Much Importance Quotes

#1. That very concentration of vision and intensity of purpose which is the characteristic of the artistic temperament is in itself a mode of limitation. To those who are preoccupied with the beauty of form nothing else seems of much importance.

Oscar Wilde

#2. In normal life we hardly realize how much more we receive than we give, and life cannot be rich without such gratitude. It is so easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements compared with what we owe to the help of others.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#3. Poetry and prose are of equal importance to me as a reader, and there doesn't seem to be much difference in my own writing.

Kevin Powers

#4. My mum fought for feminism in her day so instilled in me the importance of equality. She taught me so much about women.

Chris Evans

#5. Everyone just wasting time because they have so much of it to waste, minutes slipping by on who's with who and did you hear.

Lauren Oliver

#6. One of the characteristics of modern political life is its professionalization, such that it attracts mainly the kind of people with so great an avidity for power and self-importance that they do not mind very much the humiliations of the public exposure to which they are inevitably subjected.

Theodore Dalrymple

#7. One of the things I noticed more in this draft than in any recent drafts was the importance of the character issue. Players who had baggage, like Justice, fell much farther than his talent dictated. But a lot of coaches didn't want to take the chance.

Ron Jaworski

#8. I remember my dad supporting everyone on the local and national level. I was pretty much born into it. I saw the importance of politics firsthand. It gave you a chance to be at the table.

Nicole Avant

#9. The importance of the ordinary citizen is very greatly underestimated - not so much by those in authority as by the ordinary citizen himself.

Jan Struther

#10. I always envisioned myself as traveling the ocean of life in a rowboat where my mother was one oar and my father, the other. Having two good, solid oars made rowing much easier.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#11. Not at all," said Dorothea, with the most open kindness. "I like you very much."
Will was not quite contented, thinking that he would apparently have been of more importance if he had been disliked. He said nothing, but looked dull, not to say sulky.

George Eliot

#12. Later I would understand that modern industrial communities are obsessed with the importance of 'going somewhere' and 'doing something with your life'. The implication is an idea I have come to hate, that staying local and doing physical work doesn't count for much.

James Rebanks

#13. A solitary image bearer cannot adequately or accurately reveal God in the world, much less fulfill his destiny as a human being. Obviously, this is a matter of grave importance to the Creator.

Carolyn Custis James

#14. As much as I am a huge soccer fan, music just kills it when it comes to importance. I could go to a desert island without a football and survive happily, but if I had to go without music, I think I'd end up killing myself. It fuels my soul. It always has.

Joe Elliott

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

Neha Tariq

#16. You put too much importance on the man that you once were and not enough on the one you are becoming.

Melissa McPhail

#17. You learn this great lesson of life: it's not about me. It's just not. The matter of talent-which seemed so important to you when you were young-is not of great importance. We're simply a conduit. We take things out of the air into us and put them in the form of stories. That's pretty much it.

Garrison Keillor

#18. I learned the importance of being confident. I think that at the end of the day, it's not so much about what you look like - it's really about the way that you feel. That resonates with people.

Olivia Culpo

#19. I am the abandoned child, now become a man. So everything has turned out pretty well. . . A little too much importance is accorded to things I say.

Emmanuel Bove

#20. Death is not good. It's just a fact. We don't need to give it so much importance. So I don't want to read anything that talks about it.

Aditi Bose

#21. Life has a way of filling up one's time with many different things to do. So much so that you turn a blind eye to the things that really matter.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#22. There are some things in life that shouldn't be given so much importance, if they don't change what is essential.

Laura Esquivel

#23. I think modern educational theorists are inclined to attach too much importance to the negative virtue of not interfering with children, and too little to the positive merit of enjoying their company.

Bertrand Russell

#24. In regards to maan (to seek importance from others), a man will become impudent if he keeps getting insulted up to a point. If he gets maan (importance from others) to a certain level, he grows stronger. And if he gets too much maan [praise], then his desire for it will come to end.

Dada Bhagwan

#25. We learn nothing of very much importance when it can be explained entirely in terms of past experience. If it were possible to understand all things in terms of what we know already, we could convey the sense of color to a blind man with nothing but sound, taste, touch, and smell.

