Quotes About Significance

You cannot overestimate the unimportance of practically everything.

That education is the most important of all professions is a message the public should hear and understand. And, as importantly, a message that our educators need to hear as well.

Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

The world pays no attention to those who have nothing to offer

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.

We had the experience, but we missed the meaning.

The meaning resides in one's own experience, making the everyday the exceptional.

The Holy Land... What an experience. I will never forget this day.

Synchronistic events constitute moments in which a 'cosmic' or 'greater' meaning becomes gradually conscious in an individual; generally it is a shaking experience.

The significance of something lies in its presence here and now. I don't care what it has been or what it will become. It is the experience of things that matters, the confrontation with things.

We're not mere spectators, or a cosmic accident, or some sideshow, or the Greek chorus to the main event. The human experience IS the main event.

Mass market desire is about meaning and experience.

All poets who, when reading from their own works,m experience a choked feeling, are major. For that matter, all poets who read from their own works are major, whether they choke or not.

The simplest rudiment of mystical experience would seem to be that deepened sense of the significance of a maxim or formula which occasionally sweeps over one.

I'm not afraid of failure; I'm afraid of succeeding at things that don't matter.

I'd rather be partly great than entirely useless.

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

He who knows not how to plant his will in things at least endows them with some meaning: that is to say, he believes that a will is already present in them (A principle of faith.)

It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

As a rule, one should never place form over content.

If your presence didn't make an impact, your absence won't make a difference.

If you're afraid of being forgotten? Then do something memorable.

I dont like being forgotten. I'm too pretty for that.

Their issues may not be about me but I have issues being forgotten and want my issues to be considered important too. So it is about me.