Quotes About Importance

This is why everyday life—daily routine—is very important for us. It can let us be free from time.

The heart is what is important. There is nothing more vulnerable, nothing more corruptible than the human mind; nor is there anything as powerful, steadfast and ennobling.

Names are the sweetest and most important sound in any language.

Criticism is dangerous, because it wounds a person's precious pride, hurts his sense of importance, and arouses resentment.

If some people are so hungry for a feeling of importance that they actually go insane to get it, imagine what miracle you and I can achieve by giving people honest appreciation this side of insanity.

The expression one wears on one's face is far more important than the clothes one wears on one's back.

If you tell me how you get your feeling of importance, I'll tell you what you are.

Remember that a person's name is to that person the sweetest and most important sound in any language.

Criticism is futile because it puts a person on the defensive and usually makes him strive to justify himself. Criticism is dangerous, because it wounds a person's precious pride, hurts his sense of importance, and arouses resentment.

The unvarnished truth is that almost all the people you meet feel themselves superior to you in some way, and a sure way to their hearts is to let them realize in some subtle way that you recognize their importance, and recognize it sincerely.

It was this desire for a feeling of importance that led an uneducated, poverty-stricken grocery clerk to study some law books he found in the bottom of a barrel of household plunder that he had bought for fifty cents. You have probably heard of this grocery clerk. His name was Lincoln.

Always make the other person feel important. John Dewey, as we have already noted, said that the desire to be important is the deepest urge in human nature;

John Dewey, as we have already noted, said that the desire to be important is the deepest urge in human nature; and William James said: "The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

Make the other person feel important – and do it sincerely.

Affirmation, in contrast to flattery, requires seeing someone well enough to sense what to affirm, knowing someone well enough to be aware of what really matters. Flattery is usually an admittance of insensibility, a betrayal of trust. We say things we think we should say, but in reality we aren't thinking at all. What message does flattery send? "You don't matter enough for me to pay you much mind.

Trate siempre de que la otra persona se sienta importante.

Those two priceless abilities: first, the ability to think. Second, the ability to do things in the order of their importance.

La crítica es inútil porque pone a la otra persona en la defensiva, y por lo común hace que trate de justificarse. La crítica es peligrosa porque lastima el orgullo, tan precioso de la persona, hiere su sentido de la importancia y despierta su resentimiento.

Dr. Dewey said that the deepest urge in human nature is "the desire to be important." Remember that phrase: "the desire to be important." It is significant. You are going to hear a lot about it in this book.

Jos teitä potkitaan ja arvostellaan, muistakaa, että niin tehdään usein siitä syystä, että potkija saa siitä tietynlaista tärkeyden tunnetta. Se merkitsee monesti, että saatte aikaan jotakin ja olette huomion arvoinen. Useat ihmiset saavat raakaa tyydytystä siitä, että loukkaavat niitä, jotka ovat sivistyneempiä kuin he tai menestyvät paremmin.

She didn't realize what everyone knows: namely, that the expression one wears on one's face is far more important than the clothes one wears on one's back.

To recall a voter's name is statesmanship. To forget it is oblivion.

the deepest urge in human nature is "the desire to be important.

We all have an innate, unquenchable desire to know we are valued, to know we matter. Yet affirming this in each other is among the most challenging things to do in our day and age.