Importance Quotes

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

  Thomas Huxley

  Humility, Dignity, Argument

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• Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

  C. S. Lewis

  Faith, Religious, Catholic

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• In this life we have to make many choices. Some are very important choices. Some are not. Many of our choices are between good and evil. The choices we make, however, determine to a large extent our happiness or our unhappiness, because we have to live with the consequences of our choices. Making perfect choices all of the time is not possible. It just doesn't happen. But it is possible to make good choices we can live with and grow from.

  James E. Faust

  Life, Happiness, Struggle Between Good And Evil

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• Which is more important - experience or memory of experience? If you could have an hour of ecstasy that you'd forever remember as torture, or an hour of torture that you'd forever remember as ecstasy, which would you prefer?

  Daniel Gilbert

  Memories, Forever, Important

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• When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.

  Bernard Meltzer

  Inspirational, Change, Forgiveness

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  Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

  Marcel Proust

  Friendship, Happiness, Happy

  Marcel Proust (1957). “Pleasures and days: and other writings”

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• Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self- importance.

  Goswami Kriyananda

  Acceptance, Opportunity, Self

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• I think art is good at looking back and looking forward. I don't think art is good at looking head-on. At the end of the day, people are more important than paintings.

  Damien Hirst

  Art, Thinking, People

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• If people looked at the stars each night, they'd live a lot differently. When you look into infinity, you realize that there are more important things than what people do all day.

  Bill Watterson

  Inspirational, Nature, Stars

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• It's really important for people who are HIV positive to reach out to let other people know that they can be tested, they can find out they can still live a life -- a positive life, a happy life.

  Laura Bush

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  "First Lady Winds Up West Africa Trip". www.foxnews.com. January 18, 2006.

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• What is the most important thing you could be working on in the world right now? ... And if you're not working on that, why aren't you?

  Aaron Swartz

  Motivational, Work, Important

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• Knowing is NOT the most important thing. To be able to FIND OUT is more important than knowing.

  Sugata Mitra

  Education, Knowing, Important

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• Exaggerated self-importance is deemed an individual fault, but a racial virtue.

  Kelly Miller

  Self, Faults, Virtue

  Kelly Miller (1908). “Race Adjustment: Essays on the Negro in America”

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• A painting with a message does not happen by accident. It happens when you place elements in their order of importance.

  Mike Svob

  Order, Doe, Elements

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• The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Writing, Literature, Firsts

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• I cannot emphasize enough the importance of a good teacher.

  Temple Grandin

  Teacher, Autism, Enough

  Interview with Dr. Stephen Edelson, www.autism.com. February 1, 1996.

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• To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.

  Alan Greenspan

  Success, Education, Business

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• Think about it: what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellow men. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Thinking, Men, Self

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Fire from Within”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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

  Katherine Mansfield

  Failure, Laughing, Immense

  Katherine Mansfield, Margaret Scott (1997). “The Katherine Mansfield notebooks”

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• Light is one of the most important factors in photography.

  Laura Gilpin

  Photography, Light, Important

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• The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Art, Important, Language

  "What is Art?". Book by Leo Tolstoy, 1897.

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• Very idle is all curiosity concerning other people's estimate of us, and all fear of remaining unknown is not less so.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  People, Curiosity, Idle

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.159, Penguin

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• Let not the author eat up the man, so that he shall be all balcony and no house.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, House, He Man

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1979). “Emerson's Literary Criticism”, p.105, U of Nebraska Press

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• The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brain and in your hands, wherever you go.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Hands, House, Brain

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• Nothing that actually occurs is of the smallest importance

  Oscar Wilde

  Smallest

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.1006, GENERAL PRESS

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