Alan W. Watts

#26. I find it sad that too many do not understand themselves, or their potential. They don't even take the time to get to know their unconsciousness. You can truly learn so much, by simply getting to know the "you" that is behind the reality of yourself.

Lionel Suggs

#27. No book is of much importance; the vital thing is, What do you yourself think?

Elbert Hubbard

#28. I had parents who instilled in me the importance of love, morals and hard work. I give God all the glory because he has brought me through so much.

Junior Seau

#29. If you look at U.S. history through religious history, there is very much a motif that shows the importance religion has played in the U.S. We're a very religious country and it affects the way we look at various political issues.

Madeleine Albright

#30. 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

#31. I have had unsuccessful films, but I learned a lot from those films. I give my failures as much importance as my success.

Aamir Khan

#32. What troubles us much, is of less importance to what troubles us much that invokes our thought, heart, spirit and body to dare to a live distinctive footprint on earth

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#33. You're responsible for yourself as an actress, you know that your personal growth goes through that alchemy, and you give as much importance to your life as you do to your acting.

Jeanne Moreau

#34. If you don't listen to your animal instincts, you are placing too much importance on knowledge thereby not being wise.

Karen Salmansohn

#35. The content or message of any particular medium has about as much importance as the stenciling on the casing of an atomic bomb.

Marshall McLuhan

#36. Wilson was very much school of Montaigne. Like Montaigne, he was not exactly misogynistic but he felt that the challenge of another male mind was the highest sort of human exchange while possession of a beautiful woman was also of intense importance to him.

Gore Vidal

#37. Throughout my college years, I'd watch my sister squeal every Christmas as she unwrapped another 'Buffy' DVD set. I didn't know much about the series, but I was filled with that obnoxious self-importance that comes from having decided to be an Academic Who Reads Serious Things.

Marie Rutkoski

#38. Ministers have received their wages, and some have their minds too much on their wages. They labor for wages, and lose sight of the sacredness and importance of the work.

Ellen G. White

#39. I offered her the benefit of my company this New Year's Eve, but informed her that as of midnight I should much like to insist that she refers to me as Master Oscar at all times. For that is whom I am, and I can't stress enough the importance of being Oscar.

Dawn French

#40. Most men judge your importance in their lives by how much you can hurt them.

Marilyn Monroe

#41. My parents always stressed the importance of education, working hard in school and learning as much as possible. They also encouraged me to value myself and believe in myself and do what I thought was right for me.

Hillary Clinton

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

E. M. Forster

#43. Still often interventionist, convinced of our importance in the world, even those of us born long after 1900 live in a country that is much more Victorian than we think.

Kate Williams

#44. Abundant data support the importance of biodiversity in health, and its loss causes various inflammatory conditions, including asthma, allergic and inflammatory bowel diseases, type 1 diabetes, liver disease, obesity, and much more.

Gerard E. Mullin

#45. I congratulate you both on a fine piece of work which I am sure will ultimately prove of importance. I am personally very much interested in your results ... In the past I have tried a number of experiments ... but without any success.

Ernest Rutherford

#46. What I have learned from my work up to now, is to try to be open, but also protect myself by not letting the good and the evil get too much importance.

Jane Campion

#47. Regardless of the importance of known evidence to the contrary, the arts are generally regarded as being so much entertaining fluff, a commodity that isn't a priority in the traditional program of learning. This is unacceptable in a so-called 'enlightened' society.

Ken Danby

#48. Color is one way the eye and the brain work together to define the external world. However, not all cultures see color in the same way, nor do they give it as much importance as in western culture.

Nita Leland

#49. By giving too much importance to fine actions one may end by paying an indirect but powerful tribute to evil, because in so doing one implies that such fine actions are only valuable because they are rare, and that malice or indifference are far more common motives in the actions of men.

Albert Camus

#50. I thought they may have presumed too much knowledge of certain things for people who are not comedians. Like Montreal. A comic understands what it is and its importance, but someone else may not know about it.

