“Most important thing, I am not a player who win the serves because I serve aces or free points, no. When I winning a lot of serves is because I am playing well from the baseline. That's why.” WellsImportantWinningPlayerImportant ThingsAces Author:Rafael Nadal
“What happened happened. Important thing is what can come.” ImportantHappenedImportant Things Author:Rafael Nadal
“The reality of Canadian history is that we've been willing to do the important things the world demanded of us: fighting in World War II, in Korea, in the Balkans, where we were involved in offensive military operations, and in Afghanistan, where we have made disproportionate contributions.” WorldMadeImportantWarRealityFightingMilitaryWillingInvolvedImportant ThingsOperationsWar Of The WorldsContributionAfghanistanWorld War IiWorld War IOffensiveKoreaBalkansMilitary OperationsCanadian History Author:Chris Alexander
“Luck is one of the most important things in the world and really has a role to play in everything, and in marriage, I've been lucky enough to be married to the same girl for all these years.” WorldYearsImportantEnoughPlayGirlRolesLuckyMarriedLuckImportant ThingsBeing Married Author:Stan Lee
“I think any comic book - or really, any book that you can read - in a sense is an educational tool in that it helps literacy. The more you read, the better you get at it. It almost doesn't matter what you read, the important thing is for young people to become readers.” PeopleThinkingImportantBookMatterHelpingYoungReaderToolsImportant ThingsEducationalComicComic BookLiteracy Author:Stan Lee
“I think no matter where we go in space to me the important thing is not only getting there and getting back, but it's also doing research, because that opens up as a possibility with that new distance of travel in space.” ThinkingImportantMatterSpacePossibilityResearchImportant ThingsDistance Author:John Glenn
“Breed is among the least important things about a dog. It's more important to find a dog with compatible energy and needs that will fit into your lifestyle.” NeedsImportantEnergyDogFitImportant ThingsLifestyleCompatible Author:Cesar Millan
“Some dogs could play fetch all day long, while others have absolutely no interest in chasing a ball. Some might love "find the treat" type puzzle toys and others may completely ignore them. The important things are that your dog finds the toy interesting without becoming obsessed over it, and that it is size and safety appropriate for your dog. A Chihuahua is probably not going to be a good match to a Kong as big as she is, and you wouldn't want to risk having your Malamute swallow one of those smaller size tennis balls.” WantMayLongImportantPlayBigsMightInterestInterestingRiskDogTypeBecomingTreatsBallsSafetyImportant ThingsSizeObsessedTennisAppropriateOver ItToysPuzzlesChasingFetchTennis BallsChihuahua Author:Cesar Millan
“The important thing when you are tied down is to continue to model Christ's love. This will ensure that your words, perhaps spoken long ago, will have fresh relevance, or it will help little ones to understand what it means to live the Christian life in days to come. A life well-lived in these circumstances can be hugely useful in evangelism.” WellsMeanLittlesLongImportantHelpingChristianChristCircumstancesModelsImportant ThingsChristian LifeTiedLong AgoRelevanceEvangelismLife Well LivedDays To Come Author:Mark Dever
“The most important thing we can do is to make sure that we've got very high standards, we expect a lot out of all of our young people, and we make sure that we have the best teachers possible in every classroom.” PeopleImportantYoungCan DoTeacherStandardsImportant ThingsClassroomBest TeacherHigh Standards Author:Barack Obama
“The most important thing is that I'm in a position to take care of my family and take care of my moms, man. I can take care of myself now and my mom is able to just worry about herself and do what she wants to do.” MenWantI CanImportantCareAbleWorryPositionMomMy FamilyImportant ThingsMy MomTake Care Author:Victor Cruz
“New generations are intoxicated with the idea that they can make their presence known on the Internet. When I was young, there wasn't anything comparable. Very few got their picture in a magazine, fewer made records. We have to stand back and let them get their footing. Hopefully they'll come to the realization that the most important thing is their work and how they conduct themselves.” MadeImportantIdeasYoungKnownRecordsGenerationsInternetImportant ThingsMagazinesRealizationHopefullyFewerNew GenerationIntoxicated Author:Patti Smith
