Quotes About Consequential

#1. It is very difficult for [people] to accept the idea that someone as inconsequential as Oswald could have killed someone as consequential as Kennedy.

Robert Dallek

#2. All negative adherences are consequential to one's well-being, whether it's tobacco, alcohol or any other form of drug regardless of the quantity or quality. I know because I am guilty of many, past and presently.

Nicholas Dodge

#3. In the many-mansioned house of Alternate History, I occupy a small corner. The trio of what-ifs I chronicled in 'Then Everything Changed' all begin with tiny, highly plausible twists of fate that lead to hugely consequential shifts in history.

Jeff Greenfield

#4. I believed, with morbid sincerity, that if I could make him my friend, we would together, in some small but consequential way, defy the wicked logic of hate and war, that we, together, would stand as a rebuke to the grotesque idea that our problem was without a solution.

Jeffrey Goldberg

#5. Canada's most important
that is to say consequential
modern voice.

Robin Blaser

#6. Satisfying natural desires is fine, but natural desires have a way of being both competitive and consequential.

Wallace Stegner

#7. Our most consequential human problems will be resolved, not through competition, but collaboration ... what we need in education is a learning climate in which students work together. In such an atmosphere, truth emerges as authentic insights are conscientiously exchanged.

Ernest L. Boyer

#8. He who feels punctured
Must once have been a bubble,
He who feels unarmed
Must have carried arms,
He who feels belittled
Must have been consequential,
He who feels deprived
Must have had privilege.

Lao-Tzu

#9. Emotional intelligence does not mean merely "being nice". At strategic moment it may demand not "being nice", but rather, for example, bluntly confronting someone with an uncomfortable but consequential truth they've been avoiding.

Daniel Goleman

#10. The concepts of right or wrong are always consequential. It can't be situational or it's not right or wrong.

Ilona Andrews

#11. Expressiveness in others enriched Mrs. Singer's confidence in her own interpretations, possibly because a certain fear that she had not accomplished anything in her life left her all the more desirous of discovering easy clues to less consequential questions.

William T. Vollmann

#12. Pleasure is the least consequential ... engagement and meaning are much more important.

Martin Seligman

#13. That attitude that fighting is probably not fair, but you have to defend yourself anyway and damage the enemy, has been profoundly consequential as far as my political activism goes.

June Jordan

#14. In times as turbulent as these, but also in the seeming humdrum of daily life, which always proved to be more meaningful and consequential in retrospect, each of us needed to rely on people of constant character and truths that were immutable.

Dean Koontz

#15. I think the public can t accept the idea that someone as inconsequential as Oswald could have killed someone as consequential as Kennedy. They don t want to believe the world is that chaotic. It is.

Robert Dallek

#16. I can't point to a single person or incident that changed my life, but the recognition that there is a certain world order, has been consequential. It has empowered me to do things my way. I found an inner truth by which I abide.

Shari Arison

#17. Obama's endorsement of gay marriage is hardly as consequential as Johnson's legislative success on civil rights.

Robert Dallek

#18. She was never without dark glasses, she was always well groomed, there was a consequential good taste in the plainness of her clothes, the blues and grays and lack of luster that made her, herself, shine so.

Truman Capote

#19. To teach consequential photography, don't bother with Photoshop or f-stops. Create a craving for images.

Douglas McCulloh

#20. People lie so that others will form beliefs that are not true. The more consequential the beliefs - that is, the more a person's well-being demands a correct understanding of the world or of other people's opinions - the more consequential the lie.

Sam Harris

#21. Raising the overtime threshold - something that is about to happen. This is more complex so not as many people understand it, but it's equally consequential.

Nick Hanauer

#22. This [Judge Samuel Alito] may be one of the most significant or consequential nominations that the Senate will vote on since I've been here in the last three decades.

Joe Biden

#23. Each increment of knowledge imparted in this way is so satisfying-and one's ignorance at every stage so consequential-that the process of learning BJJ can become remarkably addictive. I have never experienced anything quite like it.

Sam Harris

#24. So much are our minds influenced by the accidents of our bodies, that every man is more the man of the day than a regular and consequential character.

Lord Chesterfield

#25. In retirement, only money and symptoms are consequential.

Mason Cooley

#26. Impassioned in his gesticulation, his voice persuasive, his smile fascinating, his reasoning clear and consequential, he held his listeners fast for all the time he spoke. He

Umberto Eco

#27. Sometimes the most consequential moments in my life originate from a state of completely witless human auto-pilot.

Tiffanie DeBartolo

#28. Mormons are an extraordinarily educated and professional population. They have all these virtues: They work hard, don't skip school, have no scandals. Consequently, you find them in a lot of consequential places.

Rodney Stark

#29. Is action merely the incidental product of thought, or is thought the consequential product of action?

Haruki Murakami

#30. Freedom of speech means setting words free. Imprisoned and freed words are consequential. All words have consequences. Restrain and release words with respect for their consequentialness.

John R. Dallas Jr.

#31. The downside was that hospital staff took the first big blasts of secondary infection; the upside was that those blasts generally weren't emitted by people still feeling healthy enough to ride a bus or a subway to work. This was an enormously consequential factor in the SARS episode -

David Quammen

#32. Every student, without exception,
should be able to succeed well
at something consequential.

Ted Sizer

#33. True thought is pre-physical. This is the thinking-behind-the-thinking responsible for all the genuinely consequential choices we make in the world. A thinking that is not dependent on linear deduction, but that moves fast as lightning, making connections on different levels, bringing them together.

Eben Alexander

#34. My dad likes to tease me over this. We weren't there at Fenway, and it wasn't a consequential game, but Trot Nixon let a ball go through his legs, and from that moment on, I hated Trot Nixon. Really irrational. Based in nothing. But did not like him.

Katie Nolan

#35. Most consequential choices involve shades of gray, and some fog is often useful in getting things done.

Timothy Geithner

#36. Having a bunch of medals and badges doesn't necessarily mean you've achieved anything, you've got to do something beyond yourself to make a difference in life. Seek to be consequential in whatever you do.

Paula Broadwell

#37. If there's not some sort of friction in a move forward, your step is not as consequential as you'd like to believe it is.

Leander Kahney

#38. Strangers can be consequential when you want to practice an atrophied or unexplored facet of you, as they don't know how you usually act.

Kare Anderson

#39. I always write a thing first and think about it afterward, which is not a bad procedure because the easiest way to have consequential thoughts is to start putting them down.

E.B. White

#40. Keeping secrets is a consequential act for all involved.

Sharon Salzberg

#41. The invisibility of work and workers in the digital age is as consequential as the rise of the assembly line and, later, the service economy.

George Packer

#42. The most consequential act of state ownership in the twentieth-century western world was not the nationalization of airlines or the nationalization of railways or the nationalization of health care, but the nationalization of the family.

Mark Steyn

#43. It is intent which establishes one's consequential outcomes.

T.F. Hodge

#44. The highest compliment one can give a writer is not to say that one wholeheartedly agrees with his observations, but that he provoked - really, forced - difficult thinking about consequential matters and internal questioning of one's own assumptions, often without quick or clear resolution.

Glenn Greenwald