Quotes about importance

One has to attain an ego-less state (nir-ahankari) attaining a nir-maani state (a desire-free state that wants importance from others) is not enough. The egoism one has of being nir-mani is very subtle. The external ‘horns’ are worn down but the internal ones still remain. The inner ‘horns’ will cause an internal biting.

True greatness demands humility the journey draws it from your struggling soul.

You can always win points winning people’s respect is a lot more important.

Irony of "importance": Those who deserve, don't get it; Those who don't, get it in abundance by you.

The amount of time we give to something indicates it's importance to us.

Kindness always works with the most important person — YOU. Be kind for you, not others.

In London it had seemed impossible to travel without the proper evening clothes. One could see an invitation arriving for an Embassy ball or something. But on the other side of Europe with the first faint tinges of faraway places becoming apparent and exciting, to say nothing of vanishing roads and extra weight, Embassy balls held less significance.

We are but cells living in a much larger organism, however, this does not make our existence less significant – for an organism without cells is no organism at all. We define it; we make it what it is. We are responsible for its health, its functionality, and above all, its purpose. A lone cell can restore the others, or a lone cell can spread a plague.

The older you get, the faster time passes in your mind, so use your time according to what is most important.

I mean, I think even God would agree with this at this point. God’s existence isn’t important. It’s what we do with what we’ve got that counts.

History is the nothing people write about a nothing.

When man comes to the realization that he is not the "favorite" of God; that he was not specially created, that the universe was not made for his benefit, and that he is subject to the same laws of nature as all other forms of life, then, and not until then, will he understand that he must rely upon himself, and himself alone, for whatever benefits he is to enjoy; and devote his time and energies to helping himself and his fellow men to meet the exigencies of life and to set about to solve the d

We are not as important to most people as we are to ourselves. As a matter of fact, we are—to most people—not important at all.

London has the trick of making its past, its long indelible past, always a part of its present. And for that reason it will always have meaning for the future, because of all it can teach about disaster, survival, and redemption. It is all there in the streets. It is all there in the books.

If you think, you are important, you are not.

The issues Miss Quested had raised were so much more important than she was herself that people inevitably forgot her.

People have this dream of being unreachable. They build a name for themselves and then finally fulfill their dream of "being more important." Which just shows they were born from down below. Because when you're born from up above, your dreams have nowhere to go but downwards! And you dream of doing things in order to meet people, to know them, to understand the smallest importances!

Change isn't always comfortable, but it always teaches us something of utmost importance – usually about ourselves – and we become better people for it.

We usually fail at the things most important to us, precisely because they are so important to us.

Yup! I'll live stupid! Because I know what I do, and what we as a species do will one day come together and make a difference. We matter!

Who doesn't want to know that we notice them and value them? And who might respond to us better when they feel that they matter? It probably cannot be overstated – it matters...that people matter.

Consult your memory to know what matters most in your life.

Questions that pertain to the foundations of mathematics, although treated by many in recent times, still lack a satisfactory solution. Ambiguity of language is philosophy's main source of problems. That is why it is of the utmost importance to examine attentively the very words we use.

Many besides Angel have learnt that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements but as to their subjective experiences.

Sometimes God let us experience the storm so people who give us importance could calm us down.

The values most important to us are always the most easily exploitable.

We might do well to take a look at what we’ve crammed into our pockets as it will say much about what we’ve crammed into our hearts.

Falling in love... how could he have made such light of it? Sneered even. As if it was trivial for us, a frill, a whim. It was, on the contrary, heavy going. It was the central thing, the way you understood yourself.

The things that are most popular are usually rubbish, stand up for what’s important, not popular.

Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about it.

An important step in escaping mediocrity is to stop worrying about what other people think of you.

The more importance we place on avoiding unpleasant feelings in life, the more our life tends to go downhill.

Life wants you to know that feelings are more important than facts, and you should never hurt someone just to be right.

