“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.” ThinkingWantImportantCharacterStoriesShowsCareWeekBalanceDramaHorrorImportant ThingsCompellingTrickyGreat Character Author:Oren Peli
“I think it's important that campaigns be aired all the way through, that people aren't voting three weeks before, before debates are held.” PeopleThinkingWayImportantThreeWeekCampaignsDebateVoting Author:Judy Woodruff
“Fashion Week is so important for designers.” ImportantWeekFashionDesignerFashion Week Author:Diane von Furstenberg
“The important task rarely must be done today, or even this week...But the urgent task calls for instant action...The momentary appeal of these tasks seems irresistible and important, and they devour our energy. But in the light of time's perspective, their deceptive prominence fades; with a sense of loss we recall the vital tasks we pushed aside. We realize we've become slaves to the tyranny of the urgent.” ImportantDoneLightSeemsMotivationalTodayActionEnergyRealizingLossWeekPerspectiveTasksSlaveTyrannyAppealsInstantFadesRecallsUrgentIrresistibleMomentaryDeceptiveProminence Author:Charles Hummel
“Note-taking is important to me: a week's worth of reading notes (or "thoughts I had in the shower" notes) is cumulatively more interesting than anything I might be able to come up with on a single given day.” ImportantMightAbleReadingGivenInterestingWeekNotesCome UpShowersNote Taking Author:Teju Cole
“Consider for a moment what you pay attention to all day long. What seems important to you, what do you take for granted and hardly attend to at all? Write it down. Do not judge your answers. Be honest and simple. As you keep track all week long, you'll be amazed at what claims your attention, what you give your precious life force to.” GivingWritingLongImportantMomentsSeemsForceSimpleAnswersPayAttentionWeekHonestHonestyJudgingClaimsTrackGrantedBeing HonestPay AttentionAmazedDo Not JudgePrecious Life Author:Brenda Shoshanna
“There are these important things in some people's lives that can make you laugh even when you're going through a tough time or a stressful week.” PeopleImportantLaughingWeekToughImportant ThingsTough TimesStressfulMake You Laugh Author:Gillian Jacobs
“There is no real magic to being a good leader. But at the end of every week, you have to spend your time around the things that are really important: setting priorities, measuring outcomes, and rewarding them.” ImportantRealEndsLeaderMagicWeekPrioritiesSettingSettingsOutcomesMeasuringGood LeaderBeing A Good Leader Author:Jeffrey R. Immelt
“My favorite word is clarity...clarity...clarity. And the critical clarity is what is the transformation that is going to take place in the customer's life or work when they buy and use your product? And how profound is that? How important is that? You know the old saying, "If you could come up with a cure for cancer you'd be a billionaire by the end of the week" because of that profound result.” IfsKnowsImportantEndsUseResultsWeekProductsTransformationProfoundMy FavoriteCancerCome UpCriticalCustomersCuresClarityBillionaireOld SayingFavorite Words Author:Brian Tracy
“In the weeks prior to the war to liberate Afghanistan, a good friend of mine would ask me almost every day, “Why aren't we killing people yet?” And I never had a good answer for him. Because one of the most important and vital things the United States could do after 9/11 was to kill people. Call it a “forceful response,” “decisive action” ' whatever. Those are all nice euphemisms for killing people. And the world is a better place because America saw the necessity of putting steel beneath the velvet of those euphemisms.” PeopleWorldImportantWarStatesActionAmericaAsksAnswersUnitedUnited StatesSawsNiceWeekMinesResponseKillingAsk MeAfghanistanGood FriendSteelBetter PlaceVelvetEuphemismDecisive Action Author:Jonah Goldberg
“In a Time/CNN poll of 1,000 Americans conducted last week by Yankelovich Partners, two-thirds said it was more important to protect the privacy of phone calls than to preserve the ability of police to conduct wiretaps. When informed about the Clipper Chip, 80% said they opposed it.” SaidTwoImportantLastsAbilityWeekInternetProtectThirdsPolicePhonesPartnersPreservesPrivacyFree SpeechChipsPollsPhone CallsCnn Author:Philip Elmer-DeWitt
