Significant Things Quotes:

I think some of the most significant things happen in history when you get the right people in the right place at the right time and I think that's what we are.

- Chokwe Lumumba

source: Source: bknation.org

topic: Thinking, Significant Things, People

In the scriptures the term light-mindedness means making light of sacred things or not taking seriously those eternally significant things that should be treated with reverence (D&C 84:54).

- Brent L. Top

topic: Mean, Light, Significant Things, Sacred Things

I think you're never going to get somewhere ambitious if you don't start out with great ambitions. What I would say is: we got a start. That to me is a very significant thing. Here we were, a historic meeting to talk about climate change.

- Christy Clark

source: Source: www.macleans.ca

topic: Ambition, Thinking, Significant Things, Great Ambition

Television allows you to actually make a living, feed your children, send them to college and important significant things. To have the ability, the luxury, to make the choices of doing little movies where people cannot pay you.

- Patricia Arquette

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Children, College, Significant Things

Young men do not usually become inactive in the Church because they are given too many significant things to do.

- Spencer W. Kimball

source: Spencer W. Kimball (1982). “The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”

topic: Men, Significant Things, Church

It was often in small moments that significant things were revealed.

- Lisa Kleypas

source: Lisa Kleypas (2013). “Friday Harbor Series Books 1-4: Christmas Eve at Friday Harbor, Rainshadow Road, Dream Lake, and Crystal Cove”, p.109, Macmillan

topic: Significant Things, Small Moments, Significant Moments

There may be significant things to learn about people by looking at what annoys them most.

- Alain de Botton

source: Alain de Botton (2012). “How Proust Can Change Your Life”, p.94, Pan Macmillan

topic: Significant Things, People, May

Experience is not a matter of having actually swum the Hellespont, or danced with the dervishes, or slept in a doss-house. It is a matter of sensibility and intuition, of seeing, and hearing the significant thing, of paying attention at the right moments, of understanding and coordinating. Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

- Aldous Huxley

source: Texts and Pretexts (1932) p. 5

topic: Men, Significant Things, House, Coordinating

The most significant thing about the Monkees as a pop phenomenon is that we were the only TV show about young adults that did not feature a wiser, older person.

- Peter Tork

topic: Tv Shows, Significant Things, Adults, Young Adult

Of course, a woman's choice to go out into the world is a very significant thing. But part of real liberation is recognizing that mothering is every bit as important as other kinds of work. I actually believe it's more important than anything we do out in the world.

- Marianne Williamson

source: Source: scottlondon.com

topic: Real, Believe, Significant Things

Leadership is like third grade: it means repeating the significant things.

- Max De Pree

topic: Mean, Significant Things, Third Grade

Significant things often happen when you are present. Things come to you, and then you respond to what is required. The response very often comes without a premeditated idea of what you want. It is simply a response to the situation.

- Eckhart Tolle

source: Source: rayhemachandra.com

topic: Significant Things, Ideas, Want

Nobody can predict the future. You just have to give your all to the relationship you're in and do your best to take care of your partner, communicate and give them every last drop of love you have. I think one of the most important things in a relationship is caring for your significant other through good times and bad.

- Nick Cannon

topic: Love You, Caring, Thinking, Significant Other, Significant Things

It is certainly true that whatever a man may do or say, the most significant thing about him is what he thinks; and significant also is how he came to think it, why he continued to think it, or, if he did not continue, what the influences were which caused him to change his mind .

- Albert J. Nock

topic: Men, Thinking, Mind, Significant Things

I have desired, like every artist, to create a little world out of the beautiful, pleasant, and significant things of this marred and clumsy world, and to show in a vision something of the face of Ireland to any of my own people who would look where I bid them. I have therefore written down accurately and candidly much that I have heard and seen, and, except by way of commentary, nothing that I have merely imagined.

- William Butler Yeats

topic: Beautiful, Artist, People, Significant Things, Commentary

It always seemed to me like it was a significant thing to do with one's life to be an actor 'cause I love movies and I felt like, not to be grandiose about it, but there is something important about film with the function it provides to general society.

- Charlie Hunnam

topic: Movie Love, Important, Actors, Grandiose, Significant Things

Reagan has very significant things to teach us - positive lessons and quite negative lessons.

