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Attachment to food, greed and eagerness for it, making it an unduly important thing in life is contrary to the spirit of yoga.
Every sadbaka Is faced with two elements in him, the inner being which wants the Divine and the sadhana and the outer mainly vital and physical being which does not want them but remains attached to the things of the ordinary life. The mind is sometimes led by one, someUoves by the other. One of the most important things he has to do, therefore, is to decide fundamentally the quarrel between these two parts and to persuade or compel by psychic aspiration, by steadiness of the mind’s thought and will, by the choice of the higher vital in his emotional being, the opposing elements to be first quiescent and then consenting. So long as he is not able to do that his progress must be either very slow or fluctuating and chequered as the aspiration within cannot have a continuous action or a continuous result. Besides so long as thb is so, there are likely to be periodical revolts of the vita! repining at the slow progress, des- pairing, desponding, declaring the Adhar unfit ; calls from old life will come ; circumstances will be attracted which seem to justify it, suggestions will come from men and unseen powers pressing the sadhaka away from the sadhana and pointing back- ward to the former life. And yet in that life he is not likely to get any real satisfaction.
In Reconstruction in Philosophy (New York, 1920, p. 156), Dewey states "When the claim or pretension or plan is acted upon it guides us truly or falsely; it leads us to our end or away from it. Its active, dynamic function is the all-important thing about it, and in the quality of activity induced by it lies all its truth and falsity. The hypothesis that works is the true one, and truth is an abstract noun applied to the collection of cases, actual, foreseen and desired, that receive confirmation in their work and consequences". The needs and desires which truth must satisfy, however, are not conceived as personal and emotional (as with James) but rather as "public" in some not altogether explicit sense. Although Dewey emphasizes the functional role of propositions and laws (and even of sensations, facts and objects), and describes these materials of knowledge as means, tools, instruments or operations for the transformation of an indeterminate situation into a determinate one in the process of inquiry (Logic, The Theory of Inquiry, N. Y., 1938), he does not clearly deny that they have a strictly cognitive role as well, and he once states that "the essence of pragmatic instrumentalism is to conceive of both knowledge and practice as means of making goods -- excellencies of all kinds -- secure in experienced existence". (The Quest for Certainty, N. Y., 1929, p. 37.) Indeed, in his Logic (p. 345), he quotes with approval Peirce's definition "truth is that concordance of an abstract statement with the ideal limit towards which endless inquiry would tend to bring scientific belief, . . ." Here truth seems to be represented as progressive approximation to reality, but usually it is interpreted as efficacy, verification or practical expediency.
Light, as one of the forms of radiation, is in the view of theosophy an efflux or substance, ultimately to be traced back to a source or focus which gave it birth and from and through which it therefore pours as a radiation of vitality. Light, and most other forms of radiation, partake of both an undulatory and corpuscular character, for in one sense it is both, and in another sense it is neither, for its undulations or its discrete particles are merely the methods by which it subjects itself to human examination. In itself it is both force and substance, and as everything in the universe is in an unceasing state of vibration or constant movement, even a discrete particle — and an aggregate of discrete particles, because of their vibrational activities — is as readily conceivable as undulatory in character as corpuscular. The important thing about light is not so much its modes of motion or manifestation, but the fact that light is the vital efflux or substance flowing forth from a living being, whether microcosmic or macrocosmic. The same observations, mutatis mutandis, may be said of other forms of radiation — electricity, magnetism its alter ego, heat, and even, on far higher planes, thought and consciousness.
light, divine ::: Sri Aurobindo: ". . . there is a Divine Light that leans over the world and is not only a far-off incommunicable Lustre.” *Letters on Yoga
"The opening of the consciousness to the Divine Light and Truth and Presence is always the one important thing in the yoga.” *Letters on Yoga
"In the Veda the Cow is the Divine Light — . . . .” Letters on Yoga*
Positive and negative sides of Yoga ; The positive side of experience of the descent is the more important thing. If one waits for the lower nature to be purified entirely and for all time before calling down the positive experience, one might have to wait for ever. It is true that the more the lower nature is purified the easier is the descent of the higher Nature, but it is also and more true that the more the higher Nature descends the more the lower is purified.
The most important thing for this purifiration of the heart is an absolute sincerity. No pretence with oneself, no conceal- ment from the Divine, or oneself, or the Guru, a straight look at one’s movements, a straight will to make them strai^t.
“The opening of the consciousness to the Divine Light and Truth and Presence is always the one important thing in the yoga.” Letters on Yoga
To arrive at this condition the important thing is a persistent aspiration, call and self-offering and a will to reject all in oneself or around that stands in the way. Difficulties there will always be at the beginning and for as long a time as is necessary for the change ; but they are bound to disappear if they are met by a settled faith, will and patience.
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1:Next to love, balance is the most important thing." ~ John Wooden, #KEYS
2:The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do." ~ Kobe Bryant, #KEYS
3:The important thing is the mind. Bondage is of the mind, and freedom also is of the mind. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
4:Consider the Divine Life as the most important thing to obtain.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II, The True Aim of Life [7],#KEYS
5:The only important thing is to follow the Divine's truth with love and joy. My blessings
~ The Mother, Mantras Of The Mother, 9 May,#KEYS
6:The important thing is not to think much but to love much; and so do that which best stirs you to love." ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #KEYS
7:To want only what the Divine wants in us and for us, is the one important thing.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II, The True Aim of Life, [T1],#KEYS
8:But the most important thing for purification of the heart is an absolute sincerity. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - III, The Danger of the Ego and the Need of Purification, #KEYS
9:The opening of the consciousness to the Divine Light and Truth and Presence is always the one important thing in the Yoga. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - III, Kinds of Vision, #KEYS
10:The only important thing is the goal to be attained. The way matters little, and often it is better not to know it in advance.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II, True Aim of Life,#KEYS
11: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." ~ John Wayne, #KEYS
12:The important thing is not to think much but to love much and so do that which best stirs you to love. Love is not great delight but desire to please God in everything. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #KEYS
13:Since the important thing is to practise, it is in vain that one is near the master, if one does not practice oneself; no profit of any kind corms out of it. ~ Sutra in 42 articles, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
14:Summoning up the courage to take action is always the same regardless of how seemingly big or small the challenge. What may look like a small act of courage is courage nonetheless. The important thing is to be willing to take a step forward. ~ Nichiren, #KEYS
15:God is infinite, and infinite are the ways to reach Him. The important thing is somehow to cultivate devotion to God and love for Him. What is the use of knowing many things? It is enough to cultivate love of God by following any of the paths. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
16:Questions bring us closer to that experience, though they are often paradoxical: when we first ask them, the immediate answer is a conditioned response. To dig deeply into these questions, to look deep inside oneself, is its own spiritual practice. What is the most important thing? ~ Adyashanti, #KEYS
17:God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof. You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, [Gupta, Mahendranath], #KEYS
18:All visions have a significance of one kind or another. This power of vision is very important for the Yoga and should not be rejected although it is not the most important thing-for the most important thing is the change of the consciousness. All other powers like this of vision should be developed without attachment as parts and aids of the Yoga.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga - II,#KEYS
19:What you say is quite true. A simple, straight and sincere call and aspiration from the heart is the one important thing and more essential and effective than capacities. Also to get the consciousness to turn inwards, not remain outward-going is of great importance - to arrive at the inner call, the inner experience, the inner Presence. The help you ask will be with you. Let the aspiration grow and open the inner consciousness altogether.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga - I,#KEYS
20:But if it is the important thing, the only thing that matters, and if everything else comes afterwards, and you want nothing but this, then - this is the first condition. You must first establish this, later we may speak of what follows. First this, that all the rest does not count, that only this counts, that one is ready to give everything to have this, that it is the only thing of importance in life. Then one puts oneself in the condition of being able to take a step forward.
~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1954, 342,#KEYS
21:To learn how to will is a very important thing. And to will truly, you must first unify your being. ... And when you have a will, you will be able to say, say to the Divine: I want what You want. But not before that . Because in order to want what the Divine wants, you must have a will, otherwise you can will nothing at all. You would like to. You would like it very much. You would very much like to want what the Divine wants to do. You dont possess a will to give to Him and to put at His service.
~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1954,#KEYS
22:When one sees them thinking all the time about themselves, referring everything to themselves, governed simply by their own little person, placing themselves in the centre of the universe and trying to organise the whole universe including God around themselves, as though that were the most important thing in the universe. If one could only see oneself objectively, you know, as one sees oneself in a mirror, observe oneself living, it is so grotesque! (Laughing) That's enough for you to... One suddenly feels that he is becoming - oh, so absolutely ridiculous! ~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1954, [T2], #KEYS
23:
Sweet Mother, how can we find the Divine who is hidden in us?
... This we have explained many, many times. But the first thing is to want it, and know precisely that this comes first, before all other things, that this is the important thing. That is the first condition; all the rest may come later, this is the essential condition. You see, if once in a while, from time to time, when you have nothing to do and all goes well and you are unoccupied, suddenly you tell yourself, Ah, I would like so much to find the Divine! - well, this
- it may take a hundred thousand years, in this way. ~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1954, [T2],#KEYS
24:The visions you describe are those which come in the earliest stages of sadhana. At this stage most of the things seen are formations of the mental plane and it is not always possible to put on them a precise significance, for they depend on the individual mind of the sadhak. At a later stage the power of vision becomes important for the sadhana, but at first one has to go on without attaching excessive importance to the details - until the consciousness develops more. The opening of the consciousness to the Divine Light and Truth and Presence is always the one important thing in the yoga.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga - II, Visions and Symbols,#KEYS
25:For me everything in human life is mixed, nothing is completely good, nothing completely bad. I cannot give my entire and exclusive support to this idea or that idea, to one cause or another.
The only important thing for me, in action, is Sri Aurobindo's work, automatically my conscious support is with all that helps that work and in proportion to the help. And for the work to be carried on as it must be I need all collaborations and all helps, I cannot accept only this one or that one and reject the others. I cannot belong to this party or that party. I belong to the Divine alone and my action upon earth is and will always be for the triumph of the Divine, irrespective of all sects and parties.
29 February 1956 ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother I,#KEYS
26:I have read your account of your sadhana. There is nothing to say, I think, - for it is all right - except that the most important thing for you is to develop the psychic fire in the heart and the aspiration for the psychic being to come forward as the leader of the sadhana. When the psychic does so, it will show you the 'undetected ego-knots' of which you speak and loosen them or burn them in the psychic fire. This psychic development and the psychic change of mind, vital and physical consciousness is of the utmost importance because it makes safe and easy the descent of the higher consciousness and the spiritual transformation without which the supramental must always remain far distant. Powers etc. have their place, but a very minor one so long as this is not done.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga - III,#KEYS
27:I think one of the most important thing is to know why one meditates; this is what gives the quality of the meditation and makes it of one order or another.
You may meditate to open yourself to the divine Force, you may meditate to reject the ordinary consciousness, you may meditate to enter the depths of your being, you may meditate to learn how to give yourself integrally; you may meditate for all kinds of things. You may meditate to enter into peace and calm and silence - this is what people generally do, but without much success. But you may also meditate to receive the Force of transformation, to discover the points to be transformed, to trace out the line of progress. And then you may also meditate for very practical reasons: when you have a difficulty to clear up, a solution to find, when you want help in some action or another. You may meditate for that too.
I think everyone has his own mode of meditation. But if one wants the meditation to be dynamic, one must have an aspiration for progress and the meditation must be done to help and fulfill this aspiration for progress. Then it becomes dynamic. ~ The Mother,#KEYS
28:Raise Your Standards
Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thing was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.
Think of the far-reaching consequences set in motion by men and women who raised their standards and acted in accordance with them, deciding they would tolerate no less. History chronicles the inspiring examples of people like Leonardo da Vinci, Abraham Lincoln, Helen Keller, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, Albeit Einstein, Cesar Chavez, Soichiro Honda, and many others who took the magnificently powerful step of raising their standards. The same power that was available to them is available to you, if you have the courage to claim it. Changing an organization, acompany, a country-or a world-begins with the simple step of changing yourself.
STEP TWO
Change Your Limiting Beliefs ~ Anthony Robbins, How to take Immediate Control of Your Mental Emotional Physical and Financial Destiny,#KEYS
29:Truly speaking, I have no opinion. According to a vision of truth, everything is still terribly mixed, a more or less favourable combination of light and darkness, truth and falsehood, knowledge and ignorance, and so long as decisions are made and action is undertaken according to opinions, it will always be like that.
We want to give the example of an action that is undertaken in accordance with a vision of truth, but unfortunately we are still very far from realising this ideal, and even if the vision of truth expresses itself, it is immediately distorted in its implementation.
So, in the present state of affairs, it is impossible to say, "This is true and that is false, this leads us away from the goal and that brings us nearer the goal."
Everything can be used for the progress to be made; everything can be useful if we know how to use it.
The important thing is never to lose sight of the ideal we want to realise and to make use of all circumstances in view of this goal.
And finally, it is always better not to make an arbitrary decision for or against things, and to watch the unfolding of events with the impartiality of a witness, relying on the Divine Wisdom which will decide for the best and do what is necessary. 29 July 1961 ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother I, [T8],#KEYS
30:outward appearances..." I did not quite understand "the egoistic state of consciousness absorbed in the outward People are occupied with outward things. That means that the consciousness is turned towards external things - that is, all the things of life which one sees, knows, does - instead of being turned inwards in order to find the deeper truth, the divine Presence. This is the first movement. You are busy with all that you do, with the people around you, the things you use; and then with life: sleeping, eating, talking, working a little, having a little fun also; and then beginning over again: sleeping, eating, etc., etc., and then it begins again. And then what this one has said, what that one has done, what one ought to do, the lesson one ought to learn, the exercise one ought to prepare; and then again whether one is keeping well, whether one is feeling fit, etc.
This is what one usually thinks about.
So the first movement - and it is not so easy - is to make all that pass to the background, and let one thing come inside and in front of the consciousness as the important thing: the discovery of the very purpose of existence and life, to learn what one is, why one lives, and what there is behind all this. This is the first step: to be interested more in the cause and goal than in the manifestation. That is, the first movement is a withdrawal of the consciousness from this total identification with outward and apparent things, and a kind of inward concentration on what one wants to discover, the Truth one wants to discover.
This is the first movement.
Many people who are here forget one thing. They want to begin by the end. They think that they are ready to express in their life what they call the supramental Force or Consciousness, and they want to infuse this in their actions, their movements, their daily life. But the trouble is that they don't at all know what the supramental Force or Consciousness is and that first of all it is necessary to take the reverse path, the way of interiorisation and of withdrawal from life, in order to find within oneself this Truth which has to be expressed.
For as long as one has not found it, there is nothing to ~ The Mother,#KEYS
31:At the basis of this collaboration there is necessarily the will to change, no longer to be what one is, for things to be no longer what they are. There are several ways of reaching it, and all the methods are good when they succeed! One may be deeply disgusted with what exists and wish ardently to come out of all this and attain something else; one may - and this is a more positive way - one may feel within oneself the touch, the approach of something positively beautiful and true, and willingly drop all the rest so that nothing may burden the journey to this new beauty and truth.
What is indispensable in every case is the ardent will for progress, the willing and joyful renunciation of all that hampers the advance: to throw far away from oneself all that prevents one from going forward, and to set out into the unknown with the ardent faith that this is the truth of tomorrow, inevitable, which must necessarily come, which nothing, nobody, no bad will, even that of Nature, can prevent from becoming a reality - perhaps of a not too distant future - a reality which is being worked out now and which those who know how to change, how not to be weighed down by old habits, will surely have the good fortune not only to see but to realise. People sleep, they forget, they take life easy - they forget, forget all the time.... But if we could remember... that we are at an exceptional hour, a unique time, that we have this immense good fortune, this invaluable privilege of being present at the birth of a new world, we could easily get rid of everything that impedes and hinders our progress.
So, the most important thing, it seems, is to remember this fact; even when one doesn't have the tangible experience, to have the certainty of it and faith in it; to remember always, to recall it constantly, to go to sleep with this idea, to wake up with this perception; to do all that one does with this great truth as the background, as a constant support, this great truth that we are witnessing the birth of a new world.
We can participate in it, we can become this new world. And truly, when one has such a marvellous opportunity, one should be ready to give up everything for its sake. ~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1957-1958, [T1],#KEYS
32:How can one awaken his Yoga-shakti?
It depends on this: when one thinks that it is the most important thing in his life. That's all.
Some people sit in meditation, concentrate on the base of the vertebral column and want it very much to awake, but that's not enough. It is when truly it becomes the most important thing in one's life, when all the rest seems to have lost all taste, all interest, all importance, when one feels within that one is born for this, that one is here upon earth for this, and that it is the only thing that truly counts, then that's enough.
One can concentrate on the different centres; but sometimes one concentrates for so long, with so much effort, and has no result. And then one day something shakes you, you feel that you are going to lose your footing, you have to cling on to something; then you cling within yourself to the idea of union with the Divine, the idea of the divine Presence, the idea of the transformation of the consciousness, and you aspire, you want, you try to organise your feelings, movements, impulses around this. And it comes.
Some people have recommended all kinds of methods; probably these were methods which had succeeded in their case; but to tell the truth, one must find one's own method, it is only after having done the thing that one knows how it should be done, not before.
If one knows it beforehand, one makes a mental construction and risks greatly living in his mental construction, which is an illusion; because when the mind builds certain conditions and then they are realised, there are many chances of there being mostly pure mental construction which is not the experience itself but its image. So for all these truly spiritual experiences I think it is wiser to have them before knowing them. If one knows them, one imitates them, one doesn't have them, one imagines oneself having them; whereas if one knows nothing - how things are and how they ought to happen, what should happen and how it will come about - if one knows nothing about all this, then by keeping very still and making a kind of inner sorting out within one's being, one can suddenly have the experience, and then later knows what one has had. It is over, and one knows how it has to be done when one has done it - afterwards. Like that it is sure.
One may obviously make use of his imagination, imagine the Kundalini and try to pull it upwards. But one can also tell himself tales like this. I have had so many instances of people who described their experiences to me exactly as they are described in books, knowing all the words and putting down all the details, and then I asked them just a little question like that, casually: that if they had had the experience they should have known or felt a certain thing, and as this was not in the books, they could not answer.~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1955, 211-212,#KEYS
33:The Teachings of Some Modern Indian Yogis
Ramana Maharshi
According to Brunton's description of the sadhana he (Brunton) practised under the Maharshi's instructions,1 it is the Overself one has to seek within, but he describes the Overself in a way that is at once the Psychic Being, the Atman and the Ishwara. So it is a little difficult to know what is the exact reading.
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The methods described in the account [of Ramana Maharshi's technique of self-realisation] are the well-established methods of Jnanayoga - (1) one-pointed concentration followed by thought-suspension, (2) the method of distinguishing or finding out the true self by separating it from mind, life, body (this I have seen described by him [Brunton] more at length in another book) and coming to the pure I behind; this also can disappear into the Impersonal Self. The usual result is a merging in the Atman or Brahman - which is what one would suppose is meant by the Overself, for it is that which is the real Overself. This Brahman or Atman is everywhere, all is in it, it is in all, but it is in all not as an individual being in each but is the same in all - as the Ether is in all. When the merging into the Overself is complete, there is no ego, no distinguishable I, or any formed separative person or personality. All is ekakara - an indivisible and undistinguishable Oneness either free from all formations or carrying all formations in it without being affected - for one can realise it in either way. There is a realisation in which all beings are moving in the one Self and this Self is there stable in all beings; there is another more complete and thoroughgoing in which not only is it so but all are vividly realised as the Self, the Brahman, the Divine. In the former, it is possible to dismiss all beings as creations of Maya, leaving the one Self alone as true - in the other it is easier to regard them as real manifestations of the Self, not as illusions. But one can also regard all beings as souls, independent realities in an eternal Nature dependent upon the One Divine. These are the characteristic realisations of the Overself familiar to the Vedanta. But on the other hand you say that this Overself is realised by the Maharshi as lodged in the heart-centre, and it is described by Brunton as something concealed which when it manifests appears as the real Thinker, source of all action, but now guiding thought and action in the Truth. Now the first description applies to the Purusha in the heart, described by the Gita as the Ishwara situated in the heart and by the Upanishads as the Purusha Antaratma; the second could apply also to the mental Purusha, manomayah. pran.asarı̄ra neta of the Upanishads, the mental Being or Purusha who leads the life and the body. So your question is one which on the data I cannot easily answer. His Overself may be a combination of all these experiences, without any distinction being made or thought necessary between the various aspects. There are a thousand ways of approaching and realising the Divine and each way has its own experiences which have their own truth and stand really on a basis, one in essence but complex in aspects, common to all, but not expressed in the same way by all. There is not much use in discussing these variations; the important thing is to follow one's own way well and thoroughly. In this Yoga, one can realise the psychic being as a portion of the Divine seated in the heart with the Divine supporting it there - this psychic being takes charge of the sadhana and turns the ......
1 The correspondent sent to Sri Aurobindo two paragraphs from Paul Brunton's book A Message from Arunachala (London: Rider & Co., n.d. [1936], pp. 205 - 7). - Ed. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga - II,#KEYS
34:Sweet Mother, how can we make our resolution very firm?
By wanting it to be very firm! (Laughter)
No, this seems like a joke... but it is absolutely true. One does not want it truly. There is always, if you... It is a lack of sincerity. If you look sincerely, you will see that you have decided that it will be like this, and then, beneath there is something which has not decided at all and is waiting for the second of hesitation in order to rush forward. If you are sincere, if you are sincere and get hold of the part which is hiding, waiting, not showing itself, which knows that there will come a second of indecision when it can rush out and make you do the thing you have decided not to do...
[] But if you really want it, nothing in the world can prevent you from doing what you want. It is because one doesn't know how to will it. It is because one is divided in one's will. If you are not divided in your will, I say that nothing, nobody in the world can make you change your will.
But one doesn't know how to will it. In fact one doesn't even want to. These are velleities: "Well, it is like this.... It would be good if it were like that... yes, it would be better if it were like that... yes, it would be preferable if it were like that." But this is not to will. And always there at the back, hidden somewhere in a corner of the brain, is something which is looking on and saying, "Oh, why should I want that? After all one can as well want the opposite." And to try, you see... Not like that, just wait... But one can always find a thousand excuses to do the opposite. And ah, just a tiny little wavering is enough... pftt... the thing swoops down and there it is. But if one wills, if one really knows that this is the thing, and truly wants this, and if one is oneself entirely concentrated in the will, I say that there is nothing in the world that can prevent one from doing it, from doing it or being obliged to do it. It depends on what it is.
One wants. Yes, one wants, like this (gestures). One wants: "Yes, yes, it would be better if it were like that. Yes, it would be finer also, more elegant."... But, eh, eh, after all one is a weak creature, isn't that so? And then one can always put the blame upon something else: "It is the influence coming from outside, it is all kinds of circumstances."
A breath has passed, you see. You don't know... something... a moment of unconsciousness... "Oh, I was not conscious." You are not conscious because you do not accept... And all this because you don't know how to will.
[] To learn how to will is a very important thing. And to will truly, you must unify your being. In fact, to be a being, one must first unify oneself. If one is pulled by absolutely opposite tendencies, if one spends three-fourths of one's life without being conscious of oneself and the reasons why one does things, is one a real being? One does not exist. One is a mass of influences, movements, forces, actions, reactions, but one is not a being. One begins to become a being when one begins to have a will. And one can't have a will unless one is unified.
And when you have a will, you will be able to say, say to the Divine: "I want what You want." But not before that. Because in order to want what the Divine wants, you must have a will, otherwise you can will nothing at all. You would like to. You would like it very much. You would very much like to want what the Divine wants to do. You don't possess a will to give to Him and to put at His service. Something like that, gelatinous, like jelly-fish... there... a mass of good wills - and I am considering the better side of things and forgetting the bad wills - a mass of good wills, half-conscious and fluctuating....
Ah, that's all, my children. That's enough for today. There we are.
Only, put this into practice; just a little of what I have said, not all, eh, just a very little. There.
~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1954,#KEYS
1:The most important thing is family. ~ walt-disney, @wisdomtrove 2:The most important thing is to DARE. ~ maya-angelou, @wisdomtrove 3:Future generation is the most important thing. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 4:Next to love, balance is the most important thing. ~ john-wooden, @wisdomtrove 5:What if I’ve forgotten the most important thing? ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 6:The most important thing is growing old gracefully. ~ audrey-hepburn, @wisdomtrove 7:The really important thing is not to reject anything. ~ susan-sontag, @wisdomtrove 8:The most important thing in the world is family and love. ~ john-wooden, @wisdomtrove 9:The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten. ~ brian-eno, @wisdomtrove 10:Winning is not the most important thing; it's everything. ~ vince-lombardi, @wisdomtrove 11:Personality is the most important thing to an actress's success. ~ mae-west, @wisdomtrove 12:The important thing was to love rather than to be loved. ~ william-somerset-maugham, @wisdomtrove 13:The most important thing you think is what you think about God. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 14:Work is the least important thing and family is the most important. ~ jerry-seinfeld, @wisdomtrove 15:So the important thing in a military operation is victory, not persistence. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove 16:The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said. ~ peter-drucker, @wisdomtrove 17:... a man is a very important thing-maybe more important than a star. ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove 18:The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible. ~ t-s-eliot, @wisdomtrove 19:Sometimes the bravest and most important thing you can do is just show up. ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove 20:The important thing is to create. Nothing else matters; creation is all. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove 21:Next to gold and jewelry, health is the most important thing you can have. ~ phyllis-diller, @wisdomtrove 22:The most important thing for entrepreneurs is not to be put off by failure. ~ richard-branson, @wisdomtrove 23:Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention ~ rachel-naomi-remen, @wisdomtrove 24:A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing. ~ gertrude-stein, @wisdomtrove 25:The important thing is to teach a child that good can always triumph over evil... ~ walt-disney, @wisdomtrove 26:The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you. ~ william-somerset-maugham, @wisdomtrove 27:Relationships are the most important thing in life, and friends are a part of that. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove 28:The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters. ~ audrey-hepburn, @wisdomtrove 29:Audrey Hepburn quote: The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy... ~ audrey-hepburn, @wisdomtrove 30:The most important thing in acting is honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made. ~ george-burns, @wisdomtrove 31:In truth I care little about any party's politics—the man behind it is the important thing. ~ mark-twain, @wisdomtrove 32:Life is like a snowball. The important thing is finding wet snow and a really long hill. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 33:The most important thing women have to do is to stir up the zeal of women themselves. ~ john-stuart-mill, @wisdomtrove 34:The most important thing about you is what comes to your mind when you think of God. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 35:Do what you would do for free, having passion for what you do is the most important thing. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 36:What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 37:Happiness is the most important thing in the world, without it, you live a life of depression. ~ marilyn-monroe, @wisdomtrove 38:In our obsessive wish to arrive, we often forget the most important thing, which is the journey. ~ paulo-coelho, @wisdomtrove 39:The important thing isn't the soundness or otherwise of the argument, but for it to make you think. ~ albert-camus, @wisdomtrove 40:The important thing is to keep playing, to play against weak opponents and to play for big stakes. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 41:The most important thing in a piece of music is to seduce people to the point where they start searching. ~ brian-eno, @wisdomtrove 42:Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end. ~ oliver-wendell-holmes-jr, @wisdomtrove 43:The most important thing is that you actually care, that you do something to the very best of your ability. ~ jony-ive, @wisdomtrove 44:The important thing is not to think much but to love much; do, then, whatever most arouses you to love. ~ teresa-of-avila, @wisdomtrove 45:There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important thing. ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove 46:A road well begun is the battle half won. The important thing is to make a beginning and get under way. ~ soren-kierkegaard, @wisdomtrove 47:Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever, and not this outer life of telegrams and anger. ~ e-m-forster, @wisdomtrove 48:When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 49:While there seem to be many things to manage in the world, the most important thing to manage is your consciousness. ~ alan-cohen, @wisdomtrove 50:A person's last moments are an important thing. You can't choose how you're born but you can choose how you die. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 51:Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the & 52:Forgiving and being forgiven are two names for the same thing. The important thing is that a discord has been resolved. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 53:The most important thing to me is, how, in the process of learning how to use my body, can I come to understand myself ? ~ bruce-lee, @wisdomtrove 54:The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be learned at school. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 55:Ministry is the least important thing. You cannot not minister if you are in communion with God and live in community. ~ henri-nouwen, @wisdomtrove 56:Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God's final word on where your lips end. ~ jerry-seinfeld, @wisdomtrove 57:I think the most important thing is that in the last seven days we've just had the greatest adventure of our lifetimes. ~ richard-branson, @wisdomtrove 58:Every single important thing we do is something we didn't use to be good at, and in fact, might be something we used to fear. ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove 59:For each role, stop and ask: What is the most important thing I can do this week to make progress in this specific role? ~ stephen-r-covey, @wisdomtrove 60:Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 61:And here is a doctrine at which you will laugh. It seems to me, Govinda, that love is the most important thing in the world. ~ hermann-hesse, @wisdomtrove 62:In the devil's theology, the important thing is to be absolutely right and to prove that everybody else is absolutely wrong. ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove 63:The important thing is that you've got a strong foundation before you start to try to save the world or help other people. ~ richard-branson, @wisdomtrove 64:A man has got to keep his extrication. The important thing is not to get bogged down In what he has to do to earn a living... . ~ robert-frost, @wisdomtrove 65:I've learned that it doesn't matter how your husband squeezes the toothpaste, the important thing is how he squeezes you. ~ h-jackson-brown-jr, @wisdomtrove 66:The most important thing in the world is that you make yourself a loving person, because this is what you will be giving away. ~ leo-buscaglia, @wisdomtrove 67:When someone becomes a millionaire, the least important thing is what they have. The most important thing is what they have become. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove 68:I mean, you may be very mad at some guy that walked away with a huge golden parachute, but that really isn't the important thing. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 69:Working on our own consciousness is the most important thing that we are doing at any moment, and being love is a supreme creative act. ~ ram-das, @wisdomtrove 70:God is the most important thing in our lives. I suppose that's true of everybody's lives, whether or not they want to believe it. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove 71:The most important thing that we can do for the healing of our world is to hear inside ourselves, the sounds of the earth crying. ~ thich-nhat-hanh, @wisdomtrove 72:My writing has developed drastically . The Return of the Prodigal Son is the most important thing I've done, and my most mature book. ~ henri-nouwen, @wisdomtrove 73:The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone. ~ ernest-hemingway, @wisdomtrove 74:The most important thing is insight, that is to be - curious - to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does. ~ william-faulkner, @wisdomtrove 75:The single most important thing a city can do is provide a community where interesting, smart people want to live with their families. ~ malcolm-gladwell, @wisdomtrove 76:The power to concentrate was the most important thing. Living without this power would be like opening one’s eyes without seeing anything. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 77:You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give. ~ eleanor-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove 78:The most important thing in terms of your circle of competence is not how large the area of it is, but how well you've defined the perimeter. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 79:Honestly, that is the most important thing to me: Can I continue to live up to my own expectations of myself - and not fall back into slacking? ~ alice-walker, @wisdomtrove 80:The most important thing I've come to believe in is that people with mental handicaps have a unique mission to bring God's blessing to the World. ~ henri-nouwen, @wisdomtrove 81:Everybody's got a different circle of competence. The important thing is not how big the circle is. The important thing is staying inside the circle. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 82:The most important thing is that we need to be understood. We need someone to be able to listen to us and to understand us. Then we will suffer less. ~ thich-nhat-hanh, @wisdomtrove 83:There is something to be said for every error; but, whatever may be said for it, the most important thing to be said about it is that it is erroneous. ~ g-k-chesterton, @wisdomtrove 84:The important thing is to strive toward a goal which is not immediately visible. That goal is not the concern of the mind, but of the spirit. ~ antoine-de-saint-exupery, @wisdomtrove 85:The important thing is not to know who "I" is or what "I" is. You'll never succeed. There are no words for it. The important thing is to drop the labels. ~ anthony-de-mello, @wisdomtrove 86:The most important thing is a person. A person who incites your curiosity and feeds your curiosity; and machines cannot do that in the same way that people can. ~ steve-jobs, @wisdomtrove 87:The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true. ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove 88:Your ability to concentrate single-mindedly on one thing, the most important thing, and stay at it until it is complete, is an essential prerequisite for success. ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove 89:Real success comes in small portions day by day. You need to take pleasure in life's daily little treasures. It is the most important thing in measuring success. ~ denis-waitley, @wisdomtrove 90:The single most important thing to remember about any enterprise is that there are no results inside its walls. The result of a business is a satisfied customer. ~ peter-drucker, @wisdomtrove 91:All illusion comes and goes, but the soul remains unchanged. What is meant by God-realization is to actually experience this important thing that the soul is eternal. ~ meher-baba, @wisdomtrove 92:If we live in a world where information drives what we do, the information we get becomes the most important thing. The person who chooses that information has power. ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove 93:All illusion comes and goes, but the soul remains unchanged. What is meant by God-realization is to actually experience this important thing that the soul is eternal . ~ meher-baba, @wisdomtrove 94:The most important thing for everyone in Gringolandia is to have ambition and become & 95:Naturally, there are times when every woman likes to be flattered... to feel she is the most important thing in someone's world. Only a man can paint this picture. ~ marilyn-monroe, @wisdomtrove 96:The important thing is the family. If you can keep the family together - and that's the backbone of our whole business, catering to families - that's what we hope to do. ~ walt-disney, @wisdomtrove 97:All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness. The important thing is they should be part of our daily lives. ~ dalai-lama, @wisdomtrove 98:I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person. ~ audrey-hepburn, @wisdomtrove 99:I will work day and night to avoid failure, but if I can't, I'll pick myself up the next day. The most important thing for entrepreneurs is not to be put off by failure. ~ richard-branson, @wisdomtrove 100:The most important thing in life is to stop saying & 101:The important thing is not the finding, it is the seeking, it is the devotion with which one spins the wheel of prayer and scripture, discovering the truth little by little. