Quotes about import

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“One does not have freedom if anyone else (especially a large organization) has power over one, no matter how benevolently, tolerantly and permissively that power may be exercised. It is important not to confuse freedom with mere permissiveness.”

“There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important thing.”

“The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.”

“Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.”

“Life's most important questions are, for the most part, nothing but probability problems.”

“What are we? What is the future? What is the past? What magic fluid envelops us and hides from us the things it is most important for us to know? We are born, we live, and we die in the midst of the marvelous.”

“Investing in education means helping children and young people to discover and appreciate the most important values and to have the courage to look to their future with hope.”

“The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.”

“If you come to a spiritual teacher — or this book — looking for stimulating ideas, theories, beliefs, intellectual discussions, then you will be disappointed. This is not a book to be read from cover to cover and then put away. Live with it, pick it up frequently, and more importantly, put it down frequently, or spend more time holding it than reading it. Many readers will feel naturally inclined to stop reading after each entry, to pause, reflect, become still. It is always more helpful and more important to stop reading than to continue reading. Allow the book to do its work, to awaken you from the old grooves of your repetitive and conditioned thinking.”

“Even the best thought is not as good as the moment you detach from it. Even the most important content isn't as important as the moment you learn you can do without it. Like a good teacher.”

“In general they are intoxicated by the fame of mass culture, a fame which the latter knows how to manipulate; they could just as well get together in clubs for worshipping film stars or for collecting autographs. What is important to them is the sense of belonging as such, identification, without paying particular attention to its content.”

“The most important things in life are not 'things'.
To me, they are the people, the lives.”

“To understand the importance of not touching a person who does not want us, to realise that it is not right to deceive someone who does not belong to us, but only out of selfishness, for the pleasure of it or for pure satisfaction is not for everyone. And above all, it means loving and respecting human worth.”

“It is my contention that Creativity is as important today in Education as Literacy and we should treat it with the same status.”

“I could have been stronger,” she said. “I wasn’t enough to keep something so important.”

“Ah, Kurosaki, I see you've finally realized the importance of a cape.
~Uryu Ishida”

“Cosmic humor, especially about your own predicament, is an important part of your journey.”

“You have not forgotten to remember;
You have remembered to forget.
But people can forget to forget. That is just as important as remembering to remember - and generally more practical.”

“Never underestimate the vital importance of finding early in life the work that for you is play. This turns possible underachievers into happy warriors.”

“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.”

“Laws are meaningless, child. There is nothing more important than love. And no law higher.”

“It is important to foster individuality, for only the individual can produce the new ideas.”

“Nothing of any importance can be taught. It can only be learned, and with blood and sweat.”

“I'm learning that you have to make time for what's important. You have to fight to carve little pieces of happiness out of your life, or the everyday emergencies will eat up everything.”

“The expression one wears on one's face is far more important than the clothes one wears on one's back.”

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

“There were rules among friends, commandments, really, and the most important one was Thou Shalt Not Lust After Thy Friend's Sister.”

“When a person is going through a hard time, his mind wants to give up. Satan knows that if he can defeat us in our mind, he can defeat us in our experience. That’s why it is so important that we not lose heart, grow weary and faint.”

“There is nothing more important than your eternal salvation.”

“Is he making you happy? I don’t mean some of the time, on rare occasions, not that often, “but the good still outweighs the bad.” Does he make it clear in his actions every day that your happiness is important to him?”

“The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.”

“What's with all the running, anyway? I mean, I realize the importance of stamina and all that, but shouldn't I be moving on to something with a little hitting? They're still killing me in group practice.”
"Maybe you should hit harder.”

“If your friend is sick and dying, the most important thing he wants is not an explanation; he wants you to sit with him. He's terrified of being alone more than anything else. So, God has not left us alone.”

“Listen,' he said. 'It's important. We are all. Free. To do. Whatever. We want. To do.”

“Did you just grab my butt?” I whispered. “What?” “Curran!” “Yes?” I could hear controlled laughter in his voice. Unbelievable. I sped up. “We’re tracking ghouls and you’re grabbing my butt.” “I always make sure to pay attention to important things.”

“It's not that I've suddenly become stronger or that something has changed. I'm still shaking. But… We don't have to let those fears stop us. What's most important is that we try to rise above our weakness.”

“I think the important thing to remember is that all relationships benefit from a bit of breathing room. Especially friendships. It's only when you find yourself without the women who understand you that you realize there are very few women who will.”

“You have to remember… that for this little boy whom you have met, his life is just as important to him, as your life is to you. No matter how insufficient or how shabby it may seem to some, it is the only one he has.”

“Pursue something so important that even if you fail, the world is better off with you having tried.”

“It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.”

“It is important for people to know that no matter what lies in their past, they can overcome the dark side and press on to a brighter world.”

“Maggie threw her head back and laughed. 'So you're going to try… what? Birds of a Feather?' she quested.

'Of course not,' Kat said. 'Everyone knows the French government banned the importation of peacocks in 1987.”

“I need to write down my observations. Even the tiniest ones; they're the most important.”

“never could I expect to be so truly beloved and important; so always first and always right in any man's eyes as I am in my father's…”

“I think of you as a friend. I used to think "friend" was just another word… Nothing more, nothing less. But when I met you, I realized what was important was the word's meaning.”

