Quotes About Significance

The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public.

Language communicates the linguistic being of things. The clearest manifestation of this being, however, is language itself. The answer to the question ' What does language communicate?' is therefore 'All language communicates itself.

Der Name ist das innerste Wesen der Sprache.

There is no event or thing in either animate or inanimate nature that does not in some way partake of language.

We dreamed a lot of good stuff. Marriage and forever and ever and that kind of thing. It meant everything to me. Not just a lot. Everything.

This entailed switching around by hand ENIAC's rat's nest of cables and resetting its switches. At first the programming seemed to be a routine, perhaps even menial task, which may have been why it was relegated to women, who back then were not encouraged to become engineers. But what the women of ENIAC soon showed, and the men later came to understand, was that the programming of a computer could be just as significant as the design of its hardware.

the sequence of letters in the DNA did not reveal how it worked; what was important was

I understood that no one lives forever, but there are certain people whose power and presence so thoroughly penetrate your view of things that contemplating their absence feels as strange as imagining having never been born yourself.

WASTING TIME IS a big problem in the world we live in, that's for sure. But it doesn't mean that we necessarily have to know what the goal is for every step we take. Sometimes we do things that are not directly connected and yet are still significant.

A large stone was then lowered down on the grave, and covered the moderate space now sufficient for the man for whom Europe was once too little.

The idea of waste only comes into our Christianity when we underestimate the worth of our Lord.

Never forget that you are one of a kind. Never forget that if there weren't any need for you in all your uniqueness to be on this earth, you wouldn't be here in the first place. And never forget, no matter how overwhelming life's challenges and problems seem to be, that one person can make a difference in the world. In fact, it is always because of one person that all changes that matter in the world come about. So be that one person.

Living as If Your Life Makes a Difference

The backdrop for virtually all neurosis is making others' behavior more significant than your own.

Your value does not come from what you accomplish. Your worth as a human being is not determined by whether you win or not.

Che differenza c'è infatti, fra trent'anni e sei mesi, rispetto all'eternità? La durata di una vita è paragonabile a un puntolino

I had changed, and the sign of it was only that my own death seemed to me by far the least important thing in my life.

All the world, as a matter of fact, is a mosaic of little places invisible to the powers that be. And in the eyes of the powers that be all these invisible places do not add up to a visible place. They add up to words and numbers.

For Whitehead the final service God does for us is also the final service we do for God, that our ephemeral, mortal lives on earth shall have abiding significance as ideally prehended in the consequent nature of God. In this philosophy the aim of life is quite literally to enhance the glory of God, meaning the beauty of the creation as enjoyed by God.

You cannot set art off in a corner and hope for it to have vitality, reality, and substance.

And on that day, we'll see the beauty that God has allowed us to add to the great story of his creation, the richness we've added to the lives of our family and friends, the mark for the better we've left on the world, and the revelation of his love that goes from age to age no matter how good or bad the times. We are each an unrepeatable, infinitely treasured part of that story. And this is why our lives matter.

Remember that you are needed. There is at least one important work to be done that will not be done unless you do it.

The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days.

I want people to have more to say about me after I'm gone than, 'He was a nice guy...he chased sticks!' —Snoopy