#import

I think the most important thing about coaching is that you have to have a sense of confidence about what you're doing. ↗

— Phil Jackson

#coaching #confidence #doing #i #i think

The United States is a strong and ardent ally of Israel. The fact of the matter is that friends can disagree. I think what's important is that world leaders are able to sit down with one another, have frank conversations and move forward. ↗

— Valerie Jarrett

#ally #another #ardent #conversations #disagree

Jacques Derrida is a very important thinker and philosopher who has made serious contributions to both philosophy and literary criticism. Roland Barthes is the one I feel most affinity for, and Michel Foucault, well, his writing influenced my novel, 'Middlesex.' ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#both #contributions #criticism #feel #his

It's important to face down your demons. ↗

— Stephan Jenkins

#down #face #important #your

I never felt that the naming issue was all that important, but I was obviously wrong, judging by how many people felt. I tell people to call it just plain Linux and nothing more. ↗

— Linus Torvalds

#felt #how #i #important #issue

The follow your dreams thing is really important because so many people are railroaded into taking other paths by their family, their friends, people who should be supportive going, 'What are you talking about?' Even just seemingly regular career paths, but if it's not what people expect for you they kind of react funny. ↗

— Joan Jett

#because #career #dreams #even #expect

But it's much more exciting to make Die Hard. One of the reasons that I think that movie is so successful is it deals with those very important blue-collar relationship themes. But it's more visually beautiful to show things blowing up. It just gives you more on the screen. ↗

— Penn Jillette

#blowing #blue-collar #deals #die #die hard

And it comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much. We're always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it's only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#always #comes #concentrate #could #enter

I mean, it's nice to get a dinner reservation ahead of other people, but when it comes down to it, the most important thing to me is the actual work. ↗

— Scarlett Johansson

#ahead #comes #dinner #down #get

I'm just not one of those people who thought having biological children was that important, to me it was more about wanting to raise a child. ↗

— Edie Falco

#biological #child #children #having #i