Quotes About Importance

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly . . . it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated.

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly . . . it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated. —Thomas Paine

I don't pay attention to politics." "You should. It's barely less important than your own heart beat." "I

I don't pay attention to politics." "You should. It's barely less important than your own heart beat.

No. 'Grok' is the most important word in the language—and I expect to spend years trying to understand it.

The result is of unique historical importance despite the Archivist's decision to leave in blatant falsehoods, self-serving allegations, and many amoral anecdotes not suitable for young persons.

Nothing of any importance can be taught. It can only be learned, and with blood and sweat.

The mechanical nature of the bio-survival circuit is of key importance in brainwashing. To create a new imprint, reduce the victim to an infantile state, i.e., first-circuit vulnerability.

As Thomas Szasz, M.D., points out in The Myth of Mental Illness, many people in our society develop neurotic symptoms or psychosomatic illnesses because the only way to become important in Christian culture is to be conspicuously more pitiful than others.

If there are no things which are important, then things are assigned importance arbitrarily and defended at great risk. Because the risk validates the importance.

I guess I mean that nature hates a vacuum. If there are no things which are important, then things are assigned importance arbitrarily and defended at great risk. Because the risk validates the importance.

Can we come up with a phrase or two that realistically describe how we should treat customers? Yes. Here are two short phrases that fit the bill. The customer always deserves to be treated as if he or she is important and his or her opinions, needs, and wants are worth your attention. The customer deserves to receive maximum effort of those serving him or her, even when

To believe ourselves worthless is a terrible and unchristian thing; and not to care that we are worthless is perhaps more woeful still.

The cramped harsh world he portrays is a paradoxically eloquent assertion of the importance of what is so strikingly absent from it: small acts of kindness.

He wants you to think he matters. I guess he feels like you don't.

I said, "He wants to matter." "Oh, please." "Josh made a sign for the wall in his apartment. One word. It says 'Matter.' A reminder, I guess, to do something that matters.

Psychopaths have a narcissistic and grossly inflated view of their self-worth and importance, a truly astounding egocentricity and sense of entitlement, and see themselves as the center of the universe, as superior beings who are justified in living according to their own rules.

the opening of the Suez Canal shortened the distance from Europe to India, undermining the importance of Muscat and other Omani harbors as Indian Ocean transshipment points.

It's just that sometimes things that you don't think are important turn out to be.

Don't sell yourself short. You may never have proof of your importance, but you are more important than you think.

skill and competence are far more important than friendly feelings.

Being attacked is a sign that you are important enough to be a target. You should relish the attention and the chance to prove yourself.

As he did not go into Society himself, he had got an idea that these things belonged to the things that didn't really matter. (We know of course that he was wrong, and took too narrow a view; because they do matter very much, though it would take too long to explain why.)

The Mole had long wanted to make the acquaintance of the Badger. He seemed, by all accounts, to be such an important personage and, though rarely visible, to make his unseen influence felt by everybody about the place