Significantly Quotes

#1. The point at which society moves towards our views is a point where we are significantly closer to the vegan world that we are all working toward.

Bruce Friedrich

#2. Classical forms of action have been significantly supplemented by less conventional forms: sabotaging production, sequestering leaders, lowering productivity, controlling the rate of production, and massive absenteeism.

Anonymous

#3. I hesitated. Truth shot a sly glance at expediency, expediency waggled its eyebrows significantly, truth made a little noise at the back of its throat, and expediency jumped straight on in there.

Kate Griffin

#4. But no one has ever gone from slavery to freedom with the slaveholders cheering them on, nor contributed significantly to the evolution of our species by working a forty-hour week, nor achieved any significant accomplishment by taking refuge in cynicism.

Edwin H. Friedman

#5. Knowing God can significantly increase your abilities and take away your limitations.

Sunday Adelaja

#6. accomplish, and they do not always have the time to squeeze all of these activities in a sixteen hour day (since we spend eight hours sleeping). Since it is impossible to sacrifice sleep altogether (meaning, omit or significantly decrease the amount of hours

Gus Barrett

#7. Very little evidence was found that any individual fund was able to do significantly better than that which we expected from mere random chance.

Michael Jensen

#8. CLARITY TRUMPS CONSISTENCY If you can make something significantly clearer by making it slightly inconsistent, choose in favor of clarity.

Steve Krug

#9. Impact of this makeover has been to significantly impede historical research, and it is one of Ataturk's most devastating accomplishments.

Eric Bogosian

#10. Yalow and Berson showed that those who had developed diabetes as adults had levels of circulating insulin significantly higher than those of healthy individuals -

Gary Taubes

#11. As a black woman, I have no particular interest in maintaining the status quo. Why would I? The status quo is harmful; the status quo is significantly racist and sexist and a whole bunch of other things that I think need to change.

N.K. Jemisin

#12. There's no one who's ever been significantly in my life for whom I don't have a sort of tenderness because they helped to shape who I am.

Rachel McAdams

#13. A turd placed in the snow will become hard and significantly less odorous than its warm weather counterpart. This doesn't mean that it has ceased to be a turd.

P.J. Hetherhouse

#14. It's significantly more satisfying to kick a wall than it is to kick thin air. For the rebellious teen- or the teen who wants to feel like a rebel- a clearly defined law gives you something to define yourself against.

Robin Wasserman

#15. The couples that did the novel and exciting activities showed a significantly greater increase in relationship quality.

Aziz Ansari

#16. It seems to me the only pertinent question is: cui bono? It is clear that the size of the privileged strata as a percentage of the whole has grown significantly under historical capitalism. And for these people, the world they know is better on the whole than any their earlier counterparts knew.

Immanuel Wallerstein

#17. I accepted that I was wired differently than most people, or, more precisely, that my wiring was toward one end of a spectrum of different human configurations. My innate logical skills were significantly greater than my interpersonal skills.

Graeme Simsion

#18. There is no better way to quickly buoy hard-pressed homeowners than helping them take advantage of the currently record low fixed mortgage rates and significantly reduce their monthly mortgage payments.

Mark Zandi

#19. People with financial plans are much more likely to feel prepared, even in tumultuous times. They're more likely to feel that their dreams and goals are secure. And, oh yes, they do actually save significantly more.

Jean Chatzky

#20. Energy is significantly underpriced in many parts of the world, leading to wasteful consumption, price volatility and fuel smuggling. It's also undermining the competitiveness of renewables.

Fatih Birol

#21. Something is significantly wrong with the creature that sacrifices its children's lives in order to settle its differences.

Suzanne Collins

#22. Being relevant simply consists in paying close attention to the point that is being talked about and saying nothing that is not significantly related to it.

Mortimer J. Adler

#23. In some cases the mental perception you see is significantly different than the reality you do not see.

Bill Harvey

#24. After years of pitched battles, my father was ready for a significantly less stressful career. Unfortunately, he decided to try raising a girl.

