I'm under no illusions about the importance of my work. But if it has any worth, it is that it truly reflects… — Jorge Amado Copy Share Image
The biggest impact my father had on my life was teaching the importance of literacy. — Thomas Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Entrust a secret to one whose importance will not be much increased by divulging it. — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
[Question: What do you think was the most important physics idea to emerge this year?] We won't know for a few years. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
We have found it of paramount importance that in order to progress, we must recognize our ignorance and leave room for doubt. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
I wish every American explored the importance of novel writing, identity, honesty, character and place in fresh-ass ways. — Kiese Laymon Copy Share Image
For me, the subject is of secondary importance: I want to convey what is alive between me and the subject. — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
The romance of the old West vanished so fast and so few ever did anything with it. Does it make you realize… — Laura Gilpin Copy Share Image
The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they… — George Washington Copy Share Image
It is this breathtaking image [of] success that motivates us and motivates kids to follow and understand rocket science: to understand the… — Steve Jurvetson Copy Share Image
Man is the weak being who, in spite of all his self-importance and pride of wealth and capital, is vanquished by the… — Muhammad Atta-ullah Faizani Copy Share Image
All ideas having even the slightest redeeming social importance - unorthodox ideas, controversial ideas, even ideas hateful to the prevailing climate of… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other… — Gerald Brenan Copy Share Image
A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
The gift that has been given to me says much about our capacity for great compassion and generosity, and I hope it… — Steven Cojocaru Copy Share Image
If Darwin could see what we now see, what we now know about the ocean, about the atmosphere, about the nature of… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
My diary entries during this period constantly refer to the importance of learning how to take criticism. If you shut yourself in… — Joao Magueijo Copy Share Image
For, after all, the foundation of our whole nature, and, therefore, of our happiness, is our physique, and the most essential factor… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
To treat programming scientifically, it must be possible to specify the required properties of programs precisely. Formality is certainly not an end… — Jim Horning Copy Share Image
Ordered by subject, by importance, ordered according to whether the book was penned by God or by one of God's creatures, ordered… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
In brief, I regard love as a more decisive focus of meaning than death. In terms of Heidegger's argument, this is because… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
Literature deeply stands opposed to the dominant value system-the one that rewards money and power. Writers are on the other side-they make… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
How often we say about our earthly friends, "I really would like to have a good quiet settled talk with them so… — Hannah Whitall Smith Copy Share Image
I wouldn't attach too much importance to these student riots. I remember when I was a student at the Sorbonne in Paris,… — John Foster Dulles Copy Share Image
In positions of strategic manoeuvring (where time is not of decisive importance) seek the worst-placed piece. Activating that piece is often the… — Mark Dvoretsky Copy Share Image
I am convinced that it is of primordial importance to learn more every year than the year before. After all, what is… — Peter Ustinov Copy Share Image
You can't overestimate the importance of psychology in chess, and as much as some players try to downplay it, I believe that… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
“I mean, I think even God would agree with this at this point. God’s existence isn’t important. It’s what we do with… — Michael Ruse Copy Share Image
I am a man of prayer and meditation. I feel inspiration is of paramount importance. If I can inspire someone, and if… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
It is very imprudent to deprive America of any of her privileges. If her commerce and friendship are of any importance to… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Audie Murphy remains a shining example for anyone who believes in the importance of service, for generations now and into the future. — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
Men seldom persevere in a vocation unless they believe or can convince themselves that it is fundamentally more important than anyother calling.… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Some of my competitors overlook the importance of knowing as much as possible about their opponents, but I think that it is… — Keeth Smart Copy Share Image
Only after awhile. After it came out and people began to engage in discussions about the social reflections of the film that… — Rod Steiger Copy Share Image
If you have a great deal of knowledge, but you're governed by negative emotions, then you tend to use your knowledge in… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
We are all looking for something of extraordinary importance whose nature we have forgotten; I am writing the memoirs of a man… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
Actors think they're far more important than they are, and that can only lead to hurt. People with colossal self-importance have very… — Julia Sawalha Copy Share Image
“The real importance of reading is that it creates an ease and intimacy with the process of writing; one comes to the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
As for what's the most challenging aspect of teaching, it's convincing younger writers of the importance of reading widely and passionately. — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
Why could not advantage be taken of a time of relative calm and quiet to investigate and try to solve a question… — Henry Dunant Copy Share Image
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