Importance Quotes

Drama is very important in life: You have to come on with a bang. You never want to go out with a whimper.

Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.

I think every player should think that he’s a difference maker.

I think in any movement, for human rights, you’ve got to transcend gender, and you’ve got to consider who’s making the accusation and why and when, because it matters.

And that’s always the question. Will you matter when it’s all over? Not the things you’ve done, the things you’ve done for everyone else, but will you actually matter to them? But most of all to you?

Don’t undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.

The man who is denied the opportunity of making decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take. He becomes fussy about filing, keen on seeing that pencils are sharpened, eager to ensure that the windows are open (or shut) and apt to use two or three different-colored inks.

When something important is going on, silence is a lie.

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.