Top 1200 Importance Of Reading Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

I think e-mail should be sorted by importance, not by time.

The safety of our law enforcement is of the utmost importance.

American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.

Suffering over something is proof positive of its importance.

Money has never been of prime importance to me.

I grew up knowing the importance of breast cancer.

Catchy lyrics are being given more importance.

It was a sad loss, this illusion of importance, a humbling blow.

Never, ever underestimate the importance of having fun.

In regards to my artistry, I've learned the importance of being vulnerable.

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

You are indebted to you imagination for three-fourths of your importance.

Just because it's broken doesn't mean it loses its importance.

I’m just thinking that would be pleasant. To be reading, say, out of a book, and you to come up and touch me – my neck, say, or my knee – and I’d carry on reading, I might let a smile, no more, wouldn’t lose my place on the page. It would be pleasant to come to that. We’d come so close, do you see, that I wouldn’t be surprised out of myself every time you touched.

Inspiration? - a hoax fabricated by poets for their self-importance.

physical beauty should have no importance in a lasting relationship.

What is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.

Celebrity gives us delusion of self importance.

Serious reading is hardly a social activity and every halfway serious reader is perpetually subject to a form of coitus interruptus. Family members or friends who lack the desire, the courage, or the opportunity to burst in on you when there's some indication that you could be sexually entwined will seldom hesitate to interject themselves between you and a page, even though the act of reading is often as intimate and intense as a full-fledged carnal embrace.

Nature admits no hierarchy of beauty or usefulness or importance.

Getting a good education was of immense importance to my parents.

Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.

I believe 100 percent in the power and importance of music.

The soul is often in the surface, and the importance of 'depth' is overestimated.

Work to recognize the primary importance of the present moment.

In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.

To speak of it would be giving importance to that which has none.

The amount of time we give to something indicates it's importance to us.

No one but people like me can understand the importance of education.

I love short stories - reading and writing them. The best short stories distill all the potency of a novel into a small but heady draught. They are perfect reading material for the bus or train or for a lunchtime break. Everything extraneous has been strained off by the author. The best short stories pack the heft of any novel, yet resonate like poetry.

History is not to be whitewashed "by a screening out of the importance of suffering."

It is impossible to overestimate the importance of being filled with the Spirit.

It is difficult to overstate the importance of the Civil Rights Act.

The importance of an artist is bringing new signs into a language.

This idea that there is generality in the specific is of far-reaching importance.

There is a wonderful book called "Gandhi's Truth," by Erik Erikson, the psychologist. It is a great book. And I remember reading that and thinking about this connection between what we think in our personal lives and how that manifests itself in our politics. Those are two books, just off the top, that I think are sort of representative of reading that I did at that time. I never get a chance to read anymore.

The importance of music extends well beyond its performance.

It is of first importance that the military be subordinate to civilian government

I learned to write from reading. I had no writing classes. It's part of my thinking as the writer-author, reading, but then I also want to bring this into my characters, who also read and think. There's that great quote from Virginia Woolf - it's very simple: "...books continue each other." I think when you're a writer, you're also, hopefully, a reader, and you're bringing those earlier works into your work.

What makes you imagine ... that anything of importance can be taught in a school?

An entire life spent reading would have fulfilled my every desire; I already knew that at the age of seven. The texture of the world is painful, inadequate; unalterable, or so it seems to me. Really, I believe that an entire life spent reading would have suited me best. Such a life has not been granted me.

Casting is what I put at the top of the heap in importance to any show that I do.

The logic: Reading is a private pursuit, one that often takes place behind closed doors. A young lady might retreat with a book, might even take it into her boudoir, and there, reclining on here silken sheets, imbibing the thrills and chills manufactured by writerly quills, one of her hands, one not absolutely needed to grip the little volume, might wander. The fear, in short, as one-handed reading. [p. 146]

In times of crisis, it is of utmost importance to keep one's head.

I understand the importance of bondage between parent and child.

You can't be admitted to the ranks of writers of importance unless you have sales.

It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn.

The importance of tackling inequality in Africa cannot be overstated.

... teaching cannot be a process of transference of knowledge from the one teaching to the learner. This is the mechanical transference from which results machinelike memorization, which I have already criticized. Critical study correlates with teaching that is equally critical, which necessarily demands a critical way of comprehending and of realizing the reading of the word and that of the world, the reading of text and of context.

Of capital importance is to have a good diet and exercise a lot.

I believe it's impossible to write good poetry without reading. Reading poetry goes straight to my psyche and makes me want to write. I meet the muse in the poems of others and invite her to my poems. I see over and over again, in different ways, what is possible, how the perimeters of poetry are expanding and making way for new forms.

I cannot emphasize enough the importance of a good teacher.

Don't minimize the importance of luck in determining life's course.

We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced

I must suppose that reading wonderful writers may, inadvertently, teach an avid reader a great deal -- not only about life and other matters, but about how to write. Therefore doubtless I have benefited from frequent immersions in the glowing genius of others. It would be nice to think so. (I do actually think so). But to improve my skills will never be the prompting force of my reading -- that's just literary lust.

The importance of high expectations plays a big role.

Don't underestimate the importance of happiness. As long as you're happy, who cares what you do?

I felt the call to this industry because I enjoy broadcast journalism. I'm steeped in the news because I enjoy the news - I like reading papers; I like reading the blogs. I love talking to newsmakers and pundits, for that matter, about their opinions. I'm an information gatherer by nature, so that's what attracted me about this industry.

The only incontrovertible fact of my work is the importance of life.

I want children to learn to develop deep reading skills in the beginning in print. I believe the physicality of print is much better in the beginning for children, and then help them learn how to use their deep reading skills on digital medium.