Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.
~By Sun Tzu ~
The aspect of congresses and such meetings generally to which I attach the greatest importance is the discussion. That is why people assemble: to hear different opinions, rather than to pass resolutions.
~By Fredrik Bajer ~
One of the things that characterizes good intellectual work is a certain self-importance.
~By Whitfield Diffie ~
It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
I am deeply interested in the progress and elevation of journalism, having spent my life in that profession, regarding it as a noble profession and one of unequaled importance for its influence upon the minds and morals of the people.
~By Joseph Pulitzer ~
As a former teacher and a mother and grandmother, I know firsthand the importance of a quality education.
~By Sue Kelly ~
Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth.
~By George Washington ~
The tragic case of Terri Schiavo in Florida highlights the importance of making our health-care wishes known.
~By Bill Nelson ~
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.
~By Michael I. Rostovtzeff ~
I am not sure that it is of the first importance that you should be happy. Many an unhappy man has been of deep service to himself and to the world.
~By Woodrow Wilson ~
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.
~By Todd Barry ~
Being selected Most Improved was a special individual award because when I speak to young people I always try to tell them the importance about it's not where you start but where you end up.
~By Kevin Johnson ~
It is difficult to overstate the importance of the Civil Rights Act.
~By Bobby Scott ~
I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization.
~By Frantz Fanon ~
The high food value of field beans and the shortage of supply due to the light yields of 1915 and 1916 render them of great importance in the regions to which they are adapted.
~By David F. Houston ~
People place such importance on the external. It's disgusting.
~By Tab Hunter ~
The sanctity of our battlefields, monuments, and veterans institutions is of utmost importance to preserve military history and pay respect to those who fought.
~By Henry Waxman ~
From these inconsiderable attempts, some idea may be formed with what success, should Fortune afford an opportunity, I am likely to treat matters of greater importance.
~By Giraldus Cambrensis ~
From my father, I learned the importance of working sincerely at things to which I had committed myself, and to persevere untiringly even in the face of little progress.
~By Koichi Tanaka ~
If I could offer but one helpful hint to young Hoosiers hoping to better their odds for success in life, I would simply note the importance of thoughtful reading.
~By Richard Lugar ~
Next, in importance to books are their titles.
~By Frank Crane ~
Every existence above a certain rank has its singular points; the higher the rank the more of them. At these points, influences whose physical magnitude is too small to be taken account of by a finite being may produce results of the greatest importance.
~By James C. Maxwell ~
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.
~By Arthur Conan Doyle ~
The education of my brother and myself was of paramount importance to my parents, and in addition to their strong encouragement, they were prepared to make any sacrifice to further our intellectual development.
~By Jerome Isaac Friedman ~
I want to be clear. No company is too big to be prosecuted. We have zero tolerance for corporate fraud, but we also recognize the importance of avoiding collateral consequences whenever possible.
~By Alberto Gonzales ~
Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale.
~By Elsa Schiaparelli ~
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
~By Alfred North Whitehead ~
I dare say that a majority of the American people think that having a fair hearing on an issue of importance in our relations with Mexico is extremely important to our national interest, as well as theirs.
~By William Weld ~
It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life.
~By Augustus Hare ~
The importance of certain problems concerning the facts will be inherent in the structure of the system.
~By Talcott Parsons ~
Going forward, as we work to strengthen our border in the interests of homeland security, we must also recognize the economic importance of immigration reform.
~By Dave Reichert ~
Political conflicts distort and disturb a people's sense of distinction between matters of importance and matters of urgency. What is vital is disguised by what is merely a matter of well being.
~By John Grierson ~
The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.
~By George Washington ~
A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.
~By Vladimir Nabokov ~
I am convinced that dealing intelligently with the press is of the greatest importance to the success and effectiveness of a humanitarian mission.
~By Alvin Adams ~
Although approximately 80% of osteoporosis sufferers are women, as the longevity of the male population increases, the disease will assume increasing importance in men.
~By Gro Harlem Brundtland ~
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.
~By Ellen Tauscher ~
Finally, the ecological health of the Mississippi River and its economic importance to the many people that make their living or seek their recreation is based on a healthy river system.
~By Ron Kind ~
The importance that our society attaches to sport is incredible. After all, is football a game or a religion? The people of this country have allowed sports to get completely out of hand.
~By Howard Cosell ~
Celebrity gives us delusion of self importance.
~By Al Goldstein ~
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.
~By Karl Pearson ~
Agency by agency, we frequently have lost a bit of ground, at least to inflation-but had it not been for the efforts we've made to educate people about the importance of science, technology and advanced education, those predictions very well might have come true.
~By Charles Vest ~
No one could have less faith in the absolute and definitive importance of the work created by man, because I believe that this world is nothing but a dream.
~By Gustave Moreau ~
By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but to have it affirmed by others is of utmost importance. Writing is, after all, a form of communication.
~By Ralph Ellison ~
The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting people and places.
~By Louise Brown ~
For Stevie, the words are of prime importance; the song moves around the words, rather than the words moving around the song.
~By Christine McVie ~
As a member of Congress, and a parent, I understand the importance of ensuring that families are able to provide a meaningful and proper burial for their loved ones.
~By Jon Porter ~
The gift that has been given to me says much about our capacity for great compassion and generosity, and I hope it sends an inspiring message to others about the importance of organ donation.
