Quotes About Significance

If you can't understand the spec for a new technology, don't worry: nobody else will understand it either, and the technology won't be that important.

An idea isn't worth that much. It's the execution of the idea that has value. If you can't convince one other person that this is something to devote your life to, then it's not worth it.

Little things matter far more than big ones. We remember them longer. We can't control the big things. If you think about what's happened in the past, it will be the small moments that come to the forefront, not the big transitions. The big things were just history. The small moments are yours. The books those monks printed are still preserved centuries after they were gone. Little things matter.

I know who I am, my lady, and what matters and what doesn't. I want to be with you. That's one of the real things that matter. That's worth everything else.

History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.

All play means something.

goes back to the design of the brain…. It's designed to pay attention to the stuff that matters to you.

Dr. James Williams—who works on the philosophy and ethics of technology at Oxford University—he told me: "If we want to do what matters in any domain—any context in life—we have to be able to give attention to the right things…. If we can't do that, it's really hard to do anything.

I had to read through these files several times before I realized the significance of this accusation. At the start of the drug war, the man who launched the drug crackdown in California did it because he was paid to—by the drug dealers themselves. They wanted the drug war. They wanted it so badly, they would pay to speed it up.

Primera causa: desconexión de un trabajo con sentido

Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exists for his sake

Every situation, every moment -- is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.

Every second is of infinite value.

Every situation--nay, every moment--is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.

Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.

We can accept the unpleasant more readily than we can the inconsequential.

A man's name is not like a mantle which merely hangs about him, and which one perchance may safely twitch and pull, but a perfectly fitting garment, which, like the skin, has grown over and over him, at which one cannot rake and scrape without injuring the man himself.

Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length.

I think space exploration is very important. I think there is very intelligent life on Mars. I believe that Martians are spying on us from the bottom of the ocean.

The life in which nothing happens goes the fastest, because it has no landmarks.

I'm of Nigerian descent, from the Yoruba tribe. Names are very significant in that culture. It basically states your purpose in life.

What is significant in one's own existence one is hardly aware, and it certainly should not bother the other fellow. What does a fish know about the water in which he swims all his life?

Life is not dated merely by years. Events are sometimes the best calendars.