“One of the most important things I learned is forging a rapport with someone at your insurance company. Know their names. You'll eventually get someone who will tell you, "This is how you do an appeal. This is what you need to say in your letter. " You can also always go to the ER to get whatever you need to tide you over for a few days.” KnowsNeedsImportantNamesCompanyLettersImportant ThingsAppealsTidesInsurance CompaniesRapportForging Author:Jenny Lawson
“Do one thing at a time. Start the day with a list of things you have to do, and do the most important things first.” FirstsImportantOne ThingImportant ThingsListsStart The DayOne Thing At A Time Author:Brian Tracy
“The important thing for me is that I try to understand the culture. Everything I thought I knew about the country was either through TV, music, movies or hopping in and out when I did shows. You can't just get the US through being in Miami, LA and New York. Middle America is the place to understand real America.” TryingImportantRealCountryShowsAmericaCultureMiddleNew YorkTvsImportant ThingsMiamiHoppingMiddle America Author:Dizzee Rascal
“We know that the two most important things in a child's education are a good teacher and an involved parent. You don't foster those things with a bloated federal bureaucracy - you encourage them when you support choice and accountability.” KnowsChildrenTwoImportantChoicesParentSupportTeacherInvolvedImportant ThingsAccountabilityBureaucracyGood Teacher Author:Carly Fiorina
“The most important thing was the creation of a... a standard, where hundreds of companies build hardware that can all run the same software.” ImportantRunningCompanyCreationStandardsImportant ThingsSoftwareHardware Author:Bill Gates
“Whenever I'm making music I'm always waiting for the shivers to happen - that's an important thing for me.” ImportantHappensWaitingImportant ThingsShiverAlways Waiting Author:Grimes
“Trans stories have now entered the mainstream in this fantastic way, but the most important thing is what follows from that is hopefully a shift in the experience of trans people - so that there's more acceptance in the culture to the issues they face and more support.” PeopleWayImportantStoriesFacesCultureSupportIssuesAcceptanceImportant ThingsHopefullyFantasticMainstreamTrans Author:Tom Hooper
“Ultimately, it's a really brave thing to do what makes you happy as opposed to what the norm, or the social norm is, and that's a very important thing for people to remember, especially young women.” PeopleImportantRememberYoungSocialImportant ThingsBraveThings To DoYoung WomenNormMake You HappySocial Norms Author:Mia Wasikowska
“My education is the most important thing so I always have to make time for it.” ImportantImportant ThingsMaking Time Author:Jackson Guthy
“Well, the most important thing in choreographing for a specific tune is to get the story line and try to make your movements, rather than just actual movements, let them become more or less a physical drama to, to what they were singing about. And uh, also, uh, honor the beat and the rhythmic pattern of the musical track.” TryingWellsImportantStoriesLinesMovementHonorDramaBeatsSingingImportant ThingsMusicalPatternsTrackTunes Author:Cholly Atkins
“For me, it's a way to find a fiction within a fiction. To find a way to uncover that blunder within the "lie," because when you look closer, every "lie" - and I say that with quotation marks - can be much more complicated. Because that is what fiction is: it's probably the least important thing in the world. It's rich, but it is put-on, it passes the time. It borrows from the world, but it does not invent it.” WorldWayLooksDoeImportantLyingFictionRichMarkImportant ThingsComplicatedQuotationsBlundersQuotation Marks Author:Sergio Chejfec
“For my mother, having a family was the most important thing in her life. In the Second World War, it was a challenge - surviving physically and mentally and finding somebody who you loved and who was willing to be with you.” WorldImportantWarMotherChallengesWillingFindingsImportant ThingsWar Of The WorldsWorld War ISurvivingSecond World War Author:Etgar Keret
“In my writing I'm trying to explore the violations people commit upon each other. And the important thing isn't whether I'm angry. The more important thing is, is it true? Do these things really happen?” PeopleWritingTryingImportantHappensAngryImportant ThingsCommitViolation Author:Jamaica Kincaid
