Importance Quotes
If a person goes to his job with a firm determination to give of himself the best of which he is capable, that job no matter what it is takes on dignity and importance.
Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.
Man is the weak being who, in spite of all his self-importance and pride of wealth and capital, is vanquished by the smallest microbe.
Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of life, that's their order of importance.
One must understand the importance of an endless drive to get information and seek value.
Confusion and mistakes come when we forget the importance of God's word as our unwavering guide.
Continued focus on (employee) turnover is of critical importance, because of the direct relation of turnover to improvements in labor costs and guest satisfaction.
If Melanchthon were alive today, he might not weep because of controversies that surround the Lord's Supper, but he might well sorrow because of our indifference to its meaning and importance.
The very basis of creative work is irreverence! The very basis of creative work is bold experimentation. There has never been a creator of lasting importance who has not also been an innovator.
Oh, the self-importance of fading stars. Never mind, they will be black holes one day.
The character and mentality of the keepers may be of more importance in understanding prisons than the character and mentality of the kept.
Never underestimate the power of the mind, the importance of love and faith, and never stop dreaming.
What is the effect of unlimited coinage of silver in this country? and I invite your attention to this particularly, because it is a question of vital importance.
Manifold subsequent experience has led to a truer appreciation and a more moderate estimate of the importance of the dependence of one living being upon another.
History is not to be whitewashed "by a screening out of the importance of suffering."
With respect to the FBI, they had problems communicating in a vertical way, within the FBI itself, so that information of importance could get pushed up to those who were decision-makers.
In the attempt to make scientific discoveries, every problem is an opportunity — and the more difficult the problem, the greater will be the importance of its solution.
This idea that there is generality in the specific is of far-reaching importance.
The people cannot be all, and always well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive.
The plea for the predominance of learning to read in early school life because of the great importance attaching to literature seems to be a perversion.
The subject may be of first importance to the artist when he starts a picture, but it should be of least importance in the finished product. The subject is of no aesthetic significance.
A day without morning and evening prayers and personal intercessions is actually a day without meaning or importance.
The biggest impact my father had on my life was teaching the importance of literacy.
It’s not our job to assess the merit of our vision or judge its importance. It is our job to receive the vision and act upon it.
Don't listen to other people's advice unless it is rooted in irrepressible enthusiasm (e.g., "Be afraid but do it anyway"), or about the importance of being a good colleague.
To exterminate our popular vices is a work of far more importance to the character and happiness of our citizens than any other improvements in our system of education.
Centralization at the national capital or within a business undertaking always glorifies the importance of pieces of paper This dims the sense of reality.
The art of drawing which is of more real importance to the human race than that of writing...should be taught to every child just as writing is.
The object becomes aesthetically significant when it becomes metaphysically significant.
When one lives with problems of importance, the prostitute is ideal. You pay, and whether or not you fail is of no importance. She doesn't care.
The Priestly Code preponderates over the rest of the legislation in force, as well as in bulk; in all matters of primary importance it is the normal and final authority.
Reject the basic assumptions of civilization, especially the importance of material possessions.
Absent scandal, a federal judge can serve for decades on the bench, underscoring the importance of appointing judges who have a proper understanding of their constitutional role.
One of the things that characterizes good intellectual work is a certain self-importance
There is no profession more essential than that of an educator, and it's time for all of us to embrace and celebrate their importance and contribution to America's children.
Information of fundamental importance to the general problem of atomic structure has resulted from systematic studies of the cosmic radiation carried out by the Wilson cloud-chamber method.
The natural reaction of the artist will be strongly towards bringing man back into focus as the center of importance.
When I left 20th Century-Fox to freelance, my agent believed that getting big money was the way to establish real importance in our industry.
With the increasing importance of standards for system-level objects such as COM and CORBA, it is particularly important that the C++ bindings to those be clean, well documented, and simple to use.
Money is central to our lives. Yet money is not of central importance. It has nothing whatsoever to do with the lasting values that make life worth living.
What gave transcendent importance to the aggressiveness of power was the fact that its natural prey, its necessary victim, was liberty, or law, or right.
Conducting! A subject, truly, concerning which much might be written, yet scarcely anything of real importance is to be found in books.
If Christianity is only one more bit of good advice, then Christianity is of no importance.
I feel it's my duty as a human being, as a person who is trying - like everybody else who thinks about the state of the world - to enhance the importance of multicultural connection.