Quotes About Importance

High as it may be, the number of victims is always measurable; and each one taken one by one is never anything but an individual: yet, through time and space, the triumph of the cause embraces the infinite, it interests the whole collectivity. In order to deny the outrage it is enough to deny the importance of the individual, even though it be at the cost of this collectivity: it is everything, he is only a zero.

Esses dados biológicos são de extrema importância: desempenham na história da mulher um papel de primeiro plano, são um elemento essencial da sua situação. (..) Mas o que recusamos é a ideia de que constituem um destino imutável para ela. (...) não a condenam a conservar para sempre essa condição subordinada.

The fact of being a human being is infinitely more important than all the singularities that distinguish human beings;

Je ne tenais pas particulièrement à revoir maman avant sa mort; mais je ne supportais pas l'idée qu'elle ne me reverrait pas. Pourquoi accorder tant d'importance à un instant, puisqu'il n'y aura pas de mémoire? Il n'y aura pas non plus de réparation. J'ai compris pour mon propre compte, jusque dans la moelle de mes os, que dans les derniers moments d'un moribond on puisse enfermer l'absolu.

S'identifier à l'univers même. Tout ce qui est moindre que l'univers est soumis à la souffrance. J'ai beau mourir, l'univers continu. Cela ne me console pas si je suis autre que l'univers. Mais si l'univers est à mon âme comme un autre corps, ma mort cesse d'avoir pour moi plus d'importance que celle d'un inconnu. De même les souffrances.

True discernment means not only distinguishing the right from the wrong; it means distinguishing the primary from the secondary, the essential from the indifferent, and the permanent from the transient. And, yes, it means distinguishing between the good and the better, and even between the better and the best.

Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it's less vigorous, but that it is not needed by youth; that its love and prosy sageness, so important a few years ago, so gladly offered now, are rejected with laughter.

But the bird's trilling, the dependable presence of Foolish, comforted Doremus, made military drill and belching politicians seem unimportant and in security he dropped asleep in the worn brown leather chair.

I am reluctantly considering the Academy (American Academy of Arts and Letters) because it is so perfect an example of the divorce in America of intellectual life from all authentic standards of importance and reality.

I can never bring you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace.

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. - Sherlock Holmes in A Case of Identity - 1891

In America only the successful writer is important, in France all writers are important, in England no writer is important, in Australia you have to explain what a writer is.

Those are the three keys: the want and the opposition to the want need to be important, necessary, and urgent. The result should be the kind of conflict that interests readers.

These services become affordable when you value them.

And maybe now you'll start treating everybody with respect. Not just the people you think are important.

It is absolutely what I think.' He looks deadly serious now. 'These academic guys have to feel important. They give papers and present TV programmes to show they're useful and valuable. But you do useful, valuable work every day. You don't need to prove anything. How many people have you treated? Hundreds. You've reduced their pain. You've made hundreds of people happier. Has Antony Tavish ever made anyone happier?

These academic guys have to feel important. They give papers and present TV programs to show they're useful and valuable. But you do useful, valuable work every day. You don't need to prove anything. How many people have you treated? Hundreds. You've reduced their pain. You've made hundreds of people happier. Has Antony Tavish made anyone happier?" I'm sure there's something wrong

My phone's my life. I can't exist without it. It's a vital organ.

But sometimes you have to be brave. Sometimes you have to show people what's important in life. And I have this very strong gut instinct that what I've done is the right thing.

But sometimes you have to be brave. Sometimes you have to show people what's important in life. And I have this very strong gut instinct that what I've done is the right thing. maybe not the easy thing-but the right thing.

Il lavoro è sicuramente una delle cose più importanti della vita, e dovrebbe essere adatto a te. Lo stipendio non è tutto.

Tell it anyway. Little words can mean death or life sometimes.

To pace about, looking to obtain status, looking to attain 'importance' - I can think of nothing more ridiculous.

In Moulmein, in lower Burma, I was hated by large numbers of people - the only time in my life that I have been important enough for this to happen to me.