Importance Quotes

Exaggerated self-importance is deemed an individual fault, but a racial virtue.

One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it

The breath is seen to be the key between the emotional state, the mental state and physical state. It is perhaps the most important tool, and it's one whose importance is underestimated in the West.

Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.

The number of such as live without the ardour of inquiry is very small, though many content themselves with cheap amusements, and waste their lives in researches of no importance.

Science provides tangible evidence of its accuracy and importance. Religion makes excuses for its absence of the same.

The Sixth Army, true to their oath and conscious of the lofty importance of their mission, have held their position to the last man and the last round for Führer and Fatherland unto the end.

Just once in a while, let us exalt the importance of ideas and information.

I am writing a book and that takes third place of importance.

It's hard to appreciate the importance of the rainforest because it seems so far away, but it's vital to the survival of the planet as we know it.

The greatest advantage of being First Lady is the opportunity it presents to truly make a difference on issues of great importance.

We cannot overlook the importance of wild country as source of inspiration, to which we give expression in writing, in poetry, drawing and painting, in mountaineering, or in just being there.

My intention in making a comment about the importance of breastfeeding has nothing to do with the law. It comes from my passion and beliefs about children.

With the true artist, the social formula that he recommends is a matter of secondary importance; the source of his art, its animating spirit, is decisive.

IT professionals have a responsibility to understand the use of standards and the importance of making Web applications that work with any kind of device.

The most important thing for you to do is see that in hoping to be affected by other things as fully as possible, you become more yourself.

God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.

The word 'art' is very slippery. It really has no importance in relation to one's work. I work for the pleasure, for the pleasure of the work, and everything else is a matter for the critics.

In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.

You cannot underestimate the importance of preparation.

Money's only important when you don't have any.

The best thing about lying in bed late is that you learn to distinguish between first things and trivia, for whatever presses on you has to prove its importance before it makes you move.

What people often mean by getting rid of conflict is getting rid of diversity, and it is of the utmost importance that these should not be considered the same.

There seems to be no end to the senseless wickedness done on this little planet in a minor solar system, and we puny mortals appear to be decreasing in importance so far as the universe is concerned.

I'm a vegan. I respect the environment, and I do my best to spread the importance of such an issue.

Religion, in India, means realisation and nothing short of that.

I won't make a mark on history. I have some importance in the time we live in, but that's all.

To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.

We discussed politics, but we also talked about the importance of hard work, personal responsibility, living within your means, keeping your word. Those lessons stay with you throughout your life.

I wrote a great deal during the next ten [early] years,but very little of any importance; there are not more than four or five papers which I can still remember with some satisfaction.

It is not what a man does that is of final importance, but what he is in what he does. The atmosphere produced by a man, much more than his activities, has the lasting influence.

The importance of high expectations plays a big role.

Skill in the digital age is confused with mastery of digital tools, masking the importance of understanding materials and mastering the elements of form.

Until cubism, all art, all pictures, could be 'read' by anybody. If this hadn't been so, the Christian message wouldn't have been seen by peasants and its importance would have been diminished.

I had parents who instilled in me the importance of love, morals and hard work. I give God all the glory because he has brought me through so much.

The Unfortunate Importance of Beauty is a farcical fictional meditation on female beauty structured as a mash-up of an old episode of Friends, a fairy tale and a murder mystery.

Men at any age truly never grow up. All, no matter what importance they may have attained, are still no more than little boys.

Without dancing you can never attain a perfectly graceful carriage, which is of the highest importance in life.

I am convinced that it is of primordial importance to learn more every year than the year before. After all, what is education but a process by which a person begins to learn how to learn.

We're just fragile machines programmed with a false sense of our own importance. And every now and then the universe sends a reminder that we don't really matter to it.

It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life.

Software is the magic thing whose importance only goes up over time.

I try not to tell students where to shoot, when to shoot, or what to shoot. I feel finding the picture is the most important part of being a photographer. The actual shooting is of lesser importance.

What is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.

The global importance of the Middle East is that it keeps the Far East and the Near East from encroaching on each other.

During civil disturbance adopt such an attitude that people do not attach any importance to you - they neither burden you with complicated affairs, nor try to derive any advantage out of you.

What you envision in your mind, how you see yourself, and how you envision the world around you is of great importance because those things become your focus.

When life becomes an extended picnic, with nothing of importance to do, ideas of greatness become an irritant. Such is the nature of the Europe syndrome.

You are a person of the greatest importance when you are a mother of the family.

[W]e need to talk over not only those things which are of vital importance to us as women, but also the things that are of especial interest to us as colored women.