Quotes About Significance

At the time I was arrested I had no idea it would turn into this. It was just a day like any other day. The only thing that made it significant was that the masses of the people joined in.

I'm sure I would have been considered a more significant artist if I was a singer-songwriter. It's just not the way I roll. I love being a curator and a musicologist. People write me letters and thank me for turning them on to Fred McDowell and Sippie Wallace, and that's partly my job this time around.

The Copernican revolution brought about by Kant was, I think, the most important single turning point in the history of philosophy.

Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.

In 1970, somebody once asked me whether I thought my books would still be around in 40 years, and I thought, 'How would I know, and why would I care?' Well, it turns out I really do care.

The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation.

If an idea's worth having once, it's worth having twice.

Do you know what people want more than anything? They want to be missed. They want to be missed the day they don't show up. They want to be missed when they're gone.

Every character is asking: Whats my place? Why am I here? I dont want the answer to be Just because. You find your own purpose. Each finds the reason to be here and how to contribute.

I've always said, 'I don't want to be irrelevant.'

The universe is biased toward consciousness because the universe wants to be noticed. It's a way into existential hope that doesn't have too much cliché wrapped around it.

When you have two people that good in a movie, I think it adds a class and a feeling of importance for other actors that they want to be involved.

If you can get by with quotes from The Godfather and nothing you say matters, that's pretty bleak, don't you think? Don't we want what we say to matter?

At our core, we just want to know that we matter.

Ultimately everyone, no matter who you are, we all at our core want to just know that we matter.

I take the world very personally. I take history personally; I want to place myself in the larger context.

People just want to know that they matter.

The endowment and sealing ordinances of the temple are so gloriously rich in meaning that you will want to allow significant time to receive those ordinances and to ponder their meaning.

The shot heard round the world.

For the average person, all problems date to World War II; for the more informed, to World War I; for the genuine historian, to the French Revolution.

This is not a must-win; World War II was a must-win (Referring to the Super Bowl)

ne možeš u?initi ništa zna?ajno u svijetu ukoliko trošiš vrijeme na kritiziranje drugih zato što ne izgledaju ili se ne ponašaju onako kako ti misliš da bi trebali.

Everything became a metaphor, a talisman, a sign that I was still actually connected to people—that I wasn't so completely on my own.

What most people would consider a mundane job—same streets, same view, same stops and starts—I enlivened by getting to know my regulars. In fact, I did more than get to know them, more than transport them from A to B. I helped them. I changed lives. They