Importance Quotes

Everyone just wasting time because they have so much of it to waste, minutes slipping by on who's with who and did you hear.

Everything is important. To the smallest insect, even the mouldering tree, the deepest stone in the drift.

A great writer picks up on those things that matter. It’s almost like their radar is attuned to the most significant moments.

The operating management, providing as it does for the care of near thirty thousand miles of railway, is far more important than that for construction in which there is comparatively little doing.

Just because you're sober, don't think you're a good driver, Cookie.

Love shouldn't make our choices for us; it should just add importance to our choices.

Of course, relative citation frequencies are no measure of relative importance. Who has not aspired to write a paper so fundamental that very soon it is known to everyone and cited by no one?

I was raised in a spirit of the importance of service to your fellow man. My mom is a senator back home in South Africa. My father is a very caring and generous individual.

I cannot emphasize enough the importance of family encouragement - not just for me, but for everyone.

The nature of the Internet and the importance of net neutrality is that innovation can come from everyone.

Once one's up against it, the precise manner of one's death has obviously small importance.

Wilderness, then, assumes unexpected importance as a laboratory for the study of land - health.

Our vanity makes us exaggerate the importance of human life; the individual is nothing; Nature cares only for the species.

The need to engage businesses and decision makers with customers can only increase in importance, and as it does, the market research industry must recognise that engagement is a facet of what we do.

Don't minimize the importance of luck in determining life's course.

Put no obstacle in her path and this will surely die a natural death; obstruct her, and it will give the situation an importance to worth fighting for.

The importance of an individual thinker owes something to chance. For it depends upon the fate of his ideas in the minds of his successors.

It is natural to think that an abstract science cannot be of much importance in affairs of human life, because it has omitted from its consideration everything of real interest.

The importance of these [college] years for an American cannot be overestimated. They are civilization's only chance to get to him.

In any matter of moral importance, our first task, before we plunge ahead and decide what to do, is to figure out what we ought to do.

Our new strategic plan emphasizes the importance of providing access to records anytime, anywhere. This is one of many initiatives that we are launching to make our goal a reality.

It is of the greatest importance that people and governments in many more countries than ours should realize that it is more dangerous to have access to nuclear arms than not to possess them.

I am convinced that dealing intelligently with the press is of the greatest importance to the success and effectiveness of a humanitarian mission.

Dates are important in history because what is done on those dates is of importance

On lower budget things you're still working collaboratively, but the investment and your level of creative importance is higher on something like this.

I started doing regional theater. My first job was "The Importance of Being Earnest" at Dallas Theater Center.

I worked in sales. It was definable, it had a quantifiable approach to accomplishment that had a great deal of importance to me. It had a degree of clarity that I loved. And of course, it was core.

Taiwan matters because of its vital role in spreading democracy in East Asia. Taiwan matters because of its strategic importance to promote peace in the Pacific region.

It is strange, is it not, how the more strenuously we deny the importance of race in human affairs, the more obsessed with it and the touchier on the subject we grow.

We can also reassure our Palestinian partners that we understand the importance of territorial contiguity in the West Bank for a viable Palestinian state ...

Entrust a secret to one whose importance will not be much increased by divulging it.

Something of great importance now past is inferior to something of little importance now present, in that the latter is a reality, and related to the former as something to nothing.

He who writes carelessly confesses thereby at the very outset that he does not attach much importance to his own thoughts.

All I ask of Life is a constant and exaggerated sense of my own importance.

How valiant to deny the importance of money when it is had in abundance.

First and foremost I feel I am a child of God ....Today I think that everything matters, but like a nice game of relative importance and value, certainly not absolute like conversion.

One must never allow oneself to acquire an exaggerated sense of one's own importance. There's no necessity to burden oneself with absolutes

I used to think religion was just more of the same thing. Dump responsibility on the big guy. Now I see an importance in that. It's a relief to accept that not everything is under your control.

Do not underestimate the importance of feeling special.

When we give up our images of self-importance and our ideas of what should be, we can help things become what they need to be.

There’s no one in Israel who appreciates more than me the importance of American support for Israel.

The resistance to a new idea increases by the square of its importance.

Science tells us what we can know, but what we can know is little, and if we forget how much we cannot know we become insensitive to many things of great importance.

My parents taught my sister and me the importance of giving back and making a difference in another person's life.

It seems to me that references to bands like Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin meant more to me a year ago and all those old things are totally losing importance.

In a world that might say one vote doesn't matter..., it does matter because each person is of infinite worth and value to God... Your vote is a declaration of importance as a person and a citizen.

How come life is so important in the nine months before birth, but then we sort of forget about the importance, we're not worried about whether that baby lives in poverty once he or she is born.

I have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing.

The movie industry places such importance on first-week numbers-which means what to people, I don't know. It's very strange. They hope to sell tons of records the first week, and then what?

Could one start a Stagnation Party-which at General Elections would boast that during its term of office no event of the least importance had taken place?