Satoru Iwata Quotes

Just because something might not have a deep philosophical meaning doesn't mean it's not important or relevant.

It's always a pleasure to find something that matters.

Education is very important, and I understand that.

The context of history proved invaluable.

Language is very important to me.

Doing something unimportant well does not make it important.

When was the last time anyone ever told you how important you are?

Popular is not the same important, or often, not the same as good.

It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true.

There is a difference between who is important and who is significant.

But it's a disservice to constantly put things in this radical new light - that it's going to change everything. Things don't have to change the world to be important.

I don't want to not be important.

The point is, it didn’t really matter what the book was about. It was what it meant that was important.

The man whose horse trots a mile in a minute does not carry the most important messages.

What we don't include is as important as what we do include.

Busy does not equal important. Measured doesn't mean mattered.

None of it meant anything, and all of it was important.

You take a book, and what can you do with a book? Can you cook an egg on a book? No. Can you dig a hole? No. Is it a good weapon? No. The fact that it's good for nothing kind of makes it almost all-important.

Money is a most important thing in the world.

Priority is a function of context.

I don't think you're weak," Jared said. "I want to guard you because you are important to me. Because you are - God, this is going to sound so stupid, I can never think of a way to say it - you are precious. I can never think of how to describe the value you have to me, because all the words for value suggest that you belong to me, and you don't.

Without context words and actions have no meaning at all

Everything you know, all the things that you thought were important, drift into the background. And even things that were important really come to the fore and he's one of them.

The less I understood of this farrago, the less I was in a position to judge of its importance.

Just because a lot of people know something nominal doesn't make it important. A lot of people know what a pencil sharpener is, but that doesn't make it the most important invention of the 20th century.