Quotes About Significance

Games can be art, and they can be significant and all the glorified things that we want them to be. But if you ask a kid if their toys are important, they'll say 'yes,' and 'Please don't take them away.'

I know the value and significance of trading opportunities and have seen myself from Americas to the Far East the power of trade and open markets.

In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by Silence and by Speech acting together, comes a double significance.

Mass travel by air may prove to be more significant to world destiny than the atom bomb.

I used to wonder how a man of birth and spirit could endure to be wholly insignificant and obscure in a foreign country, when he might live with lustre in his own.

Records have always been the most extraordinary form of time travel for me, and that's why it matters to know when something was circulated, and if it had an audience of five or 50,000.

A tree is a nobler object than a prince in his coronation-robes.

I was a pebble. I was a leaf. I was the jagged branch of a tree. I was nothing to them and they were everything to me.

Here is a hero who did nothing but shake the tree as soon as the fruit was ripe. Does this seem to be too small a thing to you? Then take a good look at the tree he shook.

Be brave and be patient. Have faith in yourself; trust in the significance of your life and the purpose of your passion.

We are the decisive factor in the affairs of the universe.

At first, I did not tell you any of this because...you were not supposed to mean anything to me. And later..." His voice became rough with emotion. "Later, I did not tell you because you mean so much to me.

The responsibilities, roles, and divinely endowed gifts of men and women differ in nature but not in quality, significance, or degree of importance, impact, or influence. Latter-day Saint doctrine places women equal to, and yet distinct and different from, men.

I have always lived in a world in which I'm just a spot in history. My life is not the important point. I'm just part of the continuum, and that continuum, to me, is a marvelous thing. The history of life, and the history of the planet, should go on and on and on and on. I cannot conceive of anything in the universe that has more meaning than that." [ Sheri S. Tepper: Speaking to the Universe , Locus Magazine, September 1998]

It's not what your reproductive organs do that counts, it's what your mind intends before that moment.

I suddenly understood that if every moment of a book should be taken seriously, then every moment of a life should be taken seriously as well.

Fantasies and wishes carry their own significant messages.

A rose may be a rose may be a rose; but not this one. Clearly it stands for something more.

Quel est le plus important : réussir ou trouver un sens à votre effort de réussir ?

Make every moment of your life worth dying for.

The Heart has the greatest retention power...... Things which touch the heart remain in memory forever, while the others fade away eventually!!!!

None of us could know how insignificant we were...

You don't just choose a name at random. A name is a name. A major responsibility.

He reflected that what is important is not things, but the meaning we give to things. Sooner or later death comes for everyone. More important than putting off death, is giving it a meaning.