~By Steven Cojocaru ~
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.
~By Paul Weyrich ~
When elected officials abandon our environment and ruin our natural resources, public health is endangered. I know the importance of providing a clean environment for our children; I have attended more than one funeral for a child who has died from an asthma attack.
~By Gwen Moore ~
Similarly, the problem of the rights of the state in the disposition of inheritances left by individuals presents social aspects of the first importance.
~By Rene Cassin ~
But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory.
~By Talcott Parsons ~
Ajax is an important development for Web applications, and its importance is only going to grow.
~By Jesse James Garrett ~
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.
~By Jim Jarmusch ~
It is rather a problem of how to secure the best use of resources known to any of the members of society, for ends whose relative importance only those individuals know.
~By Friedrich August von Hayek ~
I learned a lot from that first record and I learned a lot from my experiences touring, but really the biggest education I got over the past two years was learning the importance of arrangements.
~By Vanessa Carlton ~
I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory.
~By Andre Breton ~
And as a nurse, I know very well the importance, for example, of electronic medical records.
~By Lois Capps ~
God is of no importance unless He is of supreme importance.
~By Abraham Joshua Heschel ~
The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves.
~By Havelock Ellis ~
Unless everyone grasps the importance of having only two children per couple, wars won't be over just oil anymore, they will be over water and food.
~By Alexandra Paul ~
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.
~By Debi Mazar ~
The first professional play I ever saw was The Importance Of Being Earnest, and I just fell in love.
~By Kim Cattrall ~
I don't attach importance to great speeches or philosophy.
~By Jacques Santer ~
We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.
~By Napoleon Hill ~
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.
~By Ariel Sharon ~
I am committed to ensure that our 2008 Republican presidential candidates forthrightly address issues of importance to the African-American community.
~By Ken Mehlman ~
If you have something that you know is important to you and vital to you... then this will perhaps help people understand the importance of confronting it and being brave about it.
~By Tom Wilkinson ~
It is seldom in life that one knows that a coming event is to be of crucial importance.
~By Anya Seton ~
Age is of no importance unless you are a cheese.
~By Billie Burke ~
To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
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.
~By Brian Mulroney ~
I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
~By Pauline Kael ~
The destiny of our society is yours to make and you have a vastly greater importance to the world than we do.
~By Polykarp Kusch ~
We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.
~By Plato ~
The prime purpose of being four is to enjoy being four, of secondary importance is to prepare for being five.
~By Jim Trelease ~
The critical importance of honest journalism and a free flowing, respectful national conversation needs to be had in our country. But it is being buried as collateral damage in a war whose battles include political correctness and ideological orthodoxy.
~By Juan Williams ~
This awareness instills a fierce desire to protect that heritage and - in doing so - to educate Americans in the meaning and importance of our pivotal documents.
~By Allen Weinstein ~
The first thing is that we're being attacked by both the Writers Guild and the Producers Guild. Both of these groups are trying to diminish the importance and strength of the director. They're trying to do it through both frontal and side attacks.
~By John Frankenheimer ~
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.
~By John Polkinghorne ~
People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
~By T. S. Eliot ~
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.
~By Paul Simon ~
Japan's experience suggests the importance of assessing the sustainability of price stability over a fairly long period, which many central banks have emphasized in recent years.
~By Toshihiko Fukui ~
The global importance of the Middle East is that it keeps the Far East and the Near East from encroaching on each other.
~By Dan Quayle ~
Though beauty gives you a weird sense of entitlement, it's rather frightening and threatening to have others ascribe such importance to something you know you're just renting for a while.
~By Candice Bergen ~
The Priestly Code preponderates over the rest of the legislation in force, as well as in bulk; in all matters of primary importance it is the normal and final authority.
~By Julius Wellhausen ~
Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives.
~By Vincent Canby ~
Most of the results of using technical bugging devices were of little importance for my service. It may have been different in counter-intelligence, where bugs in flats, etc., were used to obtain a lot of information about what counter-intelligence was interested in.
~By Markus Wolf ~
It is of the greatest importance that people and governments in many more countries than ours should realize that it is more dangerous to have access to nuclear arms than not to possess them.
~By Alva Myrdal ~
You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.
~By Gustave Flaubert ~
Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
~By James A. Garfield ~
I am sorry to say that sometimes matters of very small importance waste a good deal of precious time, by the long and repeated speeches and chicanery of gentlemen who will not wholly throw off the lawyer even in Congress.
~By William Whipple ~
Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society.
~By Kenzo Tange ~
Churchill knew the importance of peace, and he also knew the price of it. Churchill finally got his voice, of course. He stressed strategy, but it was his voice that armed England at last with the old-fashioned moral concepts of honor and duty, justice and mercy.
~By Suzanne Fields ~
Well, I think that as a country, we've drifted away from appreciating the importance of imagination.
~By Terry Brooks ~
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!
~By Philip Pullman ~
My childhood was safe and sane. No abuse and no traumas. I was surrounded by a large and loving family who taught me the importance of hard work and a meaningful education.
~By Ronnie James Dio ~
As problems like identity theft become more prevalent, now more than ever, Americans need to take their financial health seriously - and this information is of the utmost importance.
~By Ruben Hinojosa ~
The Ethical Society, therefore, is like a Church in maintaining, and emphasizing the importance of maintaining the custom of public assemblies on Sunday.
~By Felix Adler ~
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