Importance Quotes
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No human thing is of serious importance.
Plato
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President Obama and I recognize the importance of strong economic engagement for the continued growth of both the Philippines and the United States.
Benigno Aquino III
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To attach no importance to public opinion, is a proof that you do not merit its suffrage.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Growing up in Atlanta I always had a sense of what fashion was, a sense of style - my parents always talked about the importance of making a first impression and that's stayed with me.
Cam Newton
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Wherever progress is to ensue, deviating natures are of greatest importance.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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We are involved in a constitution-building process of historic importance. The Convention should mark a new stage in European integration.
Romano Prodi
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Uniformity in the currency, weights, and measures of the United States is an object of great importance, and will, I am persuaded, be duly attended to.
George Washington
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Although reducing human emissions to the atmosphere is undoubtedly of critical importance, as are any and all measures to reduce the human environmental "footprint", the truth is that the contribution of each individual cannot be reduced to zero... If we believe that the size of the human "footprint" is a serious problem (and there is much evidence for this) then a rational view would be that along with a raft of measures to reduce the footprint per person, the issue of population management must be addressed.
Chris Rapley
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I cannot stress the importance of pausing to take a few deep breaths throughout the day. It's simple and effective.
Ashlee Nicole "Nikki" DeLoach
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I believe there are Steve Jobses all around us. Really, what is happening is that they're being edited out of importance.
Nolan Bushnell
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Who you are is of greater importance than what you do.
Ann M. Fudge
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Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art. ...because of the importance it places on the individual, their liberty, self-expression, creativity, and personal responsibility.
Oscar Wilde
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Busyness has become such a social value that we will even create it, we will create that sense of breathlessness because we think that's how we show status and importance. That is a really interesting and troubling finding. We've taken this notion of hard work to a crazy degree.
Brigid Schulte
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In fact, though their acquaintance had been so short, they had guessed, as always happens between lovers, everything of any importance about each other in two seconds at the utmost, and it now remained only to fill in such unimportant details as what they were called; where they lived; and whether they were beggars or people of substance.
Virginia Woolf
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I think too much importance is placed on spirit guides. They involve looking outside of ourselves to do it, to fix it, to tell us what to do.
Echo Bodine
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Promote then as an object of primary importance, Institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.
George Washington
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I understood the importance in principle of public key cryptography but it's all moved much faster than I expected. I did not expect it to be a mainstay of advanced communications technology.
Bailey Whitfield Diffie
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The nucleic acids have considerable biological importance because of their role in cell growth and in the transmission of hereditary characters.
Severo Ochoa
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The things we remember are often things that have great emotional importance, and so they have a lasting effect.
Paul Auster
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To treat programming scientifically, it must be possible to specify the required properties of programs precisely. Formality is certainly not an end in itself. The importance of formal specifications must ultimately rest in their utility -in whether or not they are used to improve the quality of software or to reduce the cost of producing and maintaining software.
Jim Horning
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Self-regulation stands in relation to regulation the way self-importance stands in relation to importance.
Willem Buiter
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Given the importance of the election and the fact that the present margin is approximately 300 votes in the state, I believe the people of Palm Beach County have entrusted us with the power to voice their right to participate in their government.
J. M. Roberts
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Imperialism is capitalism at that stage of development at which the dominance of monopolies and finance capitalism is established; in which the export of capital has acquired pronounced importance; in which the division of the world among the international trusts has begun, in which the division of all territories of the globe among the biggest capitalist powers has been completed.
Vladimir Lenin
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How valiant to deny the importance of money when it is had in abundance.
Astra Taylor