Top 600 Importance Quotes

The Priestly Code preponderates over the rest of the legislation in force, as well as in bulk; in all matters of primary importance it is the normal and final authority.
Julius Wellhausen
Any Democratic statement of core beliefs about the importance of families must include all our families, gay and straight. Our party has a long tradition of leading the charge on important questions of justice.
Jeanne Shaheen
I’d grown up in a production company, but discovering the importance of the work, I realized I had something to bring here.
Dinah Manoff
For Stevie, the words are of prime importance; the song moves around the words, rather than the words moving around the song.
Christine McVie
Let’s not give the electoral process so much importance. We have to be cynical about it. Let’s give importance to the real democracy that’s constructed on a day-to-day basis. That’s my hopeful perspective on it.
Gael Garcia Bernal
The Christ-symbol is of the greatest importance for psychology in so far as it is perhaps the most highly developed and differentiated symbol of the self, apart from the figure of the Buddha.
Carl Jung
Learning how to contract your power and personality is of incredible importance.
Daniel Lubetzky
When judging a horoscope, it is of prime importance that we take into consideration the social and racial standing of the individual, for configurations which are of great significance in the horoscope of an educated Caucasian may mean little or nothing in the figure of a Chinese Coolie and vice versa.
Max Heindel
Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain information of importance, like a signpost or a warning notice.
James Buchan
If studios don’t get their money back, we don’t have any movies. So it is important that films are successful, and I am fully supportive of that because I’m not just a director, I’m also not stupid. I’ve been in this business long enough and, to a certain extent, I’m a businessman; I know the importance of that.
Ridley Scott
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.
Ralph Ellison
As an artist, I will always give art more importance and preference than pure entertainment.
Arfi Lamba
While the Environmental Genome Project does not seek to assign allele frequencies, we are aware of the importance of accurate allele frequency estimates for future epidemiologic studies and the large sample sizes such estimates will require.
Samuel Wilson
I was raised on the values of speaking up and making a positive difference in a very political family that believed in the importance of public service.
Scott McClellan
Forgetting the importance of national landscapes, cultures, national behaviours, reactions, and reflexes is a big, big mistake.
Jean-Claude Juncker
Cisco has long recognized the importance of national service, both to the corps members and to the community. For example, we partner with educational service organizations like City Year and Teach For America to grow their corps members and reach more students.
Tae Yoo
My wife taught me the importance of living well.
Robert Mondavi
It is clear from all these data that the interests of teenagers are not focused around studies, and that scholastic achievement is at most of minor importance in giving status or prestige to an adolescent in the eyes of other adolescents.
James S. Coleman
I didn’t appreciate the young woman that I was, or my young beauty, because I was so obsessed with the fact that I felt fat. It’s never good to add to anybody else’s suffering. It’s an important topic to really get the gravity and the importance of – dealing with dignity.
Margaret Cho
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.
David Lloyd
An important function of theology is to keep religion tied to reason and reason to religion. Both roles are of essential importance for humanity.
Pope Benedict XVI
What we have ignored is what citizens can do and the importance of real involvement of the people involved – versus just having somebody in Washington make a rule.
Elinor Ostrom
I’ve learned the importance of loving what you do. I have also learned more patience due to the nature of the music business.
Randy Travis
I believe in the importance of individuality, but in the midst of grief I also find myself wanting connection – wanting to be reminded that the sadness I feel is not just mine but ours.
Meghan O’Rourke
Humility is of central importance; I think it’s an underappreciated virtue in the contemporary discussion of law and politics.
Cass Sunstein
I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they’d never told me about something as basic as the importance of point of view in fiction!
Philip Pullman
The drive behind what I do is really to make sure that

The drive behind what I do is really to make sure that people don’t go to bed hungry. It’s not just that I have a love of diversity, it’s the importance of the uses of that diversity.
Cary Fowler
Unemployment is of vital importance, particularly to the unemployed.
Edward Heath
Anything that stimulates the public’s imagination about the nobility and the importance of space exploration is something that I’m very excited to be a part of.
Ron Howard
Google has helped raise the importance of DNS above the network engineering community, which has been really good.
David Ulevitch
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.
Bjarne Stroustrup
The nature of the Internet and the importance of net neutrality is that innovation can come from everyone.
Al Franken
The ‘Black Panther’ world taught me about the importance of exfoliating.
Letitia Wright
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.
Jesse James Garrett
Since September 11, 2001, many in this nation and this Congress have a deeper appreciation for the importance of the sacrifices made by our law enforcement officers.
Jerry Costello
The importance of heart health became very real for me when my father died of heart disease seven years ago. Having experienced the loss first hand, I am inspired to do everything I can to break the cycle and prevent families from losing loved ones to this preventable disease.
Monica Potter
The lesson is the importance of never becoming untethered to oversight and accountability.
James Comey
What we have ignored is what citizens can do and the importance of real involvement of the people versus just having somebody in Washington make a rule.
Elinor Ostrom
I believe in the importance of sincerity and emotion and honesty in TV, even when it’s goofy comedy.
Michael Schur
When I left 20th Century-Fox to freelance, my agent believed that getting big money was the way to establish real importance in our industry.
Loretta Young
Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of life, that’s their order of importance.
Muriel Spark
If there isn’t a business logic to get to marketability, the chance of an idea’s importance in the world is very low.
Steve Jurvetson
My father Lloyd Bridges worked on a TV show called ‘Sea Hunt.’ He impressed upon me as a child the importance of taking care of the ocean and working together to do our part to reduce human pollution.
Jeff Bridges
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.
Betty Shabazz
The importance of building relationships among colleagues, of trying to create coalitions behind the issues that you are championing, was not something I ever had much insight into until I was elected and started serving in the Senate.
Hillary Clinton
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.
Johannes Stark
Mitt Romney understands the importance of Alaska as a leader in our country’s energy production and I look forward to working with him on such an important economic and national security matter.
Lisa Murkowski
No one could have less faith in the absolute and definitive importance of the work created by man, because I believe that this world is nothing but a dream.
Gustave Moreau
I have already done two Christmas films: ‘Elf’ and ‘Four Christmases.’ I guess I really am a sucker for Christmas. Both movies are really about the importance of family. I come from a brood of five kids, and it’s the one time of year we can all get together. It’s hands-down my favorite holiday.
Peter Billingsley
When you win a Grammy, it links a certain prestige and importance to you, you know? People want to talk to you.
Stanley Clarke
Nothing of any importance can be taught. It can only be learned, and with blood and sweat.
Robert Anton Wilson
Anyone who has a child knows the importance of not over-playing your hand. He was up all night playing some game on his smartphone and you feel like saying that if it happens again the phone is gone. Forever. Till he is old enough to buy his own. Till then he can have your old Nokia.
Abhijit Banerjee
Although approximately 80% of osteoporosis sufferers are women, as the longevity of the male population increases, the disease will assume increasing importance in men.
Gro Harlem Brundtland