Top 100 Quotes About Significant
#1. Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
Edward De Bono
#2. The death of Osama bin Laden marks the most significant development in our fight against al-Qa'ida. I salute President Obama ... in achieving this major accomplishment ... The death of Osama bin Laden is historic.
Nancy Pelosi
#3. The fastest way to feel connection, a sense of how significant your life is, a deep sense of certainty and variety, and put yourself in a state where you can give to others, is to find a way each day to appreciate more and expect less.
Anthony Robbins
#4. Romance is thinking about your significant other, when you are supposed to be thinking about something else.
Nicholas Sparks
#5. Paul himself says that he was converted to a follower of Jesus because he had personally encountered the resurrected Jesus.12 So we have Jesus' resurrection attested by friend and foe alike, which is very significant.
Lee Strobel
#6. The significant, life-forming times are the dull, in-between times.
Jan Karon
#7. The belief that complex systems require armies of designers and programmers is wrong. A system that is not understood in its entirety, or at least to a significant degree of detail by a single individual, should probably not be built.
Niklaus Wirth
#8. Rationalists believe Gandhari had only two sons, Duryodhana and Dusshasana, who are the only two of the hundred to play a significant role in the epic. They were probably twins, the 'two-year' pregnancy probably meaning 'twin' pregnancy.
Devdutt Pattanaik
#9. Frankl saw three possible sources for meaning: in work (doing something significant), in love (caring for another person), and in courage during difficult times.
Viktor E. Frankl
#10. It became clear to me in an instant that living a gay life without publicly acknowledging it is simply not enough to make any significant contribution to the immense work that lies ahead on the road to complete equality.
Zachary Quinto
#11. In all likelihood, a significant amount of time will be required to restore the nearly eight and a half million jobs that were lost nationwide over 2008 and 2009.
Ben Bernanke
#12. Everything can happen, everything is possible and probable. Time and place do not exist; on a significant bases of reality, the imagination spins, weaving new patterns; a mixture of memories, experiences, free fancies, incongruities and improvisations.
August Strindberg
#13. I find it so difficult to dispose of the few facts which to me are significant, that I hesitate to burden my attention with those which are insignificant
Henry David Thoreau
#14. I couldn't imagine anything more horrifying than three middle aged men trying to pretend that 'Black Dog' is still significant. It's inappropriate.
Robert Plant
#15. Nurses are an integral component of the health care system, and it is important that we recognize the over 2.7 million registered nurses for the significant work that they do.
Nathan Deal
#16. We all have a responsibility to advance the process of reconciliation, and as a political leader, I am committed to leading from the front and to continue to take bold and significant steps.
Martin McGuinness
#17. This role is perfectly aligned with where I want to grow my career and what I've been working towards, and given my skills and experiences, I feel I can make a significant contribution to both this team and company, and, as part of the overall team, help drive the company to the next level.
Russell Tuckerton
#19. I may not feel significant until someone expresses love to me.
Gary Chapman
#20. Life is short, and potential studies infinite. We have a much better chance of accomplishing something significant when we follow our passionate interests and work in areas of deepest personal meaning.
Stephen Jay Gould
#21. Habits of thinking need not be forever. One of the most significant findings in psychology in the last twenty years is that individuals choose the way they think.
Martin Seligman
#22. HBO is not an advertiser-based model, it's a subscription model. So what's significant to HBO is not necessarily the debut of an episode, it's the cumulative numbers.
Michael Mann
#23. Many people aren't aware of the teachings of Elijah Muhammad who taught some of our most significant conscious, black thinkers of our times. "He
Zoya
#25. France generates a significant part of its energy requirements from fission reactors and these have achieved a perfect safety record. We build ours all differently.
Wilson Greatbatch
#26. The three main observactions - (1) the tail of available variety is far longer than we realize; (2) it's now within reach economically; (3) all those niches, when aggregated, can make up a significant market - seemed indisputable, especially baked up with heretofore unseen data.
Chris Anderson
#27. True power and true happiness are when you use your success to make others around you feel even more significant.
Hrithik Roshan
#28. Oh, a pipe smoker," said Henry. "Well, that narrows it down." "Sometimes," said Doyle, "there is nothing so significant as a trifle.
Seth Grahame-Smith
#29. I'm still thinking and hoping there's an opportunity for people to have better lives and that significant change can occur.
Tracy Chapman
#30. It's quite extraordinary that a recourse (branding/identity) which is generally regarded as so significant, and is now so ubiquitous, is so little understood.
Wally Olins
#32. As a vegan body-builder I want to show others that it is possible to gain significant muscle and strength on a vegan diet and I want to inspire others to follow this lifestyle. I love being vegan and knowing that I am having a positive impact on our society.
Robert Cheeke
#33. Genius is that in which the soul of a race bums at its brightest, revealing and preserving its vision; works of art are great and significant in proportion to the clarity and fulness with which they incarnate this vision.
