Famous quotes containing the words important and/or works:
“I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
“The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as a sculptor works on his block of stone. In a sense the statue stood there from eternity. But there were a thousand different ones beside it, and the sculptor alone is to thank for having extricated this one from the rest.”
—William James (1842–1910)