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  • In a true zero-defects approach, there are no unimportant items. -- Phil Crosby
  • Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat. -- Robert A. Heinlein
  • There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day. -- Alexander Woollcott
  • Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself. -- Charlie Chaplin
  • Whatever else has been said about me personally is unimportant. When I sing, I believe. I'm honest. -- Frank Sinatra
  • Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself. -- Gerald Brenan
  • History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools. -- Ambrose Bierce
  • It's been mentioned or suggested that Paradise will not be well studied, because it's about this unimportant intellectual topic, which is religion. -- Toni Morrison
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  • Because love encompasses everything, nothing is unimportant, including tonight's dinner menu. Think about it for a minute. If you were pure love, the loving parent of all life, how would you want people to eat? -- Victoria Moran
  • The tendency of modern scientific teaching is to neglect the great books, to lay far too much stress upon relatively unimportant modern work, and to present masses of detail of doubtful truth and questionable weight in such a way as to obscure principles. -- Ronald Fisher
  • Amongst all unimportant subjects, football is by far the most important. -- Pope John Paul II
  • Caring about what you are doing is considered either unimportant or taken for granted. -- Robert M. Pirsig
  • But there are things that happen between a man and a woman in the dark -- that sort of make everything else seem -- unimportant. -- Tennessee Williams
  • Movies are not about the weekend that they're released, and in the grand scheme of things, that's probably the most unimportant time of a film's life. -- Quentin Tarantino
  • Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest. -- Dwight L. Moody
  • First, it is not unimportant that the legislative texts of the Old Testament are placed in the mouth of Moses and within the narrative framework of the sojourn at Sinai. -- Paul Ricoeur
  • When I worked in Los Angeles covering hard news, very often when something important would happen I'd be off in the woods covering something unimportant, which was more interesting to me. -- Charles Kuralt
  • Where life is colorful and varied, religion can be austere or unimportant. Where life is appallingly monotonous, religion must be emotional, dramatic and intense. Without the curry, boiled rice can be very dull. -- C. Northcote Parkinson
  • 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 of an elegant woman is what is on her feet. -- Christian Dior
  • The way I see it, every life is a pile of good things and...bad things. The good things don't always soften the bad things, but vice versa, the bad things don't necessarily spoil the good things or make them unimportant. -- Steven Moffat
  • The real test of a saint is not one's willingness to preach the gospel, but one's willingness to do something like washing the disciples' feet - that is, being willing to do those things that seem unimportant in human estimation but count as everything to God. -- Oswald Chambers
  • I was brought up an atheist and have always remained so. But at no time was I led to believe that morality was unimportant or that good and bad did not exist. I believe passionately in the need to distinguish between right and wrong and am somewhat confounded by being told I need God, Jesus or a clergyman to help me to do so. -- Nigella Lawson
  • The richest most meaningful stories are found in small places: made, carried, crafted, told, and retold by apparently unimportant people. -- Louise Brown
  • 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
  • Congress has shortchanged not only foreign aid but foreign policy. A mistaken notion that diplomats are unimportant and hence undeserving of support grips conservative legislators, especially. -- Anthony Lewis
  • The events of my life are too unimportant, and have too little interest for any person not of my immediate family, to render them worth communicating or preserving. -- John Marshall
  • Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest. -- Dwight L. Moody
  • No matter how small and unimportant what we are doing may seem, if we do it well, it may soon become the step that will lead us to better things. -- Channing Pollock
  • There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation. -- John Ruskin
  • You have to establish in your life some sense of prioritizing things, of giving emphasis to the important things and of laying aside the unimportant things that will lead to nothing. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
  • 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! There lies the eternal distinction between good and evil. -- Gerard De Nerval
  • In the pain, the agony, and the heroic endeavors of life, we pass through a refiner's fire, and the insignificant and the unimportant in our lives can melt away like dross and make our faith bright, intact, and strong. -- James E. Faust
  • Penetrating a company's security often starts with the bad guy obtaining some piece of information that seems so innocent, so everyday and unimportant, that most people in the organization don't see any reason why the item should be protected and restricted. -- Kevin Mitnick
