As governor, I learned the importance of having an agenda.
A smile costs nothing in money, time, or effort but it is literally true that it can be of supreme importance in ones life.
In Islam, rules are important, like the Prophet said innal halaala bayyinun, wa innal haraama bayyinun ["what is halal is clear, what is haram is clear"]. The goal is not to diminish the importance of rules, but to have the right priorities.
[W]e need to talk over not only those things which are of vital importance to us as women, but also the things that are of especial interest to us as colored women.
It is obvious to any observer that in every western country the increase of importance of public schools has been at least coincident with the relaxation of older family ties.
Today we are apt to downplay or disregard the importance of good thinking to strong faith; and some, disastrously, even regard thinking as opposed to faith.
You are going to have to give and give and give, or there's no reason for you to be writing. You have to give from the deepest part of yourself, and you are going to have to go on giving, and the giving is going to have to be its own reward. There is no cosmic importance to your getting something published, but there is in learning to be a giver.
My films are of paramount importance to me, the same as my family. That's not going to change. This is a balance I have to strike throughout my life.
One can not start by saying our earthly destiny has or has not importance, for it depends on us to give it importance.
We people of the world need to find ways to get to know one another - for then we will recognize that our likenesses are so much greater than our differences, however great our differences may seem. Every cell, every human being, is of equal importance and has work to do in this world
Never do anything that someone else can and will do, when there is so much of importance to be done which others cannot or will not do.
I love the whole world of dance, because dancing is really the emotions through bodily movement. And however you feel, you just bring out the inner feeling through your mood. . . people don't think about the importance of it.
The doctrine of population has been conspicuously absent, not because I doubt in the least its truth and vast importance, but because it forms no part of the direct problem of economics.
Artists have made innovations in many areas. . . But whatever the nature of an artist's innovation, its importance ultimately depends on the extent of its influence on other artists.
It is for this reason that rationality is of supreme importance to the well-being of the human species. . . even more, in those less fortunate times in which it is despised and rejected as the vain dream of men who lack the virility to kill where they cannot agree.
Money is central to our lives. Yet money is not of central importance. It has nothing whatsoever to do with the lasting values that make life worth living.
My work is one of my passions, so I want to treat it with great importance, whatever the project or role.
We know that children need help to read, and the best time to start them reading is very young. We believe that when children see adults from all walks of life and from throughout the community reading to them, that is another opportunity for children to see the importance of reading.
Comics definitely embody the importance of practicing free speech.
In times of crisis, it is of the utmost importance that one does not lose her head. Marie Antoinette