Quotes About Significance

The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.

No matter what...ball made my heart beat faster, made me want to jump up and down and be Superman. That's what life was about anyway, being Superman and living like life itself was important. Basketball made my life important.

Between God and the individual soul, however, there are no insignificant moments; this is the mystery of divine providence.

The value of a human being, Nietzsche said, does not lie in his usefulness: for it would continue to exist even if there were nobody to whom he could be useful.

If wealth meant so little on this cold April night, did it mean so much the rest of the year?

Things without people are as dead as the dead. It takes people to make them appear to breathe & live & have quality.

The problem is this: in order to make money- lots of money- we don't need flawless literary masterpieces. What we need is mediocre rubbish, trash suitable for mass consumption. More and more, bigger and bigger blockbusters of less and less significance. What counts is the paper we sell, not the words that are printed on it.

Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning.

God of the universe loves you more than anyone on this planet ever has or ever will.

But not every image is symbolic; not every woman is a goddess.

The meaning of life is to give life a meaning.

If I can't figure out why I'm here, then I'm just taking up space.

SCOOP: Peter, do people like you ever wonder what it's all for? PETER: People like you run the world. You decide what it's all for.

The only important thing in a book is the meaning it has for you. —W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

A little sentence can contain a big story.

If God places a child before you, and you are too busy to wield either a positive or negative influence...you just did the later! You communicated that the child doesn't matter and isn't important.

these days of exotic splendour may stand out in each lifetime like marble mileposts in an alluvial land

?ddial? oldu?u i?i sadece özel hayat?nda gerçekle?tiren ki?i bizde yok hükmündedir, dedi sonra. Bir yetene?i daima ba?ka herkesin de görmesi gerekiyor, yoksa say?lmaz.

Nothing in life is quite as important as you think it is while you are thinking about it.

Any aspect of life to which attention is directed will loom large in a global evaluation. This is the essence of the focusing illusion, which can be described in a single sentence: Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about it.

This is the essence of the focusing illusion, which can be described in a single sentence: Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about it.

chance variation in a small number of early movers" can have major effects in tipping large populations

Uma história é sobre eventos significativos e momentos memoráveis, não sobre a passagem do tempo. A negligência com a duração é normal em uma narrativa, e o fim muitas vezes define seu caráter. [...] É assim que o eu recordativo funciona: ele compõe histórias e as retém para futura referência.

Non si lascia ai margini del proprio cammino un mistero, per quanto insignificante.