- Eugene Jarecki

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Negative, Lessons, Significant, Significant Things

The books that I do, the stories I write - I'm glad I'm able to do them, but they will quickly be swallowed up by the sands of time. Sometimes it frustrates me that I'm not able to do bigger, more important, more significant things. I guess you have to be content to do whatever it is you can do.

- Jim Woodring

source: Interview with Ross Simonini, staging.believermag.com.

topic: Significant Things, Sands Of Time

The most significant thing is public participation. That assures the Afghan public that our promises are not empty.

- Ashraf Ghani

source: "Ashraf Ghani: U.S. Critical To Afghanistan's Future". "Morning Edition" with Scott Neuman, www.npr.org. March 22, 2015.

topic: Promise, Empty, Significant, Significant Things

After fifty years of living, it occurs to me that the most significant thing that people do is go to work, whether it is to go to work on their novel or at the assembly plant or fixing somebody's teeth.

- Thomas McGuane

topic: Work, Years, People, Significant Things

Meditation is the most significant because it opens the door for all other significant things: love, prayer, God, light, music, poetry.

- Rajneesh

topic: Prayer, Light, Doors, Love Prayer, Significant Things

As you look at the first four, the significant thing is that Alboreto is fifth.

- Murray Walker

topic: Funny, Racing, Four, Significant Things

One significant thing that you can do for your children is to invest some time into taking them out into nature.

- Jaggi Vasudev

topic: Love, Life, Children, Significant Things

Perhaps the most significant thing a person can know about himself is to understand his own system of values. Almost every thing we do is a reflection of our own personal value system. What do we mean by values? Our values are what we want out of life. No one is born with a set of values. Except for our basic physiological needs such as air, water, and food, most of our values are acquired after birth.

- Jacque Fresco

topic: Mean, Reflection, Air, Personal Values, Significant Things

In the world of the very small, where particle and wave aspects of reality are equally significant, things do not behave in any way that we can understand from our experience of the everyday world...all pictures are false, and there is no physical analogy we can make to understand what goes on inside atoms. Atoms behave like atoms, nothing else.

- John Gribbin

topic: Reality, Everyday, Atoms, Particles, Significant Things

There's no question that as science, knowledge and technology advance, that we will attempt to do more significant things. And there's no question that we will always have to temper those things with ethics.

- Benjamin Carson

topic: Technology, Ethics, Significant, Significant Things

You will have significant experiences. I hope that you will write them down and keep record of them, that you will read them from time to time and refresh your memory of those meaningful and significant things. Some may be funny. Some may be significant only to you. Some of them may be sacred and quietly beautiful. Some may build one upon another until they represent a lifetime of special experiences.

- Gordon B. Hinckley

topic: Beautiful, Meaningful, Memories, Significant Things, Significant Experiences

Don't you think it's strange that life, described as so rich and full, a camel-trail of adventure, should shrink to this coin-sized world? A head on one side, a story on the other. Someone you loved and what happened. That's all there is when you dig in your pockets. The most significant thing is someone else's face. What else is embossed on your hands but her?

- Jeanette Winterson

topic: Adventure, Thinking, Hands, Significant Things

The motivations of a scientist are always mixed and complex... every medical student has the desire to do good in the world. Making a small contribution to that effort is really in a sense the last significant thing that I want to do with my life.

- Gustav Nossal

topic: Leadership, Motivation, Effort, Good In The World, Significant Things

If you step back from it and really think about what the mass media does on a global scale, the most significant thing it does is coordinate behaviour.

- Daniel Pinchbeck

topic: Thinking, Media, Doe, Mass Media, Significant Things

To the Suprematist the visual phenomena of the objective world are, in themselves, meaningless; the significant thing is feeling, as such, quite apart from the environment in which it is called forth.

- Kazimir Malevich

source: "The Non-Objective World: Suprematism" by Kazimir Malevich, 1927.

topic: Feelings, World, Environment, Significant Things

Nobody has achievements like this ... you cannot name a Canadian prime minister who has done as many significant things as I did, because there are none.

- Brian Mulroney

topic: Names, Achievement, Done, Significant Things

Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.

- Rem Koolhaas

topic: Luxury, Architecture, Significant, Significant Things