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Quotes About Importance

I could pretend otherwise, pushing it out of sight and hopefully out of mind. But if something was really important, fate made sure it somehow came back to you and gave you another chance.
~ Sarah Dessen
Parents are always precious. But when you only have one, they become crucial.
~ Sarah Dessen
Parents are always precious. But when you have only one, they become crucial. The Rest of the Story
~ Sarah Dessen
The person serving feels inferior to the person being served so they try and show they are important by being rude.
~ Sarah Turnbull
One way or another the no doubt mad idea entered my mind that my own actions had historic importance and this fantasy (?) made it appear that people who harmed me were interfering with an important experiment.
~ Saul Bellow
began to learn from her was of the utmost importance; namely, that everyone sees to it his fate is shared. Or tries
~ Saul Bellow
The thing I learned from her was of the utmost importance; namely, that everyone sees to it his fate is shared. Or tries to see to it.
~ Saul Bellow
Priorities are the things you need to get right so the things you love can thrive.
~ Scott Adams
Conversation is more than the sum of the words. It is also a way of signaling the importance of another person by showing your willingness to give that person your rarest resource: time. It is a way of conveying respect. Conversation reminds us that we are part of a greater whole, connected in some way that transcends duty or bloodline or commerce. Conversation can be many things, but it can never be useless.
~ Scott Adams
The things that you think about the most will irrationally rise in importance in your mind.
~ Scott Adams
An intentional "error" in the details of your message will attract criticism. The attention will make your message rise in importance—at least in people's minds—simply because everyone is talking about it.
~ Scott Adams
The steering wheel and the engine are of equal importance. It is a human impulse—composed of equal parts arrogance and instinct—to believe we can rank everything in our environment. Importance is not an intrinsic quality of the universe. It exists only in our delusion-filled minds. I can assure you that humans are not in any form or fashion more important than rocks or steering wheels or engines.
~ Scott Adams
Ethics are important because they give direction to people and societies who have some sense that they cannot flourish without being moral.
~ Scott B. Rae
He shook with another sob, sinking to one knee and realizing that the survival of that one ship – one girl, really – had been for a moment more important than the war itself, or a city's millions. Then the wind shifted, and Alek breathed in the burnt-meat smells that filled the room behind him. Important enough for him to kill a man, it seemed.
~ Scott Westerfeld
aquel que ocupa el primer puesto, rara vez desempeña el papel principal.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Tanya didn't know how important her answer was to him
~ Johanna Lindsey
It is much more important to know what sort of patient has a disease than what sort of disease a patient has.
~ John Abramson
Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
~ John Adams
The preservation of the means of knowledge among the lowest ranks is of more importance to the public than all the property of all the rich men in the country.
~ John Adams
Pain only matters when it happens to someone important.
~ John Barnes
Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story. Hamlet could be told from Polonius's point of view and called The Tragedy of Polonius, Lord Chamberlain of Denmark. He didn't think he was a minor character in anything, I daresay.
~ John Barth
But if you express your pride in me, then I feel reassured that I am really important.… I need to be reassured and told this often, just as I need to see and feel tangible evidence of your love.…
~ John Bloom
They know the importance of their mission and of America's commitment to combating and defeating terrorism abroad, and they know that they are making a real difference in bringing freedom to a part of the world that has known only tyranny.
~ John Boehner
And that is why marriage and family law has emphasized the importance of marriage as the foundation of family, addressing the needs of children in the most positive way.
~ John Boehner