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 102:La chose la plus importante a' toute la vie est le choix du me tier: le hasard en dispose. The most important thing in life is to choose a profession: chance arranges for that. ~ blaise-pascal, @wisdomtrove 103:Passion is temporary. It doesn't last long. Love is enduring. And that's the important thing. If we all had love in our lives to the degree that we should, it would be much happier. ~ john-wooden, @wisdomtrove 104:I keep to this routine every day without variation. The repetition itself becomes the important thing; it's a form of mesmerism. I mesmerize myself to reach a deeper state of mind. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 105:The important thing is the 80/20 rule: 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes. This means that if you're doing ten tasks, two are going to be vastly more important than others. ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove 106:The thing is to understand myself: the thing is to find a truth which is true for me, to find the idea for which I can live and die. That is what I now recognize as the most important thing. ~ soren-kierkegaard, @wisdomtrove 107:In order to profit from this path [of prayer] and ascend to the dwelling places we desire, the important thing is not to think much but to love much; and so, do that which best stirs you to love. ~ teresa-of-avila, @wisdomtrove 108: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. ~ william-somerset-maugham, @wisdomtrove 109:The most important work of the executive is to identify the changes that have already happened. The important thing . . . is to exploit the changes that have already occurred and to use them as opportunities. ~ peter-drucker, @wisdomtrove 110:The most important thing in arithmetic is not the shapes of the numbers but the reality living in them. This living reality has much more meaning for the spiritual world than what lives in reading and writing. ~ rudolf-steiner, @wisdomtrove 111:When our children see us expressing our emotions, they can learn that their own feelings are natural and permissible, can be expressed, and can be talked about. That's an important thing for our children to learn. ~ fred-rogers, @wisdomtrove 112:One should be in harmony with, not in opposition to, the strength and force of the opposition. This means that one should do nothing that is not natural or spontaneous; the important thing is not to strain in any way. ~ bruce-lee, @wisdomtrove 113:I think that's an important thing to do, to really pay attention to negative feedback, and solicit it, particularly from friends. This may sound like simple advice, but hardly anyone does that, and it's incredibly helpful. ~ elon-musk, @wisdomtrove 114:I actually learned about sex watching neighborhood dogs. And it was good. Go ahead and laugh. I think the most important thing I learned was: Never let go of the girl's leg, no matter how hard she tries to shake you off. ~ steve-martin, @wisdomtrove 115:What religion a man holds, to what race he belongs, these things are not important; the really important thing is this knowledge: the knowledge of God's plan for men. For God has a plan, and that plan is evolution. ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove 116:The important thing to remember is to follow the path of light. As the fictional character Yoda, from Star Wars, correctly pointed out, once you start down the dark path to power, it's very difficult to leave that path. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 117:It is not a shame to be knocked down by other people. The important thing is to ask when you're being knocked down, & 118:The most important thing is not to think very much about oneself. To investigate candidly the charge; but not fussily, not very anxiously. On no account to retaliate by going to the other extreme - thinking too much. ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove 119:In the end, the most important thing is not to do things for people who are poor and in distress, but to enter into relationship with them, to be with them and help them find confidence in themselves and discover their own gifts. ~ jean-vanier, @wisdomtrove 120:The most important thing is sensitivity. Many people have sex and don't feel anything, and that seems kind of sad to me. The answer is not necessarily the avoidance of sex, but learning to be sensitive and to love and to care. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 121:God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof. You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole. ~ sri-ramakrishna, @wisdomtrove 122:The only important thing is to follow nature. A tiger should be a good tiger; a tree, a good tree. So people should be people. But to know what people are, one must follow nature and go alone, admitting the importance of the unexpected. ~ carl-jung, @wisdomtrove 123:They didn't agree on much. In fact, they didn't agree on anything. They fought all the time and challenged each other ever day. But despite their differences, they had one important thing in common. They were crazy about each other. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove 124:Too much study of the scriptures does more harm than good. The important thing is to know the essence of the scriptures. After that, what is the need of books? One should learn the essence and then dive deep in order to realize God. ~ sri-ramakrishna, @wisdomtrove 125:The most important thing in life is not simply to capitalize on your gains. Any fool can do that. The important thing is to profit from your losses. That requires intelligence, and makes the difference between a man of sense and a fool. ~ dale-carnegie, @wisdomtrove 126:What if I’ve forgotten the most important thing? What if somewhere inside me there is a dark limbo where all the truly important memories are heaped and slowly turning into mud?... the thought fills me with an almost unbearable sorrow. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 127:The most important thing I can tell you about aging is this: If you really feel that you want to have an off-the-shoulder blouse and some big beads and thong sandals and a dirndl skirt and a magnolia in your hair, do it. Even if you're wrinkled. ~ maya-angelou, @wisdomtrove 128:God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof. You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole.”13 likesLike ~ sri-ramakrishna, @wisdomtrove 129:A writer can be compared to a well. There are as many kinds of wells as there are writers. The important thing is to have good water in the well, and it is better to take a regular amount out than to pump the well dry and wait for it to refill. ~ ernest-hemingway, @wisdomtrove 130:If you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you'll spend your life completely wasting your time. You'll be doing things you don't like doing in order to go on living, that is to go on doing thing you don't like doing, which is stupid. ~ alan-watts, @wisdomtrove 131:We get so wrapped up in numbers in our society. The most important thing is that we are able to be one-to-one, you and I with each other at the moment. If we can be present to the moment with the person that we happen to be with, that's what's important. ~ fred-rogers, @wisdomtrove 132:The true courage of civilized nations is readiness for sacrifice in the service of the state, so that the individual counts as only one amongst many. The important thing here is not personal mettle but aligning oneself with the universal. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove 133:Learning to know anxiety is an adventure which every man has to affront if he would not go to perdition either by not having known anxiety or by sinking under it. He therefore who has leaned rightly to be in anxiety has learned the most important thing. ~ soren-kierkegaard, @wisdomtrove 134:If you keep on writing for three years, every day, you should be strong. Of course, you have to be strong mentally, also. But in the first place, you have to be strong physically. That is a very important thing. Physically and mentally you have to be strong. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 135:If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together... there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart... I'll always be with you. ~ a-a-milne, @wisdomtrove 136:If you like someone's work, the important thing is to be exposed to everything that person has been exposed to. Anyone who wants to be a songwriter should listen to as much folk music as they can, study the form and structure of stuff that has been around for 100 years. ~ bob-dylan, @wisdomtrove 137:I think the most important thing is that in the last seven days we've just had the greatest adventure of our lifetimes. "I'm inquisitive ... and I love a new challenge... and if I feel that we can do it better than it's been done by other people, we'll have a go." ~ richard-branson, @wisdomtrove 138:The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention…. A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words. ~ rachel-naomi-remen, @wisdomtrove 139:Our attitude towards what has happened to us in life is the important thing to recognize. Once hopeless, my life is now hope-full, but it did not happen overnight. The last of human freedoms, to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, is to choose one's own way. ~ viktor-frankl, @wisdomtrove 140: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. ~ elie-wiesel, @wisdomtrove 141:The first and the most important thing is to know that life is one and immortal. Only the forms, countless in number, are transient and brittle. The life everlasting is independent of any form but manifests itself in all forms. Life then does not die... but the forms are dissolved. ~ sri-aurobindo, @wisdomtrove 142:The understanding of "evolutionary consciousness" is perhaps the most important thing lacking in spiritual practices today. Evolution means growth and development. This means that there are aspects of reality that have not yet arisen in our consciousness. But they will arise if we grow. ~ ken-wilber, @wisdomtrove 143: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. ~ alan-moore, @wisdomtrove 144:Winston Churchill said that appetite was the most important thing about education. Leadership guru Warren Bennis says he wants to be remembered as & 145:We are all affected by five things. But the most important thing that affects us is our dreams& 146:Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind." I found the following quote by Goethe that can serve as a commentary on these words. "We are shaped and fashioned by what we love." "The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove 147:Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone with Him who we know loves us. The important thing is not to think much but to love much and so do that which best stirs you to love. Love is not great delight but desire to please God in everything. ~ teresa-of-avila, @wisdomtrove 148:And so, in my view the most important thing of all is that we should give ourselves up entirely to God whenever he allows anything to befall us, whether insult, tribulation or any other kind of suffering, accepting it with joy and gratitude and allowing God to guide us all the more rather than seeking these things out ourselves. ~ meister-eckhart, @wisdomtrove 149:... but the important thing is that when you do find one where you really do know what you are doing, you must buy in quantity... . Charlie and I have made a dozen or so very big decisions relative to net worth, although not as big as they should have been. And in each of those, we've known that we were almost certain to be right going in. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 150:The single most important thing to remember about any enterprise is that results exist only on the outside.The result of a business is a satisfied customer. The result of a hospital is a satisfied patient. The result of a school is a student who has learned something and puts it to work ten years later. Inside an enterprise there are only costs. ~ peter-drucker, @wisdomtrove 151:She's kind of funny looking. Her face is out of balance& 152:Always try to associate yourself closely with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you. Apart from the rewards of friendship, the association might pay off at some unforeseen time - that is only an accidental byproduct. The important thing is that the learning will make you a better person. ~ dwight-eisenhower, @wisdomtrove 153:And once we have the condition of peace and joy in us, we can afford to be in any situation. Even in the situation of hell, we will be able to contribute our peace and serenity. The most important thing is for each of us to have some freedom in our heart, some stability in our heart, some peace in our heart. Only then will we be able to relieve the suffering around us. ~ thich-nhat-hanh, @wisdomtrove 154:So I believe in singing to such an extent that if I were asked to redesign the British educational system, I would start by insisting that group singing become a central part of the daily routine. I believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for co-operation with others. This seems to be about the most important thing a school could do for you. ~ brian-eno, @wisdomtrove 155:It is too early to feel fear of the future when one is under 30, and too late after that. What I mean is that one must never allow fear to become one's permanent sense of life. The important thing is to prepare yourself intellectually to deal with whatever circumstances you may encounter, which requires that you define your values fully, clearly and rationally - and never betray them. ~ ayn-rand, @wisdomtrove 156:For men, as a rule, love is but an episode which takes place among the other affairs of the day, and the emphasis laid on it in novels gives it an importance which is untrue to life. There are few men to whom it is the most important thing in the world, and they are not the very interesting ones; even women, with whom the subject is of paramount interest, have a contempt for them. ~ william-somerset-maugham, @wisdomtrove 157:The most important thing in life is your inner energy. If you’re always tired and never enthused, then life is no fun. But if you’re always inspired and filled with energy, then every minute of every day is an exciting experience. Learn to work with these things. Through meditation, through awareness and willful efforts, you can learn to keep your centers open. You do this by just relaxing and releasing. ~ michael-singer, @wisdomtrove 158:Someone who can search for something is happy. Searching gives a meaning to life. Nowadays it’s not so easy to find something you might be looking for. The most important thing, however, is the search itself, the way you take. It’s not so important where it leads. that’s why my characters are always looking for something, maybe only a cat, a sheep or a wife, but that is at least the beginning of a story. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 159:We identify with the inner system that takes the crazy chaos of life and spins out of it seemingly logical and consistent yarns. It doesn’t matter that the plot is full of lies and lacunas, and is rewritten again and again, so that today’s story flatly contradicts yesterday’s. The important thing is that we always retain the feeling that we have a single unchanging identity from birth to death (and perhaps even beyond). ~ yuval-noah-harari, @wisdomtrove 160:The ancient man approached God (or even the gods)as the accused person approaches his judge. For the modern man the roles are reversed. He is the judge: God is in the dock. He is quite a kindly judge: if God should have a reasonable defense for being the god who permits war, poverty, and disease, he is ready to listen to it. The trial may even end in God's acquittal. But the important thing is that Man is on the bench and God is in the dock. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 161:Perhaps the most important thing we bring to another person is the silence in us, not the sort of silence that is filled with unspoken criticism or hard withdrawal. The sort of silence that is a place of refuge, of rest, of acceptance of someone as they are. We are all hungry for this other silence. It is hard to find. In its presence we can remember something beyond the moment, a strength on which to build a life. Silence is a place of great power and healing. ~ rachel-naomi-remen, @wisdomtrove 162:The important thing is allowing the whole world to wake up. Part of allowing the whole world to wake up is recognizing that the whole world is free‚everybody is free to be as they are. Until the whole world is free to agree with you or disagree with you, until you have given the freedom to everyone to like you or not like you, to love you or hate you, to see things as you see them or to see things differently‚until you have given the whole world its freedom‚ you’ll never have your freedom. ~ adyashanti, @wisdomtrove 163:I suspect that the most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention And especially if it's given from the heart. When people are talking, there's no need to do anything but receive them. Just take them in. Listen to what they're saying. Care about it. Most times caring about it is even more important than understanding it. Most of us don't value ourselves or our love enough to know this. ~ rachel-naomi-remen, @wisdomtrove 164:To the exponents of the Perennial Philosophy, the question whether Progress is inevitable or even real is not a matter of primary importance. For them, the important thing is that individual men and women should come to the unitive knowledge of the divine Ground, and what interests them in regard to the social environment is not its progressiveness or non-progressiveness (whatever those terms may mean), but the degree to which it helps or hinders individuals in the their advance towards man's final end. ~ aldous-huxley, @wisdomtrove 165:You wake up, excited about being alive. You wonder, What do I feel like doing today?' There’s no set plan, and the destination doesn’t matter as much as the process, the journey. You start, but you might shift as you go. You let go of your idea of what today was going to be, because these ideas of what should be are lightly held. The important thing is the flow. You learn to be flexible instead of set. You learn to be good at change and uncertainty, instead of fearing it. As things arise, you adapt. ~ leo-babauta, @wisdomtrove 166:You can lead a truly spiritual life while remaining a householder. You will be able to enjoy the bliss of the Self, but your mind has to be on God all the time. Then you can easily attain bliss. A mother bird will be thinking of the young ones in the nest, even when she is out looking for food. Similarly, you have to keep your mind on God, while engaged in all worldly actions. The important thing is to be completely dedicated to God or the Guru. Once you have that dedication, the goal will not be far away. ~ mata-amritanandamayi, @wisdomtrove 167:The important thing is this: that, under such government recognition as we may give to that which is beneficent and wholesome in large business organizations, we shall be most vigilant never to allow them to crystallize into a condition which shall make private initiative difficult. It is of the utmost importance that in the future we shall keep the broad path of opportunity just as open and easy for our children as it was for our fathers during the period which has been the glory of America's industrial history. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove 168:I suppose the most important thing, the heaviest single factor in one's life, is whether one's born male or female. In most societies it determines one's expectations, activities, outlook, ethics, manners - almost everything. Vocabulary. Semiotic usages. Clothing. Even food. Women... women tend to eat less... It's extremely hard to separate the innate differences from the learned ones. Even where women participate equally with men in the society, they still after all do all the childbearing, and so most of the child-rearing. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 169:In this world, there is no absolute good, no absolute evil," the man said. "Good and evil are not fixed, stable entities, but are continually trading places. A good may be transformed into an evil in the next second. And vice versa. Such was the way of the world that Dostoevsky depicted in The Brothers Karamazov. The most important thing is to maintain the balance between the constantly moving good and evil. If you lean too much in either direction, it becomes difficult to maintain actual morals. Indeed, balance itself is the good. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 170:And another thing. Don‚Äôt ever kid yourself about loving some one. It is just that most people are not lucky enough ever to have it. You never had it before and now you have it. What you have with Maria, whether it lasts just through today and a part of tomorrow, or whether it lasts for a long life is the most important thing that can happen to a human being. There will always be people who say it does not exist because they cannot have it. But I tell you it is true and that you have it and that you are lucky even if you die tomorrow. ~ ernest-hemingway, @wisdomtrove 171:Children are people, and they should have to reach to learn about things, to understand things, just as adults have to reach if they want to grow in mental stature. Life is composed of lights and shadows, and we would be untruthful, insincere, and saccharine if we tried to pretend there were no shadows. Most things are good, and they are the strongest things; but there are evil things too, and you are not doing a child a favor by trying to shield him from reality. The important thing is to teach a child that good can always triumph over evil. ~ walt-disney, @wisdomtrove 172:When she (my mother) passed away, I kind of understood the commitment that she made to make sure that I could stay in skating. And I wanted to live up to whatever I could. Not so much win everything, but just to be the best that I could possibly be, to honor her memory and everything she went through to make sure that I was given the opportunities to be the best that I can be. Not to be a world champion or an Olympic gold medalist, but to be the best that I could be. And that was the most important thing that ever happened in my career. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove 173:The most important thing in life is your inner energy. If you’re always tired and never enthused, then life is no fun. But if you’re always inspired and filled with energy, then every minute of every day is an exciting experience. Learn to work with these things. Through meditation, through awareness and willful efforts, you can learn to keep your centers open. You do this by just relaxing and releasing. You do this by not buying into the concept that there is anything worth closing over. Remember, if you love life, nothing is worth closing over. ~ michael-singer, @wisdomtrove 174:Through concentration we become one-pointed and through meditation we expand our consciousness into the Vast. But in contemplation we grow into the Vast itself. We have seen the Truth. We have felt the Truth. But the most important thing is to grow into the Truth and become totally one with the Truth. If we are concentrating on God, we may feel God right in front of us or besides us. When we are meditating, we are bound to feel Infinity, Eternity, Immortality within us. But when we are contemplating, we will see that we ourselves are Infinity, Eternity, Immortality. ~ sri-chinmoy, @wisdomtrove 175:At one time I thought the most important thing was talent. I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try until it comes right. He must train himself in ruthless intolerance-that is to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph. The most important thing is insight, that is to be-curiosity-to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does, and if you have that, then I don't think the talent makes much difference, whether you've got it or not. ~ william-faulkner, @wisdomtrove *** NEWFULLDB 2.4M ***
1:The important thing ~ Peter Weiss, #NFDB
2:The most important thing is work. ~ Lou Reed, #NFDB
3:The most important thing is family. ~ Walt Disney, #NFDB
4:The most important thing is to begin. ~ Jason Fried, #NFDB
5:The most important thing is to DARE. ~ Maya Angelou, #NFDB
6:Family's the most important thing. ~ Sophie Kinsella, #NFDB
7:The important thing is to be drunk. ~ Chelsea Handler, #NFDB
8:Religion is not the most important thing. ~ Vera Rubin, #NFDB
9:The important thing is somehow to begin. ~ Henry Moore, #NFDB
10:Happiness is the most important thing. ~ Lupita Nyong o, #NFDB
11:The most important thing in art is taste. ~ Sean Lennon, #NFDB
12:The most important thing is to have fun. ~ Johnny Damon, #NFDB
13:No bread. That's the most important thing. ~ Heidi Klum, #NFDB
14:Storytelling is the important thing. ~ Vincent Kartheiser, #NFDB
15:The most important thing is the script. ~ Martin Scorsese, #NFDB
16:A smile is the most important thing you wear. ~ Tyra Banks, #NFDB
17:Future generation is the most important thing. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
18:The most important thing I do is I'm a dad. ~ Stuart Scott, #NFDB
19:For ecommerce, the most important thing is trust. ~ Jack Ma, #NFDB
20:Love is by far the most important thing of all. ~ Emmet Fox, #NFDB
21:As parents, the most important thing we can do ~ Laura Bush, #NFDB
22:The most important thing is presentation. ~ David Copperfield, #NFDB
23:I think water’s, like, a really important thing. ~ Miley Cyrus, #NFDB
24:Being popular is the most important thing in the world! ~ Homer, #NFDB
25:The important thing was that we were alive... ~ Henri Charri re, #NFDB
26:The most important thing is sailing toward shore. ~ Russ Harris, #NFDB
27:The very important thing you should have is patience. ~ Jack Ma, #NFDB
28:Next to love, balance is the most important thing. ~ John Wooden, #NFDB
29:The drugs were the most important thing to me. ~ Sophie Anderton, #NFDB
30:the most important thing is not life, but the good life. ~ Plato, #NFDB
31:The work is the most important thing. ~ Dietrich Fischer Dieskau, #NFDB
32:Family is the most important thing in the world. ~ Princess Diana, #NFDB
33:The most important thing in life is human affection. ~ Dalai Lama, #NFDB
34:Education is the most important thing you can have. ~ Torrey Smith, #NFDB
35:Family is not an important thing, it is everything ~ Michael J Fox, #NFDB
36:Family is not an important thing. It's everything. ~ Michael J Fox, #NFDB
37:Family is not an important thing, it's everything. ~ Michael J Fox, #NFDB
38:Free will is not always the most important thing ~ Robert J Sawyer, #NFDB
39:The most important thing is to not waste your money. ~ Gareth Bale, #NFDB
40:What if I’ve forgotten the most important thing? ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
41:Earnestness is the most important thing. ~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, #NFDB
42:Money is a most important thing in the world. ~ George Bernard Shaw, #NFDB
43:My children are the most important thing in my life. ~ Columba Bush, #NFDB
44:The important thing is God has given me my life. ~ Malala Yousafzai, #NFDB
45:The important thing is never to stop questioning. ~ Albert Einstein, #NFDB
46:The important thing is to be in love with something. ~ Ray Bradbury, #NFDB
47:The most important thing today is to stop US wars. ~ Yuri Kochiyama, #NFDB
48:Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life. ~ Tennessee Williams, #NFDB
49:Love is the most important thing? Above everything else ~ J Sterling, #NFDB
50:Self-preservation is an important thing to me. ~ Floyd Mayweather Jr, #NFDB
51:The important thing to remember is not to forget ~ Benny Bellamacina, #NFDB
52:The most important thing is growing old gracefully. ~ Audrey Hepburn, #NFDB
53:The most important thing to do before you die is live. ~ Simon Sinek, #NFDB
54:The really important thing is not live, but to live well. ~ Socrates, #NFDB
55:The really important thing is not to reject anything. ~ Susan Sontag, #NFDB
56:I think health is another exceedingly important thing. ~ Joan Collins, #NFDB
57:Physics is not the most important thing. Love is. ~ Richard P Feynman, #NFDB
58:Taking care of yourself is the most important thing. ~ Kathleen Hanna, #NFDB
59:Talent is luck. The important thing in life is courage. ~ Woody Allen, #NFDB
60:The most important thing is to keep the Soul aloft ~ Gustave Flaubert, #NFDB
61:The most important thing is who counts the votes. ~ Mikhail Gorbachev, #NFDB
62:The photo is the most important thing. ~ Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, #NFDB
63:Family it is not an important thing, it is everything. ~ Michael J Fox, #NFDB
64:The most important thing is to not stop questioning. ~ Albert Einstein, #NFDB
65:Well, a lead is the most important thing about the story. ~ Kurt Loder, #NFDB
66:I guess the important thing for young writers is to read. ~ Paul Auster, #NFDB
67:Most important thing in life is learning how to fall. ~ Jeannette Walls, #NFDB
68:The important thing is not the camera but the eye. ~ Alfred Eisenstaedt, #NFDB
69:The most important thing you do in your life is to die. ~ Timothy Leary, #NFDB
70:Perspective is the most important thing to have in life. ~ Lauren Graham, #NFDB
71:The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. ~ Debbi Fields, #NFDB
72:The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten. ~ Brian Eno, #NFDB
73:The most important thing is to get on the right horse. ~ Marc Andreessen, #NFDB
74:The most important thing you wear is your personality. ~ America Ferrera, #NFDB
75:The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. ~ Debbi Fields, #NFDB
76:The most important thing about education is appetite. ~ Winston Churchill, #NFDB
77:Family is the most important thing in the world. ~ Diana Princess of Wales, #NFDB
78:The most important thing in a game like that is to win it. ~ Alex Ferguson, #NFDB
79:The most important thing when ill is to never lose heart. ~ Vladimir Lenin, #NFDB
80:What I believe about God is the most important thing about me. ~ A W Tozer, #NFDB
81:Winning is not the most important thing; it's everything. ~ Vince Lombardi, #NFDB
82:The most important thing about education is appetite. ~ Winston S Churchill, #NFDB
83:To make your unknown known - that's the important thing. ~ Georgia O Keeffe, #NFDB
84:Consider the Divine Life as the most important thing to obtain. ~ The Mother, #NFDB
85:I think that's the most important thing: that we create dialogue. ~ Nia Long, #NFDB
86:The bikini is the most important thing since the atom bomb. ~ Diana Vreeland, #NFDB
87:The important thing is not to think much, but to love much. ~ Teresa of vila, #NFDB
88:The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose. ~ John McEnroe, #NFDB
89:The important thing is to not stop questioning.” Albert Einstein ~ A J Aaron, #NFDB
90:The most important thing in illness is never to lose heart. ~ Vladimir Lenin, #NFDB
91:Not taking yourself too seriously, that's the important thing. ~ Chris Colfer, #NFDB
92:The important thing was to love rather than to be loved. ~ W Somerset Maugham, #NFDB
93:The most important thing in music is what is not in the notes. ~ Pablo Casals, #NFDB
94:The important thing is that he shook hands with us over the phone. ~ Alan Ball, #NFDB
95:The most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study. ~ Erica Jong, #NFDB
96:The most important thing is practice in daily life; then you can ~ Dalai Lama, #NFDB
97:You must never stop believing. That's the most important thing ~ Anthony Doerr, #NFDB
98:In Mississippi the important thing is hooch, not bar equipment. ~ Florence King, #NFDB
99:Tenacity isn't just the most important thing, it's the only thing. ~ Mavis Leno, #NFDB
100:The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses. ~ Edith S dergran, #NFDB
101:The most important thing anyone can do is raise their kids well. ~ Claire Cross, #NFDB
102:The most important thing is to be whatever you are without shame. ~ Rod Steiger, #NFDB
103:You must never stop believing. That’s the most important thing. ~ Anthony Doerr, #NFDB
104:Because Freedom is the most important thing on life, let me Be. ~ John Steinbeck, #NFDB
105:I think the most important thing is being in healthy relationships. ~ April Rose, #NFDB
106:The important thing is that we maintain plausible deniability. ~ Richard M Nixon, #NFDB
107:The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly. ~ Michael Faraday, #NFDB
108:The most important thing a born again Christian can do is to pray. ~ Chuck Smith, #NFDB
109:The most important thing I learned in school was how to touch type. ~ Joichi Ito, #NFDB
110:I suppose the important thing is to make some sort of difference ~ David Nicholls, #NFDB
111:I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape. ~ Thom Yorke, #NFDB
112:The important thing is not to retreat; you have to master yourself. ~ Olga Korbut, #NFDB
113:The most important thing about recovery is to pass the message on. ~ Maurice Gibb, #NFDB
114:The most important thing for me as an artist is having an identity. ~ Eric Church, #NFDB
115:the most important thing you have with another human being is trust. ~ Jojo Moyes, #NFDB
116:He that succeeds makes an important thing of the immediate task. ~ William Feather, #NFDB
117:I believe that the sight is a more important thing than the drawing. ~ John Ruskin, #NFDB
118:In business, money is either an important thing or it is everything. ~ Peter Thiel, #NFDB
119:In Dharma practice, the most important thing is to be very sincere. ~ Tenzin Palmo, #NFDB
120:Next to courage, willpower is the most important thing in politics. ~ Paul Johnson, #NFDB
121:Possibly the most important thing you do is actually edit the team. ~ Keith Rabois, #NFDB
122:The most important thing for a director is being able to communicate. ~ Kevin Hart, #NFDB
123:The most important thing to remember is you must know your audience. ~ Lewis Howes, #NFDB
124:The next thing you do today will be the most important thing on your ~ Seth Godin, #NFDB
125:I consider the Six-Phase the most important thing I do every day. ~ Vishen Lakhiani, #NFDB
126:If you have kids, it is the most important thing to create good times. ~ Tom Cruise, #NFDB
127:Never sacrifice your family. They are the most important thing in life. ~ James May, #NFDB
128:Say the most important thing really clearly, and screw the timing.” ~ Debora Geary, #NFDB
129:Sometimes what you want isn’t the most important thing in the world. ~ Sandy Taylor, #NFDB
130:The important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself. ~ Gore Vidal, #NFDB
131:The most important thing about expedition food is that there is some ~ Eric Shipton, #NFDB
132:The most important thing for me is the image, not the thought. ~ Andrey Zvyagintsev, #NFDB
133:The most important thing in playing any character is not judging. ~ Keira Knightley, #NFDB
134:The most important thing is to be happy myself with what I am doing. ~ Rokia Traore, #NFDB
135:The only important thing about design is how it relates to people. ~ Victor Papanek, #NFDB
136:All at once that was the most important thing—to get out of the dark. ~ Robert Bloch, #NFDB
137:And it seems to be today, image is a real important thing once again. ~ Phil Anselmo, #NFDB
138:Everyone has a price, the important thing is to find out what it is. ~ Pablo Escobar, #NFDB
139:God is always in my life, and that's the most important thing to me. ~ Lenny Kravitz, #NFDB
140:Of what real value is a title? The power is the only important thing ~ James Clavell, #NFDB
141:Surely where a man lives is the least important thing about him. ~ Robert A Heinlein, #NFDB
142:The important thing is not to be defined by what others think of you. ~ Steve Coogan, #NFDB
143:The most important thing about a technology is how it changes people. ~ Jaron Lanier, #NFDB
144:The most important thing a garden needs is the shadow of a gardener. ~ Joanna Cannon, #NFDB
145:The most important thing for any of us to be in our jobs is curious. ~ Ginni Rometty, #NFDB
146:The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft. ~ Gustave Flaubert, #NFDB
147:The most important thing is for you to believe in what you are doing. ~ Debbi Fields, #NFDB
148:Work is the least important thing and family is the most important. ~ Jerry Seinfeld, #NFDB
149:You must never stop believing. That’s the most important thing.” The ~ Anthony Doerr, #NFDB
150:Falling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do. ~ John Eldredge, #NFDB
151:If you're into what you're playing, that's the most important thing. ~ James Hetfield, #NFDB
152:I say too much sometimes, but I'm honest, that's the important thing. ~ Lindsay Lohan, #NFDB
153:So the important thing in a military operation is victory, not persistence. ~ Sun Tzu, #NFDB
154:The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said. ~ Peter Drucker, #NFDB
155:The most important thing is to believe that you can reach your goals. ~ Brian P Moran, #NFDB
156:The most important thing is to keep your team as small as possible. ~ Mark Zuckerberg, #NFDB
157:Whatever anybody says, the most important thing in life is to be happy. ~ Orhan Pamuk, #NFDB
158:With TV, the most important thing is just to get people to turn it on. ~ Miranda Otto, #NFDB
159:... a man is a very important thing-maybe more important than a star. ~ John Steinbeck, #NFDB
160:As long as we are enjoying ourselves, that's the most important thing ~ Tony Fernandes, #NFDB
161:I'll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me. ~ Bela Lugosi, #NFDB
162:The important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. ~ Pierre de Coubertin, #NFDB
163:The important thing in life is not what you get, but what you throw out. ~ Saul Leiter, #NFDB
164:The important thing is to take your time and not get stressed. ~ Diane von Furstenberg, #NFDB
165:Being a mother is probably the most important thing in my life right now. ~ Halle Berry, #NFDB
166:In kicking the balls, the most important thing was never to hesitate. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
167:It's a very important thing to learn to talk to people you disagree with. ~ Pete Seeger, #NFDB
168:Reusing and recycling our materials is the most important thing we can do. ~ Nikki Reed, #NFDB
169:Sometimes the bravest and most important thing you can do is just show up. ~ Bren Brown, #NFDB
170:The important thing in life is to let the years carry us along. ~ Federico Garcia Lorca, #NFDB
171:The important thing is to feel your music, really feel it and believe it. ~ Ray Charles, #NFDB
172:The most important thing any woman can do is promote her inner well-being ~ Donna Karan, #NFDB
173:The really important thing to be was yourself, just as hard as you could. ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
174:Art is a guarantee of sanity. That is the most important thing I have ~ Louise Bourgeois, #NFDB
175:I think a sense of humor is the most important thing anyone can have. ~ Carolina Herrera, #NFDB
176:Just want to make sure you’re happy. That’s the most important thing to me ~ Celia Aaron, #NFDB
177:Letting there be room for not knowing is the most important thing of all. ~ Pema Ch dr n, #NFDB
178:Most important thing in life," he would say, "is learning how to fall. ~ Jeannette Walls, #NFDB
179:The important thing is sincerity. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.”) ~ Jim Holt, #NFDB
180:The important thing is to create. Nothing else matters; creation is all. ~ Pablo Picasso, #NFDB
181:When I approach a story or movie, the story is the most important thing. ~ Alexandre Aja, #NFDB
182:But the most important thing is, Enron did not cause the California crisis. ~ Kenneth Lay, #NFDB
183:Image is the most important thing about someone's career and longevity. ~ Jessica Simpson, #NFDB
184:I’m still me, Malala. The important thing is God has given me my life. ~ Malala Yousafzai, #NFDB
185:the important thing is not how long your life is but how long it seems. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
186:But the most important thing is, even if we're apart, I'll always be with you. ~ A A Milne, #NFDB
187:Getting married and settling down isn't the most important thing in my life. ~ Liam Neeson, #NFDB
188:The important thing is to do good work, no matter what medium you do it in. ~ Roy Scheider, #NFDB
189:The most important thing,” he said, “is to be present in the face of fear. ~ Gary Ferguson, #NFDB
190:Yeah, I'm a thrill seeker, but crikey, education's the most important thing. ~ Steve Irwin, #NFDB
191:I think the most important thing that marijuana does is it affects the brain. ~ Tommy Chong, #NFDB
192:Letting there be room for not knowing is the most important thing of all. We ~ Pema Ch dr n, #NFDB
193:Most important thing in life,” he would say, “is learning how to fall.” * ~ Jeannette Walls, #NFDB
194:Next to gold and jewelry, health is the most important thing you can have. ~ Phyllis Diller, #NFDB
195:That's the most important thing. If I keep reading, maybe I can hold my own. ~ Daniel Keyes, #NFDB
196:That’s the most important thing. If I keep reading, maybe I can hold my own. ~ Daniel Keyes, #NFDB
197:The important thing to remember about mathematics is not to be frightened ~ Richard Dawkins, #NFDB
198:The most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it. ~ Edwin Land, #NFDB
199:The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten. ~ Andre Malraux, #NFDB
200:The most important thing is to remain active and to love what you are doing. ~ Leslie Caron, #NFDB
201:The most important thing people did for me was to expose me to new things. ~ Temple Grandin, #NFDB
202:The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you. ~ W Somerset Maugham, #NFDB
203:the really important thing to be was yourself, just as hard as you could. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
204:To be happy is, I guess, the most important thing in life. ~ Mary Crown Princess of Denmark, #NFDB
205:Trying to ground everything in reality was the most important thing to me. ~ Rupert Sanders, #NFDB
206:Bringing up a child in a loving relationship is the most important thing. ~ Eric Stonestreet, #NFDB
207:I watch a film and the most important thing to me is what I think of the movie. ~ Clive Owen, #NFDB
208:The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them. ~ Queen Victoria, #NFDB
209:An important thing to remember about the press is there is no ideological bias. ~ Jon Meacham, #NFDB
210:Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good, too. ~ Yogi Berra, #NFDB
211:Myself, first of all, I am a Jew. And that is the most important thing for me. ~ Ariel Sharon, #NFDB
212:Power can do everything but the most important thing: it cannot control love. ~ Philip Yancey, #NFDB
213:The most important thing for entrepreneurs is not to be put off by failure. ~ Richard Branson, #NFDB
214:The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said. ~ Peter F Drucker, #NFDB
215:You can be everything in life but the important thing is to be a good person. ~ Shams Tabrizi, #NFDB
216:For dreams to come true, it requires diligence. Believing is the most important thing! ~ Yunho, #NFDB
217:My education is the most important thing so I always have to make time for it. ~ Jackson Guthy, #NFDB
218:Only those in comfortable circumstances think love is the most important thing. ~ Mason Cooley, #NFDB
219:Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention ~ Rachel Naomi Remen, #NFDB
220:The important thing about a sport is the people who devote their lives to it. ~ Robert Redford, #NFDB
221:The important thing in life is not where you came from,but where you are going. ~ Paige Dearth, #NFDB
222:The important thing isn't what other people think you are; it's who you are. ~ Shannon L Alder, #NFDB
223:The important thing is that the worst is over, ... Now comes the reconstruction. ~ Vicente Fox, #NFDB
224:The most important thing in life for you is your positive stance in life! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
225:The most important thing is the first proclamation: Jesus Christ has saved you. ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
226:words are steps along a path—the important thing is to get where you’re going. ~ Mark Lawrence, #NFDB
227:Yeah, but Jesus is the most important thing to me and I want to be bold about it. ~ Jonny Lang, #NFDB
228:A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing. ~ Gertrude Stein, #NFDB
229:I hope to have communion with the people, that is the most important thing. ~ Pope John Paul II, #NFDB
230:I think the most important thing when you're planning a meal is... balance. ~ Travis Lane Stork, #NFDB
231:The important thing for me was that the World Cup should travel round the world. ~ Sepp Blatter, #NFDB
232:The important thing in life is not where you came from, but where you are going. ~ Paige Dearth, #NFDB
233:The important thing is to do the right thing. Then credibility will follow. ~ Henry A Kissinger, #NFDB
234:The important thing is to teach a child that good can always triumph over evil... ~ Walt Disney, #NFDB
235:The most important thing about getting somewhere is starting right where we are. ~ Bruce Barton, #NFDB
236:The most important thing about virtue is to talk as if you're in favor of it. ~ Loraine Despres, #NFDB
237:The most important thing for a good marriage is to learn how to argue peaceably. ~ Anita Ekberg, #NFDB
238:The most important thing is to believe in yourself and know that you can do it. ~ Gabby Douglas, #NFDB
239:To be a great man and a saint to oneself, that's the only important thing. ~ Charles Baudelaire, #NFDB
240:When you know where somebody is, you know the most important thing about them. ~ John Darnielle, #NFDB
241:I do appreciate that the most important thing as manager is to get good results. ~ Stuart Pearce, #NFDB
242:Knowing when to quit is probably a very important thing, but I just am not ready. ~ James Taylor, #NFDB
243:Life is a long drop down, Marcus. The most important thing is knowing how to fall. ~ Jo l Dicker, #NFDB
244:The important thing in this life is to link your sadness to the sadness of others. ~ Sh saku End, #NFDB
245:The important thing is the attitude of the athlete, the desire to get to the top. ~ Herb Elliott, #NFDB
246:The important thing is the educational experience itself — how to survive it. ~ Donald Barthelme, #NFDB
247:The important thing is to never stop questioning. Never lose a holy curiosity. ~ Albert Einstein, #NFDB
248:The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don't know. ~ Barbara Kingsolver, #NFDB
249:During labor the most important thing is to get primal and surrender to the process. ~ Ricki Lake, #NFDB
250:I think that's the most important thing-two things really, have fun and be yourself. ~ Asher Roth, #NFDB
251:The most important thing for staying in shape is having fun with your workouts. ~ Erin Heatherton, #NFDB
252:The most important thing to me is the fact that I want him with my whole heart. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
253:The most important thing we ever have to learn in life is to live with our choices. ~ Ann Rinaldi, #NFDB
254:The thing that's important for me is to remember what's the most important thing. ~ George W Bush, #NFDB
255:Truth is always the most important thing, even when it leads us into dark places. ~ Deborah Ellis, #NFDB
256:When people ask me what the most important thing is in life, I answer: 'Just breathe.' ~ Yoko Ono, #NFDB
257:You must never stop believing. That's the most important thing."
