Quotes About Importance

The basic difference between classical music and jazz is that in the former the music is always graver than its performance - whereas the way jazz is performed is always more important than what is being played.

One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.

Timely service, like timely gifts, is doubled in value.

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness, for it is ever imposed in the interests of the Children.

Begin to realize more and more that prayer is the most important thing you do. You can use your time to no better advantage than to pray whenever you have an opportunity to do so, either alone or with others; while at work, while at rest, or while walking down the street. Anywhere!

We also serve who only punctuate.

It is of great importance in a republic not only to guard against the oppression of its rulers, but to guard one part of society against the injustice of the other part.

Sometimes I think we can tell how important it is to risk by how dangerous it is to do so.

It is enough that I am of value to somebody today.

There are half hours that dilate to the importance of centuries.

I always say to myself, what is the most important thing we can think about at this extraordinary moment.

Our latest moment is always our supreme moment. Five minutes delay in dinner now is more important than a great sorrow ten years gone.

The little things are infinitely the most important.

A little neglect may breed great mischief. ... For want of a nail, the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe, the horse was lost; for want of a horse, the battle was lost; for want of the battle, the war was lost.

I have too much respect for the truth to drag it out on every trifling occasion.

If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of the utmost importance; very various; heroic and mean; splendid and sordid; infinitely beautiful and hideous in the extreme; as great as a man, some think even better.

Words should be weighed and not counted.

Our language, one of our most precious natural resources, deserves at least as much protection as our woodlands, streams and whooping cranes.

I think these difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes around worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.

It's the little things that count, so count the little things.

Meslekleri ve durumlar? gereÄŸi, önemli konular hakk?nda genelde h?zl? kararlar almak zorunda kalanlar, gündelik, önemsiz iÅŸlerde de, mütevazi ve sakin insanlar? ÅŸa??rt?p, ak?llar?n? kar??t?ran bir acelecilik gösterirler.

Jane: Focus is important. V: Only if you're a microscope.

In the sphere of religion, as in other spheres, the things about which men are agreed are apt to be the things that are least worth holding; the really important things are the things about which men will fight.

No one's indispensable. Except you to me.