Quotes About Meaningful

From the very beginning, history wasn't content simply to be nostalgic fairytales; it wanted to make you think.

The externals are important but I'm not interested in superficiality.

I'm not interested in disposable music.

I'm not interested in fad songs.

It's very scary to turn things down, but a project has to really mean something to me. I'm not interested in making a lot of money.

I'm not interested in artistic records for the sake of making artistic records where they're so cool no one listens to them.

That's the thing about the blues: It's one thing to hit a note on a guitar. To make it matter is something else altogether.

I'm known for my handwritten notes.

Absolutely, at a macro-level, I want our firm to be a purpose-led firm. This notion of making an impact that matters, I want that embedded in whatever we do.

The best novels are those that are important without being like medicine; they have something to say, are expansive and intelligent but never forget to be entertaining and to have character and emotion at their centre.

It seems to me that it's every man's obligation to make what contribution he can. You live each day as best you can. That, to me, is what makes life interesting.

It's not very hard to be clever. It's far harder to be simple, obvious, and meaningful.

The essential question is not, How busy are you?' but 'What are you busy at?' 'Are you doing what fulfills you?

My approach to living with purpose has always been to create the life I want, one conscious decision at a time.

Don't worry about becoming successful but work toward being significant and the success will naturally follow.

You know, it takes a while to develop a voice. But once you have it, you damn sure better use it on stuff that matters.

There's really only two emotions that count, and that's love and that's fear. And in all of your movements through life, you're either moving in the direction of one or the other. In order to have a meaningful life, you have to choose love.

They offered something that was genuinely good, and people's lives were better because they offered it. It was not a noble cause that would get written up in the histories. But it was not nothing, either. A person could do worse than spend some large percentage of his life in a cause like that. Bean

Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.

Work needed doing, and he could help. What more could anyone ask for?

but I knew from Silicon Valley fundraisers that there was little a tech billionaire found more pleasing than the pretense that his innovations made life more equitable and meaningful.

For God's sake, all of you, say spiteful things about me, then I shall know I mean something to you. Don't say surgaries, or I'm done.

no matter how long you try to follow a meaningful purpose in life, impermanence always cuts it off.

Become meaningful in your interactions and the path to success in any endeavor is simpler and far more sustainable.