“If for you the most important thing is to make a lot of money, then you don't want to take a certain type of risk. If, on another hand, the most important thing to you is to make people around you have a more fulfilled life, then there is a different set of things that are important to you. Unless you really know that about yourself, you will never be able to appropriately assess risk.” PeopleIfsKnowsWantImportantDifferentHandsAbleCertainRiskTypeImportant ThingsAbout YourselfLots Of MoneyFulfilledFulfilled Life Author:Benjamin Carson
“The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brain and in your hands, wherever you go.” ImportantHandsHouseAbilityBrainImportanceImportant Things Author:Barbara Kingsolver
“Watch their hands, watch their eyes. Read eyes. No matter what a man is saying to you, it's not as important as what you can read in his eyes. The most important thing a man has to tell you is what he's not telling you; the most important thing he has to say is what he's trying not to say.” MenTryingImportantMatterHandsEyeWatchesNo Matter WhatImportant ThingsHis Eyes Author:Lyndon B. Johnson
“In my opinion it is harmful to place important things in the hands of philanthropy, which in Russia is marked by a chance character. Nor should important matters depend on leftovers, which are never there. I would prefer that the government treasury take care of it.” ShouldImportantMatterCharacterHandsGovernmentCareChanceOpinionDependsImportant ThingsTake CareRussiaPhilanthropyTreasuryLeftovers Author:Anton Chekhov
“I don't think I'm stubborn. I just focus on the task at hand and do what it takes. Persistence is the single most important thing for success.” ThinkingImportantHandsFocusTasksImportant ThingsPersistenceStubbornTask At Hand Author:Terry Matthews
“What if you can't do what you once did, like run and jump up and down? You can walk, which is also good for your mind and mental attitude. You can do simpler exercises, like getting up and down from a chair without using your hands. You can stay fairly flexible. The most important thing is to not become sedentary.” IfsMindImportantHandsRunningCan DoWalksAttitudeExerciseImportant ThingsChairsWhat IfFlexibleUp And DownMental AttitudeSedentary Author:Richard Simmons
“Theres simply anger over the accountability that Yelp brings and also this feeling of powerlessness because so much power is now being put in the hands of the consumer. But the important thing that gets lost with some of these business owners who are very upset with us is its the whole picture that counts.” ImportantWholeFeelingsHandsLostImportant ThingsConsumersUpsetOwnersAccountabilityPowerlessnessBusiness OwnersWhole Picture Author:Jeremy Stoppelman
“How is it possible on the one hand, for example, to behave as if nothing on earth were more important than literature, and on the other fail to see that wherever one looks, people are struggling against hunger and will necessarily consider that the most important thing is what they earn at the end of the month? Because this is where he (the writer) is confronted with a new paradox: while all he wanted was to write for those who are hungry, he now discovers that it is only those who have plenty to eat who have the leisure to take notice of his existence.” PeopleIfsWritingLooksImportantEndsHandsWantedEarthLiteratureExistenceStruggleFailingExampleMonthsImportant ThingsHungerHungryPlentyBehaveParadoxLeisure Author:Stig Dagerman
“But the only important thing in a book is the meaning it has for you; it may have other and much more profound meanings for the critic, but at second-hand they can be of small service to you.” MayImportantBookHandsImportant ThingsProfoundCriticsSecond Hand Author:W. Somerset Maugham
“The important thing is to learn from mistakes - something graduates are adept at. Our graduate engineers are working on new technology - from uncharted applications for our digital motor, to a new take on the hand dryer. With an unhindered mind, nothing is off limits.” MindImportantHandsMistakeTechnologyLimitsImportant ThingsDigitalApplicationGraduatesEngineersMotorLearning From MistakesNew TechnologyAdeptUnchartedInexperienceDryers Author:James Dyson
“The important thing is that he shook hands with us over the phone.” ImportantHandsFootballImportant ThingsPhones Author:Alan Ball
“The important thing when you are going to do something brave is to have someone on hand to witness it.” ImportantHandsBraveryImportant ThingsBraveWitness Author:Michael Howard
“The most important thing in making money is not letting your losses get out of hand.” ImportantHandsLossImportant ThingsMaking MoneyYour Loss Author:Martin S. Schwartz
“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
“Some kid can say, "Hey, I really want you to play my town in Switzerland, or Sweden, or Latvia," and they could have a fun night at the show. On the other hand, all those kids could have a record that means something to them in a more personal way a couple months down the road. The live band is a really important thing for us, but my focus is on the album now.” WayWantMeanImportantPlayShowsHandsKidsNightFunRecordsFocusMonthsCoupleBandTownsImportant ThingsAlbumsHeyDown The RoadSwedenSwitzerlandLatviaFun Night Author:Zachary Cole Smith
“Today again the teacher is the important thing, but on the other hand anti-Semitism is growing today. No doubt about it. All over the world, especially in Europe, and it's true they begin with anti-Israeli attitudes and then it's so strong that it runs over and becomes anti-Semitic.” WorldImportantHandsRunningTodayStrongAttitudeDoubtTeacherGrowingEuropeImportant ThingsNo DoubtIsraeliAnti SemitismAnti Semitic Author:Elie Wiesel
