Importance famous quotes

God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel

#Importance

I cannot emphasize enough the importance of family encouragement - not just for me, but for everyone.
-- Adora Svitak

#Encouragement #Enough #Importance

The only thing of importance, when we depart, will be the traces of love we have left behind.
-- Albert Schweitzer

#Inspirational #Life #Importance

Don't minimize the importance of luck in determining life's course.
-- Alex Trebek

#Luck #Importance

The story fails but your faith in the importance of doing the story doesn't fail.
-- Alice Munro

#Stories #Failing #Importance

Dates are important in history because what is done on those dates is of importance
-- Amit Abraham

#Important #Done #Importance

Even in the most beautiful music there are some silences, which are there so we can witness the importance of silence.
-- Andrea Bocelli

#Beautiful #Silence #Importance

I'm dealing with the most important things there are: life and nature. If this doesn't work, if this doesn't sustain me, I can't go back to nature. I'm right there. There's nowhere to go, and that frightens me.
-- Andy Goldsworthy

#Important #Nowhere To Go #Importance

Who you are is of greater importance than what you do.
-- Ann M. Fudge

#Self Esteem #Importance #Esteem

It is seldom in life that one knows that a coming event is to be of crucial importance.
-- Anya Seton

#Events #Importance #Foresight

Entrust a secret to one whose importance will not be much increased by divulging it.
-- Arthur Helps

#Secret #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.
-- Arthur Machen

#Importance #Introduction #Consequence

There's nothing of any importance in life-except how well you do your work.
-- Ayn Rand

#Work #Importance #Wells

American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.
-- Barry Goldwater

#Forgotten #Selling #Importance

Because when God heals a body, that is temporal; but when God saves a soul, that has eternal importance.
-- Benny Hinn

#Soul #Body #Importance

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

#Democracy #Citizens #Importance

I have always maintained that in basketball the importance of the mental to the physical is about four to one.
-- Bobby Knight

#Basketball #Four #Importance

The ability to read becomes devalued when what one has learned to read adds nothing of importance to one's life.
-- Bruno Bettelheim

#Add #Importance #Ability

It is of the utmost importance that our service members are adequately compensated for their duties, and that we offer them a quality of life that will enable them to continue to serve and to live comfortably
-- Carl Levin

#Quality #Members #Importance

Never underestimate the importance of the beginning. Of anything. The beginning has the seeds of everything else to come.
-- Carolyn Coman

#Underestimate #Importance

A good beginning is of great importance.
-- Catherine McAuley

#Importance

I am inclined to attach some importance to the new system of manufacturing; and venture to throw it out with the hope of its receiving a full discussion among those who are most interestedin the subject.
-- Charles Babbage

#Receiving #Venture #Importance

You have to see your unimportance before you can see your importance and your significance to the world.
-- Charlie Haden

#World #Importance #Significance

It's important to me to say what I really mean.
-- Christopher Reeve

#Mean #Important #Importance

Reject the basic assumptions of civilization, especially the importance of material possessions.
-- Chuck Palahniuk

#Civilization #Assumption #Importance

People will assign irrational importance to almost anything in quotes on top of a pleasant image
-- Colin Fletcher

#People #Importance #Irrational

What we do and think in our own lives, then, becomes of extreme importance as it effects everything we're connected to.
-- Dalai Lama

#Inspirational #Thinking #Importance

Western business people often don't get the importance of establishing human relationships.
-- Daniel Goleman

#People #Importance #Western

Everyone lies about sex, more or less, to themselves if not to others, to others if not to themselves, exaggerating its importance or minimizing its pull.
-- Daphne Merkin

#Sex #Lying #Importance

Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that's stripped down.
-- Dave Grohl

#Saws #Rock N Roll #Importance

That we can never know," answered the wolf angrily. "That's for the future. But what we can know is the importance of what we owe to the present. Here and now, and nowhere else. For nothing else exists, except in our minds. What we owe to ourselves, and to those we're bound to. And we can at least hope to make a better future, for everything.
-- David Clement-Davies

