Quotes About Significance

A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.

If you're going to devote the best years of your life to your work, have enough love for yourself and the world around you to work on something that matters to you deeply

How I work is that I write a story I'd like to read. Then you fly to Paris or Sydney and the interviewers talk about the greater significance of your work.

Motherhood is, after all, woman's great and incomparable work.

You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.

What we are is much more important to Him than what we do for Him. We mean far more to God than the work we do.

There must be some one quality without which a work of art cannot exist; possessing which, in the least degree, no work is altogether worthless.

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Part of Steve's job was to drum into us how important what we were doing actually would be to the world.

I dream in numbers, and I like to look up the meaning of numbers, and numbers stick out to me.

When people are running up to me in the grocery store screaming, 'Oh my God! Oh my God!' that's when I know I'm swervin'. As long as people are recognizing you and you matter to them, then you're doing something right.

Mexico is a very mom-centered culture. You'll find stores open on Father's Day, but never on Mother's Day. For us, mothers are very important.

To me, it doesn't really matter how big the part is as long as the part is important to the story.

Be it in Malayalam or Tamil, I got to play characters who had plenty to do in the storyline and not just be a prop.

I felt like a glorified extra in everybody else's storyline.

I am first and foremost a storyteller; I want to tell a good story, and I want it to mean something - something that I think is important.

At one point it occurred to me that the title could make a more significant contribution to the storytelling process. It could act as a prologue.

There is nothing in a name. My husband, Santhosh Menon, called me Navya at first, which I did not like as it was my screen name. He knew me as Navya and found calling me Dhanya strange, so he came up with a pet name.

Pursue something so important that even if you fail, the world is better off with you having tried.

Words, too, have genuine substance — mass and weight and specific gravity.

He would argue that every world and every life was insignificant when considered against the span of the infinite… but nothing mattered against the span of the infinite, so if you wanted to care about anything at all, you had to care about the small things.

When you give power, especially to those around you, you create a more powerful world. When your giving empowers others, you gain more confidence in them and, in turn, in yourself. If you give others enough power, they will go beyond independence to possess material and intangible prosperity. This will allow them to go from being recipients to givers and make it possible for them to feel the joy and significance you feel when you get to help others in need.

It's the pointless things that give your life meaning. Friendship, compassion, art, love. All of them pointless. But they're what keeps life from being meaningless.

As to Baker, that name should be forgotten," Winthrop wrote in The Canoe and the Saddle. "Mountains should not be insulted by being named after undistinguished bipeds.…