Quotes About Importance

Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I don't like that attitude. I can assure them it is much more serious than that.

Size isn't everything. The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine.

Being able to accelerate trust organizationally in a tangible, practical way is a big deal. Intellectually, people understand the importance of trust, but translating that concept into reality is an entirely different matter. Leaders and managers struggle with it especially. They often find it maddening knowing that building trust is essential but not knowing exactly how to build trust within their organization.

Age is of no importance unless you are a cheese.

To make Europe more effective is a worthwhile objective. To make Europe less important in your calculations is a big mistake.

There must be a rule of thumb in pop-culture archaeology that states that the allure of any topic is inversely related to its assigned importance in the affairs of humanity. The more trivial the subject, the dearer it is to most of its partisans and the more worthy of scholarship. The smallest things in life often mean the most to people.

The way we get our news is very important, and the idea that the media doesn't always do right by us, and that they focus on things they shouldn't for ratings, is very important, and it's absolutely worthy of ridicule.

That moment was very important because it was political. That's what has to be done, so they struck a deal. She figures his is a well-thought-out motivation that she felt was worthy trade-off. The motivation here is survival, and she has to think like a leader.

From my earliest childhood, my attention was specially directed to the subject of acoustics, and specially to the subject of speech, and I was urged by my father to study everything relating to these subjects, as they would have an important bearing upon what was to be my professional work.

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

The smallest wound or pain of the ego is examined under a microscope as if it were of eternal importance. The artist considers his isolation, his subjectivity, his individualism almost holy.

Most fourth graders can't say why Abraham Lincoln is an important historical figure? Wow. This is far more distressing than if the news had been that fourth graders were bad at reciting multiplication tables, because you can, in fact, Google that.

I always thought, 'Wow, I know I have an important story to tell,' but I never really thought it would happen.

While I hold my own political views, it's important not to get too wrapped up in individual candidates and personalities, but instead to focus on the real issues.

My entire career writing novels was wrapped up around Harry Bosch. This character was too important to me to just hand off.

Faulkner is a really important figure in southern literature. I wrestle with him and his legacy every time I sit down and write a piece of fiction.

My health is 100% more important than coming back to wrestling. Being a good father is more important than going out there and expounding on my belief that doing more hammerlocks in wrestling is good for the business!

I think having the King of the Ring on television can only help with the importance of matches and help wrestling.

Fans are really important for me. And if they take pains to write me, it's the minimum that I answer myself.

Of course, relative citation frequencies are no measure of relative importance. Who has not aspired to write a paper so fundamental that very soon it is known to everyone and cited by no one?

The secret is to write just anything, to dare to write just anything, because when you write just anything, you begin to say what is important.

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.

Whether you believe it or not, you have to understand the politics. In every script, there is a political bend that the writer has included. Whether you like it or not, is on you. But it's very important to know that politics.

As far as fame, the everlasting fame thing. I used to think that was important for a writer... the desire to make your mark.