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Quotes About Importance

When it comes down to it, it's your happiness that's most important.
~ Unknown
People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.
~ Malcolm Forbes
Affirmations help anchor and center us; they also remind us of what's important and why we make certain choices in our lives. You
~ Mallika Chopra
Tout le monde se fiche des "presque", Dante. Si les " presque" comptaient, toute la population adulte, hormis peut-être une ou deux bonnes sœurs, serait en prison.
~ Malorie Blackman
Es ist eine seltsame Tatsache, daß gerade Christen und Theologen ihre Arbeit oft für so wichtig und dringlich halten, daß sie sich darin durch nichts unterbrechen lassen wollen. Sie meinen damit einen Dienst zu tun, und verachten dabei den ›krummen und doch geraden Weg‹ Gottes.
~ Unknown
we have to be aware of the power and importance of organizing not just around identity, but the materiality of daily life, which still, in many respects, is racialized for people of color. You build from that, but you have a grander social vision that transcends it and recognizes the strengths and limitations that are drawn from the particularity of identity.
~ Manning Marable
the power of each customer exchange. If the exchange was executed as well as possible—if we made the customer truly successful—we had the opportunity to transform him or her into an Apple loyalist and evangelist. This opened my eyes to the importance of customer success.
~ Marc Benioff
The only thing a bucket of shit is worth is the price of the bucket.
~ Marc MacYoung
Internet marketing entrepreneurs have truly opened my eyes to just how important a quick turnaround time can be. Often times, an interview they conduct with me today is online by the next morning. The interviewee is then able to start making money less than 24 hours after the initial interview.
~ Marc Ostrofsky
The fault I find with our journalism is that it forces us to take an interest in some fresh triviality or other every day, whereas only three or four books in a lifetime give us anything that is of real importance. Suppose that, every morning, when we tore the wrapper off our paper with fevered hands, a transmutation were to take place, and we were to find inside it—oh! I don't know; shall we say Pascal's Pensées?
~ Marcel Proust
Just is not by other men of intelligence that an intelligent an is afraid of being thought a fool, so it is not by the great gentleman but by boors and 'bounders' that a man of fashion is afraid of finding his social value underrated. Three-fourths of the mental ingenuity displayed, of the social falsehoods scattered broadcast ever since the world began by people whose importance they have served only to diminish, have been aimed at inferiors.
~ Marcel Proust
Men who do their work intelligently and earnestly have an aversion to those who want to make literature out of what they do, to make it important.
~ Marcel Proust
Moreover, each man's malevolence quite involuntarily exaggerated the other's importance, as if the chief of villains were confronting the king of imbeciles.
~ Marcel Proust
The work of obedience is difficult and of the highest importance; so that if anyone can be negligent therein because God will help and assist him, it is because he hates it, he likes it not. Let others do what they please, I shall endeavour to comply with the apostle's advice upon the enforcement which he gives unto it: Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling; for it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his own good pleasure. These
~ John Owen
The procrastinator can be motivated to do difficult, timely, and important tasks, however, as long as these tasks are a way of not doing something more important.
~ Unknown
A wise man -- a cop named Capslock -- once observed that he'd never seen a murder with a large sum of money attached to it, in which the money wasn't important. On the other hand, Virgil hadn't ever seen a murder that involved an intense sexuality in which sexuality wasn't involved.
~ John Sandford
Lucas felt a tingle when he read the quote, because it suggested that some people were legitimate targets for terrorism, which was not an ordinary way of thinking; and Lawrence in some way thought the deaths of three people were "of no real importance." He closed his eyes and remembered the woman's face, and her garden, and a feeling of hippie coquettishness, and couldn't put that together with her comments. Had she fooled them, and had it been deliberate?
~ John Sandford
I'll do that," Kidd said. "Why was Sandra's age important?" "Think about it for one second," Lucas said. Kidd thought about it for one second, then said, "Ah. She's an adult now. You can twist her arm until it falls off, and nobody can tell you to quit." "Perzactly," Lucas said. "And that's what I'm going to do . . . if that's what it takes.
~ John Sandford
The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold onto this illusion, even though he knows it's not true.
~ John Steinbeck
And I feel that I am a man. And I feel that a man is a very important thing - maybe more important than a star. This is not theology. I have no bent toward gods. But I have a new love for that glittering instrument, the human soul. It is a lovely and unique thing in the universe. It is always attacked and never destroyed - because 'thou mayest'.
~ John Steinbeck
You are not a man anymore. You are a soldier. Your comfort is of no importance and your life isn't of much importance. Most of your orders will be unpleasant, but that's not your business.They should've trained you for this, and not for flower-strewn streets. They should have built your soul with truth, not led along with lies.
~ John Steinbeck
In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable... The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.
~ John Steinbeck
Kitaplar bir halta yaramaz. İnsan?n birine ihtiyac? vard?r, birine yak?n olmak ister. İnler gibi devam etti. Kimsesi yoksa delirir insan. Kim olduÄŸu hiç önemli deÄŸildir, yeter ki yan?nda biri olsun. inan?n bana, insan fazla yaln?z kald? m?, hastalan?r.
~ John Steinbeck
Any writing which has influenced the thinking and the lives of innumerable people is important.
~ John Steinbeck