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Quotes About Importance

A garden is not a matter of life or death. It is far more important than that.
~ Elin Hilderbrand
And Margot should have made a rule about no cell phones. What was it about life now? The people who weren't present always seemed to be more important than the people who were.
~ Elin Hilderbrand
What was it about life now? The people who weren't present always seemed to be more important than the people who were.
~ Elin Hilderbrand
What was it about life now? The people who weren't present always seemed to be more important than the people who were.
~ Elin Hilderbrand
Quality alone cannot be the goal. It's important. But it's not the goal.
~ Eliyahu M. Goldratt
And it became even more interesting when we realized that we were visiting the same six or seven work centers every time. They're not bottlenecks, but the sequence in which they perform their jobs became very important. We call them 'capacity constraint resources,' CCR for short.
~ Eliyahu M. Goldratt
You know what, it really highlights another problem. Changing the measurements' scale of importance, moving from one world into another, is without a doubt a culture change. Let's face it, that is exactly what we had to go through, a culture change. But how are we going to take the division through such a change?
~ Eliyahu M. Goldratt
no matter who else loves her, I am her father and my love counts most.
~ Elizabeth Adler
Just the sort of stuff that doesn't seem important to deal with right now when you're busy, until you can't get to your skin because you're seal inside an isolation film and it's the only thing you can think about.
~ Elizabeth Bear
You will be quite safe, Master Shakespeare. My lord Salisbury would never permit you to come to harm; you are one of England's treasures in your very own person. But simply too much trouble to be left lying until things are more certain.
~ Elizabeth Bear
And because no one answered or cared and a conversation went on without her she felt profoundly lonely, suspecting once more for herself a particular doom of exclusion. Something of the trees in their intimacy of shadow was shared by the husband and wife and their host in the tree-shadowed room. She thought of love with its gift of importance. "I must break in on all this," she thought as she looked around the room.
~ Elizabeth Bowen
A living dog's better than a dead lion.
~ Elizabeth Bowen
I'm not supposed to date you, Jenny." "That's what you said before." He leaned forward, his elbows on his knees. "I didn't think this was going to be a problem. I mean, I'm pretty good at not letting someone become important to me. I have to be if I want to make it to L.A." "I understand." He laughed. "How nice of you to understand, since you're the one making it a struggle for me! It would be so easy to make you important.
~ Elizabeth Chandler
The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.
~ Elizabeth Clarkson Zwart
The dishes," [Garnet] said. "Oh, let them stand for once!" cried Mrs. Linden grandly, "we can do them when we come home. This is an important day." "You're nice," said Garnet, and gave her mother a hug.
~ Elizabeth Enright
I think so." That's why she'd saved the boy. His future might not be earth shattering or cancer saving. He was still important, though. And that's what mattered most.
~ Elizabeth Frost
Nothing mitigated failure except the knowledge that it did not matter.
~ Elizabeth Goudge
You say to yourself, 'Have I kidded myself all these years. Does what I care about really matter? Is (my opinion) important? On a scale of one to ten, would it even register?' And instead of not caring, you decide to care even more.
~ Elizabeth Hay
Fear made people greedy and therefore selfish; that small minority who honestly did not care for themselves in that way, who could sincerely say that money was unimportant to them, almost always had no dependants.
~ Elizabeth Jane Howard
that small minority who honestly did not care for themselves in that way, who could sincerely say that money was unimportant to them, almost always had no dependants.
~ Elizabeth Jane Howard
A book for the general reader on an esoteric subject has to argue for its own interestingness by being interesting. And never argue for its own importance, which a work of scholarship may do. I consider the balancing act of "being accessible" a discipline rather than a limitation.
~ Elizabeth Knox
I saw that animals were important. I saw that plants were even more important. I was also to learn that compared to many of the other species, we weren't important at all except for the damage we do. We do not rule the natural world, despite our conspicuous position in it. On the contrary, it is our lifeline, and we do well to try to understand its rules.
~ Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
quality naps can make up for lost night sleep—but extra nighttime sleep does not make up for missed naps, as made clear by the homeostatic sleep pressure concept. Therefore, no matter how your child sleeps at night—great sleeper or poor sleeper—his daily naps are critically important to release the rising sleep pressure. Infants have a much shorter span in which
~ Elizabeth Pantley
I once thought that being liked was important. Now I know that *Loving Myself* is paramount!
~ Elizabeth Richardson