Importance Quotes

Nothing is of greater importance than the right early instruction of youth.

There is more value in placing a flower in a rifle barrel than making war. As Jimi Hendrix used to say, musical notes have more importance than bullets.

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.

This awareness instills a fierce desire to protect that heritage and - in doing so - to educate Americans in the meaning and importance of our pivotal documents.

I have my parents to thank for that, they raised me to be active and play all sports. They taught me the importance of staying healthy, being focused and setting goals in whatever I do.

I think that we are starting to get much more conscious about, you know, the importance of the spiritual path, and we are fulfilling it by paying attention to ourselves.

As for what's the most challenging aspect of teaching, it's convincing younger writers of the importance of reading widely and passionately.

Don't, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.

What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.

Freedom is the realization that it is sufficient to simply be a human being.

When you buy a jacket, it’s important the pockets are big enough for a paperback!

From the time we're born until we die, we're kept busy with artificial stuff that isn't important.

The Depression taught me what frugality means and the importance of not losing money.

What's important? That which is dug out of books, or out of the guts?

In this world the inclination to do things is of more importance than the mere power.

Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time.

Those who believe in the importance of serving others should lead the way by fighting against the temptation we all have, and maybe especially as we age, to close in upon ourselves.

Life behind all form is one, the expressions of that life are not of very great importance.

What is magic? There is the wizard's explanation... wizards talk about candles, circles, planets, stars, bananas, chants, runes and the importance of having at least four good meals every day.

The importance of information is directly proportional to its improbability.

Leaving some areas less finished in a painting, or more out of focus than others, allows the imagination to finish them and gives more importance to the detailed parts.

It is my conviction that highways and I-ways have similar importance these days. My effort is to connect all 600,000 villages with optical fiber networks in the next five years.

We're at a period where our society is at the end of a cycle, where all the sudden the values that we were told were important don't seem to have that much importance nowadays.

Inspiration? - a hoax fabricated by poets for their self-importance.

Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.

A guy named Charlie Beacham was my first mentor at Ford. He taught me the importance of the dealers, and he rubbed my nose in the retail business.

In times of crisis, it is of the utmost importance that one does not lose her head. Marie Antoinette

I can never bring you to realize the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace.

A smile costs nothing in money, time, or effort but it is literally true that it can be of supreme importance in ones life.

The less I understood of this farrago, the less I was in a position to judge of its importance.

While some part of the artwork may fail, the whole may have its own unique importance.

For, usually and fitly, the presence of an introduction is held to imply that there is something of consequence and importance to be introduced.

Only after awhile. After it came out and people began to engage in discussions about the social reflections of the film that I realized it had an importance I hadn't thought of.

A good supply of resignation is of the first importance in providing for the journey of life.

The importance of a warm up and cool down can't be stressed enough.

A father's calling is eternal and its importance transcends time. It is a calling for both time and eternity.

The things which cannot be adequately represented by words are more important than those which can.

There are certain things in war of which the commander alone comprehends the importance. Nothing but his superior firmness and ability can subdue and surmount all difficulties.

It must be recognized that the real truths of history are hard to discover. Happily, for the most part, they are rather matters of curiosity than of real importance.

The fact that the ministerial conspiracy against liberty had risen from corruption was of the utmost importance to the colonists.

At college my three main interests were - in descending order of importance - a steady supply of recreational drugs, a 2-S draft deferment, and overthrowing the Nixon administration.

A man who desires to get married should know everything or nothing.

Plato long ago pointed out the importance of being governed by men with sufficient sense of responsibility and comprehension of public duties to be very reluctant to undertake the work of governing.

When will the world learn that a million men are of no importance compared with one man?

Man is as full of potential as he is of importance.

So thank you for reminding me about the importance of being a good mom and a great volunteer as well.

I was raised on the values of speaking up and making a positive difference in a very political family that believed in the importance of public service.

The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting people and places.

The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves.

You must make the main thing in your picture appear most important. If anyone tells me my hat is more important than my head - by God I'm taking off my hat.