- Madam Manec ~ Anthony Doerr,#NFDB
258:But the most important thing for you to understand is this: all things want to open. ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
259:I like to spend time with my family - that's the most important thing in my life. ~ Tommy Hilfiger, #NFDB
260:important thing was to let them take their own time, and not frighten them away. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
261:I never played music, but it's an important thing ... the studying, the inspiration. ~ Kevin James, #NFDB
262:The extension of life beyond Earth is the most important thing we can do as a species. ~ Elon Musk, #NFDB
263:The important thing is, you have to have something important to say about the world. ~ Paul Strand, #NFDB
264:The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it's all that matters. ~ Audrey Hepburn, #NFDB
265:The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging. ~ Warren Buffett, #NFDB
266:The most important thing you do everyday you live is deciding not to kill yourself. ~ Albert Camus, #NFDB
267:The most important thing you must decide to do every day is put the Lord first. ~ Elizabeth George, #NFDB
268:The only important thing in a book is the meaning it has for you. —W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM ~ Wendy Wax, #NFDB
269:To me, the most important thing in life is to be a human being. Second is acting. ~ Peter Stormare, #NFDB
270:What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us ~ A W Tozer, #NFDB
271:When the day is done the most important thing is loving people and sharing love. ~ Madonna Ciccone, #NFDB
272:You are the most important thing to me now. The most important thing to me ever. ~ Stephenie Meyer, #NFDB
273:I think the most important thing for me is putting out records that document ideas. ~ Kieran Hebden, #NFDB
274:My priority, the most important thing in my life is my family, my wife and my son. ~ Novak Djokovic, #NFDB
275:Ownership is not the most important thing. IT IS THE ONLY THING THAT COUNTS. Nothing ~ Felix Dennis, #NFDB
276:The important thing about security systems isn’t how they work, it’s how they fail. ~ Cory Doctorow, #NFDB
277:The important thing is to get the right players on the team so Mike can be successful. ~ Chuck Daly, #NFDB
278:The most important thing in changing human behavior is the person's motivation. ~ Milton H Erickson, #NFDB
279:The most important thing in my father's life? World peace. Me and my brother. My mom. ~ Sean Lennon, #NFDB
280:The most important thing is to go out and see the stars, not to see them in books. ~ Edouard Boubat, #NFDB
281:What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us. ~ A W Tozer, #NFDB
282:The most important thing for a judge is - curiously enough - judgment. ~ Patrick Devlin Baron Devlin, #NFDB
283:The most important thing for old guys is never start going down the stairs sideways. ~ Dick Van Dyke, #NFDB
284:There’s no comparison. Veganism is the single most important thing that one can do today. ~ Lee Hall, #NFDB
285:What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us. ~ A W Tozer, #NFDB
286:What comes to our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.1 ~ Chip Ingram, #NFDB
287:You will never see the full path. The important thing is to do the next right thing. ~ Michael Hyatt, #NFDB
288:As a writer, the most important thing for me is to continue to write, no matter where I am. ~ Bei Dao, #NFDB
289:I think women want to look beautiful. I think that's an important thing. It is relevant. ~ Tory Burch, #NFDB
290:Peter Pan is perhaps the most important thing, to me, that I have ever done in theater. ~ Mary Martin, #NFDB
291:Relationships are the most important thing in life, and friends are a part of that. ~ Nicholas Sparks, #NFDB
292:The important thing is you didn’t say yes to something that would have made you unhappy. ~ Ann Leckie, #NFDB
293:The most important thing about a family is that all the people in it love each other. ~ Lesl a Newman, #NFDB
294:The most important thing about a family is that all the people in it love each other. ~ Leslea Newman, #NFDB
295:The most important thing for a forward is speed of thought. Top players read the game. ~ Samuel Eto o, #NFDB
296:The most important thing I look for in a musician is whether he knows how to listen. ~ Duke Ellington, #NFDB
297:The most important thing in time management is knowing where to start fixing the mess. ~ Christ Lewis, #NFDB
298:The most important thing in your life is your personal relationship with Jesus Christ. ~ Andy Stanley, #NFDB
299:We have a tendency to assume that what we can see is the important thing to look at. ~ Michael Pollan, #NFDB
300:As a queen I speak about unity and respect. I think that is the most important thing. ~ Gabriela Isler, #NFDB
301:But a woman should not marry where there is no respect. Respect is the most important thing. ~ Zen Cho, #NFDB
302:For the last five or six years the most important thing in my life has been my family. ~ Jimmy Connors, #NFDB
303:I think when you're trying to improve, the most important thing is to always have a plan. ~ Hank Haney, #NFDB
304:Money is not the most important thing in the world. Love is. Fortunately, I love money. ~ Jackie Mason, #NFDB
305:The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting ~ Steven Pressfield, #NFDB
306:The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. ~ Theodore Hesburgh, #NFDB
307:The most important thing for morale was to maintain a united front among the officers. ~ Peter Heather, #NFDB
308:The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB
309:The most important thing in life will always be family. The people right here, right now. ~ Vin Diesel, #NFDB
310:The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters. ~ Audrey Hepburn, #NFDB
311:Attitude is an inner concept. It is the most important thing you can develop in your life. ~ Wayne Dyer, #NFDB
312:Everyone makes mistakes. The important thing is to not make the same mistake twice. ~ Stephanie Perkins, #NFDB
313:I don't think of myself as a policy expert. I think education is the most important thing. ~ Jenna Bush, #NFDB
314:If my lyrics mean something special to someone... that's the most important thing to me. ~ Dia Frampton, #NFDB
315:The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and let it come in ~ Morrie Schwartz, #NFDB
316:The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in. ~ Mitch Albom, #NFDB
317:In truth I care little about any party's politicsthe man behind it is the important thing. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
318:I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion. ~ Billie Jean King, #NFDB
319:Often, in great discovery the most important thing is that a certain question is found. ~ Max Wertheimer, #NFDB
320:The important thing is not where you were or where you are but where you want to get. ~ David J Schwartz, #NFDB
321:The important thing to remember, ... is that you are a human being and worthy of respect. ~ Sarah Dessen, #NFDB
322:The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will'. ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB
323:The most important thing in making money is not letting your losses get out of hand. ~ Martin S Schwartz, #NFDB
324:The most important thing to do in your life is to not interfere with somebody else's life. ~ Frank Zappa, #NFDB
325:The most important thing women have to do is to stir up the zeal of women themselves. ~ John Stuart Mill, #NFDB
326:The world should be full of love. Love. Love is the most important thing in the world. ~ Michael Jackson, #NFDB
327:In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances. ~ Herbert Spencer, #NFDB
328:It's easy to talk big, but the important thing is whether or not you clean up the shit. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
329:I write about sex because often it feels like the most important thing in the world. ~ Jeanette Winterson, #NFDB
330:Life is like a snowball. The important thing is finding wet snow and a really long hill. ~ Warren Buffett, #NFDB
331:Money isn't the most important thing. It is important, of course. I am not Mahatma Gandhi. ~ Jurgen Klopp, #NFDB
332:One day all of us will die but - and this is the important thing - we are not dead yet. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
333:Out of all the opportunities Britain offered us, choice was the most important thing. ~ Balli Kaur Jaswal, #NFDB
334:People who say that money isn't the most important thing in the world are usually broke. ~ Malcolm Forbes, #NFDB
335:That's the most important thing for me in TV, telling the story to as many people as we can. ~ Nick Faldo, #NFDB
336:The important thing is that you practise. The more you practice, the better you will get. ~ Kevin Horsley, #NFDB
337:The most important thing about the ‘next time’ is that there may not be a next time! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
338:The most important thing is not victory, the most important thing is don't get defeated. ~ Rickson Gracie, #NFDB
339:The most important thing I’ve learned about nutrition is you need to deserve your carbs ~ Timothy Ferriss, #NFDB
340:The most important thing you learn at school is that learning only happens by being taught. ~ Ivan Illich, #NFDB
341:You're stuck with being yourself, so the important thing is to find people who like that. ~ Andrew Davies, #NFDB
342:Humor is a very important thing. It is a natural predilection. It is an emotional release. ~ Ray Stevenson, #NFDB
343:The important thing is to not walk alone, but to rely on each other as brothers and sisters ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
344:The most important thing about a fighter is something you can't see, and that's his heart. ~ Kenny Florian, #NFDB
345:The most important thing is to have a more open and honest dialogue about gender issues. ~ Sheryl Sandberg, #NFDB
346:Do what you would do for free, having passion for what you do is the most important thing. ~ Warren Buffett, #NFDB
347:If there is a credo in practical medicine, it is that the important thing is to be sensible. ~ Atul Gawande, #NFDB
348:I think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity. ~ William Gibson, #NFDB
349:I think the most important thing is to keep active, and to hope that your mind stays active. ~ Jane Goodall, #NFDB
350:Prayer does change things, all kinds of things. But the most important thing it changes is us. ~ R C Sproul, #NFDB
351:Since death is certain and the time of death is uncertain, what is the most important thing? ~ Pema Chodron, #NFDB
352:The important thing is always to get back up, not to stay on the ground licking your wounds. ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
353:the important thing is not to point a finger at flaws but to attempt to correct them! ~ Bebe Moore Campbell, #NFDB
354:Because ownership isn’t the important thing. If you want to be rich, it’s the only thing. THE ~ Felix Dennis, #NFDB
355:Certainly the prefrontal cortex is an important thing; I’m as proud of mine as the next guy. ~ Robert Wright, #NFDB
356:God is always working through you; the important thing is to become conscious and co-operate. ~ Mother Meera, #NFDB
357:I realized that the most empowering important thing was actually simply taking care of myself. ~ Aspen Matis, #NFDB
358:She noticed the most important thing of all, which is the dance lesson within the performance. ~ Zadie Smith, #NFDB
359:The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. ~ Albert Einstein, #NFDB
360:The important thing is to keep the fire in your heart and be strong to overcome hard moments. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
361:•The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in. ~ Morrie Schwartz, #NFDB
362:The most important thing is to forecast where customers are moving, and be in front of them. ~ Philip Kotler, #NFDB
363:We trust Hillary Clinton, my wife and I, we trust her with the most important thing in our life. ~ Tim Kaine, #NFDB
364:Your name is the most important thing you own. Don't ever do anything to disgrace or cheapen it. ~ Ben Hogan, #NFDB
365:And the most important thing you can do is learn to edit yourself. And then go back and rewrite. ~ Kurt Loder, #NFDB
366:A road well begun is the battle half won. The important thing is to make a beginning and ~ Soren Kierkegaard, #NFDB
367:Good health is the most important thing. More than success. More than money. More than power. ~ Lee Strasberg, #NFDB
368:(Most important thing to know about space-sickness bags? Keep them within reach at all times.) ~ Steven Gould, #NFDB
369:My passion. My commitment. This is the most important thing in my life other than my family. ~ Howard Schultz, #NFDB
370:Power creates its own problems. The important thing is to have the strength to deal with them. ~ J A Cipriano, #NFDB
371:Another important thing to learn is that kids have a personality that has nothing to do with you. ~ Mila Kunis, #NFDB
372:Knowing is NOT the most important thing. To be able to FIND OUT is more important than knowing. ~ Sugata Mitra, #NFDB
373:the important thing is not what we (look) like,but the role we play in our best friend's life. ~ Cecelia Ahern, #NFDB
374:The most important thing is our dignity. If we have that we can survive on bread and water. ~ Richard Flanagan, #NFDB
375:The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them. ~ Frank Clark, #NFDB
376:The true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
377:But the important thing about learning to wait, I feel sure, is to know what you are waiting for. ~ Anna Neagle, #NFDB
378:Every movement has radicals. But the important thing is that the radicals are not the leaders. ~ Warren Farrell, #NFDB
379:Happiness is the most important thing in the world, without it, you live a life of depression. ~ Marilyn Monroe, #NFDB
380:I hope people become inspired to become active in their community. That's the important thing. ~ Dolores Huerta, #NFDB
381:In our obsessive wish to arrive, we often forget the most important thing, which is the journey. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
382:I think that in some ways there is no more important thing in my life outside of family and God. ~ Harry Lennix, #NFDB
383:I think, there are people for whom freedom is a bigger, more important thing than stability. ~ Douglas Coupland, #NFDB
384:It's an important thing to have a relationship with the director, and have it be a positive one. ~ Trevor Rabin, #NFDB
385:No matter what happens, always Keep your childhood innocence. It's the most important thing. ~ Federico Fellini, #NFDB
386:The most important thing is that there is clear reporting structure and everyone knows what it is. ~ Sam Altman, #NFDB
387:Water: it has no taste, no smell, no color, and yet it is the most important thing in the world. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
388:I know from growing up in the spotlight, as it were, that the most important thing is your family. ~ Kate Burton, #NFDB
389:It's sort of the most important thing for acting, is to listen to the person you're dealing with. ~ Ivan Reitman, #NFDB
390:Remember that the most important thing is to try and love other people as much as they love you. ~ David Sedaris, #NFDB
391:The feel of the experience is the important thing, not the ability to verbalize or analyze it. ~ Stanley Kubrick, #NFDB
392:The important thing is to believe in what you do. Have a big dream and take small steps. ~ Diane von Furstenberg, #NFDB
393:The most important thing about leadership is your character and the values that guide your life. ~ Brenda Barnes, #NFDB
394:The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it. ~ R Buckminster Fuller, #NFDB
395:The most important thing... is not clicking the shutter... it is clicking with the subject. ~ Alfred Eisenstaedt, #NFDB
396:I think the most important thing about holding a concert is to enjoy the moment, rather than showing off. ~ Yunho, #NFDB
397:My family's the most important thing to me right now, and I just want to go be with them right now. ~ Amanda Knox, #NFDB
398:Tell her you love her every day, man. It’s the most important thing you can do for your marriage. ~ Jennifer Foor, #NFDB
399:The important thing is not whatever nonsense the voices are saying, but what the voices are feeling. ~ John Green, #NFDB
400:The most important thing for me is the direct observation of nature in its light-filled existence. ~ August Macke, #NFDB
401:The most important thing in this world is faith. Without faith you cannot communicate with God. ~ Akiane Kramarik, #NFDB
402:To me the most important thing in a piece of art is the thought. Technique is totally secondary. ~ Robert Bateman, #NFDB
403:We live in an age where revenge seems to be the most important thing for individuals and countries. ~ Liam Neeson, #NFDB
404:What do you think about me is not my business the important thing is what I think about myself. ~ Robert Kiyosaki, #NFDB
405:I think an education is not only important, it is the most important thing you can do with your life. ~ Dean Kamen, #NFDB
406:I think the first and most important thing is that you've got to have a goal and a vision. ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger, #NFDB
407:My father once told me that the most important thing every man should know is what he would die for. ~ Tana French, #NFDB
408:My father told me once that the most important thing every man should know is what he would die for. ~ Tana French, #NFDB
409:One never knows what each day is going to bring. The important thing is to be open and ready for it. ~ Henry Moore, #NFDB
410:Pain is such an important thing in life. I think that as an artist you have to experience suffering. ~ Naomi Watts, #NFDB
411:...pride for men is like love for women. Very strong. The most important thing for men is pride. ~ Christie Watson, #NFDB
412:Sometimes we laugh to keep from crying, but the important thing is to laugh, every chance we get. ~ Cassandra King, #NFDB
413:The important thing is fear should not control your actions. It should not dictate what you do. ~ Aung San Suu Kyi, #NFDB
414:The important thing isn't the soundness or otherwise of the argument, but for it to make you think. ~ Albert Camus, #NFDB
415:The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit... a reputation, character. ~ John D Rockefeller, #NFDB
416:The single most important thing in coaching is turning out educated kids who are ready for society. ~ Allen Newell, #NFDB
417:A real important thing is that, though I rely on my husband for love, I rely on myself for strength. ~ Dolly Parton, #NFDB
418:A very important thing about DJing that’s missed nowadays is the trendsetting and the taste-making. ~ Laidback Luke, #NFDB
419:...in the end every one stands alone, and the important thing is who it is that stands alone. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer, #NFDB
420:Respect is the most important thing. Be respectful toward others and have respect for yourself. ~ Georges St Pierre, #NFDB
421:The important thing is to keep playing, to play against weak opponents and to play for big stakes. ~ Warren Buffett, #NFDB
422:The important thing is to make sure the last word you have with the horse is good for both of you. ~ Buck Brannaman, #NFDB
423:The most important thing is not to get what we want in prayer, but to accomplish what God wants. ~ Stormie Omartian, #NFDB
424:The most important thing is this: to sacrifice what you are now for what you can become tomorrow. ~ Shannon L Alder, #NFDB
425:The most important thing we're doing differently is that we talk openly about gender at Facebook. ~ Sheryl Sandberg, #NFDB
426:The most important thing you can do is to understand the basic principle of eliminating question marks. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
427:The only important thing to realise about history is that it all took place in the last five minutes. ~ Celia Green, #NFDB
428:Whatever comes into your heart and mind when you think about God is the most important thing about you. ~ A W Tozer, #NFDB
429:Whenever I'm making music I'm always waiting for the shivers to happen - that's an important thing for me. ~ Grimes, #NFDB
430:Interest is the most important thing in life; happiness is temporary, but interest is continuous. ~ Georgia O Keeffe, #NFDB
431:I think that's the most important thing you can do to be a real person - is to be honest with yourself. ~ Mike Dirnt, #NFDB
432:It was how a person felt in that state and why they were in that state that was the important thing. ~ Cecelia Ahern, #NFDB
433:Physical strength is the most important thing in life. This is true whether we want it to be or not. ~ Mark Rippetoe, #NFDB
434:The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and the determination to attain it. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #NFDB
435:The important thing is to set the passion free. The drama is everything, the cause of the drama nothing. ~ Ana s Nin, #NFDB
436:The Jewish community is all about love and family, which is the most important thing in my life, too. ~ Gregg Sulkin, #NFDB
437:The most important thing is to find collective solutions in diplomacy and I think that is possible. ~ Vladimir Putin, #NFDB
438:What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.” —A. W. Tozer ~ Randy Alcorn, #NFDB
439:Art is the most important thing to me in the entire world. It is my passion. Nothing else. End of story. ~ Sarah Lacy, #NFDB
440:In any character I ever play, whether she's good or bad or whatever, my most important thing is heart. ~ Laura Prepon, #NFDB
441:It's easy to have principles when you're rich. The important thing is to have principles when you're poor. ~ Ray Kroc, #NFDB
442:Serbian history tells that family is the most important thing and you have to stick with the family. ~ Novak Djokovic, #NFDB
443:That the truest experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
444:The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become. ~ E Lockhart, #NFDB
445:The most important thing in a piece of music is to seduce people to the point where they start searching. ~ Brian Eno, #NFDB
446:The most important thing in the face is the eyes, and if you can make the eyes talk, you're halfway there. ~ Ian Holm, #NFDB
447:The most important thing is to be proud of the work that you put into something, and put the ego aside. ~ Alicia Keys, #NFDB
448:Well, that's the important thing, isn't it, Mma? To feel happiness, and then to remember it. ~ Alexander McCall Smith, #NFDB
449:What is the most important thing one learns in school? Self-esteem, support, and friendship. ~ Terry Tempest Williams, #NFDB
450:Above any commercial success one might enjoy, one's reputation for honesty is the most important thing ~ George Carman, #NFDB
451:Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr, #NFDB
452:He has a way of watching her that makes her feel as if she is the most important thing in the world. ~ Gabriel Tallent, #NFDB
453:Here, pay attention, what I'm about to tell you is the truest, most important thing: None of us is right. ~ Seth Fried, #NFDB
454:My main interest in being a director, and the most important thing to me, is that world with the actors. ~ Matt Reeves, #NFDB
455:My old man says when it's time to be counted, the important thing is to be man enough to stand up. ~ Robert A Heinlein, #NFDB
456:That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
457:The most important thing in the kitchen is the waste paper basket and it needs to be centrally located. ~ Donald Knuth, #NFDB
458:The most important thing to remember about food labels is that you should avoid foods that have labels. ~ Joel Fuhrman, #NFDB
459:The most important thing you can ever know, is that whatever your purpose is, that's not your only choice. ~ Dan Wells, #NFDB
460:The really important thing is learning how to sceptically question and rely on empirical evidence. ~ Lawrence M Krauss, #NFDB
461:What do you think about me is not my business the important thing is what I think about myself ... ~ Robert T Kiyosaki, #NFDB
462:Against my Scandinavian instincts, I decided to tell Bill about the most important thing I had ever done. ~ Hope Jahren, #NFDB
463:Have a healthy mental attitude; that's the most important thing and the best thing you can do for yourself. ~ Arden Cho, #NFDB
464:Having your loved ones near you is the only important thing, and everything else has little meaning. ~ Mikhail Shishkin, #NFDB
465:I'd forgotten it's an important thing to give thought to your morality and how you intend to live your life. ~ Lee Pace, #NFDB
466:I suppose the important thing is to make some sort of difference. You know, actually change something. ~ David Nicholls, #NFDB
467:It is an important thing, in our never-ending pursuit of happiness, to stop and just be happy for a while. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
468:It was enough that slander could ruin a woman, because her purity was the most important thing about her. ~ Jane Porter, #NFDB
469:People have many theories about comedy, but being just plain funny is the one most important thing. ~ Gilbert Gottfried, #NFDB
470:Poetry is what I've done my whole life. And every important thing in my life had found itself into poems. ~ Donald Hall, #NFDB
471:The most important thing about my profession is finding the truth, finding the reality of these shows. ~ Shuler Hensley, #NFDB
472:The most important thing about priorities and posteriorities is not intelligent analysis but courage. ~ Peter F Drucker, #NFDB
473:The most important thing is to figure out Your goal in life. If Your intentions and methods are correct, ~ Arjun Rampal, #NFDB
474:The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president. ~ Mitch McConnell, #NFDB
475:Finding one important thing in your life doesn’t mean you have to give up all the other important things. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
476:Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act. ~ Jack Welch, #NFDB
477:I feel like if the most important thing is that we love each other, everything else will fall into place. ~ Maisey Yates, #NFDB
478:I think life is the most important thing and you have to live that first and then you're art comes second. ~ Jenny Lewis, #NFDB
479:I think that the most important thing a woman can have - next to talent, of course - is her hairdresser. ~ Joan Crawford, #NFDB
480:It's a great experience just to understand that finally being well known is not the most important thing. ~ Rokia Traore, #NFDB
481:Learning is the most important thing, no mater how you do it, or where you do it, or who you do it with. ~ Saoirse Ronan, #NFDB
482:Stories are the most important thing in the world. Without stories, we wouldn't be human beings at all. ~ Philip Pullman, #NFDB
483:The actual handbag is neither here nor there-- it's what you keep in it that's the most important thing. ~ Caitlin Moran, #NFDB
484:The important thing is not to think much but to love much; and so do that which best stirs you to love. ~ Teresa of vila, #NFDB
485:The important thing is to remember what most impressed you and to put it on canvas as fast as possible. ~ Pierre Bonnard, #NFDB
486:The most important thing about winning is believing that you can win no matter who you are playing. ~ Lawrence Dallaglio, #NFDB
487:The most important thing for me is my family, and my health and happiness, and making sure everyone's cool. ~ Dave Grohl, #NFDB
488:The most important thing in coaching is communication. It's not what you say as much as what they absorb. ~ Red Auerbach, #NFDB
489:The most important thing is to get the fish in quickly and leave it in the water. Forget the hero pose. ~ Yvon Chouinard, #NFDB
490:There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important thing. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
491:The thing about football - the important thing about football - is that it is not just about football. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
492:We came all this way to explore the Moon, and the most important thing is that we discovered the Earth. ~ William Anders, #NFDB
493:I think the most important thing any artist can do is to constantly push themselves and improve their craft. ~ Ami Vitale, #NFDB
494:The most important thing is that you actually care, that you do something to the very best of your ability ~ Jonathan Ive, #NFDB
495:What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment. ~ Eddie Albert, #NFDB
496:When a good woman knows an important thing needs to be done, she won't let death prevent her from doing it. ~ Dean Koontz, #NFDB
497:Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability. ~ Gabriel Garc a M rquez, #NFDB
498:Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability. ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez, #NFDB
499:Does not matter what language you choose, the important thing is the words you use to express yourself. ~ Malala Yousafzai, #NFDB
500:Dreams can be any size you want them to be. But the important thing is that you have one that is yours. ~ Martin Pistorius, #NFDB
501:I think the most important thing people can do to save our planet and the human race is to empower women! ~ Robert Ballard, #NFDB
502:Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. ~ Albert Einstein, #NFDB
503:Love is the most important thing in life. If you don't have (a relationship), you're always looking for one. ~ Sheryl Crow, #NFDB
504:The important thing in strategy is to suppress the enemy's useful actions but allow his useless actions ~ Miyamoto Musashi, #NFDB
505:The important thing in tidying is not deciding what to discard but rather what you want to keep in your life. ~ Marie Kond, #NFDB
506:The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good. ~ Dalai Lama, #NFDB
507:The most important thing is to find people that you enjoy - friends that you enjoy playing music with. ~ Michael Glawogger, #NFDB
508:The single most important thing in life is to believe in yourself regardless of what everyone else says. ~ Hikaru Nakamura, #NFDB
509:Whatever the outcome may be, the important thing is to step forward on the path that you believe is right. ~ Daisaku Ikeda, #NFDB
510:But the most important thing I know is that I want the possibility of you more than the reality of [her]. ~ Caroline Kepnes, #NFDB
511:Finding one important thing in your life doesn’t mean you have to
give up all the other important things. ~ Paulo Coelho,#NFDB
512:I believe that educating people to awaken into full consciousness is the most important thing we can do. ~ Elizabeth Lesser, #NFDB
513:I don't think I'm really interested in having a celebrity relationship. The music is the most important thing. ~ Alex Parks, #NFDB
514:It was therefore anti-Christ, and he knew that to expose it as such was the most important thing imaginable. ~ Eric Metaxas, #NFDB
515:Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever, and not this outer life of telegrams and anger. ~ E M Forster, #NFDB
516:The important thing in war is that there is an element of rage, but you must remain very distant from it. ~ George Friedman, #NFDB
517:The most important thing is that Milosevic agreed to sit at the negotiating table with the Kosovo Albanians ~ Boris Yeltsin, #NFDB
518:The most important thing to keep in mind is not that we are all the same, but that we are all equally weird. ~ Mohsin Hamid, #NFDB
519:The most important thing you can ever know is that no matter what your purpose is, that's not your only choice. ~ Dan Wells, #NFDB
520:I don't create blurs. Blurring is not the most important thing; nor is it an identity tag for my pictures. ~ Gerhard Richter, #NFDB
521:If the most important thing for your project is to put on a circus, then you have less chance of winning things. ~ Luis Figo, #NFDB
522:I had no doubt that music was the most important thing in my life, and I was getting an education in that. ~ Michael Nesmith, #NFDB
523:I think the important thing about staying creative and staying sharp and original is not to look back too much. ~ Wes Craven, #NFDB
524:Money isn’t the most important thing in life, but it’s reasonably close to oxygen on the ‘gotta have it’ scale. ~ Zig Ziglar, #NFDB
525:The important thing is being capable of emotions, but to experience only one's own would be a sorry limitation. ~ Andre Gide, #NFDB
526:The important thing is the presidency," Nixon continued. "If need be, save the presidency from the President. ~ Bob Woodward, #NFDB
527:The most important thing is to live a fabulous life. As long as it's fabulous I don't care how long it is. ~ Freddie Mercury, #NFDB
528:We all have a memory and can memorise things. The more important thing is how we act on that which we know. ~ Peter Tremayne, #NFDB
529:Whatever you do, if you do it hard enough you'll enjoy it. The important thing is to work and work hard. ~ David Rockefeller, #NFDB
530:But here is an important thing: you must practice not perfunctorily, but with all your intelligence and love, ~ Brenda Ueland, #NFDB
531:coffee’s the most important thing they sell because most of us need it to keep us going, like gas in the car. ~ Emma Donoghue, #NFDB
532:I think the most important thing for us to make judgments about is what can we really do? What can we achieve? ~ Rahm Emanuel, #NFDB
533:I think the most important thing to realize about play is that it's this thing that's in stuff, it's not in you. ~ Ian Bogost, #NFDB
534:Learn from yesterday, live for today and hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. ~ Albert Einstein, #NFDB
535:Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business. ~ Taylor Hackford, #NFDB
536:Records must not be the focus and that's the most important thing. It mustn't come at the cost of the team. ~ Garfield Sobers, #NFDB
537:Sports betting is all about money management, so the most money won on one event is not the most important thing ~ Bruce Dern, #NFDB
538:The important thing in running away is not how fast you run but simply that you run faster than the next man. ~ Mark Lawrence, #NFDB
539:The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock—shock is a worn-out word—but astonish. ~ Terry Southern, #NFDB
540:The important thing is this: to be ready at any moment to sacrifice what you are for what you could become. ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB
541:The mind is the most important thing of the big picture and no one has a stronger mindset than amateur wrestlers. ~ Joe Rogan, #NFDB
542:The most important thing for me to succeed in is day by day becoming a better and more prepared person. ~ Luis Gerardo Mendez, #NFDB
543:The most important thing that a change in physical perspective can do is to prompt a change in mental perspective ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
544:The most important thing today is that Mark Webber is safe and OK. After a very nasty accident, he's fine. ~ Christian Horner, #NFDB
545:the most important thing you can ever know, is that whatever your purpose is, that’s not your only choice.” “Huh? ~ Dan Wells, #NFDB
546:The most important thing you should protect at all times is your standards. Never let them slip.” - Peter Voogd ~ Peter Voogd, #NFDB
547:The point was simply this: the most important thing we could never forget was that we could never forget. ~ Viet Thanh Nguyen, #NFDB
548:Warren Buffett once put it: “The most important thing to do when you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging. ~ David Bach, #NFDB
549:For me, fashion is a job. I love it. It's my passion. But the most important thing for me in general is life. ~ Riccardo Tisci, #NFDB
550:I always thought problem solving was greatly overrated - and that the most important thing was problem creation. ~ Chuck Close, #NFDB
551:Sometimes you dance with a partner, and sometimes you dance alone. But the important thing is to keep dancing. ~ Jack Canfield, #NFDB
552:The important thing about a problem is not its solution, but the strength we gain in finding the solution ~ Seneca the Younger, #NFDB
553:The most important thing for me as an actor playing a character is to make you laugh. That's my No. 1 goal. ~ Eric Stonestreet, #NFDB
554:The most important thing in business is honesty, integrity, hard work familynever forgetting where we came from. ~ Frank Lucas, #NFDB
555:This is a good life lesson: getting the right people into your system is the most important thing you can do. ~ Charlie Munger, #NFDB
556:When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
557:Being a father is the most important thing, if you ask me. It changed me as a person and gave me an all new life. ~ Mahesh Babu, #NFDB
558:I think everyone makes a mistake at least once in their life. The important thing is what you learn from it. ~ Malala Yousafzai, #NFDB
559:I whisper your name, Ty. I whisper the most important thing:
I love you. I love you. I love you.
