Quotes About Significance

Por definición, nuestros patrones habituales de acción solo bastan para cosas y situaciones de determinada significación: solo sabemos como actuar en presencia de lo que nos es familiar. La aparición de lo inesperado nos saca de la complacencia inconsciente, axiomática, y nos obliga (dolorosamente) a pensar.

To have others attend to what you find important or interesting is to validate, first, the importance of what you are attending to, but second, and more crucially, to validate you as a respected center of conscious experience and contributor to the collective world.

But the significance test that scientists use doesn't measure importance.

Cualquiera conoce el valor de un segundo cuando están contados hasta la hora de la muerte

Salvar a una niña no era como salvar el mundo?

I think 'Tattoo''s a song that can go so many different ways. Some people think of it as a break-up song, but, for me, it's about somebody who comes into your life and really touches you - be they a friend, a family member or someone you're in a relationship with.

del puerto de Ticomán tomar la lancha que va a la Playa de la Media Luna (hotel Aurora)». No imaginé el significado que iba a tener para mí este apunte.

Ayudar a que la persona encuentre ese libro que le habla, y que tiene significado especial para ella, debe de ser maravilloso.

How absurd life becomes with someone else: everything is interpreted; even the most trivial thing is imbued with symbolic value.

porque la vida sin ternura no vale nada.

La Vida sin ternura no vale la gran cosa

Por qué no tendemos al hombre sin ideales sobre nuestra mesa de autopsias, hasta saber qué es, cómo es, qué hace, qué piensa, para qué sirve?

For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great.

What a time to be alive, huh? On one hand, we're nothing. We're dirt. On the other hand, we're the reason the universe was made.

One might have said that God was writing his name with fire

It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great deal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice.

It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice.

Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.

It is odd to consider what great geniuses are sometimes thrown away upon trifles.

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.

Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.

The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind

Someone — Cyril Connolly? Ezra Pound? — once said that anything that can be read twice is literature; I would say that anything that bears saying twice is quotable.

Here, my brother got to feel as important, as baronial, as I was sure he didn't at work, where he no doubt just pissed people off.