Importance Quotes - Page 29

• People attach too much importance to intangibles like heart, desire and clutch hitting.

  Nate Silver

  Heart, People, Desire

  4 Copy quote

• The history of a battle, is not unlike the history of a ball. Some individuals may recollect all the little events of which the great result is the battle won or lost, but no individual can recollect the order in which, or the exact moment at which, they occurred, which makes all the difference as to their value or importance.

  Duke of Wellington

  Order, Differences, Battle

  1815 Of the Battle of Waterloo. Letter, 8 Aug.

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• I want to stress again the importance of really living what we claim to believe. That needs to be a priority-not just in our personal and family lives but in our churches, our political choices, our business dealings, our treatment of the poor; in other words, in everything we do.

  Charles J. Chaput

  Stress, Believe, Choices

  11 Copy quote

• Unsoundness in a slave, as well as in a horse, detracts materially from his value. If no warranty is given, a close examination is a matter of particular importance to the Negro jockey.

  Solomon Northup

  Horse, Jockeys, Examination

  Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Solomon Northup, Olaudah Equiano (2016). “Slave Narratives Compilation: Twelve Years A Slave, My Bondage and My Freedom, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave”, p.351, ShandonPress

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Nature admits no hierarchy of beauty or usefulness or importance.

  Stephen Fry

  Hierarchy, Usefulness

  8 Copy quote

• Rick Bass is one of a dwindling handful of American fiction writers still celebrating the importance of place, the natural world, and the struggle of a few brave souls to live and work respectfully in what's left of our western wilderness...The Lives of Rocks is his most lyrical and powerful book to date...a masterwork.

  Howard Frank Mosher

  Powerful, Struggle, Book

  5 Copy quote

• The World Cup is not just a great global sporting event, it is also inscribed with much deeper cultural and political importance.

  Martin Jacques

  Political, Events, World

  4 Copy quote

• He appeared to enjoy beyond everything the sound of his own voice. I couldn't wonder at that, for it was mellow and full and gave great importance to every word he uttered. He listened to himself with obvious satisfaction and sometimes gently beat time to his own music with his head or rounded a sentence with his hand.

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Humorous, Hands

  Charles Dickens (1853). “Bleak House”, p.15

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Although a man may lose a sense of his own importance when he is a mere unit among a busy throng, all utterly regardless of him, it by no means follows that he can dispossess himself, with equal facility, of a very strong sense of the importance and magnitude of his cares.

  Charles Dickens

  Strong, Mean, Men

  Charles Dickens (1843). “The life and adventures of Nicholas Nickleby”, p.200

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• In literature, questions of fact or truth are subordinated to the primary literary aims of producing a structure of words for its own sake, and the sign-values of symbols are subordinated to their importance as a structure of interconnected motifs.

  Northrop Frye

  Art, Poetry, Literature

  Northrop Frye (2015). “Anatomy of Criticism”, p.74, Princeton University Press

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I work to create systems that can accurately detect pandemics early, determine their likely importance, and, with any luck, crush those that have the potential to devastate us.

  Nathan Wolfe

  Crush, Luck, Pandemics

  Nathan Wolfe (2011). “The Viral Storm: The Dawn of a New Pandemic Age”, p.6, Macmillan

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I learned a great lesson from my mother on her deathbed. She counseled me on the importance of taking care of myself so I wouldn't end up in an unhealthy body like she did.

  Marie Osmond

  Mother, Body, Lessons

  4 Copy quote

• It is almost impossible to overemphasize the importance with which ancestry is held in the Middle East and North Africa.

  Tahir Shah

  Ancestry, Middle East, Impossible

  4 Copy quote

• Self-importance is a trap, because the moment we start to think that we actually matter is the moment when things start to go wrong. The truth is that you are supremely unimportant and nothing matters. All of man's striving is for nothing; all effort is wasted. To realize that everything is meaningless is tremendously liberating, since it then leaves us completely free to create our own lives and ignore the plans that others have for us.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Men, Thinking, Self

  13 Copy quote

• Precisely because Marx was convinced that the cause of the proletariat was of decisive importance for the whole future of mankind, he wanted to create for that cause not a flimsy platform of rhetorical invective or wishful thinking, but the rock-like foundation of scientific truth.

  Ernest Mandel

  Thinking, Rocks, Foundation

  9 Copy quote

• Work to recognize the primary importance of the present moment.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Moments, Primaries, Present Moment

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• In my early 40s I started to feel that I had neglected the spiritual side of my life. It had always been there, but I'd neglected it. In fashion, that's really easy because we live in the future, and we can place too much importance on material things.

  Tom Ford

  Spiritual, Fashion, Too Much

  "Tom Ford's Tender First Film, A Single Man". Interview with Karen Durbin, www.elle.com. December 11, 2009.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• I don't think we should have sex in games. But I think we should have the right to have it. We should have the full range of human experience. It's an art form like any other art form. For me, that's the importance of preserving it.

  Brenda Romero

  Art, Sex, Thinking

  "Women Working In Games: Brenda Brathwaite On Maternity Leave, Making The 'Playboy' Game And Hope For The Future". Interview with Tracey John, www.mtv.com. December 13, 2007.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you're in your early twenties, don't put so much importance on the money, on the raise. Getting an extra thousand dollars a year is okay, but the real thing is the responsibility and the power and the experience that you're learning.

  Robert Greene

  Real, Responsibility, Years

  Source: bigthink.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Men seldom persevere in a vocation unless they believe or can convince themselves that it is fundamentally more important than anyother calling. Women are the same with their lovers.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Believe, Men, Important

  5 Copy quote

• He who is conversant with the supernal powers will not worship these inferior deities of the wind, waves, tide, and sunshine. Butwe would not disparage the importance of such calculations as we have described. They are truths in physics because they are true in ethics.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Science, Sunshine

  Henry David Thoreau (2007). “My Thoughts Are Murder to the State: Thoreau's Essays on Political Philosophy”, p.140, David M Gross

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• A man of genius is not a man who sees more than other men do. On the contrary, it is very often found that he is absentminded andobserves much less than other people.... Why is it that the public have such an exaggerated respect for him--after he is dead? The reason is that the man of genius understands the importance of the few things he sees.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, People, Genius

  8 Copy quote

• In the one instance, the dreamerloses sight of this object in a wilderness of deductions and suggestionsuntilhe finds the incitamentum, or first cause of his musings,... forgotten. In my case, the primary object was invariably frivolous, although assuming, through the medium of my distempered vision, a refracted and unreal importance.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Sight, Imagination, Vision

  7 Copy quote

• The unity of effect or impression is a point of the greatest importance. It is clear, moreover, that this unity cannot be thoroughly preserved in productions whose perusal cannot be completed at one sitting.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Unity, Fiction, Sitting

  Edgar Allan Poe (2009). “Great Short Works of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.521, Springer Science & Business Media

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance.

  Sophocles

  Life, Men, Prudent

  5 Copy quote