Important Quote by Robert M. Hutchins Download Open image “Most people spend their time on the 'urgent' rather than on the 'important.'” — Robert M. Hutchins ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Important People Time Urgent
Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have always learned to distinguish the important from the urgent. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
The urgent is other-oriented; its caused by someone else. Important things are self-directed and have the greatest value for you. — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
Don't let the urgent take the place of the important in your life... When you and I were putting out the fires of the… — Charles Hummel Copy Share Image
The urgent finds you; you have to find the important. Importance is not fast. It is slow. It is not superficial. It is deep.… — Stewart Brand Copy Share Image
We are so busy doing the urgent that we don't have time to do the important. — Confucius Copy Share Image
The best advice I ever received is that there is a difference between urgency and importance: Urgent tasks seem important, but they're not. Important… — Chieh Huang Copy Share Image
Most things which are urgent are not important, and most things which are important are not urgent. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
...the fullest development of the highest powers of men can be achieved only in a world of peace. — Robert M. Hutchins Copy Share Image
The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness. — Robert M. Hutchins Copy Share Image
The three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni, and parking for the faculty. — Robert M. Hutchins Copy Share Image
“To put an end to the spirit of inquiry that has characterized the West it is not necessary to burn the books. All we… — Robert M. Hutchins Copy Share Image
When I feel like exercising I just lie down until the feeling goes away. — Robert M. Hutchins Copy Share Image
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment. — Robert M. Hutchins Copy Share Image
For those who are going to learn from books, learning the art of reading would seem to be indispensable. — Robert M. Hutchins Copy Share Image
Nobody can read Freud without realizing that he was the scientific equivalent of another nuisance, George Bernard Shaw. — Robert M. Hutchins Copy Share Image
Mathematics ... is indispensable as an intellectual technique. In many subjects, to think at all is to think like a mathematician. — Robert M. Hutchins Copy Share Image
There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism. — Robert M. Hutchins Copy Share Image
When we listen to the radio, look at television and read the newspapers we wonder whether universal education has been the great boon that… — Robert M. Hutchins Copy Share Image
It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things. — Robert M. Hutchins Copy Share Image
There is something more important than any ultimate weapon. That is the ultimate position-the position of total control over Earth that lies somewhere out… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
Regardless of the criticisms I receive from the left, the right and the middle, I think it's important to maintain a prolific writing jab,… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
In some circles where very heavy people think they have very heavy brains, words like "charming" and "clever" and "pretty" are all put-downs; all… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
I can skate beautifully. While performing on ice I always try to please the audience and to win as well. Being artistic is very… — Evgeni Plushenko Copy Share Image
It’s so important to create in your own voice, to hold onto what makes you unique, and have faith in your vision. — John Lasseter Copy Share Image
The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
If I had learned how to get along in the quotidian world while keeping up the search for the hidden realm, I might have… — Jim Woodring Copy Share Image
