It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance... and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
Henry James

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

I believe 100 percent in the power and importance of music.
James Taylor

Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.
Arthur Conan Doyle

I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect - it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman.
Graham Greene

Just once in a while let us exalt the importance of ideas and information.
Edward R. Murrow

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

I can't stress the importance of working hard enough, work on all aspects of your game. If you does that and you have the ability, you'll come through.
Frank Lampard

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

The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.
Thomas More

The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written.
Elizabeth Bowen

This dullness of vision regarding the importance of the general welfare to the individual is the measure of the failure of our schools and churches to teach the spiritual significance of genuine democracy.
Henry A. Wallace

The Ethical Society, therefore, is like a Church in maintaining, and emphasizing the importance of maintaining the custom of public assemblies on Sunday.
Felix Adler

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
James A. Garfield

IT professionals have a responsibility to understand the use of standards and the importance of making Web applications that work with any kind of device.
Tim Berners-Lee

Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that's stripped down.
Dave Grohl

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

Meanwhile the fact that the connection with the activity of memory in ordinary life is for the moment lost is of less importance than the reverse, namely, that this connection with the complications and fluctuations of life is necessarily still a too close one.
Hermann Ebbinghaus

Child psychology and animal psychology are of relatively slight importance, as compared with the sciences which deal with the corresponding physiological problems of ontogeny and phylogeny.
Wilhelm Wundt

It's pointless to be critical of your stuff once it's done. I don't spend a lot of time agonising over it. It's of no importance once it's finished.
Paul Simon