Importance of time quotes:

Send

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom. -- Bertrand Russell
I hope in time N. H. as well as the other States will feel the importance of Sovereignty. -- William Whipple
I'd done an Edinburgh show before, in 1981, called 'The Importance of Being Varnished' - I was in the pun trade at the time. -- Rory Bremner
Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it. -- Ray Kurzweil
It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time. -- Samuel Johnson
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. -- Joseph Bruchac
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. -- Paul Simon
I'm big on the importance of science, particularly right now at this point in time when there's sort of a systematic rejection of science by a lot of people in America. -- Seth MacFarlane
Being closer to the genesis of this whole period, it captured the importance of the concept of making contact and accurately depicted the paranoia of the time. It's an excellent film. -- Dwight Schultz
As far as income goes, there are three currencies in the world; most people ignore two. The three currencies are time, income and mobility, in descending order of importance. Most people focus exclusively on income. -- Timothy Ferriss
The 'Soul Train' legacy and brand are of the utmost importance to me and to 'Soul Train's' millions of fans. After years of offers, I feel the time is now finally right to pass the torch. -- Don Cornelius
One other fact is significant: the domestic feasts and sacrifices of single families, which in David's time must still have been general, gradually declined and lost their importance as social circles widened and life became more public. -- Julius Wellhausen
Growing up, when we would get dragged to these events, I didn't want to be there. Over time, as we got older, I developed a real appreciation of the importance of being involved in the democratic process. -- Julian Castro
Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results? -- Theodore Wilhelm Engstrom
I am sorry to say that sometimes matters of very small importance waste a good deal of precious time, by the long and repeated speeches and chicanery of gentlemen who will not wholly throw off the lawyer even in Congress. -- William Whipple
Of course, nobody would deny the importance of human beings for theological thinking, but the time span of history that theologians think about is a few thousand years of human culture rather than the fifteen billion years of the history of the universe. -- John Polkinghorne
Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exclusively, the very first order of books. Why, except for some special reason, read an inferior book, at the very time you might be reading one of the highest order? -- John Foster
We can look back through ice-core data and see over 800,000 years, relationships between carbon dioxide and the temperature of the world. So those people who deny the importance of climate change are just wasting their time. They're also being diversionary because if we don't act the risks are enormous. -- Nicholas Stern
I came here as a practical man, to talk, not simply on the question of peace and war, but to treat another question which is of hardly less importance - the enormous and burdensome standing armaments which it is the practice of modern Governments to sustain in time of peace. -- Richard Cobden
With recording, everything changed. The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one's furniture. It's an idea that many composers have felt reluctant about because it seemed to them to diminish the importance of music. -- Brian Eno
Software is the magic thing whose importance only goes up over time. -- Bill Gates
The amount of time we give to something indicates it's importance to us. -- Jim George
No one at this time can duly estimate the importance of Mrs Marcet's scientific works. -- Mary Somerville
As you begin to think more in terms of importance, you begin to see time differently. -- Stephen Covey
I've now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest. -- Oscar Wilde
A father's calling is eternal and its importance transcends time. It is a calling for both time and eternity. -- Ezra Taft Benson
A sci-fi yarn that ponders the meaning of time and the importance of evolution while occasionally throwing in some shootouts. -- James Berardinelli
The fact that the 7 hours time control allows us to play a great deep game is not of great importance for mass-media. -- Alexei Shirov
When a man retires and time is no longer a matter of urgent importance, his colleagues generally present him with a watch. -- R. C. Sherriff
A smile costs nothing in money, time, or effort but it is literally true that it can be of supreme importance in ones life. -- Emmet Fox
Even the art of quoting is a conservative art most of the time, in order to propel the same ideas and the same self-congratulatory importance. -- Fady Joudah
In truth, we're all just pottering, filling the time that we have here, only we like to make ourselves feel bigger by compiling lists of importance. -- Cecelia Ahern
Nothing is of greater importance in time of war than in knowing how to make the best use of a fair opportunity when it is offered. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
Tis pedantry to estimate nations by the census, or by square miles of land, or other than by their importance to the mind of the time -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The slice of time has become enormous in importance, and its hidden meaning is now perfectly plain, though so complex that it can hardly be written down. -- Ben Maddow
Every psychological event depends upon the state of the person and at the same time on the environment, although their relative importance is different in different cases -- Kurt Lewin
Inspiration is never genuine if it is known as inspiration at the time. True inspiration always steals on a person; its importance not being fully recognized for some time. -- Samuel Butler
The secret to being alone is to organize your time; to develop habits and routines and gradually elevate their importance to where they seem almost like normal, healthy activities. -- Daniel Clowes
There is no profession more essential than that of an educator, and it's time for all of us to embrace and celebrate their importance and contribution to America's children. -- Queen Latifah
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. -- Nahoko Uehashi
Although it is the biggest time-waster in office life, you must never underrate the importance of the memo. You will be judged by the volume of your paper work. -- Jilly Cooper
The doctrine of the importance of hoards for stabilizing the objective exchange-value of money has gradually lost its adherents with the passing of time. Nowadays its supporters are few. -- Ludwig von Mises
Life and death are of supreme importance. Time swiftly passes by and opportunity is lost. Each of us should strive to awaken. Awaken. Take heed, do not squander your life. -- Dogen
To eat or be eaten, to escape or be taken...a matter of utmost importance to the one concerned, yet it happens all the time and we don't even notice. -- Nahoko Uehashi

Send