Quotes About Significance

Information is useless if it is not applied to something important or if you will forget it before you have a chance to apply it.

Doing something unimportant well does not make it important.

What you do is more important than how you do everything else, and doing something well does not make it important.

Ben Franklin's excellent advice: "If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing.

1. Doing something unimportant well does not make it important. 2. Requiring a lot of time does not make a task important.

Doing less meaningless work, so that you can focus on things of greater personal importance, is NOT laziness.

The Purpose of Life Is a Life of Purpose." This is Stan's answer to "If you could put a billboard anywhere and write anything on it, what would it say?" It is a quote from Robert Byrne.

People are poor judges of importance and inflate minutiae to fill time and feel important.

Ralph Waldo Emerson: "To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children . . . to leave the world a bit better . . . to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived; this is to have succeeded.

what you do is infinitely more important than how you do it.

It's not enough to use information for "something"—it needs to be immediate and important.

Those moments show me that this whole thing is bigger than me. It's the realization that there is a "will to pleasure," a "will to power" and, in the words of Viktor Frankl, a "will to meaning." You won't take a bullet for pleasure or power, but you will for meaning.

si aporta algo al resto del mundo (¿es realmente significativo? ¿mejora el mundo?)

Here are two truisms to keep in mind: 1. Doing something unimportant well does not make it important. 2. Requiring a lot of time does not make a task important.

Doing something unimportant well does not make it important. 2. Requiring a lot of time does not make a task important.

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It doesn't take much to seem superhuman and appear "successful" to nearly everyone around you. In fact, you just need one rule: What you do is more important than how you do everything else, and doing something well does not make it important.

lo que haces es infinitamente más importante que cómo lo haces.

realidad, basta con una sola regla: el qué haces es más importante que el cómo haces todo lo demás, y hacer algo bien no lo convierte en algo importante.

unless something is well-defined and important, no one should do it.

Think of any great man or woman. How can you separate them from the years in which they lived? You can't. Their greatness lies in their response to that moment.

A symbol is a form that represents something else.

Often in our blindness, we take on our problems as identities. While divorce, depression, and single parenthood are significant human experiences, they are not identities. Our work is not our identity, though it is an important part of how God intends us to live. For too many of us, our sense of identity is more rooted in our performance than it is in God's grace.

Germany then remained in a state of emergency for the next twelve years, until the end of the Second World War. Hitler had used an act of terror, an event of limited inherent significance, to institute a regime of terror that killed millions of people and changed the world.