Best Importance Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“There is no doubt that, as a society, we have become blase about the importance of marriage as a stabilising influence and less inclined to prize it as a worthwhile institution.”

Doubt Influence Importance Institutions No Doubt Prize Worthwhile

Author:Keith O'Brien

“Poetry and prose are of equal importance to me as a reader, and there doesn't seem to be much difference in my own writing.”

Writing Seems Differences My Own Reader Equal Importance Prose

Author:Kevin Powers

“I found myself declaiming, full flower, for an hour on the "utmost importance and urgency" of Blogging, telling him in no uncertain terms that, especially in a high-end niche business, Blogging is "the premier way" to have "intimate conversations" with his Clients. Funny thing, I believe it!”

Way Believe Ends Funny Found I Believe Term Hours Flower Conversation Importance Intimate Thoughtful Clients Uncertain Funny Things Urgency Niche Blogging Intimate Conversation

Author:Tom Peters

“I could give 48 penalties in every match if I wanted to. It is a question of sometimes choosing what is - in your own mind - of material importance and what isn't, what might be a crucial potential penalty and what might not be.”

Ifs Giving Mind Sometimes Might Wanted Materials Importance Crucial Penalties

Author:Alan Lewis

“Taiwan matters because of its vital role in spreading democracy in East Asia. Taiwan matters because of its strategic importance to promote peace in the Pacific region.”

Matter Roles Democracy Importance East Regions Asia Strategic Pacific Taiwan East Asia

Author:Annette Lu

“The importance of heart health became very real for me when my father died of heart disease seven years ago. Having experienced the loss first hand, I am inspired to do everything I can to break the cycle and prevent families from losing loved ones to this preventable disease.”

“Our legislation addresses broadcasts over the public airwaves, but I hope the cable and satellite industries see the importance of this issue and voluntarily create a family tier of programming and offer culturally responsible products.”

Issues Products Industry Offers Importance Responsible Programming Addresses Legislation Cables Satellites

Author:Charles W. Pickering

“Of course, nobody would deny the importance of human beings for theological thinking, but the time span of history that theologians think about is a few thousand years of human culture rather than the fifteen billion years of the history of the universe.”

Thinking Years Humans Culture Universe Courses Human Beings Thousand Importance Deny Billions Fifteen Thousand Years Theologian Theological Logical Thinking

Author:John Polkinghorne

“I know very well that Berlin attaches great importance to NATO and solidarity, in terms of sharing the burden. For this reason, I feel confident that the German government will take the right decision, one that serves both German and NATO interests.”

Knows Feels Wells Reason Government Term Interest Decision Importance Burden Solidarity Berlin Nato Right Decision

Author:Anders Fogh Rasmussen

“In 'Packing for Mars,' I tried to convey the importance of getting young people interested in science.”

People Young Importance Mars Packing

Author:Mary Roach

“The importance of the House is... far more important than my future.”

Important House Importance My Future

Author:Peter Slipper

“Conducting! A subject, truly, concerning which much might be written, yet scarcely anything of real importance is to be found in books.”

Book Real Might Found Written Subjects Importance Conducting

Book:On Conducting

Source: On Conducting

“The number of such as live without the ardour of inquiry is very small, though many content themselves with cheap amusements, and waste their lives in researches of no importance.”

Numbers Knowledge Waste Research Importance Inquiry Amusement

Book:The Life and Writings of Samuel Johnson...

Source: The Life and Writings of Samuel Johnson...

“We can look back through ice-core data and see over 800,000 years, relationships between carbon dioxide and the temperature of the world. So those people who deny the importance of climate change are just wasting their time. They're also being diversionary because if we don't act the risks are enormous.”

People Ifs World Years Looks Risk Importance Climate Climate Change Deny Core Enormous Ice Data Carbon Temperature Carbon Dioxide

Author:Nicholas Stern

“The importance of an artist is bringing new signs into a language.”

Artist Language Importance

Author:Steve Sabol

“Question every assumption and go towards the problem, like the way they flew to the moon. We should have more moon shots and flights to the moon in areas of societal importance.”

Way Should Problem Moon Shots Areas Should Have Importance Flight Assumption Flew

Author:Sebastian Thrun

“When literature exists, perhaps we do not notice how important it is, but when it does not exist, our lives become coarsened and brutal. For this reason, I am proud of my profession, but also aware of its importance.”

Doe Important Reason Literature Our Lives Proud Importance Profession Brutal

Author:Mo Yan

“I would say that foreign policy is a place where intelligence, resolve, clarity, and confidence in cause, is of extraordinary importance.”