George Edward Woodberry
#34. He was one of those people in New York who was purported to "know everybody". "Knowing everybody" is a phrase that denotes not having many relations with people but having relations with a few people generally thought to be significant and powerful.
Siri Hustvedt
#35. Immortality awaits the legislator fortunate enough to have a significant law named after him. Think of Pell grants or Stafford loans for students, Sarbanes-Oxley to regulate Wall Street, or the Hyde Amendment on abortions.
Jim Cooper
#36. To be an entrepreneur in Europe, there is a stigma attached to it. There's a reason why England is known as a nation of shopkeepers. Part of it is the idea that it's better to have a shop and keep it up and running than close the doors and try to do something much more significant.
Danny Rimer
#37. The significant question is whether the activity pursued permits the release of tension without resolving the underlying conflict. If so, the conflict still remains, and hence the activity must be engaged in repeatedly. We then may have the beginning of compulsion neurosis.
Rollo May
#38. I want to see everyone contribute to the overall costs of the system, and with their entire earnings. I'm convinced that an objective discussion will reveal that the differences between the parties, which have been greatly exaggerated in some quarters, aren't that significant after all.
Angela Merkel
#39. Inevitably in my career of 35 years, I was in one turnaround circumstance after another, and I was personally put in positions of significant responsibility but without complete authority over everyone that needed to be mobilized.
Kevin Allen
#40. Remember to say "I love you" to family and friends not just your significant other.
Vianka Van Bokkem
#41. If there were a verb meaning "to believe falsely," it would not have any significant first person, present indicative.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#43. Heavy resistance strength training (loads 85% 1RM) appears to evoke significant gains in maximal eccentric muscle strength.
Marco Cardinale
#44. Never stop developing and perfecting your abilities, even if you have already achieved
significant, visible results.
Sunday Adelaja
#45. I don't think Canada is very inexpensive anymore. I travel there all the time; it's rather on the expensive side. I think there's significant risk to the Canadian economy.
Marc Faber
#46. 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
#47. The more we become aware of the enormous pull in man to repeat what he has learned, the greater will be our admiration for those exceptional beings who could break this spell and make a significant advance on which others could build.
E.H. Gombrich
#48. One of the most significant facts about humanity may finally be that we all begin with the natural equipment to a live a thousand kinds of life but end in the end having lived only one
Clifford Geertz
#49. I have already given some account of the Steppenwolf's outward appearance. He gave at the very first glance the impression of a significant, an uncommon, and unusually gifted man. His
Hermann Hesse
#50. You gave me a significant look, but significant of what?
Mason Cooley
#52. When you become more spiritual, you can easily adjust to the loss of anyone significant in your life.
Linda Alfiori
#53. There's nothing as significant as a human face. Nor as eloquent. We can never really know another person, except by our first glance at him. Because, in that glance, we know everything. Even though we're not always wise enough to unravel the knowledge.
Ayn Rand
#54. To summarize, when we experience difficult or stressful situations, especially if we have had significant stresses earlier in life and if we are unable to express or show how we feel, we will be at risk for our bodies to experience pain.
Howard Schubiner
#55. The significant chemicals of living tissue are rickety and unstable, which is exactly what is needed for life.
Isaac Asimov
#56. Television enjoys a de facto monopoly on what goes into the heads of a significant part of the population and what they think.
Pierre Bourdieu
#57. Of all the thoughts we think, it's only those that actually manifest themselves that seem significant. But the thoughts just before the event are like the fortune in the cookie. The fortune's as random as the thought. - Nathan Harold
Adam Ross
#58. It's good to be successful but it's great to be significant
Lou Holtz
#59. I realize that i've seen French mothers and nannies pausing exactly this little bit before tending to their babies during the day. It hadn't occurred to me that this was deliberate or that it was at all significant.
Pamela Druckerman
#60. Everybody has their own level of doing their music ... Mine just happened to resonate over the years, in one way and another, with a significant enough number of people so that I could do it professionally.
Linda Ronstadt
#61. A person who hasn't grieved a significant loss has unfinished business inside and can cause others great grief as a result.
Henry Cloud
#62. Terrorism is a significant threat to peace and security, prosperity and people.
Ban Ki-moon
#63. You know, the Tea Party is a - first of all, it is a significant movement, and I think the media and some pundits have tried to write it off as a bunch of cranks or something. But, in fact, it's really a very legitimate and fairly significant swath of voters out there.
Mark McKinnon
#64. The more tuned in you are to your purpose, and the more dedicated you are to growing toward it, the better your chances of reaching your potential, expanding your possibilities, and doing something significant.
John C. Maxwell
#65. We all have our own stories. The story you tell about yourself, even if you only tell it to yourself, drives your actions and has a significant impact on your focus.
Mani S. Sivasubramanian
#66. I think people will walk into the Starbucks store and overnight recognize the significant difference between what Starbucks represents day-in and day-out and all the other coffee companies that have been serving coffee in India for so many years.
Howard Schultz
#67. It seems that the most significant events in our lives happen while we're worried about something else happening.
