Quotes About Significant

Our party was built upon the beliefs of President Abraham Lincoln, who took the significant step to put us on the long path for equality.

You show people playing poker or hacking into a computer; it feels so significant in the script, and then when you see it on the screen, it loses something. But there's something about cooking - food being prepared is incredibly captivating. It became just a fun box of tools to use as a director.

I try to always bring topics to the table that matter, topics that I think need to be discussed and reflected on.

IQ and success are related...to a point. Sure, someone with an IQ of 150 (a "genius" by all normal standards) is going to do much better in life than someone with an IQ of 80 (nearly "mentally disabled"). Similarly, a person with an IQ of 130 ("near genius") has a significant upper hand in life when compared to a person with an IQ of 100 ("average").

Great moment, unforgettable memory.

Sometimes... the smallest drops in the bucket make the biggest ripples.

Intelligence alone can't make a good writer and style alone can't make a good writer - that is, not a really important or significant writer - but the two things together make a really good writer.

Pero había ciertos momentos a lo largo de la vida que definían a una persona para siempre... al menos ante sus propios ojos.

Los acontecimientos que influyen decisivamente en nuestros destinos a menudo tienen su origen en sucesos triviales

Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.

Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things… I am tempted to think… there are no little things.

as soon as the germ theory was developed, a whole new paradigm, a better, improved way of understanding what was happening, made dramatic, significant medical improvement possible.

Buckminster Fuller said don't try to change human behavior. It's s a waste of time. Evolution doesn't mess around; the patterns are too deep. Fuller said go after the tools. Better tools lead to better people. Arctic doesn't develop products. We may cultivate them, occasionally, in our own particular way, but our business is change. Significant change.

In this new era of social media the rules of the road have changed significantly, yet the basic yearning for true connectivity and love have not.

If one keeps loving faithfully what is really worth loving, and does not waste one's love on insignificant and unworthy and meaningless things, one will get more light by and by and grow stronger.

Regardless of its hypothetical virtues, however, the implementation of Marxism was a disaster everywhere it was attempted—and that has motivated attempts by its unrepentant would-be present-day adherents to clothe its ideas in new garb and continue forward, as if nothing of significance has changed.

I have learned that these old stories contain nothing superfluous. Anything accidental—anything that does not serve the plot—has long been forgotten in the telling. As the Russian playwright Anton Chekhov advised, "If there is a rifle hanging on the wall in act one, it must be fired in the next act. Otherwise it has no business being there.

Use power words, like "dramatically," "explosive," "fastest growing," "most well respected." Power words go a very long way to capturing someone's attention and establishing yourself as an expert.

Silence is sometimes more significant and sublime than the most noble and most expressive eloquence, and is on many occasions the indication of a great mind.

Ich will damit sagen, daß man, wenn man genau achtgeben würde, unbedingt zu dem Resultat kommen müßte, daß alle sogenannten großen, historischen Ereignisse in Wahrheit zurückzuführen sind auf irgendein Moment im Privatleben ihrer Urheber oder auf mehrere Momente.

Man is not like other animals in the ways that are really significant: animals have instincts, we have taxes.

what seems more important are the private independent acts that become more necessary every day:

She made life… big for me

I am looking at characters that will stay with people, that they will remember. Characters that are relevant.