Quotes About Meaning

Every work of art tells a story.

When did life start being something you had to work at and not something that just is?

The significance - and ultimately the quality - of the work we do is determined by our understanding of the story in which we are taking part.

There are those who work so they can stop. Stopping is the why of work.There are those who stop so they can work.Working is the why of work.

Unless your message is that you have no message, you need a message.

There is more to life than working for money.

People must be taught that money is not the most important benefit of work.

God is not all that interested in your grammar. He is interested in the meaning of your grammar!

It is better work without being paid to fulfill a divine purpose than to be rich without any fulfillment.

*I'm hustling* is a low self-esteem having man's way of saying *I'm unemployed, * when answering a seemingly materialistic woman's question as to what he does for a living.

Here in L.A., you kind of get stuck in your own little dilemmas and your own little life, and hearing a story like Pocahontas' reminds you there's a bigger world out there, and there are so many more important things in life.

If you look to your past or even your present to see why you are here or what your purpose is, you may get stuck in a limited view of yourself. Instead, look beyond your years here on earth, reconnect with the divine, and bring forth your soul's legacy into the present moment.

For me, the power of the poetry in 'Milk and Honey' is the feeling you get after finished reading the poem. It's the emotion you feel once you've read the last word, and that is only possible when the diction is easy, and you don't get stuck on every other word, you don't know what the word means.

Student journeys which were important to me were Sicily, Greece, and Egypt, where I really saw these buildings, and that is where you're able to grasp what things mean.

When students ask me today, 'What do you think we should learn from this book?' I tell them, 'Whatever you got out of it.'

We all studied math, but we don't go around spewing numbers. Religion should be used in the appropriate way.

When we were trying to come up with a concept for our music video for 'The Stage' we basically run through a lot of different ideas, and ultimately, I sat and studied the lyrics that Matt had written - and they really resonated with me.

The aim of our studies is to prove that color is the most relative means of artistic expression, that we never really perceive what color is physically.

What one does in the studio is to pose a series of problems to oneself. I've got to look for some deeper meaning, for some reason for this thing to be in the world. There's enough stuff in the world.

Semantics, or the study of meaning, remained undeveloped, while phonetics made rapid progress and even came to occupy the central place in the scientific study of language.

As Luke 24 shows, it's possible to read the Bible, study the Bible, and memorize large portions of the Bible, while missing the whole point of the Bible.

For any culture which is primarily concerned with meaning, the study of death - the only certainty that life holds for us - must be central, for an understanding of death is the key to liberation in life.

The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning.

I study history in order to give an interpretation.