Quotes About Significance

My work is one of my passions, so I want to treat it with great importance, whatever the project or role.

The longer the title, the less important the job.

Unless the work of art has wholly exhausted its makers attention, it fails. This is why works of great significance are demanding and why they are infinitely rewarding.

If one or two works from a body of work for an exhibition are what you would like to be remembered by, it is a good exhibition.

I do try to be of some use in the world. I sometimes do volunteer work with kids, and manage to help some people a little, but really making a significant difference can be hard.

I wondered, for the first time in my life, if life was worth all the work it took to live. What exactly made it worth it?

Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.

For most modern marketers, quantity isn't the point. What matters is to matter. Lives changed. Work that made an actual difference. Connection.

What I tell everyone, and I really do for myself is, I have a long-run dream, which is I want to work on stuff that I think matters.

Sometimes I hate the job that I do as an actor. I feel like I'm just of no importance in the world, but sometimes you get a real thrill out of the diversity of the work.

My work means everything to me.

The only incontrovertible fact of my work is the importance of life.

No work is "most important." Or, put differently, all work is important but work done poorly becomes most important.

Secrets can actually be quite important. A work of art that reveals its meaning or its power too quickly is uninteresting. It might not even be a good work of art.

History may clarify our understanding of the supreme work of art, but can never account for it completely; for the Time of art is not the same as the Time of history.

If God lets me live, I shall attain more than Mummy ever has done, I shall not remain insignificant, I shall work in the world and for mankind!

You want to do work that is remembered, you want to be a part of something that's remembered.

The ones that work out really and ones that become something to the audience, those are the most important people.

Content is the meaningful substance of the work.

It's the work that's important, not the individual who does it.

A work of art must carry in itself its complete significance and impose it upon the beholder even before he can identify the subject-matter.

Any work I do I think is important...like in acting there are no small parts- only small actors.

That of War and Peace or of Almagestes. All are satisfactory. The only criterion of a work is its validity: that it should grip and that it should last.

At least one reason for trying to live lives that make a difference is that by so living, we hope we will not be forgotten by those who benefit from our trying to make a difference. Yet to try to insure we will not be forgotten too often results in desperate manipulative strategies that are doomed to fail.