Quotes and Sayings About Significance
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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
