Quotes About Importance

We must not forget that it is not a thing that lends significance to a moment; it is the moment that lends significance to things.

Among the many things that religious tradition holds in store for us is a legacy of wonder. The surest way to suppress our ability to understand the meaning of God and the importance of worship is to take things for granted. Indifference to the sublime wonder of living is the root of sin. Modern

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.

Upon the subject of education ... I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in.

Upon the subject of education … I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in. Abraham Lincoln

The story's what matters; spelling's overrated.

This is the problem with branding: it has become more important than the thing it purports to brand.

He's a good-looking sap, and he knows it. He's just exactly smart enough to know that he can only be important in a place where he has no competition.

But concern not thou thyself vainly with matters that are of no advantage.

What is most truly valuable is often underrated.

The value is in the worth, not in the number.

We tend to underestimate the small things about ourselves that are often our most valuable attributes.

Utility is most men's test of worth.

She had been wrong to think it wouldn't matter that much to him, yes, he took her for granted, of course he did , but he took her for granted - not like an old coat in the corner of a dark cupboard, as she'd put it to herself , but like the very air that he breathed .

I've always believed that it's possible to discern true statements from false statements, and that it's critically important to do so, and that we put our entire democratic experiment in peril when we don't. It's a lesson I fear our nation is about to learn the hard way. That's

In our overcommunicated society, the paradox is that nothing is more important than communication.

It's a conundrum. "Marketing is too important," said David Packard, cofounder of Hewlett-Packard, "to be left to the marketing people." On the other hand, marketing is too complicated to be left to management people who have little experience in marketing and who don't understand its principles.

Once we are involved in a relationship, there is no longer any such thing as a minor detail.

We learn, too, that being another's servant is not humiliating, quite the opposite, for it sets us free from the wearying responsibility of continuously catering to our own twisted, insatiable natures. We learn the relief and privilege of being granted something more important to live for than ourselves.

the greater part of our anxieties stems from an exaggerated sense of the importance of our own projects and concerns. We are tortured by our ideals and by a punishingly high-minded sense of the gravity of what we are doing.

A flourishing life requires a capacity to recognize the times when the news no longer has anything original or important to teach us; periods when we should refuse imaginative connection with strangers, when we must leave the business of governing, triumphing, failing, creating or killing to others, in the knowledge that we have our own objectives to honour in the brief time still allotted to us.

the system glorified by John of Salisbury and John Fortescue, was unjust in a thousand all too obvious ways, but it offered those on the lowest rungs one notable freedom: the freedom not to have to take the achievements of quite so many people in society as reference points—and so find themselves severely wanting in status and importance as a result.

The news has the ability to define the agenda by leading the attention of an audience to what it believes to be the issues of importance.

Romantic fatalism was no doubt a myth and an illusion, but that was no reason to dismiss it as nonsense. Myths may assume an importance that goes beyond their primary message, we don't have to believe in Greek gods in order to know that they tell us something vital about the mind of man.