Explore 'Importance'-Themed Quotes & Sayings

We are always bored by the very people by whom it is vital not to be bored.

François de La Rochefoucauld

A book is a book only when it is read; otherwise it is a bundle of gathered sheets of soiled paper.

Frederick Philip Grove

Unexplained, obscure matters are regarded as more important than explained, clear ones.

Friedrich Nietzsche

What people don’t get is that hair is such a big part of our identity.

Melissa Etheridge

The idea of how others see you becomes more important than the reality of you.

Michael J. Sullivan

Money helps, though not so much as you think when you don’t have it.

Louise Erdrich

It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.

Henry A. Kissinger

Once you get the right image the details aren’t that important.

Abbie Hoffman

It isn’t what we are, but what folks think we are, that counts in this world.

L. Frank Baum

Anyone who tells you size doesn’t matter has been seeing too many small knives.

Laurell K. Hamilton

To a great mind, nothing is little,’ remarked Holmes, sententiously.

Arthur Conan Doyle

So, in other words, how you respond to a sculpture, how a viewer sees the sculpture, is vital.

Anthony Caro

Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thing well, you’re needed by someone.

Martina Navratilova

What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in.

Simone de Beauvoir

What often matters more than the activity we’re doing at a moment in time is how we feel about it.

Brigid Schulte

People who say that money isn’t the most important thing in the world are usually broke.

Malcolm Forbes

It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.

Boris Pasternak

If people don’t find what you are doing threatening, then it is probably not very important.

Nathan Myhrvold

People sometimes mistake being serious with being taken seriously.

Patrick Dempsey

Words themselves are neutral. It’s the charge we add to them that matters

Pema Chodron

The preface is the most important part of a book. Even reviewers read a preface.

Philip Guedalla

In visual art it’s better once to see, than one hundred times to hear.

Igor Babailov

People’s perceptions of their status are just as important as their actual status.

Chip Berlet

I’d like to quit thinking of the present as some minor insignificant preamble to something else.

Richard Linklater

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