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Quotes About Importance

The small details of life often hide a great significance.
~ Margaret Atwood
I don't know why they are all so eager to be remembered. What good will it do them? There are some things that should be forgotten by everyone, and never spoken of again.
~ Margaret Atwood
And he couldn't stand to be nothing, to know himself to be nothing. He needs to be listened to, he needs to be heard. He needs at least the illusion of being understood.
~ Margaret Atwood
Sanity is a valuable possession.
~ Margaret Atwood
Paper isn't important. It's the words on them that are important.
~ Margaret Atwood
All myths are stories, but not all stories are myths: among stories, myths hold a special place.
~ Margaret Atwood
Knowing this secret, being the only one chosen to know, makes me feel important in a way. But it's a negative importance, it's the importance of a blank sheet of paper. I can know because I don't count. I feel singled out, but also bereft.
~ Margaret Atwood
We are containers, it's only the insides of our bodies that are important.
~ Margaret Atwood
Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democracy - which many believe goes hand in hand with it - will be dead as well.
~ Margaret Atwood
Falling in love... how could he have made such light of it? Sneered even. As if it was trivial for us, a frill, a whim. It was, on the contrary, heavy going. It was the central thing, the way you understood yourself.
~ Margaret Atwood
I don't know why they are all so eager to be remembered. What good will it do them? There are some things that should be forgotten by everyone, and never spoken of again.
~ Margaret Atwood
Quién puede resistirse a la tentación de ser considerado indispensable?
~ Margaret Atwood
Why interesting and important? Because women are interesting and important in real life. They are not an afterthought of nature, they are not secondary players in human destiny, and every society has always known that. Without women capable of giving birth, human populations will die out. That is why the mass rape and murder of women, girls, and children has long been a feature of genocidal wars, and of other campaigns meant to subdue and exploit a population.
~ Margaret Atwood
thinking: a rather prosaic, low-tech concept, easily forgotten and routinely underrated. But
~ Margaret Heffernan
A man's worth is measured by his importance to society and to humanity generally
~ Margaret Leslie Davis
If you consider the contribution of plumbing to human life, the other sciences fade into insignificance.
~ James P. Gorman
Design is more important than technology in most consumer applications.
~ Dave McClure
You can try to control people, or you can try to have a system that represents reality. I find that knowing what's really happening is more important than trying to control people.
~ Larry Page
Please understand, I am not saying that technology is unimportant. I understand that technology is important.
~ Satoru Iwata
Not all bits have equal value.
~ Carl Sagan
The telephone is the most important single technological resource of later life.
~ Alex Comfort
In some cases, inventions prohibit innovation because we're so caught up in playing with the technology, we forget about the fact that it was supposed to be important.
~ Dean Kamen
Education technology is very important because we have a massive challenge in public schools.
~ Major Owens
The research carried out in the area of language technology is of utmost importance for the consolidation of Portuguese as a language of global communication in the information society.
~ Pedro Passos Coelho