#Mind #Here And Now #Importance

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

#Numbers #Importance #Publication

Never do anything that someone else can and will do, when there is so much of importance to be done which others cannot or will not do.
-- Dawson Trotman

#Done #Importance

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

#Importance #Lifting

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

#Example #Importance

This idea that there is generality in the specific is of far-reaching importance.
-- Douglas Hofstadter

#Ideas #Reaching #Importance

Work to recognize the primary importance of the present moment.
-- Eckhart Tolle

#Moments #Importance #Present Moment

Encouraged, we recognise the importance of living artistically, aesthetically and creatively as creative creatures of the creator.
-- Edith Schaeffer

#Creative #Importance #Recognise

Time is not important, but art is.
-- Edward Betts

#Art #Important #Importance

Unemployment is of vital importance, particularly to the unemployed.
-- Edward Heath

#Unemployment #Unemployed #Importance

But the fact that the word "chattel" has survived as the inclusive legal term for all movable goods, points, not merely to the great importance of cattle in primitive times, but to the importance of the notion of sale or barter in generating the institution of property.
-- Edward Jenks

#Facts #Institutions #Importance

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

#Ideas #Information #Importance

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

#World #This World #Importance

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

#Matter #Importance #Instant

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

#Respect #Children #Importance

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.
-- Eli Siegel

#Important #Importance

I wanted to come back to Sighet to tell you the story of my death. So that you could prepare yourselves while there was still time. To live? I don't attach any importance to my life any more. I'm alone. No, I wanted to come back, and to warn you. And see how it is, no one will listen to me.
-- Elie Wiesel

#Stories #Importance #Wanted

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.
-- Eric Holder

#Importance #Bin Laden #Organisation

The importance of reading, for me, is that it allows you to dream.
-- Eric Ripert

#Dream #Reading #Importance

If our dreams were more regular, more connected, more stable, they would also have more practical importance for us.
-- Ernst Mach

#Dream #Individualism #Importance

Of capital importance is to have a good diet and exercise a lot.
-- Evelyn Lauder

#Exercise #Importance #Diet And Exercise

For the sick it is important to have the best.
-- Florence Nightingale

#Sick #Important #Importance

The things of another world being distant, operate but faintly upon us: to remedy this inconvenience, we must frequently revolve their certainty and importance.
-- Francis Atterbury

#Future #World #Importance

Great Britain is not part of the euro-zone; but the decision we take will have great importance for Great Britain.
-- Francois Fillon

#Decision #Britain #Importance

I have always attached great importance to the manner in which an experiment is set up and conducted ... the experiment should be set up to open as many windows as possible on the unforeseen.
-- Frederic Joliot-Curie

#Window #Should #Importance

It is more important to know the properties of chlorine than the improprieties of Claudius!
-- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

#Important #Chlorine #Importance

Those who have tried meekness know the importance of being important.
-- George Ade

#Important #Importance #Meekness

The transcendent importance of love and goodwill in all human relations is shown by their mighty beneficent effect upon the individual and society.
-- George David Birkhoff

#Individuality #Relation #Importance

Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself.
-- George Washington

#Next #Constitution #Importance

The conscious life of the mind is of small importance in comparison with its unconscious life.
-- Gustave Le Bon

#Mind #Conscious #Importance

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.
-- Harvey Dunn

#Important #Hats #Importance

They pondered the importance of coffee in silence.
-- Henning Mankell

#Coffee #Silence #Importance

Seek the strongest color effect possible... the content is of no importance.
-- Henri Matisse

#Art #Color #Importance

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance.
-- Henry James

#Art #Importance #Interest

No life, if it is properly realized, is without cosmic importance.
-- Hortense Odlum

