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Quotes About Importance

My passion. My commitment. This is the most important thing in my life other than my family.
~ Howard Schultz
But there is no such thing as a pure fact, innocent of interpretation. Behind every fact presented to the world - by a teacher, a writer, anyone - is a judgement. The judgement that has been made is that this fact is important, and that other facts, omitted, are not important.
~ Howard Zinn
There is not a country in world history in which racism has been more important, for so long a time, as the United States.
~ Howard Zinn
But there is no such thing as a pure fact, innocent of interpretation. Behind every fact presented to the world—by a teacher, a writer, anyone—is a judgment. The judgment that has been made is that this fact is important, and that other facts, omitted, are not important.
~ Howard Zinn
To state the facts, however, and then to bury them in a mass of other information is to say to the reader with a certain infectious calm: yes, mass murder took place, but it's not that important—it should weigh very little in our final judgments; it should affect very little what we do in the world.
~ Howard Zinn
There is not a country in world history in which racism has been more important, for so long a time, as the United States. And
~ Howard Zinn
The cult of domesticity for the woman was a way of pacifying her with a doctrine of "separate but equal"—giving her work equally as important as the man's, but separate and different.
~ Howard Zinn
In a nervous society where a man's image is frequently more important than his reality, the only people who can afford to advertise their drug menus are those with nothing to lose.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
something very unlikely happened which by sheer chance mattered more to him than anybody else it could have happened to.
~ Iain Banks
Shame, I do believe, is the most powerful emotion known to man; most discoveries and journeys of importance have been accomplished because of the ignominy that would be the result if the attempt was abandoned.
~ Iain Pears
When anything can happen, everything matters.
~ Ian Mcewan
one could drown in irrelevance.
~ Ian Mcewan
The primitive thinking of the supernaturally inclined amounts to what his psychiatric colleagues call a problem, or an idea, of reference. An excess of the subjective, the ordering of the world in line with your needs, an inability to contemplate your own unimportance. In Henry's view such reasoning belongs on a spectrum at whose far end, rearing like an abandoned temple, lies psychosis.
~ Ian Mcewan
If someone where playing tennis you wouldn't walk onto the court and begin to have a conversion with them, likewise I think reading is at least as important as a game of tennis.
~ Ian Mcewan
Which brought me back to my worry. Why had he turned up just then? Why at that precise moment? Why not the day before or after, for example? Was it just random, or was there an underlying pattern I couldn't yet see? Shakespeare, you understand, as interpreted by Henry Lytten. The greater the coincidence, the greater the importance of the hidden causation.
~ Ian Pears
A leading role as a POC young man in a series on Netflix - to me personally it's more important than just getting a job.
~ Raymond Ablack
Young men and women, your education is ever important - to us, to you, and to God.
~ Russell M. Nelson
I can't say I connected with many of my co-workers at Westminster. My MP's office was sandwiched between those of Peter Mandelson and Harriet Harman, but I never mixed with the important-looking young men and women who bustled in and out of their doors.
~ Jesse Armstrong
A good education is the most important gift we can give our young people.
~ Nicola Sturgeon
I am sure you will agree that all children deserve time, attention, and love from the adults in their lives. These basic qualities are so much more valuable than the always-changing material and social concerns that can seem so important to young people.
~ Kate Middleton
I enjoy talking to young people, and talking to people about helping young people. That part is not a chore. It's pretty fun, and something I like to do because I think it's important.
~ Tony Dungy
Our obligation at the network is where do we fit into that and how can we best capitalize on that to make sure that our piece of that remains important to those young people.
~ Tom Brokaw
I think the person I learnt the most from as a coach was Cruyff because he was always talking about tactics - how to play, where to play and when to play. I think that helps a lot of young players, which is good. He was the most important trainer for me.
~ Marco van Basten
Everyone wants to play in the Champions' League because that's where it is all happening. That's where you get the A-status for players. It's very important for young players.
~ Edgar Davids