But now that I've matured, I've realized that - at the end of the day - what's really important is the work, not what people think of me.
I have always thought it was important to maintain some connection for myself to what it takes to make a song work by myself, to put a song across to an audience by myself.
In the Senate, where 60 votes are required to do anything important, you have to work with your colleagues on both sides of the aisle.
Sitting down to eat in our house is about sharing, you know, talking about the day you've had, be it in school or work or whatever, so that's very important to us.
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.
Everyone has a story that makes me stronger. I know that the work I do is important and I enjoy it, but it is nice to hear the feedback of what we do to inspire others.
IT professionals have a responsibility to understand the use of standards and the importance of making Web applications that work with any kind of device.
It is impossible to disregard such an important medium as television. We should know how to use it, learn to work in it and express new values in it.
Everything must work in concert. Composition is important, but so are many other things, from content to the way colours work with or against each other.
If there's anything that I've always said about myself is that to me, it's much more important for me to get to work with filmmakers that I've grown up loving and admiring.
I am committed to ovarian cancer research on a national level and in my community in the Carolinas. It is important to me to know the women that are true fighters of this difficult disease.
Even when I wasn't overweight I was never one of those girls or women who wanted to look nice. I always thought it wasn't important.
The Korean War has also show quite clearly that in a major conflict manpower is as important as horsepower.
This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.
There is no trophy for the team that sails the most.
Don't ask in this life for the three most difficult things: good sons, long life and a long beard.
They were just the ordinary sounds of of people beginning their day, silly raucous, discordant, but they were the most beautiful sounds on earth, the sounds of living people.
In the case of everything that belongs to the realm of sentiment, religion, politics, morality, the affections, and antipathies, etc. The most eminent men seldom surpass the standard of the most ordinary individuals.
Thoughts become things through action. The most powerful tool for creating changes in your life is attention and action. No action means no creation.
The most powerful movement of feeling with a liturgy is the prayer which seeks for nothing special, but is a yearning to escape from the limitations of our own weakness and an invocation of all Good to enter and abide with us.
And thus, the actions of life often not allowing any delay, it is a truth very certain that, when it is not in our power to determine the most true opinions we ought to follow the most probable.
