Quotes About Importance

order to do a good job of those things that we decide to do, we must eliminate all of the unimportant opportunities.

Hertzfeld replied that he needed a couple more days to finish the Apple II product he was in the middle of. "What's more important than working on the Macintosh?" Jobs demanded. Hertzfeld explained that he needed to

Decidere quello che non si deve fare è non meno importante che decidere quello che si deve fare.

Harvard professor I. Bernard Cohen has pronounced, "Franklin's law of conservation of charge must be considered to be of the same fundamental importance to physical science as Newton's law of conservation of momentum.

We must remember that this is a very small star," he responded, "and probably some of the larger and more important stars may be very virtuous and happy."73

In explaining the amazing mechanisms of life, little things matter. And very little things matter a lot.

Por mucho énfasis que debamos poner en el liderazgo, la organización y el trabajo en equipo, el individuo sigue siendo determinante, de una importancia suprema. Las ideas y los conceptos creativos nacen en la mente de una sola persona.

This distinction was very important to him: His mother did love him but not enough to save him.

crystal and hearts would lose all their merit in the world if it were not for their fragility.

They say that a lady's mind is always expressed in her postscript, so I would have you think that the most important part of your commission lies in what I have last said to you.

at that moment experienced the painful internal feeling of that peculiar spedes of shame, which well-constructed minds feel when they see others express a great assumption of importance, with a confidence that they are exciting admiration, when in fact they are only exposing themselves to ridicule.

He was, besides, the child of a doting grandmother, whose too solicitous attention to him soon taught him a sort of diffidence in himself, with a disposition to overrate his own importance, which is one of the very worst consequences that children deduce from over-indulgence.

Friends and family, as well as my personal relationship with the Lord, are more important than anything else.

Having firstrate people on the team is more important than designing hierarchies and clarifying who reports to whom

It is comforting to be in a business where some mistakes can be made and yet a quite satisfactory overall performance can be achieved. In a sense, this is the opposite case from our textile business where even very good management probably can average only modest results. One of the lessons your management has learned—and, unfortunately, sometimes re-learned—is the importance of being in businesses where tailwinds prevail rather than headwinds.

To be useful in God's hand, a man must be properly adjusted with respect to all three: his position, his life and his warfare. He falls short of God's requirements if he underestimates the importance of any one of them, for each is a sphere in which God would express "the glory of his grace, which he freely bestowed on us in the Beloved" (1:6).

The most important unacknowledged narrators in modern fiction are the third-person "centers of consciousness" through whom authors have filtered their narratives.

No dejes que los planes que tienes para ti sean más importantes que tú mismo

Self-worth comes from the belief that I have integrity, I am valuable, I am attractive, I am important. You don't have to go around saying it; instead, you have a quiet love affair with yourself.

That's ridiculous. Focusing on one person who doesn't like what you say makes their opinion count more than your own self-worth. Remember, what others think of you is none of your business! Self-worth comes from the belief that I have integrity, I am valuable, I am attractive, I am important. You don't have to go around saying it; instead, you have a quiet love affair with yourself. This is something you can teach your kids as well.

The backdrop for virtually all neurosis is making others' behavior more significant than your own.

Think of yourself as too significant to live with anxiety about the things you have to do. So, the next time you know you are uncomfortable with postponement anxiety, remember that people who love themselves don't hurt themselves that way.

Eliminate jealousy by recognizing it is a put-down of yourself. By comparing yourself to some other person and imagining you are loved less, you make others more important than you. You are measuring your own merit in comparison to another. Remind yourself that (1) Someone can always choose another without having it be a reflection on you, and (2) whether or not you are chosen by any significant other is not the way you validate your own self-worth.

I had changed, and the sign of it was only that my own death seemed to me by far the least important thing in my life.