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Quotes About Significance

Being a soldier's daughter, I understand that what they are doing is the real deal. But me giving statement on the issue is of no significance.
~ Anushka Sharma
The general statement that the mental faculties are class concepts, belonging to descriptive psychology, relieves us of the necessity of discussing them and their significance at the present stage of our inquiry.
~ Wilhelm Wundt
A meaningless statement remains meaningless no matter how often it's heard.
~ Roy H. Williams
If I am going to do something outside of Lady Antebellum, it's got to make a statement. Otherwise, why do it?
~ Charles Kelley
I think 'Comic Book: The Movie' is the apex of my career in terms of making a personal statement that has significance to me and resonates with biographical detail about not only my career, but all the people that I've worked with in my career. All of it's riddled, on- and off-camera, with people I've known and worked with for decades.
~ Mark Hamill
Painting does more than just point to things. The very act of pointing is a value statement.
~ Kehinde Wiley
I have made many serious statements - I just can't remember any of them. I guess they mustn't have been very important.
~ Oliver Reed
By rationing in-person meetings, their stature is elevated to that of a rare treat. They become something to be savored, something special.
~ Jason Fried
This was the most important discovery I had ever made in my life. It was a discovery which has irrevocably changed my whole life's direction. It immediately elevated me to the status of one of the world's leading anthropologists.
~ Donald Johanson
If you're just saying, hey, I'm doing this. I'm working to make money. I'm working to increase my status. If that's all there is, I think you will find out that it's meaningless.
~ Tony Dungy
Characters can stay with you.
~ Cameron Britton
Getting to the Premier League is significant enough. But staying in it is another thing entirely, particularly when you've not spent much and kept the core of the team that was promoted from the Championship and was not even fancied to do so in the first place.
~ Neil Etheridge
Those early steps are very important in understanding the evolution. But in themselves, maybe now you need the later records to understand the significance of the earlier records!
~ Evan Parker
Nothing has been venerable or revered merely because it exists or has endured.
~ Thomas Frank
When King spoke to those men—trash collectors, remember, who came from society's lowliest ranks—he said, "So often we overlook the work and the significance of those who are not in professional jobs, of those who are not in the so-called big jobs. But let me say to you tonight, that whenever you are engaged in work that serves humanity Ã¢â'¬Â¦ it has dignity, and it has worth.
~ Thomas Frank
Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.
~ Thomas Hardy
Don't be led away to think this part of the world important and that unimportant. Every corner of the world is important. No man knows whether this part or that is most so, but every man may do some honest work in his own corner.
~ Thomas Hughes
To deny the reality or logical significance of what we can never describe or understand is the crudest form of cognitive dissonance.
~ Thomas Nagel
To deny the reality or logical significance of what we can never describe or understand is the crudest form form of cognitive dissonance.
~ Thomas Nagel
Why shoulde I goe gadding and fisgigging after firking flantado Amphibologies, wit is wit, and good will is good will.
~ Thomas Nashe
What we obtain too cheap we esteem too little it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
~ Thomas Paine
Man was his high and only title, and a higher title cannot be given him
~ Thomas Paine
What we obtain too cheaply, we esteem too lightly; it's dearness only that gives everthing its value.
~ Thomas Payne
Therefore, any human concern that has only to do with this world, no matter how global, no matter how painful, no matter how enduring — ?if it has only to do with this world — compares to the importance of saving faith as a thimble to the ocean.
~ Thomas R. Schreiner