Quotes About Significance

The reality is that every human being is placed on this planet, and one of the things that drives humans is their need for meaning, and if you can make every job meaningful, then you will guarantee that every job will be done to its highest level of excellence.

I never said I could save Braddock. It's not about me. It was never even just about Braddock. It was a metaphor. Places like this matter.

When you really think about it, I'm not delusional enough to think that what I do is important to life as we know it on this planet. No. But neither is what you do.

It's always a pleasure to find something that matters.

Acting is not an important job in the scheme of things. Plumbing is.

For me, to have had an impact with anything that you've done, whether it's a painting, a photo, a poem, or something that you've created, just that experience is enormous. You don't get that all the time.

For sure I once thought of myself as the poet who would save the ordinary from oblivion.

When a child is born, the exact moment it draws its first breath should be noted, as that moment, and not the time of delivery, is the time of birth from the astrologer's point of view.

To me, it's just not that important whether someone climbs the Eigerwand in ten hours or in three.

I don't believe in coincidence.

I don't really believe in coincidence.

I don't believe in coincidences.

Even if I did give a good talk, is what I have to say more important and interesting than what Colin Powell said?

Action is only really compelling when it reveals character - character revealed through action, and not action for its own sake.

I don't believe that competitions are important.

If I feel any marginalisation, it's because the things that concern me aren't so important to other people.

I don't want people to confuse me as an MC that talk about nothing.

All of my friends and a lot of kids at school know what I do. It's really something that's a big deal in my town. So it keeps it really special when people do congratulate me.

People do not connect with what happened last week, let alone what happened 20 years ago.

Everything's connected, and everything has meaning if you look for it.

I remember rather little of my life, and what I do remember is of small consequence.

Ideas have consequences.

I don't think I'll ever do a show with violence where there's no consequences, 'cause I know the consequences.

While the hippocampus itself doesn't store memories, it serves to triage our experiences based upon their survival significance.