Quotes About Meaning

Something my mom and I have always said to each other is: 'We're not here for interviews. We're not here to get your picture taken. We're here to make a difference, and this is our opportunity to.'

I think the things that are most intimate are nameless and shapeless.

When there are tiers of meaning in an ad it intrigues the audience and they look for it again and again.

I don't think anyone flies into space without some form of fundamental introspection about what life is about.

I've tried to educate myself in the world and what's beautiful and what has meaning and is lasting. Then I just follow my intuition and see how it fits.

Art is freedom. If we don't have that element, we don't feel human anymore. Art is not decoration or a function. Before all that, art is art. This connection to meaning - our inner, intuitive knowledge - is something.

If I was asked to say what was the greatest invention of human beings, I would say the sentence.

I enjoy the inventive ways in which language is manipulated to make meaning.

It's nice to see people invest in what you do as an artist and sing the songs back at you and feel something. You get to feel something more than what you were feeling when you made the record.

If I'm not invested emotionally, the artwork doesn't feel emotional.

I'm constantly investigating nature - nature, meaning everything.

I really love that idea of the essay as an investigation. That's all anyone's life is.

I think that survivorship bias, the survivorship bias is something I'm very acutely familiar with because of investing.

Those people who think they know the Gospel, and it doesn't have any meaning for them, they're the people we have to find a way to touch, to invite once again to the embrace of Christ.

I don't consciously start writing a play that involves issues. After it's done, I sit back like everyone else and think about what it means.

There's a level at which, if you take poetry seriously, the focus it involves... that never goes away.

The goal of art is to inspire people to look inward.

Certainly, when I'd left Iraq back in 2008, I'd been proud of my service, but whether we'd been successful or not was still an open question.

Yancy is actually a Native-American name, but I'm Irish. Go figure.

I think just loving people around you and looking after the people you love is what living is about and age is irrelevant.

When you lose work, the meaning and purpose of life are taken away from you, and isolation can set in.

People misinterpret my lyrics sometimes too, but I mean, it is what it is.

The importance of first-week sales has kind of diminished, in our opinion, in the industry, and we don't really know what it really means anymore. It is what it is in the industry. And for us, it's all about the endgame, not where it begins.

I think it's important to wear clothing that means something to you, and so I always try to make sure I'm wearing at least one item that has a personal meaning to me.