Quotes with importance

  • By late 1953, going to New York on vacation, I had lined up several Time Inc. interviews - and what they did was give me a lifelong appreciation of the importance of luck in getting a job.
  • For, usually and fitly, the presence of an introduction is held to imply that there is something of consequence and importance to be introduced.
  • The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.
  • Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.
  • Talent is like a faucet; while it is open, you have to write. Inspiration? - a hoax fabricated by poets for their self-importance.
  • It's important that our children are raised to be educated, well-rounded tax-paying citizens that understand the importance of technology and science.
  • If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.
  • The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take.
  • Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.
  • The man who is denied the opportunity of making decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to make.
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Robert Benchley A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
    Robert Benchley
    American humorist, criticus (1889 - 1945)
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  • Horace A jest often decides matters of importance more effectual and happily than seriousness.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • B. R. Ambedkar For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights.
    B. R. Ambedkar
    Indian jurist, economist and politician (1891 - 1956)
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Booker T. Washington To those of my race who... underestimate the importance of cultivating friendly relations with the Southern white man, who is their next-door neighbor, I would say, 'Cast down your bucket where you are'—cast it down in making friends in every manly way of the people of all races by whom we are surrounded.
    Source: Address at Atlanta International Exposition, Atlanta, Ga., 18 September 1895
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson 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.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Vladimir Nabokov A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.
    Vladimir Nabokov
    American writer and poet (1899 - 1977)
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  • Johann Kaspar Lavater Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.
    Johann Kaspar Lavater
    Swiss theologist and mysticist (1741 - 1801)
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  • François Truffaut All film directors, whether famous or obscure, regard themselves as misunderstood or underrated. Because of that, they all lie. They're obliged to overstate their own importance.
    François Truffaut
    French filmmaker (1932 - 1984)
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  • Marshall Mcluhan American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.
    Marshall Mcluhan
    Canadian professor and philosopher (1911 - 1980)
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  • Aldous Huxley Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz Any move made in a state of tension will be of more important, and will have more results, than it would have made in a state of eqilibrium. In times of maximum tension this importance will rise to an infinite degree.
    Source: On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Carol Loomis By late 1953, going to New York on vacation, I had lined up several Time Inc. interviews - and what they did was give me a lifelong appreciation of the importance of luck in getting a job.
    Carol Loomis
    American financial journalist (1929 - )
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  • Al Goldstein Celebrity gives us delusion of self importance.
    Al Goldstein
    American pornographer (1936 - 2013)
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 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.
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • Brian Tracy Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and importance, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.
    Brian Tracy
    Canadian-American motivational public speaker and self-development aut (1944 - )
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  • Alex Trebek Don't minimize the importance of luck in determining life's course.
    Alex Trebek
    Canadian-American television personality and actor (1940 - )
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  • Bobby Flay Don't underestimate the importance of having enough room to work. Grilling is much more relaxing when you are not trying to juggle a whole collection of plates and bowls as you do it. If your grill doesn't have enough workspace - and they almost never do - set up a table right next to your grill.
    Bobby Flay
    American celebrity chef and restaurateur (1964 - )
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  • Bill Rancic Each time you go to the grocery store with your kids, it is a potential learning opportunity. In order not to overemphasize materialism, focus on other things to do with money. In 'Beyond the Lemonade Stand,' I try to emphasize the importance of saving money, and of using it to help other people.
    Bill Rancic
    American entrepreneur (1971 - )
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