Quotes About Importance

How people treat you is not very important, but how you react to it, is very important.

Never underestimate the importance of tragedy in life. Don't fear it, make it the mirror of your life.

You are the center of your universe, without you nothing is there.

Family is important... It can come in all different shapes and sizes, and often isn't at all what we expected, but it is one of the most important things in the world.

One day you will wonder what was so important that you put off doing the most important things. 'Someday' can be a thief in the night.

But whatever form it takes, we must always insist that antisemitism has never made sense and never will. Fight it. But don't elevate it or its purveyors in importance.

Martin had lived and worked in Marietta, Montana, long enough to grasp the importance of proper winter footwear. But today she needed the height and authority that came with heels. One didn't tell one's best friend and business partner—the person responsible for Krista moving halfway across

had lived and worked in Marietta, Montana, long enough to grasp the importance of proper winter footwear. But today she needed the height and authority that came with heels. One didn't tell one's best friend and business partner—

When I joined Bill Clinton's start-up presidential campaign in 1991, I was confident that women would play an ever more important role, but I never gave a minute's thought to what would happen if we won. When we did - and I became the first woman to serve as White House press secretary - it changed my life. But it didn't change the world.

I was thinking this was a great teaching moment, where they'd finally come to see that even something teeny-tiny can be big enough.

most of our energy goes into upholding our importance.… If we were capable of losing some of that importance, two extraordinary things would happen to us. One, we would free our energy from trying to maintain the illusory idea of our grandeur; and two, we would provide ourselves with enough energy to … catch a glimpse of the actual grandeur of the universe.

Liberal learning is that which underlies, that which gives purpose and direction to practical skills. It tries to distinguish between the more and the less important, between the grand and the trivial, and to concern itself rather with the center than with the periphery.

It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all.

The best order of things, as I see it, is the one that includes me; to hell with the most perfect of worlds, if I'm not part of it.

All the modern verse plays, they're terrible they're mostly about the poetry. It's more important that the play is first.

Jon Stewart is exactly the same guy he's always been, only with money. He knows that the moment he really believes he's important, the funny goes away and he becomes Bill O'Reilly, except shorter and Jewish.

At first, the grandniece who had booked the event had said that if Dani couldn't make the cake, they'd just skip it. But Dani had pointed out that a party without a cake was really just a meeting.

Parenting is the most important job on the planet next to keeping Gary Busey off the nation's highways.

Politics is still crucially important. Our choices are vital, and we've got to make them, and not just say, 'Oh, they're all the same.' They are all the same in certain ways, alas -- a political animal is such an animal. But lurking somewhere behind their rhetoric and their spittle are important choices that we should make.

Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?

The vast majority of those who are famous are not significant and the vast majority of those who are significant are not famous.

Sometimes in movies, I still have to be the hero, but it's not all that important to me anymore.

Skills and talent were important, but they took a back seat to the way a person reacted to the company's values,

So you never know who you touch. You never know how or when you'll have an impact, or how important your example can be to someone else" (20).