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Importance Quotes
"For, usually and fitly, the presence of an introduction is held to imply that there is something of consequence and importance to be introduced."
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"I don't attach importance to great speeches or philosophy."
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"It's quite complicated and sounds circular, but we've worked out a way of calculate a Web site's importance."
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"It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance."
"It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others."
"I always start with characters rather than with a plot, which many critics would say is very obvious from the lack of plot in my films - although I think they do have plots - but the plot is not of primary importance to me, the characters are."
"I am writing a book and that takes third place of importance."
"I cannot emphasize enough the importance of a good teacher."
"As governor, I learned the importance of having an agenda."
"A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down."
"For me archaeology is not a source of illustrations for written texts, but an independent source of historical information, with no less value and importance, sometimes more importance, that the written sources."
"Information of fundamental importance to the general problem of atomic structure has resulted from systematic studies of the cosmic radiation carried out by the Wilson cloud-chamber method."
"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."
"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."
"It is necessary to be concerned about the importance of educating a really beautiful human spirit."
"Absent scandal, a federal judge can serve for decades on the bench, underscoring the importance of appointing judges who have a proper understanding of their constitutional role."
"I wrote a great deal... but very little of any importance; there are not more than four of five papers which I can still remember with some satisfaction."
"You already have the most important tool which is work."
"The global importance of the Middle East is that it keeps the Far East and the Near East from encroaching on each other."
"The mathematician, carried along on his flood of symbols, dealing apparently with purely formal truths, may still reach results of endless importance for our description of the physical universe."
"I understand the importance of bondage between parent and child."
"Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and importance, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction."
"The Silent Service is all together too silent. It's important to begin to highlight the critical importance of the Silent Service to our national security."
"Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain."
"Little things matter. Even a small tear wets the face."
"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."
"The mystique associated with the bomb, the role that scientists played in it, and its general importance could not fail to impress even a six-year old."
"Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it."
"The plants which stand next to dwarf trees in importance with the Chinese are certainly chrysanthemums, which they manage extremely well, perhaps better than they do any other plant."
"Unemployment is of vital importance, particularly to the unemployed."
"What does gene A do? What does gene B do? What does it do in different contexts? What's its importance? We know the answer to that for a very small number of genes, the ones that made themselves evident many years ago."
"The importance of the assistant director cannot be overemphasized."
"It's the level that allows us each to live our own chosen lives. But I notice not everyone agrees with the primary importance of that level, and I try to account for how they don't."
"The importance of information is directly proportional to its improbability."
"For Stevie, the words are of prime importance; the song moves around the words, rather than the words moving around the song."
"Of course, relative citation frequencies are no measure of relative importance. Who has not aspired to write a paper so fundamental that very soon it is known to everyone and cited by no one?"
"The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves."
"Time is one of the most important components of life."
"With the increasing importance of standards for system-level objects such as COM and CORBA, it is particularly important that the C++ bindings to those be clean, well documented, and simple to use."
"Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it."
"It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves."
"Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger."
"Though you are as a drop in the ocean, without you, the universe would be empty."
"When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves."
"It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn."
"There is nothing bigger and more important than a person's calling."
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