Quotes About Significance

I really believe that whoever is doing something with a strong passion is very much important to me. I love people like that.

Small things sometimes mean a whole lot!

The reason I made my stage name Kali Uchis is because it's still me in the sense that, my dad called me 'Kali Uchis' my whole life. It's still something I've been called since I was a baby. It's still me.

People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.

For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great.

Personally, I believe that playing the lead antagonist is always better than a character artiste, whose weightage isn't much.

Why do you speak to me of the stones? It is only the arch that matters to me.

Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence.

The history of art is not just the history of artists; it is also the history of the people who viewed art. And that wider perspective can help us see some of the reasons why the art of the ancient world should still matter to us.

The cost to Tata of purchasing Land Rover and Jaguar may have been small, but its wider symbolic significance is enormous.

Our particular problem in America at this point in history is the widespread loss of the sense of individual significance, a loss which is sensed inwardly as impotence.

If you're married, and you have a wife, and you really love your wife, is it good enough to only say to your wife 'I love her' the day you get married? Or should you tell her every single day when you wake up and every opportunity? And that's how I feel about my relationship with Jesus Christ is that it is the most important thing in my life.

My family is everything for me, they're so important - my wife and my son.

It would mean a lot, but it's weird, because what's the title? It's an extra line on your Wikipedia page and a medal that says you won on that particular night. It obviously symbolizes more than that, but those are the things people think about.

Success has never gone to my head. Profession is important, no doubt, but it can't be of greater significance than your family. My priority is to be happy for as long as I live. Fame and money are after all, temporary.

One of my lifelong hobbies has been to collect 'aptronyms' - the newspaper columnist Franklin P. Adams's term for people whose names were curiously appropriate to, or provided ironic comment on, their occupations.

It was Nietzsche who first made us conscious of the significance of the individual as a term in the evolutionary process-in that part of the evolutionary process which has still to take place.

Big Data is just that - big. But, it's a term that is largely misunderstood and difficult to explain.

Terrible and sublime thought, that every moment is supreme for some man and woman, every hour the apotheosis of some passion!

I believe that the arts of a culture are terribly important and yet almost indefensible.

The IMPAC is a terribly important award.

I don't know if anyone necessarily looks at themselves and what they do as being terribly significant one way or another.

More than ever, I am convinced that history has meaning - and that its meaning is terrifying.

Afghanistan is where much of the al Qaeda journey began. It is the main site where Osama bin Laden, Mullah Omar and their cohort rose to prominence fighting the Soviets in the 1980s. Afghan territory holds special significance to the group, which is committed to retaking it and re-establishing it as the base of a global movement.