Quotes about import

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“Names are the sweetest and most important sound in any language.”

“Too many people seem to believe that silence was a void that needed to be filled, even if nothing important was said.”

“People are afraid to pursue their most important dreams, because they feel that they don't deserve them, or that they'll be unable to achieve them.”

“Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths, or the turning inwards in prayer for five short minutes.”

“I began to learn the importance of lifting things up and looking underneath.”

“I'm the most important person in the lives of almost everyone I know and a good number of the people I've never even met.”

“In the Kamigata area, they have a sort of tiered lunchbox they use for a single day when flower viewing. Upon returning, they throw them away, trampling them underfoot. The end is important in all things.”

“Reading is important, because if you can read, you can learn anything about everything and everything about anything.”

“One must never allow oneself to acquire an exaggerated sense of one's own importance. There's no necessity to burden oneself with absolutes”

“Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals… except the weasel.”

“Living creatively is really important to maintain throughout your life. And living creatively doesn't mean only artistic creativity, although that's part of it. It means being yourself, not just complying with the wishes of other people.”

“If letting go, if letting people and things work themselves out in the way that they needed to without your help was the most important thing, then it was also the hardest.”

“There must always be a first," said Jem. "It is not easy to be first, and it is not always rewarding, but it is important.”

“No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.”

“Now I understand one of the important reasons for going to college and getting an education is to learn that the things you've believed in all your life aren't true, and that nothing is what it appears to be.”

“I have a theory that every time you make an important choice, the part of you left behind continues the other life you could have had.”

“We are divine enough to ask and we are important enough to receive.”

“When you go to a country, you must learn how to say two things: how to ask for food, and to tell a woman that you love her. Of these the second is more important, for if you tell a woman you love her, she will certainly feed you.”

“The most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between.”

“The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.”

“Lust is temporary, romance can be nice, but love is the most important thing of all. Because without Love, lust and romance will always be short-lived.”

“Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.”

“It is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can understand their true import.”

“But they wanted you. Time is not something you give back. The very next moment may be answer to your prayer. To deny that is to deny the most important part of the future.”

“The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.”

“Of all the judgments we pass in life, none is more important than the judgment we pass on ourselves.”

“What if I’ve forgotten the most important thing? What if somewhere inside me there is a dark limbo where all the truly important memories are heaped and slowly turning into mud?… the thought fills me with an almost unbearable sorrow.”

“You must remember, my dear lady, the most important rule of any successful illusion: First, the people must want to believe in it.”

“Whatever you get paid attention for is never what you think is most important about yourself.”

“I said, names aren't important," he repeated. There was a silence between them for some seconds, then the Ranger said: "Do you know what is important?"
Will shook his head.
"Supper is important!”

“It had been a whim, and there was nothing Magnus attached more importance to than a whim.”

“You may never have proof of your importance but you are more important than you think. There are always those who couldn’t do without you. The rub is that you don’t always know who.”

“It is not so much what we know that is important, as what we are and what we do.”

“I believe that being happy is the only important thing. Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or torturous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.”

“Don't be too ambitious. Do the most important thing you can think of doing every year and then your career will take care of itself.”

“The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital ones.”

“Do you want to know why men name their penis? So the most important decisions in their life aren't made by a stranger.”

“the important thing is not what we (look) like, but the role we play in our best friend's life.”

“Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.”

“I was told once that the most important part of a fight is making sure your opponent looks worse than you do when you’re through.”

“Hard is trying to rebuild yourself, piece by piece, with no instruction book, and no clue as to where all the important bits are supposed to go.”

“The two important things that I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavour is taking the first step, making the first decision.”

“It always disappointed me when mortals put themselves first and failed to see the big picture—the importance of putting me first”

“Nothing important is completely explicable.”

“If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music. … I cannot tell if I would have done any creative work of importance in music, but I do know that I get most joy in life out of my violin.”

“The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet.”

“I've learned that it doesn't matter how your husband squeezes the toothpaste, the important thing is how he squeezes you.”

“What is interesting and important happens mostly in secret, in places where there is no power.”

“It takes too much energy to be against something unless it's really important.”

“Suddenly, details seemed extremely important. Details were something to grab on to, a way to insert myself into the story.”

“The important people in our lives leave imprints. They may stay or go in the physical realm, but they are always there in your heart, because they helped form your heart. There's not getting over that.”

“Remember to get the weather in your damn book--weather is very important.”

“No one will understand you. It is not, ultimately, that important. What is important is that you understand you.”

“… mediocre people find their way into positions of authority… because when it comes to even the most important positions, our selection decisions are a good deal less rational than we think.”

