Quotes About Significance

No. It's just personal. Personal's not the same as important. People just think it is.

But, it was a funny thing: every day something happened that was important enough to be on the front page of the newspaper. She'd never bought it and seen a little sign that said 'Not much happened yesterday, sorry about that'.

Sometimes a single life will clearly and effectively illustrate a period. (from Vanity, Vanity Saith the Preacher)

I don't want to be someone that, when people look back, they think, 'Yeah, cool, he made us jump around for a bit in 2010.'

A car isn't a classic just because it's old. To be a classic, a car has to tell us something of its time.

Acting and making art is just something I love to do, and I love to tell stories that feel important, honest and necessary.

I'm more keen on roles that have a lasting impact even if I get only a minute on screen.

Most people who are really, enduringly interested in something eventually find that it's important, too - and important to other people. Very few people can keep going their whole life doing something and feel like it's merely personally fascinating.

I think the public can t accept the idea that someone as inconsequential as Oswald could have killed someone as consequential as Kennedy. They don t want to believe the world is that chaotic. It is.

Joe Kennedy was a massive figure on all kinds of levels.

Every Christian is important - important to God, to the world, and to the kingdom.

Kiss me and you will see how important I am.

Am I foolish and insignificant or am I great? I gave all the individuals in the world cause to kneel down in front of me.

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

Steve Jobs, He trusted that the dots would connect . He believed the reward is the journey. He followed his heart. He didn't settle for Okay. He did what he loved. And if he didn't love what he did, if didn't believe it was a great work, he redid it again and again. He tried to live each day as though it really matter, even before he had cancer.

I can get others to do what you do. They won't be as good, but  .  .  . okay. It could work. But it doesn't matter because no matter how good they are, they can't replace you. They can't because I don't need you only for what you can do. I need you  .  .  . for you.

Huh." "Huh what?" "Would you look at this?" he asked, examining a small box. "It says it glows in the dark." "So?" "So, what use is that to anybody? I mean, what am I supposed to do? Write her name in the air with it?

But, then again, the actions of the most insignificant men or women can be as a single raindrop that rolls a pebble that dislodges a clod that tumbles a rock and, before you know it, the whole mountainside has crashed down, sweeping palaces and pigsties, princes and paupers into the sea. So maybe there are demons at work, even in the smallest mischief

You'll never be just anything. A tsunami can never be 'just' a wave." "Get off my chin." "I like that about you. Waves are banal. Tsunamis reshape the Earth. Under the right circumstances, even entire civilizations." I blink. "You're going to be one hell of a woman one day, Dani.

Goor or evil, right or wrong, he mattered to me.

Barrons cut her a hard look. "Some of us are more useful and important than others." "My ass, you are," Christian growled. Barrons folded his arms. "Who let the Unseelie in here?

You'll never be just anything. A tsunami can never be just a wave (...) Waves are banal. Tsunamis reshape the Earth

I see how he feels about his world and I want to be one of the parts he prizes. I want to be worth fighting for. Worth the same kind of effort he puts into the things that matter to him. Like Dani." "I don't tell her no human matters to the boss like Dani.

Nothing else matters. Never will. You exist in a place that is beyond all rules for me. Do you understand that?