Top 100 Quotes About Significance
#1. Midlife is the time to let go of an overdominant ego and to contemplate the deeper significance of human existence.
Carl Jung
#2. If you start with respect for others you can never go wrong. Ultimately when you understand there is no difference between you and others, this rule will take on added significance.
G. Tyler Wright
#3. I have known some people of very modern views driven by their distress to the use of theological terms to which they attached no doctrinal significance, merely because a drawer was jammed tight and they could not pull it out.
G.K. Chesterton
#4. I am not offering God as a theory to compete with scientific theories about the universe. Rather I am saying that those self-contained, secular theories provide evidence for theologically neutral premises in philosophical arguments leading to a conclusion that has theistic significance.
William Lane Craig
#5. there was little significance in their conversation, just father and son taking a verbal stroll together. The
Liu Cixin
#6. This may be the only example in history of an individual financing an entire railroad of significance out of his own pocket.
Bill Dedman
#7. What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.
Nelson Mandela
#8. To a lot of us, literature's eternal significance had seemed beyond arguing - like, say, the illegality of government-sponsored torture.
Darin Strauss
#9. Disconnect your identity from what you produce, and that's a hard thing for us because we think of our significance, worth and value based on what we do instead of who we are.
William P. Young
#10. The folkish philosophy is fundamentally distinguished from the Marxist by reason of the fact that the former recognizes the significance of race and therefore also personal worth and has made these the pillars of its structure. These are the most important factors of its view of life.
Adolf Hitler
#11. History is an amazing presence
it is the place where vanished time gathers. While we are in the flow of time, it is difficult to glean its significance, and it is only in looking back that we can recognize the hidden dimensions at work within a particular era or epoch.
John O'Donohue
#12. You don't have to believe that there was a King Arthur to get the significance of those stories, but Christians say we have to believe there was a Christ, or the miracles don't make sense.
Joseph Campbell
#13. A modern building should derive its architectural significance solely from the vigour and consequence of its own organic proportions. It must be true to itself, logically transparent, and virginal of lies or trivialities.
Walter Gropius
#14. No one fully understands spinors. Their algebra is formally understood but their general significance is mysterious. In some sense they describe the 'square root' of geometry and, just as understanding the square root of -1 took centuries, the same might be true of spinors.
Michael Atiyah
#15. Goals should be difficult to achieve because those achieved with little effort are seldom appreciated, give little personal satisfaction, and are often not very worthwhile. There is a price to be paid for achieving anything of significance.
John Wooden
#16. The assumption that animals are without rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#17. Anything incomprehensible has a sexual significance to many people under thirty-five.
Zelda Fitzgerald
#18. Jesus is the only significance. Beside Jesus nothing has any significance. He alone matters.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#19. A word is nothing unless it has values and an atmosphere, unless you grasp its historical significance.
Stefan Zweig
#20. Once you train an audience to look for significance, they start to find it everywhere.
Alex Hirsch
#21. Classics aren't books that are read for pleasure. Classics are books that are imposed on unwilling students, books that are subjected to analyses of "levels of significance" and other blatt, books that are dead.
Alexei Panshin
#22. It is the leaders job to add significance to the lives of the people he leads.
John C. Maxwell
#23. It is (often) the quiet gesture which carries the most significance - the one which suddenly directs the symphony.
Mary Anne Radmacher
#24. One interesting conclusion is that money does indeed bring happiness. But only up to a point, and beyond that point it has little significance. For
Yuval Noah Harari
#25. If I were given a choice, I would stand by Eve and eat that forbidden apple once again. Why? I know there is beauty and meaning and significance in the complexity of our lives on earth. Otherwise, we are just animals. I prefer us to be human.
J.D. Radke
#26. Some certain significance lurk in all things, else all things are little worth, and the round world itself but an empty cipher except to sell by the cartload, as they do hills about Boston, to fill up some morass in the Milky Way.
Herman Melville
#27. Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.
John Ortberg
#28. We create our own omens, I think, and then mystify ourselves trying to understand their significance.
Steven Brust
#29. I was brought up in a Christian environment where, because God had to be given pre-eminence, nothing else was allowed to be important. I have broken through to the position that because God exists, everything has significance.360
Mark A. Noll
#30. How could filling in a bunch of blanks and writing a fluffy essay about the 'moment of significance' in my life let them know if I was good enough to go here?
Laurie Halse Anderson
#31. When a war is waged by two opposing groups of robbers for the sake of deciding who shall have a freer hand to oppress more people, then the question of the origin of the war is of no real economic or political significance.
Vladimir Lenin
#32. Because we usually do not consider unimportant events stressful, stress can also be an excellent indicator of the significance we attach to an event--in other words, it highlights what is important to us.
U.S. Department Of The Army
#33. The defining qualities are about use: ease and simplicity. Caring beyond the functional imperative, we also acknowledge that products have a significance way beyond traditional views of function.
Jonathan Ive
#34. Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid.
Lucian Freud
#35. The symbolic significance of individual athletes' achievements has sometimes proved more productive than the negotiations of diplomats or politicians.
