Importance Quotes - Page 24

• When I was single my career was my life, so everything I did was of grave importance and was greatly disturbing.

  Rickie Lee Jones

  Careers, Graves, Disturbing

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• Taiwan matters because of its vital role in spreading democracy in East Asia. Taiwan matters because of its strategic importance to promote peace in the Pacific region.

  Annette Lu

  Democracy, Taiwan, East

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• The importance of heart health became very real for me when my father died of heart disease seven years ago. Having experienced the loss first hand, I am inspired to do everything I can to break the cycle and prevent families from losing loved ones to this preventable disease.

  Monica Potter

  Father, Real, Heart

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• Our legislation addresses broadcasts over the public airwaves, but I hope the cable and satellite industries see the importance of this issue and voluntarily create a family tier of programming and offer culturally responsible products.

  Charles W. Pickering

  Issues, Addresses, Responsible

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• Of course, nobody would deny the importance of human beings for theological thinking, but the time span of history that theologians think about is a few thousand years of human culture rather than the fifteen billion years of the history of the universe.

  John Polkinghorne

  Thinking, Years, Culture

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• In 'Packing for Mars,' I tried to convey the importance of getting young people interested in science.

  Mary Roach

  People, Mars, Young

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• The importance of the House is... far more important than my future.

  Peter Slipper

  House, Important, My Future

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• The number of such as live without the ardour of inquiry is very small, though many content themselves with cheap amusements, and waste their lives in researches of no importance.

  Samuel Johnson

  Knowledge, Numbers, Inquiry

  Samuel Johnson, William P. Page (1840). “The Life and Writings of Samuel Johnson...”, p.40

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• We can look back through ice-core data and see over 800,000 years, relationships between carbon dioxide and the temperature of the world. So those people who deny the importance of climate change are just wasting their time. They're also being diversionary because if we don't act the risks are enormous.

  Nicholas Stern

  Years, Ice, Data

  "Stern: Climate change deniers are 'flat-earthers'" by Sunny Hundal, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2009.

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• I would say that foreign policy is a place where intelligence, resolve, clarity, and confidence in cause, is of extraordinary importance.

  Mitt Romney

  Causes, Clarity, Foreign Policy

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• We needed someone to recognize the importance of check and balances, accountability, transparency. There was a real systemic problem at South Carolina State, a problem that has gone on for 25 or 30 years

  Gwen Ifill

  Real, Years, Accountability

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If this is the only life, then everything assumes too great an importance. We have to get everything out of life and we overdo it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Assuming

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• While others are engaged in inferior and menial tasks in which they encounter many difficulties, how can I sit here at peace and do nothing? I must and shall benefit them, but without ever succumbing to the poison of self-importance.

  Shantideva

  Buddhist, Self, Encounters

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• I'm basically a dinosaur. I don't use e-mail. But I do recognize the importance of science and the resulting possibilities.

  Bernard Marcus

  Use, Dinosaurs, Mail

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• Require nothing unreasonable of your officers and men, but see that whatever is required be punctually complied with. Reward and punish every man according to his merit, without partiality or prejudice; hear his complaints; if well founded, redress them; if otherwise, discourage them, in order to prevent frivolous ones. Discourage vice in every shape, and impress upon the mind of every man, from the first to the lowest, the importance of the cause, and what it is they are contending for.

  George Washington

  Men, Order, Mind

  George Washington (1989). “Maxims of George Washington: Political, Military, Social, Moral, and Religious”, Mount Vernon Ladies Assn of the

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• Today's terrorists are pursuing a distinct route. They are increasingly attacking civilians in symbolic targets, such as those of economic importance, or venues of bustling life like public transportation or entertainment, like nightclubs.

  Cliff Stearns

  Today, Entertainment, Target

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• If there's anything in life that we should be passionate about, it's the gospel. And I don't mean passionate only about sharing it with others. I mean passionate about thinking about it, dwelling on it, rejoicing in it, allowing it to color the way we look at the world. Only one thing can be of first importance to each of us. And only the gospel ought to be.

  C. J. Mahaney

  Mean, Thinking, Color

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• Of capital importance is to have a good diet and exercise a lot.

  Evelyn Lauder

  Exercise, Diet And Exercise, Diets

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• There is temptation to place too much importance on those things that you're meant to do, and not on to little everyday happinesses. I think if you do what makes you happy on a daily basis, your days gather into years and you have a happy life. I don't want to think too far ahead. I want to make sure that I enjoy tomorrow, and the next day, and the next day. And we'll see what happens.

  Guy Garvey

  Happy Life, Thinking, Years

  "Guy Garvey interview: 'I still think wistfully about my hedonistic years'". Interview with Miranda Sawyer, www.theguardian.com. March 1, 2014.

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• I attach the greatest importance to an amplification of the peace efforts in the Middle East. I would also like to see a greater dialogue between the U.S. and the EU.

  Francois Hollande

  Effort, Middle East, Amplification

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• It is worthwhile adding that the power of the poem to teach not only sensibilities and the subtle movements of the spirit but knowledge, real lasting felt knowledge, is going mostly unnoticed among our scholars. The body of knowledge locked into and releasable from poetry can replace practically any university in the Republic. First things first, then: the primal importance of a poem is what it can add to the individual mind.Poetry is the voice of a poet at its birth, and the voice of a people in its ultimate fulfillment as a successful and useful work of art.

  Guy Davenport

  Art, Real, Successful

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• The photographs are not illustrative. They, and the text, are coequal, mutually independent, and fully collaborative. By their fewness, and by the importance of the reader’s eye, this will be misunderstood by most of that minority which does not wholly ignore it. In the interests, however, of the history and future of photography, that risk seems irrelevant, and this flat statement necessary.

  Walker Evans

  Photography, Independent, Eye

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• Could one start a Stagnation Party-which at General Elections would boast that during its term of office no event of the least importance had taken place?

  C. S. Lewis

  Party, Taken, Office

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• I'm big on the importance of science, particularly right now at this point in time when there's sort of a systematic rejection of science by a lot of people in America.

  Seth MacFarlane

  America, People, Rejection

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• The budget acknowledges the importance of maintaining our ports and waterways to encourage commercial deep-draft navigation and economic competitiveness.

  Jeff Landry

  Maintaining, Navigation, Economic

  "Lawmakers brawl over bayou district" by Jonathan Allen and Adam Snider, www.politico.com. April 15, 2012.

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