  • Similarly, many a young man, hearing for the first time of the refraction of stellar light, has thought that doubt was cast on the whole of astronomy, whereas nothing is required but an easily effected and unimportant correction to put everything right again. -- Ernst Mach
  • There are a bunch of different ways to look at the fashion industry. Is it shallow to work in fashion? Yes, it can be. But does fashion transform a woman who might feel like nothing and unimportant to glamorous and gorgeous? Yes, it does. Does it employ a huge sector of America? Yes, it does. -- Kelly Cutrone
  • A long time ago, I became aware that many of us have a tendency to lump nature into simplistic categories, such as what we consider beautiful or ugly, important or unimportant. As human a thing as that is to do, I think it often leads us to misunderstand the respective roles of life forms and their interconnectedness. -- Gary Larson
  • I used to let a lot of unimportant things bother me. I don't anymore. Right now, things are going great in my life. It used to be when that happened, I would be waiting for something to go wrong. Now I don't expect that - if something negative does happen, I'll deal with it, learn from it and realize it is the way it is supposed to be. -- Doug Davidson
  • Don`t make unimportant things important -- Dai Vernon
  • There is nothing unimportant in the universe. -- Ruth Bernhard
  • There's no such thing as an unimportant day. -- Robin Sharma
  • There is no such thing as an unimportant day. -- Robin Sharma
  • Cancer got me over unimportant fears, like getting old. -- Olivia Newton-John
  • Doing something unimportant well does not make it important, -- Tim Ferriss
  • Fashion is the art of making the unimportant indispensable. -- Perry Brass
  • That's great. Except for the fact that it's completely unimportant. -- Rick Riordan
  • History - an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant -- John Barth
  • Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back. -- Anne Lamott
  • Conflicting economic interest is relatively unimportant as a cause of war. -- Frank Knight
  • ... whatever is not happening now is unimportant; it is merely curious. -- Laura Riding
  • About myself - no. I'm unimportant, an observer, a wandering animal. -- Christina Stead
  • The world is unimportant and whoever recognizes this conquers his liberty. -- Albert Camus
  • What I was is unimportant, what I am now is important. -- B.K.S. Iyengar
  • The idea that beauty is unimportant is the real beauty myth. -- Nancy Etcoff
  • It is completely unimportant. That is why it is so interesting. -- Agatha Christie
  • In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place. -- May Sarton
  • Film is, to me, just unimportant. But people are very important. -- John Cassavetes
  • Give the public what they want. What you want is unimportant. -- Pete Waterman
  • School seemed unimportant, since I learned so much more on my own. -- Shannon Tweed
  • an intoxication with forbidden knowledge in which the natural things become unimportant. -- Anne Rice
  • Names and individuals are unimportant when Germany's final fate is at stake. -- Franz von Papen
  • Nothing that ever happens is so unimportant that it doesn't change things. -- David Eddings
  • Whenever you feel unimportant, unloved, or insecure, remember to who you belong. -- Rick Warren
  • We can do anything we like as long as it is UNIMPORTANT. -- Theodore Kaczynski
  • The number of arguments is unimportant unless some of them are correct. -- Ralph Hartley
  • Plot is unimportant. Family is everything, and 'Furious 7' is a blast. -- Drew McWeeny
  • There is no such thing as an unimportant person in an organization. -- Colin Powell
  • Allowing an unimportant mistake to pass without comment is a wonderful social grace. -- Judith Martin
  • The medium is as unimportant as I myself. Essential is only the forming. -- Kurt Schwitters
  • Petty things become unimportant when people are impassioned about a purpose higher than self. -- Stephen Covey
  • I believe that nothing in life is unimportant every moment can be a beginning. -- John McLeod
  • Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation... The other eight are unimportant. -- Henry Miller
  • You never do find out what makes you tick, and after a while it's unimportant. -- Norman Mailer
  • What your critics say about you is unimportant. You are what you think of yourself. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
  • Just as there are no little people or unimportant lives, there is no insignificant work. -- Yelena Bonner
  • Anything less then a conscious commitment to the important is an unconscious commitment to the unimportant. -- Stephen Covey
  • Please understand, I am not saying that technology is unimportant. I understand that technology is important. -- Satoru Iwata
  • There is no denial that the lack of self-love conditions many to feel unimportant or irrelevant. -- Edmond Mbiaka
  • Through humour, we see in what seems rational, the irrational; in what seems important, the unimportant -- Charlie Chaplin
  • Beliefs have become unimportant to me. Faith as radical trust became even more important to me. -- Barbara Brown Taylor
