Quotes About Significance

James Yorke, a professor who had coined the term "chaos theory." The idea was simple: some small, barely noticed event can cascade into huge consequences down the road. (The day your parents met, for instance: what if that hadn't happened?)

From the point of view of the history of the universe, Max's death was not a big deal," said Eisman. "It was just my big deal." At

James Yorke, a professor who had coined the term "chaos theory." The idea was simple: some small, barely noticed event can cascade into huge consequences down the road. (The day your parents met, for instance: what

How important could the sound it made be, if no one was able to hear it?

Power that affects nothing is mere vanity.

What is interesting and important happens mostly in secret, in places where there is no power.

Your own story is just one, and perhaps not the important one. The self is not the principal thing.

Our table's status on the Oronsay continued to be minimal, while those at the Captain's Table were constantly toasting one another's significance. That was a small lesson I learned on the journey. What is interesting and important happens mostly in secret, in places where there is no power.

Being listened to means that we are taken seriously, that our ideas and feelings are recognized, and, ultimately, that what we have to say matters.

its power to imbue everything in our field of experience with a heightened sense of purpose and consequence.

Our brains developed under the pressure of natural selection to make us good foragers, which is how humans have spent 99 percent of their time on Earth. The presence of flowers, as even I understood as a boy ,is a reliable predictor of future food. People who were drawn to flowers , and who further could distinguish among them and remember where in the landscape they'd seen them, would be much more successful foragers than people who were blind to their significance.

If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.

Every single minute matters, every single child matters, every single childhood matters.

I don't throw around the word 'brother' because I'm so, so close to my real-life brothers and my real-life sisters, and being a brother is so important to me.

That's when it hit me. The site is more important than me.

The concept of Kimye has more cultural significance than what Page Six could write.

The size of the halls doesn't matter to me too much.

It's not a question of size, of whether it's a small or a big thing, but of what it has the power to incarnate.

Size counts. That's all.

People who lack the skill of discrimination tend to believe that everything is of relatively equal importance.

I put a lot of meaning into what will go on my skin and be there for all of my years of life.

Things in themselves have no life in them. A car can't comfort or encourage you. A house means nothing if there's no life and love inside.

Her existence alone was excuse enough to justify the creation of the entire world.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that you are there, in everything I am, in everything I've ever done, and looking back, I know that I should have told you know much you've always meant to me.