Quotes on Importance

The mystique associated with the bomb, the role that scientists played in it, and its general importance could not fail to impress even a six-year old.

Author: Sidney Altman

Information of fundamental importance to the general problem of atomic structure has resulted from systematic studies of the cosmic radiation carried out by the Wilson cloud-chamber method.

Author: Carl Anderson

What does gene A do? What does gene B do? What does it do in different contexts? What's its importance? We know the answer to that for a very small number of genes, the ones that made themselves evident many years ago.

Author: David Baltimore

A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.

Author: Robert Benchley

It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.

Author: Dietrich Bonhoeffer

I wouldn't attach too much importance to these student riots. I remember when I was a student at the Sorbonne in Paris, I used to go out and riot occasionally.

Author: John Dulles

The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves.

Author: Havelock Ellis

As governor, I learned the importance of having an agenda.

Author: John Engler

I am writing a book and that takes third place of importance.

Author: John Entwistle

The plants which stand next to dwarf trees in importance with the Chinese are certainly chrysanthemums, which they manage extremely well, perhaps better than they do any other plant.

Author: Robert Fortune

The importance of the assistant director cannot be overemphasized.

Author: John Frankenheimer

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

Author: Mohandas Gandhi

It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn.

Author: William Godwin

I cannot emphasize enough the importance of a good teacher.

Author: Temple Grandin

I wrote a great deal... but very little of any importance; there are not more than four of five papers which I can still remember with some satisfaction.

Author: Godfrey Hardy

Unemployment is of vital importance, particularly to the unemployed.

Author: Edward Heath

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

Author: Aldous Huxley

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

Author: Thomas Huxley

I always start with characters rather than with a plot, which many critics would say is very obvious from the lack of plot in my films - although I think they do have plots - but the plot is not of primary importance to me, the characters are.

Author: Jim Jarmusch

Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Author: David Letterman

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.

Author: Penelope Lively

For, usually and fitly, the presence of an introduction is held to imply that there is something of consequence and importance to be introduced.

Author: Arthur Machen

It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

Author: Katherine Mansfield

When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

Author: Katherine Mansfield

For Stevie, the words are of prime importance; the song moves around the words, rather than the words moving around the song.

Author: Christine McVie

It's the level that allows us each to live our own chosen lives. But I notice not everyone agrees with the primary importance of that level, and I try to account for how they don't.

Author: Robert Nozick

It's quite complicated and sounds circular, but we've worked out a way of calculate a Web site's importance.

Author: Larry Page

Of course, relative citation frequencies are no measure of relative importance. Who has not aspired to write a paper so fundamental that very soon it is known to everyone and cited by no one?

Author: Abraham Pais

The mathematician, carried along on his flood of symbols, dealing apparently with purely formal truths, may still reach results of endless importance for our description of the physical universe.

Author: Karl Pearson

The importance of information is directly proportional to its improbability.

Author: Jerry Pournelle

I understand the importance of bondage between parent and child.

Author: Dan Quayle

The global importance of the Middle East is that it keeps the Far East and the Near East from encroaching on each other.

Author: Dan Quayle

For me archaeology is not a source of illustrations for written texts, but an independent source of historical information, with no less value and importance, sometimes more importance, that the written sources.

Author: Michael Rostovtzeff

I don't attach importance to great speeches or philosophy.

Author: Jacques Santer

Malcolm was a firm believer in the value and importance of our heritage. He believed that we have valuable and distinct cultural traditions which need to be institutionalized so that they can be passed on to our heirs.

Author: Betty Shabazz

The Silent Service is all together too silent. It's important to begin to highlight the critical importance of the Silent Service to our national security.

Author: Rob Simmons

To photograph is to confer importance.

Author: Susan Sontag

With the increasing importance of standards for system-level objects such as COM and CORBA, it is particularly important that the C++ bindings to those be clean, well documented, and simple to use.

Author: Bjarne Stroustrup

It is necessary to be concerned about the importance of educating a really beautiful human spirit.

Author: Shinichi Suzuki

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and importance, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

Author: Margaret Thatcher

Absent scandal, a federal judge can serve for decades on the bench, underscoring the importance of appointing judges who have a proper understanding of their constitutional role.

Author: Paul Weyrich

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

Author: Alfred Whitehead

Child psychology and animal psychology are of relatively slight importance, as compared with the sciences which deal with the corresponding physiological problems of ontogeny and phylogeny.

Author: Wilhelm Wundt

Never underestimate the power of kindness; it carries much weight in the weightless moments of life.

Author: Samantha Smith

The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention

Author: Jane Doe

Success is not measured by wealth, but by the positive impact we make on others.

Author: Samantha Parker

Time is a currency that never loses its value; spend it wisely and invest in the moments that truly matter.

Author: Eleanor Wilson

Success is not measured by wealth or power, but by the impact you have on others.

Author: Sarah Johnson

Wisdom is not about knowing everything, but about understanding what really matters.

Author: Sarah Reed

In the tapestry of life, every thread matters, no matter how small or insignificant it may seem.

Author: Alyssa Ramirez

Wisdom is not knowing everything but understanding what truly matters.

Author: Maya Angelou

Wisdom is not measured by how much you know, but by how well you understand the things that truly matter.

Author: Helen Keller