Importance Quotes

1777 Importance quotes by 1325 unique authors

You cannot underestimate the importance of preparation. — Ray Mears
Meanwhile the fact that the connection with the activity of memory in ordinary life is for the moment lost is of less importance than the… — Hermann Ebbinghaus
Successful organizations understand the importance of implementation, not just strategy, and, moreover, recognize the crucial role of their people in this process. — Jeffrey Pfeffer
Hysteria and degeneration have always existed; but they formerly showed themselves sporadically, and had no importance in the life of the whole community. It was… — Max Nordau
In fantasy stories we learn to understand the differences of others, we learn compassion for those things we cannot fathom, we learn the importance of… — Jane Yolen
Technique does not constitute art. Nor is it a vague, fuzzy romantic quality known as ‘beauty,’ remote from the realities of everyday life. It is… — Grant Wood
Thanks to the greatly improved possibility of communication, we overrate its importance. Even stronger, we underrate the importance of isolation. — Edsger Dijkstra
I don’t have a problem with someone using their talents to become successful, I just don’t think the highest calling is success. Things like freedom… — Richard Stallman
No life, if it is properly realized, is without cosmic importance. — Hortense Odlum
In fact, there was general agreement that minds can exist on nonbiological substrates and that algorithms are of central importance to the existence of minds. — Vernor Vinge
If a person goes to his job with a firm determination to give of himself the best of which he is capable, that job no… — Hortense Odlum
But how can you know anything of the impression made on others? Who can assure you that others do not draw therefrom incentives to evil?… — Pope Pius XII
Peace, however, is not merely a gift to be received: it is also a task to be undertaken. In order to be true peacemakers, we… — Pope Benedict XVI
In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected. — Charles Dickens
What is the effect of unlimited coinage of silver in this country? and I invite your attention to this particularly, because it is a question… — Richard P. Bland
This awareness instills a fierce desire to protect that heritage and - in doing so - to educate Americans in the meaning and importance of… — Allen Weinstein
As you begin to think more in terms of importance, you begin to see time differently. — Stephen Covey
What you envision in your mind, how you see yourself, and how you envision the world around you is of great importance because those things… — Eric Thomas
There are no little events in life, those we think of no consequence may be full of fate, and it is at our own risk… — Amelia Barr
In politics, reality and appearance are of equal importance. You cannot attend to one and neglect the other. A man must determine both what he… — Steven Saylor
Political conflicts distort and disturb a people's sense of distinction between matters of importance and matters of urgency. What is vital is disguised by what… — John Grierson
One of the things that characterizes good intellectual work is a certain self-importance — Whitfield Diffie
I understood the importance in principle of public key cryptography but it's all moved much faster than I expected. I did not expect it to… — Whitfield Diffie
If you have anything to tell me of importance, for God's sake begin at the end. — Sara Jeannette Duncan
To the individual believer indwelt by the Holy Spirit there is granted the direct impression of the Spirit of God on the spirit of man,… — G. Campbell Morgan

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