“And since our country's founding, we've tried to keep government's heavy hand out of our personal lives, while ensuring that we do the most important thing, which is to protect those who cannot protect themselves.” ImportantCountryHandsGovernmentProtectImportant ThingsHeavyOur CountryPersonal LifeFounding Author:Joe Biden
“I think it's a really important thing for women to be able to just put their hands up and go, I can't actually do any more.” ThinkingI CanImportantHandsAbleImportant ThingsHands Up Author:Caitlin Moran
“Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.” LifeInspirationalImportantHandsMotivationalHopeOpportunityPerfectInspirational LifeTomorrowImportant ThingsCleanAddictionProductivityYesterdayRecoveryThings In LifeMidnightMost Important Things In LifeClean HandsMy Cowboy Author:John Wayne
“[D]on't ever apologize to an author for buying something in paperback, or taking it out from a library (that's what they're there for. Use your library). Don't apologize to this author for buying books second hand, or getting them from bookcrossing or borrowing a friend's copy. What's important to me is that people read the books and enjoy them, and that, at some point in there, the book was bought by someone. And that people who like things, tell other people. The most important thing is that people read.” PeopleImportantBookUseHandsEnjoyHealingImportant ThingsLibraryBuyingCopiesTeensApologizingWhat's ImportantBorrowingSecond HandBuying BooksBuying Something Author:Neil Gaiman
“To me, all creativity is magic. Ideas start out in the empty void of your head - and they end up as a material thing, like a book you can hold in your hand. That is the magical process. It's an alchemical thing. Yes, we do get the gold out of it but that's not the most important thing. It's the work itself.” WritingArtImportantBookIdeasEndsHandsProcessCreativityMagicMaterialsEmptyGoldImportant ThingsVoidMaterial Things Author:Alan Moore
“The young all have the same dream: to save the world. Some quickly forget this dream, convinced that there are more important things to do, like having a family, earning money, traveling, and learning a foreign language. Others, though, decide that it really is possible to make a difference in society and to shape the world we will hand on to future generations.” WorldImportantDreamHandsYoungLanguageDifferencesForgetGenerationsShapesImportant ThingsConvincedThings To DoMaking A DifferenceEarningFuture GenerationSave The WorldForeign LanguageEarning Money Author:Paulo Coelho
“CHEERS, CARTER. At least you have the sense to hand me the microphone for important things. Honestly, he drones on and on about his plans for the Apocalypse, but he makes no plans at all for the school dance. My brother's priorities are severely skewed.” ImportantHandsSchoolPlansBrotherImportant ThingsHonestlyPrioritiesMy BrotherCheerApocalypseCarterMicrophonesDronesSadieSadie Kane Author:Rick Riordan
“Nothing can be defined or derided on the basis of its origin. The important thing is what is done with it and how far a community identifies with something that symbolizes its favourite way of dreaming, living, dancing, playing or loving. This is the positive side of the world: a constant intermingling that produces new responses to new challenges. But because of forced globalization, there's a clear trend these days towards uniformity. This trend comes largely from the ever-greater concentration of power in the hands of large media groups.” WorldWayImportantDoneDreamHandsSidesCommunityChallengesClearGreaterGroupsMediaProduceBasesImportant ThingsConstantDancingResponseDefinedThese DaysConcentrationTrendsFavouriteGlobalizationUniformityNew Challenges Author:Eduardo Galeano
“I held a blue flower in my hand, probably a wild aster, wondering what its name was, and then thought that human names for natural things are superfluous. Nature herself does not name them. The important thing is to know this flower, look at its color until the blends becomes as real as a keynote of music. Look at the exquisite yellow flowerettes at the center, become very small with them. Be the flower, be the trees, the blowing grasses. Fly with the birds, jump with a squirrel!” KnowsHumansLooksDoeImportantRealHandsNamesNaturalWonderTreeColorFlowerBirdBlueImportant ThingsGrassWildernessYellowExquisiteSuperfluousSquirrelsNatural ThingsAsters Author:Sally Carrighar
“I have always been interested in conducting research that yielded new methods by which to make cloth, and in developing new materials that combine craftsmanship and new technology. But the most important thing for me is to show that, ultimately, technology is not the most important tool; it is our brains, our thoughts, our hands, our bodies, which express the most essential things.” ImportantShowsBodyHandsBrainTechnologyMaterialsEssentialsResearchToolsMethodImportant ThingsDevelopingOur ThoughtsNew TechnologyConductingCraftsmanship Author:Issey Miyake
“What's the single most important thing to learn from an economics course today? What I tried to leave my students with is the view that the invisible hand is more powerful than the hidden hand. Things will happen in well-organized efforts without direction, controls, plans. That's the consensus among economists. That's the Hayek legacy.” WellsImportantHandsHappensTodayCoursesViewsPowerfulEffortPlansStudentsEconomicsImportant ThingsInvisibleLegacyOrganizedEconomistConsensusHayekInvisible Hand Author:Lawrence Summers
“When a Father takes the child by the hand, he takes the Mother by the Heart.... The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.” HeartChildrenImportantHandsMotherFatherCan DoImportant Things Author:David O. McKay