Richard Attias
#36. What's the meaning of life?" Cole tried. "There is no inherent meaning," Aero replied. "All significance is constructed.
Brandon Mull
#37. The more elusive and ambiguous a symbol is, the more it gains significance and power.
Umberto Eco
#38. It is this process of symbolization which, in certain hasheesh states, gives every tree and house, every pebble and leaf, every footprint, feature, and gesture, a significance beyond mere matter or form, which possesses an inconceivable force of tortures or of happiness.
Fitz Hugh Ludlow
#39. The significance of the law of love is precisely that it is not just another law, but a law which transcends all law.
Reinhold Niebuhr
#40. It's not about outward appearances but inward significance. A grandeur in the world, but not of the world, a grandeur that the world doesn't understand. That first glimpse of pure otherness, in whose presence you bloom out and out and out.
A self one does not want. A heart one cannot help.
Donna Tartt
#41. And of course, identifying all human genes and proteins will have great medical significance.
Daniel Nathans
#42. The difference between real life and a story is that life has significance, while a story must have meaning.
The former is not always apparent, while the latter always has to be, before the end.
Vera Nazarian
#43. God is never in the wrong when He and one of His children are separated; yet He devises ways so that the banished person may not remain estranged from Him. Never underestimate the significance of timing when it comes to mending. You may not get another chance.
Beth Moore
#44. Adrift in an air of charged significance, doubt struck me: was it a real memory, had he really spoken those words to me, or was I dreaming?
Donna Tartt
#45. You have to see your unimportance before you can see your importance and your significance to the world.
Charlie Haden
#46. The closure of the book is an illusion largely created by its materiality, its cover. Once the book is considered on the plane of its significance, it threatens infinity.
Susan Stewart
#47. When language is used without true significance, it loses its purpose as a means of communication and becomes an end in itself.
Karl Jaspers
#48. The general statement that the mental faculties are class concepts, belonging to descriptive psychology, relieves us of the necessity of discussing them and their significance at the present stage of our inquiry.
Wilhelm Wundt
#49. The prophets' task is to tell their own people what God intends to do with them, not to think about what people in hundreds of years' time may need to hear, though the preserving of their prophecies implies the conviction that they have ongoing significance. Further,
John E. Goldingay
#50. I've praised Obama's record on same-sex equality as enthusiastically as anyone: it's one area where his record has been impressive. I understand, and have expressed, the emotional importance for LGBT Americans of his marriage announcement as well as its political significance.
Glenn Greenwald
#51. A stage set should not make a pretty picture of its own. The empty stage should look formal and pleasing, but should seem to be waiting for the action to complete it; it should not hold definite significance in itself.
G. Wilson Knight
#52. The hysterical find too much significance in things. The depressed find too little.
Mason Cooley
#53. I find significance in all kinds of small details when I run; I'm hyper aware of my surroundings, the sensations in my body, and the thoughts running through my mind. Everything is clearer, heightened.
Kristin Armstrong
#54. The actions of a human being, even of fifteen months of age, may not be without significance to a sympathetic eye.
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
#55. The significance is hiding in the insignificant. Appreciate everything.
Eckhart Tolle
#56. No. The dream was just my subconscious mind's way of drawing attention to something I'd seen without perceiving its significance.
Jonathan L. Howard
#57. The simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as the precise organization of forms which gives that event its proper expression ... In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little human detail can become a leitmotif.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
#58. Thus marriage, like the Trinity, is a hierarchical partnership. While all parties are equal in value, essence, and significance, there is a distinction in function (hierarchy) in order to fulfill God's kingdom agenda in history.
Tony Evans
#59. Photography, too, reduces the world to strips and rectangles; photographers scrutinize the surfaces of reality in hope of unlocking the potential for significance that is latent within them.
Frank Gohlke
#60. The classics of Marxism, while fully appreciating the significance of the Darwinian theory, pointed out the errors of which Darwin was guilty. Darwin's theory, though unquestionably materialist in its main features, is not free from some serious errors.
Trofim Lysenko
#61. Because every day of your life was written on God's calendar before you were born, everything that happens to you has spiritual significance.
Rick Warren
#62. We live in a vast and awesome universe in which, daily, suns are made and worlds destroyed, where humanity clings to an obscure clod of rock. The significance of our lives and our fragile realm derives from our own wisdom and courage. We are the custodians of life's meaning.
Carl Sagan
#63. If you're completely off your rocker and have delusions of grandeur in which your personal existence is of special significance to the rest of the world, all hope is not lost. Mix in enough charisma and you have what it takes to start a religion ... or become a serial killer.
Edward M. Wolfe
#64. Even if one is familiar with the precise meaning of everything one recites, the act of worship can hardly have any significance at all unless it registers the overall message each part of our prayers is meant to convey.
Immanuel Jakobovits, Baron Jakobovits
#65. Worship is of fundamental significance to the life of the individual and to the corporate life of the church, yet we rarely hear it taught as a discipline or practice in the gathering of believers.
