Quotes and Sayings About Meaningful

Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.
-- A. A. Milne

#Life #Meaningful #Native American

And I say, the meaning of life is what you make it. There will be as many different meaningful lives as there are people to live them.
-- A.C. Grayling

#Meaningful #People #Meaning Of Life

We are coming to understand health not as the absence of disease, but rather as the process by which individuals maintain their sense of coherence (i.e. sense that life is comprehensible, manageable, and meaningful) and ability to function in the face of changes in themselves and their relationships with their environment.
-- Aaron Antonovsky

#Meaningful #Healthy #Disease

I tend to not discriminate when it comes to people I can learn from. Basically, if someone has built a meaningful business in software, technology or media, faced disruption and adversity, and overcame underdog status, I want to know how they did it.
-- Aaron Levie

#Meaningful #Adversity #Technology

The traditional difficulty of balancing the mechanical with the imaginative schools of photography still operates. In schools of photography meaningful art education is often lacking and on the strength of their technical ability alone students, deprived of a richer artistic training, are sent forth inculcated with the belief that they are creative photographers and artists. It is yet a fact that today, as in the past, the most inspiring and provocative works in photography come as much (and probably more) from those who are in the first place artists.
-- Aaron Scharf

#Meaningful #Photography #Art

Life is not meaningful...unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel

#Meaningful #Life Is #Ends

I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Meaningful #Nature #Compassion

Human nature has been sold short...[humans have] a higher nature which...includes the need for meaningful work, for responsibility, for creativeness, for being fair and just, for doing what is worthwhile and for preferring to do it well.
-- Abraham Maslow

#Meaningful #Responsibility #Needs

There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, 'You must read this.' I've always wanted to write a book like that, with the sense that you are contributing to the discourse in middle America, a discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.
-- Abraham Verghese

#Meaningful #Book #Writing

As our values are the core to who we are as human beings, they are also the easiest way to identify and connect with others in meaningful ways. Think about it - most political campaigns are based around values. Barack Obama's 2008 election campaign galvanized millions of youth behind two very clear values - hope and change.
-- Adam Braun

#Meaningful #Thinking #Two

Meaningful student involvement is the process of engaging students as partners in every facet of school change for the purpose strengthening their commitment to education, community & democracy.
-- Adam Fletcher

#Meaningful #Commitment #School

It is not enough to simply listen to student voice. Educators have an ethical imperative to do something with students, and that is why meaningful student involvement is vital to school improvement.
-- Adam Fletcher

#Meaningful #School #Voice

The most meaningful way to succeed is to help others succeed.
-- Adam Grant

#Meaningful #Helping Others #Way

If we create networks with the sole intention of getting something, we won’t succeed. We can’t pursue the benefits of networks; the benefits ensue from investments in meaningful activities and relationships.
-- Adam Grant

#Meaningful #Benefits #Succeed

Hopefully people can look at our band and see that we're a heavy rock band. We're definitely not a metal band, but we're a band that focuses on meaningful lyrics and melody.
-- Adam Rich

#Meaningful #Rocks #People

I wanted to write some lyrics that had some meaning to them, lyrics that were meaningful to me and hopefully people can take something from that.
-- Adam Rich

#Meaningful #Writing #People

Young people are often asked, 'What do you want to be when you grow up?' and given advice about how to lead meaningful adult lives, but where's the encouragement to lead meaningful lives right now?
-- Adora Svitak

#Meaningful #Encouragement #Growing Up

Freedom of speech implies the world isn’t defined. It is meaningful when people are allowed to see the world their way.
-- Ai Weiwei

#Meaningful #People #Freedom Of Speech

The key.. will be a new public awareness of how serious is the threat to the global environment. Those who have a vested interest in the status quo will probably continue to be able to stifle any meaningful change until enough citizens.. are willing to speak out.
-- Al Gore

#Meaningful #Keys #Able

Competition in its best form is a test of self. It has nothing to do with medals. The winner is the person who gets the most out of themselves.
-- Al Oerter

#Meaningful #Self #Competition

I have not been part of an active counterculture movement, as it is not the approach that I have personally pursued to create a qualitatively beneficial and meaningful impact on society.
-- Al Seckel

#Meaningful #Impact #Movement

the world is neither meaningful, nor absurd. it quite simply is, and that, in any case, is what is so remarkable about it.
-- Alain Robbe-Grillet

#Meaningful #World #Absurd

Life has meaning only if you do what is meaningful to you.
-- Alan Cohen

#Meaningful #Purpose #Purpose Of Life

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.
-- Alan Cohen

#Life #Change #Meaningful

There is no real security in what is no longer meaningful.
-- Alan Cohen

#Meaningful #Real #Security

When I talk to audiences about the size and age of the cosmos, people often say, "It makes me feel so insignificant." I answer, "The bigger and more impersonal the universe is, the more meaningful you are, because this vast, impersonal place needs something significant to fill it up." We've abandoned the old belief that humanity is at the physical center of the universe but more come back to believing we are at the center of meaning.
-- Alan Dressler

#Meaningful #Spring #Believe

Like most meaningful activities, campaigns are team games.
-- Alastair Campbell

#Meaningful #Team #Games

The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It should transcend a personal God and avoid dogmas and theology. Covering both the natural and the spiritual, it should be based on a religious sense arising from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity. Buddhism answers this description.
-- Albert Einstein

#Meaningful #Spiritual #Religious

All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.
-- Albert Einstein

#Meaningful #Business #Imagination

The essence of interior design will always be about people and how they live. It is about the realities of what makes for an attractive, civilized, meaningful environment, not about fashion or what's in or what's out. This is not an easy job.
-- Albert Hadley

#Meaningful #Fashion #Jobs