“You'll see, you'll come to understand. These big things, these terrible things, are not the important ones. If they were, how could one go on living? No, it is the small, little things that make up a day, that bring fullness and happiness to a life.”

“It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.”

“I think it's important for girls to be confident. Believe in yourself and… everybody's hot”

“So, using his pride like a shield against despair, dejection, and-most important—
self-pity, Raoden raised his head to stare damnation in the eyes.”

“Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down.”

“There are some things more important than physical survival. You gotta be able to look at yourself in the mirror.”

“Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.”

“The thing is to understand myself: the thing is to find a truth which is true for me, to find the idea for which I can live and die. That is what I now recognize as the most important thing.”

“Dress for success. Image is very important. People judge you by the way you look on the outside”

“Maybe we judge people too much by their looks because it's easier than seeing what's really important.”

“Power can do everything but the most important thing: it cannot control love.”

“Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and importance, although
difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.”

“If it is in our power to prevent something bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything of comparable moral importance, we ought, morally, to do it.”

“They didn’t agree on much. In fact, they didn’t agree on anything. They fought all the time and challenged each other ever day. But despite their differences, they had one important thing in common. They were crazy about each other.”

“So what if man's body evolved from the monkeys? Whether he came from monkeys or fish is unimportant. The important idea is that when the body became "human" enough, the first human soul slipped into it.”

“My books promised me that life wasn’t just made up of workday tasks and prosaic things. The world is bigger and more colorful and more important than that.”

“We have eyes, and we're looking at stuff all the time, all day long. And I just think that whatever our eyes touch should be beautiful, tasteful, appealing, and important.”

“Remember, 'No one's more important than people'! In other words, friendship is the most important thing--not career or housework, or one's fatigue--and it needs to be tended and nurtured.”

“Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness. The things I have learned and the things I have been taught seem of ridiculously little importance compared with their "large loves and heavenly charities."”

“The Bible tells us to be like God, and then on page after page it describes God as a mass murderer. This may be the single most important key to the political behavior of Western Civilization.”

“So many of us find ourselves saying, “but he was so great!” Yes, and the people who got on the Titanic thought they were going on vacation. Things changed and it’s important to remember that they did.”

“Getting to the top of any given mountain was considered much less important than how one got there: prestige was earned by tackling the most unforgiving routes with minimal equipment, in the boldest style imaginable.”

“Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.”

“I have won important things for myself, but I'm going to destroy them, because I tell myself they have lost their meaning. I know that is not true. I know they are important, and that if I destroy them, I'll be destroying myself, as well.”

“Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing--and keeping the unknown always beyond you.”

“There was an unexpected freedom in
finding out that one wasn't as important as one had always assumed!”

“That's the thing about the internet. It's really good at giving you pointless facts like how many horses a star owns, but not important things like how to invade his trailer.”

“it was important to him that i know who she was, so im glad for that. but it makes me sad too. they loved each other so much, and now she's gone. it doesn't seem fair.”

“we can harness the energy of the winds, the seas, the sun. But the day man learns to harness the energy of love, that will be as important as the discovery of fire.”

“All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world's wildernesses I first should wander.”

“I am Tessa Gray,” she said in a low, clear voice. “And I believe in the importance of stories.”

“Wrong turns are as important as right turns. More important, sometimes.”

“The important thing was that we were being polite and not saying all the things that were making us unhappy, which was the only way we knew how to love each other.”

“Seriously, a thirty-something woman shouldn't be daydreaming about a fictional character in a two-hundred-year-old world to the point where it interfered with her very real and much more important life and relationships. Of course she shouldn't.”

“Heaven is important, but its not the end of the world”

“After a long, long time she reached an important conclusion. She was never going to stand by and say nothing again.”

“Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company.”

“We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations the important thing is not to achieve, but to strive. … The problem, then, is how to bring about a striving for harmony with land among a people many of whom have forgotten there is any such thing as land, among whom education and culture have become almost synonymous with landlessness. This is the problem of 'conservation education.”

“Talk. I'll just wait' shall I? Because my mission to save this town is of no importance whatsoever next to your girl talk."- Myrnin
"Oh, shut up, you medieval drama queen" - Claire”

“We shall know what things are of overmastering importance when they have overmastered us.”

“Em, I am trying to have an important conversation!" shouted Seylin. "I will not change into a cat!”

“My old man says when it's time to be counted, the important thing is to be man enough to stand up.”

“American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.”

“How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!”

“Feeling good about yourself is not the same thing as doing good. Good policy is more important than good feelings.”