Causes Policy Importance Extraordinary Clarity Resolve Foreign Policy

Author:Mitt Romney

“We needed someone to recognize the importance of check and balances, accountability, transparency. There was a real systemic problem at South Carolina State, a problem that has gone on for 25 or 30 years”

Years Real States Problem Gone Needed Balance Importance South Checks Accountability Transparency Carolina South Carolina Needed Someone

Author:Gwen Ifill

“If this is the only life, then everything assumes too great an importance. We have to get everything out of life and we overdo it.”

Ifs Inspirational Buddhism Importance Assuming

Author:Frederick Lenz

“While others are engaged in inferior and menial tasks in which they encounter many difficulties, how can I sit here at peace and do nothing? I must and shall benefit them, but without ever succumbing to the poison of self-importance.”

Self Benefits Tasks Importance Difficulty Buddhist Engaged Poison Encounters Inferiors Self-importance Succumbing

Author:Shantideva

“Let me tell you something big: Give importance to little things!”

Giving Littles Bigs Let Me Importance Little Things

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“The nature of the Internet and the importance of net neutrality is that innovation can come from everyone.”

Internet Importance Innovation Neutrality Net Neutrality

Author:Al Franken

“I'm basically a dinosaur. I don't use e-mail. But I do recognize the importance of science and the resulting possibilities.”

Use Possibility Importance Mail Dinosaurs Importance Of Science

Author:Bernard Marcus

“Require nothing unreasonable of your officers and men, but see that whatever is required be punctually complied with. Reward and punish every man according to his merit, without partiality or prejudice; hear his complaints; if well founded, redress them; if otherwise, discourage them, in order to prevent frivolous ones. Discourage vice in every shape, and impress upon the mind of every man, from the first to the lowest, the importance of the cause, and what it is they are contending for.”

Source: Maxims of George Washington: Political, Military, Social, Moral, and Religious

“Today's terrorists are pursuing a distinct route. They are increasingly attacking civilians in symbolic targets, such as those of economic importance, or venues of bustling life like public transportation or entertainment, like nightclubs.”

Today Economic Importance Entertainment Terrorist Target Routes Attacking Civilians Symbolic Transportation Venues Nightclubs Public Transportation

Author:Cliff Stearns

“If there's anything in life that we should be passionate about, it's the gospel. And I don't mean passionate only about sharing it with others. I mean passionate about thinking about it, dwelling on it, rejoicing in it, allowing it to color the way we look at the world. Only one thing can be of first importance to each of us. And only the gospel ought to be.”

Ifs Thinking World Way Should Firsts Looks Mean One Thing Color Ought Importance Passionate Allowing Rejoice Dwelling Anything In Life

Author:C. J. Mahaney

“I've learned the importance of changing people's minds at the grassroots level so that whoever does run will have a much better chance of encountering public opinion that reaches a critical mass and brings about a change not only in White House policies but in the Congress and in the state legislatures and all around the world.”

“There is no question, therefore, that the work to be done in familiarising the general public with the nature of the Mysteries is of paramount importance at this time. These Mysteries will be restored to outer expression through the medium of the Church and the Masonic Fraternity ... When the Great One comes with His disciples and initiates we shall have ... the restoration of the Mysteries and their exoteric presentation as a consequence of the first initiation.”

“The costume of women should be suited to her wants and necessities. It should conduce at once to her health, comfort, and usefulness; and, while it should not fail also to conduce to her personal adornment, it should make that end of secondary importance”

Want Should Ends Failing Comfort Importance Costumes Usefulness Adornment

Book:Life and Writings of Amelia Bloomer

Source: Life and Writings of Amelia Bloomer

“Of capital importance is to have a good diet and exercise a lot.”

Exercise Importance Diets Diet And Exercise

Author:Evelyn Lauder

“There is temptation to place too much importance on those things that you're meant to do, and not on to little everyday happinesses. I think if you do what makes you happy on a daily basis, your days gather into years and you have a happy life. I don't want to think too far ahead. I want to make sure that I enjoy tomorrow, and the next day, and the next day. And we'll see what happens.”

Ifs Thinking Want Years Littles Happens Next Enjoy Too Much Tomorrow Importance Bases Everyday Temptation Happy Life Next Day Make You Happy

Author:Guy Garvey

“I attach the greatest importance to an amplification of the peace efforts in the Middle East. I would also like to see a greater dialogue between the U.S. and the EU.”

Effort Greater Middle Importance East Dialogue Middle East Amplification

Author:Francois Hollande

“It is worthwhile adding that the power of the poem to teach not only sensibilities and the subtle movements of the spirit but knowledge, real lasting felt knowledge, is going mostly unnoticed among our scholars. The body of knowledge locked into and releasable from poetry can replace practically any university in the Republic. First things first, then: the primal importance of a poem is what it can add to the individual mind.Poetry is the voice of a poet at its birth, and the voice of a people in its ultimate fulfillment as a successful and useful work of art.”

