Quotes About Significance

The bearings of this observation lays in the application on it.

People, from a congress of British subjects in America: which, strange to relate, have proved more important to the human race than any communications yet received

Enough House', said I; 'that's a curious name, miss.' 'Yes,' she replied; 'but it meant more than it said. It meant, when it was given, that whoever had this house could want nothing else.

the English Crown and People, from a congress of British subjects in America: which, strange to relate, have proved more important to the human

Yet the room was all in all to me, Estella being in it.

Es conveniente que el lector haga una pausa al leer esto, y piense por un momento en la larga cadena de hierro o de oro, de espinas o de flores, que jamás le hubiera rodeado a no ser por el primer eslabón que se formó en un día memorable.

The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it: and Scrooge's name was good upon 'Change, for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail. Mind! I don't mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece

The key to this paradox lies within you, in the feeling you carry that each of your actions, even your personal, secret struggles, has cosmic significance. You will know then, as you know now, that everything you do matters.

The doctor must disclose all 'material risks'. A risk is material when 'a reasonable person, in what the physician knows or should know to be the patient's position, would be likely to attach significance to the risk or cluster of risks in deciding whether or not to forgo the proposed therapy'. Only where disclosure of the risks would pose 'a serious threat of psychological detriment to the patient' could non-disclosure be justified.

But be careful: Measures are only beneficial if they lead to profitable action. It is tempting to measure things simply because they are easy to measure; instead, we need to measure things that matter, even when it is difficult to do so. "Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts,"4 Einstein observed.

Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to society.

The smallest insect is as important as the largest bear.

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it... Being alive is the meaning.

A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape and significance of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him.

I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was significant to him, but which he could never find again. Sure he is that he read it there; but no one else ever read it, nor can he find it again, though he buy the book, & ransack every page.

Part of the reason why we feel these transitions so keenly is that we know that our lives matter.

One of the things we do as poets, is to try to preserve experiences, people, places important to us, in an effort to save them from time's erasure.

Remembering is organized for significance (not usefulness)

Natural, xingar a mãe de uma pessoa não vale nada, porque todo mundo vê logo que a gente não tem intenção de maltratar ninguém. Um ditério sem importância.

Los Angeles seems endlessly held between these extremes: of light and dark - of surface and depth. Of the promise, in brief, of a meaning always hovering on the edge of significance.

Writing well is one of the most crucial tools of the modern person. It is a skill required by nearly every profession, and one that allows you to get your work done, help others, and leave behind a legacy of your thoughts and actions so you may be remembered long after you are gone.

The right hand in Scripture symbolizes power and authority

The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others. This is the basic architecture of a life the rest is ornamentation and decoration of the structure.

Death never gave meaning to life: it was always the other way round.