that what women know about is a less category of knowledge.” KnowsWritingStillsImportantFeelingsClassGoes OnCategoriesBedroomBattlefieldsNursery Author:Erica Jong
“We have to know what is Buddhadharma and what is not Buddhadharma. It needn't go on forever. You don't have to spend 18 years at it. But still, a basic and uncompromised understanding of Buddhist principles is important. Very basic: the three signs of being, the four noble rruths, karma, and so on.” KnowsYearsStillsImportantThreeUnderstandingPrinciplesForeverFourGoes OnNobleKarmaBuddhist Author:Tenzin Palmo
“For me, it is important to not just tell the audience how the story ended today, but to give a glimpse into how other people's stories might go on, in the future.” PeopleGivingImportantStoriesMightTodayAudienceGoes OnGlimpse Author:Julie Plec
“I make a lot of pots in a year's time and some of them are good and some of them are mediocre and some of them are bad. If they're really bad and I'd be ashamed of them, I throw them out, but if they're mediocre and they'll serve the purpose for which they're designed, that is, a mixing bowl or a soup bowl or a plate or whatever, I sell them. And this income from the sale of these pots permits me to go on and make other pots. It's even more important now that I've quit teaching, because I do not have a teacher's salary to fall back on.” IfsYearsImportantPurposeFallTeacherTeachingGoes OnSellsQuittingIncomeAshamedPotPermitPlatesBowlsMediocreSoupSalaryMixingFall Back Author:Warren MacKenzie
“Tolerance has been a very important feature of Christianity from its very roots, despite all the other things that have gone on since. And that, I think, must be the global perspective. Tolerance implies more than saying, "Well, let the Muslims go on with what they are doing." It also means trying to learn something from them and adding that to your own tradition. That is the attitude I think needs to inform the global citizen of the future.” ThinkingNeedsTryingWellsMeanHas BeensImportantAttitudeChristianityGonePerspectiveGoes OnCitizensTraditionRootsToleranceDespiteFeaturesGlobal Citizen Author:Ninian Smart
“I always thought that I was an important musician. If you don't have that confidence, why would you go on and do it?” IfsImportantGoes OnMusician Author:Yoko Ono