Unimportance Quotes (7 quotes)

“There is power born of humility . . . Humility, in business and in life, is a powerful asset and does not denote lowliness, unimportance, or self-deprecation.”
― Richie Norton, The Power of Starting Something Stupid: How to Crush Fear, Make Dreams Happen, and Live without Regret

tags: asset, business, humility, life, lowliness, power, powerful, self-deprecation, unimportance

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“But then comes a time when forgetting isn't possible. And I do mean a particular time when no amount of dreaming, not then and maybe not ever, can change how naked and unimportant we become in our own eyes.”
― Stig Dagerman

tags: change, dreaming, forgetting, memory, remembering, self-respect, self-worth, time, unimportance, value

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“In reality most human beings are not, to most human beings, more important than money.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children

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“History is the nothing people write about a nothing.”
― William Golding, Darkness Visible

tags: history, importance, meaning, meaninglessness, nothing, nothingness, people, unimportance

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“One of the most dangerous of literary ventures is the little, shy, unimportant heroine whom none of the other characters value. The danger is that your readers may agree with the other characters.”
― C.S. Lewis, Selected Literary Essays

tags: characters, heroine, importance, readers, shyness, unimportance, value

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“May the Gods all preserve for me (until my present form ceases) this clear and sunlit view of external reality, the instinctive awareness of my unimportance, the cosiness of being small, and the solace of being able to imagine myself happy.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

tags: coziness, happiness, perspective, reality, unimportance

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“There is not necessarily a correlation between how much time or effort a thing demands and how important or useful it is.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: effort, importance, important, time, unimportance, unimportant, useful, useless, utility, waste-of-time

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