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An important work of architecture will create polemics. -- Richard Meier
Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you. -- Stephen Covey
We are surrounded every day by people who do thankless but important work. -- Brian Kilmeade
Being a teacher is back-breakingly difficult work. It is also extremely important work. -- Timothy Noah
If you don't work on important problems, it's not likely that you'll do important work. -- Richard Hamming
Watchmen' is not only the greatest comic ever written, it's a really important work of fiction. -- Gerard Way
The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men. -- George Eliot
The search for the truth is the most important work in the whole world, and the most dangerous. -- James Clavell
Remember that you are needed. There is at least one important work to be done that will not be done unless you do it. -- Charles L. Allen
I don't dare to think my paintings are great. I can't understand the arrogance of someone saying, 'I have created a big, important work.' -- Gerhard Richter
Of course it's difficult to top a box office success like Emmanuelle, so it will always be my most important work. But that's nothing to be ashamed of. -- Sylvia Kristel
Being superintendent or the superintendent's chief of staff is important work, but there's no chance it's as difficult as being a teacher, and I hesitate to say that it's as important. -- Timothy Noah
In our house, Mother's Day is every day. Father's Day, too. In our house, parents count. They do important work and that work matters. One day just doesn't cut for us. -- Margaret Heffernan
It is not possible to design always the same. How to be different in each different place - that is the most important work and duty of the architect to find out. -- Jean Nouvel
Americans don't pay much attention to environmental issues, because they aren't sexy. I mean, cleaning up coal plants and reining in outlaw frackers is hugely important work, but it doesn't get anybody's pulse racing. -- Jeff Goodell
I have quite a few different Bibles. Having rejected my parents' religion, I still think the King James Bible is the most important work of literature in English. None of us can help being influenced by it. -- Ken Follett
Washington state's 2nd Congressional District is a major producer of small fruit crops such as raspberries and strawberries. This research center is doing important work to help farmers enhance the quality, yield and marketability of their small fruit crops. -- Rick Larsen
I very much want to be in the business of creating content, of doing stories all over the world rather than figuring out what the business model is for 'Newsweek' on the iPad, although that's very important work as well. -- Fareed Zakaria
Acting is not terribly important work, and I have always felt a bit of guilt about pursuing something that is so selfish. I love doing it, but it is never something that feels like it's going to change or save the world. -- Jason Alexander
While few human challenges are greater than that of being good parents, few opportunities offer greater potential for joy. Surely, no more important work is to be done in this world than preparing our children to be God-fearing, happy, honorable, and productive. -- James E. Faust
Intuit's mission, values, and culture of innovation set us apart as a great place to work. Our 8,000 employees are innovators and entrepreneurs that are inspired by the important work they do that is delighting customers and improving the financial lives of millions of people. -- Brad D. Smith
I have been privileged to have the opportunity to work with many of African American fraternal and social organizations that are active in my congressional district. They all do important work that makes a tangible difference to the quality of life in our community. -- Chris Van Hollen
The ego mind both professes its desire for love and does everything possible to repel it, or if it gets here anyway, to sabotage it. That is why dealing with issues like control, anger, and neediness is the most important work in preparing ourselves for love. -- Marianne Williamson
A little girl who finds a puzzle frustrating might ask her busy mother (or teacher) for help. The child gets one message if her mother expresses clear pleasure at the request and quite another if mommy responds with a curt 'Don't bother me - I've got important work to do.' -- Daniel Goleman
Conversations about money certainly are not sexy, but they should give each of you some clarity and enable you to enter into your marriage with a better understanding of each other and what is important. Work and home responsibilities, joint or separate accounts, budgets, etc. are all subjects which should be discussed. -- Laura Wasser
Society needs both parents and nonparents, both the work party and the home party. While raising children is the most important work most people will do, not everyone is cut out for parenthood. And, as many a childless teacher has proved, raising kids is not the only important contribution a person can make to their future. -- Virginia Postrel
Everyone's work is equally important. -- Jenny Holzer
Life is more important than work. -- Diane Kruger
The most important thing is work. -- Lou Reed
The work is the most important thing. -- Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
There is nothing more important than hard work. -- Dana Bash
The work is more important than the reward. -- Renee Lawless
I think it's important to do great work. -- Kyra Sedgwick
Determination and hard work are as important as talent. -- Judy Blume
My work and my family are very important to me. -- Stephen Hawking
The most important thing in my life is my work. -- Rod Taylor
What the work of art looks like isn't too important. -- Sol LeWitt
The beginning is the most important part of the work. -- Plato
Curiosity has no important place in my work, only conformity. -- John Taylor Gatto
Work ethic is the most important component of being successful. -- Kliff Kingsbury
TALENT and WORK ETHIC, the most important and RARE combination. -- Hubie Brown
Improving daily work is even more important than doing daily work. -- Gene Kim
It's the work that's important, not the individual who does it. -- Gregory Maguire
I do like certain kinds of frames for work. That's important. -- Robert Barry
It's important to think big, but you've got to work small. -- Marlo Thomas
Learning how to work and learning how to fail is important. -- Jamie Moyer
I think it's more important to show your work to the public. -- Ai Weiwei
Work is the least important thing and family is the most important. -- Jerry Seinfeld
My work is more important than I am. I'm just some guy. -- John Darnielle
The worker is far more important to our Lord than the work. -- Lettie Cowman
Homemaking is surely in reality the most important work in the world. -- C. S. Lewis
Circumstances can be very important. Find the right people to work with. -- Steve Lacy
It's important to have balance in your life between work and play. -- Bobby Flay
