People discuss the importance of choosing the right city to live in, but it’s even more granular than that: choose the right neighborhood. In my case, I didn’t appreciate how much living in a walkable...

The ultimate story of success: When a nobody, who has never once in his entire life known the feeling of being remembered or respected, suddenly snaps and becomes a world dictator. On one hand it...

Who doesn’t want to know that we notice them and value them? And who might respond to us better when they feel that they matter? It probably cannot be overstated – it matters…that people matter.

In presence of the Moon nobody sees stars.

Reading is important. If you know how to read then the whole world opens up to you

In a society that prioritizes man’s health, a cleaner is more important than a lawyer.

Rich or poor it’s nice to have money

An important step in escaping mediocrity is to stop worrying about what other people think of you.

Do experimental work but keep in mind that other investigators in the same field will consider your discoveries as less than one fourth as important as they seem to you.

When you buy a jacket, it’s important the pockets are big enough for a paperback!

I am going to die, but that is of no importance.

A little porch light from a distant farmhouse dimmed, feeling alone and unneeded until his smallest spark of illumination snuffed out entirely. The night fell as dark as it was quiet. Meanwhile, every secret eye...

It’s like people care more about their pride than about what’s correct, about the truth.

Those that care for their career, more than their relationship, can find themselves alone.

What you withhold in this life will be withheld from you in the next.

The fundamental biological variant is DNA. That is why Mendel’s definition of the gene as the unvarying bearer of hereditary traits, its chemical identification by Avery (confirmed by Hershey), and the elucidation by Watson and...

One realized all sorts of things. The value of an illusion, for instance, and that the shadow can be more important than the substance. All sorts of things.

You can always win points; winning people’s respect is a lot more important.

Family’s the most important thing.

What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.

If you want to strengthen an enemy and make him exult – hate him.

Self-love is a good thing but self-awareness is more important. You need to once in a while go ‘Uh, I’m kind of an asshole.

You are too important to the bigger picture to just fall off the canvas.

From the time we’re born until we die, we’re kept busy with artificial stuff that isn’t important.

Daytime soap operas, which I used to adore, have been declining in quality and importance for over a decade, and I gradually stopped monitoring them.

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.

I’ve never really had time for romantic relationships. I have much more important things to worry about, like saving the world from zombies.

You just had to get some idea of what matters and what doesn’t, and how much, and try not to be scared of the stuff that doesn’t. Put it in perspective.

Take a step back. Draw in a deep breath. Now ask yourself, ‘So what?’ Then, after answering, ask yourself again, ‘So what?’ And then a third time—’So what?’ Chances are you’ll come to realize that...

It’s not the beauty that’s important, it’s the idea that is important.

It takes time, or does time take it?

We are but cells living in a much larger organism, however, this does not make our existence less significant – for an organism without cells is no organism at all. We define it; we make...

If you’re not a smart worker, it’s about how hard you work double the amount from the heart; if you’re not a hard worker, it’s about how smart you work but times two from the...

This was when it hit him! The thought of losing his entire family in one day suddenly made his heart ache in a way that he didn’t think could be possible.

There are only two worlds – your world, which is the real world, and other worlds, the fantasy. Worlds like this are worlds of the human imagination: their reality, or lack of reality, is not...

History is the nothing people write about a nothing.

At all times an empire is more important than emperor and empress, prince and princess.

And I believe in the importance of stories.

La pensée n’est qu’un écliar au milieu d’une longue nuit. Mais c’est cet éclair qui est tout.Thought is only a flash in the middle of a long night. But this flash means everything.

Because, as we all know, it’s easier to do trivial things that are urgent than it is to do important things that are not urgent, like thinking. And it’s also easier to do little things...

Because he believed in himself, he believed what he did was important. Or maybe it was the other way around.

Many besides Angel have learnt that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements but as to their subjective experiences.

Life wants you to know that people are more important than things.

Rewards of life lived with principles; bloom, when life is about to end or has departed already.

Life has a way of filling up one’s time with many different things to do. So much so that you turn a blind eye to the things that really matter.

When your madness is creative and necessary, people will not notice the fact that you are crazy.

What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in.

I’ve always thought that design can have equal importance to the idea of internal architecture. Professionally, things can be very dogmatic – you do the architecture, someone else does the interiors, someone else does the...

The affair seems absurdly trifling, and yet I dare call nothing trivial when I reflect that some of my most classic cases have had the least promising commencement. You will remember, Watson, how the dreadful...

Every man walks his own path, and every path has its fair share of locked doors. You never know who holds the key to a door you’ll need to open one day, so you best...