Quotes About Significant

You have to be doing things that matter - responsibility, but also responsibility with epic and beautiful and noble tasks.

The Joint Committee on Taxation estimated that in 2016, the corporate income tax raised $300 billion in revenue, while what it called 'targeted subsidies' cost about $270 billion. In other words, Congress could eliminate the subsidies and cut the corporate rate nearly in half without any significant loss in revenue.

Architecture represents the significant design decisions that shape a system, where significant is measured by cost of change. —Grady Booch

First, let's consider the notion that using services, by their nature, is an architecture. This is patently untrue. The architecture of a system is defined by boundaries that separate high-level policy from low-level detail and follow the Dependency Rule. Services that simply separate application behaviors are little more than expensive function calls, and are not necessarily architecturally significant.

As useful as services are to the scalability and develop-ability of a system, they are not, in and of themselves, architecturally significant elements. The architecture of a system is defined by the boundaries drawn within that system, and by the dependencies that cross those boundaries.

A simple violation of substitutability, can cause a system's architecture to be polluted with a significant amount of extra mechanisms.

Someone had to record this. He couldn't spend the entire time worrying about her. So, he searched his mind for the right words to describe what he was seeing. He set aside words like "epic" and "momentous." They were nearly worn out with overuse.

This is no common day, Mrs. Dr. dear, she said solemnly. Oh, Susan, there is no such thing as a common day. EVERY day has something about it no other day has. Haven't you noticed?

That things were mysterious did not make them less valuable.

Nothing that works is silly.

There is no significant man-made Global Warming underway and the science on which the computer projections of weather chaos are based is badly flawed.

.theres much more important things..

Change is impossible until senior business executives realize that software problems are not technical issues, but are significant business issues.

And yet rereading a book can often be a more significant, dramatic, and, yes, new experience than encountering an unfamiliar work.

Mourning is essential to uncoupling, as it is to any significant leavetaking. Uncoupling is a transition into a different lifestyle, a change of life course which, whether we recognize and admit it in the early phases or not, is going to be made without the other person. We commit ourselves to relationships expecting them to last, however. In leaving behind a significant person who shares a portion of our life, we experience a loss.

Much of life appears mundane at the time. Yet in God's providence every moment includes significant details arranged by His divine hand.

It's easy being outrageous. Much harder to offer real meaning.

[In Bali] life is a rhythmic, patterned unreality of pleasant, significant movement, centered in one's own body to which all emotions long ago withdrew.

If you want to be immortal live a life worth remembering

I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between.

There's some things in life that you really consider to be priceless.

You are wanted. You are necessary. You are loved

My dad used to say that with everything in life, there's the game-changing moment. The one moment everything else hinges upon, but you hardly ever know it at the time. The three-pointer early on in the second quarter that changes up the whole temp of the game. Wakes people up, brings them back to life. It all goes back to that one moment.

Tú no eres la primera —dice Peter—. Pero eres la más especial para mí, porque eres la chica que amo, Lara Jean.