“I've always said that the most important thing is job creation. Jobs will earn people money and build self-confidence.” PeopleSaidImportantSelfJobsCreationImportant ThingsSelf ConfidenceJob CreationBuilding Self Confidence Author:Aung San Suu Kyi
“The important thing is Burma needs to end the civil war and for this to happen both sides must want to end the war.” WantNeedsImportantWarEndsHappensSidesImportant ThingsCivil WarBoth SidesBurma Author:Aung San Suu Kyi
“The important thing is fear should not control your actions. It should not dictate what you do.” ShouldImportantActionImportant Things Author:Aung San Suu Kyi
“Sometimes one makes a distinction between urgency and importance. And while disasters are urgent, the basically most important thing is education. And that's what gives it ultimately urgency too, because unless you do it now, this important thing gets again and again postponed.” GivingImportantSometimesImportanceImportant ThingsDisasterDistinctionAgain And AgainUrgentUrgency Author:Amartya Sen
“Things can be really empty in this world, and I don't just mean the music world. It can become a very meaningless place if you don't really understand: Who am I? Why am I here? What am I doing? To feel fulfillment and have a deeper level of understanding, personally, that is the most important thing.” IfsWorldFeelsMeanImportantUnderstandingLevelsThis WorldEmptyImportant ThingsDeeperMeaninglessFulfilment Author:Alicia Keys
“The important thing is, that I guess I don't spend any time thinking about what I am or what we do means. I spend my time doing it.” ThinkingMeanImportantImportant ThingsMy Time Author:Jon Stewart
“I should say that Canada is one of the major criminals, not just the tar sands and so on, but even mining throughout the world, a lot of it is Canadian. It's extremely destructive, so an important thing for Canadians to do is curtail the predatory and destructive behavior of their own government and corporations. A carbon tax is one way of doing it.” WorldWayShouldImportantGovernmentTaxesBehaviorMajorsImportant ThingsCriminalsOne WayCorporationsCanadaSandDestructiveCarbonMiningPredatoryCarbon TaxDestructive Behavior Author:Noam Chomsky
“I thought clarity of communication was the most important thing in writing, and if you really cared about getting your idea across, you would say it in the most straightforward way possible. Later, in college and grad school, I came to realize that language is a technology like any other, and that it's always evolving - clarity of expression is always evolving.” IfsWayWritingImportantIdeasSchoolLanguageRealizingTechnologyCollegeExpressionCommunicationImportant ThingsClarityEvolveStraightforwardGradGrad School Author:Elif Batuman
“Balancing your ego is the most important thing, because success fuels ego - and that is not easy sometimes. When you're in the public eye, people see that as success and it's just not.” PeopleImportantSometimesEyeEasyEgoImportant ThingsFuelPublic Eye Author:Mary Portas
“The important thing in war is that there is an element of rage, but you must remain very distant from it.” ImportantWarElementsImportant ThingsRage Author:George Friedman
“I believe in the institution loyalty and love, to stay with someone in good and hard times. I don't think a piece of paper or anything else can force you to do that. For many people get marry is super important, for me, the important thing is finding someone.” PeopleThinkingBelieveImportantHardForceI BelievePiecesPaperFindingsAnd LoveInstitutionsImportant ThingsI Believe InLoyaltyHard TimesFinding SomeoneLove And Loyalty Author:Enrique Iglesias
“There are so many empty headed people in the fashion business who take themselves way too seriously and I don't think I am at all like one of them. To me there are lots more important things in the world than just having the right shoes!” PeopleThinkingWorldWayImportantFashionEmptyImportant ThingsShoesFashion Business Author:Iris Apfel
“First you have to know who you are. That is the most important thing, as if you don't know who you are you will either get swallowed up or you follow some unsuitable trends and just become a nonentity.” IfsKnowsFirstsImportantImportant ThingsWho You AreTrendsNonentity Author:Iris Apfel
“We have taken plants from the capitalist system where the most important thing was to produce, especially in Cuba.” ImportantTakenProduceImportant ThingsPlantCapitalistCuba Author:Che Guevara
