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Quotes About Significance

I was as lost as she - and far less significant. I had gleaned all that my gifts offered, and had now no occupation other than to nurture my dismay.
~ Stephen R. Donaldson
He'd read once that the measure of an idea was how relative it was not only to its time, but beyond. His
~ Steve Berry
To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit." "We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special." -Steven Hawking
~ Steven Hawking
We feel surprise when travelers tell us of the vast dimensions of the Pyramids and other great ruins, but how utterly insignificant are the greatest of these, when compared to these mountains of stone accumulated by the agency of various minute and tender animals. This is a wonder which does not at first strike the eye of the body, but, after reflection, the eye of reason.
~ Steven Johnson
Emoticons as a new class of oversignifying precision grammar.
~ Steven Kotler
The first step toward wisdom is the realization that the laws of the universe don't care about you. The next is the realization that this does not imply that life is meaningless, because people care about you, and vice versa.
~ Steven Pinker
the major distinction between the indefinite article, a, and the definite article, the.6 When a character makes his first appearance on stage, he is introduced with a. When we are subsequently told about him, we already know who he is, and he is mentioned with the:
~ Steven Pinker
They write as if they have something important to show.
~ Steven Pinker
Every statistics student is warned that "statistical significance" is a technical concept that should not be confused with "significance" in the vernacular sense of noteworthy or consequential.
~ Steven Pinker
Naming a child is the only opportunity that most people get to anoint an entity in the world with a word of their choosing.
~ Steven Pinker
We are not loved because we are valued; we are valued because we are loved.
~ William Sloane Coffin
Every life, every love, every action and feeling and thought has its reason and significance: its beginning, and the part it plays in the end. Sometimes, we do see.
~ Gregory David Roberts
Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.
~ Boris Pasternak
The things that seem insignificant to most people such as a note, song or walk become invaluable treasures kept safe in your heart to cherish forever.
~ Bob Marley
He didn't love me because I'm valuable. Because He loved me, I became valuable.
~ R. C. Sproul, Jr.
Thats what I love about serving God. In His eyes, there are no little people...because there are no big people. We are all on the same playing field
~ Joni Eareckson Tada
Don't undervalue yourself. God loves you. Your worth is what you are worth to God. Jesus died for you. You are of infinite value.
~ Nicky Gumbel
All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich without us here.
~ Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care
Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.
~ Teresa of Avila
When you're in love you're living, you matter.
~ Rita Hayworth
I think that love is just as important and prevalent and real as it ever was.
~ Andrew VanWyngarden
Of all that Heaven produces and nourishes, there is none so great as man.
~ Confucius
The question is not: How many people take you seriously? How much are you going to accomplish? Can you show some results? but: Are you in love with Jesus?
~ Henri Nouwen
Love was just a word to me. Until you came along and gave it meaning.
~ James Earl Jones