Livvy ~ Cassandra Clare,#NFDB
560:No matter what the situation you're in, if you're raised in a loving environment, that's the most important thing. ~ Clay Aiken, #NFDB
561:One mustn't let technique be the consciously important thing. It should be at the service of expressing the form. ~ Henry Moore, #NFDB
562:Somehow…somewhere…she became the most important thing in the world to me. And I’m not certain how I feel about that. ~ K M Shea, #NFDB
563:The important thing is not to think much but to love much; do, then, whatever most arouses you to love. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
564:The most important thing to say is that Sinn Fein isn't going back to anything. We are a party on the move. ~ Martin McGuinness, #NFDB
565:Whatever it is that you do, if you have that passion and desire for it, that's the most important thing. ~ Doris Kearns Goodwin, #NFDB
566:A button! What’s a button, eh? To a bachelor, my dear friend, a button is an important thing. An entire world. ~ Sholom Aleichem, #NFDB
567:As a manager the important thing is not what happens when you are there, but what happens when you are not there ~ Ken Blanchard, #NFDB
568:For a person who lives in time, differences are the most important thing because they represent your existence. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
569:Magicians will always tell you the trick is the most important thing, but Im more interested in telling a story. ~ Marco Tempest, #NFDB
570:Sometimes things go really well, and sometimes they don't, and it's not ultimately the most important thing. ~ Maggie Gyllenhaal, #NFDB
571:So we might say that the most important thing one can acquire in college is a well-functioning bullshit meter. ~ Andrew Delbanco, #NFDB
572:The important thing is first to find out what you are afraid of, to understand it and not run away from it. ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti, #NFDB
573:We have taken plants from the capitalist system where the most important thing was to produce, especially in Cuba. ~ Che Guevara, #NFDB
574:Your happiness is the most important thing in this life. If you are not happy, you are of no use to anyone else. ~ Greg Behrendt, #NFDB
575:You will find that thing that makes you unafraid to die. That important thing that makes your life of value. ~ Deborah Rodriguez, #NFDB
576:Consider the Divine Life as the most important thing to obtain.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II, The True Aim of Life [7],#NFDB
577:Everybody has to die, Firdaus. I will die, and you will die. The important thing is how to live until you die. ~ Nawal El Saadawi, #NFDB
578:It's very challenging. The most important thing you need as a sportsman is to be clear on what you're actually doing. ~ Brett Lee, #NFDB
579:Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing. ~ John D Rockefeller, #NFDB
580:The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish. ~ Terry Southern, #NFDB
581:The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying. ~ Steven Pressfield, #NFDB
582:The most important thing about translucent people is that their life has been deeply transformed by an awakening. ~ Arjuna Ardagh, #NFDB
583:The most important thing in any endeavour is to get involved in the fight, and in that way learn what to do next. ~ Robert Harris, #NFDB
584:The most important thing is to keep creating and following my inklings as they come into being and acting on them. ~ Reggie Watts, #NFDB
585:To me the most important thing is the sense of going on. You know how beautiful things are when you're traveling. ~ Edward Hopper, #NFDB
586:We're born, we live, we die. The most important thing out of those three is to live your life the way you want to. ~ Shannon Leto, #NFDB
587:A person's last moments are an important thing. You can't choose how you're born, but you can choose how to die. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
588:A person's last moments are an important thing. You can't choose how you're born but you can choose how you die. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
589:A person's last moments are an important thing. You can't choose how you're born, but you can choose how you die ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
590:discipleship, or the following of Christ, was not simply the most important thing in life—it was the only thing. ~ Brennan Manning, #NFDB
591:For me the most important thing is to continue to work with the best people that I can find, and that will have me. ~ David Caruso, #NFDB
592:I travel light. I think the most important thing is to be in a good mood and enjoy life, wherever you are. ~ Diane von Furstenberg, #NFDB
593:The important thing in life is not victory but combat; it is not to have vanquished but to have fought well. ~ Pierre de Coubertin, #NFDB
594:The important thing is this: to be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what we are for what we could become. ~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, #NFDB
595:The important thing is to go back to wholeness. It's time for human beings to come into a sustainable world. ~ Chellis Glendinning, #NFDB
596:The most important thing is believing your beautiful. The benefit of improving one's looks lies largely therein. ~ Lynn Weingarten, #NFDB
597:Well, you know what they say in Hollywood - the most important thing is being sincere, even if you have to fake it. ~ Cesar Romero, #NFDB
598:A person’s last moments are an important thing. You can’t choose how you’re born, but you can choose how you die. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
599:Forgiving and being forgiven are two names for the same thing. The important thing is that a discord has been resolved. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
600:He that sees the beauty of holiness or true moral good ,sees the greatest and most important thing in the world. ~ Jonathan Edwards, #NFDB
601:I think the most important thing for any driver is to know that he's getting equality of equipment and priority. ~ Christian Horner, #NFDB
602:Perfect form is the most important thing to have a perfect body, it's impossible to make a painting with a big brush ~ Serge Nubret, #NFDB
603:The important thing isn't proving you can achieve a goal, but living every moment along the way, even the side trips ~ Lisa Wingate, #NFDB
604:The important thing is that property lines be permeable enough to allow passing and strong enough to keep out danger. ~ Henry Cloud, #NFDB
605:The most important thing is what you already do. It's being authentic. It's being curious, trying to discover gifts. ~ Tony Robbins, #NFDB
606:The most important thing is, when I do give the music, I'm satisfied with it, that it speaks for what I want to do. ~ Stevie Wonder, #NFDB
607:The most important thing we ever learn at school is the fact that the most important things can’t be learned at school. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
608:A person's last moments are an important thing. Yuou can't choose how you're born, but you can choose how you die. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
609:Living without virtues is to live divorced from society, seperated from the most important thing in life, community. ~ Veronica Roth, #NFDB
610:The most important thing to me is, how, in the process of learning how to use my body, can I come to understand myself ? ~ Bruce Lee, #NFDB
611:The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be learned at school. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
612:All values in this world are more or less questionable, but the most important thing in life is human kindness. ~ Yevgeny Yevtushenko, #NFDB
613:A society should never become like a pond with stagnant water, without movement. That's the most important thing. ~ Mikhail Gorbachev, #NFDB
614:Family has always been the most important thing in my life. The only real goal that I ever had was to be a good mother. ~ Goldie Hawn, #NFDB
615:He's a really good Dad. And he tries hard. He doesn't always understand us, but he tries, and that's the important thing. ~ Jenny Han, #NFDB
616:It was THE most important thing I had EVER attempted in my entire fourteen years of life here on planet Earth. ~ Rachel Ren e Russell, #NFDB
617:Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. —Albert Einstein ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
618:Ministry is the least important thing. You cannot not minister if you are in communion with God and live in community. ~ Henri Nouwen, #NFDB
619:My belief has always been that national defense is the most important thing we do, but we shouldn't borrow to pay for it. ~ Rand Paul, #NFDB
620:One sometimes must sail with the wind and sometimes against it, but the important thing is to keep your sails full. ~ Mark Beauregard, #NFDB
621:The Domain Name Server (DNS) is the Achilles heel of the Web. The important thing is that it's managed responsibly. ~ Tim Berners Lee, #NFDB
622:The important thing is not to be masochistic. Women are so hard on themselves. Don't do that. No one is keeping score. ~ Simon Doonan, #NFDB
623:The most important thing is to be strong. With strength, one can conquer others, and to conquer others gives one virtue. ~ Mao Zedong, #NFDB
624:The most important thing that each of us can do is to try even harder to see the world through our neighbor's eyes. ~ Hillary Clinton, #NFDB
625:There was at time in my life where all I wanted was a relationship, and I thought that was the most important thing. ~ Kim Kardashian, #NFDB
626:Treasures:
The most important thing you leave behind is the stuff that turns into treasures when children find it. ~ Brian Andreas,#NFDB
627:As long as people are living their truth or their vision, whether they're activists or not, that's the important thing. ~ Serj Tankian, #NFDB
628:Being a father is the greatest achievement and the most important thing about me. I have two great kids, no question. ~ Ryan Phillippe, #NFDB
629:But the important thing is to lie down and fall asleep. That little nap means you wake up fresh again and can continue. ~ James Levine, #NFDB
630:Eventually, I'll go back to acting, but for right now, my children are the most important thing in the world to me. ~ Soleil Moon Frye, #NFDB
631:I had changed, and the sign of it was only that my own death seemed to me by far the least important thing in my life. ~ Wendell Berry, #NFDB
632:I think the important thing to remember here is that we haven't been attacked again at home since September of 2001. ~ Mitch McConnell, #NFDB
633:I think the most important thing about coaching is that you have to have a sense of confidence about what you're doing. ~ Phil Jackson, #NFDB
634:I think the most important thing that happens within Christian spirituality is when a person falls in love with Jesus. ~ Donald Miller, #NFDB
635:I think the most important thing to do is to recognize the fundamentally different circumstances of pursuing growth. ~ Scott D Anthony, #NFDB
636:The important thing is Burma needs to end the civil war and for this to happen both sides must want to end the war. ~ Aung San Suu Kyi, #NFDB
637:The only important thing is to follow the Divine's truth with love and joy. My blessings
~ The Mother, Mantras Of The Mother, 9 May,#NFDB
638:We have everything we need, in fact, except the most important thing of all — time to think and the habit of thought. ~ Norman Cousins, #NFDB
639:Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God's final word on where your lips end. ~ Jerry Seinfeld, #NFDB
640:Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing. ~ Georgia O Keeffe, #NFDB
641:And the most important thing he told me was that you can tell a lot about a person by the way they treat their dogs. ~ Mary Kay Andrews, #NFDB
642:Good music is good music, regardless of where it comes from. I think that's a really important thing to carry with you. ~ Patrick Stump, #NFDB
643:I think the most important thing people can do is to learn about their watershed. And it's something no one knows. ~ Alexandra Cousteau, #NFDB
644:Read first the best books. The important thing for you is not how much you know, but the quality of what you know. ~ Desiderius Erasmus, #NFDB
645:Singing is still the important thing to me. I love singing. I wouldn't be putting myself through all this if I didn't. ~ Tevin Campbell, #NFDB
646:The important thing is that all stages from adolescent to mature man, work is done to spread the sporting spirit. ~ Pierre de Coubertin, #NFDB
647:The most important thing in this life, Master Oklahoma used to say at the end of each session, is to have a destiny. ~ Valeria Luiselli, #NFDB
648:The most important thing is to change what children see from the beginning. To not create a problem we have to fix later. ~ Geena Davis, #NFDB
649:The truth hurts because it's real. It hurts because it mattered. And that's an important thing to acknowledge to yourself. ~ John Green, #NFDB
650:To express yourself as you are, without any intentional, fancy way of adjusting yourself, is the most important thing. ~ Shunryu Suzuki, #NFDB
651:When you love someone and they love you, you deserve to be the most important thing to them, as important as breathing. ~ Courtney Cole, #NFDB
652:Whether you're a veteran like me or a high school athlete, the most important thing you can do is keep your body healthy. ~ Jason Terry, #NFDB
653:You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt, #NFDB
654:I always say to myself, what is the most important thing we can think about at this extraordinary moment. ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld, #NFDB
655:Mia, what is the most important thing for a soccer player to have?” With no hesitation, she answered, “Mental toughness. ~ Carol S Dweck, #NFDB
656:The important thing to remember is that the words will always be right if they are real and true and come from the heart. ~ Douglas Wood, #NFDB
657:The most important thing in your life is to be happy, to be patient and to learn to love life and do everything you can. ~ Gilles Marini, #NFDB
658:The most important thing is to have a sense of responsibility, commitment, and concern for each of our fellow human beings. ~ Dalai Lama, #NFDB
659:We came all this way to explore the Moon, and the most important thing is that we discovered the Earth." —William Anders ~ Erec Stebbins, #NFDB
660:Because the most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying. ~ Steven Pressfield, #NFDB
661:But in the new (math) approach, the important thing is to understand what you're doing, rather than to get the right answer. ~ Tom Lehrer, #NFDB
662:In carrying out e-commerce, the most important thing is to keep doing what you are doing right now with passion, to keep it up. ~ Jack Ma, #NFDB
663:I think the most important thing is to start with something that fits perfectly. Don't worry about having it in five colors. ~ Jack White, #NFDB
664:I've always said that the most important thing is job creation. Jobs will earn people money and build self-confidence. ~ Aung San Suu Kyi, #NFDB
665:No one loses anyone because no one owns anyone. That is true experience of freedom; having the most important thing in it. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
666:Prayer does change things, all kinds of things. But the most important thing it changes is us. Prayer changes us profoundly. ~ R C Sproul, #NFDB
667:The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.
Love is the only rational act. ~ Mitch Albom,#NFDB
668:The most important thing to me is my work, and reaching people through my work. It's so important to me. It's my passion. ~ Adelaide Kane, #NFDB
669:The most important thing we ever learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be learned at school. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
670:The most important thing we ever learn at school is the fact that the most important things can’t be learned at school. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
671:All the craft skills that I have, I feel like I developed and honed in drama school. It's the most important thing for me. ~ Andre Holland, #NFDB
672:Every single important thing we do is something we didn't use to be good at, and in fact, might be something we used to fear. ~ Seth Godin, #NFDB
673:learn from YESTERDAY,
live for TODAY,
hope for TOMORROW,
The important thing is
non stop to QUESTIONING. ~ Albert Einstein,#NFDB
674:Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
675:...Owl was explaining that in a case of Sudden and Temporary Immersion the Important Thing was to keep the Head Above Water... ~ A A Milne, #NFDB
676:The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them. ~ William Lawrence Bragg, #NFDB
677:The most important thing about music that I've learned after all this time is that to me, it's a way of reaching the truth. ~ Serj Tankian, #NFDB
678:The most important thing for you to know is that it is impossible to feel bad and at the same time be having good thoughts. ~ Rhonda Byrne, #NFDB
679:The most important thing I have done is to combine something esoteric with a practical issue that affects many people. ~ Benoit Mandelbrot, #NFDB
680:The most important thing in life is to love what you’re dong, because that’s the only way you’ll ever be really good at it. ~ Donald Trump, #NFDB
681:The most important thing in my life is to live my life and enjoy it--to do what I think is right and what I think is good. ~ Jaye Davidson, #NFDB
682:the most important thing one can do for children is not accept the limitations they are so willing to impose on themselves. ~ Ruth Simmons, #NFDB
683:The most important thing to remember is this: to be ready at any moment to give up what you are for what you might become. ~ W E B Du Bois, #NFDB
684:the most important thing was to show strength of will, not when matters were going well, but when they were going badly. ~ L E Modesitt Jr, #NFDB
685:You've got to remember what your priorities are. When you're playing, what u do on the field is the most important thing. ~ Peyton Manning, #NFDB
686:I think the most important thing is in life, it's all about balance. It's balance between foods you like and nutrition. ~ Travis Lane Stork, #NFDB
687:"I think the most important thing is that in the last seven days we've just had the greatest adventure of our lifetimes." ~ Richard Branson, #NFDB
688:knowing that what you are doing is the most important thing for you to be doing at that moment is surprisingly powerful. ~ Daniel J Levitin, #NFDB
689:Money is the most important thing in the world, you know. Money can buy you happiness, and I don't care what anyone else thinks. ~ Marie Lu, #NFDB
690:Remember what Bogie and my mother both used to say: 'Character is the most important thing. All that matters is character!' ~ Lauren Bacall, #NFDB
691:Since then I had learned the most important thing: the decisions you make can become your life. Your choices are you. ~ David Barclay Moore, #NFDB
692:The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and to possess the aptitude and perseverance to attain it. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #NFDB
693:The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn. ~ John Lubbock, #NFDB
694:The important thing is not to know more than all men, but to know more at each moment than any particular man. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #NFDB
695:The most important thing is not the work I can do for God. The most important thing is to make God the most important thing. ~ Phil Vischer, #NFDB
696:The only important thing is the goal to be attained. The way matters little, and often it is better not to know it in advance. ~ The Mother, #NFDB
697:This is what he says about goals: “The important thing is not where you were or where you are but where you want to get. ~ David J Schwartz, #NFDB
698:And here is a doctrine at which you will laugh. It seems to me, Govinda, that love is the most important thing in the world. ~ Hermann Hesse, #NFDB
699:As long as a man feels that he is the most important thing in the world he cannot really appreciate the world around him. ~ Carlos Castaneda, #NFDB
700:In the devil's theology, the important thing is to be absolutely right and to prove that everybody else is absolutely wrong. ~ Thomas Merton, #NFDB
701:In whatever way change comes, the important thing is to take responsibility for this moment. Then, life becomes cooperative. ~ Eckhart Tolle, #NFDB
702:Rod McKuen. One of his poems says something
about it not mattering who you love but the important thing is that you love, ~ Carolyn Brown,#NFDB
703:The important thing is that you've got a strong foundation before you start to try to save the world or help other people. ~ Richard Branson, #NFDB
704:The most important thing you can do to improve your teaching is to work toward subject-matter expertise on the Bible as a whole. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
705:The most important thing you ever did was learn how to survive. Do not let anyone make you feel like you shouldn't have. ~ Alexandra Bracken, #NFDB
706:True art was based upon despair, and the important thing was to make yourself and those around you as miserable as possible. ~ David Sedaris, #NFDB
707:What I say is, national defense is the most important thing we do in Washington, but there's still waste in the military budget. ~ Rand Paul, #NFDB
708:Creating a warm, caring, supportive, encouraging environment is probably the most important thing you can do for your family. ~ Stephen Covey, #NFDB
709:I think the most important thing that I've learned is that you live and you learn. Try not to make the same mistakes twice. ~ Adrienne Bailon, #NFDB
710:I wish she’d said what is the most important thing in her life. But like so many conversations between us, it’s left unfinished. ~ A G Riddle, #NFDB
711:Love is the most important thing a person can knowIf you should win love once, you'll know it is harder than death to let go. ~ Miyuki Miyabe, #NFDB
712:The important thing about adventures, thought Mr. Bunnsy, was that they shouldn't be so long as to make you miss mealtimes. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
713:The most important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become. —CHARLES DUBOIS ~ David Simpson, #NFDB
714:The most important thing that we can do for the healing of our world is to hear inside ourselves, the sounds of the earth crying. ~ Nhat Hanh, #NFDB
715:The most important thing to me is to give something back to my parents, because they've done so much for me throughout my life. ~ Leona Lewis, #NFDB
716:The most important thing, when playing characters with chemistry, is being able to work off the other actor and be supported. ~ Tricia Helfer, #NFDB
717:The MVP award was very satisfying in terms of personal accomplishments, but the championship was the most important thing of all. ~ Bob Cousy, #NFDB
718:There can only be one most important thing. Many things may be important, but only one can be the most important.” —Ross Garber ~ Gary Keller, #NFDB
719:I've learned that it doesn't matter how your husband squeezes the toothpaste, the important thing is how he squeezes you. ~ H Jackson Brown Jr, #NFDB
720:Just remember that the most important thing is to be truthful to yourself. If you hang on to that, you won’t go far wrong. ~ Rosamunde Pilcher, #NFDB
721:Poetry is not the most important thing in life... I'd much rather lie in a hot bath reading Agatha Christie and sucking sweets. ~ Dylan Thomas, #NFDB
722:The most important thing we ever learn at school is the fact that the most important things can’t be learned at school. No ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
723:This is the most difficult and important thing to accept if you wish to be a grown-up: You are not a Special Snowflake. ~ Kelly Williams Brown, #NFDB
724:When someone becomes a millionaire, the least important thing is what they have. The most important thing is what they have become. ~ Jim Rohn, #NFDB
725:For me, the most important thing is that I feel comfortable with the actor that I'm working with and I'm able to talk to them. ~ Julianne Moore, #NFDB
726:I say to my friends, 'Don't just listen to the vuvuzelas; look at who scores the goals.' And this is the important thing. ~ Jose Manuel Barroso, #NFDB
727:I think the most important thing in the world is being brave. I'd rathe be brave than beautiful. Hell, I'd settle for acting brave. ~ Amy Bloom, #NFDB
728:I won't change anything because I think the most important thing is being yourself and that's what I'm going to continue to do. ~ Avril Lavigne, #NFDB
729:That’s the most important thing when it comes to love. We have to feel like we’re the most important person to the ones we love. ~ Oriana Small, #NFDB
730:The sun is the most important thing in everybody's life, whether you're a plant, an animal or a fish, and we take it for granted. ~ Danny Boyle, #NFDB
731:What may look like a small act of courage is courage nevertheless. The important thing is to be willing to take a step forward. ~ Daisaku Ikeda, #NFDB
732:For each of them, the most important thing in living was to reach out and touch perfection in that which they most loved to do... ~ Richard Bach, #NFDB
733:I really think the most important thing I do is to protect the dignity and the integrity of the Office of the Surgeon General. ~ Richard Carmona, #NFDB
734:It doesn't matter if you use a box camera or you use a Leica; the important thing is what motivates you when you are photographing. ~ Eve Arnold, #NFDB
735:Since most of us spend our lives doing ordinary tasks, the most important thing is to carry them out extraordinarily well. ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB
736:The important thing about songs is that they're just like stories. They don't mean a damn unless there's people listenin' to them. ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
737:The important thing right now is that the economy still needs customers. We still need people to go out there and spend money. ~ Heather Boushey, #NFDB
738:These little daily choices that we're so used to thinking are irrelevant are the most important thing we do all day long. ~ Jonathan Safran Foer, #NFDB
739:Who gets everything they want, Danny, exactly how they want it? You have to decide the most important thing and go from there. ~ Brooke McKinley, #NFDB
740:You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage, and with the best you have to give. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
741:Humor is the most important thing in life. It trumps everything else and it's the only thing that helps me deal with everything else. ~ Paul Rudd, #NFDB
742:Love is the most important thing a person can know... If you should win love once, you'll know it is harder than death to let go. ~ Miyuki Miyabe, #NFDB
743:Mortals are always in a hurry to do things, but they never understand that the most important thing they can do in life is change. ~ Dannika Dark, #NFDB
744:The hardest thing to do in talking to a woman was taking the first step, but the most important thing to do was not to think. ~ Viet Thanh Nguyen, #NFDB
745:The important thing is how much consciousness you add to the whole of human existence, for that is how eternity expresses itself. ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB
746: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. ~ Jon Stewart, #NFDB
747:The important thing was that he was there, as much a part of the rock, the water, the beach, the house, as they had come to be part of him. ~ Avi, #NFDB
748:While the most important thing for a woman to have is money, the second most important is options. A lady must have her options. ~ Michelle Gable, #NFDB
749:As far as career goes, make sure you're in it for the right reasons - and make sure that the work itself is the most important thing. ~ Clive Owen, #NFDB
750:Belief in God is the most important thing in the world. When someone has faith they must be a decent person and know how to behave. ~ Wendy Holden, #NFDB
751:For me photography was the means to the end, but they made it the most important thing. (On the discovery of X-ray photography.) ~ Wilhelm Rontgen, #NFDB
752:I mean, you may be very mad at some guy that walked away with a huge golden parachute, but that really isn't the important thing. ~ Warren Buffett, #NFDB
753:[In many circumstances,] the most important thing about a proposition is not that it be true, but that it be interesting. ~ Alfred North Whitehead, #NFDB
754:That's maybe the most important thing each generation does, is to break a lot of rules and make up their own way of doing things. ~ Jackson Browne, #NFDB
755:The most important talent for a shinobi is not the numberof jutsu. The important thing is... HAVING THE GUTS TO NEVER GIVE UP. ~ Masashi Kishimoto, #NFDB
756:The most important thing is to write in your own blood. I bare intimate feelings because people should know how other people feel. ~ Joni Mitchell, #NFDB
757:We are not jumping on the austerity bandwagon. A healthy economy is by far the most important thing for Social Democrats. ~ Helle Thorning Schmidt, #NFDB
758:Wherever I go meeting the public... spreading a message of human values, spreading a message of harmony, is the most important thing. ~ Dalai Lama, #NFDB
759:Why be fearful of saying no to someone or of leaving something undone when the most important thing of all was to enjoy life fully? ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
760:Working on our own consciousness is the most important thing that we are doing at any moment, and being love is a supreme creative act. ~ Ram Dass, #NFDB
761:A symbol is an important thing. That is why we chose an Aztec eagle. It gives pride...When people see it they know it means dignity. ~ Cesar Chavez, #NFDB
762:God is the most important thing in our lives. I suppose that's true of everybody's lives, whether or not they want to believe it. ~ Nicholas Sparks, #NFDB
763:I do think laughter is the most important thing, and being able to see the funny side of nearly anything is a crucial, crucial thing. ~ Jeremy Vine, #NFDB
764:It's because we live in a beauty-obsessed society where the most important thing a woman can do is make herself attractive to men. ~ Liane Moriarty, #NFDB
765:It's not irrelevant, those moments of connection, those places where fiction saves your life. It's the most important thing there is. ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
766:Out of everything - out of the money and the gift bags - the most important thing to me is just my mother and father being happy. ~ Rockmond Dunbar, #NFDB
767:Standing upright is not a talent because a brainless wooden beam can stand upright too! The important thing is to be flexible! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
768:The best thing, and the most important thing the labor movement cannot do without, and must have and fight to keep, is solidarity. ~ Charles Brandt, #NFDB
769:The most important thing I have to say to you today is that hair matters. Pay attention to your hair, because everyone else will. ~ Hillary Clinton, #NFDB
770:The most important thing is that you have to have the visual effects working for you, instead of you working for the visual effects. ~ David Heyman, #NFDB
771:As was usual with him, he began with the least important thing and worked around and in toward the center where the meaning was. ~ Flannery O Connor, #NFDB
772:But I think the most important thing is to find the love of your life and have fun in love. And enjoy and appreciate what comes to you. ~ Heidi Klum, #NFDB
773:I've got friends in the different teams I've played for, but family is the most important thing to me. That will always be the case. ~ David Beckham, #NFDB
774:My writing has developed drastically . The Return of the Prodigal Son is the most important thing I've done, and my most mature book. ~ Henri Nouwen, #NFDB
775:Some stuff has to be done even if there is a risk. That's the first important thing I ever found out I didn't find out from my mother ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
776:The most important thing is that you develop your own principles and ideally write them down, especially if you are working with others. ~ Ray Dalio, #NFDB
777:To want only what the Divine wants in us and for us, is the one important thing.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II, The True Aim of Life, [T1],#NFDB
778:globally recognized sex expert Dr. Justine Shuey. “The most important thing you can accomplish is to become an askable parent,” she says. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
779:It's okay to feel weak sometimes. It's okay to be afraid. The important thing is that we face our fears. That's...that's what makes us strong. ~ Yuki, #NFDB
780:Living your life the way you want to live it is the most important thing so if you have to pay small prices along the way, it's not important. ~ Cher, #NFDB
781:Some stuff has to be done even if there is a risk. That’s the first important thing I ever found out I didn’t find out from my mother. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
782:The most important thing had always been what other people thought - appearances before herself or her family. And righteous about it. ~ Daniel Keyes, #NFDB
783:The most important thing is God's blessing and if you believe in God and you believe in yourself, you have nothing to worry about. ~ Mohamed Al Fayed, #NFDB
784:What it is, Dogger thought, is I’m externalizing my fantasies. Or I’m probably still asleep. The important thing is to act natural. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
785:As one philosopher noted, the human brain is an "anticipation machine," and "making future" is the most important thing it does. ~ Daniel Todd Gilbert, #NFDB
786:Character, I think, is the single most important thing in fiction. You might read a book once for its interesting plot—but not twice. ~ Diana Gabaldon, #NFDB
787:Don't be too ambitious. Do the most important thing you can think of doing every year and then your career will take care of itself. ~ Henry Kissinger, #NFDB
788:Don’t you ever get tired of believing? Don’t you ever want proof?"
