Quotes About Significance

If we give something value, it becomes valuable.

My only power is my ability to do something with passion and do it well. It's also something someone cannot take way from me, so it's very valuable.

There's a trend for people wanting more meaning in their work and pursuing something in the day-to-day that is valuable rather than working as a means to the end.

Circumstance has no value. It is how one relates to a situation that has value. All true meaning resides in the personal relationship to a phenomenon... what it means to you.

A value is valuable when the value of value is valuable to oneself.

This is the key to time management - to see the value of every moment.

It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value.

Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail.

All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings.

Value is what you get.

Truth can be costly, but in the end it never falls short of value for the price paid.

There is something like an explosion in the meaning of certain words: they have a greater value than their meaning in the dictionary.

Tottenham has given me value.

Nobody can determine what your life means or how much your valued. You are your value.

I don't always feel like a valued player.

At the end of the day, most people just want to be valued. They want to feel they have put their time to something that will seem to have been of value when they die.

If I'm not on the floor, I'm not valued.

People are more important than fussing over preparations. Why, I haven't even been good company for Wynn, I realized, looking back in humiliation over some of our last evenings spent together. Well, I would change that. After all, a marriage was of far more importance than a wedding.

Great-Man" view of the British historian Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881), who asserted that history is dominated by the deeds of great men, such as Oliver Cromwell and Frederick the Great.

Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them.

The name is Schitt, he replied. Jack Schitt.

What do Chile, Biafra, the boat people, Bologna, or Poland matter? All of that comes to be annihilated on the television screen. We are in the era of events without consequences (and of theories without consequences).