44 Quotes Tagged: importance

When your absence is felt, your presence is the essence and it makes a difference.

La pensée n'est qu'un écliar au milieu d'une longue nuit. Mais c'est cet éclair qui est tout.

Thought is only a flash in the middle of a long night. But this flash means everything.

History is the nothing people write about a nothing.

If you want to understand what's most important to a society, don't examine its art or literature, simply look at its biggest buildings.

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.

I'm keenly aware of the Principle of Priority, which states (a) you must know the difference between what is urgent and what is important, and (b) you must do what's important first.

Theology is a superstition — Humanity a religion.

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.

London has the trick of making its past, its long indelible past, always a part of its present. And for that reason it will always have meaning for the future, because of all it can teach about disaster, survival, and redemption. It is all there in the streets. It is all there in the books.

Even if they try to kill you, you develop the inner conviction that there
are some things so precious, some things so eternally true that they are
worth dying for. And if a person has not found something to die for, that
person isn't fit to live!

Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.

Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about it.

The hardest part of any important task is getting started on it in the first place. Once you actually begin work on a valuable task, you seem to be naturally motivated to continue.

If you can open your mouth to say; I love you! To someone without taking such person(s) as your priority, even with your gifts and money, something more important than your freebie is missing out!

No matter the self-conceited importance of our labors we are all compost for worlds we cannot yet imagine.