Quotes About Importance

It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.

bir zamanlar birbirlerinden ayr?lmak, birbirlerini kaybetme ihtimalinin korkusunu çekmi? olmasalar, belki de birbirleri için ne kadar k?ymetli olduklar?n? hala bilmeyeceklerdi.

And what makes humans so sure that thinking is the most important activity in the universe?...I on the contrary have never forgotten that first I existed and then, with a lot of difficulty, I learned to think." (p. 31)

Su mundo de humanos standard: Una burbuja donde nada sino lo humano es oído o visto realmente, donde nada más que lo humano importa y lo demás es paisaje, mercancía o comida.

It's nice to be important, but it's also important to be nice. Never forget that.

The only thing you can do is to stop attaching importance to your own ways of thinking and feeling, your thought patterns, your emotions, and your opinions. Don't attach any importance to them. Then your limitations will become weaker and weaker and one day collapse.

As long as the personality is important, it simply means the previous moment is important. This present moment is not important, because the personality belongs to the past.

Have you come into this world to experience life or to think about it? Your mental process is a very small happening compared to the life process, but right now it has become far more important.

Time is more important to me then distance

We were in that world of Negroes who are both servants and psychologists, aware that white people are so obsessed with their own importance that they will pay liberally, even dearly, for the impression of being catered to and entertained.

Todos los derechos son importantes, pero, si nos amputasen el derecho a soñar, perderíamos todo el resto.

Does the emerald lose its beauty for lack of admiration? Does gold, or ivory, or purple? A lyre or a dagger, a rosebud or a sapling?

A key point to bear in mind: The value of attentiveness varies in proportion to its object. You're better off not giving the small things more time than they deserve.

The fraction of infinity, of that vast abyss of time, allotted to each of us. Absorbed in an instant into eternity. The fraction of all substance, and all spirit. The fraction of the whole earth you crawl about on. Keep all that in mind, and don't treat anything as important except doing what your nature demands, and accepting what Nature sends you.

The value of attentiveness varies in proportion to its object. You're better off not giving the small things more time than they deserve.

He claimed that a man's life should be valued according to the value of the things to which he gave his attention.

Vanity is the greatest seducer of reason: when you are most convinced your work is important, that is when you are most under its spell.

32. The fraction of infinity, of that vast abyss of time, allotted to each of us. Absorbed in an instant into eternity. The fraction of all substance, and all spirit. The fraction of the whole earth you crawl about on. Keep all that in mind, and don't treat anything as important except doing what your nature demands, and accepting what Nature sends you. 33.

everyone is worth just so much as those things are worth in which he is interested.

Indeed, for Christians, the unending conversation about Jesus is the most important conversation there is. He is for us the decisive revelation of God—of what can be seen of God's character and passion in a human life. There are other important conversations. But for followers of Jesus, the unending conversation about Jesus is the conversation that matters most.

Older than the gospels themselves, this understanding of Jesus' death is central to the letters of Paul. It is also part of Paul's summary of the tradition he received when he became a follower of Jesus: "For I handed on to you as of first importance what I in turn had received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures."4

Huston Smith's book Why Religion Matters

back in 1999 when lists were being compiled of the most important books of the twentieth century, William James's The Varieties of Religious Experience appeared at number two on the list of the one hundred most important nonfiction

Which of us can resist the temptation of being thought indispensable?