Relative Significance Quotes

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

I think there are a lot more important things than art in the world. But not to me.

I have always maintained the importance of Aunts

We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.

There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view.

We do not see and estimate the relative importance of objects so easily and clearly from the level or the waving land as from the elevation of a lone peak, towering above the plain; for each looks through his own mist.

Just because Pluto or comets aren't as big as Jupiter doesn't mean they are not scientifically important - indeed, just the reverse is often true. Sometimes, great things come in small packages.

It irritates me that everybody concentrates on Gawker, because it's just one of 15 sites and it doesn't even get the most traffic. It's a significant site, but it's not what we are.

The rock, for its part, is not even aware of our existence because we are alive for only a brief instant of its lifespan. To it, we are like flashes in the dark.

The classification of facts, the recognition of their sequence and relative significance is the function of science, and the habit of forming a judgment upon these facts unbiassed by personal feeling is characteristic of what may be termed the scientific frame of mind.

Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.

Size doesn't mean anything - not all the time.

The story is more important to me than the part.

Don't forget that some things count more than other things.

What may appear as a towering peak to one may seem but an ordinary eminence to another.

I would guess that the price of the script really is secondary. The credit is much more the essence.

A thing is important if anyone think it important..

A single year's performance is of minor importance and, good or bad, should never be taken seriously.

I'm surprised that people think they're important. To me they're not.

A true delineation of the smallest man is capable of interesting the greatest man.

One's fetishes are fascinating, but not because of their beauty or significance. The same could be said for one's genitals, or one's children.

I think it's an individual thing. Your mountains are my molehills.

The truly monumental can only come about by means of the most exact and refined relation between parts. Since each thing carries both a meaning of its own and an associated meaning in relation to something else - its essential value is relative. We speak of the mood we experience when looking at a landscape. This mood results from the relation of certain things rather than from their separate actualities. This is because objects do not in themselves possess the total effect they give when interrelated.

Anything is respectable in its own realm.

Birds know themselves not to be at the center of anything, but at the margins of everything. The end of the map. We only live where someone's horizon sweeps someone else's. We are only noticed on the edge of things; but on the edge of things, we notice much.