Importance Quotes - Page 9

It's pointless to be critical of your stuff once it's done. I don't spend a lot of time agonising over it. It's of no importance once it's finished.

In any decision situation, the amount of relevant information available is inversely proportional to the importance of the decision.

The things we remember are often things that have great emotional importance, and so they have a lasting effect.

No theory of life seemed to him to be of any importance compared with life itself

I believe there are Steve Jobses all around us. Really, what is happening is that they're being edited out of importance.

As we [with Edward Herman] discuss there [in Manufacturing Consent] and elsewhere, recognition of the importance of "manufacturing consent" has become an ever more central theme in the more free societies.

Children, to me, are of the utmost importance. They're really the future, aren't they?

You are engaged in an undertaking of major importance to you. To be sure of success, you must have plans which are faultless.

To eat or be eaten, to escape or be takena matter of utmost importance to the one concerned, yet it happens all the time and we don't even notice.

I am going to die, but that is of no importance.

I would say that foreign policy is a place where intelligence, resolve, clarity, and confidence in cause, is of extraordinary importance.

There are a few rules I know to be true about love and marriage... Your values must be alike. And the biggest one of those values, Mitch?" Yes? "Your belief in the importance of your marriage.

I also like to get out there to promote a positive message about the importance of family and faith and of doing the right thing.

Lesson Number One: The Importance of Being Jewish

On a very practical level, I've learned the importance of circulation socks for planes. I had this awful experience of getting off a flight to go to an event and my feet had swelled. Try getting into heels then! So you put on the socks for the flight, then you can wear whatever heels you want.

About writing I learned that always, always, always it's necessary to haunt your settings. I'm a big researcher. All my fiction is based on tons of digging. But the vital importance of actually traveling to the settings of a novel really hit me. And it's not just the setting details, not just the visuals and other sensory data, that will pop. You'll find surprising clues that swerve your story in whole new, deeper, surprising, more organic ways.

I have never seen myself as an alarmist but rather as a scientist with a critical viewpoint, and in that sense I have always been a skeptic. I have devoted most of my career to developing models for predicting the weather, and in doing so I have learned the importance of validating forecasts against observed weather. As a result, that's an approach I strongly favor for "climate predictions." It's essential to validate model results, especially when dealing with complex systems such as the climate. It's essential do so properly if such predictions are to be considered credible.

You can only be funny if you have matters of great importance on your mind.

Poetry and prose are of equal importance to me as a reader, and there doesn't seem to be much difference in my own writing.

If I ever have a family one day, everything else will pale in importance to that.

I am reminded of the importance of small kindnesses.

The importance of the arts to the societies in which they thrive is well documented.

physical beauty should have no importance in a lasting relationship.

One of the things I've been taught by Native American elders is the importance of patience, of waiting to do things when the time is right. As an Onondaga friend put it to me, "you can't pick berries until the berries are ripe."

I certainly want to portray the importance of friendship. I had noticed in movies and TV shows that friends often treated one another terribly, and my friends, the few I have, are never cruel to me or unkind, so I wanted to convey that.