Quotes About Importance

Having children is my greatest achievement. It was my saviour. It switched my focus from the outside to the inside. My children are gifts, they remind me of what's important.

The increasing importance of Sydney must in some measure be attributed to the flourishing condition of the colony itself, to the industry of its farmers, to the successful enterprise of its merchants, and to particular local causes.

The Christ-symbol is of the greatest importance for psychology in so far as it is perhaps the most highly developed and differentiated symbol of the self, apart from the figure of the Buddha.

I don't even read 'the Sun' and it's my job to read everything that's politically important. I think that's a symbol of the declining power of the mainstream media.

We humans are an extremely important manifestation of the replication bomb, because it is through us - through our brains, our symbolic culture and our technology - that the explosion may proceed to the next stage and reverberate through deep space.

One cannot understate the importance of eliminating Bin Laden. He was a symbolic head of the organisation and, as we now know, an operational head of the organisation.

Symbols are important. It depends on how they're used.

For us, sovereignty of Syria is very important.

Mom. She always says to look at the big picture. How all of the little things don't matter in the long run. . . I know that Mom is right about the big picture. But Dad is right too: Life is really just a bunch of nows, one after the other. The dots matter.

most of the time, people get distracted by little stuff and ignore the big stuff.

You can't win without the ball.

What if you started acting like what you do for kids is more important than anything else you do.

Sounds like a thankless job. Sometimes the most important ones are.

H. ¿Es importante para usted la amistad? M. Sí, mucho. H. ¿Cuántos amigos tiene? M. Pocos, y estoy orgulloso de que sean pocos.

I do not wish to talk about myself because I hold very deeply the belief that what is important is the work, not the person.

it appears to me that I have discovered many truths more useful and more important than all I had before learned, or even had expected to learn.

L'essentiel est sans cesse menacé par l'insignifiant.

Is it conceivable to western minds that a mere treatise on grammar or geography, or even on commerce, should at the same time possess another meaning that makes it an initiatic work of great importance ? So it is nonetheless, and these are not chance examples; these three cases are from books that very really exist and that we actually have in our hands. [...]

le fait d'accorder une importance prépondérante aux considérations d'ordre économiques, qui est un caractère très frappant de notre époque, peut être regardé comme un signe de la domination des Vaishyas, dont l'équivalent approximatif est représenté dans le monde occidental par la bourgeoisie ; et c'est bien celle-ci qui domine en effet depuis la Révolution.

The tendencies that found expression among the Greeks had to be pushed to the extreme, the undue importance given to rational thought had to grow even greater, before men could arrive at 'rationalism', a specifically modern attitude that consists in not merely ignoring, but expressly denying, everything of a supra-rational order.

On a généralement, en Europe, une tendance à s'exagérer l'importance du Bouddhisme, qui est certainement de beaucoup la moins intéressante de toutes les doctrines orientales, mais qui, précisément parce qu'il constitue pour l'Orient une déviation et une anomalie, peut sembler plus accessible à la mentalité occidentale et moins éloigné des formes de pensée auxquelles elle est accoutumée.

In Europe one generally has the tendency to exaggerate the importance of Buddhism, which is certainly the least interesting of all the Eastern doctrines, but which precisely because it constitutes a deviation and anomaly for the East can seem more accessible to the Western mentality and less foreign to its customary forms of thinking.

Anyone who wants still further evidence of this truth can find it in the tremendous importance that economic factors take on nowadays, both in the lives of peoples and of individuals: industry, commerce, finance—these seem to be the only things that count; and this is in agreement with the fact already mentioned that the only social distinction that has survived is the one based on material wealth.

being out on bail is good for the ego. It gives you a sense of importance, of being wanted; it makes you feel that people care.