Quotes About Meaning

Unable to explore setting, conflict, characters or themes in their fiction, the mainstreamers wrote more and more eloquently about nothing at all.

1) collect things that command our attention; (2) process what they mean and what to do about them; and (3) organize the results, which we (4) review as options for what we choose to (5) do.

there are five discrete stages that we go through as we deal with our work. We (1) collect things that command our attention; (2) process what they mean and what to do about them; and (3) organize the results, which we (4) review as options for what we choose to (5) do.

Lo que importa no es lo que tenemos en la vida, sino a quién tenemos en la vida. —J. M. LAURENCE

We (1) capture what has our attention; (2) clarify what each item means and what to do about it; (3) organize the results, which presents the options we (4) reflect on, which we then choose to (5) engage with.

you can decide what, specifically, something means to you and what you intend to do about it, if anything; if you can use a placeholder as a reminder of what you need to attend to;

Being organized means nothing more or less than where something is matches what it means to you.

Purpose defines success.

1) capture what has our attention; (2) clarify what each item means and what to do about it; (3) organize the results, which presents the options we (4) reflect on, which we then choose to (5) engage with.

If you're not sure why you're doing something, you can never do enough of it.

The letters make words and words make us.

She glanced around at the tombstones. "You're surrounded by death here. Way too depressing. You really might want to think about getting another job." "You see death and sadness in these sunken patches of dirt, I see lives lived fully and the good deeds of past generations influencing the future ones.

But the fact is, as one grows close to death, the only thing that matters is family. I hope you can see that.

Find something to believe in, Carter, other than your work. Because when you leave this life, you leave work behind. If that's all you have, then you have nothing. And eternity is a long time for nothing.

Persons seeking to find scholarship herein will be sued; persons motivated to discover meaning will be exiled; persons seeking to find an allegory will be summarily ordained.

It only matters, Devine, to you. But I would say this: Life is a long enough journey without having only negative motivations to get your ass out of bed every day. What I'm offering you is, once again, something

entirely clear over the screams of the crowds. The

That's about what most of us will get, thought Decker. And then we just live on in memories and fading pictures set on tables and hung on walls.

Maybe that was the real reason why the place was called the White House, thought Robie.

That was the thing about life. You actually had to spend time living it. Or else what the hell did any of it really matter?

Persons seeking to find scholarship herein will be sued; persons motivated to discover meaning will be exiled; persons hoping to unearth an allegory will be summarily ordained." — The Author

Everything should collect something...it just made you feel more alive and connected to the world.

Being alive and living were also two distinct things

Then the question becomes what do we