Quotes About Importance

if "success" were important in any area of life, it was supremely important in our role as parents.

Importance, on the other hand, has to do with results. If something is important, it contributes to your mission, your values, your high priority goals.

PRINCIPLES OF PERSONAL MANAGEMENT Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least. GOETHE

Urgent matters are usually visible. They press on us; they insist on action. They're often popular with others. They're usually right in front of us. And often they are pleasant, easy, fun to do. But so often they are unimportant! Importance, on the other hand, has to do with results. If something is important, it contributes to your mission, your values, your high priority goals.

Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least. GOETHE

learned to focus on truly important things, not just urgent things.

mastered their fate was more important than what that fate was.

Our prayers must mean something to us if they are to mean anything to God.

It's good to do your testing with participants who are like the people who will use your site, but the truth is that recruiting people who are from your target audience isn't quite as important as it may seem. For many sites, you can do a lot of your testing with almost anybody. And if you're just starting to do testing, your site probably has a number of usability flaws that will cause real problems for almost anyone you recruit.

the main thing it usually ends up doing is revealing that the things they were arguing about weren't all that important. People often test to decide which color drapes are best, only to learn that they forgot to put windows in the room.

as the historian Tom Standage observes, they were "among the first to recognize the importance of trademarks and advertising, of slogans, logos…. Since the remedies themselves usually cost very little to make, it made sense to spend money on marketing.

the technology is not a single cause of a cultural transformation like the Renaissance, but it is, in many ways, just as important to the story as the human visionaries that we conventionally celebrate.

A quick search on Google yields over 11.5 billion hits for the word "time." In comparison, more obvious topics of interest like sex and money rank a paltry 2.75 billion and 2 billion, respectively. Time and how to make the most of it, appears to be about five times more important to us than making love or money.

La motivación es un mensaje. Es el cerebro diciendo: Oye, levántate del sofá, haz esta cosa, es superimportante para tu supervivencia. Para enviar este mensaje, el cerebro se apoya en cuatro componentes básicos: la neuroquímica y la neuroelectricidad, que son los mensajes propiamente dichos, y la neuroanatomía y las redes, que son los lugares donde se envían y reciben esos mensajes.

And anyone with a humanistic sensibility cares about you, not in the sense of feeling your pain—human empathy is too feeble to spread itself across billions of strangers—but in the sense of realizing that your existence is cosmically no less important than theirs, and that we all have a responsibility to use the laws of the universe to enhance the conditions in which we all can flourish.

Adversaries are divided not just by their competitive spin-doctoring but by the calendars with which they measure history and the importance they put on remembrance. The victims of a conflict are assiduous historians and cultivators of memory. The perpetrators are pragmatists, firmly planted in the present. Ordinarily

They write as if they have something important to show.

But this book is about semantics, and I would not make a claim on your attention if I did not think that the relation of language to our inner and outer worlds was a matter of intellectual fascination and real-world importance.

We are not loved because we are valued; we are valued because we are loved.

Love is more important than what we can take...Please say with me three times-Love! Love! Love!

The more you love your art/ calling/ enterprise, the more important its accomplishment to the evolution of your soul, the more you will fear it and the more Resistance you will experience facing it.

My girlfriend and I never let each other forget how much we love each other. It's all about reminding the other person how important and special she is to you.

All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich without us here.

The fulfilling life, the distinctive life, the relevant life, is an achievement... To do whatever you do for no reason other than you love it and believe in its importance.