"You must never stop believing. That’s the most important thing. ~ Anthony Doerr,#NFDB
789:For me, the most important thing is to continue to play well and to be a positive figure and hopefully a role model for kids as well. ~ Magnus Carlsen, #NFDB
790:Getting history right is pretty much the most important thing a citizen can do in a nation at war with itself--as ours was. And is. ~ Brooke Gladstone, #NFDB
791:I am very filmmaker oriented, as a producer. I think the most important thing is that you have to really choose the players carefully. ~ Nina Jacobson, #NFDB
792:I haven’t yet learned the simplest and most important thing of all: the world is difficult, and we are all breakable. So just be kind. ~ Caitlin Moran, #NFDB
793:I think the most important thing for an actor is to stay current and stay relevant, and those are probably the hardest things to do. ~ Dylan McDermott, #NFDB
794:I think the most important thing really was that you could take very personal ideas and present them to an audience in entertaining ways. ~ Ron Howard, #NFDB
795:The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone. ~ Ernest Hemingway, #NFDB
796:The important thing is neither your nationality nor the religion you professed, but how your faith translated itself in your life. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt, #NFDB
797:The important thing to know about an assassination or an attempted assassination is not who fired the shot, but who paid for the bullet. ~ Eric Ambler, #NFDB
798:The most important thing is just like creativity and music. It's the one thing that you never lose if you just stay loyal to that. ~ Pharrell Williams, #NFDB
799:The most important thing is love,” said Leigh-Cheri. “I know that now. There’s no point in saving the world if it means losing the moon. ~ Tom Robbins, #NFDB
800:The most important thing that you can teach your children is that Well-being abounds. And that Well-being is naturally flowing to them. ~ Esther Hicks, #NFDB
801:To spread a nice and good message to restore confidence among the fans around the world, because the fans are the most important thing. ~ David Ginola, #NFDB
802:What is the most important thing you could be working on in the world right now? ... And if you're not working on that, why aren't you? ~ Aaron Swartz, #NFDB
803:You can’t find happiness looking for the meaning of life. Meaning is only the third most important thing. It comes after loving and being. ~ Matt Haig, #NFDB
804:But as with so many things in our lives, the reason for doing something is not the important thing. It is the fact of doing that remains. ~ Dan Simmons, #NFDB
805:I think the important thing about making a decision is just to make it. Otherwise you can go nuts thinking about the pros and cons. ~ Diane Chamberlain, #NFDB
806:It was so important for me to lose everything, because I found out what the most important thing is, which is to be true to yourself. ~ Ellen DeGeneres, #NFDB
807:Sometimes we set off down a road thinkin' we're goin' one place and we end up another. But that's okay. The important thing is to start. ~ Ruta Sepetys, #NFDB
808:Sometimes we set off down a road thinkin’ we’re goin’ one place and we end up another. But that’s okay. The important thing is to start. ~ Ruta Sepetys, #NFDB
809: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. ~ Barbara Kingsolver, #NFDB
810:The most important thing is insight, that is to be - curious - to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does. ~ William Faulkner, #NFDB
811:The most important thing is that you have to listen to your truths, desires and wants. And you have to believe you deserve all of it. ~ Whoopi Goldberg, #NFDB
812:To me, the most important thing is to tell a good story. If I can do that, I think that enlightenment, respect of nature, etc. follows. ~ Kathryn Lasky, #NFDB
813:Don't be too ambitious. Do the most important thing you can think of doing every year and then your career will take care of itself. ~ Henry A Kissinger, #NFDB
814:For all I know maybe she’s not so wild about her own looks, but she seems comfortable with who she is, and that’s the important thing. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
815:I'm not doing anything, and yet I'm also doing the most important thing a man can do: I'm listening to what I needed to hear from myself. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
816:In my heart, I really don't care who you love, same sex or not; as long as you have the ability to love, that's the important thing here. ~ Tracy Morgan, #NFDB
817:I think that probably the most important thing about our education was that it taught us to question even those things we thought we knew. ~ Thabo Mbeki, #NFDB
818:it taught me the most important thing I know about science: that experiments are not about getting the world to do what you want it to do. ~ Hope Jahren, #NFDB
819:Just because you're the same kind doesn't mean you're all one happy family. The important thing is to understand each other. That's love! ~ Sun mi Hwang, #NFDB
820:Listening was the most important thing I accomplished each day because it would build the foundation of my leadership for years to come. ~ Satya Nadella, #NFDB
821:The most important thing - and I've said it a hundred times and I'll say it a hundred times - if you marry a man, marry the right one. ~ Sheryl Sandberg, #NFDB
822:The most important thing here is to largely ignore what customers say, and instead watch what they do or track where they spend money. ~ Scott D Anthony, #NFDB
823:The most important thing in fighting was shooting, next the various tactics in coming into a fight and last of all flying ability itself. ~ Billy Bishop, #NFDB
824:...The most important thing, I think. You can't run from your past. You have to take it for what it is and realize that it's part of you. ~ Lisa Wingate, #NFDB
825:The most important thing that I learned in growing up is that forgiveness is something that, when you do it, you free yourself to move on. ~ Tyler Perry, #NFDB
826:Usually step one in a recovery is admitting that you have a problem. I think that's an important thing for the Republican Party to do. ~ Andrea Tantaros, #NFDB
827:...and I am sitting in this park watching an old couple almost cry together, and I want this to be the most important thing I do all year. ~ Neil Hilborn, #NFDB
828:The most important thing about skating is that it teaches you to do the things you should do before you do the things you want to do. ~ Barbara Ann Scott, #NFDB
829:The most important thing is transforming our minds, for a new way of thinking, a new outlook: we should strive to develop a new inner world. ~ Dalai Lama, #NFDB
830:The most important thing was the creation of a... a standard, where hundreds of companies build hardware that can all run the same software. ~ Bill Gates, #NFDB
831:The single most important thing a city can do is provide a community where interesting, smart people want to live with their families. ~ Malcolm Gladwell, #NFDB
832:everything else is stripped away,” the Colonel said, “that’s all you will have left, your honor, the most important thing in a man’s life. ~ Winston Groom, #NFDB
833:I always thought I would have boys, but as a father, when your kids are born and they’re healthy and happy, that’s the most important thing. ~ Rob Mariano, #NFDB
834:Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument and learning to do your craft, that's the most important thing for people to do. ~ Dave Grohl, #NFDB
835:...[T]he really important thing is not to live, but to live well... [a]nd to live well means the same thing as to live honourably or rightly... ~ Socrates, #NFDB
836:As long as you have money to live then it's not a terribly important thing. If you don't have enough to live, then it's very important thing. ~ Jared Polis, #NFDB
837:It doesn't really matter what one writes into a constitution. The important thing is what the collective instinct eventually makes of it. ~ Oswald Spengler, #NFDB
838:MRS. ANTROBUS: What, George? What have you lost? ANTROBUS: The most important thing of all: The desire to begin again, to start building. ~ Thornton Wilder, #NFDB
839:She once again reminded herself that the most important thing was to never let anyone see her own self-doubt. Fake it ’til you make it, ~ Sharon Hannaford, #NFDB
840:The important thing is that ever since I realized all the wrongs that I had done, I have been trying to correct them for the past 27 years. ~ Mark Wahlberg, #NFDB
841:The important thing is to learn through experience. The more you do the more you learn. I don't think anyone can teach acting from a podium. ~ Rex Harrison, #NFDB
842:The most important thing about Olympics, of course, is the games and not the opening ceremony. It's weird the way it gets inverted sometimes. ~ Danny Boyle, #NFDB
843:The willingness to keep learning is, I think, the most important thing about trying to be good at anything. You never want to stop learning. ~ Emile Hirsch, #NFDB
844:When people ask me what really changed my life, I tell them that absolutely the most important thing was changing what I demanded on myself. ~ Tony Robbins, #NFDB
845:Family is the most important thing in the world. If everything ended tomorrow and my family was still there, I'd be the happiest man alive. ~ Landon Donovan, #NFDB
846:It’s like I’d been born with a blind spot, and was always missing something. And what I missed was always the most important thing of all. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
847:Lots of times I'm not crazy about the writing, but I keep moving ahead and somehow it gets better. The important thing is to move forward. ~ Janet Evanovich, #NFDB
848:Lots of times I’m not crazy about the writing, but I keep moving ahead and somehow it gets better. The important thing is to move forward. ~ Janet Evanovich, #NFDB
849:The important thing is the willingness to give back the gift that is you, not the perfection of the gift itself. Can you feel the difference? ~ Richard Rohr, #NFDB
850:The most important thing I came to tell you is that I want your oath that you will keep an open mind...about everything that may seem impossible. ~ P C Cast, #NFDB
851:The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one. ~ Jill Churchill, #NFDB
852:The power of concentrate was the most important thing. Living without this power would be like opening one's eyes without seeing anything. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
853:The power to concentrate was the most important thing. Living without this power would be like opening one’s eyes without seeing anything. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
854:Whatever you expected for your life, this is the most important thing you will ever do. Look around this room. Every life here is in your hands. ~ G P Ching, #NFDB
855:You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt, #NFDB
856:In the modern age where everything is connected to everything, the most important thing about what you can do is what you can do with others. ~ Paddy Ashdown, #NFDB
857:I think energy is the most important thing that we can give to people as performers. Anything else is a little bit pretentious. But energy is not. ~ Yoko Ono, #NFDB
858:I think that's the important thing - being aware of that inspiration and being able to interpret it into something that's meaningful for you. ~ Thomas Keller, #NFDB
859:That's a very important thing in life, to be really looked upon for the qualities which you hold in yourself and not all of superficiality. ~ William Moseley, #NFDB
860:There are heroes and schmucks in all worlds. The most important thing is whether you are willing to engage in moral struggle against yourself. ~ David Brooks, #NFDB
861:Unlike any other time in our history, we have to know that staying in school and getting an education is the most important thing you can do. ~ Alexis Herman, #NFDB
862:Art is so subjective--it means something different to every person. The important thing for it to do is to touch on the senses and emotions. ~ Michelle Malone, #NFDB
863:Because I haven't yet learned the simplest and most important thing of all: the world is difficult, and we are all breakable. So just be kind. ~ Caitlin Moran, #NFDB
864:Because I haven’t yet learned the simplest and most important thing of all: the world is difficult, and we are all breakable. So just be kind. ~ Caitlin Moran, #NFDB
865:Honestly, that is the most important thing to me: Can I continue to live up to my own expectations of myself - and not fall back into slacking? ~ Alice Walker, #NFDB
866:I think the most important thing is to, without belligerence, stand up for what want. Argue compellingly if someone tries to change your script. ~ Shane Black, #NFDB
867:Ms. Widmer smiled lovingly at Ms. Stevenson. “The important thing is,” she said, “that we got through that time, too, and we’re still together. ~ Nancy Garden, #NFDB
868:My mom always said fighting with me as a kid was like going to court. I'm trying to realize that being right is not the most important thing. ~ Gillian Jacobs, #NFDB
869:The important thing here to understand is that the people that are at Guantanamo are bad people. I mean, these are terrorists for the most part. ~ Dick Cheney, #NFDB
870:The important thing is that you show your appreciation without expecting anything in return, and that you get new work out of the appreciation. ~ Austin Kleon, #NFDB
871:The important thing is to be relaxed in your work. Same in life. Don't make everything too intense. Then you can let everything go and not "act". ~ Tom Cruise, #NFDB
872:The most important thing in my life, its leitmotif, has been the constant and close contacts with working people, with workers and peasants. ~ Leonid Brezhnev, #NFDB
873:The most important thing in terms of your circle of competence is not how large the area of it is, but how well you've defined the perimeter. ~ Warren Buffett, #NFDB
874:The most important thing that ever happens in prayer is letting ourselves be loved by God. “Be still, and know that I am God” (Psalm 46:10). ~ Brennan Manning, #NFDB
875:There’s a difference between really loving someone and loving the idea of her. And finally: The important thing is she makes you really happy. ~ Gillian Flynn, #NFDB
876:You can put in a curl or put on a lip color or mascara, but the important thing is that the health of your skin and hair is shining through. ~ Erin Heatherton, #NFDB
877:Architecture does not change anything. It's always on the side of the wealthy. The important thing is to believe that it can make life better. ~ Oscar Niemeyer, #NFDB
878:Freedom only exists when love is present.That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
879:Now, if you ask me, what’s going on is that we’re all up to here in it, and probably the most important thing is that we not yell at one another. ~ Anne Lamott, #NFDB
880:The most important thing about marriage is that the man must not let the woman feel downtrodden simply because she is a woman and he is a man. ~ Saddam Hussein, #NFDB
881:The most important thing I've learned since becoming CEO is context. It's how your company fits in with the world and how you respond to it. ~ Jeffrey R Immelt, #NFDB
882:The most important thing you can do to achieve your goals is to make sure that as soon as you set them you immediately begin to create momentum. ~ Tony Robbins, #NFDB
883:The single most important thing you can do politically for gay rights is to come out. Not to write a letter to your congressman but to come out. ~ Barney Frank, #NFDB
884:Kids need to know they're the most important thing in the world to you, and if that means quitting your job to prove it, then you have to prove it. ~ Jim Carrey, #NFDB
885:The important thing is life—life and nothing else! What is any 'discovery' whatever compared with the incessant, eternal discovery of life? ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, #NFDB
886:The most important thing I've come to believe in is that people with mental handicaps have a unique mission to bring God's blessing to the World. ~ Henri Nouwen, #NFDB
887:Years ago R.N.A. was kind of a bit player in the cell. Now our picture's completely inverted, and we think R.N.A.'s really the important thing. ~ Jack W Szostak, #NFDB
888:I think the important thing is for the president to show action. The people in America want to know that we're listening to them and their concerns. ~ Trent Lott, #NFDB
889:I think the most important thing is to have fun, and not to take things too seriously. Once you start doing that, then you'll start to crumble. ~ Alexandra Roach, #NFDB
890:My family - my husband, my daughters, my grandchildren, my great-grandchildren, all of them - are the most important thing in the world to me. ~ Carolina Herrera, #NFDB
891:Sex is what you can get. For some people, for most people it's the most important thing they can get without being born rich or famous or stealing. ~ Don DeLillo, #NFDB
892:Some people have big dreams, some people have small dreams...Whatever you have, the important thing is that you never stop dreaming." -Doug Hansen ~ Jon Krakauer, #NFDB
893:The most important thing in a shelter is that volunteers, especially with dogs, come in everyday, take that pet out for an hour of quality time. ~ Temple Grandin, #NFDB
894:The most important thing is that we need to be understood. We need someone to be able to listen to us and to understand us. Then we will suffer less. ~ Nhat Hanh, #NFDB
895:The most important thing to me as a songwriter is the breath. The most important thing I could say to somebody is, 'Sometimes I just breathe you in.' ~ Tori Amos, #NFDB
896:The really important thing, if a marriage is to go well, without much love, is very very great niceness—gentillesse—and very good manners. ~ Nancy Mitford, #NFDB
897:There's more to life than basketball. The most important thing is your family and taking care of each other and loving each other no matter what. ~ Stephen Curry, #NFDB
898:They're a redefinition of boredom... the most important thing you need to know about an awards show is where is the nearest smoking opportunity. ~ Stephen Daldry, #NFDB
899:Though Satan makes strong men weak, God is in the business of making weak men strong. Your past isn’t the most important thing. Your future is. ~ Craig Groeschel, #NFDB
900:Villains are fun. I think the important thing in playing them is that they don't see themselves as villains. It lets you be a little more expansive. ~ Rhys Ifans, #NFDB
901:I believe that being happy is the only important thing. Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or torturous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive. ~ Joanne Harris, #NFDB
902:I don’t know how much plainer I can be than this. I love you, and that makes you the most important thing in my life, regardless of anything else. ~ Scarlett Cole, #NFDB
903:I think the most important thing for you to do in the meantime is live. It is a very involving job, which takes much concentration and practice. ~ Jewelle L G mez, #NFDB
904:No one loses anyone because no one owns anyone. That is true experience of freedom; having the most important thing in the world without owning it. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
905:The law of Forced Efficiency says that "There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important thing. ~ Brian Tracy, #NFDB
906:The most important thing to strive for in life is some kind of personal and professional achievement. Not as a man or a woman, but as a person. ~ Candace Bushnell, #NFDB
907:This might sound simple, but I cannot overstate this: The single most important thing is recognizing what the problem is in the first place. ~ Nadine Burke Harris, #NFDB
908:What's the point of regret? It makes you feel awful, and you can't get the time back. The important thing is to realize your mistakes and know better. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
909:After all, as they would sometimes remind one another, the most important thing about a house was not how big it was, but how many stories it had. ~ Angelica Banks, #NFDB
910:For each of them, the most important thing in living was to reach out and touch perfection in that which they most loved to do, and that was to fly. ~ Richard Bach, #NFDB
911:Have you ever felt like you could cry because you know you just heard the most important thing anybody in the world could have spoke at that second? ~ Kaye Gibbons, #NFDB
912:I think the most important thing [for moms] is - I always liked help with feeding essentials like breastfeeding stuff, because it's really tricky. ~ Kim Kardashian, #NFDB
913:Probably the most important thing you can do to build trust is to spend a little time alone with each of your direct reports on a regular basis. ~ Kim Malone Scott, #NFDB
914:Above all, remember that the most important thing you can take anywhere is not a Gucci bag or French-cut jeans; it’s an open mind.—GAIL RUBIN BERENY ~ Annette Blair, #NFDB
915:And they thought that was all you had to have, because they took for granted the most important thing. You had to have a place where you belonged. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
916:An opinion, though it is original, does not necessarily differ from the accepted opinion; the important thing is that it does not try to conform to it. ~ Andre Gide, #NFDB
917:her “green light” was Harvard. “But if I don’t get into Harvard, I will not die, right? The journey toward the dream is the most important thing. ~ Maureen Corrigan, #NFDB
918:... it's good to have female or minority role models. But the important thing is to have mentors who care about you, and they come in all colors. ~ Condoleezza Rice, #NFDB
919:Perhaps the single most important thing that we can do to undo the harm we have done is to fix firmly in our minds the thought: the earth is alive. ~ James Lovelock, #NFDB
920:The fruits of philosophy are the important thing, not the philosophy itself. When we ask the time, we don't want to know how watches are made. ~ Georg C Lichtenberg, #NFDB
921:The future is called 'perhaps,' which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you. ~ Tennessee Williams, #NFDB
922:The important thing in acting is to be able to laugh and cry. If I have to laugh, I think of my sex life. If I have to cry, I think of my sex life. ~ Glenda Jackson, #NFDB
923:The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. Remember, the greatest failure is to not try. —Debbi Fields, founder of Mrs. Fields bakeries ~ Marie Force, #NFDB
924:The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't being said. The art of reading between the lines is a life long quest of the wise. ~ Shannon L Alder, #NFDB
925:The most important thing in life is not to capitalize on your gains. Any fool can do that. The really important thing is to profit from your losses. ~ Dale Carnegie, #NFDB
926:The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well. ~ Pierre de Coubertin, #NFDB
927:To keep on going, you have to keep up the rhythm. This is the important thing for long-term projects. Once you set the pace, the rest will follow. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
928:Faith is the substance of whatever it is that we hope for. The important thing is that we teach that faith is connected to good works and responsibility. ~ T D Jakes, #NFDB
929:He read because it gave him instant gratification in a way nothing else did,and as was the case with all addicts,gratification was the important thing. ~ Jeet Thayil, #NFDB
930:I think the most important thing to do is to be willing to listen, willing to care, and willing to admit mistakes and change your ways for the better! ~ Jane Goodall, #NFDB
931:I want girls to feel the confidence you get from being smart. They get so many messages that tell them the most important thing is to be beautiful. ~ Danica McKellar, #NFDB
932:The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.... In any case, the giving of love is an education in itself. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt, #NFDB
933:The most important thing is that you honor that musical integrity, whether you make music that sounds like ABBA or you make music that sounds like Void. ~ Dave Grohl, #NFDB
934:The most important thing is to hold on, hold out, for your creative life, for your solitude, for your time to be and do, for your very life. ~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes, #NFDB
935:The most important thing is to hold on, hold out, for your creative life, for your solitude, for your time to be and do, for your very life. ~ Clarissa Pinkola Est s, #NFDB
936:Everybody's got a different circle of competence. The important thing is not how big the circle is. The important thing is staying inside the circle. ~ Warren Buffett, #NFDB
937:I think the important thing about my appointment is not that I will decide cases as a woman, but that I am a woman who will get to decide cases. ~ Sandra Day O Connor, #NFDB
938:No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
939:Sometimes luck is with you, and sometimes not, but the important thing is to take the dare. Those who climb mountains or raft rivers understand this. ~ David R Brower, #NFDB
940:The important thing about being a leader is not being right or wrong but being certain. Of course it helps to be right as well, the Abbot conceeded. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
941:The important thing, once you have enough to eat and a nice house, is what you can do for others, what you can contribute to the enterprise as a whole. ~ Donald Knuth, #NFDB
942:The most important thing to do is not to worry. The lines on your face will never stop the sun from coming up. Your tears cannot affect the weather. ~ Yrsa Daley Ward, #NFDB
943:The most important thing to get from an Assertive will be a “that’s right” that may come in the form of a “that’s it exactly” or “you hit it on the head. ~ Chris Voss, #NFDB
944:There’s no need for us to be held back by the past or how things have been so far. The important thing is what seeds we are sowing now for the future. ~ Daisaku Ikeda, #NFDB
945:We are very lucky really, because we can create our own reality, John [Lennon] and me, but we know the important thing is to communicate with other people. ~ Yoko Ono, #NFDB
946:I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious. The important thing is to not stop questioning. Curiousity has its own reason for existing. ~ Albert Einstein, #NFDB
947:I learned something which has stood me in good stead many times—the most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt, #NFDB
948:No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
949:Research has shown that the perceived style of leadership is by far the most important thing to most voters in evaluating officeholders and candidates. ~ Robert Teeter, #NFDB
950:Taking the question in general, I should say, in the case of many poets, that the most important thing for them to do ... is to write as little as possible ~ T S Eliot, #NFDB
951: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. ~ Barbara Bush, #NFDB
952:The most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and to not give in to peer pressure to try to be something that you're not. ~ Ellen DeGeneres, #NFDB
953:The most important thing is how you program and how you choose your records. That really does sort out who is a good DJ and who is just playing records. ~ John Digweed, #NFDB
954:The most important thing is that you have really good friends and family, and when you go back to them, it's like 'what?'. You carry on as who you are. ~ Michelle Yeoh, #NFDB
955:There is something to be said for every error; but, whatever may be said for it, the most important thing to be said about it is that it is erroneous. ~ G K Chesterton, #NFDB
956:Growing up, the most important thing, after taking care of your family and getting a decent job of work, was having a laugh. That was the point to life. ~ Ricky Gervais, #NFDB
957:I'd like to find great roles close to home and work on great projects while staying near my family. My family's the most important thing to me right now. ~ Harry Hamlin, #NFDB
958:If you suffer from depression, anything that makes you feel has to the most important thing in your life, because it's the only thing that can save you. ~ Siobhan Fahey, #NFDB
959:In life, there are many hills and valleys to pass and you cannot avoid them! The most important thing you need is to know this: You must pass them! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
960:It's just nice to see people enthusiastic about their tennis and want to learn and improve - for me that's the most important thing - I still love my tennis. ~ Jo Durie, #NFDB
961:Lust is temporary, romance can be nice, but love is the most important thing of all. Because without Love, lust and romance will always be short-lived. ~ Danielle Steel, #NFDB
962:Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths, or the turning inwards in prayer for five short minutes. ~ Etty Hillesum, #NFDB
963:The important thing is to recognize our faults, avoid self-denial, and have the courage and self-sufficiency to make constant adjustments in our lives. ~ Michael Newton, #NFDB
964:The important thing is to strive toward a goal which is not immediately visible. That goal is not the concern of the mind, but of the spirit. ~ Antoine de Saint Exupery, #NFDB
965:The important thing is to strive toward a goal which is not immediately visible. That goal is not the concern of the mind, but of the spirit. ~ Antoine de Saint Exup ry, #NFDB
966:To me, I'm always trying to look for the energy, to imagine in being played on the dance floor. I guess that's the most important thing in making music for me. ~ Avicii, #NFDB
967:Violent resistance and nonviolent resistance share one very important thing in common: They are both a form of theater seeking an audience to their cause. ~ Julia Bacha, #NFDB
968:You can be in the public eye all the time and still have a private life, but the important thing is to keep in touch with the people who put you there. ~ John Barrowman, #NFDB
969:Genius is a will-o'-the-wisp if it lacks a solid foundation of perseverence and fanatical tenacity. This is the most important thing in all of human life. ~ Adolf Hitler, #NFDB
970:It is not important at all that we were all once an ape! The important thing is that how very much we evolved and how far we got away from the apes! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
971:It seems that the most important thing about Reagan was his anti-Communism and his reputation as a hawk who saw the Soviet Union as an 'evil empire.' ~ Mikhail Gorbachev, #NFDB
972:The future is called "perhaps", which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the only important thing is not to allow that to scare you. ~ Tennessee Williams, #NFDB
973:The most important thing is that it's much more fun to play in a band than to be in an audience in a club. That's the main thing I think, that you can do it. ~ Ikue Mori, #NFDB
974:I still believe in stories. I still forget myself when I am in the middle of a good book. Books are for me, it must be said, the most important thing. ~ Diane Setterfield, #NFDB
975:Marriages don't stay in neat, tidy shapes you know; they sprawl about, very messily sometimes. The important thing is not to let them get out of control. ~ Penny Vincenzi, #NFDB
976:Part of 'Beyond The Music' is also the notion that no matter what came of us, or the band, the most important thing for us ended up being the friendships. ~ Milo Aukerman, #NFDB
977:The most important thing is, how can I move forward towards something that I can't articulate, that is new in storytelling with moving images and sound? ~ Martin Scorsese, #NFDB
978:The most important thing to remember about suffering is that it is inevitable. The only thing that changes is the meaning we construct around our suffering. ~ Mark Manson, #NFDB
979:A community is like a family," she told him, "and every family has a few odd ducks. The important thing to remember is that they're still family. ~ Heather Vogel Frederick, #NFDB
980:Everybody says your mind is the most important thing about your body. Your mind and your body. You keep both busy, and by God you'll be here a long time. ~ Walter Breuning, #NFDB
981:Family being the most important thing in the world. The most important. Why, it’s your family that tells you who you are. Without a family, you’re a nobody. ~ Lauren Groff, #NFDB
982:Had I found the back of the net it would have been a double satisfaction but I've scored many goals and the important thing was for me to play well. ~ Alessandro Del Piero, #NFDB
983:I believe a healthy lifestyle is an extremely important thing which underpins solution to numerous important problems, including the health of the nation. ~ Vladimir Putin, #NFDB
984:Labour-saving devices just make us try to cram more pointless activities into each day, rather than doing the important thing, which is to enjoy our life. ~ Tom Hodgkinson, #NFDB
985:The important thing is not the planning of an Index Verborum Prohibitorum of current noble nouns, but rather the examination of their linguistic function. ~ Theodor Adorno, #NFDB
986:The most important thing about creativity is that you honor your creativity and you don't ever ignore it or go against what that creative image is telling you. ~ Lady Gaga, #NFDB
987:There can be no democracy without observing the law and everyone must observe it - that is the most basic and important thing that we all should remember. ~ Vladimir Putin, #NFDB
988:They buy ’em here ’cause it’s cheaper. You know how rich people are. Money sticks to their hands, ’cause it’s the most important thing in the world to ’em. ~ Margaret Coel, #NFDB
989:Keep a good heart. That's the most important thing in life. It's not how much money you make or what you can acquire. The art of it is to keep a good heart. ~ Joni Mitchell, #NFDB
990:Listen closely...this is the most important thing you need to know while you're here.
Do not eat the haddock. They've been overcooking it terribly. ~ Veronica Rossi,#NFDB
991:The important thing is not to know who "I" is or what "I" is. You'll never succeed. There are no words for it. The important thing is to drop the labels. ~ Anthony de Mello, #NFDB
992:The most important thing about a child's education is to have a great teacher in front of the classroom and a lot of choice and accountability with parents. ~ Carly Fiorina, #NFDB
993:The most important thing in gamesmanship was this: you could never be completely sure of other persons, so never make a move until you were sure of yourself. ~ Liz Braswell, #NFDB
994:When you are a beginning film maker you are desperate to survive. The most important thing in the end is survival and being able to get to your next picture. ~ George Lucas, #NFDB
995:Affection is the most important thing. And the quality of affection - with your friends, your lovers, your family. But particularly for your own generation. ~ Allen Ginsberg, #NFDB
996:Confidence is a very important thing. But confidence isn't something you just develop by saying "I'm going to do this or that." You really have to believe it. ~ Donald Trump, #NFDB
997:I don't think it's so important who you vote for - you vote for who you believe in. The important thing is to vote, because it's our way and it's the best way. ~ Cass Elliot, #NFDB
998:Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis. ~ George Bernard Shaw, #NFDB
999:Naturally, people's image is of a performer, but the reality of it is the writing for me has always been the most important thing and the most rewarding thing. ~ John Cleese, #NFDB
1000:That was the most important thing. He had to stop talking to himself. He had to get back that calm feeling agan. He had to face reality. And what was reality? ~ Robert Bloch, #NFDB
1001:The important thing about Dada, it seems to me, is that Dadaists despised what is commonly regarded as art, but put the whole universe on the lofty throne of art. ~ Hans Arp, #NFDB
1002:The most important thing is a person. A person who incites your curiosity and feeds your curiosity; and machines cannot do that in the same way that people can. ~ Steve Jobs, #NFDB
1003:The most important thing is not to allow yourself to find an excuse that will let you not to do something you really want. Doing compromises makes people weaker. ~ Valentina, #NFDB
1004:There is something to be said for every error; but, whatever may be said for it, the most important thing to be said about it is that it is erroneous. ~ Gilbert K Chesterton, #NFDB
1005:The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true. ~ John Steinbeck, #NFDB
1006:Usually, in any revolution people are focused on who wants to have the most power. But the most important thing is the laws that are written during that time. ~ Shirin Ebadi, #NFDB
1007:You know, the only important thing is that there was a person for whom you were the most important being in the world. Everything else is inconsequential. ~ Mikhail Shishkin, #NFDB
1008:You're not turning the picture over to a system or a process, you are the process, and the most important thing is to have things exactly as you want them. ~ William Monahan, #NFDB
1009:As an actor, that's the most important thing. You want to be able to let go and not hold onto anything, so that you can give an honest portrayal and performance. ~ James Wolk, #NFDB
1010:Fitness is important, but the most important thing is how you adapt and the way you feel physically. To adapt to a new position. To try to change your game. ~ Fernando Torres, #NFDB
1011:I'll be a Quebecker-Canadian. I'm from Quebec, and every time I go to a country, I say that. It's my roots, my origins, and it's the most important thing to me. ~ Celine Dion, #NFDB
1012:It would no longer be the small thing it was before, but the most important thing in the world, the thing that would save my life. This happened time and again. ~ Yann Martel, #NFDB
1013:On Photography (Sontag, Susan) - Your Highlight on page 41 | location 513-513 | Added on Saturday, 20 September 2014 20:43:40 The important thing is not to blink. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1014:She had power over the most magnificent forces on Earth, but she still didn’t feel like she had power over the most important thing of all—her own heart. ~ Josephine Angelini, #NFDB
1015:The most important thing a man has to tell you is what he’s not telling you,” he said. “The most important thing he has to say is what he’s trying not to say. ~ Robert A Caro, #NFDB
1016:The most important thing for everyone in Gringolandia is to have ambition and become 'somebody,' and frankly, I don't have the least ambition to become anybody. ~ Frida Kahlo, #NFDB
1017:The most important thing is having the right mind - a mind that can see it. Once you have an open mind, you see a lot of auspicious coincidence taking place. ~ Sakyong Mipham, #NFDB
1018:Women without men are usually nervous. ... The important thing is to have a man, even if you just like him. Pleasing him, you will please yourself. ~ Sheilah Graham Westbrook, #NFDB
1019:You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we’re apart…I’ll always be with you. ~ A A Milne, #NFDB
1020:You can only make so much money in life and only enjoy so many creature comforts. The important thing is to do something meaningful-to leave something behind. ~ Roone Arledge, #NFDB
1021:You’re only poor if you give up. The most important thing is that you did something. Most people only talk and dream of getting rich. You’ve done something. ~ Robert Kiyosaki, #NFDB
1022:I genuinely don't feel that anything that's been written or said about me has overshadowed my music, and that's the most important thing as far as I'm concerned. ~ Norah Jones, #NFDB
1023:In business, money is either an important thing or it is everything. Monopolists can afford to think about things other than making money; non-monopolists can’t. ~ Peter Thiel, #NFDB
1024:I think the important thing is to realize that the establishment of a democracy is sometimes a messy thing and it takes time. Yeah, we've been at it 240 years. ~ Mike Huckabee, #NFDB
1025:Just being the seeker, somebody whose open to spiritual enlightenment, is in itself the important thing and it's the reward for being a seeker in this world. ~ Walter Isaacson, #NFDB
1026:Oh hearts! Nobody gets through life without a broken heart. The important thing is to break the heart so that when it mends it will be stronger than before. ~ Robertson Davies, #NFDB
1027:People’s stories are the most personal thing they have, and paying attention to those stories is just about the most important thing you can do for them. ~ William Deresiewicz, #NFDB
1028:The important thing of any time you live in is to be in love yourself. You float above your time then. It's what you want that counts, not what your time wants. ~ Ray Bradbury, #NFDB
1029:The most important thing in life is to dare. The most complicated thing in life is to be afraid. The smartest thing in the world is to try to be a moral person. ~ Shimon Peres, #NFDB
1030:The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possiblities as probabilities. ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB
1031:The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles. ~ Socrates, #NFDB
1032:and while the list could go on and on and on, the point was simply this: the most important thing we could never forget was that we could never forget. When ~ Viet Thanh Nguyen, #NFDB
1033:But the most important thing for purification of the heart is an absolute sincerity. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - III, The Danger of the Ego and the Need of Purification, #NFDB
1034:Don't be afraid if things seem difficult in the beginning. That's only the initial impression. The important thing is not to retreat; you have to master yourself. ~ Olga Korbut, #NFDB
1035:Good appearance doesn’t make a real man. The important thing is to do your best and keep your promises. A real man should show his faith in actions (rather) than words. ~ Yunho, #NFDB
1036:The important thing about adventures, thought Mr. Bunnsy, was that they should not be so long as to make you miss mealtimes. —From Mr. Bunnsy Has an Adventure ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
1037:The important thing was that we were being polite and not saying all the things that were making us unhappy, which was the only way we knew how to love each other. ~ Ruth Ozeki, #NFDB
1038:The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities. ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB
1039:The words are the important thing. Don't worry about tunes. Take a tune, sing high when they sing low, sing fast when they sing slow, and you've got a new tune. ~ Woody Guthrie, #NFDB
1040:They knew a tremendous number of things — But was it worthwhile knowing all these things if they did not know the one important thing, the only important thing? ~ Hermann Hesse, #NFDB
1041:When you have a lot of resources, the most important thing is to have had good parents and to have been brought up by people who gave one the proper values. ~ David Rockefeller, #NFDB
1042: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. ~ Taeyang, #NFDB
1043:You’re only poor if you give up. The most important thing is that you did something. Most people only talk and dream of getting rich. You’ve done something. ~ Robert T Kiyosaki, #NFDB
1044:I believe that the most important thing...is to revive in the whole Church that positive tension, that yearning to announce Christ again to contemporary man. ~ Pope Benedict XVI, #NFDB
1045:I know not yet where I hope to go, what challenges are left before me, but I do understand now that the important thing is to enjoy the process of getting there. ~ R A Salvatore, #NFDB
1046:I went on countless auditions. I begged my parents until I finally was allowed to be in a theatrical play when I was 13. It was the most important thing in my life ~ Kate Hudson, #NFDB
1047:...The important thing is: if you fail once, or if your luck is bad this time, the dream is still there. A dream is only over if you give it up-or if it comes true. ~ Neil Peart, #NFDB
1048:the important thing is not what you may think is precisely right or wrong. What matters is that you choose to have an opinion at all on what is right or wrong. ~ Jostein Gaarder, #NFDB
1049: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. ~ Barack Obama, #NFDB
1050:The single most important thing to remember about any enterprise is that there are no results inside its walls. The result of a business is a satisfied customer. ~ Peter Drucker, #NFDB
1051:The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold onto this illusion, even though he knows it's not true. ~ John Steinbeck, #NFDB
1052:Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing--and keeping the unknown always beyond you. ~ Georgia O Keeffe, #NFDB
1053:And what have you learned?”
“A great deal. But I haven't learned the most important thing.”
“No? And what would that be?”
“Why do people hate us so much? ~ Amy Harmon,#NFDB
1054:But there are some people, nevertheless—and I am one of them—who think that the most practical and important thing about a man is still his view of the universe. ~ G K Chesterton, #NFDB
1055:However long your stay on this small planet lasts, and whatever happens during it, the most important thing is that-from time to time-you feel life's sweet caress. ~ William Boyd, #NFDB
1056:The important thing when it comes to grooming, as when it comes to clothes, is you do not want anything to distract from the strength and power of your ideas,. ~ Vanessa Friedman, #NFDB
1057:The most important thing about being a father is being able to forgive yourself. If you don't forgive yourself, you're not going to forgive your kids, either. ~ Evander Holyfield, #NFDB
1058:The most important thing for a director is being able to communicate. When you communicate comfortably, regardless of what you're saying, it can always be processed. ~ Kevin Hart, #NFDB
1059:The single most important thing is to make people happy. If you are making people happy, as a side effect, they will be happy to open up their wallets and pay you. ~ Derek Sivers, #NFDB
1060: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. ~ David O McKay, #NFDB
1061:After a while, a surprising theme emerged. The single most important thing you can do for your family may be the simplest of all: Develop a strong family narrative. ~ Bruce Feiler, #NFDB
1062:All illusion comes and goes, but the soul remains unchanged. What is meant by God-realization is to actually experience this important thing that the soul is eternal. ~ Meher Baba, #NFDB
1063:If we live in a world where information drives what we do, the information we get becomes the most important thing. The person who chooses that information has power. ~ Seth Godin, #NFDB
1064:Jesus made it clear that the most important thing in the world is our relationship to God and to others. When we achieve that, everything good will follow. ~ Norman Vincent Peale, #NFDB
1065:One very important thing I learned from Monk was his complete dedication to music. That was his reason for being alive. Nothing else mattered except music, really. ~ Sonny Rollins, #NFDB
1066:The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat the possibilites as probabilities. ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB
1067:The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
1068:the Olympic Games: ‘The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well. ~ Fali S Nariman, #NFDB
1069:The opening of the consciousness to the Divine Light and Truth and Presence is always the one important thing in the Yoga. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - III, Kinds of Vision, #NFDB
1070:You never know how things will turn out. And you can't really say it turned out wrong. Whatever happens, happens. The important thing is that you followed your gut. ~ Rachel Weisz, #NFDB
1071:And then at the end of the day, the most important thing is how good are you at risk control. Ninety-percent of any great trader is going to be the risk control. ~ Paul Tudor Jones, #NFDB
1072:Dance has always been a really important thing for me, so being able to physically express the characters through music and dance is like another layer to things. ~ Tatiana Maslany, #NFDB
1073:Everyone thinks this way at some point. The important thing is to power through and get to learning. If you really don't have the time Let Me Handle Your Analytics. ~ Aldous Huxley, #NFDB
1074:I don't look to a man to get pride in myself. It's not about having a black president, it's about having a good president, and I think that's the most important thing. ~ Allen West, #NFDB
1075:I think it would be very boring dramatically to have a film where everybody was a lawyer or doctor and had no faults. To me, the most important thing is to be truthful. ~ Spike Lee, #NFDB
1076:I think that critiquing the myths of our society and helping people find their way through them is a very important thing. It's a theme that goes through all of my work. ~ Sam Keen, #NFDB
1077:Language was like clothes; it could be a help to one, or it could give one away. But the most important thing was that one should not pretend to be what one was not. ~ Willa Cather, #NFDB
1078:Mortal man! You’ve wasted your time mostly with wrong and empty beliefs! And now you have started understanding that most important thing in life is existence! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
1079:Naturally, there are times when every woman likes to be flattered... to feel she is the most important thing in someone's world. Only a man can paint this picture. ~ Marilyn Monroe, #NFDB
1080:Since the important thing is to practise, it is in vain that one is near the master, if one does not practice oneself; no profit of any kind corms out of it. ~ Sutra in 42 articles, #NFDB
1081:All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives. ~ Dalai Lama, #NFDB
1082:But if victory is not theirs this time, it will be the next time. And if not the next time, then the time after that. The important thing is to get back on your feet. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
1083:Hiring great people is almost the most important thing you can do as a leader because they enable you to scale, and they create better leverage for you and your time. ~ Ivanka Trump, #NFDB
1084:I am working on it but I don't thinking having a good serve is the most important thing. It is about a lot of things coming together that makes you a good player. ~ Elena Dementieva, #NFDB
1085:I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person. ~ MG Hardie, #NFDB
1086:That was an important thing to learn - the more preparation you do the more a subject will respect you. But also, the more you'll think about what the real story is. ~ Ron Rosenbaum, #NFDB
1087:There are a lot of people building small ideas now. There's an idealization of being an entrepreneur, but the most important thing is to have a really great idea. ~ Dustin Moskovitz, #NFDB
1088:The right to vote is the foundation of our free society, and protecting that right is the single most important thing we can do to strengthen our democracy. ~ Hillary Rodham Clinton, #NFDB
1089:Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.” Thinking is not only hard—it’s the single most important thing in life. ~ Darius Foroux, #NFDB
1090:Yield your heart and life to Jesus Christ. Be faithful to Him, no matter what men may do. The important thing is not the praise of men; it is the approval of God. ~ Warren W Wiersbe, #NFDB
1091:God wants to be the most important thing in our lives. He wants to be our first passion, our first thought in the morning. He wants to be what gives our life purpose. ~ Colleen Coble, #NFDB
1092:The important thing is to bring people with Parkinson's into our world and for the public to have a real understanding of it, as they've beginning to have with autism. ~ Helen Mirren, #NFDB
1093:The important thing to me is that I'm not driven by people's praise and I'm not slowed down by people's criticism. I'm just trying to work at the highest level I can. ~ Russell Crowe, #NFDB
1094:You see continuous movement is the important thing here. Those who remain in one position and then lie to themselves about their progress are the ones in real trouble. ~ Chris Murray, #NFDB
1095:At some point that night, I glimpsed my most probable future. That one day, the most interesting and important thing about me would be a thing that I did a long time ago. ~ Hank Green, #NFDB
1096:Everybody is designing magic iPhone apps that do things that are really, really beautiful, but a really important thing about magic is that the gimmick has to be ugly. ~ Penn Jillette, #NFDB
1097:Now I work with them all, and the most important thing I’ve learned is power is the only thing that matters. Most men have too many weaknesses to hold on to it for long ~ Meghan March, #NFDB
1098:The best thing that I learned from the best directors that I worked with is that the best answer wins. They are ego-less when it comes to doing the most important thing. ~ Don Cheadle, #NFDB
1099:The important thing is the family. If you can keep the family together - and that's the backbone of our whole business, catering to families - that's what we hope to do. ~ Walt Disney, #NFDB
1100:The most important thing is actually raising up children with a true and lasting burning sense of curiosity. I don't even know how they do it. Good parents are a marvel. ~ Ezra Miller, #NFDB
1101:Unity is the most important thing on the road to stamping out terror. You need global rules of law and order, and they have to be enforced. Start with that principle. ~ Chris Matthews, #NFDB
1102:For me the most important thing is being a really good person, and that doesn’t depend on what you do on stage, that depends on how you treat people when you’re offstage. ~ Miley Cyrus, #NFDB
1103:Genetics help to some degree, but the most important thing is the mind and the spirit. These two are even more powerful than physical characteristics that are passed on. ~ Serge Nubret, #NFDB
1104:I smile and I think that one human being must always be discovering another - through love. And that this is the most important thing on earth, and the most lasting. ~ Tadeusz Borowski, #NFDB
1105:People ask me what the most important thing to take on the race is, and I always say it's a sense of humor. If you've got nothing but a sense of humor, you will survive. ~ Phil Keoghan, #NFDB
1106:The greatest and most important thing in the world is founded on weakness. This is a remarkably sure foundation, for nothing is surer than that the people will be weak. ~ Blaise Pascal, #NFDB
1107:The only important thing is the goal to be attained. The way matters little, and often it is better not to know it in advance.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II, True Aim of Life,#NFDB
1108:the theatre was the chief and most important thing in life and that it was only through the drama that one could derive true enjoyment and become cultivated and humane. ~ Anton Chekhov, #NFDB
1109:All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives. ~ Dalai Lama XIV, #NFDB
1110:A man’s deep friendships were the most important thing he could possess. Things can be broken, or lost. All a man can keep for certain are the things in his mind and heart. ~ Robin Hobb, #NFDB
1111:I believe the most important thing for humankind is its own creativity. I further believe that, in order to be able to exercise this creativity, people need to be free. ~ Dalai Lama XIV, #NFDB
1112:I've found out that money is the most important thing in the world and, as God is my witness, I don't ever intend to be without it again. I'll never be hungry again. ~ Margaret Mitchell, #NFDB
1113:Reviewer: 'One of your themes was very similar to one of Beethoven's!' Brahms replied, 'Of course it is. Everyone steals - the important thing is to do it brilliantly. ~ Johannes Brahms, #NFDB
1114:The important thing was to forget about Iris's hair and let her speak, let her find her fluency and, from the soft streaming of her own words, create for him his apologia. ~ Philip Roth, #NFDB
1115:The knowledge of self is the most important thing, because how are you going to know God if you don't know yourself? How are you going to know anything if you don't know yourself? ~ RZA, #NFDB
1116:The lilac branches are bowed under the weight of the flowers: blooming is hard, and the most important thing is - to bloom. (“A Story About The Most Important Thing”) ~ Yevgeny Zamyatin, #NFDB
1117:The most important thing for me is the moment, going from one thing to the next and hitting all the different levels and different points that make the whole what it is. ~ Lenny Kravitz, #NFDB
1118:Why have I stressed professionalism so heavily? Because the most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying. ~ Steven Pressfield, #NFDB
1119:If letting go, if letting people and things work themselves out in the way that they needed to without your help was the most important thing, then it was also the hardest. ~ Deb Caletti, #NFDB
1120:I hope what I’ve learned helps you find your way. Most of all, I hope you’ve learned that in this world of mines and crafting, the most important thing you can craft is you. ~ Max Brooks, #NFDB
1121:I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person. ~ Audrey Hepburn, #NFDB
1122:In the middle of a wheat field under a beautiful sunshine anybody can be happy; the important thing is to be happy in the middle of a storm under the darkest clouds! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
1123:It was a fantastic feeling, but it left me restless because the most important thing in it was the longing, for what was going to be, not for what I did or had done. ~ Karl Ove Knausg rd, #NFDB
1124:The Beatles looked like they were in show business, and that was the important thing. And the important thing for the Rolling Stones was to look as if they were not. ~ Andrew Loog Oldham, #NFDB
1125:The important thing is to make a different world, to make a world that is not now. A real world, a genuine world, but one that allows myth to live. The myth is everything. ~ Sergio Leone, #NFDB
1126:The most important thing people can do is refuse to have any resistance to staying connected to their source. People resist being able to attract abundance into their lives. ~ Wayne Dyer, #NFDB
1127:To me the most important thing is getting into a studio and making an album that is 12 or 14 amazing songs, getting up onstage, and making people happy by livening the rock. ~ Dave Grohl, #NFDB
1128:when you think about success, shoot for the moon. The moon is reachable if you prioritize everything and put all of your energy into accomplishing the most important thing. ~ Gary Keller, #NFDB
1129:You can't sit back. My husband and I have made the choice that our marriage is the most important thing to us. We respect what we have and understand how we need to feed it. ~ Faith Hill, #NFDB
1130:At one time they've been the most important thing to me. So I can't hear our records on the radio, I can't stand it, because they sound so out of what everyone else is doing. ~ Ray Davies, #NFDB
1131:I turned to look at him. “Does being the most important thing in my life help at all?” He leaned so his lips brushed my right ear. “It’s everything now, M. You know that.” I ~ Mary Calmes, #NFDB
1132:I will work day and night to avoid failure, but if I can't, I'll pick myself up the next day. The most important thing for entrepreneurs is not to be put off by failure. ~ Richard Branson, #NFDB
1133:My creative expression must be the most important thing in the world to me (if I am to live artistically), and it also must not matter at all (if I am to live sanely). ~ Elizabeth Gilbert, #NFDB
1134:The important thing is to strive towards a goal which is not immediately visible. That goal is not the concern of the mind, but of the spirit. Flight to Arras ~ Antoine de Saint Exup ry, #NFDB
1135:You realise that having a number one record and being loved and adored isn't the most important thing in the world. But at the same time, I don't have a problem with it. ~ Madonna Ciccone, #NFDB
1136:Do what you love to do. I think that’s the most important thing. If you love doing something there is no feeling of ‘working’. It’s not time-bound then, there is no stress. ~ Rashmi Bansal, #NFDB
1137:I'm glad I'm still in motion. I don't think of my past achievements. The most important thing is what I'm going to do tomorrow. I'm happy I did what I did. Thanks be to God. ~ Manu Dibango, #NFDB
1138:The important thing is that you find some time every day to “break bread” with those you love most and consistently work at building a richer, more meaningful family life. ~ Robin S Sharma, #NFDB
1139:The most important thing of all is my parents were able to leave all four of their children better off than themselves. That story has a name, it's called the American dream. ~ Marco Rubio, #NFDB
1140:You can make a little thing feel like a big thing. To me, it's all tone. Tone is the most important thing in the world. Then character, then story, or something like that. ~ Loren Bouchard, #NFDB
1141:You seem to think the past is unreal, a pit full of ghosts. But to me the past is in some ways the most real thing of all, and loyalty to it the most important thing of all. ~ Iris Murdoch, #NFDB
1142:After you have prioritized and you start working, knowing that what you are doing is the most important thing for you to be doing at that moment is surprisingly powerful. ~ Daniel J Levitin, #NFDB
1143:i am convinced that no one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone.
