Quotes About Importance

To know how I am very important to my team on defense, how my teammates need me on defense, it means a lot to me.

I know how important I am to my team, my teammates. They tell me every day.

I feel like the impact that you leave on others and your teammates and everybody around you is what's most important.

The teams that defend well are as important as those that attack well. If you don't concede goals it is much easier to win but it is all about having balance.

Wanting and needing are two different things." He stepped away from me, and I suddenly felt incomplete without his body against mine. I had a fleeting flash of some connection bigger than both of us, and then it was gone. "A long life means nothing if it's empty and has no purpose. Better to live a short one filled with the things that are important to you.

The Americans, the Scottish economist Adam Smith warned, "feel in themselves at this moment a degree of importance which, perhaps, the greatest subjects in Europe scarce feel.… [They] are employed in contriving a new form of government for an extensive empire, which, they flatter themselves will become, and which indeed seems very likely to become, one of the greatest and most formidable that ever was in the world.

Deze hele strijd ging om mensen en toch werden mensen vaak als het minst belangrijk beschouwd. Wij strijden vaak meer voor waarheden, dan voor mensen voor wie de waarheden gegeven zijn. Wij strijden voor bedieningen over de hoofden van de mensen heen, voor wie deze bedieningen zijn

the task of preserving capitalism was too important to leave to the capitalists.

The task of defending capitalism was still important to leave to the capitalists.

Do not jockey for position or try to prove your importance to others with a lot of hollow, empty boasting and self-promotion. Instead, have a modest opinion of yourself, and learn to recognize the outstanding contributions that others have to impart.

The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have.

What is ironic is that Allen Ginsberg's importance was in its twilight for so many years that it took his death to bring it to the front page. He electrified an entire world!

managers with a different mind-set start to become more important, and the business needs to become part of the parent corporation.

unfortunately, facts are often a lagging indicator of what could potentially be important. By the time you are dealing with a fact on the ground, whatever led to it has already happened.

Some problems don't actually matter.

It is a total delusion for people to say, 'I don't have time' because we all have the same amount of time in a day. What they really mean is 'It isn't important enough to me now'.

Why is it always the world? Why is it never just half a block? Or Jersey? You know, something we could live without?

A "good friend" was well…. Like your teeth. You had a limited number of them to last you an entire lifetime. You could survive without them, but having them made life much more enjoyable. If you didn't take good care of them, you could lose them forever.

established foreign correspondents, set up the first Washington bureau, and employed the newly invented telegraph to get the news first from everywhere the lines reached. Now the news-not politics-ranked first in importance. Bennett did not hesitate to be political, but he did it primarily on his editorial page. Six years after the Herald appeared, Horace Greeley started the New York Tribune. Greeley was followed

The United States has become a place where entertainers and professional athletes are mistaken for people of importance.

The importance of condition in a book is much the same as condition in a used automobile. A used Ford in fine running condition is worth far more than a smashed-up Cadillac beyond repair.

The sheer oddity of life seems to me of more and more importance, because more and more the pretense is that life is charted, predictable, and controllable.

Nothing in life is as important as you think it is while you are thinking about it."18

It is odd that despite their current widespread use and looming future importance, most of us know very little about our automatic behavior patterns. Perhaps that is so precisely because of the mechanistic, unthinking manner in which they occur. Whatever the reason, it is vital that we clearly recognize one of their properties: They make us terribly vulnerable to anyone who does know how they work.