Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale.
The important thing is to get the right players on the team so Mike can be successful.
I tell her all the time I'd gladly retire and hang out with the kids and clean the house. I want to have a good life and great family, and from a professional standpoint I want to be successful, but it's not the most important thing at all.
I'm now doing three things: concerts, conducting, and teaching, and they each support each other. I learn to see things from different perspectives and listen with different ears. The most important thing that you need to do is really listen.
The most important thing we can do is inspire young minds and to advance the kind of science, math and technology education that will help youngsters take us to the next phase of space travel.
The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.
Personality is the most important thing to an actress's success.
When you lose things like football, which is the game I love - and this is the most important thing in my life - it really puts everything in perspective.
If you're doing what you love, and people can see that and relate to it, that's the most important thing.
The important thing for the survival of the Thai society is that the majority of those who work, both in the government and the private sector, still strive to work in the same direction; this is why the Thai nation still stands.
Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God's final word on where your lips end.
I have a feeling that being in love sometimes means the projection of your desires onto another person. The important thing is that you like the other person, respect the other person and want to raise children with the other person.
The sun is the most important thing in everybody's life, whether you're a plant, an animal or a fish, and we take it for granted.
I know from growing up in the spotlight, as it were, that the most important thing is your family.
Making lasting gifts for animals in our estate plans is perhaps the single most important thing we can do to ensure animals have the strongest possible voice for their protection.
I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape.
The most important thing about skating is that it teaches you to do the things you should do before you do the things you want to do.
I think it's also important for people to really see that your identity doesn't come just from what you do but who you are. My relationship with Jesus Christ is the most important thing to me. Because of that, I don't have to change whether I am one of the most popular guys in football.
The most important thing is that you don't bore the audience.
Medical researchers don't know much about head lice because they don't much care. The reason that they don't much care is, paradoxically, that they know a lot. That is, they know one important thing: there is no evidence that head lice transmit disease.
Perhaps this is the most important thing for me to take back from beach-living: simply the memory that each cycle of the tide is valid; each cycle of the wave is valid; each cycle of a relationship is valid.
My children are the most important thing in my life.
Exchanging gifts is an important thing in the steppe culture, a way for them to feel you have become a part of their lives.
And like I said, I appreciate my older brothers because they would not allow me to win. They made me learn to play with them, which I think is the most important thing that I learned.
Family is the most important thing in the world.
As a young analyst just out of Stanford business school in the 1960s, I got to really understand what growth was about. Back then, you had to ask a customer to pay some money. That was the most important thing in getting a company off the ground.
Here's what I think about music and journalism: The most important thing is to just press play.
If we live in a world where information drives what we do, the information we get becomes the most important thing. The person who chooses that information has power.
Unity is the most important thing on the road to stamping out terror. You need global rules of law and order, and they have to be enforced. Start with that principle.
And it seems to be today, image is a real important thing once again.
In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city, it was the companionship and later friendship which I was offered in the Linnean Society that was the most important thing in my life.
There is nothing as dead and as damned as an important thing. The things that really matter are casual, insignificant little things.
You have to be happy with yourself first of all - that's the most important thing.
Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.
I've learned one important thing about God's gifts - what we do with them is our gift to Him.
Principles are the most important thing to me. One of the things I think my dad taught me was there are people who accept the world they live in and there are people who change the world they live in. I don't accept my circumstances.