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Quotes About Importance

Early in her career, the ratio of UX and designers to developers was 1:70. These days, great teams doing consumer-oriented products have ratios of 1:6 because it's that important to create products that people love.
~ Gene Kim
Remember that things are symbols, and that the thing symbolized is more important than the symbol itself.
~ Genevieve Behrend
She remembered the conversation in the Library, as forgetting was the last thing a fully-trained Librarian should do. Memories were as important as books, and almost as important as proper indexing.
~ Genevieve Cogman
I think he and the Princess are engaged in an unofficial game of Who Can Show They're More Important by Arriving Last, not that either of them would admit it.
~ Genevieve Cogman
Mother, please, hear me out. If there's something I've learned over the last few years, it's that everything people do is important. I happen to have chosen this particular thing to do with my life, and I was lucky enough to have the choice.
~ Genevieve Cogman
You think very highly of yourself," Kai answered, equally quietly, but far more deadly, "if you believe that it doesn't matter.
~ Genevieve Cogman
There were three basic reasons why Librarians were sent out to alternates to find specific books: because the book was important to a senior Librarian, because the book would have an effect on the Language, or because the book was specific and unique to that alternate world.
~ Genevieve Cogman
Memories were as important as books and almost as important as proper indexing
~ Genevieve Cogman
Immigration is everyone's business: it is one of the most important national issues. The idea that it is too dangerous to be debated is a mockery of democracy. It is too important not to debate.
~ Geoffrey Blainey
To feel the right emotions is fully as important as to hold the right ideas, and the great service of religion is the development of the right emotions.
~ Geoffrey Parsons
Those who have tried meekness know the importance of being important.
~ George Ade
A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.
~ George Ade
Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.
~ George Bernard Shaw
It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.
~ George Bernard Shaw
The most mundane details of life are not mundane if they're done with someone else in mind. When you're in love, everything's important.
~ George Bishop
George Colman (the Younger)
~ Not to be sneezed at.
This missionary aspect is probably the most important single aspect of the story [of Pentecost] in Luke's view."109
~ George Eldon Ladd
I don't think that evolution is supremely important because it is my specialty; it is my specialty because I think it is supremely important. [In: Edward J. Larson (2004) Evolution, Modern Library. p. 250]
~ George Gaylord Simpson
No challenge, no matter how insignificant, can be left unanswered. Even a cry in the wilderness must be acknowledged, because someone might have heard it.
~ Ilona Andrews
Azdaha were no joke. ... Not much is known about this dragon [the aforementioned Gandarw], except that he apparently had yellow heels. I wonder why that was such an important detail. I mean if I were describing Godzilla, the color of his heels wouldn't be the first thing I would mention.
~ Ilona Andrews
She was too exhausted and downcast to take in the importance of the news- just as a person who has shed so many tears at the bedside of someone who is dying has none left for the actual moment of death.
~ Irene Nemirovsky
More than 80 percent of participants at these community forums indicated it was very important or extremely important to have their dignity respected, preferences honored, pain controlled, and not to leave family with debt.
~ Ira Byock
Reading and writing and the preservation of language and its forms and the kind of eloquence and the kind of beauty which the language is capable of is terribly important to the human beings because this is connected to thought.
~ Iris Murdoch