  • That which we say and do, if its effects last not beyond our lives, is unimportant. -- Albert Pike
  • If you think there is such a thing as an unimportant game, just try losing one. -- Gene Stallings
  • One can only continue to expect to be read if one omits everything that is unimportant. -- Albert Einstein
  • Computers are merely ingenious devices to fulfill unimportant functions. The computer revolution is an explosion of nonsense. -- Neil Postman
  • There are no important differences between men and women, but the unimportant ones are sometimes very interesting. -- Ashleigh Brilliant
  • Death is dreadfully personal, terribly important to oneself, and so unimportant to the rest of the world. -- Kate Langley Bosher
  • You see, the outcome of the battle is unimportant. What matters is the chaos, and the slaughter. -- Neil Gaiman
  • Take our 20 best people away, and I will tell you that Microsoft will become an unimportant company -- Bill Gates
  • Wikipedia will be small, disreputable, and unimportant compared to CZ in a few more years. Uh, ;-) -- Larry Sanger
  • The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now. -- W. Somerset Maugham
  • One of the most significant design principles is to omit the unimportant in order to emphasize the important. -- Dieter Rams
  • Any thing is interesting if you can communicate it. There are no unimportant subjects for the enlivened mind. -- Kris Saknussemm
  • I am the slave of those who hunger and thirst after me and treat everything else as unimportant. -- Sai Baba
  • Actions are divided as regards their object into four classes; they are either purposeless , unimportant , or vain , or good . -- Maimonides
  • For politicians truth and falsehood are unimportant. So I never could become a politician not even a church politician. -- Martin Niemoller
  • When it comes to art, money is an unimportant detail. It just happens to be a huge unimportant detail. -- Iggy Pop
  • I think the problem with the arts in America is how unimportant it seems to be in our educational system. -- Chuck Close
  • Another problem with worry is that it makes you forget your worth. Worry makes you feel worthless, forgotten, and unimportant. -- Charles R. Swindoll
  • When I was young I was only thinking of writing, and whatever was going on was unreal and comparatively unimportant. -- William Monahan
  • I'm sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
  • The truth seems . . . to be that in the ultimate and essential problem the economic factor is relatively superficial and unimportant. -- Frank Knight
  • 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
  • In all unimportant matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential. In all important matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential. -- Oscar Wilde
  • Everything drops away, comes to be unimportant in the dark. It's like sleep almost. A freedom from self, from ugliness ... -- Josephine Winslow Johnson
  • Caesar's double-bed is warm As an unimportant clerk Writes i do not like my work On a pink official form. -- W. H. Auden
  • I'm me and you're you, and all of them out there are them. And we're all so different and equally unimportant. -- Jenny Downham
  • Ah, if everyone was as sensitive as you! There's no girl who hasn't gone through that. And it's all so unimportant! -- Leo Tolstoy
  • Wrinkles here and there seem unimportant compared to the Gestalt of the whole person I have become in this past year. -- May Sarton
  • It is interesting seeing young people these days and watching how unimportant music is in their lives compared with our generation. -- Alison Moyet
  • The city glitters past us with its sharp edges, reminding us of how tiny, how weak, how totally unimportant we are. -- Joe Meno
  • Remember how unimportant you are because that knowledge will gain you more respect than someone who thinks the world revolves around them. -- Jack Kirby
  • What is the professor's function? To pass on to numskulls a body of so-called knowledge that is fragmentary, unimportant, and largely untrue. -- H. L. Mencken
  • If I write what I feel, it's to reduce the fever of feeling. What I confess is unimportant, because everything is unimportant. -- Fernando Pessoa
  • Because some things that seem unimportant now can change the course of human history -- and I am a student of human history. -- Daniel Nayeri
  • With no pretensions of art, Viva Las Vegas, the new Elvis Presley vehicle, is about as pleasant and unimportant as a Banana Split. -- Howard Thompson
  • The facts, however, are unimportant in fiction. It's not the events of my life that I mine, but the emotional experiences I've had. -- John Dufresne
  • 90 percent of American schoolchildren are in public schools. And the emphasis on private schools and charter schools and parochial schools is not unimportant. -- Mark Shields
  • In order to do a good job of those things that we decide to do, we must eliminate all of the unimportant opportunities. -- Mike Markkula
  • But in psychoanalysis there are no unimportant thoughts; there are only thoughts that pretend to be unimportant in order to not be told. -- Shulamith Firestone
  • A photograph can, by the addition of an unimportant spot of color, become a photomontage, a work of art of a special kind. -- John Heartfield
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