“The linebacker has to make multiple, multiple decisions on every play. Not only what his assignment is and what the play is, but all the way along the line, different angles, how to take on blocks, how to tackle, the leverage to play with, the angle to run to and so forth, the technique. So many different things happen in a split second during the course of the play, just like it is for a quarterback. The more of those things that you can do right, slow down, get the most important things, not get distracted by all the stuff that's happening, but just really zero in on a target.” WayImportantDifferentPlayHappensRunningCoursesStuffCan DoLinesDecisionHappeningsImportant ThingsTechniqueThings HappenBlockDifferent ThingsTargetZeroSplitsMultipleAngleSlow DownDistractedQuarterbackAssignmentsDifferent AnglesLinebackers Author:Bill Belichick
“The most important thing in the professional wrestling industry in this day and age of technology and the Internet and social media is to be able to make wrestling unpredictable.” ImportantAgeAbleSocialTechnologyMediaIndustryInternetImportant ThingsSocial MediaThis DayWrestlingUnpredictableProfessional Wrestling Author:Matt Hardy
“A man I know who writes and aspires to be a novelist does very little reading, and he's not that successful. But I think it's because he's like the kid who wants to be a ballplayer and never goes to the ballpark or tries to hit a ball. So I'd say reading is the most important thing that I do, besides the actual writing. I'm always asking as I read, "How did the writer do this? Why do I suddenly have tears in my eyes? Why am I crying?"” ThinkingKnowsMenWantWritingTryingLittlesDoeImportantEyeKidsReadingSuccessfulCryTearsBallsAskingImportant ThingsNovelistsAspireBallparksTears In My Eyes Author:Robert Cormier
“A man capable of torturing another human being, even if he's scum, feels something break in him, the most important thing that he has, his humanity, his soul if you want.” IfsMenWantFeelsHumansImportantSoulHumanityHuman BeingsBreakCapableImportant ThingsScum Author:Saadi Yacef
“Whether it's a designer or a musician, I think the most important thing for people who express things are to be unique. There should be something unique only to them.” PeopleThinkingShouldImportantMusicianUniqueImportant ThingsDesigner Author:Taeyang
“We are all so immersed in our own technology bubbles that we're ignoring so many important things. We're all online arguing over nuance and nonsense, and everybody's so incensed and upset about things that ultimately mean nothing while we are destroying our environment. While we're racing towards Armageddon, we're all online arguing about what Beyonce said at some award.” MeanSaidImportantTechnologyEnvironmentImportant ThingsArguingUpsetNonsenseOnlineAwardsRacingDestroyingBubblesOur EnvironmentNuanceArmageddonBeyonce Author:Rick Remender
“Bolivia is in the lead internationally in talking about the threat of environmental catastrophe. It's generally true where there are indigenous populations, there are important things happening; where the indigenous populations have been marginalized or exterminated, things go to a disaster. This is true worldwide, and Bolivia is striking because it's a majority population and in the lead.” Has BeensImportantTalkingHappeningsImportant ThingsMajorityThreatEnvironmentalPopulationDisasterThings HappenCatastropheIndigenousMarginalizedBolivia Author:Noam Chomsky
“My musical style has changed dramatically from my first album until now. That's the real developmental shift. But my clothing has pretty much stayed the same. The important thing is to be real.” FirstsImportantRealStyleChangedImportant ThingsMusicalAlbumsClothingsBeing RealDevelopmentalMusical Style Author:Peter Cincotti
“The most important thing we can do is to make sure that we are creating jobs in this country. But not just jobs, good paying jobs. Ones that can support a family.” ImportantCountryJobsCan DoSupportCreatingImportant ThingsCreating Jobs Author:Barack Obama
“The important thing is to find what's unique about yourself, find what's unique about someone else. And embrace everything in the moment, as opposed to constantly comparing yourself and your lover and your relationship to a static set of expectations.” ImportantMomentsLoversUniqueExpectationsImportant ThingsEmbraceCompareAbout YourselfOur RelationshipStaticComparing Yourself Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt
“Whatever it is that you do, if you have that passion and desire for it, that's the most important thing.” IfsImportantDesirePassionImportant ThingsPassion And Desire Author:Doris Kearns Goodwin
“I think with Lyndon Johnson, the most important thing I learned was that he never had the sense of security that comes from inside. It always depended on other people making him feel good about himself, which meant that he was always beholden, continually needing to succeed. He could never stop. There was such a restlessness in him.” PeopleThinkingFeelsImportantSecuritySucceedImportant ThingsFeel GoodJohnsonRestlessness Author:Doris Kearns Goodwin