Brian K. Vaughan

#25. The number of unfinished construction projects has increased significantly. A lot of these are not covered with any security

Tatyana Golikova

#26. From Wall Street to Drive was almost a year, when I didn't do anything 'cause there was just nothing that was significantly different from the things I'd done before. There was just nothing to explore.

Carey Mulligan

#27. Management is a curious phenomenon. It is generously paid, enormously influential, and significantly devoid of common sense

Henry Mintzberg

#28. I do not think you can push public expenditure significantly above 60 per cent and maintain the values of a plural society with adequate freedom of choice. We are here close to one of the frontiers of social democracy

Roy Jenkins

#29. The hunter-gatherer way of life differed significantly from region to region and from season to season, but on the whole foragers seem to have enjoyed a more comfortable and rewarding lifestyle than most of the peasants, shepherds, labourers and office clerks who followed in their footsteps.

Yuval Noah Harari

#30. Perfectionism is simply putting a limit on your future. When you have an idea of perfect in your mind, you open the door to constantly comparing what you have now with what you want. That type of self criticism is significantly deterring.

John Eliot

#31. Apparently, he'd killed so many family members that he must have significantly affected the Lore's population. Doing my part for the environment.

Kresley Cole

#32. Using figure B, we can stipulate that an existential risk is equivalent to (i) all red-dot catastrophes, and (ii) any black-dot catastrophe that significantly compromises human well-being.*

Phil Torres

#33. The White Mars [project] is a bold move that will add significantly to our understanding of how to deal with the challenge of human exploration of the Red Planet.

Robert Zubrin

#34. You have to think if we've been visited by extraterrestrial life, it was like a zookeeper walking into the chimp enclosure: He looks around, takes some pictures, then leaves without interacting significantly with the environment. Meanwhile the chimps have no idea what the fuck just happened.

J. Richard Singleton

#35. Shale gas represents a promising new potential energy resource for the UK. It could contribute significantly to our energy security, reducing our reliance on imported gas, as we move to a low-carbon economy.

Edward Davey

#36. We do not see the sort of fundamental changes that would be necessary to reduce the trajectory of federal health spending by a significant amount and, on the contrary, the legislation significantly expands the federal responsibility for health care costs.

Doug Elmendorf

#37. The only way change happens is when people become more significantly involved in the political process.

Bernie Sanders

#38. The funding of mobile first companies will increase significantly.

Keith Teare

#39. Creating the fictional background for a game world isn't significantly different from creating a background for fiction.

John M. Ford

#40. Defense spending as a share of the economy dropped significantly during the early 1990s, and that was one of the things, along with other policy changes, that put us back on the path to a balanced budget.

Peter Orszag

#41. In a Harvard University study, the diets of nearly 1,000 women were analysed before their morning melatonin levels were measured. Meat consumption was the only food significantly associated with lower melatonin production, for reasons that are as yet unknown.

Michael Greger

#42. Viewed from a holistic ecological perspective, some meat - such as conscientiously hunted animals - involves less suffering and environmental damage than arable agriculture, while both of these are significantly less harmful than indiscriminately purchasing meat on the market.

Tristram Stuart

#43. Although biodiversity loss continues globally, many countries are significantly slowing the rate of loss by shoring up protected natural areas and the services they provide, and in expanding national park systems with tighter management and more secure funding.

Helen Clark

#44. The drop in living standards most people would have to accept to reduce climate change significantly would still leave us far better off than previous generations, so it's inexcusable that we find it so hard to renounce material goods.

Raimond Gaita

#45. When people can afford necessities in life, an increase in income dones not result in a significantly happier life.

Richard Wiseman

#46. Assertions that the modern homosexual and modern gay subculture are significantly different from the past are based primarily upon ignorance of that past.

Rictor Norton

#47. If you really care about Facebook likes, don't just post your stuff to Twitter and then rely on it being republished automatically to Facebook. In my sample size of one, Facebook penalizes you significantly for that and shows that content to far fewer people.

