Quotes About Importance

There's something about having limited horizons that makes everything right around you appear to be monumental and important, even if in reality it is relatively insignificant.

Personal Importance, or taking things personally, is the maximum expression of selfishness because we make the assumption that everything is about me.

If the skill is easily automated, it wasn't essential.

Las cosas importantes a observar deben ser visibles y estar señaladas con claridad; los resultados de cada acto deben ser inmediatamente evidentes.

Feedback is several orders of magnitude more important in product development than it is in manufacturing.

Chipmunks jump, and greensnakes slither. Rather burst than not be with her. Bluebirds fight, but bears are stronger. We've got fifty years or longer. Hoptoads hop, but hogs are fatter. Nothing else but Us can matter.

A story is based on what people think is important, so when we live a story, we are telling people around us what we think is important.

Every creative person, and I think probably every other person, faces resistance when they are trying to create something good...The harder the resistance, the more important the task must be.

if I do not introduce people to Jesus, then I don't believe Jesus is an important person. It doesn't matter what I say.

When I was in love there was somebody in the world who was more important than me, and that, given all that happened at the fall of man, is a miracle, like something God forgot to curse.

The point is this: if you don't tell somebody how you can help them survive, they will set you aside—or worse, discard you.

if there's nothing at stake in whether or not I buy your product, I'm not going to buy your product. After all, why should I?

If it was a good movie, the experience felt like somebody was resetting a compass in my brain so I could feel what was important in life and what wasn't.

If you get the header of your website right, you're 50 percent done with your website.

If there is nothing at stake in a story, there is no story. Likewise, if there's nothing at stake in whether or not I buy your product, I'm not going to buy your product. After all, why should I?

We don't bring up the negative stakes enough and so the story we're telling falls flat. Remember, if there are no stakes, there is no story.

Why? Because story is a trustworthy guide. And if there are not stakes in a story, there is no story.

will pay attention to the role of stories [and] myths . . . .

building a brand may be more important than building a business.

Now people matter.

In the end, no matter how beautiful or precious, what object had any value in comparison to life?

It was the most important night of my life,' he said calmly. 'It enabled me to do what I've always wanted most.' 'Which is?' 'To live without thinking.

then realized she wasn't there. Or—she was there and she wasn't. Part of her was there, but it was invisible. The invisible part was the important part. This was something I had never understood before. But when I tried to say this out loud the words came out in a muddle and I realized with a cold slap that I was wrong. Both parts had to be together. You couldn't have one part without the other.

I was jarred - a little spooked as well - at so blatant a reference to something referred to, by mutual agreement, almost exclusively with codes, catchwords, a hundred different euphemisms. It was the most important night of my life, he said calmly. It enabled me to do what I've always wanted most. Which is? To live without thinking.