that is the true experience of freedom:having the most important thing in the world without owning it. ~ Paulo Coelho,#NFDB
1144:It is very easy to say that the important thing is to try your best, but if you are in real trouble the most important thing is not trying your best, but getting to safety. ~ Daniel Handler, #NFDB
1145:Some people have big dreams, some people have small dreams,” he penned to a girl named Vanessa. “Whatever you have, the important thing is that you never stop dreaming.” Doug ~ Jon Krakauer, #NFDB
1146:The important thing is first of all to have a real love for the visible world that lies outside ourselves as well as to know the deep secret of what goes on within ourselves. ~ Max Beckmann, #NFDB
1147:The most important thing is to be happy and true to yourself. I don't want to look back at this in 30 years from now and say, 'I did it all to make them happy and I didn't enjoy.' ~ Rihanna, #NFDB
1148:The most important thing that was new was the idea of URI-or URL, that any piece of information anywhere should have an identifier, which will allow you to get hold of it. ~ Tim Berners Lee, #NFDB
1149:The opinion of the majority or the minority is of no importance! The important thing is the opinion of the Truth, of the Reason, of the Logic, of the High Intelligence! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
1150:All the humor evaporates from his face and his honey-brown eyes. Within seconds he has me in his arms and he hugs me like I’m the most important thing in the world to him. ~ Jessica Sorensen, #NFDB
1151:During recording, the most important thing of all is to "sing sincerely" from the heart. When you guys listen to my songs and able to feel my sincere singing, I will be very happy. ~ Daesung, #NFDB
1152:I learn something about fear. I learn that it is not the idle fantasies of someone who maybe wants something important to happen to him, even if the important thing is horrible. ~ John Green, #NFDB
1153:I think the most important thing about what musicians do is the music. You can be as big an arsehole as you want but if you're not making good music, you won't get away with it. ~ Peter Hook, #NFDB
1154:I went into college undeclared. I had no idea what I wanted to do, but I knew that music was obviously this central big important thing in my life that I was gonna keep doing. ~ Kina Grannis, #NFDB
1155:So that’s why I’m such a big fan of storytelling. I think the most important thing is empathy. And it’s less about ‘those people’. Because I think we’re all ‘those people’. ~ Jeannette Walls, #NFDB
1156:Time is the most important thing there is. That is the only element that you can't withdraw from the situation and still have the situation exist. Everything depends on time. ~ John Hartford, #NFDB
1157:Very few people on earth ever get to say: 'I am doing, right now, the most important thing I could possibly be doing.' If you'll join this fight that's what you'll get to say ~ Bill McKibben, #NFDB
1158:But the important thing here is to remember to practice self-care in times of stress. Take a walk, paint a picture, murder someone, burn the body, and clean up the crime scene. ~ Jill Shalvis, #NFDB
1159:Financially, it was very successful. Which is the most important thing. That is the only way you get to make another movie. It's very simple. The market will value you. ~ Nicolas Winding Refn, #NFDB
1160:I'm a family guy. Most important thing in my life by far is my relationship with my wife and my sons, daughters-in-law, and 18 grandchildren. And for me, this is all about them. ~ Mitt Romney, #NFDB
1161:Political struggle is the most important thing any of us can do as a citizen in a democracy; and that means the old joining the young to fight for elemental kinds of justice. ~ Jonathan Kozol, #NFDB
1162:The most important thing is not that my short game looks good, but that it feels good, because at the end of the day, what you need is to feel it, and I'm starting to feel it. ~ Sergio Garcia, #NFDB
1163:They're old enough to know how the world really works, so why are they so stupid? It's easy to talk big, but the important thing is whether or not you can clean up the shit. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
1164:Very few people on earth ever get to say: "I am doing, right now, the most important thing I could possibly be doing." If you'll join this fight that's what you'll get to say. ~ Bill McKibben, #NFDB
1165:What is the purpose of eating a tangerine? It is to eat the tangerine. During the time you eat a tangerine, eating that tangerine is the most important thing in your life. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh, #NFDB
1166:In today’s political climate, the most important thing is to be seen caring about people, not actually helping them, or accepting responsibility for anything.” The liberal way. ~ Morgan Blayde, #NFDB
1167:Making lasting gifts for animals in our estate plans is perhaps the single most important thing we can do to ensure animals have the strongest possible voice for their protection. ~ Bea Arthur, #NFDB
1168:The important thing is not the finding, it is the seeking, it is the devotion with which one spins the wheel of prayer and scripture, discovering the truth little by little. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1169:The most important thing a writer can have [is] the ability to live with the constant loneliness and a strong sense of revulsion for the banalities of everyday socializing. ~ Hunter S Thompson, #NFDB
1170:There is a verse [in the Koran] that says God swears by time. Anything you gain in life, you pay for with your time. Time is the most important thing that has been given to man. ~ Shirin Ebadi, #NFDB
1171:Your education experience, talent intelligence, and financial situations don't matter. The important thing is the direction in which you focus your unique, powerful, creative mind ~ Mark Allen, #NFDB
1172:I'd say handling people is the most important thing you can do as a coach. I've found every time I've gotten into trouble with a player, it's because I wasn't talking to him enough. ~ Lou Holtz, #NFDB
1173:I think it's true that we shouldn't apply a strict litmus test and the most important thing in any judge is their capacity to provide fairness and justice to the American people. ~ Barack Obama, #NFDB
1174:Living under that stifling sky forces one to get away or to stay. The important thing is to find out how people get away in the first case and why people stay in the second case. ~ Albert Camus, #NFDB
1175:The important thing about being a leader is not being right or wrong, but being certain. Otherwise people wouldn’t know what to think. Of course, it helps to be right as well, ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
1176:The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities. ~ Anthony Burgess, #NFDB
1177:The most important thing is to know how to awaken in the still undeveloped masses an intelligent attitude towards religious questions and an intelligent criticism of religions. ~ Vladimir Lenin, #NFDB
1178:The most notable fact that our culture imprints on women is a sense of our limits. The most important thing a woman can do for another is to illuminate her actual possibilities. ~ Adrienne Rich, #NFDB
1179:I consider Monroe a pretty minor president. In spite of the Monroe Doctrine. That's the only important thing he ever did more or less on his own, when you really get down to it. ~ Harry S Truman, #NFDB
1180:The important thing is for the characters to feel real, and to be given the humanity they are due. That granting of humanity is what separates a full portrait from a stereotype. ~ David Levithan, #NFDB
1181:The most important thing you will do is yet to be seen. For me, I found my important thing to do when I learned to do surgery on the eye, when I learned to restore a person's vision. ~ Rand Paul, #NFDB
1182:Belief in God is the most important thing in the world. When someone has faith they must be a decent person and know how to behave. Every night I greet my God before I fall asleep. ~ Wendy Holden, #NFDB
1183:But the best teams I've encountered have one important thing in common: their team structure and processes cover a full range of distinct competencies necessary for success. ~ Jesse James Garrett, #NFDB
1184:But there is something seductive and the character, Alfie is so charming, and does make you think like you are the most important thing in the world but he's not that nice, is he. ~ Sienna Miller, #NFDB
1185:Dont use all-or-nothing thinking. Take each day as its own day, and dont worry about it if you mess up one day. The most important thing you can do is just get back up on the horse. ~ Henry Cloud, #NFDB
1186:Football is the most important thing in my life, but I do have a life outside football and this is one part. The TV, the music, the fashion - it all goes to make up Rio Ferdinand. ~ Rio Ferdinand, #NFDB
1187:If you want to enjoy the movie, you should know that it is the combination of film and light and white screen, and that the most important thing is to have a plain, white screen. ~ Shunryu Suzuki, #NFDB
1188:La chose la plus importante a' toute la vie est le choix du me tier: le hasard en dispose. The most important thing in life is to choose a profession: chance arranges for that. ~ Blaise Pascal, #NFDB
1189:Perhaps the most important thing I learned was about democracy, that democracy is not our government, our constitution, our legal structure. Too often they are enemies of democracy. ~ Howard Zinn, #NFDB
1190:I mean, Jesus, who even gives a fuck about sex?! People act like it's the most important thing humans do, but come on. How can our fucking lives revolve around something slugs can do? ~ John Green, #NFDB
1191:It is I, and I stand with the girl, the Elemental and the partner of the skeleton detective, and although she is late she is here, which is the important thing, and we are moving on. ~ Derek Landy, #NFDB
1192:The important thing about women today is, as they get older, they still keep house. It's one reason why they don't die, but men die when they retire. Women just polish the teacups. ~ Margaret Mead, #NFDB
1193:The most important thing about quests, he decided, was not in finding what you went looking for, but in finding what you never could have imagined before you ventured forth. ~ Lois McMaster Bujold, #NFDB
1194:Ty, my boy, here's what you tell them. Say it quietly, and sincerely, and like it's the most important thing anyone ever uttered. Tell them, 'Jesus loves you. But I'm his favorite. ~ Robin Reardon, #NFDB
1195:I will do everything by apply with all the legal and apply with the rule of law. And the main important thing that I have to be fairness to everyone, not just only one person. ~ Yingluck Shinawatra, #NFDB
1196:just radiated curiosity and enthusiasm. Toward the end of our interview, he said, “The most important thing to me is probably, like, being kind and also trying to do something awesome. ~ Dan Harris, #NFDB
1197:The important thing is that we recognize our President's leadership, that he is not saying: I am going to walk away from this. He is saying: I am going to do the right thing. ~ Kay Bailey Hutchison, #NFDB
1198:The important thing is to make a decision,” he said. “Make what decision?” “One that will enable you to live in the present instead of constantly wondering what the future will be like. ~ Marc Levy, #NFDB
1199:The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die. All moments, past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist ~ Kurt Vonnegut, #NFDB
1200: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. ~ Mary Portas, #NFDB
1201:I keep to this routine every day without variation. The repetition itself becomes the important thing; it's a form of mesmerism. I mesmerize myself to reach a deeper state of mind. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
1202:It takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a phonograph, or a telephone or any other important thing-and the last man gets the credit and we forget the others. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
1203:I've asked Comedy Central, and they just say, "I don't know." It took Showtime two years to put my special on DVD. Owning your own content is the single most important thing in the world. ~ Jay Mohr, #NFDB
1204:Over six years ago I met a girl who saved me. I didn't realize at the time, mostly because her attitude pissed me off, that she would become the most important thing in my life. ~ A Meredith Walters, #NFDB
1205:The important thing is that man is lost in time, in the moment that immediately precedes him - which only attests, by reflection, to the fact that he is lost in the moment that follows ~ Andr Breton, #NFDB
1206:The most important thing to determine is what to do right now. Instead of scanning the horizon of your life, looking for things that need to be done, concentrate on the task before you ~ Sarah Young, #NFDB
1207:The one important thing you do as boss is you set the standard. The minute you go in and say 'we'll let it go this time,' you set a new standard, which is lower. So you cannot do that. ~ Bill Kurtis, #NFDB
1208:The technology at the leading edge changes so rapidly that you have to keep current after you get out of school. I think probably the most important thing is having good fundamentals. ~ Gordon Moore, #NFDB
1209:Being a parent is about your survival. Surviving the terrible two's is the most important thing. Kids get heavy. Quite literally. They're heavy to lift up when they're throwing tantrums. ~ J B Smoove, #NFDB
1210:But whatever path you choose, whatever career you decide to go after, the important thing is that you keep finding joy in what you’re doing, especially when the joy isn’t finding you. ~ Lauren Graham, #NFDB
1211:I don't plan on selling out. I mean, it's nice to get a dinner reservation ahead of other people, but when it comes down to it, the most important thing to me is the actual work. ~ Scarlett Johansson, #NFDB
1212:I think of a band like Animal Collective where they really follow their own sound and I think that's a really important thing to do. You can find an audience if you can find your voice. ~ Andrew Dost, #NFDB
1213:Perhaps the most important thing that I learned as an entrepreneur was to focus on what I needed to get right and stop worrying about all the things that I did wrong or might do wrong. ~ Ben Horowitz, #NFDB
1214:The important thing is that man is lost in time, in the moment that immediately precedes him - which only attests, by reflection, to the fact that he is lost in the moment that follows ~ Andre Breton, #NFDB
1215:You're what I give to the world, what I leave behind. I am proud." He said it slowly, every word with intention, with concentration, as if it were the most important thing he'd ever say. ~ Staci Hart, #NFDB
1216:I don't wonder about anything. I'm too old to wonder. I think the most important thing is to wake-up with a pulse. I look in the obituary columns. If I'm not in it, I get out of bed. ~ Hector Elizondo, #NFDB
1217:I think how you look is the most important thing in the world. If you look cute, you are cute; if you look smart, you are smart, and if you don't look like anything, you aren't anything. ~ Betsy Byars, #NFDB
1218:I think the most important thing for all of us to realize is you have to make the decision and be comfortable with it. And every woman should be respected for making her own choice. ~ Kellyanne Conway, #NFDB
1219:Mr. Michaelson went on teaching the class then, as if history was the most important thing in the world, and even though she didn’t want to, Lucy actually heard some of what he said. ~ Chet Williamson, #NFDB
1220:Now, though, I am convinced that no one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
1221:Perhaps above everything compassion is the most important thing to embrace and emanate in life. It will enhance your life - and it's the one thing that will elevate and heal mankind ~ Rasheed Ogunlaru, #NFDB
1222:Sometimes with people their work is the most important thing to them, and sometimes the work enables you to do other things that are more important to you. I probably am closer to that. ~ James Spader, #NFDB
1223:The important thing for me as an educator is how to - how do we unsettle the minds and touch the souls of significant numbers of young people who don't read texts or don't read my texts. ~ Cornel West, #NFDB
1224:The most important thing about a TV set is to get it back against something and not out in the middle of a room where it's like a somber fellow making electronic judgments on you. ~ Bruce Jay Friedman, #NFDB
1225:You don’t necessarily have to want to become an adult; it happens as a matter of course, as you go, making choices. The important thing, I think, is to choose for yourself. Standing ~ Banana Yoshimoto, #NFDB
1226:You're only poor if you give up. The most important thing is that you did something. Most people only talk and dream of getting rich. You've done something. Keep going. Don't quit. ~ Robert T Kiyosaki, #NFDB
1227:A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more peace and content in life than simply being a good husband and father. ~ Frank Abagnale, #NFDB
1228:At the end of the day, successful box office just means that more people saw what you did and liked it, and that to me is the most important thing. That a lot of people saw it and liked it. ~ Paul Feig, #NFDB
1229:I think language is the most important thing that human beings have ever accomplished, and the only thing that's really going to get us all out of the troubles that we find ourselves in. ~ Paul Bettany, #NFDB
1230:My father once told me that the most important thing every man should know is what he would die for. If you don’t know that, he said, what are you worth? Nothing. You’re not a man at all. ~ Tana French, #NFDB
1231:Parents teach you a lot of things, but the most important thing they teach you is this: how people will fuck you up in the future. If they're any good, they teach you to get used to it. ~ Lauren Oliver, #NFDB
1232:Parents teach you a lot of things, but the most important thing they teach you is this: how people will fuck you up in the future. If they’re any good, they teach you to get used to it. ~ Lauren Oliver, #NFDB
1233:Remember, 'No one's more important than people'! In other words, friendship is the most important thing--not career or housework, or one's fatigue--and it needs to be tended and nurtured. ~ Julia Child, #NFDB
1234:The first and most important thing is present in our lives and that’s something to praise God for. Where the gospel is present and treasured, there we have reason to thank our gracious God. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1235:The most important thing for me - and the thing I get frustrated about when I don't achieve it - is momentum. Sometimes you hit on it quite naturally and other times it's a mad struggle. ~ Jamie Lidell, #NFDB
1236:Feelings are living, breathing things. They can grow, change, and die. The most important thing is just to be true to those feelings and don’t lie about them to yourself, or anyone else. ~ Penelope King, #NFDB
1237:Here's what I advise any young struggling actress today: The important thing is to develop as a woman first, and a performer second. You wouldn't prostitute yourself to get a part, not if ~ Lucille Ball, #NFDB
1238:I take my two pipes in the afternoon, no more and no less, like the elders. And I feel that I am a man. And I feel that a man is a very important thing—maybe more important than a star. ~ John Steinbeck, #NFDB
1239:The most important thing that most people get from the news is the prediction of the following day’s weather, which most people are usually able to predict correctly by themselves. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana, #NFDB
1240:The most important thing to remember about confronting an irrational person is that they are usually attributing an inaccurate meaning to a situation causing them to react irrationally. ~ Paul Colaianni, #NFDB
1241:To realize the American dream, the most important thing to understand is that it belongs to everybody. It's a human dream. If you understand this and work very hard, it is possible. ~ Cristina Saralegui, #NFDB
1242:Health has always been an important thing to me. I exercise and try to take care of myself, and drink a lot of water! And I push that to my kids so that they can carry on that same energy. ~ Doug E Fresh, #NFDB
1243:Now she knew where to find me, if it was written that we would meet again, we would. The important thing is to allow fate to intervene in our lives and to decide what is best for everyone. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
1244:Now, though, I am convinces that no one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone.
That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it. ~ Paulo Coelho,#NFDB
1245:The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true. ~ John Steinbeck, New York Times (2 June 1969), #NFDB
1246: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. ~ Jaden Smith, #NFDB
1247:I hope you’re feeling better about yourself too, Camille. That’s an important thing, liking oneself. A good attitude infects just as easily as a bad one.” “Enjoy the horses.” “I always do. ~ Gillian Flynn, #NFDB
1248:I think maybe the most important thing that I or anybody at my company and any of my colleagues can do is establish a trusting, productive, collaborative relationship with creative people. ~ John Landgraf, #NFDB
1249:Whatever you've done, or think you've done, it's over now. You can't go back and change it. What you do about it, right now, from here on out, that's the important thing. -Dawn of Eden, Ch8 ~ Julie Kagawa, #NFDB
1250:What gives me the greatest satisfaction is the number of people I can affect with my gift, with what I do. That's the most important thing to me, more important than any trophy or award. ~ Taraji P Henson, #NFDB
1251:I can only say this, a very, very important element of any country, but our country, and in my opinion, the single most important thing that a president can do is the defense of our country. ~ Donald Trump, #NFDB
1252:I'm very interested in stopping time. And starting time. There is that aspect of time that I'm playing with, that it's elusive and unnoticed yet really in the end the most important thing. ~ Laurie Simmons, #NFDB
1253:I think . . . you should have children, John." At least he's no longer talking about bugs.
"I'm too young, Dad."
"It's the most important thing . . . I've done in . . . my life. ~ Ursula Hegi,#NFDB
1254:The most important thing was that time had passed, pouring thousands of soothing seconds across the island. People need time to deal with the now before it runs away and becomes the then. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
1255:The most important thing we can do is inspire young minds and to advance the kind of science, math and technology education that will help youngsters take us to the next phase of space travel. ~ John Glenn, #NFDB
1256:The most important thing whenever we're connecting kids to books, is that we try to match the book to the kid and make sure that reading is a fun, rewarding experience outside the classroom. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
1257:The trouble is it's very difficult to pin-point the most important thing because Aids affects everyone in different levels of society, differently and you have to respond to it differently. ~ Emma Thompson, #NFDB
1258:This is naturally the most important thing, the dark traces left by the era of totalitarianism in the human mind, where is - are difficult to do away with. And this is a very demanding job. ~ Judy Woodruff, #NFDB
1259:You're important," Nicholas interrupted quietly catching her face and turning her to peer at him. "You're the most important thing in the world to me Jo. I love you. Let me have this moment. ~ Lynsay Sands, #NFDB
1260:First figure out your partners, then figure out what ideas to pursue. The most important thing isn't the market you target, the product you develop or the financing, but the founding team. ~ James C Collins, #NFDB
1261:I always tell people that my music should speak to them... and that they shouldn't feel obligated to say why or how. All reactions are valid; the important thing is to have the experience. ~ Jennifer Higdon, #NFDB
1262:Maybe most the important thing I learned was one thing he said to me toward the end: “Are you willing to do whatever it takes to make the thing that excites you come true? Are you fearless? ~ James Altucher, #NFDB
1263:Perhaps you regard this thinking about myself as a waste of time - but how can I be a logician before I'm a human being! Far the most important thing is to settle accounts with myself! ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein, #NFDB
1264:Remember. You two are better than the sum of your parts. Together, you two could— No. Enough. I've said enough. Together, that's the important thing."
