Quotes About Importance

We can discover that of the rough material we've been given, every single thread of what we'll eventually contribute back to the tapestry of all humanity is every bit as important, needed, wanted, and cherished as every and any other scrap and thread.

Maybe that's why falling in love becomes so important. The hope of it. Because it's the last standing pillar in the temple of thrill.

Personality is more important than beauty, but imagination is more important than both of them.

I felt a deep sense of knowingness that the process of sharing this book was important somehow, perhaps for reasons I will never know.

I've lived life. I know what's important. I've seen it all by now. You think he's the first boy I ever saw in a bikini? He's not. You think your generation invented kids who are different?

Part of dedicating your life to studying literature is realizing that storytelling is more than just make-believe and that make-believe is far more important that we all pretend -- make believe -- it is. One way or another books tell the stories of their readers. But telling our lives is not the same as shaping them, whittling them away. Suddenly Jill had lost control. Her books had taken over and were in charge.

We don't need something to have happened to talk about it, though. Teenage girls don't get enough credit for this, their ability to see the potential import of everything, no matter how insignificant it seems, and analyze it endlessly. It's written off—we're written off—as silly, but it's the opposite. We understand instinctively that change is slow. If you're not paying attention, you'll miss it.

If you love dance and you have the gift of teaching, teaching is super amazing and important because my teachers planted that seed in me. As a teacher you understand the difference or the definition of a Baryshnikov or a Gregory Hines, so teaching is really important and very necessary.

Who values gold above all, considers all else as trifling.

The value of affection going up when it was in short supply

Place has ceased to be of importance now that power no longer lives at a fixed address. ... Power's location is less important than its velocity through temporary obstacles. The speed of a tank ramming through the baricade of history.

I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.

If, as Napoleon put it, the moral was superior to the physical by three to one, the genius was more important than the normal by ten to one.

There is simply no proof that warfare in small-scale societies was a rarer or less serious undertaking than among civilized societies. In general, warfare in prestate societies was both frequent and important. If anything, peace was a scarcer commodity for members of bands, tribes, and chiefdoms than for the average citizen of a civilized state.

After I squirmed into the snakepit of national politics, I realized that a ruler must equate the unpredictable with the unreliable. The future was too important to leave to whim.

Trust me, sunscreen is so, so, so important and so I always wear sunscreen, but I still get really tan.

Why do people let me speak to them so rudely? If they'd let me get away with less, I might think what I said mattered more.

Someone started taking notes, Steve said, 'You don't need to takes notes. If it's important, you'll remember it'.

You don't need to take notes. If it's important, you'll remember it.

Symbolically, emerald brings a sense of clarity, renewal, and rejuvenation, which is so important in today's complex world.

The future and the past are equally meaningless because they are nebulous entities, times that do not exist, containing events which have no echo because they are gone, or which hold no import because they are yet to happen. What is important is the here and now, and now, and now, and the spaces between the nows.

Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That's what's important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times.

I belong to the generation of workers who, born in the villages and hamlets of rural Poland, had the opportunity to acquire education and find employment in industry, becoming in the course conscious of their rights and importance in society.

He told me it didn't really matter if it was true, it was what the story MEANT that was so important.