Quotes About Importance

I don't believe there is a life after death in the literal sense. I don't believe my individual ego or spirit is unique and important enough to wake up after burial and soar to bliss and pink clouds in heaven. If we leave the body behind as we must, we are nothing.

And get this, I'm with you. Don't stop talking to me, please. It's as important as if we were the only people alive . . . .

Listen up, my friends: Money is extremely important in the areas in which it works, and extremely unimportant in the areas in which it doesn't. And although love may make the world go round, it sure doesn't pay for the building of any hospitals, churches, or homes. It also doesn't feed anybody.

Money's not really important." Let me ask you this question: If you said that your husband or your wife, or your boyfriend or your girlfriend, or your partner or your friend, weren't all that important, would any of them be around for long? I don't think so, and neither would money!

WEALTH PRINCIPLE: Money is extremely important in the areas in which it works, and extremely unimportant in the areas in which it doesn't.

He was accustomed to paying measurable heed only to those details that bore upon him most directly.

Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm; but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.

Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.

Half the harm that is done in this world Is due to people who want to feel important.

It seems that one ought to read in two ways: 1) because of a particular and personal interest, which makes the thing one's own, regardless of what other people think of the book 2) to a certain extent, because it is something one 'ought to have read' but one must be quite clear this why one is reading.

All that I could hope to make you understand Is only events: not what has happened. And people to whom nothing has ever happened Cannot understand the unimportance of events.

Time is such a cheat. The more importance you give it, the less you have of it.

He was not great; he was, in fact, very small. At the same moment, though, he was important, just as any point of light in a dark sky might be the star that led a mariner to safety, or the star watched by a lonely child during a sleepless night. . . .

And, discovering this truth, she felt it burning inside her. It was so right. She had turned away from a gift, thinking it did not matter, but in fact a gift—and specifically the gift of love—was the only thing that did matter.

Alla –ismer där vi stannat är sekunda, inte störst. Freden måste komma först. Gör den inte det, min vän, kommer inget efter den.

The ancient paused for a moment, as if his strength were failing. Yet I sensed that there was more to tell. Looking deep into my eyes, he whispered: 'The Gond kingdoms have fallen, their people live dispersed in poverty: the teak trees and the jungles have been cleared... but the importance of the Gonds must not be forgotten!

There be many gurus, and some good ones whom it is no great task to differentiate, seeing that those who make the loudest claim are least entitled to respect. They who are the true guides into Knowledge know that nothing can be taught, although the learner easily can be assisted to discover what is in himself. Other than which there is no knowledge of importance, except this: that what is in himself is everywhere.--From The Book Of The Sayings Of Tsiang Samdup

The harder the goal, the more important it is

Teaching was more important than personal objectives. Teaching was a serious debt that could only be repaid by correct teaching of new mages.

The sense of his dynamic importance to them was so strong that Cyrion swept the crowd a low, half-mocking bow.

What's the value of a diamond? Whatever someone is willing to pay for a pretty stone that makes him feel important.

Ya dominamos la energía del viento, de los mares, del sol. Pero el día que el hombre sepa dominar la energía del amor será algo tan importante como el descubrimiento del fuego

Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

I know I fib a good deal. After all, a woman's charm is fifty per cent illusion, but when a thing is important I tell the truth. - Blanche Scene II