English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

Importance Quotes (page 37)

Tim O'Reilly quote: "Pursue something so important that even if you fail, the world..."
Pursue something so important that even if you fail, the world is better off with you having tried. Tim O'Reilly
The most important thing was that time had passed, pouring thousands of soothing seconds across the island. People need time to deal with the now before it runs away and becomes the then. Terry Prachett
On the political as on the economic front it's important not to fall into the "not as bad as" trap. High unemployment isn't O.K. just because it hasn't hit 1933 levels; ominous political trends shouldn’t be dismissed just because there’s no Hitler in sight. Paul Krugman
Frank Zappa quote: "The most important thing to do in your life is to not..."
The most important thing to do in your life is to not interfere with somebody else's life. Frank Zappa
E. M. Forster quote: "He questioned Maurice, who, when he grasped the point, was..."
He questioned Maurice, who, when he grasped the point, was understood to reply that deeds are more important than words. E. M. Forster
Joan Didion quote: "Water is important to people who do not have it, and the same..."
Water is important to people who do not have it, and the same is true of control. Joan Didion
You have two choices. you can keep running and hiding and blaming the world for your problems, or you can stand up for yourself and decide to be somebody important. Sidney Sheldon
Vladimir Nabokov quote: "what makes a work of fiction safe from larvae and rust is not..."
what makes a work of fiction safe from larvae and rust is not its social importance but its art, only its art Vladimir Nabokov
Frances Hodgson Burnett quote: "My mother always says people should be able to take care of..."
My mother always says people should be able to take care of themselves, even if they're rich and important. Frances Hodgson Burnett
James Joyce quote: "Were all important in god's eyes."
Were all important in god's eyes. James Joyce
However entrancing it is to wander unchecked through a garden of bright images, are we not enticing your mind from another subject of almost equal importance? Dorothy L. Sayers
Some people believe football (soccer) is a matter of life and death. I'm very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that. Bill Shankly
Beware of being obsessed with consistency to your own convictions instead of being devoted to God. The important consistency in a saint is not to a principle but to the divine life. It is easier to be an excessive fanatic than it is to be consistently faithful, because God causes an amazing humbling of our religious conceit when we are faithful to Him. Oswald Chambers
To instruct calls for energy, and to remain almost silent, but watchful and helpful, while students instruct themselves, calls for even greater energy. To see someone fall (which will teach him not to fall again) when a word from you would keep him on his feet but ignorant of an important danger, is one of the tasks of the teacher that calls for special energy, because holding in is more demanding than crying out. Robertson Davies
The only freedom that is of enduring importance is the freedom of intelligence, that is to say, freedom of observation and of judgment, exercised in behalf of purposes that are intrinsically worth while. The commonest mistake made about freedom is, I think, to identify it with freedom of movement, or, with the external or physical side of activity. John Dewey

Popular Topics

Popular Author