Importance Quotes

Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.
Jean Anouilh

Give, Themselves, Poets

My guess is that people look at me and project their own values - importance of family, ego is healthy but not the biggest thing. I don't know. I can't explain my popularity.
Jane Pauley

Family, Ego, Values

If you're sitting in your minivan, playing your computer animated films for your children in the back seat, is it the animation that's entertaining you as you drive and listen? No, it's the storytelling. That's why we put so much importance on story. No amount of great animation will save a bad story.
John Lasseter

Great, Bad, Children

When you start becoming really successful, the demons start to tempt you - the demons of vanity and self importance, drug abuse, the feelings of fraudulence. But, it's also a thrill. That's what I found weird.
Ethan Hawke

Successful, Self, Feelings

They know the importance of their mission and of America's commitment to combating and defeating terrorism abroad, and they know that they are making a real difference in bringing freedom to a part of the world that has known only tyranny.
John Boehner

Freedom, Real, America

And that is why marriage and family law has emphasized the importance of marriage as the foundation of family, addressing the needs of children in the most positive way.
John Boehner

Marriage, Family, Positive

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

Work, Stress, Game

Regardless of age, regardless of position, regardless of the business we happen to be in, all of us need to understand the importance of branding. We are CEOs of our own companies: Me, Inc. To be in business today, our most important job is to be head marketer for the brand called You.
Tom Peters

Age, Business, Today

The greatest advantage of being First Lady is the opportunity it presents to truly make a difference on issues of great importance.
Ann Romney

Great, Greatest, Difference

I understood the importance in principle of public key cryptography but it's all moved much faster than I expected. I did not expect it to be a mainstay of advanced communications technology.
Whitfield Diffie

Technology, Public, Expect

I talked about the need for American leadership, I talked about the importance of the United States to a more peaceful world, a world that has been quite turbulent in recent years, and needs a strong American anchor.
Condoleezza Rice

Leadership, Strong, American

While I recognize the great value and importance of prescription drugs and strongly support a continued U.S. focus on pharmaceutical research and development, our nation's seniors cannot be asked to subsidize the drug costs of other wealthy industrialized nations any longer.
Michael K. Simpson

Great, Focus, Cannot

What I have learned from my work up to now, is to try to be open, but also protect myself by not letting the good and the evil get too much importance.
Jane Campion

Work, Good, Evil

What is ironic is that Allen Ginsberg's importance was in its twilight for so many years that it took his death to bring it to the front page. He electrified an entire world!
Rita Dove

Death, Bring, Took

You are a person of the greatest importance when you are a mother of a family. Just do your job right and your kids will love you.
Ethel Waters

Love, Family, Mother

And as a nurse, I know very well the importance, for example, of electronic medical records.
Lois Capps

Medical, Example, Nurse

I understand the damage the expenses crisis has done to Parliament, and the paramount importance of restoring trust in our politics.
George Osborne

Trust, Politics, Crisis

Like all Israelis, I yearn for peace. I see the utmost importance in taking all possible steps that will lead to a solution of the conflict with the Palestinians.
Ariel Sharon

Peace, Possible, Taking

Next, in importance to books are their titles.
Frank Crane

Next, Books, Titles

But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory.
Talcott Parsons

Change, Knowledge, Fact

The importance of certain problems concerning the facts will be inherent in the structure of the system.
Talcott Parsons

Problems, Facts, System

Women's propaganda must touch upon all those questions which are of great importance to the general proletarian movement. The main task is, indeed, to awaken the women's class consciousness and to incorporate them into the class struggle.
Clara Zetkin

Women, Great, Struggle

I thought they may have presumed too much knowledge of certain things for people who are not comedians. Like Montreal. A comic understands what it is and its importance, but someone else may not know about it.
Todd Barry

Knowledge, Someone, May

I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd never told me about something as basic as the importance of point of view in fiction!
Philip Pullman

Education, Through, Point

The mere fact of an American being present could help save the lives of innocent people. That's why I believe in the importance of bearing witness, to become a voice for the voiceless.
Bianca Jagger

Help, Why, Become

The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take.
C. Northcote Parkinson

Important, Decisions, Taking

All I know for certain is that reading is of the most intense importance to me; if I were not able to read, to revisit old favorites and experiment with names new to me, I would be starved - probably too starved to go on writing myself.
Penelope Lively

Writing, Old, Able

For example, the Prime Minister earlier this year talked about the importance of the Arctic to our future. He's right. A hundred years from now, the strength of Canada is going to be coming from our resources in the Arctic.
Brian Mulroney

Strength, Future, Year

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

Work, Understand, Making

Malcolm was a firm believer in the value and importance of our heritage. He believed that we have valuable and distinct cultural traditions which need to be institutionalized so that they can be passed on to our heirs.
Betty Shabazz

Value, Valuable, Heritage

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