Quotes About Significance

I don't feel like I'm important enough to do a damn biopic, like who would want to see that?

Dance should mean something to you.

The dull routine of our daily job takes on a new significance, assumes a beauty and importance undreamt of before, if we consider it from the angle of service to God.

When we made 'Life in a Day,' we asked people around the globe to record their lives on a single ordinary day. When we were cutting that film, we talked about what it might be like if we chose a day that already had significance to people. The result is 'Christmas in a Day.'

I needed to understand the spirit of a tall building, what makes it important, what should I try to achieve in a tall building. It became a very interesting problem, something that I like very much.

And then an event did occur, to Emily, of considerable importance. She suddenly realized who she was.ï¾  There is little reason that one can see why it should not have happened to her five years earlier, or even five later; and none, why it should have come that particular afternoon.ï¾ 

Do not forget that the value and interest of life is not so much to do conspicuous things…as to do ordinary things with the perception of their enormous value.    Ã¢â'¬â€Teilhard de Chardin

Thinking is the hardest work we can do, and among the most important

That's it? That's all you're going to say?" "What else do you want?" "You usually have some smartass comeback." "I'm too tired for that shit right now. Aren't you?" "Most definitely.

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; 'tis dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed, if so celestial an article as Freedom should not be highly rated.

This is the greatest week in the history of the world since the Creation. (Saluting crew of the Apollo 11)

The only judgment that truly matters is the final judgment.

forever: 23 percent something mysterious that they call dark matter, 73 percent something even more mysterious that they call dark energy. Which leaves only 4 percent the stuff of us. As one theorist likes to say at public lectures, "We're just a bit of pollution." Get rid of us and of everything else we've ever thought of as the universe, and very little would change. "We're completely irrelevant,

I'm no one important or famous, no matter. It is better to be loved by one person who knows your soul than millions who don't even know your phone number. I have loved and been loved as deeply as a man can hope for. Which makes me a lucky man. It also means that I have suffered. Life has taught me that to fly, you must first accept the possibility of falling.

On the calendar, all days look the same, but they do not carry the same weight.

Oftentimes it's the smallest, seemingly inconsequential acts that make the biggest differences in our lives.

He didn't understand that one person's love is better than a thousand people's approval.

On the calendar, all the days look the same, but they do not carry the same weight.

People never forget things, they just never remembered it in the first place because it was too boring

I have written this book in order to make clear, "once and for all," what Jesus' life was about, and why it should matter to us.

Many people... go through life with hardly an original thought; gravitate from one pleasure or amusement to another; gain a livelihood doing what someone else has assigned; flee boredom as best they can; marry and beget children; and then, without having made the slightest difference of any unique significance, die and decay like any animal.

Rule 5. Know What Counts and What Doesn't

The power of duly appreciating little things belongs to a great mind; a narrow-minded man has it not, for to him they are great things

You, know I'm the Queen's favorite great nephew, Well, yeah I'm her only great nephew, but that's not important, I'd still be her favorite...