A Quote by E. M. Forster

You confuse what's important with what's impressive.

E. M. Forster

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Confuse Important Impressive What's Important

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E. M. Forster
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January 1, 1879 - June 7, 1970

Impressive claims are made far more impressive by making them exact

Claude C. Hopkins

It is important not to confuse race and religion.

Richard Dawkins

It is important not to confuse freedom with mere permissiveness

Theodore Kaczynski

Impressive, most impressive. (Darth Vadar)

George Lucas

An important film that must be seen. Saving Lincoln is moving, ingenious, original and impressive.

Michael Medved

It is important that we should never lose sight of this distinction. We must not confuse the peoples with their governments.

Thomas Paine

One of the important lessons of the Internet is, how easy it is to get things done completely shapes what gets created. For that reason, technologies like Amazon's cloud service are very important. Even if they aren't technically impressive, they make things easy to do.

Patrick Collison

I think what AEW has done on social media is impressive. I think the amount of interest they've garnered is impressive.

Pat McAfee

One of my biggest problems is I get bored too easily, and I like to experiment too much, to the point where I confuse myself and I confuse my fans.

Skylar Grey

You think you've got to go out and knock someone out for it to be an impressive win. But it's kind of hard to even know what an impressive win means.

Ryan Bader

It is not always the job of people shouting outside impressive buildings to solve problems. It is often the job of the people inside, who have paper, pens, desks, and an impressive view.

Daniel Handler

Although it is important to examine the consequences of today's actions far into the future, it is important not to confuse far future actions with what is done today. The impact of emissions that are made after 2100 has no bearing on what the world should do for the next 30 or even 100 years.

Robert O. Mendelsohn

There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.

Calvin Coolidge

Thoughts are fine when you don't confuse them with who you are, and then thoughts are not a problem. Thinking is a wonderful tool to create things in this world. It only becomes problematic and a source of suffering when you confuse thinking with who you are.

Eckhart Tolle

I'm not flashy. I'll do nice things on the floor, but I'm not going to do the really impressive dunk or make the really impressive block. I think that's what fans enjoy most about coming to basketball games, but that's not what I provide night in, night out.

Malcolm Brogdon

I think an important quality that I have is that if you turn on the radio and hear somebody sing, you know it's me. You don't confuse my voice with another voice.

Luciano Pavarotti

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