If the institutions of parliamentary democracy are worth preserving, the duty to explain them to the people they are meant to serve becomes vitally important.
Forgiveness is important in families, especially when there are so many secrets that need to be healed - for the most part, every family's got them.
Timidity prompted by past failures causes investors to miss the most important bull markets.
I learnt too late that what is most important to us is always most precious at the moment it occurs, and it is precious in its absolute immediacy and not as some vague confirmation of future directions; since the only certain fact, aside from death, is the flimsiness of everything.
The single most important key to success is to be a good listener.
The future cannot be legislated. All that can be done is to anticipate its most important movements and to clear the path for them.
I am trying to show the world that we are all human beings and that color is not important. What is important is the quality of our work.
The action movies changed radically when it became possible to Velcro your muscles on. It was the beginning of a new era. The visual took over. The special effects became more important than the single person. That was the beginning of the end.
Things are forgotten and then perhaps picked up again, if we're lucky, it lasts. . . if not, then it's in the lap of the gods. The important thing was to do some work that I liked and hopefully that some others might also like, whether for a minute, a week, a month, a year.
Everything that we do is insignificant. . . and. . . it is very important that we do it!
It's so important to consider this question: What do I desire?
Life is more important than art; that's what makes art important.
Private opinion creates public opinion. Public opinion overflows eventually into national behavior as things are arranged at present, can make or mar the world. That is why private opinion, and private behavior, and private conversation are so terrifyingly important.
It is very important and my success very much depends on the harmony that I feel in my private life. It is essential for me to be happy in my private life. And if it continues, I am able to continue playing tennis.
I prize my seamstress, I value my copyist; but my cook, who knows well how to prepare the food to sustain life, and nourish brain, bone, and muscle, fills the most important place among the helpers in my family.
In my mind, the re-election of Richard Nixon, compared with what was available on the other side, was so much more important that I put it in just that context.
I think it is important to help our country's image outside of Spain.
I usually draw in silence, but listen to music or public radio when I'm painting, after all the important decisions have been made.
I never, ever cheated [in medical school]. I don't condone cheating. But I would sometimes spread misinformation. This is a great tactic. Misinformation can be very important.
A lot of the changes are so gradual that they don't even qualify as news, or even as interesting: they're so mundane that we just take them for granted. But history shows that it's the mundane changes that are more important than the dramatic 'newsworthy' events.