Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exclusively, the very first order of books. Why, except for some special reason, read an inferior book, at the very time you might be reading one of the highest order?
~By John W. Foster ~
In therapy I have learned the importance of keeping spiritual life and professional life balanced. I need to regain my balance.
~By Tiger Woods ~
The importance of information is directly proportional to its improbability.
~By Jerry Pournelle ~
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 ~
Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.
~By J. Donald Walters ~
Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.
~By Aldous Huxley ~
People place such importance on the external. It's disgusting.
~By Tab Hunter ~
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 ~
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.
~By Frank Lampard ~
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.
~By Robert Nozick ~
We're just beginning to learn the importance of music in our society.
~By Lester Bowie ~
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.
~By Rob Simmons ~
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 ~
God is of no importance unless He is of supreme importance.
~By Abraham Joshua Heschel ~
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?
~By Abraham Pais ~
So nonetheless given the importance that was placed on sport in Australia, I wanted to be part of that scene, particularly since I had felt very strongly in my early schooling being marginalised even in the Catholic school.
~By Thomas Keneally ~
It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn.
~By William Godwin ~
And as a nurse, I know very well the importance, for example, of electronic medical records.
~By Lois Capps ~
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.
~By John Foster Dulles ~
Professionally, I remember Cronkite as a kid growing up, and more so for me, the importance of Cronkite was not him sitting there at the anchor desk, but him out there doing things.
~By Ed Bradley ~
One of the things I noticed more in this draft than in any recent drafts was the importance of the character issue. Players who had baggage, like Justice, fell much farther than his talent dictated. But a lot of coaches didn't want to take the chance.
~By Ron Jaworski ~
I have my parents to thank for that, they raised me to be active and play all sports. They taught me the importance of staying healthy, being focused and setting goals in whatever I do.
~By Kiana Tom ~
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.
~By Charles Babbage ~
It is seldom in life that one knows that a coming event is to be of crucial importance.
~By Anya Seton ~
Meanwhile the fact that the connection with the activity of memory in ordinary life is for the moment lost is of less importance than the reverse, namely, that this connection with the complications and fluctuations of life is necessarily still a too close one.
~By Hermann Ebbinghaus ~
The importance to the nation of a generously adequate food supply for the coming year cannot be overemphasized, in view of the economic problems which may arise as a result of the entrance of the United States into the war.
~By David F. Houston ~
Our legislation addresses broadcasts over the public airwaves, but I hope the cable and satellite industries see the importance of this issue and voluntarily create a family tier of programming and offer culturally responsible products.
~By Charles W. Pickering ~
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 ~
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 ~
Well, I think that as a country, we've drifted away from appreciating the importance of imagination.
~By Terry Brooks ~
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 ~
American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.
~By Marshall McLuhan ~
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 ~
As governor, I learned the importance of having an agenda.
~By John Engler ~
Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of life, that's their order of importance.
~By Muriel Spark ~
In setting out the walls of a city the choice of a healthy situation is of the first importance: it should be on high ground, neither subject to fogs nor rains; its aspects should be neither violently hot nor intensely cold, but temperate in both respects.
~By Marcus V. Pollio ~
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.
~By David Baltimore ~
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 ~
For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights.
~By B. R. Ambedkar ~
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
~By Alfred North Whitehead ~
It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
~By Max Eastman ~
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 ~
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 ~
One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it.
~By David Hilbert ~
It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.
~By Thomas Huxley ~
Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.
~By Albert Einstein ~
It is of great importance to note these meteors, even the small ones, as very little is yet known of them; and every observation, if carefully made, will some day help to show what they are.
~By William John Wills ~
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 ~
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 ~
It's quite complicated and sounds circular, but we've worked out a way of calculate a Web site's importance.
~By Larry Page ~
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 ~
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 ~
Just once in a while let us exalt the importance of ideas and information.
~By Edward R. Murrow ~
What women have to stand on squarely is not their ability to see the world in the way men see it, but the importance and validity of their seeing it in some other way.
~By Mary Austin ~
Till now I have never shot a scene without taking account of what stands behind the actors because the relationship between people and their surroundings is of prime importance.
~By Michelangelo Antonioni ~
The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity.
~By William Barclay ~
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 ~
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
~By Martin Luther King, Jr. ~
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!
~By Rita Dove ~
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 ~
Not only has this subject been long associated with the ideas of thinking men over the ages but its practical importance is attested to by the huge resources of men and material thrown into this type of work.
~By Robert Hofstadter ~
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.
~By Charles Babbage ~
Since September 11, 2001, many in this nation and this Congress have a deeper appreciation for the importance of the sacrifices made by our law enforcement officers.
~By Jerry Costello ~
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 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 ~
I had almost forgotten to tell you that I have already been to the Parliament House; and yet this is of most importance. For, had I seen nothing else in England but this, I should have thought my journey thither amply rewarded.
~By Karl Philipp Moritz ~
The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.
~By David Hume ~
Being closer to the genesis of this whole period, it captured the importance of the concept of making contact and accurately depicted the paranoia of the time. It's an excellent film.
~By Dwight Schultz ~
I understand the importance of bondage between parent and child.
~By Dan Quayle ~
Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and importance, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.
~By Margaret Thatcher ~
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 ~
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 ~
To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
Research is of considerable importance in certain fields, such as science and history.
~By Fred Saberhagen ~
Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.
~By Dan Quayle ~
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.
~By Whitfield Diffie ~
The adoption by Jefferson and the Republicans of the political structure of their opponents is of an importance hardly inferior to that of the adoption of the Constitution by the states.
~By Herbert Croly ~
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.
~By John Boehner ~
When I left 20th Century-Fox to freelance, my agent believed that getting big money was the way to establish real importance in our industry.
~By Loretta Young ~
The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.
~By George Santayana ~
While the Environmental Genome Project does not seek to assign allele frequencies, we are aware of the importance of accurate allele frequency estimates for future epidemiologic studies and the large sample sizes such estimates will require.
~By Samuel Wilson ~
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 ~
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 ~
Exaggerated self-importance is deemed an individual fault, but a racial virtue.
~By Kelly Millar ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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.
~By Clara Zetkin ~
Corn is the leading food and feed crop of the United States in geographic range of production, acreage, and quantity of product. The vital importance of a large acreage of this crop, properly cared for, therefore, is obvious.
~By David F. Houston ~
It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.
~By Theodore Roosevelt ~
What is the effect of unlimited coinage of silver in this country? and I invite your attention to this particularly, because it is a question of vital importance.
~By Richard Parks Bland ~
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.
~By Robert Fortune ~
Making me into a role model is placing too much importance on what I see as a work in progress.
~By P. J. Harvey ~
Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.
~By Aldous Huxley ~
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.
~By John Lasseter ~
I think the number one thing that I find important is the importance of honesty with your friends and your parents, if you can be. But I think that telling people how you really feel, being who you truly are, being safe and taking care of yourself is the most important thing.
~By Emma Stone ~
I hope in time N. H. as well as the other States will feel the importance of Sovereignty.
~By William Whipple ~
In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.
~By Julius Caesar ~
I am committed to ensure that our 2008 Republican presidential candidates forthrightly address issues of importance to the African-American community.
~By Ken Mehlman ~
Every man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel his own importance, will consider himself as fully equal to any other person whatever.
~By Joseph Priestley ~
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