Important Quotes

By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school, far more important than tests or standards or business-model methods of accountability, is simply attracting the best-educated, most exciting young people into urban schools and keeping them there.

The two most important requirements for major success are: first, being in the right place at the right time, and second, doing something about it.

So much of a professional athlete's success depends upon not necessarily the play itself but how he deals with... always saying how you deal with good, is just as important as how you deal with bad.

Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: "Are your ready?"

Married couples who work together to build and maintain a business assume broad responsibilities. Not only is their work important to our local and national economies, but their success is central to the well-being of their families.

For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.

I always wrote about things that were important to me. I think our past success showed that it was also important for a lot of others.

Head Start's ability to improve the educational skills and opportunities of Latino children will be an important component of America's future success.

The single most important factor in determining America's success in the 21st century will be maintaining our ability to be an innovative and creative society.

That is an important part of my success. Another big part of my success is that I hated not to finish a race.

You know, I think I still have a sense that no matter what you do, no matter what you achieve, no matter how much success you have, no matter how much money you have, relationships are important.

Few things are more important to each individual's future success or to our nation's prosperity than education.

Our brave soldiers and support personnel are engaged in a battle as important as any the United States has ever before waged, for the success of democracy in Iraq is a crucial test of the ideals this Nation was founded upon.

Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time.

The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen.

If you are going to throw a club, it is important to throw it ahead of you, down the fairway, so you don't have to waste energy going back to pick it up.

I was lucky enough when it came to sports and work ethic to be taught some basics that continue to be important.

Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.

Winning isn't everything, but playing and competing and striving and going through things can be a lot of fun and really important. As long as you're doing it in a way that's healthy, sports can be an incredible opportunity.

I've been involved with sports my whole life, which made clothes and makeup and handbags not that important as a kid. I just didn't care.

Sports betting is all about money management, so the most money won on one event is not the most important thing.

What's more important than who's going to be the first black manager is who's going to be the first black sports editor of the New York Times.

The most important thing you learn as a sports photographer is anticipation - not where the action is taking place, but where it's going to take place. Not where the subject is now, but where they're going to be.

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society.

We are special because we've been united not by a common race or ethnicity. We're bound together by common values. That family is the most important institution in society. That almighty God is the source of all we have.

When you come in to court as a plaintiff or as a defendant, it is terribly important that you look up at the bench and feel that that person represents you and will understand you, that that person is reflective of our community and of our society.

What is especially important is addressing the question of how religion can be enforced through political means and what can be done to create a political environment that, on the one hand, acknowledges the role of religion in society, while on the other hand does not impose one religion on the populace at the expense of all others.

The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence.

I really think that elected officials should be focused on how you create sustained economic growth, how do you create jobs and all of these issues that made people - segments of our society believe are really important are diversions politically.