Quotes About Significance

Price. You're priceless.

he looked at me with such vehemence that I felt like a blip, a fart, in the course of his life.

The greatest relevancy can become irrelevant in the space of a heartbeat.

All life is a series of seemingly insignificant tasks and decisions, culminating in the definition of an individual and her purpose in life.

I thought about Pic and Jesus, and I thought about how it never ends well for us writer types. Nobody gets out alive, of course, but is it too much to ask that just one of us goes in our sleep with the knowledge that what we did actually mattered

The number of days and years one lives on Earth is insignificant. It's the quality of those days and years that's important, quality measured in loving acts and achieved wisdom. 'Some people do more good in one day than others do in a hundred years.' This is their message. 'Every soul, every person is precious. Every person helped, every life aided or saved, is immeasurably valuable.

you. Viktor Frankl, the founder of Logotherapy, wrote that the greatest need of human beings is for a sense of meaning and purpose in life, for a goal to work toward.

la necesidad de significado y propósito es la más profunda de nuestras motivaciones. El verdadero significado y propósito sólo aparecen cuando estás ocupado haciendo algo que hace una diferencia en la vida de otras personas.

El hecho es que el tiempo que se requiere para completar un trabajo importante suele ser el mismo que se requiere para hacer un trabajo sin importancia.

What are your highest value activities? What can you, and only you do, that if done well, can make a real difference?

That we ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed.

The Exodus scenes were filmed in the sand dunes of Guadalupe, California, and DeMille transported hundreds of Orthodox Jews from New York, because he believed that "in appearance and in their deep feeling of the significance of the Exodus, they would give the best possible performance as the Children of Israel." But on their first day on set, the extras were forced to fast because the commissary served ham for dinner.

Nothing is unexplained. Nature is a chain reaction. Everything is dependent on something else. The smallest is as important as the largest

A firm's income statement may be likened to a bikini—what it reveals is interesting but what it conceals is vital.

He is already an important part of my story.

we make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers

If we long for our planet to be important, there is something we can do about it. We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers.

What does seventy million years mean to beings who live only one-millionth as long? We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

We live in a vast and awesome universe in which, daily, suns are made and worlds destroyed, where humanity clings to an obscure clod of rock. The significance of our lives and our fragile realm derives from our own wisdom and courage. We are the custodians of life's meaning.

We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers.

What worries me the most," she continued, "is the opposite, the possibility that they're not trying. They could communicate with us, all right, but they're not doing it because they don't see any point to it. It's like . . ."—she glanced down at the edge of the tablecloth they had spread over the grass—"like the ants. They

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On the scale of worlds—to say nothing of stars or galaxies—humans are inconsequential, a thin film of life on an obscure and solitary lump of rock and metal. It