Significant Things Quotes

#1. Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.

Rem Koolhaas

#2. 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

#3. One of the significant things that's happened, which shouldn't be looked at as lightly as it might sound, is that women over 45, over 50, are now allowed to be sexy.

Lesley Manville

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

Spencer W. Kimball

#5. Things that requires less effort to increase, are normally the less significant things of life

Sunday Adelaja

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

Eugene Jarecki

#7. 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

#8. You cannot be a priority to someone who never prioritise the most significant things in their lives.

Nomthandazo Tsembeni

#9. 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.

Ben Carson

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

Rajneesh

#11. I used to always make art for girls. That was the thing I did for girls to like me. I did portraits, drawings, letters that formed outlines of significant things in our relationship. Art. I just used art in general. It usually worked.

Cary Fukunaga

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

Max De Pree

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

Alain De Botton

#14. I actually think that working in the federal government, or state or local, is one of the most significant things that a technical person can do.

Megan Smith

#15. You cannot name a Canadian prime minister who has done as many significant things as I did, because there are none.

Brian Mulroney

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

Lisa Kleypas

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. Changing a planning tool or a method won't create significant change in the results we're getting in our lives - although the implied promise is that it will. It's not a matter of controlling things more, better, or faster; it's questioning the whole assumption of control.

Stephen R. Covey

#21. It is a very good thing, and a significant one too, to exterminate the bourgeoisie and capitalism in China.

Mao Zedong

#22. Our species in general had grown accustomed to pain and adversity through millennia of struggle ... we were only recently evolving the ability to let ourselves feel good and have things go well for any significant period of time.

Gay Hendricks

#23. A great writer picks up on those things that matter. It's almost like their radar is attuned to the most significant moments.

Alain De Botton

#24. Despite what you may have learned last month, sustained writing is best accomplished as part of a balanced lifestyle, one that includes things like grocery shopping and speaking in complete sentences with your significant other. No

Chris Baty

#25. Nothing happens for a week. I don't mean this figuratively like there is a shortage of significant events. I mean that no things occur. Total stasis. It's sort of heavenly, to tell you the truth

John Green

#26. I preserve things that are significant to me. Only time will determine what is important in the long term. But something can be rediscovered only if someone has collected and preserved it.

Michael Feinstein

#27. 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

#28. It places value on experience versus intellectual understanding. I saw a lot of people contemplating things but it didn't seem to lead to too many places. I got very interested in people who had discovered something more significant than an intellectual, abstract understanding.

Steve Jobs

#29. It is inspiring to see bands still trying to do significant and new things in the realm of sound. Most people in any category are more or less filling out the forms they've been handed. But there are always exceptional gems.

David First

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. Even if you've never experienced the wonderful things in life, only after something has been contaminated and marred will it become a beautiful thing. Pain can be healed with gentle care, darkness can be removed with sunlight. Don't underestimate the small things. Everything is significant.

Natsuki Takaya

#33. Among many, many others, the following things were definitely not interesting: the pupillary sphincter, mitosis, baroque architecture, jokes that have physics equations as punch lines, the British monarchy, Russian grammar, and the significant role that salt has played in human history.

John Green

#34. As photographers, we live through things so swiftly. All our experience and training is focused toward snatching off the highlights ... That all significant perfect moment, so essential to capture, is often highly perishable. There may be little opportunity to probe deeper.

Margaret Bourke-White

#35. As part of his life-saving therapy with suicidal patients and his own experience in a Nazi concentration camp, Frankl learned there are three things that give meaning to life: first, a project; second, a significant relationship; and third, a redemptive view of suffering.

Jeff Goins

#36. Now we are in a situation in which for a significant part of the industrial world too much could become a danger, especially too much of the things which are really not good for us in such large quantities.

Marvin Harris

#37. I didn't say I didn't like you. 'Like' is such a puerile word. Mediocre people like things. The only question of any significant emotive content is: Can you live without it?

Karen Marie Moning

#38. It seems significant that we don't want things to be quiet, ever, anymore.

David Foster Wallace

#39. The person who is capable of producing a large number of ideas per unit of time, other things being equal, has a greater chance of having significant ideas.

J. P. Guilford

#40. The creation of powerful magical tools, generally, is the result of one of three things: the desire to impress a lover; an accident while trying to create something else entirely; or a side project created to assist while working toward something considered more significant by the creator.

Steven Brust

#41. 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

#42. 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

#43. Games can be art, and they can be significant and all the glorified things that we want them to be. But if you ask a kid if their toys are important, they'll say 'yes,' and 'Please don't take them away.'