“I think we're put out into the world to forge relationships with people. Those can be as small as buying coffee from someone or as large as a marriage. The important thing is that we try to make connections or have experiences with other humans. Otherwise what's the point of being on this earth?” PeopleThinkingWorldTryingHumansImportantEarthConnectionsImportant ThingsCoffeeBuying Author:Laurel Nakadate
“I feel that one of the most important things I can do is connect climate change to the values, the faith, and the issues we already care about. And if, in the process, I have to sidestep around some very explosive mines, I will do that.” IfsFeelsI CanImportantCareValuesProcessCan DoIssuesMinesImportant ThingsClimateClimate ChangeExplosives Author:Katharine Hayhoe
“As far as CGI and hand-drawn animation, I consider them both nothing more than tools for drawing pictures, the same as crayons or oils. Which is why, to me, the most important thing is what it is you are drawing, and in the themes that I depict, I think hand-drawing is the most effective.” ThinkingImportantHandsToolsImportant ThingsOilDrawingThemeAnimationCrayonCgiDrawing Pictures Author:Mamoru Hosoda
“I just know from experience that reading a funny poem aloud, especially at the beginning of a public reading, can have a certain effect. Somehow narrowing the spectrum of possible emotional reactions. So while I like it when people laugh at my poems, and I definitely enjoy being funny in them, I don't really think that's the most important thing that's going on, at least not to me.” PeopleThinkingKnowsImportantCertainReadingEnjoyLaughingEffectsEmotionalImportant ThingsReactionsSpectrumBeing FunnyEmotional Reactions Author:Matthew Zapruder
“The most important thing is setting up these directives for yourself. Like, "I'm only going to use these three colors - go!" That's why Einstein wore the same thing every day; you don't want to have to reinvent the wheel every morning.” WantImportantUseThreeMorningColorImportant ThingsSettingSettingsWheelsEvery Morning Author:Annie E. Clark
“Some people don't have a way of that catharsis and I do, so I'm lucky in that sense that people listen to my songs and enjoy my songs. It's a really important thing for me, it's how I channel everything. I don't really know what I'd do if I didn't write songs.” PeopleIfsKnowsWayWritingImportantSongEnjoyLuckyImportant ThingsCatharsis Author:Ellie Goulding
“The best thing that I learned from the best directors that I worked with is that the best answer wins. They are ego-less when it comes to doing the most important thing.” ImportantWinningAnswersDirectorsEgoImportant ThingsBest Things Author:Don Cheadle
“When a child or adolescent is troubled, the most important thing for the parent to focus on may very well be their relationship with their child or adolescent. Parents need to do whatever they can to make sure the relationship is strong.” NeedsWellsMayChildrenImportantStrongParentFocusImportant Things Author:Timothy Carey
“You learn to exploit genre for the more important things - to my mind - like story, character, image, language.” MindImportantCharacterStoriesLanguageImportant ThingsGenreExploits Author:Julianna Baggott
“I think the most important thing [for moms] is - I always liked help with feeding essentials like breastfeeding stuff, because it's really tricky.” ThinkingImportantHelpingStuffEssentialsImportant ThingsFeedingTrickyBreastfeeding Author:Kim Kardashian
“I think for Wes [Anderson] and me, the most important thing was James L. Brooks producing our first movie and giving us a chance to come to Hollywood, because without him, we might never have gotten the chance.” ThinkingGivingFirstsImportantMightChanceHollywoodImportant ThingsBrooks Author:Owen Wilson
“James L.Brooks is just a very original person. So that was definitely the luckiest, most important thing that happened to me [meeting him]. Then I guess also meeting Ben Stiller. He cast me in the only thing I think I ever auditioned for and got: Cable Guy [1996]. And that led to us becoming friends.” ThinkingPersonsImportantGuyHappenedBecomingOriginalsImportant ThingsMeetingsCastsCablesBrooks Author:Owen Wilson
“If my lyrics mean something special to someone... that's the most important thing to me.” IfsMeanImportantSpecialImportant ThingsSomething Special Author:Dia Frampton
