Quotes About Significance

Clarity about what matters provides clarity about what does not.

There's a gravity and sense of importance inherent in deep work—whether you're Ric Furrer smithing a sword or a computer programmer optimizing an algorithm. Gallagher's theory, therefore, predicts that if you spend enough time in this state, your mind will understand your world as rich in meaning and importance.

Here's what I respect: creating something meaningful and then presenting it to the world,

On the other hand, if you're inside this pool—someone whose contribution to the world is discrete, clear, and individualized*—then you should give this philosophy serious consideration, as it might be the deciding factor between an average career and one that will be remembered.

It does not make them illegal. It does not make them immoral. It does not even make them unpopular. It makes them invisible and therefore irrelevant.

Discipline #1: Focus on the Wildly Important

Autonomy: the feeling that you have control over your day, and that your actions are important Competence: the feeling that you are good at what you do Relatedness: the feeling of connection to other people

Tener claridad sobre lo importante equivale a tener claridad sobre lo que no es importante.

The Law of the Vital Few*: In many settings, 80 percent of a given effect is due to just 20 percent of the possible causes.

Life is so much when we focus on what truly matters.

People come to church with their hearts on their sleeves. They are longing to be told that God loves them.9 They want to be told that they are special to God and the very fact that he loves them means they have significance.

Churches that ignore their communities will not grow, and churches that will not globalize don't matter much.

But this child is not worth unraveling the world for. No one is.

If what we are called is not important, why bother with a name at all?

So maybe I wasn't that high profile when I was a student here," I said. "But am I really more interesting dead than alive?" "You don't seriously expect me to answer that, do you?" Elaine said.

Does everything always have to mean something else?" I ask before we get started. Who knew that literature was so tangled and complicated? "That is a wonderful lesson, Sang Ly. Remember it." "What was it again?" I ask, not certain to what she was referring. She repeats it for me. "In literature, everything means something.

Just because something doesn't last forever, it doesn't mean it wasn't meaningful while it did last. It doesn't mean it wasn't important.

Durante unos pocos segundos, creo que me olvidé de respirar. A veces la vida se detiene. Solo unos segundos, sin ningún movimiento. Es como si el mundo enmudeciera para subrayar lo que es importante de verdad. Después, todo vuelve a sonar con más fuerza.

History," Burckhardt once observed, "is what one age finds worthy of note in another.

It all depends on how we look at things, and not on how things are in themselves. The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

Man cannot stand a meaningless life.

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

Llegué muy pronto a la convicción de que si no se da una respuesta y solución desde lo interno a las relaciones de la vida, su significado es muy pobre

Synchronicity is the coming together of inner and outer events in a way that cannot be explained by cause and effect and that is meaningful to the observer.