“I think the most important thing I wanted to say at various times to Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt was that it seemed so sad to me that - I really believe they loved each other and had a great deal of affection - but because of that early hurt in their marriage, there was a certain kind of distance from then on, until their deaths actually. So at times, I just wanted to push them together and say, "Come on, you guys! I know you love each other. This is crazy!"” ThinkingKnowsBelieveKindImportantWantedTogetherGuyCertainHurtDealsCrazyImportant ThingsDistanceAffectionVariousLove Each OtherFranklinEleanorSo Sad Author:Doris Kearns Goodwin
“When you are an historian, there's probably nothing that matters more than to be recognized by your colleagues in your own profession. I was lucky enough to win the Pulitzer Prize for History. I had to give a talk right after that to some young people. The most important thing to tell them, I think, is that you can't ever know that it's going to turn out that way.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayGivingImportantMatterEnoughYoungTurnsWinningLuckyImportant ThingsProfessionPrizeHistorianColleagues Author:Doris Kearns Goodwin
“I don't need to put extra pressure on myself right now. The important thing is for me to stay healthy, in practice, and just keep on the hours. You just never know when it's going to happen for you.” KnowsNeedsImportantHappensHoursPracticeHealthyRight NowPressureImportant ThingsExtras Author:Grigor Dimitrov
“Being aware in the moment of right now is just the most important thing. All of our issues come from us not being aware enough or not seeing through our problems to the depths of the issues.” ImportantEnoughMomentsProblemIssuesSeeingRight NowImportant ThingsDepth Author:Jaden Smith
“The way I generally work is that I do try to leave as many decisions as I possibly can to the day of, because it feels like that's where you're most in tune to what's going on. I sort of feel like my job is to be a conduit to opportunities, to maximize the creativity of the day itself - because that's when the cameras are running. That's the important thing to me.” WayFeelsTryingImportantRunningJobsOpportunityDecisionCreativityCamerasImportant ThingsTunes Author:David Mackenzie
“Salvation and Christ's love is a gift. You don't earn it. You've got to receive that gift. I think one of the most important things is starting off the day forgiving others and forgiving yourself. You learn from your mistakes, but I don't think you have to drag them back into today.” ThinkingImportantTodayChristLove IsMistakeImportant ThingsSalvationForgivingStartingDragForgive YourselfLearn From Your MistakesForgiving Others Author:Joel Osteen
“I think, when I started to become successful in the movie business, my mother was very, very worried. She thought no one would want to marry me and she thought that was the most important thing. And she thought that it would affect my personal relations. And she said how worried she was that people would take advantage of me or I would meet the wrong people. When I was made head of the studio, one of her first things was, "Well, now no one will marry you. I hope you'll be happy, whatever."” PeopleThinkingWantFirstsWellsMadeSaidImportantMotherSuccessfulAdvantageRelationImportant ThingsStudiosWorriedMarry MeBecoming SuccessfulMovie Business Author:Sherry Lansing
“I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.” ThinkingImportantSelfSuccessWomenAwarenessSelf AwarenessImportant ThingsChampionEmpoweringMotivational SportsEmpowering WomenWomen Empowering WomenWise WomenConscious AwarenessStrong Women And LoveSocial Awareness Author:Billie Jean King
“The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them - words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out.” ImportantFeelingsSeemsImportant ThingsSizeHardestAshamedTimelessDiminishHardest ThingShrinks Author:Stephen King
“The most important thing in the programming language is the name. A language will not succeed without a good name. I have recently invented a very good name and now I am looking for a suitable language.” ImportantNamesLanguageSucceedImportant ThingsVery GoodProgrammingStatisticsSuitableProgramming Languages Author:Donald Knuth
“Clinton has more important things to worry about. He not only risks being destroyed historically, like Afghanistan's Buddha statues; he also could end up going to jail.” ImportantEndsWorryRiskImportant ThingsClintonDestroyedJailAfghanistanStatues Author:Ed Koch
“God is always in my life, and that's the most important thing to me.” ImportantImportant Things Author:Lenny Kravitz