Quotes About Meaningful

single largest motivator was making progress in meaningful work.

We know—if we've spent time with young children or remember ourselves at our best—that we're not destined to be passive and compliant. We're designed to be active and engaged. And we know that the richest experiences in our lives aren't when we're clamoring for validation from others, but when we're listening to our own voice—doing something that matters, doing it well, and doing it in the service of a cause larger than ourselves.

Design—that is, utility enhanced by significance—has become an essential aptitude for personal fulfillment and professional success

Choose things in your life that will endure, that are a pleasure to use. Classic clothes never go out of style. Furniture should get better with age. Choose things because they delight you, not because they impress others. And never let things be more important than your family, friends, and your own spirit.

Harvard professor Teresa Amabile concurs. After examining 12,000 daily diary entries by several hundred workers, she found that the single largest motivator was making progress in meaningful work.16 Wins needn't be large to be meaningful. When you enter a new role, set up small "high-probability" targets and celebrate when you hit them.

But at the same time, they are opportunities—even gifts—because a survive moment is also a thrive moment, where the important, meaningful work of parenting takes place.

You're probably not going to enjoy discipline, or look forward to future meltdowns. But when you realize that these "misbehavior moments" aren't just miserable experiences to endure, but actually opportunities for knowledge and growth, you can reframe the whole experience and recognize it as a chance to build the brain and create something meaningful and significant in your child's life.

In your effort to impose your own vision and desires on the world around you, you find that you won't, or possibly even can't, compromise or negotiate in any meaningful way.

A story is about significant events and memorable moments, not about time passing.

Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but I think viewers are hungry for shows in which people say something meaningful.

When I found out that I'm playing Nagini, I thought it was meaningful because it's an important character in the 'Harry Potter' series. 'Harry Potter' is a franchise film with many Caucasian actors, so I thought many Korean viewers would be happy.

Some people are making music just for numbers and views.

To be honest, we donate to projects that we think are meaningful. How society views it or how we are viewed by history, well, we'll let them decide. How others view us is out of our control.

Even if I am just sleeping with her or just watching cartoons in bed, I know Violet values that. I try to make the most of every moment and just make it special with her, because its what matters to me most.

It can be easy to want to host everyone at once, but when it comes to virtual dinner parties - the smaller the group the better.

We believe that we can use interactivity to create meaningful games. Games with emotions and virtual actors telling you something. Resonating with you as a human being, giving you food for thought. We don't need to deliver messages or whatever, just need to create a moment in time that will leave an imprint in your mind.

I think virtually everyone wants to do good and be good and be decent to each other and pursue something that is valuable to them and meaningful.

I have this vision of maybe going the way of Bill Kurtis and, I think, Tom Brokaw, to a certain extent - the ability to not be tied to the desk anymore, but to do projects that are meaningful to you.

Synchronicity. That's Jung, right?" "A series of meaningful coincidences. You're a size fourteen. My jersey number is a fourteen. It's gotta mean something.

Do not let yourself be bothered by the inconsequential. One has only so much time in this world, so devote it to the work and the people most important to you, to those you love and things that matter. One can waste half a lifetime with people one doesn't really like, or doing things when one would be better off somewhere else.

O círculo em que podemos ter comunicações reais com outros seres é muito estreito: não se deve buscar ampliá-lo indefinidamente. Aqui só a qualidade importa. Numa comunicação real com um único ser, já estão contidas as relações de todos os homens entre si.

Well, if I can't be happy, I can be useful, perhaps.

very rich indeed, rich in the things that matter. In friendships and laughter, in kindness and company.

I shall maintain that critique only becomes meaningful with respect to the order that it puts in crisis, but also, reciprocally, that the systems which ensure something like the preservation of an order only become fully meaningful when one realizes that they are based on the constant threat, albeit unequally depending on epochs and societies, represented by the possibility of critique.