Importance Quotes · Page 37

She was aware that in love even the most passionate idealism will not rid the body's surface of its terrible, basic importance.

— Milan Kundera

The documentation about the work isn't of real importance to me either. I've done lots of works without taking photographs.

— Jan Dibbets

A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance.

— Sophocles

Character is better than ancestry, and personal conduct is of more importance than the highest.

— Thomas John Barnardo

If Christianity is only one more bit of good advice, then Christianity is of no importance.

— C. S. Lewis

I have always maintained that in basketball the importance of the mental to the physical is about four to one.

— Bobby Knight

The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it.

— Mahmoud Darwish

The difficulties of living in a secular risk culture are compounded by the importance of lifestyle choices.

— Anthony Giddens

Ministers have received their wages, and some have their minds too much on their wages. They labor for wages, and lose sight…

— Ellen G. White

I admire the ballad form most of all. Stories are irresistible. I've always had a passion for stories, the endings being of…

— David Massengill

Peace of mind is another way of saying that you've learned how to love, that you have come to appreciate the importance…

— Hubert H. Humphrey

In general, I'm careful when I'm dealing with subjects of deep cultural importance and write with abandon when I'm dealing with issues…

— Eden Robinson

Their mother had always stressed the importance of taking care of yourself first, your family second and everyone else not at all..…

— Gena Showalter

I was raised in a spirit of the importance of service to your fellow man. My mom is a senator back home…

— Adhir Kalyan

I also talk a lot in Deeper Reading about the importance that confusion plays. When my students come to me, they think…

— Kelly Gallagher

Humility does not mean believing oneself to be inferior, but to be freed from self-importance. It is a state of natural simplicity…

— Matthieu Ricard

When Seoul hosted the Games in 1988, it became a symbol of the Asian Tigers' ascent onto the world stage. In 1992,…

— Eduardo Paes

Each thing has its word, but the word has become a thing by itself. Why shouldn't I find it? Why can't a…

— Hugo Ball

So for all that we might speak words in each other's vicinity, this could never develop into anything that could be called…

— Haruki Murakami

As for slavery, there is no need for me to speak of its bad aspects. The only thing requiring explanation is the…

— Karl Marx

I could never overstate the importance of a musician's need to develop his or her ear. Actually, I believe that developing a…

— Steve Vai

If we are ever to enjoy life, now is the time-not tomorrow, nor next year, nor in some future life after we…

— Thomas Dreier

I was comparatively late in understanding Bob Dylan's overwhelming importance as a songwriter. Everybody who does my job exists in the shadow…

— Steve Earle

From the Anarchist standpoint, these artificial hindrances which are the cause of three main forms of usury-interest, profit, and rent, are, in…

— Laurance Labadie

Religion in India must be made as free and as easy of access as is God's air.

— Swami Vivekananda

“When your absence is felt, your presence is the essence and it makes a difference.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

I think the biggest lesson I learned from my Dad was the importance of telling the truth.

— Sean McDonough

Surely it is the right wish that draws us to the right place. Nothing of importance happens accidentally in our life.

— Anagarika Govinda

“Kindness always works with the most important person — YOU. Be kind for you, not others.”

— Bryant McGill

It's quite complicated and sounds circular, but we've worked out a way of calculate a Web site's importance.

— Larry Page

The practical importance of the preservation of our forests is augmented by their relations to climate, soil and streams.

— John Muir

“It is of the highest importance from the standpoint of experience that we know the Holy Spirit as a person.”

— Anonymous

All people have a natural desire to be needed, to have their importance to others tangibly confirmed.

— Daisaku Ikeda

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I'm going to play with physics, whenever I want to, without worrying about any importance whatsoever.

— Richard P. Feynman

The importance of certain problems concerning the facts will be inherent in the structure of the system.

— Talcott Parsons

No one at this time can duly estimate the importance of Mrs Marcet's scientific works.

— Mary Somerville

Listening has importance only when one is not projecting one's own desires through which one listens.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“We are made to exaggerate the importance of what work we do; and yet how much is not done by us!”

— Henry David Thoreau

Construction of first law felt others so that you can understand the importance of independence

— Mak_786