Smart people thinking about "important"

One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.

Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), On Education

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.

Morrie Schwartz, Tuesdays With Morrie

The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses.

Edith Sodergran

If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn't ask me, I'd still have to say it.

George Burns (1896 - 1996)

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)

Of course, our failures are a consequence of many factors, but possibly one of the most important is the fact that society operates on the theory that specialization is the key to success, not realizing that specialization precludes comprehensive thinking.

R. Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983)

When you kill one enemy, you then must plan for the one hundred enemies you have now created. No enemy ever stands alone. He comes with a mother and father, brothers and sisters. He has a wife and children, friends and neighbors. When you kill this enemy, you must be ready to face the angry revenge that comes from the grief of this loss for all the people who knew and loved this man. The only way to stop this endless chain of enemy killing enemy is to forgive it. And in doing so, teach each one that life is the most important, precious and valuable thing.

Anwarshah Anwary

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), The Republic

The most important things in life aren't things.

Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book

The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway.

Henry Boye

When you determined what you want, you have made the most important decision of your life. You have to know what you want in order to attain it.

Douglas Lurtan

Excellence is best described as doing the right things right - selecting the most important things to be done and then accomplishing them 100% correctly.

Author Unknown

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930), (Sherlock Holmes)