Importance Quotes - Page 37

• My great joy is to give form to reality. Music is a great release, a great enjoyment to me. Eventually I'd like to write something of great importance. That's my ambition - to write something worthwhile.

  Jim Morrison

  Writing, Ambition, Reality

  "When You’re Strange" by Daniel Nester, www.poetryfoundation.org. October 19, 2011.

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• There is nothing of which men are more liberal than their good advice, be their stock of it ever so small; because it seems to carry in it an intimation of their own influence, importance or worth.

  Edward Young

  Men, Advice, Influence

  Edward Young (1802). “The works of the author of the Night-thoughts. Revised and corrected by himself”, p.311

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• Money's only important when you don't have any.

  Sting

  Important, Financial

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• There is more value in placing a flower in a rifle barrel than making war. As Jimi Hendrix used to say, musical notes have more importance than bullets.

  Carlos Santana

  Peace, War, Flower

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• Our teachers at the public school level are the most underpaid for the importance of their job in America.

  Dean Smith

  Teacher, Jobs, School

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• Men desire to have some share in the management of public affairs chiefly on account of the importance which it gives them.

  Adam Smith

  Men, Giving, Desire

  Adam Smith, William Playfair (1811). “An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations”, p.102

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• People who say they're too busy to have lunch have a false impression of their own importance.

  John Howard

  Lunch, People, Busy

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• The importance of prayer rises in proportion to the importance of the things we should give up in order to pray

  John Piper

  Prayer, Giving Up, Order

  John Piper (2013). “Brothers, We Are Not Professionals: A Plea to Pastors for Radical Ministry”, p.77, B&H Publishing Group

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• To eat in a monastery refectory is an exercise in humility; daily, one is reminded to put communal necessity before individual preference. While consumer culture speaks only to preferences, treating even whims as needs to be granted (and the sooner the better), monastics sense that this pandering to delusions of self-importance weakens the true self, and diminishes our ability to distinguish desires from needs. It's a price they're not willing to pay.

  Kathleen Norris

  Humility, Exercise, Self

  Kathleen Norris (1997). “The Cloister Walk”, p.25, Penguin

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• The secret is to write just anything, to dare to write just anything, because when you write just anything, you begin to say what is important.

  Julien Green

  Writing, Secret, Important

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• A toothache will cost a battle, a drizzle cancel an insurrection.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Battle, Cost, Drizzle

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1965). “The eye: a novel”

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• The importance of the Beats is twofold: first, they act out a critique of the organized system that everybody in some sense agrees with. But second-and more important in the long run-they are a kind of major pilot study of the use of leisure in an economy of abundance.

  Paul Goodman

  Running, Long, Important

  Paul Goodman (2011). “Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society”, p.155, New York Review of Books

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• My wife taught me the importance of living well.

  Robert Mondavi

  Wife, Taught, Economy

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• Unless everyone grasps the importance of having only two children per couple, wars won't be over just oil anymore, they will be over water and food.

  Alexandra Paul

  Children, Couple, War

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• I cannot raise my worth too high; Of what vast consequence am I! "Not of the importance you suppose," Replies a Flea upon his nose; "Be humble, learn thyself to scan; Know, pride was never made for man.

  John Gay

  Humble, Pride, Men

  John Gay, Thomas Park (1808). “The Poetical Works of John Gay: In Three Volumes. Collated with the Best Editions:”, p.83

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• Exposure to defeat is a very important thing. Anyone who doesn't look to get beaten is doing a disservice to himself.

  Ted Turner

  Important, Looks, Defeat

  Ted Turner, Janet Lowe (1999). “Ted Turner speaks: insight from the world's greatest maverick”, Wiley

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• It is unfortunate that some in our party have lost sight of the importance of conservation and environmental protection for keeping America strong, healthy, prosperous, and secure. It's time for all of our Republican leaders to recognize that conservation is conservative.

  David Jenkins

  Strong, Party, Sight

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• It is very important that you express your idealism actively, to what ever extent you can, for this increases your sense of worth and power.

  Seth

  Important, Increase, Idealism

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• The philosophy which affects to teach us a contempt of money does not run very deep; for, indeed, it ought to be still more clear to the philosopher than it is to ordinary men, that there are few things in the world of greater importance.

  Henry Taylor

  Running, Philosophy, Men

  Henry Taylor (1853). “Notes from Life in Seven Essays”, p.1

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• Four times, under our educational rules, the human pack is shuffled and cut - at eleven-plus, sixteen-plus, eighteen-plus and twenty-plus - and happy is he who comes top of the deck on each occasion, but especially the last. This is called Finals, the very name of which implies that nothing of importance can happen after it.

  David Lodge

  Educational, Cutting, Names

  'Changing Places' (1975) ch. 1

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• The importance of high expectations plays a big role.

  Wes Moore

  Play, Expectations, Roles

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The importance of education plays a huge role.

  Wes Moore

  Play, Roles, Importance Of Education

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I know some people say that high fashion should not be worn at synagogue. I, on the other hand, think that it is of the utmost importance that the Goldbergs from down the street see you in the new Chanel Fall 2010 Yom Kippur line.

  Rachel Zoe

  Fashion, Fall, Thinking

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• From the church I received a spiritual foundation that has kept me balanced. From the gospel music I learned the importance of singing with emotion- authentic emotion- not contrived- which has made my music endearing.

  Oleta Adams

  Spiritual, Singing, Church

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• I'm now in my mid-thirties, so I look in the mirror and my face is changing, and I have a different relationship all of a sudden with myself. Your face changes, things change - that's just kind of what happens. It's hard, though, in this industry, because I think so much importance is put on how you look, and I'm not brave enough to be like, "You know what? I'm just going to let it happen. Whatever. I'm so cool with every line on my face."

  Kristen Stewart

  Thinking, Mirrors, Brave

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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