Quotes About Importance

Include just enough detail for flavor and interest but not enough to emphasize or single out a particular item above the importance it deserves. In other words, don't describe the shovel hanging on the garage wall unless someone is going to dig a grave with it later. An exception would be if your character is a neat freak and the garden tools on the garage wall are alphabetized—this would characterize.

He hadn't loved me well in the end, but he'd loved me well when it mattered.

the work you do each day matters. Even if it's work that seems invisible. Even if it's work that doesn't lead to the outcome you hoped for. Even if others attempt to undo your work.

You loathe yourself, and yet you're consumed by the grandiose ideas you have about your own importance. You're up too high and down too low. Neither is the place where we get any work done.

I think politics is important. It's how we run our society. I think it should be natural to have an interest in the subject, and I almost don't understand why some people don't.

Mr. Michaelson went on teaching the class then, as if history was the most important thing in the world, and even though she didn't want to, Lucy actually heard some of what he said.

Heatherlegh is the dearest doctor that ever was... He says that more men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Like steam from a cup of hot tea that fogs our glasses, false urgency of matters at hand blurs our vision to important things in the distance.

Is everything as urgent as your stress would imply?

Breakfast, dinner, tea; in extreme cases, breakfast, luncheon, dinner, tea, supper, and a glass of something hot at bedtime. What care we take about feeding the lucky body! Which of us does as much for his mind? And what causes the difference? Is the body so much the more important of the two? By no means: but life depends on the body being fed, whereas we can continue to exist as animals (scarcely as men) though the mind be utterly starved and neglected.

The virtue that is not automatic requires more attention than it is worth.

American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driving license age than at voting age.

Vote like your rights depend on it — they do.

There's no such thing as a vote that doesn't matter. It all matters.

There are so many men who can figure costs, and so few who can measure values.

Angels don't get paid even though theirs is some of the most important work around. Ditto for volunteers.

Gratitude is as important for feeding your soul as eating is important for feeding your body.

...we take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.

I learnt early that always being analytical is important for a business. Being analytical as an attitude is more important than just having the aptitude.

You know, who cares about seeing the girls when everybody wants to see the band. That's what's important, KISS is important. I think we look great, and the attitude is there, and I'm real happy with it.

Listening is a gift of spiritual significance that you can learn to give to others. When you listen, you give one a sense of importance, hope and love that he or she may not receive any other way. Through listening, we nurture and validate the feelings one has, especially when he or she experiences difficulties in life.

Many works would be senseless, real junk, but for the fact that, being art, they are exhibited because they have a message of almost religious importance, interpreting man and his world - yes, perhaps even as junk.

Ben Franklin advises his grandson not to let even the American Revolution interrupt his studies, urging of young adulthood, "This is the time of life in which you are to lay the foundations of your future improvement and of your importance among men. If this season is neglected, it will be like cutting off the spring from the year.

He was not a warm person, but he seemed to be, which in politics was more important.