It's important to work hard - there's no short cut around that. -- Sachin Tendulkar
My work isn't any more important than anything else in the family -- J. J. Abrams
The work is challenging, interesting and an important part of our legal system. -- David Minge
To give the best of the day to your work is most important. -- John le Carre
What's important is passion, investment, and people laughing out loud as they work. -- Dan Harmon
I'm inspired by nature. Other artist's work is important for developing my perception. -- Mike Thompson
Talent isn't as important as the work and dedication necessary to become competent. -- Jack Nicklaus
Sometimes Jealousy is the important in our work to do better from others. -- Gaurav GRV Sharma
I never studied with Balanchine, but his work was very important to me. -- Twyla Tharp
You can't be afraid of hard work or long hours. Sacrifice is important. -- Jerry Bruckheimer
It's especially important for my little girl to see her papa at work. -- Luis Suarez
Your history of work is as important as the work you'll do tomorrow. -- Seth Godin
Thinking is the hardest work we can do, and among the most important -- Richard J. Foster
It's important to set your own goals and work hard to achieve them. -- Yuichiro Miura
Empathy represents the foundation skill for all the social competencies important for work. -- Daniel Goleman
Keeping up the appearance of having all your marbles is hard work, but important. -- Sara Gruen
Copland was the first important American classical composer to go to work for Hollywood. -- Terry Teachout
The work is more important than the talking and the writing about the work. -- Dorothy Day
The most important possible thing you can do is do a lot of work. -- Ira Glass
It's important to know that words don't move mountains. Work, exacting work moves mountains. -- Danilo Dolci
...you have to understand that motherhood has to be your priority. It's important work. -- Salma Hayek
There's nothing more rewarding or important than to be involved in God's work of redemption. -- John Ashcroft
It's interesting to work with what's important today, which is meaningful for our everyday lives. -- Patricia Piccinini
Employee participation programs and employee ownership are important efforts to deal with powerlessness at work. -- Daniel Yankelovich
It's important that we work very closely with moderate Muslim forces locally, nationally and internationally. -- Gijs de Vries
Children are not a distraction from more important work. They are the most important work. -- C. S. Lewis
In conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work -- Sol LeWitt
Individual responsibility, hard work, paying attention in school, faith, family all these things are important. -- J. C. Watts
If your project doesn't work, look for the part that you didn't think was important. -- Arthur Bloch
I think it's much more important to keep people in work than have pay rises. -- Ken Livingstone
The one important factor that keeps me going is the kind of people I work with. -- Kumar Mangalam Birla
I think constraints are very important. They're positive, because they allow you to work off something. -- Charles Gwathmey
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It's important that the adults appreciate that young people are capable of doing really astounding work. -- Vint Cerf
It's important to keep the eccentric spirit alive, because when that goes, the work will go. -- Nicolas Cage
The crowd is just as important as the group. It takes everything to make it work. -- Levon Helm
Edits are very important to me - they're the way in which I work on everything. -- Tibor Kalman
The important thing is to do good work, no matter what medium you do it in. -- Roy Scheider
That said, I've never thought the fact that I'm a woman was important to my work. -- Suzanne Vega
More important than the amount of work, is the consistency at which you have it done. -- Luimar Silva
Committees have become so important nowadays that subcommittees have to be appointed to do the work. -- Laurence J. Peter
I suspect that these traits-desire, commitment, and good work habits-are important in all facets of our lives. . . -- LaVell Edwards
Work for black women has been an important and valued dimension of Afrocentric definitions of black motherhood. -- Patricia Hill Collins
The most important thing in business is honesty, integrity, hard work familynever forgetting where we came from, -- Frank Lucas
I try to work every day, even when I'm not motivated. Ritual is very important to me. -- Mel Ramos
Place is extremely important to my work because I am always pulling landscape imagery into my poems. -- Cate Marvin
Now nothing can be more important than that the work of a soldier should be well done. -- Plato
Allowing my people to have a good work-life balance by working flexibly is very important to me. -- Richard Branson
All the things you can talk about in anyone's work are the things that are least important. -- Edward Gorey
A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual. -- Vladimir Nabokov
Charity plays an important role in upholding the values and advancing the work of the United Nations. -- Ban Ki-moon
The visual is important. "Let's get to work" says let's get it done, and that's what they want. -- Frank Luntz
In the long run, doing work that's important leads to more happiness than doing work that's merely profitable. -- Seth Godin
Two points that are very important points to remember and ask: Is it real and does it work? -- Edward T. Hall
It's important for women to work. They need to keep their independence, to keep earning and being challenged. -- Tamara Mellon
Its important for women to work. They need to keep their independence, to keep earning and being challenged. -- Tamara Mellon
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. -- Bertrand Russell
I think women do work differently; it's important to have both men and women. They offer different things. -- Tory Burch
As I've learned in my time in the state legislature, important legislation is always a work in progress. -- Marco Rubio
It's not that your most important work is meaningless; it's that your most trivial movements are also significant. -- David Jeremiah
I think it is important for software to avoiding imposing a cognitive style on workers and their work. -- Edward Tufte
I would like to work in any country in an interesting project. The country is not so important. -- Tomas Lemarquis
If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important. -- Bertrand Russell
It's important to stand up for your work, otherwise somebody else will step in and say they did it. -- Jerry Bruckheimer
I don't have to be a 'gazillionaire;' what's important to me is to just being able to work. -- Katharine McPhee
The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying. -- Steven Pressfield
I understand how bureaucracies work. And that's important because our government has become a vast, huge, bloated, corrupt bureaucracy. -- Carly Fiorina

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