Search in quotes: importance, page 2

The success of an assignment is inversely proportional to the product of its importance and the number of people watching.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about photography, numbers, success, people

The greater the importance of the phone call the bigger the mess the child will make or the louder the tantrum the child will have.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about children

The legibility of a copy is inversely proportional to its importance.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy

The percent of time spent bickering over what to do next is inversely proportional to the importance of the subject being fought over.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about being, time

The amount of missed attack rolls is inversely proportional to the importance of the battle.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about attack

It's quite complicated and sounds circular, but we've worked out a way of calculate a Web site's importance.

Quote by Larry Page

The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take.

Quote by C. Northcote Parkinson about man, chance

But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory.

Quote by Talcott Parsons about science, consequences, knowledge, change

The importance of certain problems concerning the facts will be inherent in the structure of the system.

Quote by Talcott Parsons about problems

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about nature

Unless everyone grasps the importance of having only two children per couple, wars won't be over just oil anymore, they will be over water and food.

Quote by Alexandra Paul about couple, food, water, children

Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

Quote by Tennessee Williams about life, question, dignity, faith

A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.

Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about opinion, character, knowledge

Language, through its signs, that are words and the sounds that make them are different depending on the way a certain phenomenon is perceived, on its role et on how much importance he is given.

Quote by Sorin Cerin about language, astrology, word

Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.

Quote by Jean Anouilh about inspiration, poets

I am convinced that the unwritten knowledge scattered among men of different callings surpasses in quantity and in importance anything we find in books, and that the greater part of our wealth has yet to be recorded

Quote by Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz about knowledge, wealth, books, man

If our dreams were more regular, more connected, more stable, they would also have more practical importance for us.

Quote by Ernst Mach about dream

A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.

Quote by Vladimir Nabokov about art, society, magic, work

Love is an act of no importance, since we it can do so indefinitely.

Quote by Alfred Jarry about love

If I was not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music ... I cannot tell if I would have done any creative work of importance in music, but I do know that I...

Quote by Albert Einstein about physics, music