“I think the most important thing is being in healthy relationships. That might be a weird answer, but I think emotional health is a big contributor to physical health. I think [having] good romantic relationships, but even friendships and family, around you and having strong, supportive people around you helps you have an overall healthy lifestyle.” PeopleThinkingImportantHelpingBigsMightStrongAnswersEmotionalHealthyImportant ThingsLifestyleSupportiveHealthy LifestyleEmotional HealthPhysical HealthContributorsHealthy RelationshipRomantic RelationshipFriendship And Family Author:April Rose
“I still work that expectation/disappointment cycle all the time. I think it is part of the human nature and I think the most important thing is not to judge it. We are human and we do have expectations and a lot of our expectations are often not met. It is a process of learning how to be kind and compassionate and loving to ourselves when we don't get the things we want when people, circumstances, and opportunities don't match our expectations.” PeopleThinkingWantHumansKindStillsImportantOpportunityProcessHuman NatureJudgingCircumstancesMetsExpectationsImportant ThingsDisappointmentCyclesBe KindCompassionate Author:Agapi Stassinopoulos
“I think the most important thing is how long do we stay in the disappointment. When my mother would see us wallowing in disappointment she would say, "change the channel." So I replace the disappointment with a new direction of where I wanted to go and how I wanted to feel. Also, when something isn't coming my way, I believe it was not meant for me.” ThinkingWayFeelsBelieveLongImportantWantedMotherI BelieveImportant ThingsDisappointmentMy WayNew DirectionsWallowing Author:Agapi Stassinopoulos
“I think spirituality is probably one of the most important things. I feel that I'm a spiritual person and as long as you're walking on that path, you have a communication with God - that's spiritual to me. That spirituality is something that emanates through all of us and is the source energy, and that energy makes everything stronger.” ThinkingFeelsPersonsLongImportantSpiritualSpiritualityEnergyPathCommunicationSourceWalkingStrongerImportant ThingsEmanateCommunication With God Author:LaToya Jackson
“Talking to someone, meditating, praying, or just plain crying it out helps. The most important thing after doing any of these things is to let them go. I focus on all of the many blessings surrounding me and all those I love, instead.” ImportantHelpingTalkingFocusCryPrayingBlessingImportant ThingsMeditatingMany BlessingsTalking To Someone Author:Betsy Landin
“Marlon Brando was the absolute opposite of everything they told me he was going to be, which is that he was a testy guy who wants to know that he's in control of everything. But, that's not who Marlon was. No matter what he did, the most important thing on his mind was justice.” KnowsWantMindImportantMatterGuyJusticeOppositesAbsolutesNo Matter WhatImportant ThingsBrando Author:Johnny Depp
“You're not turning the picture over to a system or a process, you are the process, and the most important thing is to have things exactly as you want them.” WantImportantProcessImportant Things Author:William Monahan
“The most important thing in art is taste.” ArtImportantTasteArt IsImportant ThingsAppliances Author:Sean Lennon
“Well, the most important thing a president will be is commander-in-chief. And that requires having an understanding of the complex issues on foreign policy. Foreign policy presents us often with hard choices, not black or white choices.” WellsImportantHardChoicesUnderstandingBlackPresidentWhiteIssuesPolicyImportant ThingsComplexesChiefsForeign PolicyCommandersCommander In ChiefBlack Or White Author:Marco Rubio
“She was obviously useful at the UN because she had a public persona before she ever got there. She was well known. She was a spokeswoman for many important things. When she got there, what she said was paid attention to, undoubtedly much more than would have been if just Joe Blow had been made our representative to the United Nations. In that sense, I think it was useful to have her there.” IfsThinkingWellsHas BeensMadeSaidImportantNationsUnitedAttentionKnownPaidImportant ThingsBlowRepresentativesWell KnownUnited NationsPersona Author:William A. Rusher