“What the society thinks is of no interest to me. All that's important is how I see myself. I know who who I am. I know the value of my work.”

“My pen.’ Funny, I wrote that without noticing. ‘The torch’, ‘the paper’, but ‘my pen’. That shows what writing means to me, I guess. My pen is a pipe from my heart to the paper. It’s about the most important thing I own.”

“There are some things in life that shouldn't be given so much importance, if they don't change what is essential.”

“The Principle of Priority states (a) you must know the difference between what is urgent and what is important, and (b) you must do what’s important first.”

“Don't ever take for granted when people look in your eyes; you have no idea how important it is to be acknowledged. Even if it's an angry stare, because it's when they ignore you, when they look right through you, that you should start worrying.”

“The assaying of tea is an art and not a science. It is the man, and not his instruments, which is the most important.”

“The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.”

“Police work wouldn't be possible without coffee," Wallander said.
"No work would be possible without coffee."
They pondered the importance of coffee in silence.”

“It is only in our decisions that we are important.”

“It is important to speak your truth, not to convince anyone else of it. Everyone must make up their own minds.”

“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”

“The most important decision we can make is whether this is a friendly or hostile universe. From that one decision all others spring.”

“Remember, this is important: Never trust that you will be saved by anyone.”

“And what importance do I have in the courtroom of oblivion?”

“The food in the South is as important as food anywhere because it defines a person's culture.”

“So what is true for life itself is no less true for the universe: knowing where you came from is no less important than knowing where you are going.”

“You've recognised a fundamental feature of an addict's life. Maintaining your habit is so important you've no real interest in anything else.”

“I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.”

“When someone changes your world, that's when you know he's important to you.”

“The most important question a person can ask is, "Is the Universe a friendly place?”

“Almost nothing important that ever happens to you happens because you engineer it.”

“It is of great importance, when we begin to practise prayer, not to let ourselves be frightened by our own thoughts.”

“She said she thought there were different ways of loving someone, and there were some she used to think were the most important, and now she had changed her mind.”

“The thing that's important for me is to remember what's the most important thing.”

“The most important experiences a man can have are those that take him to the very limit; that is the only way we learn, because it requires all our courage.”

“If some people are so hungry for a feeling of importance that they actually go insane to get it, imagine what miracle you and I can achieve by giving people honest appreciation this side of insanity.”

“When mouths close, it’s because there’s something important to be said.”

“I wasn’t gifted. Mom was wrong. I was just smart and I worked hard. I had fooled myself into thinking that was something important to the rest of the world. Other people were complicit in this ruse. Nobody had told me I was common.”

“It's hard to decide who's truly brilliant; it's easier to see who's driven, which in the long run may be more important.”

“Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.”

“Loosen up. Relax. Except for rare life-and-death matters, nothing is as important as it first seems.”

“If you've ever been homesick, or felt exiled from all the things and people that once defined you, you'll know how important welcoming words and friendly smiles can be.”

“You're still in love'
'No I'm not, I'm not She'll always be a part of me, and she's an important person in my life but for the two of us something wasn't working.'
'What element?'
'We never found out”

“Important lessons: look carefully; record what you see. Find a way to make beauty necessary; find a way to make necessity beautiful.”

“I realised something important: whatever is on the outside can be taken away at any time. Only what is inside you is safe.”

“Is it important to be right or is it important to do what’s right? That’s one of the hardest lessons to learn.”

“The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.”

“It is important that you say what you mean to say. Time is too short. You must speak the words that matter.”

“Your own space, man, it's so important. That's why we were doomed because we didn't have any. It is like monkeys in a zoo. They die. You know, everything needs to be left alone.”

“In this world, there are things you can only do alone, and things you can only do with somebody else. It's important to combine the two in just the right amount.”

“But it's important to acknowledge that while we may make mistakes, in the long run, we may also learn from them.”

“Reject the basic assumptions of civilization, especially the importance of material possessions.”

“We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.”

“This is the thing they don't tell you about being a third wheel - it's not like you're the wheel that's added on. You were one of the original two wheels, but suddenly you're not so important anymore. The relationship drives fine without you.”

“What is important is the story. Because when we are all dust and teeth and kicked-up bits of skin - when we're dancing with our own skeletons - our words might be all that's left of us.”

“This may be the most important proposition revealed by history: 'At the time, no one knew what was coming.”

“… if a child waited to speak until all the grown-ups settled down and gave her some room to say her piece, the most important things would never get said.”

“Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.”

“He smelled the garden, the yellow shield of light smote his eyes, and he whispered, "Life is so beautiful."
…
Yes, he thought, if I can die saying, "Life is so beautiful," then nothing else is important.”

“Within Easy Company they had made the best friends they had ever had, or would ever have. They were prepared to die for each other; more important, they were prepared to kill for each other.”

“I had fooled myself into thinking that I was something important to the rest of the world.”

“Breaking rules isn't bad when what you're doing is more important than the rule itself”

“When I see people stand fully in their truth, or when I see someone fall down, get back up, and say, “Damn. That really hurt, but this is important to me and I’m going in again”—my gut reaction is, “What a badass.”

“Most men judge your importance in their lives by how much you can hurt them.”