Importance Quotes

I hate churches, all of them. But they used to know something about the importance of silence.

To judge of the real importance of the individual, we should think of the effect his death would produce.

On certain occasions, the eyes of the mind can supply the want of the most powerful telescopes, and lead to astronomical discoveries of the highest importance.

The importance to the world of what we scribblers write is in doubt, I would think.

Be concerned with the welfare of others without any sense of self-importance that one is better because one meditates or leads a certain type of life.

The essence of the teachings is to lose self importance and to care more for the welfare of others and the magical world around us, than we do for ourselves and our own self images.

If this is the only life, then everything assumes too great an importance. We have to get everything out of life and we overdo it.

Human beings affix themselves to things that are of little or no importance. They affix themselves to the transitory, to things that are impermanent, and in doing so, they get all upset

Courts of equity have always considered it of the greatest possible importance that parties should not sleep on their rights.

Their mother had always stressed the importance of taking care of yourself first, your family second and everyone else not at all.. darkest surrender

We are getting more and more imports from abroad.

Uniformity in the currency, weights, and measures of the United States is an object of great importance, and will, I am persuaded, be duly attended to.

The realistic way to reduce the amount of money in politics is to reduce the amount of politics in money -- the importance of government in allocating wealth and opportunity.

The determining bulk of Scotch people had heard of golf ever since they had heard of God and often considered the two as of equal importance.

When some English moralists write about the importance of having character, they appear to mean only the importance of having a dull character.

There is nothing so weak, for working purposes, as this enormous importance attached to immediate victory. There is nothing that fails like success.

No one could have less faith in the absolute and definitive importance of the work created by man, because I believe that this world is nothing but a dream.

Leonid Brezhnev did not understand the enormous political importance of the decision to produce and afterwards deploy the SS-20s.

There are secret articles in our treaties with the gods, of more importance than all the rest, which the historian can never know.

The incessant anxiety and strain of some is a well-nigh incurable form of disease. We are made to exaggerate the importance of what we do; and yet how much is not done by us!

A jest often decides matters of importance more effectively and happily than seriousness.

China attaches great importance to the utilization of renewable resources, making it one of the important moves to promote economic and social development

Being from a minority culture, I realised the importance of looking at non-Western cultures in a positive way.

What makes you imagine ... that anything of importance can be taught in a school?

It is of major importance for the future of our country that through his defence and the fact he died without being convicted, Milosevic had managed to defend national and state interest.

What concerns anyone so much as the time he has to live?

I don't place too much importance on words. It's always the last thing I do because I'm definitely more interested in mood.

I don't attach importance to great speeches or philosophy.

What we understand to be profoundness, or importance, it changes. It should change. It should be this moment where you cannot believe that equalled grandness or importance.

The importance of the ordinary citizen is very greatly underestimated - not so much by those in authority as by the ordinary citizen himself.

Teach us almighty father, to consider this solemn truth, as we should do, that we may feel the importance of every day, and every hour as it passes.

What I have learned from my work up to now, is to try to be open, but also protect myself by not letting the good and the evil get too much importance.

Prostitutes are the inevitable product of a society that places ultimate importance on money, possessions, and competition.

My guess is that people look at me and project their own values - importance of family, ego is healthy but not the biggest thing. I don't know. I can't explain my popularity.

I think that everything changes when it goes through the Mac; it's cheap. I think people then don't pay too much importance to the take, if you can do 40 takes.

Anything of any importance cannot help but be unrecognizable, since it bears no resemblance to anything already known.

The budget acknowledges the importance of maintaining our ports and waterways to encourage commercial deep-draft navigation and economic competitiveness.

The perishable nature of love is what gives love its profound importance in our lives. If it were endless, if it were on tap, love wouldn't hit us the way it does.

There is great significance and importance in all our day-to-day actions in both words and deeds.

Buddha called himself 'The Enlightened One' and Jesus called himself 'The Son of God'. To me the term 'World-Teacher' is of as little importance as 'The Son of God' or 'The Enlightened One'.

It is good to have organizations but not to exaggerate their importance out of due proportion.

I completely appreciate the importance of fathers but millions of children are without loving homes. I think a child is lucky with one parent who truly loves her.

Although it is the biggest time-waster in office life, you must never underrate the importance of the memo. You will be judged by the volume of your paper work.

Some major churches overemphasize the importance of preaching as a means to increase membership and fail to reach out with compassion to their neighbors in need.

My view of an excellent novel was probably set in the golden age of fiction in the 19th century: narrative, character and voice are of equal importance.

With all its excesses, the modern impressionistic movement has given us one discovery, the color violet. It is the only discovery of importance in the art world since Velazquez.

It's of more importance to community that innocence should be protected than it is that guilt should be punished

We need to value the importance of simplicity, focus and living according to our values.

Those engaged in directing the actions of others are always in danger of overlooking the importance of the sequential development of those they direct.

It is obvious to any observer that in every western country the increase of importance of public schools has been at least coincident with the relaxation of older family ties.