408 Quotes About Importance

Falling in love... how could he have made such light of it? Sneered even. As if it was trivial for us, a frill, a whim. It was, on the contrary, heavy going. It was the central thing, the way you understood yourself.

But never engage in detailed overexplanations of why something is important: one debases a principle by endlessly justifying it.

Knowing this secret, being the only one chosen to know, makes me feel important in a way. But it’s a negative importance, it’s the importance of a blank sheet of paper. I can know because I don’t count. I feel singled out, but also bereft.

What's important to you may mean nothing to me and what's important to me may mean nothing to you. And that's okay.

I'm keenly aware of the Principle of Priority, which states (a) you must know the difference between what is urgent and what is important, and (b) you must do what's important first.

The most important truths are those which sustain us in our daily lives.

In all my experience along the dirtiest ways of this dirty little world, I have never met with such a thing as a trifle yet.

In the rush of life, it is quite easy to forget what’s important. As cliche as this is, it’s easy to take life for granted when you don’t have time to focus properly. It is only when life diverts from the ‘plan’ that we suddenly take time to see what is really important.

When someone makes you a priority it is Great! When you make yourself a priority it is Brilliant!~