Quotes About Significance

Greatness is achieved, not only, by doing great things, but also, by making the small things we dogreat.

It's not the price but it's the value of the thing that making them important

in so far as we cherish the tangibles, we must value the intangibles. The intangibles, though as latent as they may seem to be, they are solemnly tangible.

It's not what you do, it's what it means.

What troubles us much, is of less importance to what troubles us much that invokes our thought, heart, spirit and body to dare to a live distinctive footprint on earth

The perishableness of life...imparts value, dignity, interest to life.

The question of commonsense is always "what is it good for?" - a question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage.

Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.

A life isn't significant except for its impact on others' lives.

As daughters of God we are each unique and different in our circumstances and experiences. And yet our part matters—because we matter.

There is no life that does not contribute to history.

Why one man rather than another? It was odd. You find yourself involved with a fellow for life just because he was the one that you met when you were nineteen.

Digital intimacy ruins the appetite for the real thing. So, when kids are gaming or even when spouses are gaming, they lose their appetite for genuine intimacy. Kids lose their appetite for getting their intimacy needs, their hunger for significance and attachment, with the family, and it erodes the relationship between them and their parents.

International friendlies, they mean something, but what you want is to play on the biggest stage, play under the lights.

I don't want to write books that are intellectually staggering if nobody's going to read them.

The challenge is high. The stakes are important. I think it's manageable.

I don't have a problem with the concept that miracles might occasionally occur at moments of great significance, where there is a message being transmitted to us by God Almighty. But as a scientist, I set my standards for miracles very high.

From a cognitive standpoint, I'm very aware that you have no room for error in a picture book. Every word counts.

My real name is Keneti James Fitzgerald, but K.J. stands for Keneti James, which is a Samoan name.

More than the length, it's the meat of the character that is more important. It does not matter if you are on screen, standing in the corner for the whole film, as opposed to doing something that stands out in two scenes.

You must judge a man's greatness by how much he will be missed.

When I was in love there was somebody in the world who was more important than me, and that, given all that happened at the fall of man, is a miracle, like something God forgot to curse.

There is great incongruity in this idea of monuments, since those to whom they are usually dedicated need no such recognition to embalm their memory; and any man who does, is not worthy of one.

Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it.