Importance Quotes - page 2

The aspect of congresses and such meetings generally to which I attach the greatest importance is the discussion. That is why people assemble: to hear different opinions, rather than to pass resolutions. (Fredrik Bajer)
Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question. View quote
Tennessee Williams
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down. View quote
Robert Benchley
What I have done is to show the importance for the working of the economic system of what may be termed the institutional structure of production. View quote
Ronald Coase
So much of every art is an expression of the subconscious that it seems to me most of all the important qualities are put there unconsciously, and little of importance by the conscious intellect. But these are things for the psychologist to untangle. View quote
Edward Hopper
If you tell me how you get your feeling of importance, I'll tell you what you are. View quote
Dale Carnegie
It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves. View quote
Katherine Mansfield
By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but to have it affirmed by others is of utmost importance. Writing is, after all, a form of communication. View quote
Ralph Ellison
There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. By carefully chronicling the current events of contemporary life, it shows us of what very little importance such events really are. By invariably discussing the unnecessary, it makes us understand what things are requisite for culture, and what are not. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Nothing of any importance can be taught. It can only be learned, and with blood and sweat. View quote
Robert Anton Wilson
I am not sure that it is of the first importance that you should be happy. Many an unhappy man has been of deep service to himself and to the world. (Woodrow Wilson)
More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies. View quote
Rudyard Kipling
People who live in the post-totalitarian system know only too well that the question of whether one or several political parties are in power, and how these parties define and label themselves, is of far less importance than the question of whether or not it is possible to live like a human being. View quote
Václav Havel
One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it. View quote
David Hilbert
As regards the efficacy of the art and the theories of it, I promise and expect that in these volumes I shall undoubtedly show myself of very considerable importance not only to builders but also to all scholars. View quote
Vitruvius
The global importance of the Middle East is that it keeps the Far East and the Near East from encroaching on each other. View quote
Dan Quayle
This organization of functional discourse is of vital importance; it serves as a vehicle of coordination and subordination. The unified, functional language is an irreconcilably anti-critical and anti-dialectical language. In it, operational and behavioral rationality absorbs the transcendent, negative, oppositional elements of Reason. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
We can also reassure our Palestinian partners that we understand the importance of territorial contiguity in the West Bank for a viable Palestinian state ... View quote
Ariel Sharon
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense. View quote
Voltaire
Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God. (Albert Einstein)
Wikipedia was a big help for science, especially science communication, and it shows no sign of diminishing in importance. View quote
Aubrey de Grey
All I know for certain is that reading is of the most intense importance to me; if I were not able to read, to revisit old favorites and experiment with names new to me, I would be starved - probably too starved to go on writing myself. View quote
Penelope Lively
You cannot compare your athletic achievement to the importance of children and giving them a safe environment in which to grow up and enjoy life. View quote
Steffi Graf
I'm sure mothers are important across every culture, but particularly in Korean society, the role of the mother is of great importance. View quote
Bong Joon-ho