Kim Swift

#44. What's God saying to you now? "All things are possible to him who worries?" No. "All things are possible to him who attempts to work it out?" No. "All things are possible to him who believes.
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Charles R. Swindoll

#45. You know, I'm a physician. I like to diagnose things. And, you know, I've diagnosed some pretty, pretty significant issues that I think a lot of people resonate with.

Ben Carson

#46. Everybody is living for a purpose, you might turn out to be significant or insignificant depending on the kind of message you are feeding the world with.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#47. 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

#48. I don't know how to choose my purpose - that sounds to big and... significant. But I know who I am, and I've chosen the things that are important to me. I think the best decisions I make about what to do in my life come when I'm being true to both of those things

April White

#49. If you wear Arab things, wear the best. Clothes are significant among the tribes, and you must wear the appropriate, and appear at ease in them. Dress like a Sherif, if they agree to it.

T.E. Lawrence

#50. Many things happened in the sixties, but the period is no more significant, better, or more 'political' than today. It's time to turn the page.

Jerry Saltz

#51. 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

#52. Was humanity, or even life itself, that significant in the grand scheme of things? Wasn't humanity's survival directly related to nature's decline?

M.R. Mathias

#53. I write about my life, choosing incidents that I think will be, for one reason or another, significant to people. Often because they may have experienced the same things.

Harvey Pekar

#54. most dependable things in the world are not of any significant use to any substantial problems.

Catherine Lacey

#55. When God brings all things to light, you will discover just how significant you've been in God's plan.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#56. Stopping bad things is a significant public service.

Ted Cruz

#57. The truth of Moore's law has made remarkable things possible. On the software side, I think natural user interfaces in all their forms are equally significant.

Bill Gates

#58. The whole purpose of life is to gain enlightenment.
Nothing else is significant compared to that completely natural, exalted state of consciousness.
So always strive for that.
Set your life around that goal.
Don't get caught up in small things, and then it will be yours.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

#59. Are you going to be just kind of a walking monument to a job, or are you going to have some kind of really significant inner life of your own? Because the external things the job, the house, the this, the that do not really fill the place inside.

Robertson Davies

#60. A lot of times, the reason we struggle to feel and receive the love of God - to see ourselves as His beloved, adopted children - is because we're not pursuing in our everyday lives those things His Word describes as being valuable and significant.

Matt Chandler

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

Ashraf Ghani

#62. 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

#63. Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#64. If someone is determined not to risk pain, then such a person must do without many things: [ ... ] - all that makes life alive, meaningful and significant.

M. Scott Peck

#65. What makes things memorable is that they are meaningful, significant, colorful.

Joshua Foer

#66. Without God, all we do in life, no matter how great or significant, will pass and is useless. Only the things with Jesus at the center will bring true peace and happiness to both mankind and the world at large.

Leon Lutje

#67. In politics, the things that do not happen are frequently as significant as those that do.

Theodore H. White

#68. Every narcissist I have known does this. Always mysterious. Never a straight answer. Always handing you some meaningless vagary (or one that could mean many different things) as if it says something significant.

Kathy Krajco

#69. More people are watching your life and ... are gaining strength in their own lives and in their own challenges because of what you're going through. I promise you: your life matters, your life is significant, and things are happening that you don't even fully understand yourself.

Jeff Goins

#70. He remained heartbroken, which meant one of two things: either his love was pure and true and earthshakingly significant; or he was addicted to feeling forlorn, he liked being heartbroken.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#71. If you think about people's lives, you think about what's significant. And the things I find significant in my life are not the moments when people are yelling at each other. They're the moments when someone says something that is very poignant, but oftentimes not loud.

Patrick Wang

#72. Whatever your financial status in life, or whatever work you do, know that you can make a significant contribution to your family and world by doing small things with great love.

Joyce Vissell

#73. The most significant events, Bishop seems to argue, are destined to remain outside the scope of description. It is perhaps their very status as excessive or fugitive that makes them, in the end, significant. A poet who believes such things will not arrive uncomplicatedly at self-description.

Dan Chiasson

#74. It wasn't that he was specially ungenerous but that he put things off to give his generosity a longer and more significant route.

Saul Bellow

#75. I was used to shooting beer cans off the back of an old washing machine, or at things that ran away from me that I intended to eat - not things that ran toward me with the intent of eating me.
I'd found that to be a significant difference.

Lisa Shearin

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

Murray Walker

#77. I guess that's what life is, though, isn't it? A whole bunch of little moments that don't seem significant or life-altering at the time, but when you look back . . .' She shook her head. 'I don't know. They become the most profoundly beautiful things.

Katie Ganshert

#78. Would do well to slow down a little focus on the significant & truly see the things that matter most.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#79. I became obsessed with making more and more tiny things. I think I was trying to find a way of compensating for my embarrassment at having learning difficulties: people had made me feel small so I wanted to show them how significant 'small' could be.

Willard Wigan