Importance Quotes - Page 8

• The concept of being a locavore, or one who chooses whenever possible to incorporate locally grown or locally produced food into one's nutrition plan, is of great importance

  Tyler Florence

  Nutrition, Plans, Concepts

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• Architecture is a dangerous mix of power and importance.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Badass, Bad Ass, Architecture

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• How often we say about our earthly friends, "I really would like to have a good quiet settled talk with them so that I can really get to know them." And shouldn't we feel the same about our Heavenly Friend, that we may really get to know Him? These thoughts have taught me the importance of the children of God taking time to commune daily with their Father, so that they may get to know His mind and to understand better what His will is.

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Prayer, Children, Father

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• What people often mean by getting rid of conflict is getting rid of diversity, and it is of the utmost importance that these should not be considered the same.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Mean, Acceptance, People

  Mary Parker Follett, Pauline Graham (1996). “Mary Parker Follett--prophet of management: a celebration of writings from the 1920s”, Harvard Business Press

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• What is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Enemy

  Sun Tzu, Shang Yang (1997). “The Art of War”, p.25, Wordsworth Editions

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• War is a matter of vital importance to the state; the province of life or death; the road to survival or ruin. It is mandatory that it be thoroughly studied.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Survival

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• The elimination of ignorance, of illiteracy... and of needless inequalities in opportunities (is) to be seen as objectives that are valued for their own sake. They expand our freedom to lead the lives we have reason to value, and these elementary capabilities are of importance on their own

  Amartya Sen

  Education, Ignorance, Opportunity

  Jean Drèze, Amartya Sen, World Institute for Development Economics Research (1997). “Indian Development: Selected Regional Perspectives”, p.5, Oxford University Press

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• People are the common denominator of progress. So no improvement is possible with unimproved people, and advance is certain when people are liberated and educated. It would be wrong to dismiss the importance of roads, railroads, power plants, mills,and the other familiar furniture of economic development. But we are coming to realize that there is a certain sterility in economic monuments that stand alone in a sea of illiteracy. Conquest of illiteracy comes first.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Education, Sea, People

  "Economic Development". Book by John Kenneth Galbraith. Chapter 2, 1962.

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• My dad, like any coach, has always stressed the fundamentals. He taught me responsibility, accountability, and the importance of hard work.

  Steve Young

  Fathers Day, Dad, Responsibility

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• The importance of information is directly proportional to its improbability.

  Jerry Pournelle

  Life And Love, Information, Improbability

  "Lucifer's Hammer". Book by Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven, 1977.

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• I have visited sweatshops, factories, and crowded slums. If I could not see it, I could smell it. The foundation of society is laid upon a basis of . . . individualism, conquest and exploitation . . . A social order such as this, built upon such wrong and basic principles, is bound to retard the development of all. The output of a cotton mill or a coal mine is considered of greater importance than the production of healthy, happy-hearted and free human beings. We, the people, are not free. Our democracy is but a name.

  Helen Keller

  Educational, Names, Smell

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• It is impossible to talk of respect for students for the dignity that is in the process of coming to be, for the identities that are in the process of construction, without taking into consideration the conditions in which they are living and the importance of the knowledge derived from life experience, which they bring with them to school. I can in no way underestimate such knowledge. Or what is worse, ridicule it.

  Paulo Freire

  Educational, Philosophy, School

  Paulo Freire (1998). “Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage”, p.62, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Nothing of any importance has ever been accomplished by a pessimist.

  Jack Welch

  Morning, Pessimist, Accomplished

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• Soldiers of the Reich! This day, you are to take part in an offensive of such importance that the whole future of the war may depend on its outcome.

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Soldier, World

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• To judge of the real importance of the individual, we should think of the effect his death would produce.

  Francis de Gaston, Chevalier de Levis

  Death, Real, Thinking

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• Age is of no importance unless you are a cheese.

  Billie Burke

  Funny, Humor, Cheesy

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• Every effort to make society sensitive to the importance of the family, is a great service to humanity.

  Pope John Paul II

  Effort, Humanity, Saint

  Pope John Paul II (1981). “African Addresses”

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• So thank you for reminding me about the importance of being a good mom and a great volunteer as well.

  George W. Bush

  Mom, Mother, Volunteer

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• The year 1896 ... marked the beginning of what has been aptly termed the heroic age of Physical Science. Never before in the history of physics has there been witnessed such a period of intense activity when discoveries of fundamental importance have followed one another with such bewildering rapidity.

  Ernest Rutherford

  Hero, Science, Years

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• The seat of the soul and the control of voluntary movement - in fact, of nervous functions in general, - are to be sought in the heart. The brain is an organ of minor importance.

  Aristotle

  Heart, Soul, Brain

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• I have always maintained the importance of Aunts

  Jane Austen

  Aunt

  Jane Austen (2013). “Making Sense of Persuasion! a Students Guide to Austen's (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling)”, p.97, BookCaps Study Guides

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• I always tried to make clear that basketball is not the ultimate. It is of small importance in comparison to the total life we live. There is only one kind of life that truly wins, and that is the one that places faith in the hands of the Savior. Until that is done, we are on an aimless course that runs in circles and goes nowhere.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Running, Passion

  John Wooden, Jack Tobin, Bill Walton (2004). “They Call Me Coach”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• Every act of charity, every thought of sympathy, every action of help, every good deed, is taking so much of self-importance away from our little selves and making us think of ourselves as the lowest and the least, and, therefore, it is all good. Here we find that Jnâna, Bhakti, and Karma - all come to one point.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Karma, Thinking, Self

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.83, Manonmani Publishers

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• Money is central to our lives. Yet money is not of central importance. It has nothing whatsoever to do with the lasting values that make life worth living.

  Kent Nerburn

  Life, Lasting, Our Lives

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• The inspirational value of the space program is probably of far greater importance to education than any input of dollars... A whole generation is growing up which has been attracted to the hard disciplines of science and engineering by the romance of space.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Education, Growing Up, Inspiration

  "First on the Moon". Book by Michael Collins and Neil Armstrong, 1970.

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