Quotes
Quotes about Importance
Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow. Now, number them in the order of their true importance. The first thing tomorrow morning, start working on an item Number 1, and stay with it until completed. Then take item Number the same way. Then Num!, and so on. Don't worry if you don't complete everything on the schedule. At least you will have completed the most important projects before getting to the less important ones.
A man's personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light of them, so will other men.
"I cannot raise my worth too high; Of what vast consequence am I!" "Not of the importance you suppose," Replies a Flea upon his nose; "Be humble, learn thyself to scan; Know, pride was never made for man."
Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.
When the amateur writer lets a bad sentence stand in his final draft, though he knows its bad, the sin is frigidity: he has not yet learned the importance of his art...
Man must realize his own unimportance before he can appreciate his importance.
Man must realize his own unimportance before he can appreciate his importance.
A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual, and only the individual reader is important to me.
Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of life, that's their order of importance.
Don't overlook the importance of worldwide thinking. A company that keeps its eye on Tom, Dick and Harry is going to miss Pierre, Hans and Yoshio.
American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.
Exaggerated self-importance is deemed an individual fault, but a racial virtue.
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.
Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily . . .
The life that conquers is the life that moves with a steady resolution and persistence toward a predetermined goal. Those who succeed are those who have thoroughly learned the immense importance of plan in life, and the tragic brevity of time.
Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks. - The Importance of Living, 1937.
Morality is of the highest importance--but for us, not for God.
I was learning the importance of namesâ having them, making themâbut at the same time I sensed the dangers. Recognition was followed by oblivion, a yawning maw whose victims disappeared without a trace.
To give importance to trifling matters.
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 our importance.
Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.
The ordinary arts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest. -Thomas More.
Pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.
In his address of 19 September 1796, given as he prepared to leave office, President George Washington spoke about the importance of morality to the country's well-being: Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, Religion and Morality are indispensable supports.... And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.... Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a Nation with its virtue?
I was learning the importance of namesâ having them, making themâbut at the same time I sensed the dangers. Recognition was followed by oblivion, a yawning maw whose victims disappeared without a trace.
