Quotes About Importance

Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

In the 1950s, there was a sense that literature and writing had a burning importance — that you could write a book or paint a painting and change the world. That kind of faith seems to be lacking now. Literature has been pushed toward the sidelines of [modern day] culture. There isn't that sense of centrality or permanence to the written word — everything seems more disposable.

Es siempre la absurda costumbre de dar más importancia a las personas que a los sentimientos. No encuentro otra palabra. Quiero decir: más importancia al instrumento que a la música.

La vida es algo demasiado valioso como para dejarlo en manos del destino, piensa Antonia, mirando por el retrovisor cómo el agente Ruano se va haciendo cada vez más pequeño.

Y Jon sonríe, porque eso es, al fin y al cabo, lo más importante en la vida. El noventa por ciento del trabajo es estar junto a quien tienes que estar. El otro diez por ciento, se improvisa sobre la marcha.

Así era: una habitación en el hotel de la familia Guterman era, para la mayoría de aquellos criollos pretenciosos, la única oportunidad de ver el mundo, el único papel de importancia que podían tener en su minúscula obrita de teatro.

nadie capta la importancia de lo que pasa al mismo tiempo que le está pasando. Si se me apareciera un genio con lo de los deseos, yo pediría ése, saber reconocer las cosas que van a ser importantes después.

Sólo importan aquellos a los que no has podido ayudar.

Él creía conocerla. Y aun cuando no hubiera sido así, ¿acaso no era suficiente saber que era la criatura más querida por él sobre la tierra? Y que además, y esto era lo más importante, le serviría para irse de la vida alumbrándose con aquella imagen que borraría todos los demás recuerdos.

Mother Theresa once said that what hurt people more than poverty or illness was feeling that they weren't needed.

Everything seems excessive, now, and too intense, too important.

It is strange, is it not, how an accident of a millimeter here, a millimeter there, makes one face so important. Think about it Elliot, She has two eyes, a nose, a mouth, just like everyone else. It,s all in tiny degrees of placement, such small area of magic to make such a big difference. For me, Elliot, I must tell you it is a hard thing to understand- why these things, these millimeters, are so crucial to you, you of all men.

it is strange, is it not, how an accident of millimeter here, a millimeter there, makes one face so important.

However, if you accept the actual invitation, no other appointment—unless with a surgeon or an undertaker—can take precedence.

than many that are of no perceptible use whatever.

Well, now, isn't that fine! Course, I don't know next to nothing about books, never could read much, and I ain't heard of that one, but I know it's important for a young person to get all the education they can. You go right on and read, Mattie, and I'll help your ma." He patted me on the head, and as I looked up, I saw Mama give him a long sideways look. I wasn't sure what it meant, but I read a little hurt and disappointment in her face.

Remember, 'No one's more important than people'! In other words, friendship is the most important thing--not career or housework, or one's fatigue--and it needs to be tended and nurtured.

Ready how? Who's ever ready for anything important?

Ya lo ven, hay gente que no asume la historia, que el paso de los siglos y sus aconteceres no tienen importancia para ellos.

he aprendido que la tierra no es nada sin los hombres, que lo que importan son los seres humanos.

She (Empress Marie Feodorovna) instinctively understood that to the Russian people the appearance of greatness was as important as greatness itself.

Something important is always about to happen... And if not, you'd do well to act as if it were. You'll enjoy life better that way.

Something important is always about to happen, my dear girl," Lady Danbury said. "And if not, you'd do well to act as if it were. You'll enjoy life better that way.

He wasn't certain how this woman had come to mean so much to him. It seemed that one day she was a stranger, and the next she was as indispensable as air. And yet it hadn't happened in a blinding flash. It had been a slow, sneaky process, quietly coloring his emotions until he realized that without her, his life lacked all meaning. -Benedict's thoughts about Sophie