Quotes About Importance

But it turns out that even if I don't talk a lot, when it's something that matters I still have a lot to say.

We talked of mice, the cat and I, and of the importance of napping.

I might have felt unimportant pitted against the awesome might of the mountains. I did not. Rather, on that mountain top I found something important that I had never known before: an awareness of a vital connection between me and the Authority behind all this beauty.

Funny how a thing like that can be so damned important, but you don't know it's important until an instant later in the big scheme of time. Then you go back and try to retrieve it. You tell yourself it's in there somewhere. But it's really in that no-man's-land of the moment before you woke up and started paying attention to your own life.

It seems important," she says. "It just doesn't seem wrong.

Maybe we've removed all the relevance from the information we teach kids so they have no idea why they should care. Maybe it's not the kids' fault.

People remember what they want to remember and forget what they want to forget. If you told him something was important to you and he forgot to do it, he blew you off.

Maybe we've removed all the relevance from the information we teach kids so they have no idea why they should care.

soon I stopped talking. It felt good to stop. Even though I know I said it was very important, what I was saying. But after a minute it didn't seem so important anymore, and that was a relief.

What I think I should do is more important to me than what you think

The incarnation affirms the importance of childhood.

secondary or insufficiently individualistic to warrant merit.

I blur things to make everything equally important and equally unimportant. I blur things so that they do not look artistic or craftsmanlike but technological, smooth and perfect. I blur things to make all the parts a closer fit. Perhaps I also blur out the excess of unimportant information.

He who prizes little things is worthy of great ones

I'm realizing how short people's memories are, and what's written here could help them remember what it was like for us. This is not just my story, or your mother's, or your Uncle Joseph's, or Farmer Ben's. This is the story of so many people who lived through those times like us. This is our story. All of us. And it's important not to forget.

Death is a very important part of life.

Words are important for the mind, but the notes are for the soul.

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.

When some English moralists write about the importance of having character, they appear to mean only the importance of having a dull character.

There is something to be said for every error but, whatever may be said for it, the most important thing to be said about it is that it is erroneous.

Where you are standing—your spot on the ground amid this vast world—and what you choose to look at from there means absolutely everything.

When things don't go as planned, simply asking, "Is it that important?" can be helpful. Answer this question from a place of being zoomed out: "Will this be important a year from now or several years from now? Will this be important on my deathbed?" Many of the things we get upset about wouldn't be important even moments or days later.

Los muertos eran respetables, pero los vivos valían un carajo.

Saber de política es importante aunque muchos no les importe, porque la política condiciona toda nuestra vida y nuestra convivencia.