“I think the important thing to remember about the Japanese internment is the situation. We had been attacked. Maybe Roosevelt expected it - I rather think he did. I don't think he expected an attack on Pearl Harbor. I think he expected an attack on Southeast Asia. But we were attacked at Pearl Harbor” ThinkingImportantRememberSituationImportant ThingsExpectedPearlsAsiaHarborsSoutheast AsiaInternmentPearl Harbor Attack Author:William A. Rusher
“My family is not a distraction. They're the most important thing in my life.” ImportantMy FamilyImportant ThingsDistraction Author:Andrew Flintoff
“The most important thing of all is my parents were able to leave all four of their children better off than themselves. That story has a name, it's called the American dream.” ChildrenImportantStoriesDreamAbleNamesParentFourImportant ThingsAmerican DreamBetter Off Author:Marco Rubio
“The important thing is this Just because I'm doing well doesn't mean that they're going to do well if they get HIV. A lot of people have died since I have announced. This disease is not going anywhere.” PeopleIfsWellsMeanImportantBasketballDiseaseDiedImportant ThingsHiv Author:Magic Johnson
“And it sort of hit me that the very subject matter of the film that I'm dealing with is the key to the most important thing in our lives, and that's our relationships. And so we had done all this research showing the job of each individual emotion, you know, fear keeps you safe. It deals with uncertainty.” KnowsImportantMatterDoneJobsFilmIndividualDealsEmotionOur LivesSubjectsKeysSafeResearchImportant ThingsUncertaintyOur RelationshipSubject Matter Author:Pete Docter
“I do not put much emphasis on periods of meditation - if you do meditation, it's fine - but the important thing is to bring the awareness into everyday life, into every little action that you do, into the varied challenges of everyday life.” IfsLittlesImportantActionChallengesMeditationAwarenessFinePeriodsImportant ThingsEverydayEveryday LifeEmphasis Author:Eckhart Tolle
“In whatever way change comes, the important thing is to take responsibility for this moment. Then, life becomes cooperative.” WayImportantMomentsResponsibilityImportant ThingsTaking ResponsibilityCooperatives Author:Eckhart Tolle
“What's cool is when people send me messages or tag me in their photos, which definitely happens more after a project comes out. The best part, I think, is that the DMs and tags are always from young girls, and reaching them is the most important thing for me.” PeopleThinkingImportantHappensYoungGirlProjectsMessagesImportant ThingsReachingTag Author:Petra Collins
“One of the goals of scientific theorising is to develop concepts which are adequate to the phenomena under study. In my view, things should work the same way in epistemology. We want to know what knowledge actually amounts to, not what our folk concept of knowledge is, since, just as with our pretheoretical concept of acidity, it might contain all sorts of misunderstandings and leave out all manner of important things.” KnowsWayWantShouldImportantMightGoalViewsStudyAmountConceptsImportant ThingsFolksMisunderstandingAdequateEpistemology Author:Hilary Kornblith
“I think the arts should get big support, but my country has a lot of needs more important than film. Medication, education, food... The poverty is overwhelming. There are simply more important things to be attended to.” ThinkingNeedsShouldArtImportantCountryBigsFilmPovertySupportImportant ThingsOverwhelmingMedication Author:Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
“The most important thing is having the right mind - a mind that can see it. Once you have an open mind, you see a lot of auspicious coincidence taking place.” MindImportantImportant ThingsCoincidenceOpen Mind Author:Sakyong Mipham
“The most important thing is to be proud of the work that you put into something, and put the ego aside.” ImportantProudEgoImportant ThingsBe Proud Author:Alicia Keys
“The gender gap looks at this point like it's going to favor the president, particularly among white suburban women. I certainly think it's going to be an issue. But I think the single most important thing in this election will be turnout.” ThinkingLooksImportantPresidentWhiteIssuesElectionImportant ThingsGenderFavorsGapsGender Gap Author:Anna Quindlen
“This is naturally the most important thing, the dark traces left by the era of totalitarianism in the human mind, where is - are difficult to do away with. And this is a very demanding job.” MindHumansImportantJobsLeftDifficultDarkImportant ThingsErasHuman MindTotalitarianism Author:Judy Woodruff