Quotes About Importance

It is my belief that we all have the need to feel special. It is this need that can bring out the best in us, yet the worst in us.

Very often the lessons you learn are more important than the things you accomplish

You're important to me, Beth. This isn't casual sex.

I decided that now is the time to start doing the things that really interest me and I find important. It was in the 10 years of the MacArthur grant that I began working on my first book... and I began putting more work into environmental history.

When I was in Pulp, I actively did more TV stuff because that was during the Great Britpop Wars, and it seemed important to prove that indie people could speak. That war doesn't exist anymore.

To feel that you aren't important to your mother leaves a hole. Most often it is felt as a hole in the heart. It's the hole where Mother was supposed to be.

the person who is working is always more important than the work the person is doing.

To do great work, you need to feel that you're making a difference. That you're putting a meaningful dent in the universe. That you are part of something important.

Delegators love to pull people into meetings, too. In fact, meetings are a delegator's best friend. That's where he gets to seem important. Meanwhile, everyone else who attends is pulled away from getting real work done.

It's not uncommon for people to pick up their phones dozens of times a day when some push notification makes it buzz, because WHAT IF IT WAS SOMETHING SUPER IMPORTANT! (It just about never is.)

If you are going to do something, do something that matters.

Taking someone's time should be a pain in the ass. Taking many people's time should be so cumbersome that most people won't even bother to try it unless it's REALLY IMPORTANT! Meetings should be a last resort, especially big ones.

Así que espera a que tu última gran idea se enfríe un poco. Por supuesto, no dejes de tener grandes ideas. Ni de entusiasmarte con ellas. Sencillamente no reacciones al calentón. Apúntalas y déjalas reposar unos días. Y entonces, determina cuál es su verdadera importancia con la mente más clara.

The enthusiasm you have for a new idea is not an accurate indicator of its true worth.

To do great work, you need to feel that you're making a difference. That you're putting a meaningful dent in the universe. That you're part of something important.

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.

It is, but a virtue taken to extremes is a vice. If one does not understand there are things more important than the truth one doesn't understand how important the truth is.

Lo que importó ya no importa o muy poco, y para ese poco hay que hacer un esfuerzo;

Vieste para perceber se ainda és útil, porque necessário não é ninguém.

This is important to me, I want to find a time to talk about it, and right now I'm not able to.

Can you say a little more about how you see things? • What information might you have that I don't? • How do you see it differently? • What impact have my actions had on you? • Can you say a little more about why you think this is my fault? • Were you reacting to something I did? • How are you feeling about all of this? • Say more about why this is important to you. • What would it mean to you if that happened? If

They were mostly French, a few Arabs, and despite their uniforms they didn't look very important any more. Later I learned that if you watch men die, especially if you've known them at all, they still look important afterward no matter what you have to do with them, but I was inexperienced then.

If we were all just alike, one of us wouldn't be necessary.

A person's a person, no matter how small.