Famous quotes containing the word important:
“Losing face is as important to people as losing bark is to a tree.”
—Chinese proverb.
“All of the valuable qualities ... like helping in the development of others—will not get you to the top at General Motors, were that path open to women.... The characteristics most highly developed in women and perhaps most essential to human beings are the very characteristics that are specifically dysfunctional for success in the world as it is.... They may, however, be the important ones for making the world different.”
—Jean Baker Miller (20th century)
““A man has got to keep his extrication.
The important thing is not to get bogged down
In what he has to do to earn a living....””
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)