Importance Quotes

1777 Importance quotes by 1325 unique authors

To pace about, looking to obtain status, looking to attain 'importance' - I can think of nothing more ridiculous. — Soren Kierkegaard
Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society. — Kenzo Tange
As the years progress one increasingly realises the importance of friendship and human solidarity. And if a 90-year-old may offer some unsolicited advice on this… — Nelson Mandela
Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values. — Gerald Brenan
Advice, as it always gives a temporary appearance of superiority, can never be very grateful, even when it is most necessary or most judicious. But… — Samuel Johnson
What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the… — Theodore Wilhelm Engstrom
It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves. — Katherine Mansfield
I do think that being the second [female Supreme Court Justice] is wonderful, because it is a sign that being a woman in a place… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg
The fight against Germany has now been waged for months by every Jewish community, on every conference, in all labor unions and by every single… — Ze'ev Jabotinsky
Regarded in isolation, an idea may be quite insignificant, and venturesome in the extreme, but it may acquire importance from an idea which follows it;… — Friedrich Schiller
I believe it to be of particular importance that the scientist have an articulate and adequate social philosophy, even more important than the average man… — Percy Williams Bridgman
The importance of our being free to do a particular thing has nothing to do with the question of whether we or the majority are… — Friedrich August von Hayek
Stated as an English sentence, of course, this is just a banal platitude-but the fact is that, in the day-to-day trenches of adult existence, banal… — David Foster Wallace
The holiday is clearly growing in importance for the industry. Halloweens fun, enjoyable and doesn't require a big investment to celebrate. The primary focus is… — Richard Hastings
The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past… — Oscar Wilde
The compulsion to take ourselves seriously is in inverse proportion to our creative capacity. When the creative flow dries up, all we have left is… — Eric Hoffer
The real evidence of growing older is that things level off in importance. — Gladys Taber
Feminists have emphasized for a long time the importance of each woman's individual entity and the necessity of economic independence. Perhaps it was necessary. But… — Dora Russell
We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to… — Plato
No human thing is of serious importance. — Plato
The power of mistakes enables us to reframe creative blocks and turn them around...The troublesome parts of our work, the parts that are most baffling… — Stephen Nachmanovitch
Moderation, which consists in indifference about little things, and in a prudent and well-proportioned zeal about things of importance, can proceed from nothing but true… — Plato
In Christ, man who made himself God encounters God who made himself man. Unrivaled self-importance and pride encounters unrivaled self-emptying and humility. — Christopher West
My diary entries during this period constantly refer to the importance of learning how to take criticism. If you shut yourself in your own little… — Joao Magueijo
Second, the reason to embrace and celebrate these novels as the countercultural event that they are is due largely to the subliminal messages delivered by… — John Granger

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