Importance Quotes

1777 Importance quotes by 1325 unique authors

You must purge yourself of all thoughts of self-importance, and all inclination to judge either yourself or others. You must go to power with humility… — Mike Livingston
In a country where misery and want were the foundation of the social structure, famine was periodic, death from starvation common, disease pervasive, thievery normal,… — Barbara Tuchman
The best thing about lying in bed late is that you learn to distinguish between first things and trivia, for whatever presses on you has… — Max Lerner
Stage charm guarantees in advance an actor's hold on the audience, it helps him to carry over to large numbers of people his creative purposes.… — Constantin Stanislavski
In setting out the walls of a city the choice of a healthy situation is of the first importance: it should be on high ground,… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
I think seriousness is a mask of self-importance and self-importance in turn is a mask for self-pity. So if you're really going to pursue a… — Deepak Chopra
It is of the highest importance in the art of detection to be able to recognise out of a number of facts which are incidental… — Arthur Conan Doyle
What are we going to get out of life? This can understandably be a question of fundamental importance to us. We begin with certain basic… — John Templeton
Wise woman healing teaches the importance of excellent nutrition during pregnancy, understanding that your form your child and yourself from the nourishment you receive in… — Susun Weed
In proportion to the value of this revolution; in proportion to the importance of instruments, every word of which decides a question between power and… — James Madison
The problem of far greater importance remains to be solved. Rather than build a world in which we shall all live well, we must stop… — B.F. Skinner
Moreover, the abundance of chemical compounds and their importance in daily life hindered the chemist from investigating the question, in what does the individuality of… — Johannes Stark
Only after awhile. After it came out and people began to engage in discussions about the social reflections of the film that I realized it… — Rod Steiger
I've learned the importance of loving what you do. I have also learned more patience due to the nature of the music business. — Randy Travis
I find that many Christians are in trouble about the future; they think they will not have grace enough to die by. It is much… — Dwight L. Moody
Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language. — Alfred North Whitehead
You are not a man anymore. You are a soldier. Your comfort is of no importance and your life isn't of much importance. Most of… — John Steinbeck
Men have always been a prey to distractions, which arethe original sins of the mind; but never before today has an attempt been made to… — Aldous Huxley
Who are our enemies? Who are our friends? This is a question of the first importance for the revolution. — Mao Zedong
When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals. — John Maynard Keynes
They pondered the importance of coffee in silence. — Henning Mankell
Chélan had acted as imprudently for Julien as he had for himself. He had given him the habit of reasoning correctly, and of not being… — Stendhal
The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting people and places. — Louise Brown
Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exclusively, the very first order of books. Why, except for… — John Foster
Jesus Christ said more about money than about any other single thing because, when it comes to a man's real nature, money is of first… — Richard Halverson

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