Importance Quotes

A guy named Charlie Beacham was my first mentor at Ford. He taught me the importance of the dealers, and he rubbed my nose in the retail business.
Lee Iacocca

Business, Guy, Nose

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, Value, Writer

Nowadays, the process of growth and development almost never seems to manage to create this subtle balance between the importance of the individual parts, and the coherence of the environment as a whole. One or the other always dominates.
Christopher Alexander

Between, Whole, Balance

I understand the importance of bondage between parent and child.
Dan Quayle

Understand, Between, Child

If you look at U.S. history through religious history, there is very much a motif that shows the importance religion has played in the U.S. We're a very religious country and it affects the way we look at various political issues.
Madeleine Albright

Religion, History, Political

The importance of logo into today's fashion is un! be! Lievable!
Karl Lagerfeld

Today, Fashion, Un

Daytime soap operas, which I used to adore, have been declining in quality and importance for over a decade, and I gradually stopped monitoring them.
Camille Paglia

Used, Quality, Adore

Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
Alfred North Whitehead

Everything, Before, Said

I don't think many people have a very good understanding of leisure and the importance it plays in our lives.
Jack Nicholson

Good, Lives, Leisure

The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy.
Kamisese Mara

Education, Work, Family

Marriage? It's like asparagus eaten with vinaigrette or hollandaise, a matter of taste but of no importance.
Francoise Sagan

Marriage, Matter, Taste

I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization.
Frantz Fanon

Speak, Means, Support

Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain information of importance, like a signpost or a warning notice.
James Buchan

Poetry, Purpose, Notice

Nixon was an awful president in many ways, including in some of his foreign-policy choices. But he left no doubt that foreign policy and America's leadership in the world outside its borders was of paramount importance to him.
John Podhoretz

Leadership, Doubt, Him

We discussed politics, but we also talked about the importance of hard work, personal responsibility, living within your means, keeping your word. Those lessons stay with you throughout your life.
Bob Ehrlich

Life, Work, Politics

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

Education, Learn, Succeed

The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity - an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.
Bruce Barton

Faith, Work, Personal

I didn't appreciate the young woman that I was, or my young beauty, because I was so obsessed with the fact that I felt fat. It's never good to add to anybody else's suffering. It's an important topic to really get the gravity and the importance of - dealing with dignity.
Margaret Cho

Beauty, Good, Important

I had done quite a bit of research about math education when I spoke before Congress in 2000 about the importance of women in mathematics. The session of Congress was all about raising more scholarships for girls in college. I told them I felt that it's too late by college.
Danica McKellar

Education, Women, Done

Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.
Norman Cousins

Life, Respect, Individual

One thing you have to give up is attaching importance to what people see in you.
Jeanne Moreau

Give, Attaching

When I left 20th Century-Fox to freelance, my agent believed that getting big money was the way to establish real importance in our industry.
Loretta Young

Money, Real, Big

The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity.
William Barclay

Life, Eternity, Awful

It is rather a problem of how to secure the best use of resources known to any of the members of society, for ends whose relative importance only those individuals know.
Friedrich August von Hayek

Best, Society, Problem

Nothing of any importance can be taught. It can only be learned, and with blood and sweat.
Robert Anton Wilson

Nothing, Learned, Blood

Losses have propelled me to even bigger places, so I understand the importance of losing. You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner. It's in any game that you're in - a business game or whatever - you can't get complacent.
Venus Williams

Business, Game, Understand

We need to understand that we are not each others' enemies in this country. And it is only the political class that derives its power by creating friction. It is only the media that derives its importance by creating friction... that uses every little thing to create this chasm between people. This is not who we are.
Benjamin Carson

Power, Political, Country

The importance that our society attaches to sport is incredible. After all, is football a game or a religion? The people of this country have allowed sports to get completely out of hand.
Howard Cosell

Religion, Society, Sports

Kids are a huge sacrifice; they change everything - but I'm ready to work for things of greater importance than going out to meet someone for dinner at 10 o'clock at night.
Katherine Heigl

Change, Work, Someone

The first professional play I ever saw was The Importance Of Being Earnest, and I just fell in love.
Kim Cattrall

Love, Play, Earnest

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