Quotes About Importance

I think there's no doubt that George Washington was the most important American to this time.

I'm very interested in stopping time. And starting time. There is that aspect of time that I'm playing with, that it's elusive and unnoticed yet really in the end the most important thing.

The literary world is more time-traveling than the art world, and novelty is much more important in art than it is in writing.

It is not time to tell the leaders to realize how important education is - they already know it - their own children are in good schools. Now it is time to call them to take action.

God didn't have time to create a nobody.

I take the fact that films cost a lot of money very seriously, but once in a while to have somebody say, This is a big scene, take your time with it, is important. That's John Sayles.

That's not so important to me, that time thing.

I don't even watch Fox News usually in the prime time hours because I'm home with my kids and that's more important to me.

When you want to say something very important, tell it with a short sentence! There is no time for long stories!

There is a time for some things, and a time for all things; a time for great things, and a time for small things.

Outside of our relationship with the Lord, marriage is right next to it. It's an important relationship and you hear that analogy all the time. There's no better one than that for sure.

I have a hard time really claiming my place as a songwriter or as doing anything of import really because I feel like I'm tooting my own horn in a way.

But they wanted you. Time is not something you give back. The very next moment may be answer to your prayer. To deny that is to deny the most important part of the future.

Time has nothing to do with the matter.

Time is valuable; people are busy.

I have too much respect for the truth to drag it out on every trifling occasion.

We recognize that there are no trivial occurrences in life if we get the right focus on them.

What, sir, would the people of the Earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.

It know we have a fashion of saying such and such an event was the turning-point in my life, but we shouldn't say it. We should merely grant that its place as LAST link in the chain makes it the most CONSPICUOUS link; in real importance it has no advantage over any one of its predecessors.

It gave an appalling idea of the value of an hour, and I thought I could never waste one again without remorse and terror.

What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce. "Woman—An Opinion" (speech) Some

Some people scorn a cat and think it not an essential; but the Clemens tribe are not of these.

It will be best to start right and not let the record get confused, for some instinct tells me that these details are going to be important to the historian some day. For I feel like an experiment, I feel exactly like an experiment; it would be impossible for a person to feel more like an experiment than I do, and so I am coming to feel convinced that that is what I AM—an experiment; just an experiment, and nothing more.

It takes the fuel away from your endless, driving self-criticism. You will eventually be able to see more clearly that some things in life are less important than you had thought, and find it easier to let go of over-caring about them. You will find that the energy that they have been consuming can be used to treat yourself and the world more generously.