Quotes About Importance

Feeling important makes one heavy, clumsy and vain. To be a warrior one needs to be light and fluid.

Attitude and the spirit in which we communicate are as important as the words we say.

Attitudes are much more important than facts.

Culture is very important to the Mavs.... It isn't about who talks the most or the loudest. It is about the demeanor and attitude he brings.

I'm merely a baseball player, guys. In the great scheme of things, my thoughts, opinions and attitudes are of little importance.

Lyrics are back, maybe. It seems like there was a bit of an attitude that lyrics are not important.

Think too much and you know you are nothing. Think just enough and you know you are small, but important to some. That's the best you can do.

No, I mean, this is a tangent, but my problem with paper is that all communication dies with it. It holds no possibility of continuity. You look at your paper brochure and that's where it ends. It ends with you. Like you're the only one who matters.

For something so important in our lives, friendship is woefully unexamined and under-studied. I think we deserve better. If we value friendship as much as we say we do, then let's get serious. Think of how much more genuine and authentic our friendships could be," she said, "if we just apply the right metrics to them.

Deep down, I knew the importance of an intact family. I think we all do.

But if you don't decide what needs to be done about your secretary's birthday, because it's "not that important" right now, that open loop will take up energy and prevent you from having a totally effective, clear focus on what is important.

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is more important than the eye. . . . The hand is the cutting edge of the mind. —J. Bronowski

The body is soft, beautiful, vulnerable. It's easy to threaten it. It's easy to harm it. It takes next to nothing to cause pain, to draw blood, to break bones. Takes next to nothing to blast a body to bits. It's much harder to protect it, she says, and much more important.

Important man, they say. Lot of important men in this world. But they die just like the rest of us. God's way of making life fair.

I had to try. I had to." "Why was that?" asked Reel. "Because I love her. Sometimes it's just as simple as that. And if someone can't act on love, then what does anything else really matter?

perhaps because we have at present no coherent world view, there is a widespread tendency to ignore the psychological and social importance of such questions almost altogether.

Where is it written that one should only care about big things?

When both introducing and sustaining change, leadership matters. The organization needs to see that you, personally, are taking this seriously. As we rolled out HOS, I talked about its importance for our business at every opportunity. I held regular meetings to make sure we were actually implementing it and that we were getting the results—something I didn't do for Six Sigma, and a reason it underdelivered.

My interviews also imparted a sense to the interviewees of how significant the new job was to the company. When the CEO and global HR leader each take an hour to talk to you about a job you're interviewing for, that says something

People like to think that their convenience is important. Daniel had found that as a general rule the universe didn't agree, and that other human beings tended to be a subset of 'the universe' in this regard.

Little jobs require little men, and it's the little jobs that keep a kingdom running.

That's the nature of a fat man, Ce'Nedra." He sighed. "The last meal is history. It's the next one that's important.

Don't explain it to me, please," Anheg said. "As long as somebody I know and trust understands, that's all that's really important.

Centuries pass when nothing happens, and then in a few short years events of such tremendous importance take place that the world is never the same again.