Quotes About Importance

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.

Every woman wants to be first to someone sometime in her life and that desire is the explanation for many strange things women do.

We have to make these young people (of the Depression) feel that they are necessary. (They should be given) "certain things for which youth craves – the chance for self-sacrifice for an ideal.

I learned something which has stood me in good stead many times—the most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.

The more the world speeds up the more it seems necessary that we should learn to pick out of the past the things that we feel were important and beautiful then. One of these things was a quality of tranquillity in people, which you rarely meet today.

There are two kinds of snobbishness: One is that of the man who has had a good many opportunities and looks down on those who lack them. The other is rarely understood, that of the self-made man who glories in his success in overcoming difficulties and admires greatly people who have achieved the things he considers of importance.

To respect one's fellow men is perhaps more difficult than to 'love' them in a wide, vague sense. In fact, it is possible that to feel respect for mankind is better than to feel love for it. Love can often be misguided and do as much harm as good, but respect can do only good. It assumes that the other person's stature is as large as one's own, his rights as reasonable, his needs as important.

Just as there are no little people or unimportant lives, there is no insignificant work.

It was an old fear, a fear that has never left me: the fear that, in losing pieces of her life, mine lost intensity and importance. And the fact that she didn't answer emphasized that preoccupation. However hard I tried in my letters to communicate the privilege of the days in Ischia, my river of words and her silence seemed to demonstrate that my life was splendid but uneventful, which left me time to write to her every day, while hers was dark but full.

She grumbled, she said sarcastically that men place such an enormous importance on fucking, she laughed: not Marcello - although even he doesn't joke - but Michele, who went crazy, he's been obsessed with me for a long time, and even runs after the shadow of my shadow.

para el que no es nadie convertirse en alguien es más importante que cualquier otra cosa.

Temía que en mi ausencia le ocurrieran cosas, buenas o malas. Era un temor antiguo, un temor que no había superado: el miedo de que al perderme trozos de su vida, la mía perdiera intensidad e importancia.

Ci metti sopra le chiese, i conventi, i libri - sembrano così importanti, i libri, disse con sarcasmo, tu ci hai dedicato tutta la tua vita - e il male sfonda il pavimento e sbuca dove non te l'aspetti.

Then he added, in an almost threatening tone: Without these rasping hands, professor, not a chair would exist, or a building, a car, nothing, not even you; if we workers stopped working everything would stop, the sky would fall to earth and the earth would shoot up the sky, the plants would take over the cities, the Arno would flood your fine houses, and only those who have always worked would know how to survive, and as for you two, you with all your books, the dogs would tear you to pieces.

Dass er niemand ist. Und für einen, der niemand ist, gibt es nichts Wichtigeres, als jemand zu werden. Daraus folgt, dass dieser Signor Sarratore ein unzuverlässiger Mensch ist.«

How brief and magical it was that we all lived so close to each other and went in and out of each other's rooms, and our most important job was to solve mysteries. The temporariness made it all the more important to do the right thing—to follow the right leads.

Whenever I am worried about anything," said this guy Ben,"I like to think about China. China has a population of like two billion people, and not one of them even remotely cares about whatever you think is so important." I acknowledged that this was a great comfort.

What a beautiful girl you are," he said, with a kind of ache or awe in his voice, that made me think about how someday I would be old or dead or both, and the transience of all things, of the car, the moonlight, the volcanic rock that was eroding and the stars that were shooting by, made the world seem at once more important and less important, until finally the concept of "important" itself faded away like an expiring firework that glittered against the sky.

It was impossible not to think that her beauty was one of the most important things about her–something having to do with who she really was.

They all matter to me, whether I'm working on a Sam Jackson film for a week or I'm the star of my own TV series - I take it all very seriously, and I have a healthy respect for the work in general, despite the role.

The strategies that managers employ are at least as important as the facilities at their disposal.

Narcissists are bound to feel that their own death is the end of everything that really matters.

But how many ships do you reckon my presence to be worth?