Quotes About Significance

When facts become so widely available and instantly accessible, each one becomes less valuable. What begins to matter more is the ability to place these facts in context and to deliver them with emotional impact.

He said that in an attempt to understand the law—or, for that matter, just about anything—the key was to focus on what he termed the "one percent." Don't get lost in the crabgrass of details, he urged us. Instead, think about the essence of what you're exploring—the one percent that gives life to the other ninety-nine.

Taken together, all of these studies suggest that the path to a life of meaning and significance isn't to "live in the present" as so many spiritual gurus have advised. It is to integrate our perspectives on time into a coherent whole, one that helps us comprehend who we are and why we're here.

Design is a classic whole-minded aptitude. It is, to borrow Heskett's terms, a combination of utility and significance.

Utility is akin to L-Directed Thinking; significance is akin to R-Directed Thinking. And, as with those two thinking styles, today utility has become widespread, inexpensive, and relatively easy to achieve—which has increased the value of significance.

People at work are thirsting for context, yearning to know that what they do contributes to a larger whole. And a powerful way to provide that context is to spend a little less time telling how and a little more time showing why.

Living for its own sake isn't life. People need meaning as much as they need air.

People need meaning as much as they need air. Lucky for us, we can give meaning to each other for free. Just by being alive.

the best-remembered experiences are distinctive/unique or have a strong emotional component.

not all encounters with the world affect the mind equally. Studies have demonstrated that if the brain appraises an event as "meaningful," it will be more likely to be recalled in the future.

It is confusing to children if their reality of an experience is denied or misunderstood by their parent or another significant adult, because those are the very people with whom they most need to connect.

Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking of it.

A story is about significant events and memorable moments, not about time passing.

focusing illusion, which can be described in a single sentence: Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about it.

Villa Grande has in many ways symbolized an important, but less than pleasant, part of our history.

If you understand the magnitude of how big a football club Aston Villa is, there's a lot to be excited about.

When Eric Cantor lost, being the only majority leader in history to lose a primary, that was pretty - and still is - earth-shattering in Virginia and across the country.

I was surprised how little I knew about the significant contributions to aviation that had happened right there in Hampton, Virginia.

If you are visible in the whole film, but there is no depth in your role, then the role is not significant.

I was a little lacking in vision as mayor - I failed to understand the significance that housing and the revitalization of housing means for a city.

If the work of art is to continue pursuing the vision of both being in and of the world but nevertheless in some fashion being more than just one more object to the mounting clutter, this is the specific point, I think, where this must be assured.

The most important thing you will do is yet to be seen. For me, I found my important thing to do when I learned to do surgery on the eye, when I learned to restore a person's vision.

Synchronicity. That's Jung, right?" "A series of meaningful coincidences. You're a size fourteen. My jersey number is a fourteen. It's gotta mean something.

Beneatha: You didn't tell us what Alaiyo means... for all I know, you might be calling me Little Idiot or something... ... Asagai: It means... it means One for Whom Bread--Food--Is Not Enough.