Importance Quotes

Every existence above a certain rank has its singular points; the higher the rank the more of them. At these points, influences whose physical magnitude is too small to be taken account of by a finite being may produce results of the greatest importance.
James C. Maxwell

Greatest, May, Small

Twenty-eight years in business and you understand the importance of problem solving and the importance of efficiency, because if you don't become efficient, you don't run a business well, and you are out of business. And I think some of those principles could be applied to leadership in Washington.
Steve Daines

Leadership, Business, Understand

This awareness instills a fierce desire to protect that heritage and - in doing so - to educate Americans in the meaning and importance of our pivotal documents.
Allen Weinstein

Desire, Meaning, Protect

As of essential importance in town churches which are not at all equally necessary in the country.
George Edmund Street

Country, Necessary, Town

No life if it is properly realized is without its cosmic importance.
Hortense Odlum

Life, Realized, Cosmic

What does gene A do? What does gene B do? What does it do in different contexts? What's its importance? We know the answer to that for a very small number of genes, the ones that made themselves evident many years ago.
David Baltimore

Different, Small, Themselves

You are indebted to you imagination for three-fourths of your importance.
David Garrick

Mitt Romney understands the importance of Alaska as a leader in our country's energy production and I look forward to working with him on such an important economic and national security matter.
Lisa Murkowski

Forward, Important, Him

Peace in the Middle East is of prime importance to the Philippines, due to the presence of around 2 million of our countrymen working in that region.
Benigno Aquino III

Peace, Working, Around

U.S. assistance provides the Jordanian government needed flexibility to pursue policies that are of critical importance to U.S. national security and to foreign policy objectives in the Middle East.
Richard Armitage

Government, Security, National

The Silent Service is all together too silent. It's important to begin to highlight the critical importance of the Silent Service to our national security.
Rob Simmons

Important, Together, Service

Great Britain is not part of the euro-zone; but the decision we take will have great importance for Great Britain.
Francois Fillon

Great, Decision, Britain

The education of my brother and myself was of paramount importance to my parents, and in addition to their strong encouragement, they were prepared to make any sacrifice to further our intellectual development.
Jerome Isaac Friedman

Education, Strong, Parents

Four years ago, I felt the importance of the Olympics and how it is different from other events. It's a completely different atmosphere. The main advice I can give my teammates is to try to enjoy the experience.
Kohei Uchimura

Experience, Give, Different

I don't attach importance to great speeches or philosophy.
Jacques Santer

Great, Philosophy, Speeches

It is proclaimed by the great leaders of that party, by its political conventions, by its ministers of the Gospel, and by every other means they have of giving currency and importance to the declaration, that it is its mission to abolish slavery in the Union.
John H. Reagan

Great, Political, Giving

The 'Soul Train' legacy and brand are of the utmost importance to me and to 'Soul Train's' millions of fans. After years of offers, I feel the time is now finally right to pass the torch.
Don Cornelius

Time, After, Soul

Any Democratic statement of core beliefs about the importance of families must include all our families, gay and straight. Our party has a long tradition of leading the charge on important questions of justice.
Jeanne Shaheen

Gay, Justice, Important

Of course, relative citation frequencies are no measure of relative importance. Who has not aspired to write a paper so fundamental that very soon it is known to everyone and cited by no one?
Abraham Pais

Everyone, Write, Known

Iowans do understand the importance of breaking down barriers and increasing international trade.
Terry Branstad

Down, Understand, Trade

If a person goes to his job with a firm determination to give of himself the best of which he is capable, that job no matter what it is takes on dignity and importance.
Hortense Odlum

Best, Job, Person

The importance of the river cannot be overstated in the history of the country, or the development of the nation.
Maurice Hinchey

History, Country, Cannot

What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?
Ted W. Engstrom

Time, Best, Done

Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exclusively, the very first order of books. Why, except for some special reason, read an inferior book, at the very time you might be reading one of the highest order?
John W. Foster

Time, Book, Special

The sanctity of our battlefields, monuments, and veterans institutions is of utmost importance to preserve military history and pay respect to those who fought.
Henry Waxman

History, Respect, Veterans

Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives.
Vincent Canby

Good, Experience, Feeling

We're just beginning to learn the importance of music in our society.
Lester Bowie

Music, Society, Learn

The house itself is of minor importance. Its relation to the community is the thing that really counts.
Clarence Stein

House, Community, Relation

Some of my competitors overlook the importance of knowing as much as possible about their opponents, but I think that it is an invaluable asset that I have gained from working.
Keeth Smart

Working, Knowing, Possible

No one could have less faith in the absolute and definitive importance of the work created by man, because I believe that this world is nothing but a dream.
Gustave Moreau

Faith, Work, Nothing

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