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Quotes About Importance

Seems to me you put too much stock in the affairs of children. It probably didn't mean anything. Yes, it meant something. Mr. Trask, do you think the thoughts of people suddenly become important at a given age? Do you have sharper feelings or clearer thoughts now than when you were ten? Do you see as well, hear as well, taste as vitally?
~ John Steinbeck
The family met at the most important place, near the truck. The house was dead, and the fields were dead; but this truck was the active thing, the living principle.
~ John Steinbeck
When you are writing, you must treat it as the most important thing in the world, even when you know it is not. This helps you take the job seriously and do your best on everything you write.
~ John Steinbeck
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 towards 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
I don't want to be forgotten, Henry. That is greater horror to an old man than death--to be forgotten.
~ John Steinbeck
Je sens que je suis un homme, et l'homme est une chose très importante, peut être plus importante qu'une étoile
~ John Steinbeck
I understand that you are offered a loveliness and you vomit on it, that you have the gift of love given you such as few men have ever known and you throw on it the acid of your pride, your ugly twisted sense of importance.
~ John Steinbeck
I take my two pipes in the afternoon, no more and no less, like the elders. 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.
~ John Steinbeck
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
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
Yes, it meant something." Then he said, "Mr. Trask, do you think the thoughts of people suddenly become important at a given age? Do you have sharper feelings or clearer thoughts now than when you were ten? Do you see as well, hear as well, taste as vitally?" "Maybe you're right," said Adam. "It's one of the great fallacies, it seems to me," said Lee, "that time gives much of anything but years and sadness to a man.
~ John Steinbeck
And the greatest foolishness of all lies in the fact that to do it at all, 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. If he does not, the work is not worth even what it otherwise might have been.
~ John Steinbeck
Nothing is more important than an unread library.
~ John Waters
parents everywhere desire a better life for their children. It's a near constant: They understand the importance of education and crave it for their children, even as they are well aware of the sacrifice they will have to make.
~ Unknown
The telephone operator and all others who may perform less "important" tasks will not feel important unless you, the leader, teach that them they are valued and explain how their contribution helps the company as a whole. Individuals who feel they don't matter will perform their jobs as if they don't count.
~ John Wooden
how I conveyed information was often as important as the information itself.
~ John Wooden
I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession.
~ John Wooden
There are no big things, only an accumulation of many little things. Remove enough rivets and the wing falls off. However, it is up to you, the leader, to identify the correct rivets and determine how much attention each will be given. Do this correctly and your organization will survive flying through even the most turbulent competitive storm.
~ John Wooden
It is the little things that are vital. Little things make the big things happen.
~ John Wooden
it is the awareness that is of primary importance, no matter what the objects are that we are paying attention to.
~ Jon Kabat-Zinn
Meditar consiste simplemente en prestar atención a la vida como si en verdad importase.
~ Jon Kabat-Zinn
vemos ciertas cosas, pero que también, al mismo tiempo, quizás no vemos las más importantes.
~ Jon Kabat-Zinn
You are the most important part of the family. Take care of yourself first. Then you'll be able to take care of everyone else even better.
~ Deepak Chopra
I am healthy, my family is healthy. That is the important thing. After that we go racing.
~ Mark Webber