Importance Quotes

Don't underestimate the importance of having enough room to work. Grilling is much more relaxing when you are not trying to juggle a whole collection of plates and bowls as you do it. If your grill doesn't have enough workspace - and they almost never do - set up a table right next to your grill.
Bobby Flay

Work, Trying, Enough

I am inclined to attach some importance to the new system of manufacturing; and venture to throw it out with the hope of its receiving a full discussion among those who are most interestedin the subject.
Charles Babbage

Hope, System, Full

Leaders know the importance of having someone in their lives who will unfailingly and fearlessly tell them the truth.
Warren G. Bennis

Truth, Someone, Tell

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

Beauty, Music, Down

I belong to the generation of workers who, born in the villages and hamlets of rural Poland, had the opportunity to acquire education and find employment in industry, becoming in the course conscious of their rights and importance in society.
Lech Walesa

Education, Society, Find

To photograph is to confer importance.
Susan Sontag

Photograph, Confer

There's no one in Israel who appreciates more than me the importance of American support for Israel.
Benjamin Netanyahu

American, Support, Israel

It's absolutely of no importance who or what V was under the mask. He isn't a who or a what, he's an idea. The thing is, you couldn't continue it. Now and then the idea of a sequel has been raised, in vague forms, but I think it would be a bad idea. The story's finished.
David Lloyd

Bad, Idea, Story

Experience taught me that working families are often just one pay check away from economic disaster. And it showed me first-hand the importance of every family having access to good health care.
Dave Obey

Family, Good, Health

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

Education, Freedom, Justice

The proportion between the velocity with which men or animals move, and the weights they carry, is a matter of considerable importance, particularly in military affairs.
Charles Babbage

Men, Between, Matter

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

Music, Power, Percent

There's so much importance in honoring your everyday hero. It doesn't take money. It doesn't take connections. What matters is that people get involved. Whether your passion is gun control or food or whatever it may be, everybody needs to stop being so self-absorbed.
Debi Mazar

Money, Food, Passion

People attach too much importance to intangibles like heart, desire and clutch hitting.
Nate Silver

Heart, Desire, Hitting

Of course, nobody would deny the importance of human beings for theological thinking, but the time span of history that theologians think about is a few thousand years of human culture rather than the fifteen billion years of the history of the universe.
John Polkinghorne

Time, History, Human

We know we cannot underestimate the importance of emergency planning in our region, nor can we assume we'll have ample warning time. If an earthquake or terrorist attack hits, we won't necessarily have advance alerts or opportunities to double- and triple-check our plans.
Ellen Tauscher

Time, Cannot, Won

Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.
Ray Kurzweil

Time, Death, Become

I wouldn't attach too much importance to these student riots. I remember when I was a student at the Sorbonne in Paris, I used to go out and riot occasionally.
John Foster Dulles

Remember, Used, Student

All people have a natural desire to be needed, to have their importance to others tangibly confirmed.
Daisaku Ikeda

Others, Desire, Natural

I used to think religion was just more of the same thing. Dump responsibility on the big guy. Now I see an importance in that. It's a relief to accept that not everything is under your control.
Barbara Kingsolver

Religion, Everything, Control

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

Time, Done, Once

When you're your parents' one shot at a genetic legacy, you may get to attend all the best schools, wear all the best clothes and eat all the best foods - at least relative to children in multiple-sibling households. But you also wind up with an overweening sense of your own importance.
Jeffrey Kluger

Best, Children, Parents

I had parents who instilled in me the importance of love, morals and hard work. I give God all the glory because he has brought me through so much.
Junior Seau

Love, Work, God

My father instilled in me - of utmost importance and innate in me is the yearning to determine for myself - to define God, to define holiness for myself.
Vera Farmiga

God, Father, Define

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

Woman, Away, Often

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

Once, While, Ideas

I attach the greatest importance to an amplification of the peace efforts in the Middle East. I would also like to see a greater dialogue between the U.S. and the EU.
Francois Hollande

Peace, Greatest, Between

The importance of human life should be universally respected - and that refers to children before they are born and after. All children have the right to be brought up in a loving two-parent family where the notion of divorce is not even possible.
Christopher Monckton

Life, Family, Children

Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.
David Letterman

Good, Next, Aim

Thanks to capitalism, the importance placed on beauty has never been so manipulated. We are the guinea pigs force-fed ads that tell us how pathetic we are: that we will never be loved, happy or valuable unless we have the body, the face, the hair, even the personality that will apparently be ours, if only we buy their products.
Beth Ditto

Beauty, Happy, Tell

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