We stay the same as we've always been, keeping to the path we've walked our whole lives. Paths that carry so much importance and perceived stability that we are utterly convinced it is the only one to walk – that anyone not walking it with us is being misled.

You are too important to the bigger picture to just fall off the canvas.

When your absence is felt, your presence is the essence and it makes a difference.

Get it Right today, for today wil never come again

If someone doesn't value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide to prove that they should value it? If someone doesn’t value logic, what logical argument could you provide to show the importance of logic?

There is nothing you will ever do that is more important than being honest about who you really are.

To realize that everything in the universe is connected is to both accept our insignificance and understand our importance in it.

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

Each of us needs to find our own special gift and develop it

The affair seems absurdly trifling, and yet I dare call nothing trivial when I reflect that some of my most classic cases have had the least promising commencement. You will remember, Watson, how the dreadful business of the Abernetty family was first brought to my notice by the depth which the parsley had sunk into the butter upon a hot day.

It never ceases to amaze me: the things people care about.

In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.

You’ve crafted this bored veneer, but you’re always giving yourself away in moments like that. In the moments that really matter.

Family's the most important thing.

Just because something awful happens to someone else, it doesn't mean the issues in your life should take any less importance.

The most important truths are those which sustain us in our daily lives.

Knowing this secret, being the only one chosen to know, makes me feel important in a way. But it’s a negative importance, it’s the importance of a blank sheet of paper. I can know because I don’t count. I feel singled out, but also bereft.

What is important may or may not be important but what is thought to be important is indeed important.

I never understand why all of us are so stupid. All the time we nurse our spurious and witless ego, while looking deep down inside that we cannot live without talking to our loved ones.

Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.

In troubled times, one wishes for a sound sleep more than usual, but on the contrary, realizing its amplified importance, sleep smugly impedes all attempts to woo it.

It is the manner of death that reveals the importance of a man. Ordinary people are murdered while extraordinary people are assassinated.

There are more important things than being careful

One of the most dangerous of literary ventures is the little, shy, unimportant heroine whom none of the other characters value. The danger is that your readers may agree with the other characters.

One realized all sorts of things. The value of an illusion, for instance, and that the shadow can be more important than the substance. All sorts of things.

The garbage can is for things that have no importance. If it did have some value, it no longer has any.

If I was your mirror, you would look for me more, than you do me.

Its like people care more abput their pride than about what's correct, about the truth.

It's like people care more about their pride than about what's correct, about the truth.

I must admit that when I chose the name, 'vitamine,' I was well aware that these substances might later prove not to be of an amine nature. However, it was necessary for me to choose a name that would sound well and serve as a catchword, since I had already at that time no doubt about the importance and the future popularity of the new field.

This day, you are free, because you have chosen to be free – and because of your choice, your days of insignificance are over.

The essential respect is the one in your own heart for yourself.

I do not understand those who take little or no interest in the subject of religion. If religion embodies a truth, it is certainly the most important truth of human existence. If it is largely error, then it is one of monumentally tragic proportions—and should be vigorously opposed.

It takes time, or does time take it?

There are only two worlds - your world, which is the real world, and other worlds, the fantasy. Worlds like this are worlds of the human imagination: their reality, or lack of reality, is not important. What is important is that they are there. these worlds provide an alternative. Provide an escape. Provide a threat. Provide a dream, and power; provide refuge, and pain. They give your world meaning. They do not exist; and thus they are all that matters.

You matter.You are important.There is a reason for your existence.You may not see or understand how this is true, but truth doesn't cease to be truth because of doubt, blindness, or ignor

A little porch light from a distant farmhouse dimmed, feeling alone and unneeded until his smallest spark of illumination snuffed out entirely. The night fell as dark as it was quiet. Meanwhile, every secret eye within the vicinity―from insect to animal to human wanderer―stopped to blink, suddenly blinded. Their guiding light had vanished, extinguishing hope in the hearts of many. That little light had mattered, but he knew it not.

