Quotes by Important I was very interested in that. It is very important to have confidence as well as to build up experience. Alain Prost confidence wells important That is an important part of my success. Another big part of my success is that I hated not to finish a race. Alain Prost congratulations important race When I started out as an actor, I thought, Here's what I have to say; how shall I say it? I began to understand that what I do in the scene is not as important as what happens between me and the other person. And listening is what lets it happen. It's almost always the other person who causes you to say what you say next. You don't have to figure out how you'll say it. You have to listen so simply, so innocently, that the other person brings about a change in you that makes you say it and informs the way you say it. Alan Alda actors important listening The fact that we die, that makes life important. It's hard to take, but it's the truth. Alan Ball important death facts Ultimately, physical resemblance isn't as important as whether this person can bring this character to life in a way that's compelling and makes me care about what happens to them. Alan Ball care important character I think there's no question that the barriers, the fences and in certain urban areas, the walls, have had an important effect in terms of increasing the manageability and the security of the border. But in fact as Secretary of Homeland Security General John Kelly acknowledged at his confirmation hearing, walls and barriers alone are insufficient to insure security. Alan Bersin wall important thinking The lyrics are not an important thing to me. In fact, it can be a distraction. If I knew the language enough to know it was a horrible love song with stupid lyrics - like most of the popular songs are today in the English language that I hear - then it would be much more of a turnoff then if it would allow me to interpret it from the expressive capabilities of the vocalizing or of the sound itself, which allows me to create my own meaning for it, which elevates it into a higher piece of work for me. Alan Bishop important stupid song The only thing more important than being good is being real. Authenticity is kinder than resignation without conviction. Truth leads to good faster than good leads to truth. Ultimately truth is good, but you have to live it from the inside out. Alan Cohen important real uplifting You give your power away when you make someone or something outside of you more important than what is inside of you. Alan Cohen important giving While there seem to be many things to manage in the world, the most important thing to manage is your consciousness. Alan Cohen consciousness important world Keep writing. Try to do a little bit every day, even if the result looks like crap. Getting from page four to page five is more important than spending three weeks getting page four perfect. Alan Dean Foster important perfect writing The first rule for escaping prison in the United States is always having someone more important than yourself to incriminate. Alan Dershowitz escaping united-states important I think we have to give religion its due. I think we have to respect those for whom religion is important, but equally respect those who can achieve good morality without religion. Alan Dershowitz important giving thinking It's hard to overemphasize how important Ford's deregulation was. True, most of the benefits took years to unfold-rail freight rates, for example hardly budged at first. Yet deregulation set the stage for an enormous wave of creative destruction in the 1980s. Alan Greenspan important creative years The gut-feel of the 55-year old trader is more important than the mathematical elegance of the 25-year old genius. Alan Greenspan genius important years The older you are, I think you realize what you enjoy and what you don't need, what wears you out and what's important. Alan Jackson important needs thinking An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it. Alan Kay technology important firsts What is important is not the right doctrine but the attainment of the true experience. It is giving up believing in belief. Alan Keightley giving-up important believe We've lost our way, we have lost our centeredness. We don't have the time, literally, to think during the day. To listen to ourselves think. To think about where we are going, who we are, what's important. I would bet most people don't have thirty minutes in a day where they can just sit down and think. Or maybe they don't have to be sitting, they can be walking. Alan Lightman important people thinking I picked such seemingly disparate essays, I thought it was important to say what was the guiding principle in the selection rather than focus on any one essay. I reached for some principle that had been subconscious in me and lifted it into consciousness. Authenticity and sincerity were the most important unifying principles of all these apparently different essays. Alan Lightman guiding-principles focus important «56789101112131415»