“It never seemed like that much of a mystery why shows I was acted in failed. When you're doing a show called Freaks And Geeks about young people in high school, and it's on Saturday nights at 8 and there's no promotion for it, it's not really hard to guess why no one's watching it. And when you're doing a college goofball comedy that premières three weeks after Sept. 11, it's not that hard to piece together why that's not the most important thing on the radar.” PeopleImportantHardShowsSchoolTogetherYoungNightThreeComedyPiecesMysteryWeekCollegeHigh SchoolImportant ThingsFreakSaturdayGeekPromotionSaturday NightRadarSept 11 Author:Seth Rogen
“There's a huge amount of pressure on every astronaut, because when you get right down to it, the experiments that are conducted on a space flight, or the satellites that are carried up, the work that's to be done, is important and expensive work, and you are up there for a week or two on a Space Shuttle flight. The country has invested a lot of money in you and your training, and the Space Shuttle and everything that's in it, and you have to do things correctly. You can't make a mistake during that week or two that you're in space.” TwoImportantCountryDoneSpaceMistakeWeekHugeAmountTrainingPressureExperimentsFlightExpensiveLots Of MoneyAstronautSatellitesSpace ShuttleSpace Flight Author:Sally Ride
“There are a lot of little tricks you can do to inject a bit more time into the day. Most important is limiting yourself to a 40 hour week, not working 50 hours or 60 or 70. It's just crazy. It's actually irresponsible to you and irresponsible to your family and friends. Why should your employer's profits be more important than your own family? You're not even going to get any of the profits - all you get is not losing your job. It's a very negative system.” ShouldLittlesImportantJobsBitsCan DoHoursWeekCrazyLosingNegativeProfitTricksOur FamilyMore TimeFamily And FriendsEmployersIrresponsibleLimiting Yourself Author:Tom Hodgkinson
“I do think that procrastination evolved in humans for good reasons. If you're trying to stay alive as a human being on the savanna 20,000 years ago, worrying about what's right behind that bush is a lot more important than worrying about what might happen three weeks from now.” IfsThinkingTryingYearsHumansImportantReasonMightHappensThreeHuman BeingsBehindsWorryAliveWeekYears AgoProcrastinationStaying AliveSavanna Author:James Surowiecki
“It's impossible to overvalue the importance of television - both in its serious and less serious functions. It's one of our most important ways of finding out the truth - and also of changing the world, and finding out what in the world needs changing. It's also an immense bringer of joy - I learnt how to laugh through television, and now my children and I, every day of every week, share the joy and stupidity of TV shows - they actually make us HAPPY” WorldWayNeedsChildrenImportantShowsJoyLaughingImpossibleWeekShareTelevisionSeriousTvsFindingsFunctionImportanceStupidityMy ChildrenChanging The WorldImmenseTv ShowsFinding Out The Truth Author:Richard Curtis
“The darn trouble with cleaning the house is it gets dirty the next day anyway, so skip a week if you have to. The children are the most important thing.” IfsChildrenImportantNextHouseFamilyTroubleWeekImportant ThingsDirtyNext DayCleaningSkipClean House Author:Barbara Bush
“I approach every week the same. I think I've always tried to be very professional to how I approach the game, my preparation. Every game is important.” ThinkingImportantGamesWeekApproachPreparation Author:Tom Brady
“Well first of all I was nine weeks pregnant at the time and no one knew it. So it was - it had a whole other meaning for me not just because I had to let the dress out, you know, every few days before the actual day. But, you know, because that was the, you know, more important than anything else that was going on in my life. But in terms of actually winning I think I had been nominated four or five times before then. And every one of my co-stars had won up until that point.” ThinkingKnowsFirstsWellsImportantWholeWinningStarsTermFiveFourWeekDressesNinePregnant Author:Debra Messing