Carl Tuttle
#66. At the end of a lifetime's worth of lights and nights, it seemed that family was really the only important thing there was. And yet how many of us truly appreciated that significance before our last breath left us?
David Baldacci
#67. Pitfalls he must find on that journey, blind paths perhaps, but through it all the philosophy of belief in the essential goodness, the actual significance of things created, the state of being, 'in love with life.
Frances Chesterton
#68. To infuse a novel with a significance that speaks to many requires, paradoxically, that you ignore what the public wants and focus instead on what matters to you.
Donald Maass
#69. The central significance of prayer is not in the things that happen as results, but in the deepening intimacy and unhurried communion with God at His central throne of control in order to discover a sense of God's need in order to call on God's help to meet that need.
Edward McKendree Bounds
#70. Any experience, however, trivial in its first appearance, is capable of assuming an indefinite richness of significance by extending its range of perceived connections.
John Dewey
#71. Leadership is not only about producing results or measuring success with statistics. Leadership is doing something with significance that makes families, organizations, societies, nations, and the world a better place before you die.
Farshad Asl
#72. The only real significance she had attached to the memory was that it was funny what stuck with you.
David Foster Wallace
#73. An unintentional life accepts everything and does nothing. An intentional life embraces only the things that will add to the mission of significance.
John C. Maxwell
#74. Some people need significance more than they need another person. Change will only happen in a relationship when you realize it is not the person, but the "emotion" you desire.
Shannon L. Alder
#75. What's most troubling about this witless mishmash of whiny, infantile philosophizing and bone-crunching violence is the increasing realization that it actually thinks it's saying something of significance.
Kenneth Turan
#76. In 1847, two years before the greedy rush for gold began in California, the Mormons quietly began irrigating Utah's Salt Lake Valley. In a sense, they were the first American irrigators of any significance. And their knowledge about the art of applying water to land has spread throughout the world.
Stuart Campbell
#78. If we weigh the significance of a book by the effect it has on its readers, then the great children's books suddenly turn up very high on the list.
Laura Miller
#79. The significance of something lies in its presence here and now. I don't care what it has been or what it will become. It is the experience of things that matters, the confrontation with things.
Asger Jorn
#80. The Rebecca Riots by David Williams is an unassuming book, but its significance is universal. The book and its author determined my life; they made me want to be a historian of Wales and of the world.
Kenneth O. Morgan
#82. The only significance of analyzing the past is that it does give us some key to the future.
John F. Kennedy
#83. I understood very little about the significance of the Tony before, but I've learned that it makes a huge significance to whether or not your show is going to run.
Jez Butterworth
#85. The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Aristotle.
#86. It is a tragedy, I feel, that people of a different sexual type are caught in a world which shows so little understanding for homosexuals and is so crassly indifferent to the various gradations and variations of gender and their great significance in life.
Emma Goldman
#87. there can be no reason to believe these officers of an established news organization serving newspapers all over the country failed to realize their responsibilities at a moment of supreme significance to the people of this country.
John Dos Passos
#88. By focusing too myopically on what we want God to do on our behalf, we may miss the significance of what he has already done.
Philip Yancey
#89. Hitler had used an act of terror, an event of limited inherent significance, to institute a regime of terror that killed millions of people and changed the world. The
Timothy Snyder
#90. I've never worked to make money. I understand we've got to eat and all that, but I never said I want to be a multimillionaire or a billionaire. To me, that's of no significance. I work to have the accomplishment.
Bob Parsons
#91. President Obama can talk about having no grand schemes and making no big gains, but the reality is he can't get anything of significance through Congress.
Robert Dallek
#92. We do not deceive ourselves that we are engaging in an activity that is anything but debilitating, dangerous, euphoric, kinesthetic, expensive, frivolously essential, economically useless and totally without redeeming social significance. One should not probe for
deeper meanings.
Allen Steck
#93. Remembering is organized for significance (not usefulness)
Grace Paley
#94. 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
#95. In this chapter, we'll be exploring the connection between D/s and religion, and discussing any significance that the link might have for you.
Michael Makai
#96. Those words, though heaven only knew how often she had heard them, still gave her her thrill. They braced her like a tonic. Life acquired significance. She was about to step from the world of make-believe into the world of reality.
W. Somerset Maugham
#97. Although on a conscious level a man lives for himself, he is actually being used for the attainment of humanity's historical aims. A deed once done becomes irrevocable, and any action comes together over time with millions of actions performed by other people to create historical significance.
Leo Tolstoy
#98. 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
#99. Emphasize reconciliation, not resolution. It is unrealistic to expect everyone to agree about everything. Reconciliation focuses on the relationship, while resolution focuses on the problem. When we focus on reconciliation, the problem loses significance and often becomes irrelevant.
Rick Warren
#100. Someone once said that nothing costs more and yields less benefit than revenge," Aomame said.
"Winston Churchill. As I recall it, though, he was making excuses for the British Empire's budget deficits. It has no moral significance.
Haruki Murakami