―Ikrit to Tahiri Veila and Anakin Solo ~ Greg Keyes,#NFDB
1265:The most important thing I learned as a foreign correspondent in about 80 countries is that it takes a very shallow knowledge of history to think that there are solutions to most problems. ~ Robert D Kaplan, #NFDB
1266:The truth is that we all have lives that are complicated. We all get hurt by people we love sometimes. It's laughable to believe that anyone is immune. The important thing is how you behave. ~ Tamara Mellon, #NFDB
1267:Being a star doesn't last. That's not what life should be about. It's a complete illusion that really has nothing to do with you. For me, finding out about life is the most important thing. ~ Jake Gyllenhaal, #NFDB
1268:Having a clear mission and making sure you know that mission and making sure that mission comes through the company is probably the most important thing you can do for both culture and values. ~ Brian Chesky, #NFDB
1269: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. ~ John Wayne, #NFDB
1270:I find in most novels no imagination at all. They seem to think the highest form of the novel is to write about marriage, because that's the most important thing there is for middle-class people. ~ Gore Vidal, #NFDB
1271:It's not what you're faced with that's the problem, it's what you do with the situation. Your experience is not the important thing; what really matters is what you do with your experience. ~ Chris Oyakhilome, #NFDB
1272:It’s not what you’re faced with that’s the problem, it’s what you do with the situation. Your experience is not the important thing; what really matters is what you do with your experience. ~ Chris Oyakhilome, #NFDB
1273:Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day. ~ Dalai Lama, #NFDB
1274:The important thing is to know why we want to dance. We dance a solitude that we have inside us and cannot occupy with anything. This gap, that emptiness to which we put movement is the TANGO. ~ Carlos Gavito, #NFDB
1275:The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.” So, too, for a quest. The most important thing is continuing to make progress. ~ Chris Guillebeau, #NFDB
1276:The most important thing in comedy - apart from empathy, which I think is important even if disguised - is surprise. I like surprising people with the fact that something's even a joke at all. ~ Ricky Gervais, #NFDB
1277:The red carpet is kind of a surreal experience. There's nothing normal about it, so for me the most important thing is to maintain some normality right until the point you get out of the car. ~ Samantha Barks, #NFDB
1278:When you are writing, you must treat it as the most important thing in the world, even when you know it is not. This helps you take the job seriously and do your best on everything you write. ~ John Steinbeck, #NFDB
1279:And the most important thing - apart from telling a good, believable story, and being a true character - is to be someone the audience will care about, even if you're playing a murderer or rapist. ~ Anna Friel, #NFDB
1280:As the daughter of a schoolteacher, I feel very strongly that the most important thing in school takes place right there in that classroom, and the interaction between the teacher and the child. ~ Kerry Healey, #NFDB
1281:Being happy or unhappy - is that really the most important thing? Knowing the truth would be a different kind of happiness - a more satisfying kind, I think, even if it turned out to be a sad kind. ~ Ira Levin, #NFDB
1282:Be yourself!’ said Gro. ‘No one will hear any of you otherwise, still less trust you. That’s the most important thing of all. If you’re not yourself you just can’t sustain it in the long term. ~ sne Seierstad, #NFDB
1283:If there is anything you can do, it may just be to smile for them. Because when you smile, the world seems just a little kinder. For you to just be yourself is a very important thing, I think. ~ Natsuki Takaya, #NFDB
1284:I think the most important thing I’ve learned, however, is that being social is supposed to be fun. I
tend to forget this when I’m curled up in a ball, alone in my room, avoiding everything ~ Sarah Andersen,#NFDB
1285:The human heart is my territory. I write about love because it’s the most important thing in the world. I write about sex because often it feels like the most important thing in the world. ~ Jeanette Winterson, #NFDB
1286:The most important thing for any aspiring writer, is to read! And not just the sort of thing you're trying to write, be that fantasy, SF, comic books, whatever. You need to read everything. ~ George R R Martin, #NFDB
1287:Well, they got that habit from us. We always wanted to be seen to be right. To be on the right side of an issue. More so even than doing anything. Being right was always the most important thing. ~ Zadie Smith, #NFDB
1288:We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations, the important thing is not to achieve but to strive. ~ Aldo Leopold, #NFDB
1289:You make choices and sometimes they're good and sometimes they backfire. The most important thing is to be brave, forgive yourself when you do something stupid, and allow yourself to move on. ~ Kiersey Clemons, #NFDB
1290:And if nobody ever hears from me again,
It would be okay,
And if nobody ever knows where I am,
I won’t mind,
Because I would know where I am,
And than is the most important thing. ~ Eric Bogosian,#NFDB
1291:fighting to bridge those gaps isn’t what really matters. The most important thing is to know them inside and out, as differences, and to understand why certain people are the way they are. My ~ Banana Yoshimoto, #NFDB
1292:It's very important to set your place in a concrete environment. I think Chekhov said that the important thing when you have a play or any kind of novel is to set the roots in a concrete place. ~ Roman Polanski, #NFDB
1293: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. ~ Peter Cincotti, #NFDB
1294:The thing is to understand myself: the thing is to find a truth which is true for me, to find the idea for which I can live and die. That is what I now recognize as the most important thing. ~ Soren Kierkegaard, #NFDB
1295:The thing is to understand myself: the thing is to find a truth which is true for me, to find the idea for which I can live and die. That is what I now recognize as the most important thing. ~ S ren Kierkegaard, #NFDB
1296:I know that pain is the most important thing in the universes. Greater than survival, greater than love, greater even than the beauty it brings about. For without pain, there can be no pleasure. ~ Harlan Ellison, #NFDB
1297:One important thing, just being a film composer in general, is to have a great respect for the art that you're working on - a great respect for the film and a great respect for the filmmakers. ~ Joseph Trapanese, #NFDB
1298:So no one should rely on television either for their knowledge of music or for news. There's just more going on. It's an adjunct to the written word, which I think is still the most important thing. ~ Kurt Loder, #NFDB
1299:The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous. ~ Margot Fonteyn, #NFDB
1300:They think I'm depressed because I look serious in photos. It's usually because I'm just nervous. But I've stopped dressing for other people. If I think I look good, that's the most important thing. ~ Rose Byrne, #NFDB
1301: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. ~ W Somerset Maugham, #NFDB
1302:I'm the son of a pediatrician, and I do believe that the most important resource we have is our kids. And I think the most important thing for America's future is to invest more in our children. ~ Ezekiel Emanuel, #NFDB
1303:I think the first important thing is that usually most textbooks are not written by their authors. And so by author I mean the people who did not write them; so it's a new definition of "author." ~ James W Loewen, #NFDB
1304:Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day. ~ Dalai Lama XIV, #NFDB
1305:The important thing to understand about American history, wrote Mr. Ibis, in his leather-bound journal, is that it is fictional, a charcoal-sketched simplicity for the children, or the easily bored. ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
1306:All my life I've had the privilege to make my living with my imagination, and the most important thing has been to see my creative life grow. I was educated to do that and have lived accordingly. ~ Tommy Lee Jones, #NFDB
1307:A lot of people are afraid of critique because they think it means you aren't supporting them. For me, the most important thing in any kind of relationship is the critical engagement. ~ Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, #NFDB
1308:It doesn’t eat only birds—it mostly eats rats and insects—but they still call it the “Bird-Eating Spider” because the fact that it can eat a bird is the most important thing you need to know about it. ~ David Wong, #NFDB
1309:I thought that as long as I was with him, I would be all right. As long as I was with him, my troubles would stay away. That's the most important thing for a sickness like ours: a sense of trust. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
1310:So that is one very important thing—how you deal with my secretaries. They are not hired help. As I tell my clerks, ‘if push came to shove, I could do your work—but I can’t do without my secretaries. ~ Irin Carmon, #NFDB
1311:The important thing is that if I can get to it and get back out again without being spotted, it will be a useful study aid in my newly chosen specialist field of getting-the-fuck-out-of-here-ology. ~ Nick Harkaway, #NFDB
1312:The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. ~ Kurt Vonnegut, #NFDB
1313:The single most important thing in a child's performance is the quality of the teacher. Making sure a child spends the maximum amount of time with inspirational teachers is the most important thing. ~ Michael Gove, #NFDB
1314:I got schooled this year by a boy. A boy that I'm seriously, deeply, madly, incredibly, and undeniably in love with. And he taught me the most important thing of all... To put the emphasis On life. ~ Colleen Hoover, #NFDB
1315:In any crisis situation, the most important thing to do was get off the X, move, because if you weren’t moving away from the threat, someone with bad intentions was for damn sure moving closer to you. ~ Dean Koontz, #NFDB
1316:It should be so simple. You do what you can while he is awake, and then once he is asleep, you do what you can only when he is asleep, beginning with the most important thing. But it is not so simple. ~ Lydia Davis, #NFDB
1317:People ask me what makes a good funeral, and I tell them the most important thing is your man in the casket. If you have a man of substance in there, you have the makings of a first-class funeral. ~ Cleveland Amory, #NFDB
1318:We thought speaking in English meant you were more intelligent. We were wrong of course. It does not matter what language you choose, the important thing is the words you use to express yourself. ~ Malala Yousafzai, #NFDB
1319:When Morrissey and I started The Smiths, we thought pop music was the most important thing in the world. It was almost a spiritual thing for us, and because of that, we knew what it meant to be a fan. ~ Johnny Marr, #NFDB
1320:I don’t think it matters what age you are when you figure it out,” Brous said. “I think the important thing is to figure it out before someone else tells you what you want to be, and they get it wrong. ~ John Scalzi, #NFDB
1321:Reading a story should be a fabulous, wonderful thing. The most important thing that parents can do for kids is to read with them and to let their kids see them reading books for their own pleasure. ~ Kate DiCamillo, #NFDB
1322:The important thing about mobile is, everybody has a computer in their pocket. The implications of so many people connected to the Internet all the time from the standpoint of education is incredible. ~ Ben Horowitz, #NFDB
1323:The most important thing I found out from my father is that if you asked any question and pursued it deeply enough, then at the end there was a glorious discovery of a general and beautiful kind. ~ Richard P Feynman, #NFDB
1324:Ultimately, it's a really brave thing to do what makes you happy as opposed to what the norm, or the social norm is, and that's a very important thing for people to remember, especially young women. ~ Mia Wasikowska, #NFDB
1325:But the most important thing is that we keep loving. We have to believe that at the end of the day, the love we have is worth all the bad stuff, because all the good stuff is what makes it so amazing. ~ Kandi Steiner, #NFDB
1326:Give up on the guesswork. Decide what you’re going to do this week, not this year. Figure out the next most important thing and do that. Make decisions right before you do something, not far in advance. ~ Jason Fried, #NFDB
1327:I believe that the sight is more important thing that the drawing; and i would rather teach drawing that my pupils may learn to love nature, that teach looking at nature that they may learn to draw. ~ Alain de Botton, #NFDB
1328: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. ~ Grigor Dimitrov, #NFDB
1329:It's easy to get wrapped up in sharing everyday life with a partner. It's fun to get lost in love and romance. It's the best. But holding on to yourself while doing that is the most important thing. ~ Brittany Murphy, #NFDB
1330:Price is rarely the most important thing. A cheap product might sell some units. Somebody gets it home and they feel great when they pay the money, but then they get it home and use it and the joy is gone. ~ Tim Cook, #NFDB
1331:She was maddening and stubborn and tormented and deeply flawed, but so was he; and maybe the important thing wasn’t finding someone without flaws, but just someone whose flaws complemented your own. ~ Katharine McGee, #NFDB
1332:The important thing to understand about American history, wrote Mr. Ibis, in his leather-bound journal, is that it is fictional, a charcoal-sketched simplicity for the children, or the easily bored. For ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
1333:The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face. ~ Sydney J Harris, #NFDB
1334:The most important thing in art is The Frame. For painting: literally; for other arts: figuratively - because without this humble appliance, you can't know where The Art stops and The Real World begins. ~ Frank Zappa, #NFDB
1335:The most important thing is to be healthy, to drink a lot of water, to fight gravity as much as possible. I am one of the few people who decided I wasn't going to do any invasion with my face. ~ Diane von Furstenberg, #NFDB
1336:In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city, it was the companionship and later friendship which I was offered in the Linnean Society that was the most important thing in my life. ~ Ernst Mayr, #NFDB
1337:Risk management is the most important thing to be well understood. Undertrade, undertrade, undertrade is my second piece of advice. Whatever you think your position ought to be, cut it at least in half. ~ Bruce Kovner, #NFDB
1338:The important thing is this Just because I'm doing well doesn't mean that they're going to do well if they get HIV. A lot of people have died since I have announced. This disease is not going anywhere. ~ Magic Johnson, #NFDB
1339:The important thing is to convince people to make and share useful things. Fighting with greedy douches who don't share doesn't do that. Making more, living under conditions of abundance, that does it. ~ Cory Doctorow, #NFDB
1340: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. ~ Donald Knuth, #NFDB
1341:The most important thing is not to let fundraising get you down. Startups live or die on morale. If you let the difficulty of raising money destroy your morale, it will become a self-fulfilling prophecy. ~ Paul Graham, #NFDB
1342:What kind of people are we? What kind of person are you? Isn’t that the most important thing of all? Isn’t that the kind of question we should be asking ourselves all the time? “What kind of person am I? ~ R J Palacio, #NFDB
1343:The core truth of our marriage, the most important thing for me to remember, was that Michael and I loved each other. Our love had gotten pushed aside and bruised and buried, but it has always existed. ~ Sarah Pekkanen, #NFDB
1344:The important thing is that we now have the tools to sequence all kinds of animals and plants and microbes - as well as humans. It is not important that we didn't actually finish the human sequence yet. ~ Freeman Dyson, #NFDB
1345:Why do some people fall in love each other and other don't? What is love? Its so, so stupid. Right up until its real. And then its the most important thing in the world, whether you believe in it or not. ~ Lydia Netzer, #NFDB
1346:A good mother loves fiercely but ultimately brings up her children to thrive without her. They must be the most important thing in her life, but if she is the most important thing in theirs, she has failed. ~ Erin Kelly, #NFDB
1347:Because when everything else is a distant memory, the people you love are all that’s left. And love is the single most important thing we can do in our lives. Give it. Receive it. Teach others how to do it. ~ J Sterling, #NFDB
1348:Freedom is the real source of human happiness and creativity. Irrespective of whether you are a believer or nonbeliever, whether Buddhist, Christian, or Jew, the important thing is to be a good human being. ~ Dalai Lama, #NFDB
1349:In order to profit from this path [of prayer] and ascend to the dwelling places we desire, the important thing is not to think much but to love much; and so, do that which best stirs you to love. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
1350:Questions are the important thing, answers are less important. Learning to ask a good question is the heart of intelligence. Learning the answer-well, answers are for students. Questions are for thinkers. ~ Roger Schank, #NFDB
1351:Don’t worry about things. Don’t push. Just do your work and you’ll survive. The important thing is to have a ball, to be joyful, to be loving and to be explosive. Out of that comes everything and you grow. ~ Ray Bradbury, #NFDB
1352:His father had always said, Son, the most important thing in life is to make a contribution. Who would have thought Kittridge’s contribution would be video-blogging from the front lines of the apocalypse? ~ Justin Cronin, #NFDB
1353:I do believe that the single most important thing I could ever share with you with regard to maximizing the health, harmony, and happiness in your life can be summed up in just two words:
Love yourself. ~ Mike Dooley,#NFDB
1354:If your friend is sick and dying, the most important thing he wants is not an explanation; he wants you to sit with him. He's terrified of being alone more than anything else. So, God has not left us alone. ~ Lee Strobel, #NFDB
1355:In my writing I'm trying to explore the violations people commit upon each other. And the important thing isn't whether I'm angry. The more important thing is, is it true? Do these things really happen? ~ Jamaica Kincaid, #NFDB
1356:It's because a woman's entire self-worth rests on her looks. That's why. It's because we live in a beauty obsessed society where the most important thing a woman can do is make herself attractive to men. ~ Liane Moriarty, #NFDB
1357:I've worked hard on my doctorate, and I want to be acknowledged for that. But I also wanted to comment on this message that women get that the most important thing they can do is police their appearance. ~ Alissa Nutting, #NFDB
1358:Most people, who have quit smoking, have had at least one unsuccessful try in the past. It is not important how many times you try to quit. The only important thing is, that eventually you stay quit ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
1359:But if we get our souls saved, we go to Heaven, and Heaven is for eternity. We’ll never have to worry about the environment from then on. That’s the most important thing. I’m thinking long-term. ~ Arlie Russell Hochschild, #NFDB
1360:For in a civilization which has lost the meaning of life, the most important thing a Christian can do is to live, and life, understood from the point of view of faith, has an extraordinary explosive force. ~ Jacques Ellul, #NFDB
1361:It's quite similar to guitar solos, only with programming you have to use your brain. The most important thing is that it should have some emotional effect on me, rather than just, 'Oh, that's really clever.' ~ Aphex Twin, #NFDB
1362:Standing before this building, I learn something about fear. I learn that it is not the idle fantasies of someone who maybe wants something important to happen to him, even if the important thing is horrible. ~ John Green, #NFDB
1363:As far as the international issues are concerned, the most important thing is the state of the transatlantic relationships, Euro-Atlantic relationships: how to develop them and how to strengthen them further. ~ Marek Belka, #NFDB
1364:Be these people either Conservatives or Socialists, Yellows or Reds, the most important thing is - and that is the point I want to stress - that all of them are right in the plain and moral sense of the word. ~ Karel Capek, #NFDB
1365:Concentrate on what you need to do... Do step one. Begin! That's the important thing- Did you do step one? Did you actually do it?. . . It's not a matter of 'Can you do it?' If you do it, you're doing it. ~ Laurence Boldt, #NFDB
1366:Never forget that family is the most important thing. No matter how far your life takes you away, your family is always here. And if you’re nothing else in this world, you’re a Kelly, and that makes you loved. ~ Maya Banks, #NFDB
1367:The biggest thing, the most important thing I learned about watching someone I loved being ill was to take each day and live it because you never knew how many days you had left with the person you loved. ~ Barbara Cameron, #NFDB
1368:The important thing is to use the role as a trampoline, a chance to study and play with what is behind our masks. Creativity, especially where acting is concerned, Is boundless sincerity, yet disciplined. ~ Jerzy Grotowski, #NFDB
1369:The most important thing to remember is that we must live in the present, and if in the present moment we are still holding on to old wounds and betrayals, it is in this moment that forgiveness is called for. ~ Noah Levine, #NFDB
1370:And it is a very important thing to be and do, if not the most important 'cause how you interpret a story can then make the difference. So it is a very powerful thing to be. And when misused, it's very sad. ~ Angelina Jolie, #NFDB
1371:Most businesses think that product is the most important thing, but without great leadership, mission and a team that deliver results at a high level, even the best product won't make a company successful. ~ Robert Kiyosaki, #NFDB
1372:Oh, the most important thing about myself is that my life has been full of changes. Therefore, when I observe the world, I don't expect to see it just like I was seeing the fellow who lives in the next room. ~ Chinua Achebe, #NFDB
1373:Right now everyone is able to have a real voice and have it be nice and loud. Being loud is a really important thing right now. It's an amazing thing to watch. It's important because making noise makes change. ~ Kate Hudson, #NFDB
1374:The most important thing in the life of every man and every woman is not that they should never fall along the way. The important thing is always to get back up, not to stay on the ground licking your wounds. ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
1375:There isn’t anything wrong with fear. Every great person has to face fear. The important thing is not to let it win out over you. You have to face your fears and not back down. Fear can actually be a good thing. ~ Ginny Dye, #NFDB
1376:What I love about the filmmakers that I mentioned [Danny Boyle,Leo Carax], is that it's visual but it's also, you see that the characters are the most important thing. The actors are the most important thing. ~ Fredrik Bond, #NFDB
1377:What our Republican friends are doing, if we look at what they do and not what they say, they have decided that the most important thing in this country is to increase payments for interest on the national debt. ~ Tom Allen, #NFDB
1378:Business has to have capital.I think Wall Street is a necessary ingredient of the global economy, you've just got to keep people realizing that helping clients is the most important thing, not helping yourself. ~ John Kasich, #NFDB
1379:I suppose the most important thing is to stay interested. It's very easy in life if you get to a place where you're successful to hit the same groove on the record player over and over again because it's safe. ~ Kevin Spacey, #NFDB
1380:I think for Wes [Anderson] and me, the most important thing was James L. Brooks producing our first movie and giving us a chance to come to Hollywood, because without him, we might never have gotten the chance. ~ Owen Wilson, #NFDB
1381:Sam believes in taking life in his two hands and squeezing and pounding it until it gives you something, even if it’s just a little bit. But the important thing is to keep squeezing, keep pounding, keep working. ~ Rick Bragg, #NFDB
1382:The important thing for Government is not to do things which individuals are doing already, and to do them a little better or a little worse; but to do those things which at present are not done at all. ~ John Maynard Keynes, #NFDB
1383:The most important thing for the IETF to do is to continue to organise and manage itself to develop the highest quality technical work and to do so in an efficient and open way that is inviting to new people. ~ Steve Crocker, #NFDB
1384:The most important thing is spiritual labor...Books...You can wear the same suit for twenty years, two coats are enough for a lifetime, but you can't live without Pushkin or the complete works of Gorky. ~ Svetlana Alexievich, #NFDB
1385:The most important work of the executive is to identify the changes that have already happened. The important thing . . . is to exploit the changes that have already occurred and to use them as opportunities. ~ Peter Drucker, #NFDB
1386:When you're a child, the most important thing is to be able to live a life of comfort. You want to be sure that the moon goes up at night and the sun comes up in the morning and dad comes home from work. ~ Keegan Michael Key, #NFDB
1387: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. ~ Joe Biden, #NFDB
1388:As a person, you feel you are complete with him or without him. This is the most important thing you can convey: independence rather than dependence. This is what gives him the perception you can hold your own. ~ Sherry Argov, #NFDB
1389:I always felt that making a living wasn't the easiest thing in the world, and I decided I was going straight ahead and try to be as uncomplicated as possible. The important thing in life is just living and loving. ~ Doris Day, #NFDB
1390:Imagine what joy it would bring to see his beauty and brilliance shine out more clearly each day. After all, the important thing is the diamond itself, clear and flawless under its film.
—Mary Lincoln ~ Candace Fleming,#NFDB
1391:I think it's okay to feel jealous, but it's how you deal with it that's the important thing. You have to be happy for your friends when they do well because you want them to do well. It's not a competition. ~ Carrie Underwood, #NFDB
1392:I think the camera was always my obsession, the camera movements. Because for me it's the most important thing in the move, the camera, because without the camera, film is just a stage or television - nothing. ~ Dario Argento, #NFDB
1393:The important thing about little bets is that they’re bite-sized. You try one. It takes a few months at most. It either succeeds or fails, but either way you get important feedback to guide your next steps. This ~ Cal Newport, #NFDB
1394:The most important thing you can do as a performer is to be yourself, or be an onstage version of yourself. If youre not being true to yourself, and somebody likes that other version of you, youre kind of stuck. ~ Lyle Lovett, #NFDB
1395:Wearing a breathable fabric is the most important thing for me. I also love to keep it simple and keep the number of garments Im wearing ideally at one (a sundress for example), and then add some great jewelry. ~ Hilary Rhoda, #NFDB
1396:What do you think are the most important things in life? Money, dreams, sympathy towards others... Yes, they're all important things as well... But the most important thing is responsibility for your own actions. ~ Inio Asano, #NFDB
1397:When you’re talking, Steve,” Jock MacKenzie had told him once, “and I don’t care who it’s to or what it’s about, the important thing is knowing when to stop. Never say anything that doesn’t improve on silence. ~ Richard Yates, #NFDB
1398:Each life has a different purpose, and some people can find their purpose more easily than others. The key, the most important thing you can ever know, is that whatever your purpose is, that’s not your only choice. ~ Dan Wells, #NFDB
1399:I have come to know that it is an important thing to keep in mind—not to complain or to make melancholy, but simply because only with the honest knowledge that one day I will die can I ever truly begin to live. ~ R A Salvatore, #NFDB
1400:The important thing to understand is that the case for pollution control isn't based on some kind of aesthetic distaste for industrial society. Pollution does real, measurable damage, especially to human health. ~ Paul Krugman, #NFDB
1401: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. ~ Barack Obama, #NFDB
1402:Understanding is the least important thing when it comes to digging jazzbecause, like anything else, jazz is a form of entertainment. It is created to be enjoyed, not understood like you read a blueprint. ~ Cannonball Adderley, #NFDB
1403:You don't have to be a brain surgeon to be a valuable person. You become valuable because of the knowledge that you have. And that doesn't mean you won't fail sometimes. The important thing is to keep trying. ~ Benjamin Carson, #NFDB
1404:For those who may not find happiness to exercise religious faith, it's okay to remain a radical atheist; it's absolutely an individual right, but the important thing is with a compassionate heart - then no problem. ~ Dalai Lama, #NFDB
1405:It’s not your job to shield me. Being your father means seeing you through this and anything else you need help with. That is the single most important thing to me in this world. Let me at least do that for you. ~ Camille Pag n, #NFDB
1406:The important thing is not to take the discomfort of feeling out of your element to mean you are somehow less intelligent, capable, or worthy than others. You are where you are because you deserve to be. Period. ~ Valerie Young, #NFDB
1407: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. ~ Victor Cruz, #NFDB
1408:This great imperialistic world called the United States has made us believe that an Oscar is the most important thing in the world for an actor. But if you think about it for five minutes you realise it cant be. ~ Javier Bardem, #NFDB
1409:We do not slight the idea of enlightenment, but the most important thing is this moment, not some day in the future. We have to make our effort in this moment. This is the most important thing for our practice. ~ Shunryu Suzuki, #NFDB
1410:From all these experiences the most important thing I have learned is that legibility and beauty stand close together and that type design, in its restraint, should be only felt but not perceived by the reader. ~ Adrian Frutiger, #NFDB
1411:Having Down syndrome means nothing to me, I'm special like everyone else. I do not let people judge me for having Down syndrome. The important thing is how I feel about myself. On the inside, I feel beautiful. ~ Edward Barbanell, #NFDB
1412:If you want to make something clear to someone, you mustn't forget the main point, the most important thing, and if you bring in something else as an illustration you mustn't wander off into endless irrelevancies. ~ Anton Webern, #NFDB
1413:I know that you, ladies and gentlemen, have a philosophy, each and all of you, and that the most interesting and important thing about you is the way in which it determines the perspective in your several worlds. ~ William James, #NFDB
1414:I think the most important thing for an artist is to not worry about what anybody else thinks. You just have to do what comes from your heart and your being and put it out there-that's true in any of the arts. ~ Rosanna Arquette, #NFDB
1415:The most important thing to me about energy is mental, not physical. By that I mean to say, the easiest way I've found to create sustained enthusiasm is to be absolutely head-over-hells in love with what you do. ~ Matthew Hussey, #NFDB
1416:There is no amount of darkness that can extinguish the inner light. The important thing is not to spend our lives trying to control the environment around us. The task is to control the environment within us. ~ Joan D Chittister, #NFDB
1417:when you make numerous mistakes, don't worry. You have numerous lessons of life in your bosom. The most important thing is recognizing, accepting and learning the lessons out of the lessons. just ponder! ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, #NFDB
1418:I have learned over the years that the most important thing to deal with is whatever is most on your mind. The fact that you think it shouldn’t be on your mind is irrelevant. It’s there, and it’s there for a reason. ~ David Allen, #NFDB
1419:One should be in harmony with, not in opposition to, the strength and force of the opposition. This means that one should do nothing that is not natural or spontaneous; the important thing is not to strain in any way. ~ Bruce Lee, #NFDB
1420:Take care of her. That is the most important thing." "Auf Wiedersehen." She leaned down to kiss Ania's cheek. "Mach's gut," Ania said, and caught her hand. Make it good -- an old expression her mother had used. ~ Jessica Shattuck, #NFDB
1421:The divorce has lasted way longer than the marriage, but finally it's over. Enough about that. The point is that for a long time, the fact that I was divorced was the most important thing about me. And now it's not. ~ Nora Ephron, #NFDB
1422:The most important thing for people to understand is that the basic rule that people have a right to send information over the Internet - even when they are using a wireless device - is part of the framework. ~ Julius Genachowski, #NFDB
1423:The most important thing is that the work has to be solid [in terms of its formal structure] and that the work accomplishes what it strives to achieve. It has to be genuine - not mannered or stylistically driven. ~ Wayne Thiebaud, #NFDB
1424:The most important thing is to actually think about what you do. To become aware and actually think about the effect of what you do on the environment and on society. That's key, and that underlies everything else. ~ Jane Goodall, #NFDB
1425:This is important: to get to know people, listen, expand the circle of ideas. The world is crisscrossed by roads that come closer together and move apart, but the important thing is that they lead towards the Good. ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
1426:Whenever you are setting up a new project, the most important thing is to surround yourself with people who are better than yourself, have different skills and a healthy combination of enthusiasm and experience. ~ Richard Branson, #NFDB
1427:your heart is made for the kingdom of God. This might be the most important thing anyone will ever tell you about yourself: your heart only thrives in one habitat, and that safe place is called the kingdom of God. ~ John Eldredge, #NFDB
1428:All of us, in a sense, struggle continuously all the time, because we never get what we want. The important thing which I've really learned is how do you not give up, because you never succeed in the first attempt. ~ Mukesh Ambani, #NFDB
1429:But we agree with the NTSB that if we eliminated the thrust- reverser calculation, it would be an extra margin of safety. Airport capacity and airline efficiency are important, but safety is the most important thing. ~ Laura Brown, #NFDB
1430:If you're happy, that's probably the most important thing. Everyone probably has their own definition of success, for me it's happiness. Do I enjoy what I'm doing? Do I enjoy the people I'm with? Do I enjoy my life? ~ Michael Dell, #NFDB
1431:I think love is the most important thing in life. Whatever kind, however you define it, but I think of it generally as being greatly valued by another human being and greatly valuing another human being. ~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, #NFDB
1432:Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness. ~ George Bernard Shaw, #NFDB
1433:Not only does exercise keep the body young, but it also keeps the mind vital and promotes emotional well-being. The important thing is to start off slowly, find physical activities you enjoy, and do them regularly. ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB
1434:The divorce has lasted way longer than the marriage, but finally it's over.
Enough about that.The point is that for a long time, the fact that I was divorced was the most important thing about me.And now it's not. ~ Nora Ephron,#NFDB
1435:The most important thing I learned is that to be truly happy, you've got to pay attention to that stupid inner voice we all have. It knows what you need and will drive you shit crazy until you listen to it. ~ Dorothea Benton Frank, #NFDB
1436:You know, I think I'm more of a micro-person, so to me, the context and the framework of trying to do what you love and feel passionate about, in supporting your family in that way, is the most important thing to me. ~ Joan Cusack, #NFDB
1437:At the end of a lifetime’s worth of lights and nights, it seemed that family was really the only important thing there was. And yet how many of us truly appreciated that significance before our last breath left us? ~ David Baldacci, #NFDB
1438:Describing Woodstock as the "big bang," I think that's a great way to describe it, because the important thing about it wasn't how many people were there or that it was a lot of truly wonderful music that got played. ~ David Crosby, #NFDB
1439:If I weren't a theatre designer, I wouldn't be any other kind of designer. Design is interesting to me as it relates to narrative: the design has to support the narrative. Storytelling is the most important thing. ~ Christine Jones, #NFDB
1440:It is not a shame to be knocked down by other people. The important thing is to ask when you're being knocked down, 'Why am I being knocked down?' If a person can reflect in this way, then there is hope for this person. ~ Bruce Lee, #NFDB
1441:Perhaps this is the most important thing for me to take back from beach-living: simply the memory that each cycle of the tide is valid; each cycle of the wave is valid; each cycle of a relationship is valid. ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh, #NFDB
1442:The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible ~ William S Burroughs, #NFDB
1443:In fact, this could be the most important thing we ever learn about God– that he yearns for relationship with us... We see him as strong and powerful, but not as needing us, vulnerable to us, yearning to be desired. ~ Stasi Eldredge, #NFDB
1444:I think if the movie has resonance and stimulates the viewer to talk about it, you can have as large an audience as you want. The most important thing for me is that the movie exists. And that's success enough already. ~ Andy Garcia, #NFDB
1445:No matter how many to-dos you start with, you can always narrow it to one. Keep going. You can actually take 20 percent of the 20 percent of the 20 percent and continue until you get to the single most important thing! ~ Gary Keller, #NFDB
1446:Our experience with the Nazis had shown one thing: where racism is practiced, it damages the whole community, not just the victim group. Were we racists or were we not? That was the important thing to discover. ~ John Howard Griffin, #NFDB
1447:See, because being Cool is obviously the most important thing on earth. It’s more important than getting a job, or having a girlfriend, or political power, or money, because all those things are predicated by Coolness. ~ Ned Vizzini, #NFDB
1448:The most important thing you learn as a sports photographer is anticipation - not where the action is taking place, but where it’s going to take place. Not where the subject is now, but where they’re going to be. ~ Lawrence Schiller, #NFDB
1449:The thing is love is really the most important thing. That in love feeling at the beginning settles down into a different, familiar sort of love, but it has to be there right from the start, otherwise it just won't work ~ Jane Green, #NFDB
1450:We must imitate Christ's life and his ways if we are to be truly enlightened and set free from the darkness of our own hearts. Let it be the most important thing we do, then, to reflect on the life of Jesus Christ. ~ Thomas a Kempis, #NFDB
1451:As far as Iraq, the important thing is that the Taliban is gone in Afghanistan, three-quarters of the al-Qaida leadership is either dead or in jail, and we now have Saudi Arabia working with us, Pakistan working with us. ~ Peter King, #NFDB
1452:As far as I was concerned the important thing was that the music was getting the attention as well as me so it was always a great way to get more of the public to connect with classical music, and opera particularly. ~ Lesley Garrett, #NFDB
1453:He was giving her the most important thing he could, the only way he knew how. He was a professor, a lover of stories, and he was building her a library in the same way other men might build their daughters houses. ~ Jennifer E Smith, #NFDB
1454:I know I can seem…distant sometimes. I know I’m always in my head and sometimes I’m just a little too quiet. But you’re the most important thing to me. You keep me grounded, you hold me in place, you make me feel real. ~ Karina Halle, #NFDB
1455: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. ~ John Glenn, #NFDB
1456:It’s because a woman’s entire self-worth rests on her looks,” said Jane. “That’s why. It’s because we live in a beauty-obsessed society where the most important thing a woman can do is make herself attractive to men. ~ Liane Moriarty, #NFDB
1457:I was like a local sports team; they were the fans in the stadium seats. They cheered. They booed. They stood and did the Wave. The bond was palpable, maniacal, and maybe the most important thing about the experience. ~ Caroline Paul, #NFDB
1458:She took the pills from him, placed them in her mouth and drank the entire bottle of water. Water: it has no taste, no smell, no color, and yet it is the most important thing in the world. Just like her at that moment. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
1459:That talent lives in within me. Now though, it goes as easily as a sword being put back in a scabbard. It’s done what it was needed for. It’s done the most important thing it will ever be needed for.", FADE by Kailin Gow ~ Kailin Gow, #NFDB
1460:[To become a poet] The most important thing is to pay attention. The next would probably be to read; it's so important to pay attention. It keeps you from being bored, and I might add it keeps you from being boorish. ~ Nikki Giovanni, #NFDB
1461:I made a concerned effort to focus. There was something I needed to say. The most important thing. I love you," I said, but it sounded like singing. My voice rang and shimmered like a bell. As i love you,"He told me. ~ Stephenie Meyer, #NFDB
1462:I think that's an important thing to do, to really pay attention to negative feedback, and solicit it, particularly from friends. This may sound like simple advice, but hardly anyone does that, and it's incredibly helpful. ~ Elon Musk, #NFDB
1463:olive oil is never going to be better than on the day it was bottled, but it will get worse. The most important thing you can find is the harvest date, which few bottles carry but should be no more than a year earlier. ~ Larry Olmsted, #NFDB
1464:The first and most important thing is to remain free, free in each line you undertake, in your ideas and in your political action, in your moral conduct. The artist especially must remain free from all outer restraints. ~ Hans Hartung, #NFDB
1465:The most important thing in convoluted families, I learnt as I wrote, is that the child feels loved. I knew from a young age that I was a problem which required constant solving; but I never felt unloved. I was lucky. ~ Allegra Huston, #NFDB
1466:The most important thing is not to think very much about oneself. To investigate candidly the charge; but not fussily, not very anxiously. On no account to retaliate by going to the other extreme -- thinking too much. ~ Virginia Woolf, #NFDB
1467:There are as many forms of advice as there are colors of the rainbow. Remember that good advice can come from bad people and bad advice from good people. The important thing about advice is that it is simply that. Advice. ~ Al Franken, #NFDB
1468:We still have a tradition certainly in English television; it's faded a bit in the last five years, but we still have a tradition where the important thing is the quality and the challenging nature of the programming. ~ Rowan Atkinson, #NFDB
1469:You don't pay any attention to anything anyone else says, no opinions. The important thing is to explode with a story, to emotionalize a story, not to think it. You start thinking - the story's going to die on its feet. ~ Ray Bradbury, #NFDB
1470:Faith is part of who I am, yes. I was raised Christian Scientist. The most important thing I saw every single week on the wall at Sunday school was the Golden Rule: "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." ~ Ellen DeGeneres, #NFDB
1471:I actually learned about sex watching neighborhood dogs. And it was good. Go ahead and laugh. I think the most important thing I learned was: Never let go of the girl's leg, no matter how hard she tries to shake you off. ~ Steve Martin, #NFDB
1472:I saw a dog in a cage. And that cage had a sign on it that said, 'I bite.' And I was like, 'That is good to know doggy, but that's not the most important thing about you. You should make a sign that says, 'I make signs.'' ~ Doug Benson, #NFDB
1473:It doesn't matter where or how far you go - the farther commonly the worse - the important thing is how alive you are. Writing of every kind is a way to wake oneself up and keep as alive as when one has just fallen in love. ~ Pico Iyer, #NFDB
1474:My pen.’ Funny, I wrote that without noticing. ‘The torch’, ‘the paper’, but ‘my pen’. That shows what writing means to me, I guess. My pen is a pipe from my heart to the paper. It’s about the most important thing I own. ~ John Marsden, #NFDB
1475:Our tendency is to be interested in something that is growing in the garden, not in the bare soil itself. But if you want to have a good harvest, the most important thing is to make the soil rich and cultivate it well. ~ Shunryu Suzuki, #NFDB
1476:The most important thing of all is to stay supple and flexible,” he said. “The moment you will be most stiff is when you die—you never get stiffer than that. So you’ve got to sleep well, eat well, and keep moving. ~ Richard Lloyd Parry, #NFDB
1477:Too often students are being taught to read as if literature were some kind of ethics class or civics class—or worse, some kind of self-help manual. In fact, the important thing is the way the writer uses the language. ~ Francine Prose, #NFDB
1478:In short, if you can realize that it is humans that are the most important thing in life and not material items, you will spend (at least) 60% less money on said material items, meaning you need to work 60% less in life. ~ Aaron Clarey, #NFDB
1479:I think the most important thing for the public and the press is to just listen to what Donald Trump says and follow up and ask questions about what appear to be either contradictory or uninformed or outright wacky ideas. ~ Barack Obama, #NFDB
1480:I wasn’t interested in getting money; I just wanted to have it. And I only wanted to have it so I didn’t have to think about it no more. Money wasn’t the important thing; it was never having to worry about it that I wanted. ~ T E Kinsey, #NFDB
1481:The important thing is to think about theory in life in that way. And I think we don't have to be theorists, we don't have to have gone to the academy, or to the university to learn theory and to be a theorist of gender. ~ Judith Butler, #NFDB
1482:The important thing to remember is to follow the path of light. As the fictional character Yoda, from Star Wars, correctly pointed out, once you start down the dark path to power, it's very difficult to leave that path. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
1483:The most important thing in my life is that trying to ameliorate, redeem, the image in particular of African American men, or Black men - I don't really even like that term, "African American," because we're Black people. ~ Harry Lennix, #NFDB
1484:There are necessary evils. Money is an important thing in terms of representing freedom in our world. And now I have a daughter to think about. It's really the first time I've thought about the future and what it could be. ~ Johnny Depp, #NFDB
1485:When my head hits the pillow each night, I want to know that I have done the one most important thing: I have fostered warm, happy memories and created lifelong bonds with my kids—even when the rest of life feels hard. ~ Sarah Mackenzie, #NFDB
1486:Who we are! Us! Right? What kind of people are we? What kind of person are you? Isn't it the most important thing of all? Isn't that the kind of question we should be asking ourselves all the tie? What kind of person am I? ~ R J Palacio, #NFDB
1487:You find the most important thing that really grabs you, and put it right up top. Don't bury the lead. Put it at the top. Best thing to do. Never go wrong that way. It's an immutable law of journalism. It just always works. ~ Kurt Loder, #NFDB
1488:At the end of the day, my sole goal, when I go into any scene, is to try to be as honest as I possibly can, and then everything else is second. The most important thing for me is to just be as honest as I possibly can. ~ Michael Rapaport, #NFDB
1489:Being kind is the most important thing Ive ever been taught. Thats what my parents always told me - more important than ambition or success is being kind to people. The cornerstone of my life. What I aspire to is to be kind. ~ Rafe Spall, #NFDB
1490:For my mother, having a family was the most important thing in her life. In the Second World War, it was a challenge - surviving physically and mentally and finding somebody who you loved and who was willing to be with you. ~ Etgar Keret, #NFDB
1491:Harold had achieved an important thing in his life. He had constructed a viewpoint. Other people see life primarily as a chess match played by reasoning machines. Harold saw life as a neverending interpenetration of souls. ~ David Brooks, #NFDB
1492:Important thing to realize is the world is not here to make me happy. When you don't demand that the situation, or place, or person should make you happy, then actually the situation, place, or person is quite satisfying. ~ Eckhart Tolle, #NFDB
1493:It is an absolute privilege to be able to speak another language and have it be something you grew up with. I think it's a very important thing and I think that everywhere else in the world people speak more than one language. ~ Lucy Liu, #NFDB
1494:It isn’t really possible for men to understand how much the world doesn’t want women to be complete people. The most important thing a woman can be, in our society—more important, even, than honest or decent—is identifiable. ~ Caleb Carr, #NFDB
1495:I would be wary about working in the States because freedom is an important thing. I have made seven films and even on Alien Resurrection I had the freedom. I had to fight and struggle a bit but in the end I won out. ~ Jean Pierre Jeunet, #NFDB
1496:My two central values are faith and courage. I hated not circling “family.” But as I dug in, I realized that while my family is the most important thing in my life, my commitment to them is fueled by my faith and my courage. ~ Bren Brown, #NFDB
1497:Being the best was as equal to being in the middle, which was equal to being the worst. All were merely a state of being. It was how a person felt in that state and why they were in that state that was the important thing. ~ Cecelia Ahern, #NFDB
1498:I know very well that if you get men who are really, really swells, for that is what it is, Mr. Low, and pay them well enough, and so make it really an important thing, they can browbeat any judge and hoodwink any jury. ~ Anthony Trollope, #NFDB
1499:I learned from Seurat this important thing about colour and light, that 'a light' can be built from colour. I learned a great deal about interaction, that 'a blue' in different parts will play all sorts of different roles. ~ Bridget Riley, #NFDB
1500:I remain totally convinced that when children are young, however busy we may be with the practical duties inside the home, themost important thing of all is to devbote enoughh time and care to their needs and problems. ~ Margaret Thatcher, #NFDB
99 Integral Yoga
14 Occultism
10 Yoga
9 Psychology
6 Philosophy
6 Education
3 Fiction
2 Christianity
1 Theosophy
1 Thelema
1 Sufism
1 Poetry
1 Integral Theory
1 Alchemy
80 The Mother
37 Satprem
24 Sri Aurobindo
7 Sri Ramakrishna
7 Carl Jung
7 Aleister Crowley
6 Nolini Kanta Gupta
5 A B Purani
3 Swami Krishnananda
3 Rudolf Steiner
3 H P Lovecraft
2 Jordan Peterson
2 Friedrich Nietzsche
2 Aldous Huxley
10 Letters On Yoga IV
8 Questions And Answers 1953
7 The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
7 Agenda Vol 02
6 Questions And Answers 1957-1958
6 Agenda Vol 10
5 Some Answers From The Mother
5 Questions And Answers 1954
5 On Education
5 Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo
4 The Practice of Psycho therapy
4 Questions And Answers 1955
4 Questions And Answers 1950-1951
4 Magick Without Tears
4 Letters On Yoga III
4 Letters On Yoga II
4 Agenda Vol 13
4 Agenda Vol 06
3 The Study and Practice of Yoga
3 Lovecraft - Poems
3 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03
3 Agenda Vol 09
3 Agenda Vol 08
2 Words Of The Mother III
2 Words Of The Mother II
2 Twilight of the Idols
2 The Perennial Philosophy
2 The Mother With Letters On The Mother
2 The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
2 Questions And Answers 1956
2 On Thoughts And Aphorisms
2 Mysterium Coniunctionis
2 Maps of Meaning
2 Liber ABA
2 Agenda Vol 12
2 Agenda Vol 11
2 Agenda Vol 05
0.00 - The Book of Lies Text, #The Book of Lies, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
important thing. Those who allow themselves to wallow
in Samadhi are sorry for it afterwards.