In an unfathomable expanse of universe supporting galaxies of star systems with orbiting planets innumerable, I am nothing.  And yet to the few bodies encircling my tiny little spot in the world, I am essential.

The Coin of Life example: Say you have a coin with heads on one side and tails on the other side. One side would mean good and the other bad, based on your interpretation or bet of which side of the coin represents a win for you. However, you can't decide the outcome and the coin flips many times throughout your life. Finding balance is flipping the coin in such a way that neither of the sides is of greater importance to you, but if the coin lands on the middle bit, you realize that the space be

There's something satisfying to proclaiming humility while knowing just how important you truly are.

I am Tessa Gray,” she said in a low, clear voice. “And I believe in the importance of stories.

Like waking up in our home one night to find ourselves in a blazing fire, we must be arsonists of emotion, forcing ourselves to grab only what is truly important to us before our life-rafters collapse in on us and we can no longer escape alive.

You just had to get some idea of what matters and what doesn't, and how much, and try not to be scared of the stuff that doesn't. Put it in perspective.

Very little is given to how we should think about essential matters

The person who knows how to enjoy their own company knows the most important thing.

Not to have a confused church is to teach paramount importance of the truth

Valentine went back to class without answering. That night Demosthenes published a scathing denunciation of the population limitation laws. People should be allowed to have as many children as they like, and the surplus population should be sent to other worlds, to spread mankind so far across the galaxy that no danger, no invasion could ever threaten the human race with annihilation. "The most noble title any child can have," Demosthenes wrote, "is Third.

Who are you?""No one of consequence.""I must know.""Get used to disappointment.

I would like to start by emphasizing the importance of surfaces. It is at a surface where many of our most interesting and useful phenomena occur. We live for example on the surface of a planet. It is at a surface where the catalysis of chemical reactions occur. It is essentially at a surface of a plant that sunlight is converted to a sugar. In electronics, most if not all active circuit elements involve non-equilibrium phenomena occurring at surfaces. Much of biology is concerned with reactions

Never underestimate the importance of tragedy in life. Don't fear it, make it the mirror of your life.

The more you care, the more you fear.

Had there been no sun, life would have found some other means of illuminating the world. It is odd that we give the sun so much importance.

Life wants you to know that people are more important than things.

It's like they've forgotten everything important, isn't it? I mean, forgotten things like cats and dancing exist.

The hardest part of any important task is getting started on it in the first place. Once you actually begin work on a valuable task, you seem to be naturally motivated to continue.

Anything worth having is worth fighting for.

If you want to strengthen an enemy and make him exult - hate him.

I'd rather make a show 100 people need to see, than a show that 1000 people want to see.

Even if they try to kill you, you develop the inner conviction that thereare some things so precious, some things so eternally true that they areworth dying for. And if a person has not found something to die for, thatperson isn't fit to live!

You do understand that I must find a way to return to Olympus,” I said. “This will probably involve many harrowing trials with a high chance of death. Can you turn down such glory?”“Yeah, I’m pretty sure I can. Sorry.”I pursed my lips. It always disappointed me when mortals put themselves first and failed to see the big picture—the importance of putting me first—but I had to remind myself that this young man had helped me out on many previous occasions

Do experimental work but keep in mind that other investigators in the same field will consider your discoveries as less than one fourth as important as they seem to you.

Those that care for their career, more than their relationship, can find themselves alone.

If you care too much about a person you will loose your importance in his life

I guess its because we all want to believe that what we do is very important, that people hang on to our very word, that they care what we think. The truth is, you should consider yourself lucky if you even occasionally get to make someone-anyone-feel a little better.

Freedom is the realization that it is sufficient to simply be a human being.

The operating management, providing as it does for the care of near thirty thousand miles of railway, is far more important than that for construction in which there is comparatively little doing.