Importance Quotes

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Nothing is more hackneyed than the liberal dogma that shock value confers automatic importance on an artwork.

People who describe culture and values and how people behave - I've heard people refer to it as 'the soft stuff'-they often underestimate its importance. The soft stuff actually is the hard stuff.

Now, as an adult, I appreciate those memories. Mom taught me the importance of compassion for your waitress, your crossing guard, your mailman.

In truth, we're all just pottering, filling the time that we have here, only we like to make ourselves feel bigger by compiling lists of importance.

The caretaker needs to be taken care of, in wages and benefits. Not enough emphasis is put on the importance of these caretakers.

My neck is too arthritic to snap around. The big shift in my perspective that happened in the writing process, however, was the paramount importance of the "West" epitomized by Cincinnati.

You'll still get guys with an array of badges to demonstrate their importance, but that just excludes people. I think fandom is more inclusive now.

Besides the five senses, there is a sixth sense, of equal importance--the sense of duty.

Meaning drives us from despair to wonder, from confusion to clarity, from hesitance to confidence. And the only place to find meaning is in the importance of small things.

Folk musicians have a lot of the same self-importance, but they're way more cruel and jealous than rock musicians - I know this for a fact because I used to be a folk musician.

Everybody puts importance in money on a film set.

A good education prepares a child to be a good employee and a good citizen-in that order, with the importance of the former never exceeding the importance of the latter.

The importance of 'Dream School' is monumental. Helping to inspire these students to reach their potential is personally gratifying.

Any novel of importance has a purpose. If only the "purpose" be large enough, and not at outs with the passional inspiration.

All people have a natural desire to be needed, to have their importance to others tangibly confirmed.

For material progress and physical well being, peace of mind is of utmost importance.

I am a firm believer in the importance of democracy, not only as the ultimate goal, but also as an essential part of the process.

Today we are apt to downplay or disregard the importance of good thinking to strong faith; and some, disastrously, even regard thinking as opposed to faith.

President Bush is often out there talking about the importance of staying the course, and about the sacrifice, but he has not attended a funeral of a soldier who has fallen in Iraq.

Experience taught me that working families are often just one pay check away from economic disaster. And it showed me first-hand the importance of every family having access to good health care.

Easter is all about remembering the importance of change, responsibility, and doing the right thing for the good of our children.

While the importance of a strong brand is widely understood, nothing is as misunderstood in American business as the question of how to use it.

No one shall expel us from the paradise which Cantor has created for us. Expressing the importance of Cantor's set theory in the development of mathematics.

I admire the ballad form most of all. Stories are irresistible. I've always had a passion for stories, the endings being of particular importance.

Google has helped raise the importance of DNS above the network engineering community, which has been really good.

The "result" of life is death, so when you create, the importance is not on the result but on the process of creating in and of itself.

I began to learn the importance of lifting things up and looking underneath.

I always try to keep a positive perspective on what's valuable and the importance of restricting that immediate gratification and, most importantly, that who you are isn't the stuff you have.

Remember the importance of small actions. They're the building blocks in the architecture of your life, the quiet victories you win for yourself each day.

If there's ever an example of the importance of making bold bets and focusing on what you love, it's Twitter.

Man has learned to cope with all questions of importance without recourse to God as a working hypothesis.

We agree [with the President of Mexico] on the importance of ending the illegal flow of drugs, cash, guns, and people across our border, and to put the cartels out of business.

Writers are entirely egocentric. To them, few things in their lives have meaning or importance unless they give promise of serving some creative purpose.

We shall know what things are of overmastering importance when they have overmastered us.

However entrancing it is to wander unchecked through a garden of bright images, are we not enticing your mind from another subject of almost equal importance?

I think too much importance is placed on spirit guides. They involve looking outside of ourselves to do it, to fix it, to tell us what to do.

Work to recognize the primary importance of the present moment. A good little pointer toward that is to ask yourself, "What is my relationship with the present moment? How am I relating to it?"

In general, I'm careful when I'm dealing with subjects of deep cultural importance and write with abandon when I'm dealing with issues of personal dysfunction.

Citizens have to fight suppression of information on matters of vital public importance. To tell the truth is not a crime.

There is nothing of which men are more liberal than their good advice, be their stock of it ever so small; because it seems to carry in it an intimation of their own influence, importance or worth.

No book is of much importance; the vital thing is, What do you yourself think?

When I say it doesn't make much difference, I mean in terms of the importance of the piece of literature.

But, yes, I learned everything working in theater. I learned the importance of community - I was constantly going to play readings, stand-up nights, improv. nights.

Ministers have received their wages, and some have their minds too much on their wages. They labor for wages, and lose sight of the sacredness and importance of the work.

The importance of balance is huge but I think it is for everybody. It's a big issue for at least anyone that I talk to in any career.

The compulsion to take ourselves seriously is in inverse proportion to our creative capacity. When the creative flow dries up, all we have left is our importance.

One cannot understate the importance of eliminating Bin Laden. He was a symbolic head of the organisation and, as we now know, an operational head of the organisation.

I made a conscious decision when I was about 17 years old to strive towards mediocrity. I completely abandoned the idea of grandeur and importance, and I wanted to be mediocre.

Even the art of quoting is a conservative art most of the time, in order to propel the same ideas and the same self-congratulatory importance.