Quotes About Significance

And so, like many others, their honeymoon was a failure; yet they would not admit this to themselves, and they did not realize the significance of the failure until long afterward.

pag.36 You must remeber what you are and what you have chosen to become, and the significance of what you are doing. There are wars and defeats and victories of the human race that are not military and that are not recorded in the annals of history. Remeber that while tou're trying to decide what to do.

You must remember what you are and what you have chosen to become, and the significance of what you are doing. There are wars and defeats and victories of the human race that are not military and that are not recorded in the annals of history. Remember that while you're trying to decide what to do.

Stoner tells of the conflicts, defeats and victories of the human race that pass unrecorded by history, and reclaims the significance of an individual life.

I like to spend time in the past, with the things that have been important to me.

To symbolize is to express time consciousness, for the symbol embodies the structure of time

Learning endures when an experience is meaningful.

Past and future to him were the realities; the present dull, meaningless, only significant if, as now, going back along the sands, he could say to himself: 'Later on, I shall remember.

Yes, I'm his mother. We come in at the beginning and the end. The rest of the time they're too grand for us.

How passionately she longed to be important to somebody again - not important on platforms, not important as an asset in an organisation, but privately important, just to one other person, quite privately, nobody else to know or notice. It didn't seem much to ask in a world so crowded with people, just to have one of them, only one out of all the millions to oneself. Somebody who needed one, who thought of one, who was eager to come to one - oh, oh how dreadfully one wanted to be precious.

I love the story of a thing. I love a thing for what it means a thousand times more than for what it's worth.

She was never so petty. She did not dabble with minnows at the surface when there were thirty-pound salmon swimming deeper down.

Cognition and emotion are both critical parts of normal functioning. As neatly summarized by Dr. Robert Sylwester (whose interview can be found at the end of this chapter): "Emotion is the system that tells us how important something is. Attention focuses us on the important and away from the unimportant things. Cognition tells us what to do about it. Cognitive skills are whatever it takes to do those things.

O that you would realize that each moment is golden.

A wise purpose underlay every act of Christ's life on earth. Everything He did was important in itself and in its teaching.

Only in eternity can we rightly estimate the loss of a single soul.

in a society concerned primarily with process, the notion of deviance might have much less, if any, significance.

Memory, in my opinion, is a complete noodle. It hangs on the silliest things but forgets the stuff that really matters.

Why does naming a thing give it so much power?

And ceilings - ceilings! - that had been invisible, up there, of no account, suddenly insisting upon their supreme and deadly importance.

My name is Mike. Instantly forgettable. Unlike Heather. What a breathless little name that is.

In one brief swoop through space from grass-grown clifftop to gray rock in blackened water she achieved the significance that passes for immortality in the modern world of news.

She is not a toy, Mr. Towns, she is an airplane.

What else is life from the time you were born but a struggle to matter, at least to someone?