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Quotes About Importance

It's not good to leave things of value behind. They nag at the mind and dis-tract one from the business at hand.
~ David Eddings
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. I think that if I had my choice, I'd prefer one of those quiet centuries, Garion said glumly. Oh, no, Silk said, his lips drawing back in a ferretlike grin. Now's the time to be alive—to see it all happen, to be a part of it. That makes the blood race, and each breath is an adventure.
~ David Eddings
Le guerre sono belle, ma tendono a interferire con faccende più importanti.
~ David Eddings
Live every moment—no matter where you are and what you're doing—as if it were truly important... you must strive to be in a good place—a place of purpose and integrity... Life is short under any circumstance and in some cases it can be plucked away at a moment's notice.
~ Unknown
Establishing a coherent investment program begins with understanding the relative importance of asset allocation, market timing, and security selection.
~ David F. Swensen
Everything in my own immediate experience supports my deep belief that I am the absolute center of the universe, the realest, most vivid and important person in existence.
~ David Foster Wallace
Destiny has no beeper; destiny always leans trenchcoated out of an alley with some sort of Psst that you usually can't even hear because you're in such a rush to or from something important you've tried to engineer.
~ David Foster Wallace
But someone sometime let you forget how to choose, and what. Someone let your peoples forget it was the only thing of importance, choosing. . . How to choose any but a child's greedy choices if there is no loving-filled father to guide, inform, teach the person how to choose? How is there freedom to choose if one does not learn how to choose?
~ David Foster Wallace
That God might regard the issue of whether you believe there's a God or not as fairly low on his/her/its list of things s/he/it's interested in re you.
~ David Foster Wallace
God might regard the issue of whether you believe there's a God or not as fair low on his/her/its list of things s/he/it's interested in re you.
~ David Foster Wallace
The really important kind of freedom involves attention ad awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them over and over in myriad, petty, unsexy ways every day.
~ David Foster Wallace
Once he'd been set off inside, it mattered so much that he was somehow afraid to show how much it mattered.
~ David Foster Wallace
Sometimes what's important is dull.
~ David Foster Wallace
Sometimes what's important is dull. Sometimes it's work. Sometimes the important things aren't works of art for your entertainment, X.
~ David Foster Wallace
He dreams he's with a very sad kid and they're in a graveyard digging some dead guy's head up and it's really important
~ David Foster Wallace
Marathe said, 'This, is it not the choice of the most supreme importance? Who teaches your U.S.A. children how to choose their temple? What to love enough not to think two times?
~ David Foster Wallace
That a little-mentioned paradox of Substance addiction is: that once you are sufficiently enslaved by a Substance to need to quit the Substance in order to save your life, the enslaving Substance has become so deeply important to you that you will all but lose your mind when it is taken away from you.
~ David Foster Wallace
Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
Tengo por costumbre no insultar. Respetar a los adversarios engrandece las propias opiniones. En cambio el que disminuye al adversario, disminuye la importancia de su propia opinión ¿Qué gracia tendría tener la razón contra unos necios? lo grande es tener la razón contra gente seria, brillante, pero equivocada.
~ William Ospina
agar vaght ra talaf konid zamani fara miresad ke vaght shoma ra talaf mikonad.
~ William Shakespeare
You have too much respect upon the world; They lose it that do buy it with much care
~ William Shakespeare
the worth of that is that which it contains, and that is this, and this with thee remains.
~ William Shakespeare
O, gentle lady, do not put me to't,/ For I am nothing, if not critical.
~ William Shakespeare
If there is a single lesson I have learned, it is this: in life, we are destined to lose many things. That is the nature of life. Never mind. Just don't lose the present. Nothing is worth it. There is nothing more important than "this," the fullness of life right now.
~ William Ury