“Information of fundamental importance to the general problem of atomic structure has resulted from systematic studies of the cosmic radiation carried out by the Wilson cloud-chamber method.”

Problem Study Information Importance Method Fundamentals Structure Clouds Cosmic Radiation Chamber Systematic Wilson Atomic Structure

Book:The Production and Properties of Positrons ...

Source: The Production and Properties of Positrons ...

“The photographs are not illustrative. They, and the text, are coequal, mutually independent, and fully collaborative. By their fewness, and by the importance of the reader’s eye, this will be misunderstood by most of that minority which does not wholly ignore it. In the interests, however, of the history and future of photography, that risk seems irrelevant, and this flat statement necessary.”

Doe Seems Eye Interest Risk Reader Photography Importance Independent Photographer Photograph Statements Minorities Flats Irrelevant Misunderstood

Author:Walker Evans

“Could one start a Stagnation Party-which at General Elections would boast that during its term of office no event of the least importance had taken place?”

Term Party Taken Events Office Importance Election Boast Stagnation General Elections

Author:C. S. Lewis

“I'm big on the importance of science, particularly right now at this point in time when there's sort of a systematic rejection of science by a lot of people in America.”

People Bigs America Right Now Importance Rejection Systematic Importance Of Science

Author:Seth MacFarlane

“The budget acknowledges the importance of maintaining our ports and waterways to encourage commercial deep-draft navigation and economic competitiveness.”

Economic Importance Budgets Acknowledge Maintaining Port Competitiveness Navigation

Author:Jeff Landry

“Books of quotation are not only of importance to the reader for what they contain of matured thought, but also for what they suggest. Our brains receive the spark and become luminous, like inflammable material by the contact of flint and steel.”

Book Brain Materials Reader Importance Contact Sparks Steel Quotations Luminous Matured

Book:Edge-tools of speech

Source: Edge-tools of speech

“I would not go so far as to say that the French trade unions attached greater importance to the struggle for peace than the others did; but they certainly seemed to take it more to heart.”

Heart Struggle Greater Importance Trade Unions Trade Unions

Author:Leon Jouhaux

“The biggest lesson I've learned by living abroad for the last four years is the importance of communication.”

Years Lasts Four Communication Lessons Importance I've Learned Four Years Living Abroad

Author:Hidetoshi Nakata

“Four years ago, I felt the importance of the Olympics and how it is different from other events. It's a completely different atmosphere. The main advice I can give my teammates is to try to enjoy the experience.”

Giving Trying Years I Can Different Felt Enjoy Four Advice Events Years Ago Importance Atmosphere Four Years Olympics Teammate

Author:Kohei Uchimura

“While the Environmental Genome Project does not seek to assign allele frequencies, we are aware of the importance of accurate allele frequency estimates for future epidemiologic studies and the large sample sizes such estimates will require.”

Doe Study Projects Importance Environmental Size Accurate Frequency Sample Genome Genome Project Sample Size

Author:Samuel Wilson

“The discovery which has been pointed to by theory is always one of profound interest and importance, but it is usually the close and crown of a long and fruitful period, whereas the discovery which comes as a puzzle and surprise usually marks a fresh epoch and opens a new chapter in science.”

Long Has Beens Science Interest Theory Periods Discovery Importance Mark Surprise Profound Chapters Crowns Puzzles Epoch

Author:Oliver Lodge

“We had learned how to invent things, and the question of why we invent things receded in importance. The idea that if something could be done it should be done was born in the nineteenth century. And along with it, there developed a profound belief in all the principles through which invention succeeds: objectivity, efficiency, expertise, standardization, measurement, and progress. It also came to be believed that the engine of technological progress worked most efficiently when people are conceived of not as children of God or even as citizens but as consumers-that is to say, as markets.”

Source: Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology

“Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is...opening a door that we may derive instruction from the example of others, and at the same time enabling us to benefit them by our example, if there be anything in our character worthy of imitation.”

Ifs May Character Doors Example Benefits Highest Importance Worthy Opening Instruction Imitation Courtesy Enabling

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“And so when we talk about intangible values remember that they cannot be separated from the others. The conservation of waters, forests, soils, and wildlife are all involved with the conservation of the human spirit. The goal we all strive toward is happiness, contentment, the dignity of the individual, and the good life. This goal will elude us forever if we forget the importance of the intangibles.”

“How often are the beauties of nature unheeded by man, who, musing on past ills, brooding over the possible calamities of the future, building castles in the air, or wrapped up in his own self-love and self-importance, forgets to look abroad, or looks with a vacant stare.”

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