Quotes About Significance

Words, too, have a genuine substance -- mass and weight and specific gravity.

Work on stuff that matters.

It's the pointless things that give your life meaning. Friendship, Compassion, Art, Love. All of them are pointless. But, they're what keeps life from being meaningless.

You and I will only be able to understand what is valuable when we examine things from the perspective of eternity.

For me, life and death are very important themes

In the history of culture the discovery of zero will always stand out as one of the greatest single achievements of the human race.

You could say that all my characters are reflections of myself, in that I share their wish to count for something, and their utmost confusion as to how this is supposed to be done.

Huge volumes of data may be compelling at first glance, but without an interpretive structure they are meaningless.

Since it didn't happen,' said Alberich, 'it can't be important.

If a problem is not worth solving, it's not worth solving well.

To remember a person is the most important thing

He felt that since energy was the only permanent thing in the universe, it was the most (if not only) significant thing.

THE HIGHEST FUNCTION OF LOVE is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being. The

Reality is subjective, and there's an unenlightened tendency in this culture to regard something as 'important' only if 'tis sober and severe.

The economic world, the world of the equities markets, just seemed like a perfect foil, the ideal backdrop against which to contrast this story about legendary amphibians from outer space, because everything these days is all about money. In this book (Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas) I'm hoping to illustrate that there not only are far more important things than money, but there are far more interesting things. (from NPR Interviews edited by Robert Siegel)

CHOICE. That's the difference between emptiness and substance, between a life actually lived and a wimpy shadow cast on an office wall.

It's the wanting to know that makes us matter.

I extract significance from melodrama, a significance which it does not in fact contain; but occasionally, from out of this matter, there escapes a thin beam of light that, seen at the right angle, can crack the shell of mortality.

They had it in for us, didn't they? Right from the beginning. Who'd have thought that we were so important?

Yet time is one of God's most precious gifts to us. It is the most significant nonrenewable resource at our disposal. We have less of it remaining with each passing day. When God gave this gift, He intended for us to use it carefully, intentionally, wisely, and productively.

Criticism as a form of knowledge is capable of robbing literature not only of its own implicit and explicit ideology but of its ideas as well; it can dismiss the difficult, arduous work writers do to make an art that becomes and remains part of and significant within a human landscape.

Shandrack estaba loco, pero eso no significaba que sus palabras no tuvieran sentido o, cosa aún más importante, que no tuvieran poder.

The decision he would make would be extremely important but the way he made the decision would be careless, haphazard, and uniformed.

El nombre Elías significa: «Jehová es mi Dios».