Quotes About Significance

Civilization runs a greater risk if we maintain our present attitude to religion than if we give it up.

The ideal person is not the one with whom one can be happy, but the one without whom one can't be happy. —Anonymous

All the power in the universe means nothing if you can't be with the one you love.

You sit at a desk twelve hours a day and you have nothing to show for it except some numbers that won't exist or be remembered in a week. You're leaving no evidence you lived. There's no proof.

Most people would trade everything they know, everyone they know- they'd trade it all to know they've been seen, and acknowledged, that they might even be remembered. We all know the world is too big for us to be significant. So all we have is the hope of being seen, or heard, even for a moment.

Love is implicit in every connection. It should be. Thus when absent it makes us insane. (You Shall Know Our Velocity)

The key thing is managed awareness of your role in the world and history. Think too much and you know you are nothing. Think just enough and you know you are small, but important to some. That's the best you can do.

Think too much and you know you are nothing. Think just enough and you know you are small, but important to some. That's the best you can do.

In her life Josie had heard only one or two people apologize. Wasn't that something? Wouldn't that be significant to future anthropologists? This was a time in history when no one was sorry. Sorry took too much courage, too much strength and faith and rightness to have a place in this cowardly century.

Have we wasted precious space dust on you?

you can decide what, specifically, something means to you and what you intend to do about it, if anything; if you can use a placeholder as a reminder of what you need to attend to;

We thought a little longer, and in the end we simply called her Joy.

Simply because you've lived through something doesn't mean you understand its true significance or even recall the details of it correctly.

And yet a man with nothing to live for is a powerful man indeed. Perhaps

That was the thing about life. You actually had to spend time living it. Or else what the hell did any of it really matter?

have put up a bond of five hundred dollars—significant

Where is it written that one should only care about big things?

Understand the significance of mind-set and culture. If the mind-set doesn't change, operations won't change either. In particular, be sure to get people past the mentality of "I have to do my job and this too?

My interviews also imparted a sense to the interviewees of how significant the new job was to the company. When the CEO and global HR leader each take an hour to talk to you about a job you're interviewing for, that says something

Understand the significance of mind-set and culture. If the mind-set doesn't change, operations won't change either.

Life doesn't amount to a hill of beans.

Centuries pass when nothing happens, and then in a few short years events of such tremendous importance take place that the world is never the same again .... Now's the time to be alive-- to see it happen, to be a part of it. That makes the blood race, and each breath is an adventure.

Centuries pass when nothing happens, and then in a few short years events of such tremendous importance take place that the world is never the same again.

If all you're going to do is talk in riddles, why bother with it at all? Why go to all the trouble of saying things that nobody's able to understand?" "Because it's necessary to say it. The word determines the event. The word puts limits on the event and shapes it. Without the word, the event is merely a random happening. That's the whole purpose of what you call prophecy—to separate the significant from the random.