Perception of Importance Quotes

A man is himself important precisely in proportion that all things seem important to him.

Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.

There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything; it places in the same scales the fall of an empire of fourteen years and the dropping of a woman's glove, and almost always the glove weighs more than the empire.

I promise you this: at the end of your days, you will discover that the things you now perceive to be the big things in your life will be seen as little things, and all those things that you now believe to be the little things, you will realize were really the big things.

Fame is a problem of perspective.

...even the smallest of the starlings' concerns grew in importance until it seemed equal to the worries of kings.

One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive one.

A thing is important if anyone think it important..

Something may have happened before, and yet this thing that happened just after may be so important that you don't even know about the thing that happened before and when you tell your story to yourself, or to someone else, it's going to be told not on the basis necessarily of the time course, but rather on the basis of how it was valued by you.