“In a real world, the one outside the rarified atmosphere where Popes meet Archbishops of Canterbury, people no longer care whether somebody is an Anglican or a Roman Catholic. They already take it for granted that being a "believer" is more important than having a denominational name-tag any day of the week.” PeopleWorldImportantRealCareNamesWeekCatholicBelieverGrantedAtmosphereReal WorldPopeTagRoman CatholicDays Of The WeekCanterbury Author:Tom Harpur
“You need to update your blog a couple of times a week. You need to post a Twitter here and there. It feels so dumb to say that stuff, but it's important for me to keep that presence going.” NeedsFeelsImportantStuffWeekCoupleDumbPostsHere And ThereBlogsUpdates Author:Nick Thune
“Sometimes something as simple as going for a 20-minute jog on any given day is important. Keeps your body moving and legs from getting stiffened up from doing high-intensity workouts during the week.” ImportantSometimesBodyMovingGivenSimpleWeekMinutesLegsYour BodyIntensityWorkout Author:Jozy Altidore
“When you believe you have found an important scientific fact, and are feverishly curious to publish it, constrain yourself for days, weeks, years sometimes, fight yourself, try and ruin your own experiments, and only proclaim your discovery after having exhausted all contrary hypotheses. But when, after so many efforts you have at last arrived at a certainty, your joy is one of the greatest which can be felt by a human soul.” TryingYearsBelieveHumansImportantSoulSometimesFactsLastsJoyFightingFoundFeltEffortWeekDiscoveryContraryExperimentsRuinsCuriousCertaintyExhaustedHypothesisPublishHuman SoulConstrainScientific Facts Author:Louis Pasteur
“Most important, for openers, work six hours a day, seven days a week for six years. Then if you like it you can get serious about it.” IfsYearsImportantHoursWeekSeriousSixSevenYou Like ItSeven Days Author:Alex Katz
“I don't have a show anymore. I don't have a check coming in every week. This is important to me, I got to score a million tonight or it could all be over.” ImportantShowsMillionsWeekChecksScoreTonight Author:Bob Newhart
“I'm a little tired. I haven't been out for more than five or six weeks in the States, and that's really a lot for me. You know, to me, music is important, it's the way I make my living and I like it and I enjoy playing. But it's not the most important thing in my life - that's my family.” KnowsWayLittlesImportantStatesEnjoyFamilyFiveWeekHavensSixMusic IsMy FamilyImportant ThingsTired Author:Joe Pass
“I love to do Pilates, boxing and even just going on a run. I do cardio twice a week as it's important for people who want to eat lots like me! I do Pilates ones a week.” PeopleWantImportantRunningWeekLike MeBoxingPilatesCardio Author:Irina Shayk
“To me a translator is very, very important. If the fixer is also the translator, so much the better. I have known photographers who didn't speak the language and would work in a place for weeks without one, getting by on common sense and smiles. But how many situations did they miss because they couldn't talk to someone and get the back story on details, small daily life things, etc.” IfsImportantStoriesSpeakLanguageCommonSituationKnownWeekMissingPhotographerDetailsCommon SenseEtcDaily LifeTranslatorsFixers Author:Peter Menzel
“I think the most note-worthy part is that Stella [Mozgawa] had joined the band two weeks before we started recording, so that really influenced the way that the album was recorded. It was really important for Stella and Jen[ny Lee Lindberg] to lay down the drums and bass first for most songs, because they were determining how they needed to lock in together, and Stella was still kind of learning and figuring out her parts.” ThinkingWayFirstsKindStillsTwoImportantTogetherSongWeekNeededBandLaysNotesAlbumsWorthyLocksBassTwo WeeksStellaDrum And Bass Author:Theresa Wayman
“Daniel[her son] was without question the most important person in Anna Nicole Smith's life. From the time I met her, everything that she was doing was for Daniel. From the day Daniel died, Anna honestly was never the same. I would say that physically she died last week but in a lot of ways emotionally she died when Daniel died.” WayPersonsImportantLastsWeekSonMetsDiedHonestlyAnnaNicoleImportant PersonMost Important Person Author:Howard K. Stern
“I fly almost every week to and from Vancouver, so staying hydrated is super important.” ImportantWeekStayingVancouver Author:Danielle Panabaker