Richard Paul Evans
#68. Purer colors ... have in themselves, independently of the objects they serve to express, a significant action on the feelings of those who look at them.
Henri Matisse
#69. I think malware is a significant threat because the mitigation, like antivirus software, hasn't evolved to a point to really mitigate the risk to a reasonable degree.
Kevin Mitnick
#70. If you come from insignificance and when you die you return to insignificance, then nothing is significant now.
Timothy Keller
#71. I find it significant that most of the people who believe in just war have never fought in one; examples: Barack W. Bush and George H. Obama.
Michel Templet
#72. I highly recommend reading this book, and applying the NVC process it teaches. It is a significant first step towards changing our communication and creating a compassionate world.
Arun Manilal Gandhi
#73. Potentially significant, by the way, because we don't know exactly what's in Matt Cooper's notes, and we don't know - and we don't still know the answer to the crucial question of whether it was Rove or somebody else that revealed Valerie Plame's name to him.
Michael Isikoff
#74. Leo Babauta's brilliant little book Zen Habits helps you think your way through this problem. His program is simple: Attempt to create only one significant work a year.
Seth Godin
#75. There are still substantial areas of disagreement, .. you simply have to look at the public statements to see there is a significant gap.
David Trimble
#76. Thinking is the first step to a revolution in your life that is incredibly significant.
T.D. Jakes
#77. Once you see a child's self-image begin to improve, you will see significant gains in achievement areas, but even more important, you will see a child who is beginning to enjoy life more.
Wayne Dyer
#78. Though race-related issues continue to occupy a significant portion of our political discussion, and though there remain many unresolved racial issues in this nation, we, average Americans, simply do not talk enough with each other about things racial.
Eric Holder
#79. If you commit yourself to living according to His Word your potential will be unlocked, and in time, what may look small now will grow into something significant.
Christine Caine
#80. For a significant man
woman, the one thought he values greatly, to the laughter and scorn of insignificant men, is a key to hidden treasure chambers; for those others, it is nothing but a piece of old iron.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#81. Gold has two significant shortcomings, being neither of much use nor procreative.
Warren Buffett
#82. Innovation is not born out out of a committee; innovation is a fight. It's messy, people die, but when the battle is over, something unimaginably significant has been achieved.
Rands
#83. A significant portion of the human race has no idea what it is like to be attached to short legs, and I am forever finding myself indignantly pumping along like a handcar in a world of express trains.
Patricia Cornwell
#84. There is something important you should know: the most significant examples of great work, the most poignant, the most inspiring, the ones we know would take your breath away, we can't tell you about. They haven't happened yet. They're yours.
David Sturt
#85. This letter isn't to mark any significant point in your life or mine. This letter is Just Because ... Just Because.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#86. I never really dyed my hair anything significant from my natural hair color.
Bryce Dallas Howard
#87. More people more accepting of civil unions and gay marriage, which our pollster said was the most significant change they've seen on any social issue. So, this country is changing in a way.
Norah O'Donnell
#88. We need to give credence to the nonsexual relationships ... the idea of having significant others instead of a significant other.
Sasha Cagen
#89. Don't worry about being successful. Worry about being significant.
Oprah Winfrey
#90. You are an extremely valuable, worthwhile, significant person even though your present circumstances may have you feeling otherwise.
James Newman
#91. There was nothing unusual about my victory. The entire story was back in eighth place. There is simply no way to imagine how good Jim Ryun is or how far he will go after he becomes an adult. What he did was more significant than Roger Bannister's first mile under 4 minutes.
Dyrol Burleson
#92. Society's emissions of carbon dioxide may or may not turn out to have something significant to do with global warming-the jury is still out.
Edward Teller
#93. Whitesnake more than most rock bands would get a very significant percentage of women in the audience and those were the ones I'd hear the voices because from where I am on stage is a pretty good spot.
David Coverdale
#94. Galton's eccentric, sceptical, observing, flashing, cavalry-leader type of mind led him eventually to become the founder of the most important, significant and, I would add, genuine branch of sociology which exists, namely eugenics.
John Maynard Keynes
#95. If you look at the attached plot you will see that the land also shows the 1940s warming blip (as I'm sure you know). So, if we could reduce the ocean blip by, say 0.15 deg C, then this would be significant for the global mean-but we'd still have to explain the land blip ...
Tom Wigley
#96. The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.
George W. Bush
#97. We've got to get rid of the stuff on the space station somehow. So we do have a pretty significant capability to bring back stuff on SpaceX that you might not imagine.
Scott Kelly
#98. My kids are young and my life with them is really stimulating and really full and significant.
Jodie Foster
#99. My life has been a continuous fulfillment of dreams. It appears that everything I saw and did has a new, and perhaps, more significant meaning, every time I see it. The earth is good. It is a privilege to live thereon.
Liberty Hyde Bailey
#100. In their field they [mathematicians] do what we ought to be doing in ours. Therein lies the significant lesson ... of their existence. They are an analogy for the intellectual of the future.
Robert Musil
