Quotes About Significance

the momentous arises only from the trivial.

You do have to listen to the stories, for stories always mean something. The question that worries me is: WHAT exactly do they mean?

This is the problem with stories. Stories always mean something. The question is ... What exactly do they mean?

A mark is just a symbol, and symbols can change.

My heart spasmed a little, because of how significant the moment felt—it felt like a threshold between my youth and adulthood, or the exact instant of love coming into existence.

Where had I gotten the idea that being a nuissance was that big a deal?

He felt […] as if he'd just gotten a letter, out of the blue, from somebody wise enough to know the truth, from everybody, or at least everybody who mattered. "Hello," the letter said. "Hello, Jeff Greene, I've been watching you and I like you and I want to know you better. This is just to say I'm glad you're alive in the world." The list of signatures, he thought, would include his own.

This is why we cannot love in the common sense. Somehow with you I cannot long be trivial, and, you know, to be always beyond this mortal state would be to lose it.

For God's sake, all of you, say spiteful things about me, then I shall know I mean something to you. Don't say surgaries, or I'm done.

Why are we all only like mortal pieces of furniture? Why is nothing important?

Names are the sweetest and most important sound in any language.

If you tell me how you get your feeling of importance, I'll tell you what you are.

Become meaningful in your interactions and the path to success in any endeavor is simpler and far more sustainable.

John Dewey, as we have already noted, said that the desire to be important is the deepest urge in human nature; and William James said: "The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

Dr. Dewey said that the deepest urge in human nature is "the desire to be important." Remember that phrase: "the desire to be important." It is significant. You are going to hear a lot about it in this book.

the deepest urge in human nature is "the desire to be important.

We all have an innate, unquenchable desire to know we are valued, to know we matter. Yet affirming this in each other is among the most challenging things to do in our day and age.

the desire to be important is the deepest urge in human nature;

The Negro worked as farmhand and peasant proprietor, as laborer, artisan, and inventor and as servant in the house, and without him, America as we know it would have been impossible.

The time has not yet come for a complete history of the Negro peoples. Archæological

To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.

I swear I begin to see the meaning of these things. It is not the earth, it is not America, who is so great, it is I who am great or to be great…

Like a stone dropped into a pond, an article of that sort may spread out its concentric circles of consequences.

The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual—namely to You.