Quotes About Importance

The natural reaction of the artist will be strongly towards bringing man back into focus as the center of importance.

Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.

Man is the weak being who, in spite of all his self-importance and pride of wealth and capital, is vanquished by the smallest microbe.

What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral.

Men are more important than tools. If you don't believe so, put a good tool into the hands of a poor workman.

When a man's life is at stake no delay is too long. [Lat., Nulla unquam de morte cunctatio longa est.]

What's wrong with this egotism? If a man doesn't delight in himself and the force in him and feel that he and it are wonders, how is all life to become important to him?

Man cannot long survive without air, water, and sleep. Next in importance comes food. And close on its heels, solitude.

People ask me what makes a good funeral, and I tell them the most important thing is your man in the casket. If you have a man of substance in there, you have the makings of a first-class funeral.

When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.

Faith is among men what gravity is among planets and suns.

I am not aware that payment, or even favors, however gracious, bind any man's soul and conscience in questions of highest morality and highest importance.

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

The freedom that will be used by only one man in a million may be more important to society and more beneficial to the majority than any freedom that we all use.

With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet.

Man is as full of potential as he is of importance.

When will the world learn that a million men are of no importance compared with one man?

Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

Life is an unanswered question, but let's believe in the dignity and important of the question.

Mathematical problems, or puzzles, are important to real mathematics (like solving real-life problems), just as fables, stories and anecdotes are important to the young in understanding real life

I know, too, that our progress has nothing to do with the body, which is the thing that matters least.

Cargo's importance is defined by it's vessel.

Cargo's impotance is defined by it's vessel.

The romantic love story is a paradoxical fusion of two extraordinarily potent messages. The first is that love, deep connection, is the most important, indeed the only truly important matter in the world. And the second is that true love cannot exist in this world.