Quotes About Importance

I feel people care so much about their appearance - which is important, and I do still care about my appearance, but not that much. There's far more to life than that.

The last part, the part you're now approaching, was for Aristotle the most important for happiness.

By all means, have you give great attention to your arithmetic, as its advantages are so many and important.

It's very hard to articulate the things that are important about writing.

It's about being true to my artistry, which I've been doing. It's super important to do smart films.

Las personas que disfrutan en provincias de algún tipo de consideración y que encuentran a cada paso una prueba de su importancia, no se acostumbran a esta súbita y total pérdida de su valor.

A man of any consequence in his native place, where he cannot go out but he meets with some recognition of his importance at every step, does not readily accustom himself to the sudden and total extinction of his consequence. You are somebody in your own country, in Paris you are nobody. The transition between the first state and the last should be made gradually, for the too abrupt fall is something like annihilation.

Henry Louis Gates's edited The Classic Slave Narratives, which include Jacobs's as well as Frederick Douglass's autobiographies, continue to be so important to me.

With monuments as with men, position means everything.

It's a way to include them in the day in spirit, and to honor the ongoing inner relationships we carry forth. More than saying You were important to me, it says, You are important to me still. Experience this with me. Be part of my special day.

The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper and render them more important.

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

The importance that our society attaches to sport is incredible. After all, is football a game or a religion? The people of this country have allowed sports to get completely out of hand.

There is nothing more important than being a man, just a plain, ordinary, human man. I know you think Spartacus is something more than a man. He isn't. If he were, then he wouldn't be any good at all. There is no great mystery about Spartacus.

A lot of knowledge in any kind of an organization is what we call task knowledge. These are things that people who have been there a long time understand are important, but they may not know how to talk about them. It's often called the culture of the organization.

You may have been corrupted into thinking that you are important. If so you are a lost creature waiting for the world to come to you. An actress's whole life can be ruined if she expects life to come to her. Tell yourself that the world is outside, that it's not to be hidden from you, that you are going to thrust yourself forward and be relaxed in the world. You have chosen a field where you're going to be hurt to the blood. But to retreat from the pain is death.

Life should always take precedence; when a wedding meets a funeral on the road, the funeral should step aside.

You will always be Mrs West, all over the world. That is important to me and to you.

an event of such prodigious proportions and importance that it infused her with a new will to live and materialized a dream that brightened her days and soothed her lonely nights.

The importance of capital in the early Industrial Revolution was so great and so obvious everywhere that it gave rise to several new social and economic theories, of which the most famous is Marxism. It also gave rise to the term 'capitalism', and this was by no means so acceptable a development. As

Acting is something I love. It's a great craft that I have a lot of respect for. But I don't think it's any greater challenge than teaching 8-year-olds or any other career. In my life, I try not to make it more important than it is and I just hope that rubs off on the people around me.

Look,' I said, 'I'll be honest with you. You're a big chap, and I'm sure you can do more press-ups than I can. And I admire you for it. This world needs people to be able to do press-ups. It's important.

Death suddenly seemed unimportant and life seemed everything

The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.