Quotes About Significance

Leroi-Gourhan écrit que, dans l'art des cavernes, signe féminin et blessure sont interchangeables : pour signifier la même idée, l'artiste, le penseur, l'écrivain paléolithique pouvait indifféremment figurer une vulve, une vache transpercée, le sang qui dégoutte d'une flèche. La vulve, le dol, la bête sous le merlin, le sang, sont synonymes ("Corps du roi", 40).

Vorrei sapere se ci incontreremo e quando. Se ci incontreremo troppo tardi o appena in tempo o ci incontreremo ma non riusciremo neanche a capire che eravamo noi e quanto eravamo importanti l'uno per l'altra.

Dragonflies signify new beginnings and new unions…sometimes marriage.

I can't help but wonder...if it's such a big deal for a middle-aged white guy to feel important...What happens when he doesn't?

The success of every company depends on its employees. You might think that is the best kept secret in the economy, but it really is no secret. Everybody will tell you that, but hardly anyone understands it. It is especially the people looking for work who don't understand. If they did the world of labor would be a different place.

Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism, as it's increasingly an art of gesture alone.

The difference between "significant" and "not significant" is not itself statistically significant

Conquest is shown to be an arbitrary act devoid of distinction and significance.

On 25 May 2011, the President of the United States, Barack Obama, speaking to the parliament of the United Kingdom, singled out Newton, Darwin and Alan Turing as British contributors to science. Celebrity is an imperfect measure of significance, and politicians do not confer scientific status, but Obama's choice signalled that public recognition of Alan Turing had attained a level very much higher than in 1983, when this book first appeared.

Names are deeply meaningful to your brain, and misleading names add chaos to your code.

It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.

Everything you do has certain significance, a certain weight. I think there is a film in everyone.

Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order.

This dullness of vision regarding the importance of the general welfare to the individual is the measure of the failure of our schools and churches to teach the spiritual significance of genuine democracy.

Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thing well, you're needed by someone.

'A Just Defiance' has been a huge success in South Africa. While reading at times like a well-written thriller, its significance is to reveal apartheid to have been far more brutal, ruthless, and self-serving even than we had suspected.

One knows something is important when the powers that be choose not to acknowledge it in public.

Books should have a purpose. Books should be practical in some sense.

I'm a practicing Catholic. And faith is very, very important to me. It was pounded in my head as a kid, and I hated it. And I sort of lost my way in my 20s and part of my 30s and then found my way back. And I don't know what I'd do without it. It's huge in my life.

Life is short, and every moment is precious.

I believe life is precious; I believe that to the marrow of my bones.

God values you simply because He created you. You are precious to Him, and your value will never change.

My mother's very proud of the name she gave me. She thought it sounded rhythmically better. It doesn't really make a difference to me what people call me, but since my mother calls me Holly Marie when she's angry, I prefer just my first name.

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