Significance famous quotes
06-24-2025
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Those who have never suffered the iniquities of exile cannot possibly understand the significance, the gravitas, of a mattress.
-- Ariel Dorfman -
Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.
-- Benjamin Cardozo -
The great generalities of the constitution have a content and a significance that vary from age to age.
-- Benjamin Cardozo -
Success means using your knowledge and experience to satisfy yourself. Significance means using your knowledge and experience to change the lives of others.
-- Bob Buford -
I believe that not much happens of any significance when we're in our comfort zone.
-- Bob Parsons -
The significance of man is that he is insignificant and is aware of it.
-- Carl L. Becker -
You have to see your unimportance before you can see your importance and your significance to the world.
-- Charlie Haden -
Man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun.
-- Clifford Geertz -
Many things happen that we don't know the significance of until a little bit later.
-- David Lynch -
I will not die an unlived life...I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me...I choose to risk my significance.
-- Dawna Markova -
But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may not be aware of this till she is pretty far along with it.
-- Diane Johnson -
A story so cherished it has to be dressed in casualness to disguise its significance in case the listener turned out to be unsympathetic.
-- Diane Setterfield -
Jesus is the only significance. Beside Jesus nothing has any significance. He alone matters.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer -
Everything I own has some significance to me.
-- Dylan Lauren -
A frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys.
-- Edith Wharton -
In a few wretched buildings, we created a whole new industry with international significance.
-- Edwin Land -
every word calls up far more of a picture than its actual meaning is supposed to do, and the writer has to deal with all these silent associations as well as with the uttered significance.
-- Freya Stark -
In short, realism reveals. Where we thought nothing worthy of notice, it shows everything to be rife with significance.
-- George Parsons Lathrop -
To understand is to decipher. To hear significance is to translate.
-- George Steiner -
No time to spare: the expression assumed its full significance, as so many expressions do in wartime.
-- Guy Sajer -
Kierkegaard, Marx, and Nietzsche are for us like guideposts to a past which has lost its significance.
-- Hannah Arendt -
Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand.
-- Jane Addams -
SUCCESS is when I add value to MYSELF. SIGNIFICANCE is when I add value to OTHERS.
-- John C. Maxwell -
The main evolutionary significance of humor is that it gets us from the closed mode to the open mode quicker than anything else.
-- John Cleese -
What other significance can our existence have than to be ourselves fully and completely?
-- John Macmurray -
Life can have significance even if it appears to be a series of failures.
-- Joseph Cornell -
Significance is inherent in the human body.
-- Julia Kristeva -
Authentic stardom ... is a gift which, if it is to have any permanent significance, must be bestowed by a public rather than a manager.
-- Katharine Cornell -
If we discount the account of creation, we remove the significance of Christmas.
-- Ken Ham -
My significance is found in pointing to Someone far more significant.
-- LeCrae -
The only significance of life consists in helping to establish the kingdom of God.
-- Leo Tolstoy -
Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid.
-- Lucian Freud -
What will matter is not your success but your significance....
-- Michael Josephson -
Music is neither old nor modern: it is either good or bad music, and the date at which it was written has no significance whatever.
-- Peter Warlock -
Visions possess greater significance than just entertainment! Visions have power.
-- Phil Pringle -
To identify your own idols, ask questions like these: What things take the place of God in my life? Where do I find my significance and my confidence? What things make me really angry? Anger usually erupts when an idol gets knocked off the shelf.
-- Philip Graham Ryken -
Without God, life has no purpose, and without purpose, life has no meaning. Without meaning, life has no significance or hope.
-- Rick Warren -
Behaviorists tell us that we tend to overweight and overreact to the most recently received information. If we do, we will find that the information that we thought was so important becomes tempered, and reduced in significance, by new and related information that follows.
-- Robert Haugen -
I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.
-- Stephen Chbosky -
Exact information about the functional significance of the deep sections of the brain is only obtained by working through the brain histologically in serial section.
-- Walter Rudolf Hess -
Anything incomprehensible has a sexual significance to many people under thirty-five.
-- Zelda Fitzgerald -
I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.
-- Zoe Saldana -
Once you train an audience to look for significance, they start to find it everywhere.
-- Alex Hirsch -
People talk about 'lives of significance'-as if there's an alternative. If you're not leading a life of significance, you're not living.
-- Andrew Williams -
There are many options for how images can aggregate not to nihilism, but to significance, or to meaning.
-- Cynthia Daignault -
When you pursue significance, success can find you.
-- Dov Seidman -
Human life doesn't seem to have much significance, and I don't know why.
-- Mpho Koaho -
Frequently these loaded images or objects are used by me without my attaching a particular significance to them. In other words, what I'm doing is letting whatever power, whatever affect they have, work on its own.
-- Sarah Charlesworth -
There is no significance of God in my life, God is my life. I would not be, without God. I am supposed to be dead.
-- Danny Trejo -
I'm one of those people for whom success is one thing, but significance is another. If I can have both, I'm living the dream.
-- Romany Malco -
The event itself is so extraordinary that another chapter could be added to the Bible to chronicle its significance.
-- Jesse Jackson, Jr.
