Unimportant Quotes

227 quotes by 208 authors

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
History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools. — Ambrose Bierce
Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself. — Charlie Chaplin
I think the problem with the arts in America is how unimportant it seems to be in our educational system. — Chuck Close
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
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
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
There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day. — Alexander Woollcott
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
Anything less then a conscious commitment to the important is an unconscious commitment to the unimportant. — Stephen Covey
I believe that nothing in life is unimportant every moment can be a beginning. — John McLeod
Through humour, we see in what seems rational, the irrational; in what seems important, the unimportant — Charlie Chaplin
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
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
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
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
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
Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself. — Gerald Brenan
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
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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