Importance Quotes
The importance of discretion increases with closeness to the top of a hierarchical organization.
I attach the greatest importance to an amplification of the peace efforts in the Middle East. I would also like to see a greater dialogue between the U.S. and the EU.
To attach no importance to public opinion, is a proof that you do not merit its suffrage.
It must be recognized that the real truths of history are hard to discover. Happily, for the most part, they are rather matters of curiosity than of real importance.
There are certain things in war of which the commander alone comprehends the importance. Nothing but his superior firmness and ability can subdue and surmount all difficulties.
The things which cannot be adequately represented by words are more important than those which can.
A father's calling is eternal and its importance transcends time. It is a calling for both time and eternity.
A good supply of resignation is of the first importance in providing for the journey of life.
Only after awhile. After it came out and people began to engage in discussions about the social reflections of the film that I realized it had an importance I hadn't thought of.
For, usually and fitly, the presence of an introduction is held to imply that there is something of consequence and importance to be introduced.
The less I understood of this farrago, the less I was in a position to judge of its importance.
A smile costs nothing in money, time, or effort but it is literally true that it can be of supreme importance in ones life.
I can never bring you to realize the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace.
In times of crisis, it is of the utmost importance that one does not lose her head. Marie Antoinette
A guy named Charlie Beacham was my first mentor at Ford. He taught me the importance of the dealers, and he rubbed my nose in the retail business.
We're at a period where our society is at the end of a cycle, where all the sudden the values that we were told were important don't seem to have that much importance nowadays.
It is my conviction that highways and I-ways have similar importance these days. My effort is to connect all 600,000 villages with optical fiber networks in the next five years.
Leaving some areas less finished in a painting, or more out of focus than others, allows the imagination to finish them and gives more importance to the detailed parts.
What is magic? There is the wizard's explanation... wizards talk about candles, circles, planets, stars, bananas, chants, runes and the importance of having at least four good meals every day.
Life behind all form is one, the expressions of that life are not of very great importance.
Those who believe in the importance of serving others should lead the way by fighting against the temptation we all have, and maybe especially as we age, to close in upon ourselves.
In this world the inclination to do things is of more importance than the mere power.
Bob Dylan was the source of pop music's unpredictability in the Sixties. Never as big a record-seller as commonly imagined, his importance was first aesthetic and social, and then as an influence.
The importance of a problem should not be judged by the number of pages devoted to it.
I am not in favour of this modern mania for turning bad people into good people at a moment's notice.
We are all farsighted, we give importance to those things that are far from us, while neglecting the things that are close to us... only to realize their value later when they are out-of-reach again.
Soldiers of the Reich! This day, you are to take part in an offensive of such importance that the whole future of the war may depend on its outcome.
What is necessary is to teach each class and profession the importance of the others. All together form one mighty body; labourer, peasant, and professional man.
And certainly once a man begins to neglect his domestic duties he becomes painfully effeminate, does he not? And I don't like that. It makes men so very attractive.
Western business people often don't get the importance of establishing human relationships.
The sympathy of most people consists of a mixture of good-humour, curiosity, and self-importance.
That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance.
Japan's experience suggests the importance of assessing the sustainability of price stability over a fairly long period, which many central banks have emphasized in recent years.
We all wish to be of importance in one way or another. The child coughs with might and main, since it has no other claim on the company.
The concept of being a locavore, or one who chooses whenever possible to incorporate locally grown or locally produced food into one's nutrition plan, is of great importance
My films are of paramount importance to me, the same as my family. That's not going to change. This is a balance I have to strike throughout my life.
The high food value of field beans and the shortage of supply due to the light yields of 1915 and 1916 render them of great importance in the regions to which they are adapted.
I have always been conscious of the importance and the strength of nationalism, and this has led me straight to the acknowledgment of the nationalism of the Palestinian people.
Child psychology and animal psychology are of relatively slight importance, as compared with the sciences which deal with the corresponding physiological problems of ontogeny and phylogeny.
If your voice is heard by more people because you've earned some kind of name and fame, your silence on an issue of urgent moral importance is even more of a betrayal. Privilege is obligation.