Quotes About Significance

The first goal I scored for Brazil will live with me forever.

The worse thing in the world is for an individual to live, breath and exist and leave this earth, die, and not make impact.

I think a lot of burden is put on someone's middle name, but the reality is that you never use it.

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people's lives.

Success is fine, but success is fleeting. Significance is lasting.

Most successful musicals need to attach themselves to something bigger than themselves, a concept that will make people feel immediately connected to it.

We are only beginning to learn what to say in a photograph. The world we live in is a succession of fleeting moments, any one of which might say something significant.

I've impacted peoples' lives in such a way that they'll never forget.

Having people remember something that you did 25 years ago doesn't suck.

But once you become active in something, something happens to you. You get excited and suddenly you realize you count.

I have stayed true to that first idea that people can have a day in their lives that is very important and if they can reconnect with that day, reconnect with the people they were then, they can suddenly revive their emotions.

When you become part of something, in some way you count. It could be a march; it could be a rally, even a brief one. You're part of something, and you suddenly realize you count. To count is very important.

Those who have never suffered the iniquities of exile cannot possibly understand the significance, the gravitas, of a mattress.

Watching a child first learn to crawl on a carpet somehow has more significance to you as you get a little older. Perhaps it is that you have suffered more.

You could have names like Hatred; you could have names that mean something like Suffering or Poverty. So names are not just names: names have real meaning, and they tend to tell the world about the circumstances of your parents at the time that you were born.

I think anyone who suffers from chronic pain can agree with this - you feel this great significance. What I wanted to capture was that significance, and as a matter of fact I think that's one of the lyrics on 'Conflict,' on the split. I touch on the significance, and really it's a selfish thing, in an offbeat way.

It's the 21st century. It's untenable to suggest that women had no significance and no interest and that just because they didn't vote they had no relevance to the course of our history.

It's super dope when you connect with something personally.

Mike Webster's death was significant. Iron Mike. The best center in the NFL. Nine-time Pro Bowler. Hall of Famer. Four Super Bowl rings. He had played in more games - 220 of them - than any other player in Steelers history.

As big a deal as the Super Bowl is, it's not the most important thing going on in the planet.

People are going to forget that I won a Super Bowl, but they're never going to forget the kind of impact you had on them personally.

It did not matter whether it was preseason, regular season, my first playoff game, or the Super Bowl, I was nervous. And all that meant was that it always mattered to me. Anytime I was putting myself on a line, it didn't matter what it was, it was okay to be nervous because it was important to me. It was important to do my job well.

The Super Bowl wasn't that big. It was just a game.