Quotes About Importance

Nothing is as important as a likable narrator. Nothing holds a story together better.

you're instantly in a bind once you arrive here on earth, of need, self-will, a body and a separate personality, even before teh crippling self-consciousness kicks in, even before the seventh grade ... you're fucked at cell division ... it's all downhill from there. After that, it's all survival, and trying to keep yourself either entertained or convinced that the things you're obsessed with are of any importance at all in the big scheme.

There is no cosmic importance to your getting published, but there is in learning to be a giver.

The important things to remember she remembered, she told herself. The rest was chaff, which time would have winnowed out of active memory anyway.

Why is it that one does not tell people things while there is time? One lets such trivial things matter.

My faith in Christ is central to my life. My conversion from a pessimistic atheist lost in a world I didn't understand, to an optimistic believer in a universe created and sustained by a loving God is crucial to me. But following Christ does not mean following His followers. Christ is infinitely more important than Christianity and always will be, no matter what Christianity is, has been, or might become.

What is written beneath this heavy handsome book cover will count, so sayeth this cover…

Don't regret it when you don't come to see me. I think I'm timeless. You're here now and you've remembered me. That's what counts.

Lestat,' she said, 'it is the larger scheme which means nothing.' … 'It is the small act which means all. Of course sickness and suffering will continue after I'm gone. But what's important is that I have done all I can.

For the moment, death is spoiling life for you, that's all. But life is more important than death.

The beginning is no longer important. What matters is that the end may be at hand.

I want to be read. I want to be valued. That is perhaps the only shot at immortality a human being can have.

si Dios no existe, nosotros somos las criaturas de mayor conciencia del universo. Sólo nosotros comprendemos el paso del tiempo y el valor de cada minuto de vida humana. Y lo que constituye el mal, el verdadero mal, es el asesinato de una sola vida humana. No tiene la menor importancia que un hombre pueda morir mañana o pasado mañana o con el tiempo... Porque si Dios no existe, esta vida... cada segundo de la misma... es lo único que tenemos.

si Dios no existe, nosotros somos las criaturas de mayor conciencia del universo. Sólo nosotros comprendemos el paso del tiempo y el valor de cada minuto de vida humana. Y lo que constituye el mal, el verdadero mal, es el asesinato de una sola vida humana. No tiene la menor importancia que un hombre pueda morir mañana o pasado mañana o con el tiempo... Porque si Dios no existe, esta vida... cada segundo de la misma... es lo único que tenemos (p.268)

You didn't think I was so great anymore," she said. "You started finding fault with all I said; you looked bored when I was talking; you acted like everyone else in the room was more important than I was. You had stopped properly valuing me.

Do not worry […] Is not important. Is only a brand of canned peaches.

Of great importance, as I have said in another context, the image of Texas has a gender and a race: "Texas is a White man.

She squeezes my hand, and I feel that certainty I always had as a littlie. That I'm more than expendable. More than a body double.

I feel good when I leave the darkness of the cinema, it makes me feel my life is important. For a few minutes, I stroll along the dark streets, thinking of myself as someone in a film- a man with a character, a destiny. I become aware of my clothes and my physical mass; of my quiddity, my value.

Construction workers are more important to everyday life than stockbrokers and yet are far lower down the social and financial ladder.

treasure what it means to do a day's work. It's our one and only chance to do something productive today, and it's certainly not available to someone merely because he is the high bidder. A day's work is your chance to do art, to create a gift, to do something that matters. As your work gets better and your art becomes more important, competition for your gifts will increase and you'll discover that you can be choosier about whom you give them to.

We need librarians more than we ever did. What we don't need are mere clerks who guard dead paper. Librarians are too important to be a dwindling voice in our culture. For the right librarian, this is the chance of a lifetime.

Creating value through interaction is far more important than solving a consumer's problem in thirty seconds.

Marketing is too important to be left to the marketing department." David Packard