Unimportant Quotes
227 quotes by 208 authors
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Anything that isn't opposed by about 40 percent of humanity is either an evil business or so unimportant that it simply doesn't matter.
— Russell Baker
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History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.
— Charlie Chaplin
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I think the problem with the arts in America is how unimportant it seems to be in our educational system.
— Chuck Close
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We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes. The situation that we hoped to change because it…
— Marcel Proust
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You can never take too much care over the choice of your shoes. Too many women think that they are unimportant, but the real proof…
— Christian Dior
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It's discouraging to make a mistake, but it's humiliating when you find out you're so unimportant that nobody noticed it.
— Chuck Daly
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There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day.
— Alexander Woollcott
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It has been rightly said that nothing is unimportant, nothing powerless in the universe; a single atom can dissolve everything, and save everything! What terror!…
— Gerard De Nerval
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Anything less then a conscious commitment to the important is an unconscious commitment to the unimportant.
— Stephen Covey
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I believe that nothing in life is unimportant every moment can be a beginning.
— John McLeod
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Through humour, we see in what seems rational, the irrational; in what seems important, the unimportant
— Charlie Chaplin
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Man is a little germ that lives on an unimportant rock ball that revolves about a small star at the outskirts of an ordinary galaxy.…
— Alan Watts
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Peter Keating: "Do you always have to have a purpose? Do you always have to be so damn serious? Can't you ever do things without…
— Ayn Rand
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For example, there are numbers of chemists who occupy themselves exclusively with the study of dyestuffs. They discover facts that are useful to scientific chemistry;…
— Charles Sanders Peirce
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A chess problem is genuine mathematics, but it is in some way "trivial" mathematics. However, ingenious and intricate, however original and surprising the moves, there…
— G. H. Hardy
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A scientifically unimportant discovery is one which, however true and however interesting for other reasons, has no consequences for a system of theory with which…
— Talcott Parsons
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Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.
— Gerald Brenan
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I believe that whether a person follows any religion or not is unimportant, he or she must have a good heart, a warm heart.
— Dalai Lama
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I always thought that Elvis could have been a great actor, and that he was put in a lot of unimportant movies when he could…
— Patti Page
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