Importance Quotes

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In the United States all business not transacted over the telephone is accomplished in conjunction with alcohol or food, often under conditions of advanced intoxication.… — John Kenneth Galbraith
I never went into physics or the astronaut corps to become a role model. But after my first flight, it became clear to me that… — Sally Ride
Every effort to make society sensitive to the importance of the family, is a great service to humanity. — Pope John Paul II
People without imagination are beginning to tire of the importance attached to comfort, to culture, to leisure, to all that destroys imagination. This means that… — Raoul Vaneigem
So thank you for reminding me about the importance of being a good mom and a great volunteer as well. — George W. Bush
One's condition on marijuana is always existential. One can feel the importance of each moment and how it is changing one. One feels one's being,… — Norman Mailer
The importance of insomnia is so colossal that I am tempted to define man as the animal who cannot sleep. Why call him a rational… — Emile M. Cioran
Think of a single problem confronting the world today. Disease, poverty, global warming... If the problem is going to be solved, it is science that… — Bill Bryson
The year 1896 ... marked the beginning of what has been aptly termed the heroic age of Physical Science. Never before in the history of… — Ernest Rutherford
The seat of the soul and the control of voluntary movement - in fact, of nervous functions in general, - are to be sought in… — Aristotle
Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a… — Edmund Burke
I have always maintained the importance of Aunts — Jane Austen
If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of utmost importance; very various; heroic and… — Virginia Woolf
I always tried to make clear that basketball is not the ultimate. It is of small importance in comparison to the total life we live.… — John Wooden
By breaking down our sense of self-importance, all we lose is a parasite that has long infected our minds. What we gain in return is… — Matthieu Ricard
Humility does not mean believing oneself to be inferior, but to be freed from self-importance. It is a state of natural simplicity which is in… — Matthieu Ricard
Every act of charity, every thought of sympathy, every action of help, every good deed, is taking so much of self-importance away from our little… — Swami Vivekananda
Outside our consciousness there lies the cold and alien world of actual things. Between the two stretches the narrow borderland of the senses. No communication… — Heinrich Hertz
The history of men of science has one peculiar advantage, as it shows the importance of little things in producing great results. Smeaton learned his… — Robert Aris Willmott
Every part of the journey is of importance to the whole. — Teresa of Avila
The oil industry is a stunning example of how science, technology, and mass production can divert an entire group of companies from their main task.… — Theodore Levitt
The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts… — Thomas Jefferson
The more I look around and listen I realize that I'm not alone. We are all facing choices that define us. No choice. However messy… — Sabrina Ward Harrison
In a republican nation whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first… — Thomas Jefferson
Truth, in its struggles for recognition, passes through four distinct stages. First, we say it is damnable, dangerous, disorderly, and will surely disrupt society. Second,… — Elbert Hubbard

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