0.03 - Letters to My little smile, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
so I speak only about important things, with her as well
as with others; that is to say, if she asks me something I
0.05 - Letters to a Child, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
realisation of the Divine - must be the most important thing to
you, the only thing worth living for.
0.06 - Letters to a Young Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
practice, and for this the most important thing to avoid is useless
talking. It is not work but useless talk which takes us away from
0.10 - Letters to a Young Captain, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
most important thing, the thing you feel that you couldn't do
without.
0.14 - Letters to a Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
So the important thing now is to find one's psychic, unite
with it and allow it to replace the ego, which will be compelled
0 1954-08-25 - what is this personality? and when will she come?, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
As soon as I found outand no one told me, I found out through an experienceas soon as I found out that there was a discovery to be made within myself, well, it became THE MOST important thing in the world. It took precedence over everything else!
And when, as I told you, I chanced upon a book or an individual that could give me just a little clue and tell me, Here. If you do such and such, you will find your pathwell I charged into it like a cyclone and nothing could have stopped me.
0 1961-02-11, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
For Sri Aurobindo, the important thing was always the Mother. As he explained it, the Mother has several aspects, and certain aspects are still unmanifest. So if he has represented the Mother by Kali in particular, I believe its in relation to all those gods. Because, as he wrote in The Mother, the aspects to be manifested depend upon the time, the need, the thing to be done. And he always said that unless one understands and profoundly feels the aspect of Kali, one can never really participate in the Work in the worldhe felt that a sort of timid weakness makes people recoil before this terrible aspect.
***
0 1961-03-17, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
A sort of power over circumstances does come to me, however, as if I could rise above it all and give the subconscient a bit of a work-over. Naturally this has some results: entire areas are brought under control. Thats the most important thing. Individuals get the repercussions later because they are very very coagulated, a bit hard! A lack of plasticity.
Take the case of this man Im not naming Ive been training him, working with him, for more than thirty years and I still havent managed to get him to do things spontaneously, according to the needs of the moment, without all his preconceived ideas. Thats the point where he resists: when things have to be done quickly he follows his usual rule and it takes forever! This was illustrated strikingly that night. I told him, Just look: its there its THEREhurry up and warm it a little and Ill go. Ah! He didnt protest, didnt say anything, but he did things exactly according to his own preconceptions.
0 1961-04-18, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The important thing is the flame.
(silence)
0 1961-06-02, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
D. asked me if changing the time of her japa had much importance. I told her she can change the time if she has to, provided she remains sincere thats the most important thing.
These are small details. I myself am unable to do it at fixed hours; I had always hoped to do it between 5 and 6 in the afternoon, but I usually cant manage to go upstairs before ten to six! So so I do it from 6 to 7.
--
What is necessary is to abandon EVERYTHING. Everything: all power, all comprehension, all intelligence, all knowledge, everything. To become perfectly nonexistent, thats the important thing. But the very atmosphere makes things difficultwhat people expect of you, what they want of you, what they think of youits very bothersome. You have to spend all your time fanning it away.
In one of the handwritten notes left by Mother, we found the following: 'Sri Aurobindo told me: Never give them the impression that they can do whatever they like, they will always be protected.'
0 1961-07-15, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
For example, as I was saying at the beginning, the bodys formation has a very minimal, a quite subordinate importance for a saint or a sage. But for this supramental work, the way the body is formed has an almost crucial importance, and not at all in relation to spiritual elements nor even to mental power: these aspects have no importance AT ALL. The capacity to endure, to last is the important thing.
Well, in that respect, it is absolutely undeniable that my body has an infinitely greater capacity than Sri Aurobindos had.
0 1961-09-23, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And I think that Savitri is the most important thing to speak about.
From time to time I use a line from Savitri, placing it in the book like an open window. Thats all I can do.
0 1961-12-20, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
A book like that (sufficiently veiled, of course), written in the simplest way possible (like I wrote The Science of Living, I believe)and its fine, you speak to people in their own language. Above all, no philosophy! None! You simply tell some extraordinary stories in the same way you would tell an ordinary story. But the Story is there, thats the most important thing.
It started in my infancy the Story was already there.
0 1962-09-26, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Anyway, the important thing is what you told me: the experience at Alipore is supramental.
Oh, yes! He used the word Narayana because he hadnt yet developed his own terminology; but he isnt referring to the gods: its the supramental experience.
0 1963-05-11, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Why not? It doesnt occur to him [X] because hes used to sitting and writing on the ground. Its the same as if I thought it impossible to meditate unless I sat cross-legged and bolt upright! Fortunately, I lived with Sri Aurobindo, who never used to sit cross-legged. He told me right away that it was all a question of habitssubconscious habits. It has no importance whatsoever. And how well he explained: if a posture is necessary for you, it will come by itself. And its perfectly true, for instance, that when necessary, the body will suddenly sit up straightit comes spontaneously. As he said, the important thing is not the external frame but the inner experience, and if there is a physical necessity and your inner experience is entirely sincere, that physical necessity will come ALL BY ITSELF.2 This is something I am absolutely sure of. And he gave me his own example (I had mine, too) of certain things considered dangerous or bad, which we both did independently and spontaneously, and which were a great help to us! Consequently, all those stories of posture and so on are the petty mechanical bounds of the human mind.
It came to me while I was walking [for the japa]. I had a kind of vision of you squatting askew and writing. And I thought, But thats awful! Hell ruin his health!
0 1964-10-14, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I remember, once, they held an exhibition on Germany at the Library. They put up a long quotation from Sri Aurobindo in which he said, Here is what the Germans THINK OF THEMSELVES and there followed a whole quotationoh, what a quotation! Anyway, they are the race of the future, of geniuses, they will save the world and so on. But they put up the whole thing without the first sentence! So I arrive there (at the time, I could see clearly), and what do I see! I remembered what Sri Aurobindo had written, Here is what the Germans THINK OF THEMSELVES, SO I told them, But you forgot the most important thing, you must add this. You should have seen their faces, mon petit!
Its this dishonesty thats frightening they cut out and remove all that bothers them and leave only what suits them.
0 1964-11-21, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
We must learn to let ourselves live, thats the important thing: Dont be constantly reacting against this, trying thatlet yourself live.
In reality, the will to progress is still quite impregnated with desire: there isnt the smile of Eternity behind it.
0 1965-06-26, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I dont know if he will be cured thats not certain. But the important thing was that he should regain understanding and speech.
***
0 1965-07-31, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Afterwards, we should see according to the spirit of peoples inquiries. He can start The Synthesis right awayThe Synthesis and The Life Divine are the two most important things.
Yes, not the small distorting books.
0 1965-09-25, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Thats right: Show your power, change the world. And to begin with, do as I want; because the first, most important thing is to do what I wantshow your power!
(long silence)
0 1965-09-29, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I had this experience very, very strongly. When I left here [in 1915], as I got farther away, I felt as if emptied of something, and once in the Mediterranean, I wasnt able to bear it any longer: I fell ill. And even in Japan, which outwardly is a marvelous countrymarvelously beautiful and harmonious (it WAS, I dont know what it is nowadays), and outwardly it was a joy every minute, a breathtaking joy, so strong was the expression of beautyyet I felt empty, empty, empty, I absolutely lacked (Mother opens her mouth as though suffocating) I lacked the important thing. And I found it again only when I came back here.
Mother is probably alluding (in addition to the cease-fire violations by Pakistan) to a declaration from Delhi that India considered as obsolete the treaty signed in 1954 by Nehru recognizing China's sovereignty over Tibet. (That "declaration" did not hold for long.)
0 1966-07-09, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There immediately comes the why and the how. But that belongs to the realm of mental curiosity, because the important fact is to put a stop to the resistance. Thats the important thing, putting a stop to the resistance so the universe may become what it must be: the expression of a harmonious, luminous, marvelous power, incomparably beautiful. Afterwards, once the resistance has ceased, if out of curiosity we want to know why it occurred it will no longer matter. But right now, its not by looking for the why that we will be able to bring about the remedy: its by taking the true position. Thats the only thing that matters.
Putting a stop to the resistance through complete surrender, complete self-giving, in all the cells if one can do it.
0 1967-02-18, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
So what should be done there (and what I am trying to do) is the same work of receptive silence and to let inspiration, the inspirational consciousness, gather the necessary elements. For that we must be very tranquil. We must be very supple, in the sense of surrendered; I mean, allow as little habitual activity as possible to mix inbe almost like an automaton. But with the full perception of the consciousness trying to be expressed, so that nothing gets mixed in with it. Thats the most important thing: to receive this consciousness and hold it like really like something sacred, without anything getting mixed in with it, like that. So then, there is a problem of attraction, we could say, and of concretization in the formula.4 I always tell myself that if I knew many languages, it would make use of all that; unfortunately I know only two (I know only two thoroughly) and I have only very superficial and minimal glimpses of two or three others thats not enough. Only, I have been in contact with very different methods: the method of the Far East and the Sanskrit method, and of course the methods of the West. It does give a sort of base, but its not sufficient I am at the opposite extreme from erudition. I have always felt that erudition shrivels up thoughtit parches the brain. (But I have great respect for scholars, oh! indeed, and I seek their advice, but for myself it wont do!)
Once, very long ago, when Sri Aurobindo was telling me about himself, that is, of his childhood, his education, I put the question to him, I asked him, Why am I, as an individual being, so mediocre? I can do anything; all that I have tried to do I have done, but never in a superior way: always like this (gesture to an average level). Then he answered me (at the time I took it as a kindness or commiseration), Thats because it gives great supplenessa great suppleness and a vast scope; because those who have perfection are concentrated and specialized. As I said, I took it simply like a caress to comfort a child. But now I realize that the most important thing is not to have any fixity: nothing should be set, definitive, like the sense of a perfection in the realization that puts a total stop to the forward march. The sense of incapacity (with the meaning I said of mediocrity, of something by no means exceptional) leaves you in a sort of expectation (gesture of aspiration upward) of something better. And then, the most important thing is supplenesssuppleness, suppleness. Suppleness and breadth: reject nothing as useless or bad or inferiornothing; set nothing up as really superior and beautifulnothing. Remain ever open, ever open.
The ideal is to have this suppleness and receptivity and surrender, that is, so total an acceptance of the Influence that no matter what comes the instrument adapts itself instantly to express it naturally, spontaneously and effortlessly. With everything, of course: with the plastic arts, with music, with writing.
0 1967-07-05, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
One night I saw him like that, I told you. But it was extremely complex; I only noted two or three important things, but there didnt seem to be even one small part of his body that wasnt represented by someone. So if we take the symbol of the feet to be the physical Not only the feet, but all the toes, did you say?
All the toes, yes.
0 1967-07-26, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
As if that was constantly saying, But dont take things seriously! Dont take things seriously, dont take things seriously thats what makes you unhappy! Thats what makes you unhappy, it makes you unhappy, you must learn to smile, like that. And above all, to make fun of ourselves, thats the most important thing: to see how ridiculous we are the slightest pain and we are full of self-pity, oh!
At times one protests.
0 1968-03-09, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The experience was like this: the important thing is to keep the consciousness of the Presence, which means that the Presence must be concrete; then, in everything you do, everything you saywhatever you may do, whatever you may sayits this Presence that expresses itself. And this mornings experience was to find the difference between the direct expression and the more or less veiled expression; and the difference of quality in the expression depended on the mental judgment, that is, the mind in everyone judges that difference, but thats only an individual question; from a general point of view, the things that seem to us the least transparent or expressive are sometimes the best expressions.
Its hard to explain.
0 1968-06-18, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Of course not! You have more important things to do.
I have the impression of a very continuous work. Nights too are very active.
0 1968-09-07, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I have told you many times, and couldnt repeat it too often, that we are not made of a piece. Within ourselves we have lots of states of being, and each state of being has its own life. All that is gathered together in a single body, as long as you have one, and acts through a single body; thats what gives you the sense of a single person, a single being. But there are many of them, and there are in particular concentrations on different planes: just as you have a physical being, you have a vital being, a mental being, a psychic being, and many others with all possible intermediaries. So when you leave your body, all those beings will scatter. Its only if you are a very advanced yogi and have been capable of unifying your being around the divine center that those beings remain linked together. If you havent been able to unify yourself, then at the time of death, all that will scatter: every being will go back to its own region. With the vital being, for example, your various desires will separate and each of them will go and chase its realization quite independently, because there will no longer be a physical being to hold them together. While if you have united your consciousness to the psychic consciousness, when you die you will remain conscious of your psychic being, and the psychic being will return to the psychic world which is a world of bliss, joy, peace, tranquillity, and growing knowledge. But if you have lived in your vital and all its impulses, each impulse will try to realize itself here and there. For instance, for the miser who was concentrated on his money, when he dies the part of his vital that was concerned with his money will hook on there and will keep watching over the money so no one takes it. People wont see him, but he is there nonetheless, and very unhappy if something happens to his dear money. Now, if you live exclusively in your physical consciousness (which is difficult, because, after all, you have thoughts and feelings), if you live exclusively in your physical, when the physical being disappears, you disappear along with it, its over. There is a spirit of the form: your form has a spirit that lives on for seven days after your death. The doctors have declared you dead, but the spirit of your form is alive, and not only alive but conscious in most cases. It lasts for seven to eight days, and after that, it too dissolves I am not talking about yogis, I am talking about ordinary people. Yogis have no laws, its quite different; for them the world is different. I am talking about ordinary people living an ordinary life; for them its like that. So the conclusion is that if you want to preserve your consciousness, it would be better to center it on a part of your being which is immortal; otherwise it will evaporate like a flame into thin air. And happily so, because if it were otherwise, there might be gods or kinds of superior men who would create hells and heavens as they do in their material imagination, inside which they would shut you up. (Question:) It is said that there is a god of death. Is it true? Yes. As for me, I call him a genius of death. I know him very well. And its an extraordinary organization. You cant imagine how organized it is! I think there are many of those genii of death, hundreds of them. I met at least two of them. One I met in France, the other in Japan, and they were very different. Which leads me to believe that depending on the mental culture, the education, the countries and beliefs, there must be different genii. But there are genii for all manifestations of Nature: there are genii of fire, genii of air, water, rain, wind; and there are genii of death. Any one genius of death is entitled to a certain number of dead every day. Its truly a fantastic organization. Its a sort of alliance between the vital forces and the forces of Nature. If, for example, he decided, Here is the number of people I am entitled to, say four or five, or six, or one or two (it varies from day to day), if he decided so many people would die, hell go straight and set himself up near the person whos going to die. But if you (not the person) happen to be conscious, if you see the genius going to the person but do not want him or her to die, then, if you have a certain occult power, you can tell him, No, I forbid you to take this person. Thats something which happened, not once but several times, in Japan and here. It wasnt the same genius. Which makes me say there must be many of them. If you can tell him, I forbid you to take this person and have the power to send him away, theres nothing he can do but go away; but he wont give up his due and will go elsewhere there will be a death elsewhere. (Question:) Some people, when they are about to die, are aware of it. Why dont they tell the genius to go away? Two things are needed. First, nothing in your being, no part of your being, should wish to die. That doesnt often happen. You always have, somewhere in you, a defeatist: something tired or disgusted, which has had enough, something lazy or which doesnt want to fight and says, Ah, well, let it be over, so much the better. Thats enoughyoure dead. But its a fact: if nothing, absolutely nothing in you consents to die, you will not die. For someone to die, there is always a second, if a hundredth part of a second, when he consents. If there isnt that second of consent, he will not die. But who is certain he doesnt have within himself, somewhere, a tiny bit of a defeatist which just yields and says, Oh well? Hence the need to unify oneself. Whatever the path we may follow, the subject we may study, we always reach the same result. The most important thing for an individual is to unify himself around his divine center; that way he becomes a real individual, master of himself and of his destiny. Otherwise, he is a plaything of the forces, which toss him about like a cork in a stream. He goes where he doesnt want to, is made to do what he doesnt want to, and finally he gets lost in a hole without any way to stop himself doing so. But if you are consciously organized, unified around the divine center, governed and led by it, you are the master of your destiny. Its worth trying. At any rate, I find its better to be the master rather than the slave. The feeling of being pulled by strings and being made to do things you may or may not want to do is a rather unpleasant sensation. Its quite irksome. Well, I dont know, I, for one, found it quite irksome even when I was a small child. When I was five, I began finding it wholly intolerable, and I sought a way for it to be otherwisewithout anyone being able to tell me anything. Because I knew no one capable of helping me, and I didnt have the luck you havesomeone who can tell you, Here is what you must do. There was no one to tell me. I had to find it all by myself. I found it. I began at the age of five. And you, its a long time since you were five?
Well cut out the end.
0 1969-03-26, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There are important things. You know that the Pope has set up a Reform Committee for the Church, and PL. is on it. For a few months he was asked to go and carry out opinion polls here and there (in Portugal, Spain, etc.), so as to study possible reforms. Following those opinion polls, the Committee met in Rome with the Monsignors and Cardinals. And there, PL. came flat out with it all!
Bah! (Mother laughs)
0 1969-04-30, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It has an answer for everything, all the time. Now its become quite active. I got a letter from Y. describing the activities of all those young people who have come for Auroville (they have a place of their own now, its the office of =1, somewhere at the back or in front of the Library). They have an apartment where they do all kinds of things, including improvised dances; Y. wrote about that (with much praise, besides), and she asked, But the important thing is to know what Sri Aurobindo and you too think about it? (Mother smiles ironically) Then this Consciousness (laughing) made me answer her, Just see to it that it doesnt degenerate. And it added (I dont remember exactly because it wasnt I who wrote), See that it remains I forget the words. But mon petit, the irony of it was priceless! And I sent it to her.
Constantly, constantly it says or answers something. It obliges me to write: Answer this. Say this. It has taken the place of the mind, you understand.
0 1969-05-24, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The body has reached a state of consciousness in which it knows that death can bring about a change, but isntisnt a disappearance (disappearance of the consciousness). And then, that idea the vast majority of human beings have: the repose of death (Mother puts her hand on her mouth, as if before an extraordinary piece of nonsense). Not even that consolation. For most people, its the opposite of a repose. So then, there too, but even more acutely and intensely: The only, the SOLE hope is You, Lord, to be You. Let there be nothing but You. Let this separation, this difference disappear, it is MONSTROUS! Let it disappear. Then, let it be as You will: You in full activity, or You in complete reposeit doesnt matter in the least; whether it is this way or that way, either way its completely, completely unimportant; the important thing is that it should be You.
Theres the absolute CERTITUDE (Mother clenches her two fists) that theres only ONE way out of all that, only ONEonly one, not two, theres no choice, there arent a few possibilities, theres only one: its the supreme Door. The Marvel of Marvels. All the rest all the rest is an impossibility.
0 1969-09-13, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
My fear is that he may still be very much Christian without knowing it, he may be under the impression that Christianity is the most important thing.
Yes, but he cant do any more for Christianity, thats the thing.
0 1969-10-29, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yes. One doesnt know The body here is beginning to understand thoroughly that one must be like this (gesture upward). The one most important thing is to have ones consciousness CONSTANTLY turned towards towards the Perfection we must manifest. Thats all.
With the understanding we have, its IMPOSSIBLE to know. Our vision is too small.
0 1969-11-22, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I told you several times, the organs are supported in their functioning by the forces of Nature, and in this process of transformation, the forces of Nature are withdrawn and replaced with the divine Presence. But you understand, there comes a moment when there is a gap [between the old functioning and the new]it may be imperceptible, but still it has an effect; a moment comes when there is an anguish. And then, some things are only partially transformed; so one part, then another part, then yet another part are taken up in succession, and since the heart is a very important thing, I am convinced it takes place very slowly. As a result, one often experiences the same thing, more or less strongly. The calmer one is, the more trusting one is, the more one is in the true attitude, and the less strong it is the consequences are less strong. But still, there is a consequence, and he was taken by surprise, he didnt know what it was.
But it interested me. What A.R. said, To be entirely governed by the divine Consciousness, appealed to him a lot, its an approach he understood. He must have tried, and thats the result. I saw other people who had pains, but that one is more alarming. Others have pains here or there or but when it touches the heart, people start being more alarmed. But in several cases, I saw that this Force doesnt act only here [in Mother]: it acts in others. And always, always, the moment of transition (it may be very brief, or it may take some time) is a bit difficult. One needs to be forewarned.
0 1970-01-03, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
No, when I told him we had to build the center that I had seen it and it had to be buil the didnt object. Only he told me, But it will take time. I said, No, it has to be done right now. Thats why I am getting those kinds of sketches made by an engineer, so as to show him, because its not the job of an architect: its the job of an engineer, with precise calculations for the sunlight, very precise. It has to be someone really skilled. The architect will have to see that the columns are beautiful, the walls are beautiful, the proportions are correctall that is quite all rightand also that symbol at the center. The aspect of beauty is for the architect to see, naturally but the whole aspect of calculations And the important thing is the play of the sun on the center. Because it becomes a symbol the symbol of the future realization.
(Mother remains concentrated)
0 1970-04-29, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its difficult difficult to say precisely. We think that this, this appearance (Mother points to her body) is to the ordinary consciousness it seems to be the most important thingits obviously the last thing that will change. And to the ordinary consciousness, it seems to be the last thing that will change because its the most important: that will be the surest sign. But its not that at all! Its not that at all.
The important thing is this change in the CONSCIOUSNESS which has taken place. All the rest is a consequence. And here, in this material world, it appears the most important to us because its everything is upside down. I dont know how to explain.
For us, when this [the body] is able to visibly be something different from what it is, well say, Ah, now the thing is done.Thats not true: the thing IS DONE. This [the body] is a secondary consequence.
0 1971-04-14, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
While there are far more important things.1
Oh, mon petit, the situation is terribly dangerous.
0 1971-09-04, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
To be at every moment as expressive of the Divine Consciousness as one can be. Thats the only important thing.
(silence)
0 1972-02-08, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Hence, the important thing now is to find ones psychic being, unite with it, and allow it to replace the ego, which will be forced either to convert itself or disappear.
***
0 1972-02-23, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I dont know about those papers I gave you. There were one or two very important things. I dont know if theyre there.
Whats the last one?
0 1972-04-26, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There you are. THAT is the important thing.
The important thing.
As for me, the purpose of this body is now simply: the Command and the Will of the Lord, so I can do as much groundwork as possible. But it isnt the Goal at all. You see, we dont know, we dont have the slightest knowledge of what the supramental life is. Therefore we dont know if this (Mother pinches the skin of her hand) can change enough to adapt or notand to tell the truth, I am not worried about it, its not a problem that preoccupies me too much; the problem I am preoccupied with is building that supramental consciousness So IT becomes the being. Its that consciousness which must become the being. Thats whats important. As for the rest, well see (its the same as worrying over a change of clothing). But it must truly be IT, you see. And in order to do that, all the consciousness contained in these cells must aggregate, form and organize itself into an independent conscious entity the consciousness in the cells must aggregate and form into a conscious entity capable of being conscious of Matter as well as conscious of the Supramental. Thats the thing. Thats what is being done. How far will we be able to go? I dont know.
0 1972-07-22, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The only important thing is to mix as little personal ego as possible with the divine vision. Thats all.
(Andr:) Yes, right.
02.06 - The Integral Yoga and Other Yogas, #The Integral Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
There are a thousand ways of approaching and realising the Divine and each way has its own experiences which have their own truth and stand really on a basis, one in essence but complex in aspects, common to all, but not expressed in the same way by all. There is not much use in discussing these variations; the important thing is to follow one's own way well and thoroughly. In this
Yoga, one can realise the psychic being as a portion of the
07.19 - Bad Thought-Formation, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
You go into the very origin of things. Why are there inconscience, ignorance and obscurity? You ask for the why and wherefore of the universe. Why is creation like this and not otherwise? Everyone has explained in his own way. The philosophers have done so, the scientists have done so on different lines. But, none has found the way out. You ask why there is bad will, but the truly interesting and important thing is to find a means whereby there would be no bad will. What is the use of asking why there is pain and suffering and misery, unless it is to find out the remedy? If you look for the why, you may find as many explanations as you like, each may be useful in a way, but none leads you anywhere, except into a blind alley.
There are many things in the world you do not approve of. Some people who, as they put it, wish to have the knowledge, want to find out why it is so. It is a line of knowledge. But I say it is much more important to find out how to make things otherwise than they are at present. That is exactly the problem Buddha set before himself. He sat under a tree and continued till he found the solution. The solution, however, is not very satisfactory: You say, the world is bad, let us then do away with the world; but to whose profit, as Sri Aurobindo asks very pertinently? The world will no longer be bad, since it will exist no more. The world will have to be rolled back into its origin, the original pure existence or non-existence. Then man will be, in Sri Aurobindo's words, the all-powerful master of something that does not exist, an emperor without an empire, a king without a kingdom. It is a solution. But there are others, which are better. We consider ours to be the best. There are some who say, like the Buddha, evil comes from ignorance, remove the ignorance and evil will disappear. Others say that evil comes from division, from separation; if the universe were not separated from its origin, there would be no evil. Others again declare that it is an evil will that is the cause of all, of separation and ignorance. Then the question is, where does this bad will come from? If it were at the origin of things, it must have been in the origin itself. And then some question the bad will itself,there is no such thing, essentially, fundamentally, it is pure illusion.
07.38 - Past Lives and the Psychic Being, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Most people are not at all conscious of what is happening in them. Their consciousness or being is a mixture of mental, vital and physical elements, a kind of hotchpotch. There are a few, very few indeed, who are consciousconscious of what is beyond the three, viz, their psychic being. For it is only that element which endures, persists through successive lives. Certain people have known or learnt some rudiments of the matterwho believe in rebirth, but conceive it in the most childish manner. Their idea is as if the person changed his body like a robe. There are persons even who have written books describing seriously all the lives they had passed through since the time they were monkeys! As I have said, it is the psychic element alone that persists after death, all the rest gets dissolved. And in 999 cases out of 1,000, the psychic is a very small formation lying behind and taking little part in the actual life of the person. I speak of the average man, not of the Yogi, that is to say, one who has a developed psychic being to the extent that it is capable of controlling and guiding the outer life. How often does an ordinary man get in contact with his psychic being? Years and years pass for many or most to have just a passing taste of this movement. It is this moment that abides and is carried over to the next life, all other things are simply effaced. At a given point of our life, there comes a special circumstance, there is a call within, an absolute inner necessity that brings forward the psychic and the contact is made perhaps for an instant. That experience is preserved in the psychic memory. More than the outer circumstances and the physical events, however, what is cherished in the consciousness is the intimate emotion, the vibration that accompanied the perception at the time. At the most, a word said, a phrase heard, just a passing scene is all that is stored, net and clear, engraved as it were. But above all it is the soul's state that is the most important thing. I t is these scattered elements that serve as stepping-stones or sign-posts on the soul's forward journey. They are the constants that build up the personality of a man. On rare occasions there is a larger clearing, the circumstances preserved are sufficiently definite to point to a date and a historical person. Usually, however, one cannot say, I was such a person, I lived in such a country or did such things. These psychic flashes, more in some cases, less in others, are the only genuine and au thentic records of the story of a person's lives.
It is a being who is completely identified with his psychic, who has organised his whole person, in all its parts, around this centre, in fact, a being of one piece, entirely and solely turned to the Divine that can alone remember or hold in his consciousness something like a totality of his personal history. For in his case even when the body drops, the other parts being integrated and taken up into the soul substance maintain their individual existence; the personality formed around the psychic continues to exist with its memory intact: even it can pass from one life to another without losing the consciousness.
07.43 - Music Its Origin and Nature, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Music, you must remember, like any other art, is a means for expressing somethingsome idea, some feeling, some emotion, a certain aspiration and so on. There is even a domain where all these movements exist and from where they are brought down under a musical form. A good composer with some inspiration would produce good music; he is then called a good musician. A bad musician can have also a good inspiration, he can receive something from the higher domain, but possessing no musical capacity, he would produce only what is very commonplace, very ordinary and uninteresting. However, if you go beyond, precisely over to this place where lies the origin of music, get to the idea, the emotion, the inspiration behind, you can then taste of these things without being held back by the form. Still this musical form can be joined on to what is behind or beyond the form; for it is that which originally inspired the musician to compose. Of course, there are instances where no inspiration exists, where the source is only a kind of sound mechanics, which is not, in any case, always interesting. What I mean is this that there is an inner state in which the outer form is not the most important thing: there lies the origin of music, the inspiration that is beyond. It is trite to say, but one often forgets that it is not sound that makes music, the sound has to express something.
There is a music that is quite mechanical and has no inspiration. There are musicians who play with great virtuosity, that is to say, they have mastered the technique and execute faultlessly the most complicated and rapid movements. It is music perhaps, but it expresses nothing; it is like a machine. It is clever, there is much skill, but it is uninteresting, soulless. The most important thing, not only in music, but in all human creations, in all that man does even, is, I repeat, the inspiration behind. The execution naturally is expected to be on a par with the inspiration; but to express truly well, one must have truly great things to express. It is not to say that technique is not necessary; on the contrary, one must possess a very good technique; it is even indispensable. Only it is not the one thing indispensable, not is it as important as the inspiration. For the essential quality of music comes from the region where it has its source.
Source or origin means the thing without which an object would not exist. Nothing can manifest upon earth physically unless it has its source in a higher truth. Thus material existence has its source and inspiration in the vital, the vital in its turn has behind it the mental, the mental has the overmental and so on. If the universe were a flat object, having its origin in itself, it would quickly cease to exist. (That is perhaps what Science means when it postulates the impossibility of perpetual motion). It is because there is a higher source which inspires it, a secret energy that drives it towards manifestation that Life continues: otherwise it would exhaust itself very soon.
09.18 - The Mother on Herself, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
There is a vast difference between what you know of yourself and what I know of you. What I know of you is evidently what you ought to become. Your external being one can see well. But between that and the inner being that I see there is the vital mental region which is the most important thing from the human point of view; for what one has to become must be repeated there first, if it is to be materialised. But as I say, the gap is wide between what you know of yourself, what is actively conscious in you and what you are in the truth of your being. This intermediary region is somewhat difficult for me to be familiar with or comprehend: for it is a cloudy region for me, a domain of falsehood. You must note the distinction between a lie and a falsehood. A lie is that which is altogether unreal, which has not been, which is not there. A falsehood is that which is not true, in the sense that it is not the expression of your truthnot at alland yet, it is that of which you are mostly externally conscious. Very very few are there who have the inner perception of what they want to become, what they want to do, what the truth of their being is. There are not many of that kind. For some, the thing comes and is then veiledjust a lightning flash for a moment and then all is dark. For me it is a perpetual question to know what is the state of the superficial consciousness which is for me so unreal, so untrue.
There is such a contradiction between the brutal fact of the daily activity and this image I make to myself of what each one of you should be: I keep this image always intact with all the power of my consciousness so that you may realise it. That is yourself, your own self. It is not this ignorant, stupid, insincere, dishonest being that you call yourself.
1.007 - Initial Steps in Yoga Practice, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga
The simple features called for, or the factors contri butory to success at the outset are, to mention only a few, having a definite time, a particular place, and a chosen method for sitting in meditation. When we are students of yoga, it is necessary to choose a definite time for the sitting. This is a very important thing to remember. We should not change our timings according to the whims and fancies of the mind or the changing conditions of social life. Whatever be the difficulties in our external life, a certain amount of insistence on a chosen time for sitting should be regarded as essential. If we find that a particular time cannot be chosen on account of the kind of life that we are living, it is better to choose such a time when all our commitments are over. Generally, though people say that the early morning is good for meditation, it has one disadvantage: that we have got an anxiety in our minds about the future work. We will not be free in the mind in the early morning, especially if we are social bodies. If we are absolutely alakniranjan, that is a different matter nobody bothers about us, and we can sit as long as we like.
But if we are social bodies with commitments and duties, a subconscious itching will be there at the bottom that, "I have to start work at eight o'clock." And that will be worrying us, though we will not be aware of it. The subconscious activity of the mind is a terrible activity and, therefore, when we actually start sitting for meditation, it is necessary that the period be a little before this time of commitment for catching the train, going to the court, etc. These commitments should not be very imminent or just near. The period of sitting should be such that it should be removed as far as possible from the point of activity which is of a distractive nature. And if it is towards the later part of the day when our commitments are over and the only commitment left is that we have to go to bed and sleep as there is nothing else to do, then the agitations will be a little less, because we have no other thing to do except to go to bed. Whatever it is, these are only minor details which have to be chalked out, each for oneself. The point is that there should be no feature, condition or factor that will even remotely cause distraction to the mind and draw attention away from the point of concentration. Thus, a particular time has to be chosen.
1.00a - Introduction, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
Now there is one really important matter. The only thing besides The Book of the Law which is in the forefront of the battle. As I told you yesterday, the first essential is the dedication of all that one is and all that one has to the Great Work, without reservation of any sort. This must be kept constantly in mind; the way to do this is to practice Liber Resh vel Helios, sub figura CC, pp. 425-426 - Magick. There is another version of these Adorations, slightly fuller; but those in the text are quite alright. The important thing is not to forget. I shall have to teach you the signs and gestures which go with the words.
It is also desirable before beginning a formal meal to go through the following dialogue: Knock 3-5-3: say, "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law." The person at the other end of the table replies: "What is thy Will?" You: "It is my Will to eat and drink." He: "To what end?" You: "That my body may be fortified thereby." He: "To what end?" You: "That I may accomplish the Great Work." He: "Love is the law, love under will." You, with a single knock: "Fall to." When alone make a monologue of it: thus, Knock 3-5-3. Do what, etc. It is my Will to, etc., that my body, etc., that I may, etc., Love is, etc. Knock: and begin to eat.
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