#unimportant

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself. ↗

— Charlie Chaplin

#failure #fool #make #takes #unimportant

Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#cat #considers #dealt #never #protocol

Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest. ↗

— Dwight L. Moody

#born #done #how #i #i was born

It's been mentioned or suggested that Paradise will not be well studied, because it's about this unimportant intellectual topic, which is religion. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#because #been #intellectual #mentioned #paradise

No matter how small and unimportant what we are doing may seem, if we do it well, it may soon become the step that will lead us to better things. ↗

— Channing Pollock

#better #better things #doing #how #lead

There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation. ↗

— John Ruskin

#cannot #commonplace #concealment #however #may

Movies are not about the weekend that they're released, and in the grand scheme of things, that's probably the most unimportant time of a film's life. ↗

— Quentin Tarantino

#film #grand #important time #life #most

It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake. ↗

— Janos Arany

#allegiance #consistently #face #frenzied #graver

The tendency of modern scientific teaching is to neglect the great books, to lay far too much stress upon relatively unimportant modern work, and to present masses of detail of doubtful truth and questionable weight in such a way as to obscure principles. ↗

— Ronald Fisher

#detail #doubtful #far #great #lay

A man can look upon his life and accept it as good or evil; it is far, far harder for him to confess that it has been unimportant in the sum of things. ↗

— Murray Kempton

#been #confess #evil #far #good