Todd Barry

#51. We aren't just defined by who we are, but by who are friends are. It's funny that we put so much importance on something that wont mean shit once we graduate.

Shaun David Hutchinson

#52. It is an art of no little importance to administer medicines properly: but, it is an art of much greater and more difficult acquisition to know when to suspend or altogether to omit them.

Philippe Pinel

#53. I have learned that, although I am a good teacher, I am a much better student, and I was blessed to learn valuable lessons from my students on a daily basis. They taught me the importance of teaching to a student - and not to a test.

Erin Gruwell

#54. When I talk to students or young writers about the importance of being unafraid to take controversial positions, I'm struck by the degree to which they can't entertain a thought, much less commit one to paper, without imagining the cacophony of snark they'll get in response.

Meghan Daum

#55. The real importance of reading is that it creates an ease and intimacy with the process of writing; one comes to the country of the writer with one's papers and identification pretty much in order.

Stephen King

#56. To sleep with a woman: it can seem of the utmost importance in your mind, or then again it can seem like nothing much at all. Which only goes to say that there's sex as therapy (self-therapy, that is) and there's sex as pastime.

Haruki Murakami

#57. It is natural to think that an abstract science cannot be of much importance in affairs of human life, because it has omitted from its consideration everything of real interest.

Alfred North Whitehead

#58. If you have forest, if you have green forest, the water table goes up. What happens with deforestation is the water level goes down and we all know how much importance drinking water has.

Mahendra Singh Dhoni

#59. It's a product of two poles - there's the pole of the one who makes the work, and the pole of the one who looks at it. I give the latter as much importance as the one who makes it.

Marcel Duchamp

#60. 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.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#61. The immense importance of "adorning the doctrine of God our Saviour" (Titus ii. 10), and making it lovely and beautiful by our daily habits and tempers, has been far too much overlooked.

J.C. Ryle

#62. From a male perspective, you don't think about how much outward pressure and importance you put on how women look.

Benjamin Koldyke

#63. I've never really spent too much or put too much gravity or placed too much importance on being a pop star. It's like, OK, great, does that mean I don't have to do anything anymore except walk around and be a pop star?

Neneh Cherry

#64. I do not attach much importance to America's bombs. I attach importance to her great vitality and integrity. The strength of America is deeper and more significant than her financial power.

Jawaharlal Nehru

#65. The mistakes that people will make are of much less importance than the mistake that management makes if it tells them exactly what to do.

William L. McKnight

#66. Poetry challenges you. Much of its importance is that it's one of the few places left in culture that makes things difficult-it asks you to think, to perceive and not to take for granted what we think about the world.

Dan Beachy-Quick

#67. We people of the world need to find ways to get to know one another - for then we will recognize that our likenesses are so much greater than our differences, however great our differences may seem. Every cell, every human being, is of equal importance and has work to do in this world

Peace Pilgrim

#68. I don't place too much importance on words. It's always the last thing I do because I'm definitely more interested in mood.

Jack Tatum

#69. It was like making a blunder at a party; there was nothing to do about it, it was dreadfully mortifying, but it showed a lack of sense to ascribe too much importance to it.

W. Somerset Maugham

#70. The impermanent, which is the body, is given too much importance. The permanent, which is the Atman, is completely forgotten. This should change.

Mata Amritanandamayi

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

Nate Silver

#72. We are made to exaggerate the importance of what work we do; and yet how much is not done by us!

Henry David Thoreau

#73. There's so much importance in honoring your everyday hero. It doesn't take money. It doesn't take connections. What matters is that people get involved. Whether your passion is gun control or food or whatever it may be, everybody needs to stop being so self-absorbed.

Debi Mazar

#74. His knee was killing him, was not going to support him for much longer, but of far greater importance seemed the erection shoving against the constriction of his jeans. Biological imperative.

Josh Lanyon

#75. A thesis has to be presentable ... but don't attach too much importance to it. If you do succeed in the sciences, you will do later on better things and then it will be of little moment. If you don't succeed in the sciences, it doesn't matter at all.

