Quotes About Importance

Self-esteem is not a luxury; it is a profound spiritual need.

Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect, whether he chooses to be so or not.

I think...there were a lot of instances where I avoided people to protect myself. I wouldn't bother anyone that way. If I don't know anything, if I don't take an interest in anything, if I don't get involved in anything...I won't have to go through unnecessary pain. But...at the same time, I might have kept myself from seeing...things that were very important...by always looking down. Even things I really...really...wanted...

Hokkaido is cold so soup is very important to us. It gives us warmth and cheers us up. I want to be someone who provides that, too.

If the kingdom of God is not first, it doesn't matter what's second.

Occasionally some individuals let the seeming ordinariness of life dampen their spirits. Though actually coping and growning, others lack the quiet, inner-soul satisfaction that can steady them, and are experiencing instead, a lingering sense that there is something more important they should be doing . . .as if what is quietly achieved in righteous individual living or in parenthood are not sufficiently spectacular.

He knows that in leadership cleverness is not as important as content, that charisma and dash are not as vital as character and doctrine.

There is no such thing as immortality: death is change. A human being is dying every day that it lives. The material of its body is exchanged for other materials, its thoughts change. All that lives is the DNA, and what does that matter to you? In the end it is your mind that is important.

The winter fortress was prepared for an all-out assault. All these heightened defenses signaled the importance of the atomic program to the Nazi war effort

The modern danger is that we grow so engrossed with and seduced by what matters so little, busy with and ruled by whatever presses upon us, that we overlook and thereby destroy our most important projects and goals through neglect.

Most people don't realize how important librarians are. I ran across a book recently which suggested that the peace and prosperity of a culture was solely related to how many librarians it contained. Possibly a slight overstatement. But a culture that doesn't value its librarians doesn't value ideas and without ideas, well, where are we?

Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you'd most like not to lose.

I don't see why it matters what is written. Not when it's about people. It can always be crossed out.

We do not measure a culture based on its output of undisguised trivialities, but what it claims as significant.

the principal difficulty we have in solving problems stems from insufficient data—will go unexamined. Until, years from now, when it will be noticed that the massive collection and speed-of-light retrieval of data have been of great value to large-scale organizations but have solved very little of importance to most people and have created at least as many problems for them as they may have solved.

Never try directly to diminish or minimize something which is important to another person. By making a direct challenge to a crucial criterion you are more likely to strengthen it than to diminish it. Your best strategy is to begin by accepting that the criterion is legitimately important.

Take care of him. And make him feel important. And if you can do that, you'll have a happy and wonderful marriage. Like two out of every ten couples.

We're just fragile machines programmed with a false sense of our own importance. And every now and then the universe sends a reminder that we don't really matter to it...

Amina couldn't imagine what it would be like not to remember your own mother; there had been no one to tell him, through looks and touch and angry scoldings, that he was the most precious person in the world to her.

A frase do Otto é mais importante do que Os sertões de Euclides da Cunha. ritinha

A frase do Otto é mais importante do que todo o Machado de Assis! ritinha

Anyone who knows me knows my mom, Dorcina, has to sign off on any decision and that she will play a major part in any decision.

paddock. "Will do," Anna said, feeling mildly miffed. In her mind she heard her tiny, mean, long-dead grandmother cackling: "Think you're so important? Put your finger in a bucket of water, pull it out and see how big a hole it leaves.

It's dubious and dangerous, Drucker is saying, to mistake what's measurable for what's important.