Importance Quotes

• It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.

  Thomas Huxley

  Humility, Dignity, Argument

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• Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

  C. S. Lewis

  Faith, Religious, Catholic

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• If paintings are so important - worth so much, reproduced, cherished, and visited so often - then isn't it troubling that we can hardly make emotional contact with the artists? Few centuries, it seems, are as determinedly tearless as ours.

  James Elkins

  Emotional, Artist, Important

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• We had to learn that we're beautiful. We had to relearn something forcefully taken from us. We had to learn about Black power. People have power if we unite. We learned the importance of coming together and being active

  Assata Shakur

  Beautiful, Taken, People

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• I don't think we really measured the enormity of the whole occasion. I'm very, very surprised. We never expected it. When I set out in May we didn't realise how big this was. Only now have we realised the importance of this. [on the 2005 Ashes win

  Duncan Fletcher

  Winning, Thinking, Ashes

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• Most important... develop your technical ability. You are handicapped if you do not develop well enough to hold the subconscious process so as not to have problems of inexperienced painters.

  Sergei Bongart

  Important, Problem, Enough

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• Our time and attention is scarce. Art is not that important to us, no matter what we might like to believe.

  Tyler Cowen

  Art, Believe, Important

  Tyler Cowen (2008). “Discover Your Inner Economist: Use Incentives to Fall in Love, Survive Your Next Meeting, and Motivate Your Den tist”, p.41, Penguin

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• Be clear in your mind why learning to draw well is important. Drawing enables you to see in that special, epiphanous way that artists see, no matter what style you use to express your special insight. Your goal in drawing should be to encounter the reality of experience... to see ever more clearly, ever more deeply.

  Betty Edwards

  Artist, Reality, Drawing

  Betty Edwards (1999). “The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain”, Tarcher

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• American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.

  Barry Goldwater

  Forgotten, Selling, American Business

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• In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.

  Oscar Wilde

  Luck, Style, Matter

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.14, Oscar Wilde

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• Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values.

  Gerald Brenan

  Believe, Ideas, People

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• The libertarian must never advocate or prefer a gradual, as opposed to an immediate and rapid, approach to his goal. For by doing so, he undercuts the overriding importance of his own goals and principles. And if he himself values his own goals so lightly, how highly will others value them.

  Murray Rothbard

  Goal, Principles, Libertarian

  Murray Newton Rothbard (1978). “For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto”, p.379, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives.

  Victor Hugo

  Hurt, Lying, People

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• All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Mothers Day, Mom

  The Importance of Being Earnest act 1 (1895). The same lines appear, as a dialogue between Lord Illingworth and Mrs. Allonby, in A Woman of No Importance, act 2 (1893).

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• A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Art, Important, Individual

  Strong Opinions (1973) p. 33

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• Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Wisdom, Math, Science

  "The Organization of Thought" (1917)

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• I've now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest.

  Oscar Wilde

  Firsts, Importance Of Being Earnest, First Time

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.60, Xist Publishing

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• Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of life, that's their order of importance.

  Muriel Spark

  Art, Philosophy, Science

  Muriel Spark (2015). “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie”, p.20, Canongate Books

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• Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Decision, Important, Comeback

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• The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.

  Thomas Moore

  Home, Practice, Simplicity

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• Every man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel his own importance, will consider himself as fully equal to any other person whatever

  Joseph Priestley

  Men, Rights, Natural

  'An Essay on the First Principles of Government' (1768) pt. 1

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• I believe that the sight is a more important thing than the drawing.

  John Ruskin

  Believe, Sight, Drawing

  John Ruskin (2012). “The Elements of Drawing”, p.13, Courier Corporation

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• I am interested in the size of your intention. It is better to overstate the important than to understate it.

  Robert Henri

  Important, Size, Intention

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• Results alone should be appraised; the way in which these are achieved is of importance only to the maker.

  Edward Weston

  Way, Makers, Results

  Edward Weston, Peter C. Bunnell (1983). “Edward Weston on photography”, Gibbs Smith Publishers

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• Work out what is truly important to you. Research shows people with consistently high happiness scores prioritise their life according to the things they value. They've worked out what is most important to them and don't allow themselves to get sidetracked.

  Robert Holden

  Work Out, People, Important

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