Quotes About Significance

The pleasure of one's effect on other people still exists in age - what's called making a hit. But the hit is much rarer and made of different stuff.

I think that one of the things that you do learn is that falling in love and being in love with someone is a rarity. That you don't fall in love as many times as you think you're going to. And then when you do, it's really special; it's really important.

I'm a Sagittarius, born in the year of the rat, all of which is basically meaningless to me.

You can compromise on anything else in your life but love. It's the one time where under no circumstances should you let yourself have second rate.

In my mind, the re-election of Richard Nixon, compared with what was available on the other side, was so much more important that I put it in just that context.

When you've wised up enough, there is a very clear conclusion that you have to reach after a while, which is, at the end of the day, it is really impossible for one person to make a difference.

We've reached a point where people don't even know how to look for anything fundamentally important anymore.

It's not always about reaching the widest audience. It's about how you reach people, and in that sense, there's no difference between a little room in a back basement with ten people if you hit them hard enough, there's a nobility to reaching ten people. They are not irrelevant because they are less than 10,000.

A writer's definitive death is when no one reads his books anymore. That's the final death.

Real happiness comes from discovering a sense of importance in one's actions and in one's life.

I won in Italy, I won at Real Madrid, and I felt important.

To get to play someone who was in some capacity the King of Harlem, that meant something to me. Deep within my bones. I was inspired by the energy that I knew to be a real thing.

The most real thing of all, the only thing any of us wants, is to matter to somebody. To feel and share love, even on a friendship level or as deep as a romantic one. Who doesn't want that?

I started to realise that it wasn't for me. Perhaps I didn't have to give my Hamlet before I died, that the world might be an OK place without my Hamlet, in fact.

London 2012 was the biggest thing I will probably ever do, but I didn't realise it at the time!

When I was playing in England, I started to realise what Arsenal meant.

I used to think I was a big star. And I used to think that the TV industry, Balaji, and my show will not survive without me. But then I realised that you cannot be bigger than your work.

To me, it felt that if I give up my name, I am also sending a message to my children, saying my name was not important enough as your father's; I am not as important as your father. That is a message we are passing down generation after generation without realising.

The realistic value of a work is completely independent of its properties in terms of content.

The universe is within us. We forget that and make up realities for ourselves that we are small and insignificant. Meditation brings us back to our natural state of consciousness.

An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that has been discontinued.

Losing a goal in the last minute? Important, of course it is, but not really in the grand scheme of things.

Donald Trump has a grasp on what's important and what's marginalia.

I am a greedy, selfish bastard. I want the fact that I existed to mean something.