The quality, not the longevity, of one’s life is what is important.

Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.

Life, if well lived, is long enough.

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

I don’t believe you could be a 39-year-old quarterback in the NFL and eat cheeseburgers every day. I want to be able to do what I love to do for a long time.

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that’s stripped down.

My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn’t need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

Motives reveal why we do what we do, which is actually more important to God than what we’re doing.

Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.

Anyone can be a moral individual, concerned with human rights and problems; but only a college professor, a trained expert, can solve technical problems by ‚sophisticated‘ methods. Ergo, it is only problems of the latter sort that are important or real.

Winning – that’s the most important to me. It’s as simple as that.

Politics is the most important of the civil activities and has its own field of action, which is not that of religion.

Things don’t have to change the world to be important.

Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.

I think the family movie is very important to everybody right now.

It would be great to be 105 and still making films.

You get a reputation for stability if you are stable for years.

Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.

I have never felt more confident in myself, more clear on who I am as a woman. But I am constantly thinking about my own health and making sure that I’m eating right and getting exercise and watching the aches and pains. I want to be this really fly 80-90-year old.

Each doctor makes a much, much more important job than I do, but at the end, nobody talks about him. We all know about it, but we don’t really think about it.

The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.

I want to keep making records as long as I can, but I don’t know how long you can be taken seriously in rap.

Listening has importance only when one is not projecting one’s own desires through which one listens.

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

Before I speak, I have something important to say.

Naturally, there are times when every woman likes to be flattered… to feel she is the most important thing in someone’s world. Only a man can paint this picture.

What really matters is how God sees me. He isn’t concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man’s soul.

Winning is the most important. Everything is consequence of that.

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

If something’s important enough, you should try. Even if – the probable outcome is failure.

‚Nation‘ was one that I’d have killed myself if I hadn’t written it. It was absolutely important to me that I wrote it. It was good for my soul.

I try to encourage all my teammates, and I sure hope that some day all athletes – my kids, high school kids – get the same level of care I get. Because you can play for a long period of time without having knee replacements, without having all the major head trauma that people are dealing with.

You don’t have to be somebody different to be important. You’re important in your own right.

I was lucky to be involved and get to contribute to something that was important, which is empowering people with software.

Don’t get old, if you can avoid it.

What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?

I intend to live forever, or die trying.

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

You see the film, you might be entertained, and if it’s not a great film, it loses its power very quickly. I think even simply acceptable books stay with us a lot longer.

I don’t want to be an action star, an action star’s life is so short. I want my life to get longer, I want my career to get longer.

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.

The more cats you have, the longer you live. If you have a hundred cats, you’ll live 10 times longer than if you have 10. Someday this will be discovered, and people will have a thousand cats and live forever. It’s truly ridiculous.

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented, and we believe this is the most important problem we can focus on.

The writing is important, but the way you say the line and the pause you give it, the facial expression – all of that is very important.

I don’t care how busy I am – I will always make time for what’s most important to me.

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.

How young can you die of old age?

The older I get, the more important the eternal becomes to me personally.

Neil Young is my hero, and such a great example. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That’s what that guy does. Sometimes you pay attention, sometimes you don’t. Sometimes he hands it to you, sometimes he keeps it to himself. He’s a good man with a beautiful family and wonderful life.

I don’t think anything about a personal legacy. I mean, those words would never come out of my mouth unless I just repeated them. Those things have never been important to me.

If you think dealing with issues like worthiness and authenticity and vulnerability are not worthwhile because there are more pressing issues, like the bottom line or attendance or standardized test scores, you are sadly, sadly mistaken. It underpins everything.

Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

I still wanna rap better than everybody else, and I wanna say important things.

How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?

I’m not a supermodel. That’s not what I do. What I do is music. I want my fans to feel the way I do, to know what they have to offer is just as important, more important, than what’s happening on the outside.