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Quotes About Importance

We're learning how important it is both to preserve sibling relationships if they work and repair them if they're broken. We're also learning a lot about nonliteral siblings - stepsiblings, half-siblings - and the surprising power they can have.
~ Jeffrey Kluger
I'm not an epileptic but you're an arsehole . I'm important. I matter. I can do anything. I'm a sexy, strong woman that happens to have epilepsy. Do you get it? I have epilepsy but it's not who I am.
~ Ray Robinson
Authenticity is boring, credibility is important
~ Raymond Chandler
He looked earnestly at me, as if that was important to me.
~ Raymond Chandler
He considered the importance of what he was to do, and calmed himself. He felt the dragon's mood and acknowledged it. It was a willingness to accept whatever fate brought, but without a resignation to defeat. Death might come, but with it might also come victory.
~ Raymond E. Feist
Well, I remember a story once where a smith forgot to use one last nail on a horse's shoe, and the shoe came off at the worst time and the horse went lame, and the rider of the horse was tossed and killed, and failed to deliver a message which kept a king from riding into a trap and his kingdom fell when he was killed. So a kingdom was lost, all for the want of a nail.' 'So what nail did we overlook?
~ Raymond E. Feist
Then don't assume you need to be the one to make the sacrifice. Don't hold your own needs as less important than other people's.
~ Raymond E. Feist
The concept of privacy has become too vague and unwieldy a concept to perform useful analytical work. This ambiguity has actually undermined the importance of this value and encumbered its effective protection.
~ Raymond Wacks
The will to matter is at least as important as the will to believe.
~ Rebecca Goldstein
We're fighting for a society in which everyone is important.
~ Rebecca Solnit
I fear their false urgency, their call to speed, their insistence that travel is less important than arrival...
~ Rebecca Solnit
You can't assume that you know why what you're doing matters. You can't at least declare failure immediately, because consequences are not always direct, or immediate, or obvious, and the indirect consequences matter.
~ Rebecca Solnit
We often hear about heroes in disasters, but the window of time when acts of physical courage matter is often very brief, and those when generosity and empathy are more important to survival last for weeks, months, years.
~ Rebecca Solnit
I am writing all this down in full knowledge that it will not now seem important, for the reason that that is just what marks off that past from our present. Everything was then of importance. Everything enjoyable had an equal value. In life we were not divided. Life itself was not divided.
~ Rebecca West
He was full of the glossy self-regard of men who shrugged off their importance in a way that only emphasized it.
~ Reginald Hill
On ne sait jamais rien. Sauf ce qui est sans importance.
~ René Barjavel
Tipo increíble, dijo Renzi. Personaje local, le digo, como todos acá. Eso es lo que tiene de bueno vivir en un pueblo: todos somos personajes importantes.
~ Ricardo Piglia
Picking the breed is important. I have a friend who got a schnauzer for his wife. I told him I thought it was a good trade.
~ Richard A. Wolters
Ta?iau vienintelis dalykas, kuris lieka svarbus žemiškojo gyvenimo pabaigoje, yra tai, kaip mes myl?jome, kokia buvo m?s? meil?s kokyb?!
~ Richard Bach
From now on, every time you are about to say "I can't," think about what you really mean. Often it's a "polite" way of saying that something is simply not important enough to you right now, given your priorities.
~ Richard Brodie
Ask yourself this question: 'Will this matter a year from now?
~ Richard Carlson
This is pretty simple stuff. But the truth is, the reality of making money and wise decisions isn't very complicated. However, not many people understand the importance of a don't-worry attitude. If you do, you're one step ahead of the game.
~ Richard Carlson
It suggests that life is filled with opportunities to choose between making a big deal out of something or simply letting it go, realizing it doesn't really matter. If you choose your battles wisely, you'll be far more effective in winning those that are truly important.
~ Richard Carlson
Science doesn't have all the answers, but it is good at spotting the important questions when they are camouflaged against a background of common sense.
~ Richard Dawkins