Quotes About Significance

What a pity to see a mind as great as Napoleon's devoted to trivial things such as empires, historic events, the thundering of cannons and of men; he believed in glory, in posterity, in Caesar; nations in turmoil and other trifles absorbed all his attention ... How could he fail to see that what really mattered was something else entirely?

Ce qui n'est pas ineffable n'a aucune importance.

Ce qui m'intéresse n'est pas toujours ce qui m'importe.

The gentry protect their names like hymens, They suck their names like thumbs, But they sign their names and something happens. While Zimmer, I can write, Zimmer, All day, and nothing happens.

This was before I knew that we all live on this planet, driving in the cars of our own little minds, our own self-contained worlds. Yes, this was before I knew that, when I thought that I mattered, when I thought that people saw me, deep into me, saw all my love and excitement at being alive, saw the very glistening, running-overness of my aliveness. But we only matter when we do something awful. Then, someone sees us and only then.

And that's when he finally tells me his name is Ernest. I'm thinking of giving it away, though. Ernest is so dull, and Hemingway? Who wants a Hemingway?

I had the pure sense that I couldn't ever truly lose the past, or forget what any of it had meant.

Who cares for your fashions and your wars and your causes? I will shortly be gone and I have seen many fashions come and go and many causes so passionately defended only to be forgotten. But now it was different and he was drawn back into the stream of being because there was once again a life in his hands. Things mattered. The

What is the big deal about a couple of legs anyway?" Fyn looked at the medic. If she didn't know, he couldn't explain it.

We will call him Anthony Alexander Barrington. After my father and brother. We'll call him Alexander.

No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.

No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.

Sometimes I would rather that people take away years from my life Than take away a moment.

Always reduce it down. This keeps it from having a false bigness in your mind, and allows you to get your hands around it. Another way to get a handle on what you want to say is to ask: What does this speech have to do? Every speech has a job, a reason for being.

What do you think of your job as? What service are you performing in society? What's the point of what you do?

I don't think anything gives your life joy and meaning. I think your life simply has joy and meaning. The love for my children, the love for my parents and the love for my friends is the end in itself. The meaning is life.

Statistics mean nothing to the individual. Not a damn thing.

To express nostalgia for a childhood we no longer share is to deny the actual significance and humanity of children.

The value is always in the eye of the beholder. What is worthless to one person may be very important to someone else.

The choice to worry about why we are doing something more than how we do something is risky business.

Moreover, data science (and business in general) is not so worried about statistical significance, but more concerned with optimizing overall effort and results.

Knowledge, skills, and experiences that are vivid and hold significance, and those that are periodically practiced, stay with us.

Learning is stronger when it matters, when the abstract is made concrete and personal.

Knowledge is more durable if it's deeply entrenched, meaning that you have firmly and thoroughly comprehended a concept, it has practical importance or keen emotional weight in your life, and it is connected with other knowledge that you hold in memory.