Important Quotations | Page 3

It is important to know what a person was. But it's more important to know what they are now.

The family we choose for ourselves is more important than the one we were born into; that people have to earn our respect and trust, not have it handed to them simply because of genetics.

Our lives are stories, and the stories we have to give to each other are the most important. No one has a story too small and all are of equal stature. We each tell them in different ways, through different mediums—and if we care about each other, we'll take the time to listen.

I'm certainly not a saint out there on the golf course. In fact, far from it. Like when you make a three-putt and become upset. I take one step back and remember there are more important things going on in the world than golf.

Well, the memories were obviously - every match is important, every point counts, especially the last sort of 18, 20 years when the matches have been so tight.

I am still against any kind of censorship. It's a subject in my life that has been very important.

[S]aving lives is more important than preserving the quality of life. Quality of life is always amenable to improvement. Death is permanent.

Explaining something makes it go away, so to speak; what's important is left after you have explained everything else.

All the things you can talk about in anyone's work are the things that are least important.... You can describe all the externals of a performance - everything, in fact, but what really constitutes its core. Explaining something makes it go away, so to speak; what's important is what's left over after you've explained everything else.

To me the most important thing is the sense of going on. You know how beautiful things are when you're traveling.