Quotes About Importance

Politically, kings became figures of no importance. Yet those that survived possessed a quality which politicians can peruse for years and still never acquire. They had the vital attribute of legitimacy because they occupied a role they had never striven for- one, furthermore, which would continue when they and their prime ministers were long gone.

The most important question facing humanity is this: Can we reach global empathy in time to avoid the collapse of civilization and save the Earth?

A mind willing to learn deserves commendation even when it has no teacher. What is of importance to me is not what you find but what you seek to find. Wax is soft and easy to mould even where the hands of craftsman and modeller are wanting to work it.

It is not the importance of the thing, but the majesty of the Lawgiver, that is to be the standard of obedience. ~Andrew Bonar~

Work is the least important thing and family is the most important.

Metric fixation is the persistence of these beliefs despite their unintended negative consequences when they are put into practice.6 It occurs because not everything that is important is measureable, and much that is measurable is unimportant.

Measuring the most easily measurable. There is a natural human tendency to try to simplify problems by focusing on the most easily measureable elements.1 But what is most easily measured is rarely what is most important, indeed sometimes not important at all. That is the first source of metric dysfunction.

If he acts, if he doesn't, it's meaningless. The whole thing goes forward. No one is important. No one at all.

I want to belong to you, like a name. I want to be a thing people have to know to know you.

Take care of her. That is the most important thing." "Auf Wiedersehen." She leaned down to kiss Ania's cheek. "Mach's gut," Ania said, and caught her hand. Make it good -- an old expression her mother had used.

The cultural insistence that parenting is the 'most important' job in the world is a smart way to satiate unappreciated women without doing a damn thing for them.

Jealousy is like wasabe—a little can add excitement to your salmon sashimi but too much can make you cry and trigger facial contortions. I find it very flattering if someone is jealous of me. It is an affirmation that I am hot and spectacular. It is a confirmation of my value and importance. Yes, I am vain.

Haven't you ever observed how we live in an age of self-persecution? What a lot of things there are one might do that one doesn't - and yet why, God only knows. Work has become so tremendously important to-day, because so many have none, I suppose, that it kills everything else... Work, work, work . . . an abominable obsession - and always under the illusion it will be different later. And it never is different. Queer, isn't it, that anyone should do that with his life?

Ja mis teil südamel ka poleks – ärge pidage seda liiga tähtsaks. Vähe on asju, mis kauaks tähtsaks jäävad.

Kui oled surnud, oled kole tähtis – kui elad, ei hooli sust keegi.

Aga nii see inimene on: hindab ainult seda, millest ilma jääb.

Žmogus nesi jau toks svarbus. - Nesvarbus? - Švarcas v?l pak?l? sutrikus? veid?. - Nesvarbus? Žinoma, ne! Bet malon?kite pasakyti man, kas gi tuomet svarbu, jeigu gyvenimas nebesvarbus? - Niekas, - atsakiau žinodamas, kad tai ir teisyb?, ir ne. - Tiktai mes patys suteikiame viskam vert?.

Und was Sie auch haben – nehmen Sie es nicht zu wichtig. Es gibt wenig, das lange wichtig bleibt." Die Frau sah ihn an. Sie trank nicht. "Es ist so", sagte Ravic. "Besonders nachts. Die Nacht übertreibt.

Wir haben den Sinn für andere Zusammenhänge verloren, weil sie künstlich sind. Nur die Tatsachen sind richtig und wichtig für uns.

We have lost all sense of other considerations, because they are artificial. Only the facts are real and important to us. And good boots are scarce.

THE ADMIRALTY'S focus was elsewhere, on a different ship that it deemed far more valuable.

He had only to assert the most commonplace thing and it sounded important and convincing.

Stature [was] a powerful lure in this age when pride of place ranked second only to pride of blood.

that it was "most important to attract neutral shipping