It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
Ugh! She cursed her lack of attention to the [mythology] reading. Who could have known that would be the important class?
I have always believed in the principle that immediate survival is more important than long-term survival.
If beauty had religious and spiritual importance, there would have been your temples all around the world.
On the other hand, the 'heart' is just as important in that it is the 'other' way of knowing and experiencing". ~R. Alan Woods [2012]
I will take a new approach to death, because what is important about death is not the dead. It’s the living. Those of us left behind.
You've recognised a fundamental feature of an addict's life. Maintaining your habit is so important you've no real interest in anything else.
Reading can break us out of the tunnel vision of the narrow specialty and lead us into many intriguing and important avenues of thought.
The older you get, the faster time passes in your mind, so use your time according to what is most important.
Forever isn't important-it's now that counts. Doing the right thing.
It isn't about knowing the most stories, child. It is about carrying the ones that are most important and passing them along.
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning.
... if one is to rely on human judges, it is very important that they never admit to error.
Respect was one thing. Survival was another. It was important that I kept my priorities in the right order.
There are three stages in scientific discovery. First, people deny that it is true, then they deny that it is important; finally they credit the wrong person.
When you have a strongly held belief, don't you think it's important to express that belief accurately?
Doesn't matter how pretty you are. What's important is how pretty you feel. No one feels pretty when they hear "no" often enough.
Silence made space for other people's words, which was important for those who needed to be listened to.
You know someone's right for you when the things they don't to say are even more important than the things they do.
The lasting and ultimately most important reputation of a film is not based on reviews, but on what, if anything, people say about it over the years, and on how much affection for it they have.
Above all things physical, it is more important to be beautiful on the inside - to have a big hear and an open mind and a spectacular spleen.