Quotes About Meaning

Work hard, work passionately, but apply your most precious asset—time—to what is most meaningful to you.

In the fifty years my parents were married, in the thousands of conversations my dad had with me, it had just never come up. And so there I was, weeks after his death, getting another lesson from him about the meaning of sacrifice—and about the power of humility

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It doesn't matter how well you polish the underside of the banister." You

U redu, možda ovo zvu?i malo uvrnuto. Ali ako vaša kanta za sme?e ili ta?ke imaju kakvu ulupinu, ne?ete kupovati nove. Možda je to zato jer vam kante za sme?e i ta?ke ne služe kao simboli socijalnog statusa i identiteta. Za Jai i mene naši su ošte?eni automobili postali potvrda našeg braka. Ne treba se baš sve popraviti.

Ask yourself: Are you spending your time on the right things?

The giant stuffed animals all found homes quickly. A few days later, I learned that one of the animals had been taken by a Carnegie Mellon who, like me, has cancer. After the lecture, she walked up and selected the giant elephant. I love the symbolism of that. She got the elephant in the room.

Myth is not about whether something is fact or fiction; myth is more about truth. Good myth, according to the old adage, is about something that continues to be true again and again, over time.

O trabalho foi aquilo que o homem achou de melhor para nada fazer da sua vida.

Poetry seldom occurs in poems. Poetry only occurs when words cause action.

All of these things make us feel good when we're successful at them, but lumping them all together as "fun" just renders the word meaningless.

I think anybody who has had a long relationship and has had a really hard time letting go, wants to feel like it's not all for naught, and it's meaningful, because it makes you who you are.

Music is hugely important to me.

Only the living have the privilege of saying they'll fight to the last breath, and words like conviction and resolve don't mean much to a dead man.

There is no greater discovery than seeing God as the author of your destiny.

Yes, if truth is not undergirded by love, it makes the possessor of that truth obnoxious and the truth repulsive.

I remember the time an older man asked me when I was young, "Do you know what you are doing now?" I thought it was some kind of trick question. Tell me," I said. You are building your memories," he replied, "so make them good ones.

The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.

Love is a special word, and I use it only when I mean it. You say the word too much and it becomes cheap.

Take death for example. A great deal of our effort goes into avoiding it. We make extraordinary efforts to delay it, and often consider its intrusion a tragic event. Yet we'd find it hard to live without it. Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.

Fredkin believes that the universe is very literally a computer and that it is being used by someone, or something, to solve a problem. It sounds like a good-news/bad-news joke: the good news is that our lives have purpose; the bad news is that their purpose is to help some remote hacker estimate pi to nine jillion decimal places.

Entonces ¿qué es la Singularidad? Es un tiempo venidero en el que el ritmo del cambio tecnológico será tan rápido y su repercusión tan profunda que la vida humana se verá transformada de forma irreversible. Aunque ni utópica ni distópica, esta era transformará los conceptos de los que dependemos a la hora de dar significado a nuestras vidas, ya sea en lo que se refiere a modelos de negocios o al ciclo de la vida (incluyendo la muerte).

Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.

Wittgenstein dislikes all ornamentation that is not part of the construction, and never find anything simple enough.