Quotes of: Important-question Keyword

We throw all our attention on the utterly idle question whether A has done as well as B, when the only question is whether A has done as well as he could.

William Graham Sumner

With the hugely talented women I've worked with or observed, it's not a question about temperament or ego; it's a question about getting it right. If they've got a reputation for being difficult it's usually because they just don't suffer fools.

Glenn Close

It is not the destination that is important, but the journey there.

Chinese

The question of why evil exists is not a theological question, for it assumes that it is possible to go behind the existence forced upon us as sinners. If we could answer it then we would not be sinners. We could make something else responsible...The...

Creation and Fall Temptation: Two Biblical Studies

Just remember: other people’s opinions are simply that—other people’s opinions. They are not fact, and they are certainly not “the truth.” It is your responsibility to question the authority you give others, to question opinions they want y...

Find Your Courage!

Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you coul...

Letters to a Young Poet

Albert Camus wrote that the only serious question is whether to kill yourself or not. Tom Robbins wrote that the only serious question is whether time has a beginning and an end. Camus clearly got up on the wrong side of bed, and Robbins must have fo...

Still Life with Woodpecker

His (Claude Legrand's) method is founded in a simple directive: Don't conclude that the problem as it's first presented, or as you first perceive it, is indeed the actual problem. If you do, and you've got it wrong, the solution you produce may also ...

The Power of Why: Simple Questions That Lead to Success

I regularly invite educators and leaders to send me their questions, and hundreds of them do so every month. The most common question, however, is one to which my response is probably most disappointing. The question is “How do I get better buy-in ...

Transforming Professional Development Into Student Results

The freedom of an unscheduled afternoon brought confusion rather than joy. Julius had always been focused. When he was not seeing patients, other important projects and activities-writing, teaching, tennis, research-clamored for his attention. But to...

The Schopenhauer Cure

Finding one important thing in your life doesn’t mean you have to give up all the other important things.

Brida

The most important things in our intimate lives can't be discussed with strangers, except in books.

My Lives

The importance of resolution over craft is one of the most important shifts in art making besides the creation of .

Mature Themes

The most important thing of all was not the poverty of its essence, but that it was .

Overdue Notice: Poems from the Library

What is the most important thing one learns in school? Self-esteem, support, and friendship.

Pieces of White Shell

The most important thing I learned at the University of Florida is that a Ph.D. and writing papers is very important in the United States.

Shuji Nakamura

We're nothing if we're not loved. When you meet somebody who is more important to you than yourself, that has to be the most important thing.

Maeve Binchy

Reading is important. Books are important. Librarians are important. (Also, libraries are not child-care facilities, but sometimes feral children raise themselves among the stacks.)

Neil Gaiman

The most important loan to pay is your student loan. It's more important than your mortgage, car and credit card payments. You cannot discharge student loan debt in the majority of cases.

Suze Orman

For me, the most important thing that I have to accomplish is to be a good father. That's the most difficult challenge of my life. That's the most important thing for me, more than films.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

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