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Quotes About Significance

I cannot say that I regret my comparative insignificance, Importance may sometimes be purchased too dearly.
~ Jane Austen
Her nitelik zaman zaman anl?k ko?ullar taraf?ndan de?erinin ilerisine ta??n?r.
~ Jane Austen
She wishes there were only dead authors. Living ones are beneath her attention.
~ Jane Gardam
every single individual matters, has a role to play, and makes an impact on the planet—every
~ Jane Goodall
Similarly, a few thousand workers dribbled in among tens or hundreds of thousands of residents make no appreciable balance either in sum or at any particular spot of any significance
~ Jane Jacobs
No person dies without a reason.2 You are not taught that, however, so people do not recognize their own reasons for dying, and they are not taught to recognize their own reasons for living — because you are told that life itself is an accident in a cosmic game of chance.
~ Jane Roberts
eidetic memory. What else any of it meant to
~ Jane Smiley
what was the point in creating something that was so futile and so precious? everything beautiful was like that. a little bit of the true world. beauty said there was something more than just one fucking thing after another. time could rest for a moment, stop and that senseless motion. people thot beauty was bullshit, just a bandaide slapped over the abyss, but they couldnt be more wrong. beauty mattered, it was the only thing that fed you when everything turned to shit.
~ Janet Fitch
Worth. He made you feel worthwhile. That was his gift.
~ Janet Fitch
If you didn't have anything truly great to offer, something truly amazing, then you should just shut the fuck up.
~ Janet Fitch
What isn't there is as important as what is, Phil always said.
~ Janet Fitch
It took them only an instant to cut of that head, but it is unlikely that a hundred years will suffice to reproduce a singular one.
~ Antoine Lavoisier
All my plays have these titles that are oddly tricky. I like that something can look like one thing but mean two different things. Language is really unstable in that way.
~ Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
I never mean to make a headline where it's like, 'Chris Long unsure.' I never try to make it sound like I'm under the impression it matters either way if I play or anybody cares.
~ Chris Long
I met Madonna when I was 22, and I danced with her until I was 28. When I met her, I was a tomboy! Every time I see her, she really inspired me about one thing or another, so she's quite important and significant person in my life.
~ Sofia Boutella
The simple tableau is so rich with meaning that whether represented on the mantelpiece or in the mind, it seems suspended, complete unto itself, somewhere in eternity.
~ Lucinda Franks
What is unusual about the United States - and it's something that I have never gotten used to - is that Jews here, there are so many of them, and they are so important to the culture.
~ Michael Lynton
I have one really nice watch. It's a white-face, stainless-steel Rolex Daytona. I wear it a lot. I got that in the middle of 'The Office.' All the guys in the writers' room were like, 'Let's all get a nice watch.' We were too busy to upgrade our lives in a big way, but we thought this was a nice symbolic gesture.
~ B. J. Novak
I keep reminding myself, through all the ups and downs of 'Community,' that I might never have another job that really means something to people the way 'Community' means something to people. That's more powerful than ratings.
~ Gillian Jacobs
Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power...Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
Effort is one of those things that gives meaning to life. Effort means you care about something, that something is important to you and you are willing to work for it.
~ Carol S. Dweck
Finally, I truly believe that each of us must find meaning in our work. The best work happens when you know that it's not just work, but something that will improve other people's lives.
~ Satya Nadella
The work of rehearsal is looking for meaning and then making it meaningful.
~ Peter Brook
Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky