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Quotes About Consequential

A story is a narrative of consequential events involving worthy human characters who change as a result of those events. THE
~ James N. Frey
So much are our minds influenced by the accidents of our bodies, that every man is more the man of the day than a regular and consequential character.
~ Lord Chesterfield
Tellingly, Ralf has revealed himself as an Internet sceptic. One suspects he thinks the World Wide Web has made things too easy for people, certainly too easy to 'pollute' the world with the meaningless and the inconsequential. 'I am not a fan of the Internet, I think it's overrated. Intelligent information is still intelligent information and an overflow of nonsense does not really help. In Germany it's called Datenmüll: data rubbish.
~ David Buckley
In my youth, before I had made any of my most consequential choices—and isn't that what we always mean by in my youth?
~ Kathleen Rooney
The downside was that hospital staff took the first big blasts of secondary infection; the upside was that those blasts generally weren't emitted by people still feeling healthy enough to ride a bus or a subway to work. This was an enormously consequential factor in the SARS episode—
~ David Quammen
If the history of the western moral imagination is the story of an enduring and unending revolt against human cruelty, there are few more consequential figures than Raphael Lemkin - and few whose achievements have been more ignored by the general public. It was he who coined the word 'genocide.' He was also its victim.
~ Michael Ignatieff
The presidency of the United States is a very unique elected position. So if anything merits a longer vetting process, the presidency does to some extent. In general our election cycles are too long, but this job is so consequential that I don't think it's a bad thing to give people more time to get to know you.
~ John Delaney
Now having the honor of working for him, it is abundantly clear that President Trump is the most consequential leader of our time.
~ Scott Pruitt
When the task is mocking pop culture, it's easy to make sarcastic comments and consider the job done. After a while, I began to feel like this route was completely pointless. Talking about silly, inconsequential stuff doesn't mean you can't put some effort into it.
~ Paul F. Tompkins
That's a tiny inconsequential risk compared to what could be gained.
~ Jenny Han
So it is that once a person has settled on the question as to what is wrong, the choice of cures is limited. You do not prescribe surgery for a minor cut, nor do you put a Band-Aid on cancer. The question of the human condition is, I believe, the most fundamental and consequential question of all.
~ Eugene L. Lowry
My dad likes to tease me over this. We weren't there at Fenway, and it wasn't a consequential game, but Trot Nixon let a ball go through his legs, and from that moment on, I hated Trot Nixon. Really irrational. Based in nothing. But did not like him.
~ Katie Nolan
When things are done right, be emotional. When things are done poorly, be nonemotional, matter-of-fact, and consequential.
~ Jim Fay
Very early in his career, he went after the single biggest and most consequential question in business: Why are some companies more profitable than others? One big question led to another.
~ Joan Magretta
That attitude that fighting is probably not fair, but you have to defend yourself anyway and damage the enemy, has been profoundly consequential as far as my political activism goes.
~ June Jordan
I think that the public debate that we had on the Iran deal was very important. That's probably one of the most consequential things most of us will ever vote on ; a nuclear arms control agreement with a mortal enemy. And the White House - despite all their efforts - failed miserably.
~ Tom Cotton
For that reason, historian Clinton Rossiter insisted that Hamilton's "works and words have been more consequential than those of any other American in shaping the Constitution under which we live.
~ Ron Chernow
We cannot tell when Rockefeller first felt shame about his father, but this emotion was so consequential for his entire development that we must pause briefly to consider it.
~ Ron Chernow
The war's psychological impact was equally consequential as it afforded opportunities for commercial gain on a scale never seen before.
~ Ron Chernow
What makes Flagler's ethics consequential for Rockefeller's career was that he was the mastermind of many negotiations with the railroads—the single most controversial aspect of Standard Oil history.
~ Ron Chernow
Too often, if you look back through the history of representation and you take the work of African-American artists, the work is on such a modest scale that it becomes sort of inconsequential.
~ Kerry James Marshall
In the end, life can be seen to be inconsequential, in the way that nothing matters on some vast evolutionary scale. But everything matters, and we know that most when life seems most horrific, when at each instant of time, all the space around us is everything there is.
~ Luke Davies
In retirement, only money and symptoms are consequential.
~ Mason Cooley
Among the many paradoxes of human life, this is perhaps the most peculiar and consequential: We often behave in ways that are guaranteed to make us unhappy.
~ Sam Harris