29 Importance Quotes

The compulsion to take ourselves seriously is in inverse proportion to our creative capacity. When the creative flow dries up, all we have left is our importance.

Those who are weak don't fight. Those who are stronger might fight for an hour. Those who are stronger still might fight for many years. The strongest fight their whole life. They are the indispensable ones.

Every individual has a place to fill in the world, and is important, in some respect, whether he chooses to be so or not.

That hour, o' night's black arch the keystane.

If it isn't a wonderful story first, who cares how 'important' it is? (Ibid.)

a man thinks he amounts to a great deal but to a flea or a mosquito a human being is merely something good to eat

The most important truth which has ever been uttered, and the greatest discovery ever made in the moral world.

I could do without many things with no hardship - you are not one of them.

Like most artists who have made an invention of some kind, he tends to overplay the significance of his own and goes on about it as though it were a Rosetta Stone, with whose help all representation can be rescued from one-eyed falsehood.

'The division of the world into important and unimportant matters, which has always served to neutralize the key phenomena of social injustice as mere exceptions, should be followed up to the point where it is convicted of its own untruth. The division which makes everything objects must itself become an object of thought, instead of guiding it.'

One of the few lives precious to mankind. ~ Thomas Jefferson

If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.

The ideas of Freud were popularized by people who only imperfectly understood them, who were incapable of the great effort required to grasp them in their relationship to larger truths, and who therefore assigned to them a prominence out of all proportion to their true importance.

I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system, and possibly program, of all time.

'Who are you? Nobody. Who is Porridge? THE MOST IMPORTANT PERSON THERE IS.'

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.

All of the real heroes are not storybook combat fighters, either. Every single man in this Army plays a vital role. Don't ever let up. Don't ever think that your job is unimportant. Every man has a job to do and he must do it. Every man is a vital link in the great chain.

We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us - Martins felt the little jab of dispensability.

To the natural philosopher there is no natural object unimportant or trifling.

At moments of great enthusiasm it seems to me that no one in the world has ever made something this beautiful and important.

Family is the most important thing in the world.