Quotes about Importance

In matters of great importance, style, not sincerity is the vital thing.

Each class would have preached the importance of those virtues, for whose exercise there was no necessity in their own lives.

Life is much too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it.

Effective team leaders work creatively with each team member to ensure they understand the following issues: Why this task is important to the organization. Why this team task is important to them personally. Why they (their role) are important to the team. Who the other team members are and why they are important to the mission of the team.

Why is that true? Because when our friends excel us, they feel important; but when we excel them, they—or at least some of them—will feel inferior and envious.

No matter how "important" or successful you are, no one is immune to the pleasure of someone taking interest in you as a person

Criticism is futile because it puts people on the defensive and usually makes them strive to justify themselves. Criticism is dangerous because it wounds a person's precious pride, hurts their sense of importance, and arouses resentment.

Trust me.... You are important

Despite what you've been told, you matter and you can accomplish something great.

people who would think they had committed a crime if they let their families or employees go for six days without food; but they will let them go for six days, and six weeks, and sometimes sixty years without giving them the hearty appreciation that they crave almost as much as they crave food.

But I am tremendously interested in what religion does for me, just as I am interested in what electricity and good food and water do for me.

The law is this: Always make the other person feel important. John Dewey, as we have already noted, said that the desire to be important is the deepest urge in human nature; and William James said: "The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated." As I have already pointed out, it is this urge that differentiates us from the animals. It is this urge that has been responsible for civilization itself.