Quotes About Significance

When there is too much information to sustain any theory, information becomes essentially meaningless.

Lo mejor de la televisión es su basura y nadie ni nada está seriamente amenazado por ella. Porque no medimos una cultura por su producción de trivialidades no encubiertas, sino por lo que juzga significativo.

We do not measure a culture by its output of undisguised trivialities but by what it claims as significant.

It doesn't mean that much to me to mean that much to you.

A frase do Otto é mais importante do que Os sertões de Euclides da Cunha. ritinha

A frase do Otto é mais importante do que todo o Machado de Assis! ritinha

16 August 1804 was going to be a day they would remember for the rest of their lives.

The power of a thing or an act is in the meaning and the understanding.

It's dubious and dangerous, Drucker is saying, to mistake what's measurable for what's important.

That's all Rome seemed to become: a map of grievances, fresh or half-healed. To patronize a shop, or cast a vote, or merely brush off a stranger who had fallen in the muck, was to risk pleasing one party and provoking another. There was only one man in the city who mattered now. In place of significance came victimhood. Every man and woman nurtured his or her private hurts, protecting and suckling and growing them. Instead of futures, Romans had plots for imminent revenge.

True love is rare, and it's the only thing that gives life real meaning.

I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough..

True love is rare, and it's the only thing that gives life real meaning.

The GTO is such an important car because it's a racing car and a touring car and that's pretty unusual.

That was how kings were. If you were of no use, you didn't exist.

What a waste and fuss for a bit of water and a few words.

Nichts was irgendeinem Wesen in irgendeiner Situation grundsätzlich möglich ist, ist von grundsätzlicher Bedeutung.

When the dust raised by the great events of modern history settles, the mediocrity of the protagonists leaves the historian dumbfounded.

Die Götter strafen, indem sie die Dinge ihrer Bedeutung berauben.

To live is modern man's only value. Even the modern hero does not die except in the name of life.

Live in the moment. Moments make history.

Even a stone has its uses, and man who is the most intelligent of all creatures must be of some use, hasn't he?

And meanwhile death was as terrible in a small man as in a great one.

It must be noted that this Person of Consequence had only lately become a person of consequence, and until recently had been a person of no consequence. Though, indeed, his position even now was not reckoned of consequence in comparison with others of still greater consequence.