Importance Quotes · Page 12

Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

In the end, the only events of my life worth telling are those when the imperishable world erupted into this transitory one…

— Carl Jung

[Sacrifice of Isaac] is a major theme of the so-called Elohist [one authorial strand in the Pentateuch]. It is marked by all…

— Frank Moore Cross

I believe in the paramount importance of entertainment, but I have something to say.

— Wendelin Van Draanen

A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual, and only the individual reader…

— Vladimir Nabokov

When you win a Grammy, it links a certain prestige and importance to you, you know? People want to talk to you.

— Stanley Clarke

Here's a news flash: scientists can be wrong. That's no big deal (unless the scientist is you), since research is self-correcting. Consequently,…

— Seth Shostak

I am certain that a solution of the general problem of peace must rest on broad and basic understanding on the part…

— George C. Marshall

In certain circumstances where he experiments in new types of conduct by cooperating with his equals, the child is already an adult.…

— Jean Piaget

I never want to abandon my roots. I want to give my past and the history of painting the importance it deserves,…

— Jose Parla

It's impossible to overvalue the importance of television - both in its serious and less serious functions. It's one of our most…

— Richard Curtis

It is natural to think that an abstract science cannot be of much importance in affairs of human life, because it has…

— Alfred North Whitehead

There are problems to whose solution I would attach an infinitely greater importance than to those of mathematics, for example touching ethics,…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

Clarity is of no importance because nobody listens and nobody knows what you mean no matter what you mean, nor how clearly…

— Gertrude Stein

On their own, each [character] is a victim of no importance. But when you bring them together, they become a dangerous weapon.…

— Claude Chabrol

In any matter of moral importance, our first task, before we plunge ahead and decide what to do, is to figure out…

— Allen W. Wood

As Time goes by , I realize now that I am not important. As you ignores me , You make this easy…

— MissKazuha

“It is a good thing to live long but it is much more important to make a difference in life by living…

— Sunday Adelaja

Of course, relative citation frequencies are no measure of relative importance. Who has not aspired to write a paper so fundamental that…

— Abraham Pais

I mean people are really crazy about minor decrements down. And then, if you act on them, then you get into reciprocation…

— Charlie Munger

I had to sign the paper to shut down the government. It's terrible.... [But] what the shutdown showed many, many people is…

— Sylvia Mathews Burwell

Second, the reason to embrace and celebrate these novels as the countercultural event that they are is due largely to the subliminal…

— John Granger

I have to give credit to Giorgio Moroder ; among the first to make us realize the importance of music in film.

— Hans Zimmer

The calculus was the first achievement of modern mathematics and it is difficult to overestimate its importance. I think it defines more…

— John von Neumann

We will give importance to performance while choosing officials.

— H. D. Kumaraswamy