Best 448 quotes in «importance quotes» category

The people in your life should always be more important than the work you do.

The person who knows how to enjoy their own company knows the most important thing.

The present moment is always the most important. The present moment is the only one.

The present moment is always the most important.

The strenuousness is when,you have to be with and to bear those people who give more importance to the credence over reality.

There is nothing you will ever do that is more important than being honest about who you really are.

The tears in my eyes are now running down my cheeks at the thought that I have been his wife and his bedfellow, his companion and his duchess, and even now, though he is near to death, still he does not love me. He has never loved me. He never will love me.

The things that are most popular are usually rubbish, stand up for what’s important, not popular.

There's something satisfying to proclaiming humility while knowing just how important you truly are.

The young body has not the importance except the sex; conversely, young and healthy thoughts, whatever the age is, inspire one to discover the secrets of the universe.

Things only have the value and importance we give them. Work, success, accomplishments mean nothing to me, though they may mean the world to someone else.

Things only have the value and importance we give them. This is as true of works of art as it is of knowledge or love or money.

The works which this man leaves behind him occupy a few pages only; their importance is not greatly superior to their extent; and yet his name will shine out with lustre in the history of the sciences. {Cuvier on Joseph Banks}

Those that care for their career, more than their relationship, can find themselves alone.

Those who fight for social justice and the rights of people will count any other thing as unimportant.

This was when it hit him! The thought of losing his entire family in one day suddenly made his heart ache in a way that he didn't think could be possible.

Throughout her life, Highsmith looked for women whom she could worship. Sex was far from the most important factor in any relationship; rather, it was this near-divine quality for which she yearned.

To be an effective time user, you must make sure you are spending your time on only what is important.

To realize that everything in the universe is connected is to both accept our insignificance and understand our importance in it.

To witness a fallen tree, but hear no sound......creates an illusion of its importance.

This is almost always the case: A piece of art receives its f(r)ame when found offensive.

Very little is given to how we should think about essential matters

Valentine went back to class without answering. That night Demosthenes published a scathing denunciation of the population limitation laws. People should be allowed to have as many children as they like, and the surplus population should be sent to other worlds, to spread mankind so far across the galaxy that no danger, no invasion could ever threaten the human race with annihilation. "The most noble title any child can have," Demosthenes wrote, "is Third.

We are not as important to most people as we are to ourselves. As a matter of fact, we are—to most people—not important at all.

We are the subjects, and so is everything around us, of all manner of subtle and inexplicable influences: and if our ancestors attached too much importance to these ill-understood arcana of the night-side of nature, we have attached too little.

We have every piece of data on 200 million people,” he said, ticking off his fingers. “We have their bank accounts. We know how much they make and how much they spend and where. We have their social media. We know what they talk about, who they influence and how much. We know exactly how important each and everyone one of them is.

Through the radical undoing and debilitation of repeated pain we are reacquainted with the essentialities of place and time and existence itself; in deep pain we have energy only for what we can do wholeheartedly and then, only within a narrow range of motion, metaphorically or physically, from tying our shoelace to holding the essential core conversations that are reciprocal and reinforcing within the close-in circle of those we love. Pain teaches us a fine economy, in movement, in the heart’s affections, in what we ask of ourselves and eventually in what we ask in others.

War?' The word held too much definition for three letters.

We all matter - maybe less then a lot but always more than none.

We usually fail at the things most important to us, precisely because they are so important to us.

What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.

What is important may or may not be important but what is thought to be important is indeed important.

What we value is important to us. It rises in the finite hierarchy of things we pay attention to. We are willing to put effort and energy in it. What we value however arises from our perspective; the way our brain synthesizes reality filtering facts it sees through its library of memories, its catalogue of knowledge and its store of experience. Our perspective then determines how we see the world and sense our place in it which means it establishes our position in what I will call our known universe. The perspective we have then feeds our sense of identity; what we feel we are and our sense of how others see us modified through our need for others to see us in a specific way. Our sense of identity, in turn, gives rise to our values. Our values determine our energy expenditure and guide our attention. Our attention determines what’s important to us. You can see here how a misstep anywhere along this chain can derail us.

When my late father died — now I'm in mourning for my late mother — that sense of grief and bereavement suddenly taught me that so many things that I thought were important, externals, etc., all of that is irrelevant. You lose a parent, you suddenly realize what a slender thing life is, how easily you can lose those you love. Then out of that comes a new simplicity and that is why sometimes all the pain and the tears lift you to a much higher and deeper joy when you say to the bad times, "I will not let you go until you bless me.

When man comes to the realization that he is not the "favorite" of God; that he was not specially created, that the universe was not made for his benefit, and that he is subject to the same laws of nature as all other forms of life, then, and not until then, will he understand that he must rely upon himself, and himself alone, for whatever benefits he is to enjoy; and devote his time and energies to helping himself and his fellow men to meet the exigencies of life and to set about to solve the difficult and intricate problems of living. The recognition of a problem is the first step to its solution— We are not "fallen" angels, nor were we "created" perfect. On the contrary, we are the product of millions of years of an unpurposed evolution. We are the descendants and inheritors of all the defects of our primitive ancestry—the evolution of the myriad forms of life from the infinitesimal to the mammoth—from the worm to the dinosaur.

When you are the central character in a seemingly boiling pit of “busy-ness” the time will come when the pace of decline cannot be countered. You build yourself the circumstances of ultimate failure by failing to grow, by failing to act on your learnings.

When you're attached to something you give it an importance it doesn't have.

When your absence is felt, your presence is the essence and it makes a difference.

When you're attached to something, whether through love or hate, you give it an importance it doesn't have.

When your madness is creative and necessary, people will not notice the fact that you are crazy.

When you think about something you give it an importance it doesn't have.

While parchment may burn and gold may be stained or melted down, the things that are truly important to us will never lose their value.

Who needs electronics when you have books?

You are saddened by love's importance in the emir's life?" He paused. "I am frustrated by its importance in all our lives.

You can always win points; winning people’s respect is a lot more important.

You don't scream when You know its worthless, your scream will bounce back to you as he doesn't even care about it.

You’ve crafted this bored veneer, but you’re always giving yourself away in moments like that. In the moments that really matter.

What's important to you may mean nothing to me and what's important to me may mean nothing to you. And that's okay.

Why is it so important - what others have done? Why does it become sacred by the mere fact of not being your own? Why is anyone and everyone right - so long as it's not yourself? Why does the number of those others take the place of truth? Why is truth made a mere matter of arithmetic - and only of addition at that? Why is everything twisted out of all sense to fit everything else?

Why would you cry for someone who's already gone? You should cry for someone who is still here but is about to go away. That way, they'd have a chance to know that they are important and would be missed.