#Importance #Cosmic #Uniqueness

Not enough gets said about the importance of abandoning crap.
-- Ira Glass

#Enough #Said #Importance

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

#Philosophy #Speech #Importance

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

#Important #Importance

By actively thinking about the implications a space has on its inhabitants, we can create great experiences for those who enter. Make Space is an articulate account about the importance of space; how we think about it, build it and thrive in it.
-- James P Hackett

#Thinking #Space #Importance

I believe 100 percent in the power and importance of music.
-- James Taylor

#Believe #I Believe #Importance

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

#Stressed #Enough #Importance

To love someone is to show to them their beauty, their worth and their importance.
-- Jean Vanier

#Love #Importance #Shows

The importance of information is directly proportional to its improbability.
-- Jerry Pournelle

#Life And Love #Information #Importance

We had a sense of importance that would have led us to risk our lives for our rhetoric.
-- Jerry Rubin

#Risk #Importance #Rhetoric

Change in society is of secondary importance; that will come about naturally, inevitably, when you as a human being bring about the change in yourself.
-- Jiddu Krishnamurti

#Importance #Changes In Society #Humans

The amount of time we give to something indicates it's importance to us.
-- Jim George

#Giving #Importance

History is not to be whitewashed "by a screening out of the importance of suffering."
-- Johann Baptist Metz

#Suffering #Importance #Screening

As governor, I learned the importance of having an agenda.
-- John Engler

#Agendas #Importance

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

#Book #Writing #Importance

O my soul, I am now addressing myself to the greatest work that ever a creature was employed about - I am going into the solemn presence of God about business of everlasting importance!
-- John Flavel

#Soul #Importance #Everlasting

The importance of the assistant director cannot be overemphasized.
-- John Frankenheimer

#Directors #Assistants #Importance

The importance of repetition until automaticity cannot be overstated. Repetition is the key to learning.
-- John Wooden

#Keys #Repetition #Importance

[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.
-- Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin

#Needs #Importance #Interest

The importance of the arts to the societies in which they thrive is well documented.
-- Karen Kain

#Art #Importance #Thrive

It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.
-- Katherine Mansfield

#Laughing #Importance

There is only one history of any importance, and it is the history of what you once believed in, and the history of what you came to believe in.
-- Kay Boyle

#Inspirational #Believe #Importance

I am reminded of the importance of small kindnesses.
-- Kay Redfield Jamison

#Kindness #Importance

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.
-- Kent Nerburn

#Life #Importance #Lasting

Poetry and prose are of equal importance to me as a reader, and there doesn't seem to be much difference in my own writing.
-- Kevin Powers

#Writing #Differences #Importance

There are some things in life that shouldn't be given so much importance, if they don't change what is essential.
-- Laura Esquivel

#Essentials #Given #Importance

We're just beginning to learn the importance of music in our society.
-- Lester Bowie

#Our Society #Importance

The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it.
-- Mahmoud Darwish

#Poet #Importance #Poetry Is

I love Thanksgiving because it's a holiday that is centered around food and family, two things that are of utmost importance to me.
-- Marcus Samuelsson

#Holiday #Two #Importance

In times of crisis, it is of utmost importance to keep one's head.
-- Marie Antoinette

#Politics #Importance #Crisis

Teaching is of more importance than urging.
-- Martin Luther

#Teaching #Importance

it is of equal importance with the discovery of facts to know what to do with them ...
-- Mary Parker Follett

#Discovery #Facts #Importance

Like all trial attorneys, he knew the importance of not dressing too well.
-- Michael Crichton

#Trials #Importance #Attorney

To eat or be eaten, to escape or be takena matter of utmost importance to the one concerned, yet it happens all the time and we don't even notice.
-- Nahoko Uehashi

#Matter #Importance #Concerned

I believe there are Steve Jobses all around us. Really, what is happening is that they're being edited out of importance.
-- Nolan Bushnell

#Believe #I Believe #Importance

Anti-intellectualism is a disposition to discount the importance of truth and the life of the mind.
-- Os Guinness

#Mind #Importance