Importance Quotes - Page 32

• If there is one thing the past years have taught us, it is the importance of a keen and high sense of honor in those who handle our governmental affairs.

  Millicent Fenwick

  Past, Government, Years

  Millicent Fenwick (1982). “Speaking up”, Harpercollins

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• The selective winnowing of time leaves only a few recognizable individuals behind for the historian to light on. Thus the historian who finds the human being more interesting than what the human being has done must inevitably endow the comparatively few individuals he can identify with too great an importance in relation to their time. Even so, I prefer this overestimate to the opposite method which treats developments as though they were the massive anonymous waves of an unhuman sea or pulverizes the fallible surviving records of human life into the grey dust of statistics.

  C. V. Wedgwood

  Light, Dust, Sea

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• Although it is the biggest time-waster in office life, you must never underrate the importance of the memo. You will be judged by the volume of your paper work.

  Jilly Cooper

  Work, Office, Paper

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• It is of equal importance with the discovery of facts to know what to do with them.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Discovery, Facts, Equal

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• The things of another world being distant, operate but faintly upon us: to remedy this inconvenience, we must frequently revolve their certainty and importance.

  Francis Atterbury

  Future, World, Certainty

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• Conversation is the fine art of mutual consideration and communication about matters of common interest that basically have some human importance.

  Ordway Tead

  Art, Communication, Matter

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• War is a biological necessity of the first importance, a regulative element in the life of mankind which cannot be dispensed with. ... But it is not only a biological law but a moral obligation and, as such, an indispensable factor in civilization.

  Friedrich von Bernhardi

  War, Civilization, Law

  "Germany and the next War" by Friedrich von Bernhardi, (Ch. I), 1911.

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• The importance of discretion increases with closeness to the top of a hierarchical organization.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Business, Organization, Increase

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter (1993). “Men and Women of the Corporation”, p.52, Basic Books

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• at this point I meet Me face to face. I am Mary MacLane: of no importance to the wide bright world and dearly and damnably important to Me.

  Mary MacLane

  Important, Faces, World

  Mary MacLane (2014). “Human Days: A Mary MacLane Reader”, p.387, Petrarca Press

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• Remember the importance of small actions. They're the building blocks in the architecture of your life, the quiet victories you win for yourself each day.

  Diane Dreher

  Block, Winning, Victory

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• Recent data and research supports the importance of natural climate variability and calls into question the conclusion that humans are the dominant cause of recent climate change.

  Judith Curry

  Data, Support, Climate

  "Overlooked evidence - global warming may proceed faster than expected" by Dana Nuccitelli, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2015.

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• First and foremost I feel I am a child of God ....Today I think that everything matters, but like a nice game of relative importance and value, certainly not absolute like conversion.

  Augusto De Luca

  Children, Nice, Thinking

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• But the fact that the word "chattel" has survived as the inclusive legal term for all movable goods, points, not merely to the great importance of cattle in primitive times, but to the importance of the notion of sale or barter in generating the institution of property.

  Edward Jenks

  Facts, Institutions, Term

  Edward Jenks (1922). “A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919”

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• In this world the inclination to do things is of more importance than the mere power.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  World, Mere, Inclination

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• The first undeniable reality is that every living thing dies, and the second undeniable reality is that we suffer throughout our lives because we don't understand death. The truth derived from these two points is the importance of clarifying the matter of birth and death. The third undeniable reality is that all of the thoughts and feelings that arise in my head simply arise haphazardly, by chance. And the conclusion we can derive from that is not to hold on to all that comes up in our head. That is what we are doing when we sit zazen.

  Kosho Uchiyama

  Death, Truth, Reality

  Kosho Uchiyama, Tom Wright, Jisho Warner (2004). “Opening the Hand of Thought: Foundations of Zen Buddhist Practice”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• Sex can be renounced -- but sexuality cannot. We can't avoid sexual issues by avoiding sex, or by dismissing its importance, or by showing disrespect to our own or other people's sexual feelings.

  Sallie Tisdale

  Sex, Issues, People

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• Psychoanalysis justifies its importance by asserting that it forces you to look to and accept reality. But what sort of reality? A reality conditioned by the materialistic and scientific ideology of psychoanalysis, that is, a historical product.

  Mircea Eliade

  Reality, Historical, Looks

  Mircea Eliade (1989). “Journal II, 1957-1969”, p.269, University of Chicago Press

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• Basically, I don't ever move too far past the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus, because it's of first importance. And I make sure it's of first importance with anyone I'm talking to. It all comes down to that, really, when you get right down to it. So it's not complex. Jesus removed our sins and guarantees we can be raised from the dead.

  Phil Robertson

  Jesus, Moving, Past

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• To eat or be eaten, to escape or be takena matter of utmost importance to the one concerned, yet it happens all the time and we don't even notice.

  Nahoko Uehashi

  Matter, Concerned, Happens

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• There is something about participating; it is almost my religion. If the world is still here in 100 years, people will know the importance of participating, not just being spectators. Millions of small groups around the world, that don't necessarily all agree with one another, are made up of people who are not just sitting back waiting for someone to do things for them. No one can prove anything, but of course if I didn't believe it had some kind of power, I wouldn't be trying to do it.

  Pete Seeger

  Believe, Years, People

  Source: peoplesworld.org

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• Imagination is a God-given gift; but if it is fed dirt by the eye, it will be dirty. All sin, not least sexual sin, begins with the imagination. Therefore what feeds the imagination is of maximum importance in the pursuit of kingdom righteousness.

  D. A. Carson

  Dirty, Eye, Sins Not

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• Ordinary facts are arranged within time, strung along its length as on a thread. There they have their antecedents and their consequences, which crowd tightly together and press hard one upon the other without any pause. This has its importance for any narrative, of which continuity and successiveness are the soul.

  Bruno Schulz

  Soul, Together, Ordinary

  Bruno Schulz, Jonathan Safran Foer, David Goldfarb (2008). “The street of crocodiles and other stories”, Penguin Classics

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• Everyone lies about sex, more or less, to themselves if not to others, to others if not to themselves, exaggerating its importance or minimizing its pull.

  Daphne Merkin

  Sex, Lying, Minimizing

  Daphne Merkin (1997). “Dreaming of Hitler: Passions & Provocations”, Crown

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• how ridiculous we often are in our negations, our strutting self importance, our penchant for making labels and sticking them on people. As though labelling a person disposed of him!

  Muriel Lester

  Self, Names, People

  Muriel Lester (1937). “It Occurred to Me”

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• Inside movement there is one moment in which the elements are in balance. Photography must seize the importance of this moment and hold immobile the equilibrium of it.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Balance, Elements

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