Importance Quotes

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

The Priestly Code preponderates over the rest of the legislation in force, as well as in bulk; in all matters of primary importance it is the normal and final authority.

You are indebted to you imagination for three-fourths of your importance.

For Stevie, the words are of prime importance; the song moves around the words, rather than the words moving around the song.

I thought they may have presumed too much knowledge of certain things for people who are not comedians. Like Montreal. A comic understands what it is and its importance, but someone else may not know about it.

It is seldom in life that one knows that a coming event is to be of crucial importance.

Kids are a huge sacrifice; they change everything - but I'm ready to work for things of greater importance than going out to meet someone for dinner at 10 o'clock at night.

It is necessary to be concerned about the importance of educating a really beautiful human spirit.

God is of no importance unless He is of supreme importance.

I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd never told me about something as basic as the importance of point of view in fiction!

The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity - an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.

What I have learned from my work up to now, is to try to be open, but also protect myself by not letting the good and the evil get too much importance.

Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that's stripped down.

It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.

Actors are observers. They're trying to have an understanding of human sensibility. And how do you have that accurate observation if you regard yourself as someone of great importance? When you're the one constantly being observed, because they view you as a celebrity? It's all wrong.

I don't think many people have a very good understanding of leisure and the importance it plays in our lives.

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.

The importance of the assistant director cannot be overemphasized.

This awareness instills a fierce desire to protect that heritage and - in doing so - to educate Americans in the meaning and importance of our pivotal documents.

Manifold subsequent experience has led to a truer appreciation and a more moderate estimate of the importance of the dependence of one living being upon another.

I don't attach importance to great speeches or philosophy.

Some pacifists have carried the sound idea of the prime importance of security too far, to the point of declaring that any consideration of disarmament is superfluous and pointless as long as eternal peace has not been attained.

But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory.

Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

No one could have less faith in the absolute and definitive importance of the work created by man, because I believe that this world is nothing but a dream.

The global importance of the Middle East is that it keeps the Far East and the Near East from encroaching on each other.

We discussed politics, but we also talked about the importance of hard work, personal responsibility, living within your means, keeping your word. Those lessons stay with you throughout your life.

As a former teacher and a mother and grandmother, I know firsthand the importance of a quality education.

One thing you have to give up is attaching importance to what people see in you.

As of essential importance in town churches which are not at all equally necessary in the country.