Importance Quotes

• 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.

  

  Richard Owen
  • Appreciation
  • Dependence
  • Moderates

• I think 'Coco' came at the perfect time to show everyone to stay together and live the importance of family, that families should be united.

  

  Anthony Gonzalez
  • Family
  • Importance
  • United

• The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda. Perceiving the truth has always been a challenge to mankind, but in the information age (or as I think of it, the disinformation age) it takes on a special urgency and importance.

  

  Michael Crichton
  • Thinking
  • Information
  • Mankind

• The direction we are going in at this moment is the negation of material goods as being important and the great importance of spiritual values and sensations. Permissiveness, if you will. There is tremendous talk of sex and bi-sexuality.

  

  Emilio Pucci
  • Great
  • Important
  • Moments

• There's a simple way to look at gender: Once upon a time, someone drew a line in the sans of culture and proclaimed with great self-importance, 'On this site, you are a man; on the other side, you are a woman.' It's time for the winds of change to blow that line away. Simple.

  

  Kate Bornstein
  • Culture
  • Change
  • Simple

• Don’t dismiss the importance of making fun a priority.

  

  Dan T. Cathy
  • Fun
  • Importance
  • Dismiss

• You exert a certain degree of influence, and be it ever so small, it affects some person or persons, and for the results of the influence you exert you are held accountable. You, therefore, whether you acknowledge it or not, have assumed an importance before God and man that cannot be overlooked.

  

  Lorenzo Snow
  • God
  • Men
  • Small

• Sensible of the importance of Christian piety and virtue to the order and happiness of a state, I cannot but earnestly commend to you every measure for their support and encouragement

  

  John Hancock
  • Support
  • Christian
  • Virtue

• Set goals that are well balanced-not too many nor too few, and not too high nor too low. Write down your attainable goals and work on them according to their importance. Pray for divine guidance in your goal setting.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • Work
  • High
  • Goals

• No theory of life seemed to him to be of any importance compared with life itself.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Theory
  • Seemed

• The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Future
  • Man
  • Past

• 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
  • Time
  • Matter
  • Concerned

• If you never assume importance, you never lose it.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Lose
  • Importance
  • Assume

• Obviously, we know the importance C.C. has to this team, so any time a guy like that goes down there is some concern. But you feel for him as a person more than anything.

  

  Aaron John Boone
  • Team
  • Person
  • Importance

• You are engaged in an undertaking of major importance to you. To be sure of success, you must have plans which are faultless.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Success
  • Importance
  • Engaged

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

  

  Marie Antoinette
  • Times
  • Crisis
  • Importance

• Architecture is a dangerous mix of power and importance.

  

  Rem Koolhaas
  • Architecture
  • Dangerous
  • Importance

• The art of moviemaking seems to get thrown away. The cinematography is gone, and the look of everything becomes of little importance. You lose the memorable images; everything looks like it's been shot at night with a security camera.

  

  Rob Zombie
  • Art
  • Night
  • Memorable

• The feel of music today is all techno and computerized and takes away the soul. The importance of jamming together with the group and live musicians and becoming one and being live … creating a song from scratch is the highest form of communication. It brings people together. The young artists today don’t realize what they’re sacrificing. The human touch and the human factor.

  

  Pat Vegas Redbone
  • Music
  • Communication
  • Creating

• A small win is a concrete, complete, implemented outcome of moderate importance. By itself, one small win may seem unimportant. A series of wins at small but significant tasks, however, reveals a pattern that may attract allies, deter opponents, and lower resistance to subsequent proposals. Small wins are controllable opportunities that produce visible results.

  

  Karl E. Weick
  • Opportunity
  • Winning
  • Outcomes

• For me, the subject is of secondary importance: I want to convey what is alive between me and the subject.

  

  Claude Monet
  • Importance
  • Subject
  • Convey

• What makes a story a story is that something changes. Internal, external, small or large, trivial or of earth-shattering importance. Doesn't matter.

  

  Sarah Monette
  • Earth
  • Matter
  • Internals

• My position concerning God is that of an agnostic. I am convinced that a vivid consciousness of the primary importance of moral principles for the betterment and ennoblement of life does not need the idea of a law-giver, especially a law-giver who works on the basis of reward and punishment.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Life
  • God
  • Position

• Chastity ... has, even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself round with nerves and instincts that to cut it free and bring it to the light of day demands courage of the rarest.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Cutting
  • Importance
  • Instinct

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