Quotes About Importance

So...I'm the funny one? I'm the funny sidekick ? . . . That's no way to talk about anyone! To say they're just hangers-on to someone more important .

Come on then," Deeba said. "We haven't got time to waste. You're not the ones who are going to get forgot in a few days' time if you don't phone home.

What if most fiction is, at best, moderately important? What if it is so vague and culturally drivel-some, and so mediated by everything else once the culture industry extrudes it through a writer-shaped nozzle, that our stern declarations about subversive literature are, mostly, kind of adorable?

Do not consider any vice as trivial, and therefore practise it; do not consider any virtue as unimportant, and therefore neglect it.

Dancing is very important nowadays. No girl will look at you if you can't dance.

As leaders, we understand that intangibles are important, but we don't have a clue how to measure them.

The style is not important. What's important is authenticity: being personal not programmatic. And frequency: closer to weekly than yearly. And of course what's most important is the message: "I saw what you did and I appreciate it.

The problem is that urgencies—the most vivid and immediate circumstances—will always hog our spotlight.

Prioritization rescues people from the quicksand of decision angst, and that's why finding the core is so valuable.

process mattered more than analysis—by a factor of six.

The point we're emphasizing here is that certain circumstances demand attention

This is important. This is real. We're in this together. And what we're doing matters.

So many photos, so carefully preserved. How absurdly central I'd been to my mother's life.

There was an unexpected freedom in finding out that one wasn't as important as one had always assumed!

fashion wasn't as important to me as to Urmila. There would be time enough to wear my mother's saris. And in any case Ram's eyes were on me all the time, too.

Our greatest fear should not be that we won't succeed, but rather that we will succeed at something that doesn't matter.

But what good is it to teach a child to count, if you don't show him that he counts for something?

If I were you," Tom said, "I should stick to reading, writing and arithmetic." "But what good is it to teach a child to count, if you don't show him that he counts for something?" Tom held up his hands. "I'm sorry, you're losing me." Mary exhaled smoke. "Possibly I am.

Then again, what seems like nothing in the eyes of the world, when properly valued and put to use, can be among the greatest riches.

I have long since resolved to be a Jew ... I regard that as more important than my art," R.B. Kitaj and Arnold Schoenberg declared. Hannah Wilke said: "Feminism in a larger sense is intrinsically more important to me than art." No one ever called these men bad Jews.

For every major chip firm, the Chinese consumer market is far more important a customer than the U.S. government.

The president felt that it was important to send an ordinary citizen to experience the excitement of space travel as a representative for all Americans.

Yes, perhaps what she was looking for among the children was shelter. Their light precarious breath, their small hands holding one's own. And the fact that only important things are important to them. Love, for example, she can't help still believing in it, somewhat. When doubts came--love, what is it? can it help to shift a single speck of dust?--then sometimes she thought back to the little schoolhouse...

Words only make sense when the person who says them means a lot.