408 Quotes About Importance

If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of the utmost importance (...); as great as a man, some think even greater. But this is woman in fiction. In fact, as Professor Trevelyan points out [in his History of England], she was locked up, beaten and flung about the room.

Forgive the most important person in your world – to You.”“আপনার বিশ্বের সবচেয়ে গুরুত্বপূর্ণ ব্যক্তিকে ক্ষমা করুন – নিজেকে।

A great writer picks up on those things that matter. It’s almost like their radar is attuned to the most significant moments.

Most people’s lives are to the average person not important like, or as important as, their opinions about him or her.

I have begun to believe in, and even to preach, a poetry of necessity. This is a recognition not just of the necessity of poetry to our lives, but also the fact that necessity is what drives most of the poetry that matters, or the way that it matters.

When you're attached to something, whether through love or hate, you give it an importance it doesn't have.

Things becomes invisible at the very moment I refuse to grant them importance. And while I am utterly ashamed to admit it, many of the most important things in my life are invisible.

We are, finally, all wanderers in search of knowledge. Most of us hold the dream of becoming something better than we are, something larger, richer, in some way more important to the world and ourselves. Too often, the way taken is the wrong way, with too much emphasis on what we want to have, rather than what we wish to become.

We might do well to take a look at what we’ve crammed into our pockets as it will say much about what we’ve crammed into our hearts.