Paul Ehrenfest

#76. What's important in the filmmaking process has stayed the same. Keep it small, keep it personal, keep it authentic, work with people you like and trust. That process is much longer than the filmmaking process. The development process is a long one, so try and say something of importance.

Simon Beaufoy

#77. Gentle reader, did you ever feel yourself snubbed? Did you ever, when thinking much of your own importance, find yourself suddenly reduced to a nonentity? Such was Eleanor's feeling now.

Anthony Trollope

#78. The church growth movement has made many lasting contributions to our practice of ministry. But its overemphasis on technique and results can put too much pressure on ministers because it underemphasizes the importance of godly character and the sovereignty of God.

Timothy Keller

#79. When you're anxious, don't immediately trust your automatic thoughts because oftentimes these thoughts are irrational. Thoughts are not facts. They're just thoughts and sometimes don't need to be given so much importance.

John Tsilimparis

#80. I always wanted and enjoyed sex, but I never put much importance on scoring or having an athletic sex life. I guess I define myself more by my career and my commitment to a relationship than by my ability to have a lot of chicks or achieve ten orgasms in an evening.

George Carlin

#81. 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.

Anuradha Bhattacharyya

#82. Over the years, I learned so much from mom. She taught me about the importance of home and history and family and tradition. She also taught me that aging need not mean narrowing the scope of your activities and interests or a diminution of the great pleasures to be had in the everyday.

Martha Stewart

#83. But I was not so much interested in facts themselves as in the importance they had for my imagination. I was passionately interested in railways, and in the relative speed of the fastest express trains; but I did not understand the principle of the steam engine and had no wish to learn.

L.P. Hartley

#84. In ancient times, bodily strength and dexterity, being of greater use and importance in war, was also much more esteemed and valued, than at present ... In short, the different ranks of men are, in a great measure, regulated by riches.

David Hume

#85. At this point, any scientist, doctor, journalist, or policy maker who denies or minimizes the importance of a whole food, plant-based diet for individual and societal well-being simply isn't looking clearly at the facts. There's just too much good evidence to ignore anymore.

T. Colin Campbell

#86. It's not much of a tail, but I'm sort of attached to it.

A.A. Milne

#87. I think that everything changes when it goes through the Mac; it's cheap. I think people then don't pay too much importance to the take, if you can do 40 takes.

Jaume Collet-Serra

#88. One of man's greatest flaws is assigning far too much importance to what he does.

Tim Campbell

#89. Our past is a fictional representation, and the only thing we can be even somewhat sure of is what is happening now. It encourages us to live in the moment and not to place too much importance on our past. It forces us to accept that the best time of our lives, and our memory, is right now. And

Julia Shaw

#90. It can be so important for you, everything related to someone but it is not necessary the same from other side that you hope by giving this much importance

Pawan Mehra

#91. I used to give too much importance to reason until I discovered the world was shaped not by reason but by emotion

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#92. But is the commercial theory of learning true? Daniel Anderson says that new research suggests that children actually don't like commercials as much as we thought they did because commercials don't tell stories, and stories have a particular salience and importance to young people.

Malcolm Gladwell

#93. You can't overestimate the importance of psychology in chess, and as much as some players try to downplay it, I believe that winning requires a constant and strong psychology not just at the board but in every aspect of your life.

Garry Kasparov

#94. Her demon had pursued and seduced him. She hoped he hadn't placed too much importance on that.

Paula Altenburg

#95. Entrust a secret to one whose importance will not be much increased by divulging it.

Arthur Helps

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

Martin Jacques

#97. Of how much importance is it, that the utmost pains be taken by the public to have the principles of virtue early inculcated on the minds even of children, and the moral sense kept alive.

Samuel Adams

#98. He had been unfair: while his imagination and vanity had given her too much importance, his pride had given her too little.

Albert Camus

#99. Kids are very sensitive to the value system of their parents, and I just felt my parents were attaching too much importance, too much meaning, to things.

Tino Sehgal

#100. I think too much importance is placed on spirit guides. They involve looking outside of ourselves to do it, to fix it, to tell us what to do.

Echo Bodine