Quotes About Meaningful

Nina, before you i never spent the night with women. I had sex and left. I didn't bring them here. They served a purpose and it was a body-to-body thing. You are everything. Body, soul, heart to my body, soul and heart. You're it. We're it.

When Pearl asked what his parents did all day, Moody had shrugged. "You know. They go to work." Work! When her mother said it, it reeked of drudgery: waiting tables, washing dishes, cleaning floors. But for the Richardsons, it seemed noble: they did important things.

Quando Pearl gli chiese cosa facessero i genitori tutto il giorno, Moody si strinse nelle spalle. «Be', vanno a lavorare». A lavorare! Quando lo diceva sua madre suonava come una sfacchinata: servire ai tavoli, lavare i piatti, pulire i pavimenti. Dai Richardson quella parola aveva un che di nobile: facevano cose importanti.

I do not have many things that are meaningful to me. Except my doubts and my fears. And my art.

My bar for being successful is being able to do movies that really mean something to me and being able to make a living off of that.

we better be living the life we want to live and not wasting our numbered days on what doesn't matter.

The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don't mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well.

Before I go," he said, and paused -- "I may kiss her?" It was remembered afterwards that when he bent down and touched her face with his lips, he murmured some words. The child, who was nearest to him, told them afterwards, and told her grandchildren when she was a handsome old lady, that she heard him say, "A life you love.

But be careful: Measures are only beneficial if they lead to profitable action. It is tempting to measure things simply because they are easy to measure; instead, we need to measure things that matter, even when it is difficult to do so. "Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts,"4 Einstein observed.

If we create networks with the sole intention of getting something, we won't succeed. We can't pursue the benefits of networks; the benefits ensue from investments in meaningful activities and relationships.

What we are trying to do may be just a drop in the ocean, but the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

Entertainment is all right, but entertainment with an idea behind it is much more important.

our generation hasn't made any meaningful contribution to the field. We have promoted atheism, displayed agnosticism (which amounts to an ambiguous shoulder shrug), or, in most cases, been eerily silent.

When it comes to books and friends, it is best to have only a few but all good ones.

Shifting the frame only slightly, the choice of a theory from among the range of always ideologically founded theories is itself necessarily ideologically motivated. Positioning is unavoidable; positioning is the result of choice from among a range of possibilities; that choice is socially meaningful - it is ideological.

It is the encounters with people that make life worth living.

When you didn't say a lot, he thought, you said the important things.

The first good reason to write a book is to add value to people's lives.

One of the lovely joys of growing old was to add to this list of trivial things one didn't care about, so that one had more time to care for things that were not trivial.

I don't want just words. If that's all you have for me, I'm sorry I'm so much better than words.

I don't want just words. If that's all you have for me, I'm sorry I'm so much better than words.

I want to die living. And I want to be remembered as one who lived with purpose, joy and feeling. So don't waste any of your seconds, don't throw even one of your moments away." Live each day with thankful heart.

I don't want just words. If that's all you have for me, I'm sorry I'm so much better than words." Bye.

It's the small things that count. What we do for love: those things endure. Even if the people you do them for don't appreciate it.