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 ~
Today's terrorists are pursuing a distinct route. They are increasingly attacking civilians in symbolic targets, such as those of economic importance, or venues of bustling life like public transportation or entertainment, like nightclubs.
~By Cliff Stearns ~
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 ~
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 ~
One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it.
~By David Hilbert ~
The one thing I would like more credit for is being part of a movement which involves recognising the importance of plot and asserting that books of literary worth could be written that had plots.
~By Scott Turow ~
No tools have yet been met with in any of the gravels occurring at the higher levels of the valley of the Seine; but no importance can be attached to this negative fact, as so little search has yet been made for them.
~By Charles Lyell ~
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.
~By Sidney Altman ~
It is of first-class importance that our answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx should be in step with how we conduct our civilisation, and this should in turn be in step with the actual workings of living systems.
~By Gregory Bateson ~
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 ~
This dullness of vision regarding the importance of the general welfare to the individual is the measure of the failure of our schools and churches to teach the spiritual significance of genuine democracy.
~By Henry A. Wallace ~
People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
~By T. S. Eliot ~
The best thing about lying in bed late is that you learn to distinguish between first things and trivia, for whatever presses on you has to prove its importance before it makes you move.
~By Max Lerner ~
The system is the work of art; the visual work of art is the proof of the System. The visual aspect can't be understood without understanding the system. It isn't what it looks like but what it is that is of basic importance.
~By Sol LeWitt ~
As of essential importance in town churches which are not at all equally necessary in the country.
~By George Edmund Street ~
I cannot emphasize enough the importance of a good teacher.
~By Temple Grandin ~
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.
~By Katherine Mansfield ~
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 ~
Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that's stripped down.
~By Dave Grohl ~
The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.
~By John Maynard Keynes ~
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 ~
His impact would have been of transient memory and comparatively small importance, had not that impact occurred at a time and in a way to make it supply particulars from which momentous generalizations can properly be projected.
~By Robert Welch ~
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 ~
I believe 100 percent in the power and importance of music.
~By James Taylor ~
Although I do not have a family, I have eyes, ears and imagination, and know, as most people know, that the importance of one's children is paramount.
~By Lara St. John ~
Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.
~By J. Donald Walters ~
The main benefit of the book for the more experienced practitioners is as an evangelical tool. The book will give you some ways of expressing the value and importance of your work that you may not have had before.
~By Jesse James Garrett ~
I belong to the generation of workers who, born in the villages and hamlets of rural Poland, had the opportunity to acquire education and find employment in industry, becoming in the course conscious of their rights and importance in society.
~By Lech Walesa ~
The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity.
~By William Barclay ~
We discussed politics, but we also talked about the importance of hard work, personal responsibility, living within your means, keeping your word. Those lessons stay with you throughout your life.
~By Bob Ehrlich ~
Well, I think that as a country, we've drifted away from appreciating the importance of imagination.
~By Terry Brooks ~
It's quite complicated and sounds circular, but we've worked out a way of calculate a Web site's importance.
~By Larry Page ~
The biggest lesson I've learned by living abroad for the last four years is the importance of communication.
~By Hidetoshi Nakata ~
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 ~
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 ~
You are indebted to you imagination for three-fourths of your importance.
~By David Garrick ~
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 ~
I hope in time N. H. as well as the other States will feel the importance of Sovereignty.
~By William Whipple ~
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.
~By Penelope Lively ~
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 ~
I always knew the importance of it, since I was three or four years old my mother used to feed me wine and water. I grew up with wine as liquid food.
~By Robert Mondavi ~
He must be independent and brave, and sure of himself and of the importance of his work, because if he isn't he will never survive the scorching blasts of derision that will probably greet his first efforts.
~By Robert E. Sherwood ~
As governor, I learned the importance of having an agenda.
~By John Engler ~
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
~By Martin Luther King, Jr. ~
Next, in importance to books are their titles.
~By Frank Crane ~
I wouldn't overestimate the importance of my popularity in the country and abroad but at the end of the day it's not as important because I believe that my presence here could make some difference and it could encourage people.
~By Garry Kasparov ~
The finished product is often of less importance than the skills and confidence gained through the process and the way in which the community is strengthened through people in it work and are brought together.
~By Ben Edwards ~
It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn.
~By William Godwin ~
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 ~
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 ~
The house itself is of minor importance. Its relation to the community is the thing that really counts.
~By Clarence Stein ~
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 ~
Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society.
~By Kenzo Tange ~
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.
~By Carl D. Anderson ~
I mean, this whole digital revolution is really eroding the director's importance on a movie because, number one, just from a practical standpoint, with floppy disks and the ability to put all of the film onto a disk, more people have access to the movie.
~By John Frankenheimer ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
It is of the utmost importance that our service members are adequately compensated for their duties, and that we offer them a quality of life that will enable them to continue to serve and to live comfortably.
~By Carl Levin ~
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 ~
Celebrity gives us delusion of self importance.
~By Al Goldstein ~
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.
~By Tim Berners Lee ~
The importance of the river cannot be overstated in the history of the country, or the development of the nation.
~By Maurice Hinchey ~
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 ~
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.
~By Bjarne Stroustrup ~
Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.
~By Isak Dinesen ~
Looking ahead, I believe that the underlying importance of higher education, of science, of technology, of research and scholarship to our quality of life, to the strength of our economy, to our security in many dimensions will continue to be the most important message.
~By Charles Vest ~
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 ~
What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?
~By Ted W. Engstrom ~
Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.
~By Dan Quayle ~
It's absolutely of no importance who or what V was under the mask. He isn't a who or a what, he's an idea. The thing is, you couldn't continue it. Now and then the idea of a sequel has been raised, in vague forms, but I think it would be a bad idea. The story's finished.
~By David Lloyd ~
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 ~
Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.
~By David Letterman ~
Ajax is an important development for Web applications, and its importance is only going to grow.
~By Jesse James Garrett ~
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 ~
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 ~
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
~By Blaise Pascal ~
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 ~
In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.
~By Julius Caesar ~
To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
The importance of the facts testified, and their relations to the affairs of the soul, and the life to come, can make no difference in the principles or the mode of weighing the evidence.
~By Simon Greenleaf ~
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.
~By Betty Shabazz ~
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 ~
With respect to the FBI, they had problems communicating in a vertical way, within the FBI itself, so that information of importance could get pushed up to those who were decision-makers.
~By Richard Ben Veniste ~
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 ~
Moreover, the abundance of chemical compounds and their importance in daily life hindered the chemist from investigating the question, in what does the individuality of the atoms of different elements consist.
~By Johannes Stark ~
It is only natural that for any statesman at the helm of any government the question of his country's security should be a concern of the utmost importance.
~By Eisaku Sato ~
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
~By Alfred North Whitehead ~
One other fact is significant: the domestic feasts and sacrifices of single families, which in David's time must still have been general, gradually declined and lost their importance as social circles widened and life became more public.
~By Julius Wellhausen ~
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.
~By Godfrey Harold Hardy ~
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 ~
A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
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 ~
President Kennedy understood the importance of equal pay for equal work and signed historic legislation that gave women around the country hope that one day their wages would be on par with that of their male counterparts.
~By Rosa DeLauro ~
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 ~
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 ~
The importance of the assistant director cannot be overemphasized.
~By John Frankenheimer ~
Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.
~By Ray Kurzweil ~
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