Michael Arrington

#48. Continuous productivity manifests itself as an environment where the evolving tools and culture make it possible to innovate more and faster than ever, with significantly improved execution.

Steven Sinofsky

#49. We believe that people moving their portfolios to an overweight in bonds will be disappointed over the long-term and will significantly underperform an asset allocation that over-weights equities.

James O'Shaughnessy

#50. One thing that's interesting is that whenever something starts, like the school year when you were a kid, it feels like such a significantly huge time in your life and how much life has changed. What's surprising is how quickly it's going by.

Donal Logue

#51. Because something is significantly wrong with a creature that sacrifices its children's lives to settle its differences.

Suzanne Collins

#52. When we developed written language, we significantly increased our functional memory and our ability to share insights and knowledge across time and space. The same thing happened with the invention of the printing press, the telegraph, and the radio.

Jamais Cascio

#53. I did not mean to suggest that autism could be traced to Neanderthal genes. The point is that some genes that have been implicated in autism changed pretty significantly between the time Neanderthal line and human line split.

Elizabeth Kolbert

#54. Naturally, the psychological susceptibility of a match participant is significantly higher than a participant in a tournament, since each game substantially changes the over-all position.

Mikhail Tal

#55. Way back in 2000, the EPA was poised, and, in fact, had drafted a rule, to specially regulate pollution - water pollution and other types of pollution - from power plants, but the energy industry pushed back pretty significantly.

Charles Duhigg

#56. With each successive pint he found that he was enjoying himself significantly less; until now he was sitting and shivering on the sidewalk outside the pub in a small Scottish town, weighing the relative merits of being sick and not being sick, and not enjoying himself at all.

Neil Gaiman

#57. I campaigned in 2012 all over this country for months: 'Repeal and replace Obamacare.' That was not the mandate of the voters. If they wanted to repeal Obamacare, the 2012 election would have been probably significantly different.

John McCain

#58. The Medicaid system currently steers people toward nursing home care. Far more people can be covered in community-based care programs for significantly less.

Ed Rendell

#59. Incidentally, our railroad facilities are under video surveillance by the federal police. However, the federal and state governments will have to determine whether video surveillance shouldn't be significantly expanded to a certain degree.

Otto Schily

#60. What can I contribute that will significantly affect the performance and the results of the institution I serve?

Peter Drucker

#61. Yoga means union of the individual mind with universal mind, so meditation is considered the essence of yoga. The transformation of the mind and body during meditation is significantly more profound than simply resting with your eyes closed.

Deepak Chopra

#62. The message is clear: a good mother breast feeds. Significantly, this good mother shares a sociocultural profile with women in other developed countries: she is over thirty, is a high earning professional, does not smoke, takes prenatal classes, and benefits from a long maternity leave.

Elisabeth Badinter

#63. We are extremely attractive to page companies, because we significantly increase their user base.

David Rose

#64. Significantly opening up immigration to skilled workers solves two problems. The companies could hire the educated workers they need. And those workers would compete with high-income people, driving more income equality.

Alan Greenspan

#65. We are using our resources to export food from countries where human beings die of starvation, and this we do in order to feed animals who live terrible lives, and we then kill these animals and eat their meat in amounts that raise our mortality risk significantly.

Magnus Vinding

#66. I now know that I learn by solving problems as they arise. Rarely do we learn significant lessons, or significantly improve, any other way.

Bob Parsons

#67. People who had previously purchased a "green" product were significantly more likely to both lie and steal than those who had purchased the conventional product. Their demonstration of ethical behavior subconsciously gave them license to act unethically when the chance arose.

William MacAskill

#68. Since the grasses are being parasitised, they grow less, leaving more room for other flowering plants. Pywell demonstrated that sowing rattle seed into an English meadow significantly boosted the diversity of flowers present by suppressing growth of grasses.

Dave Goulson

#69. Falling entry barriers and lower access costs have significantly democratised participation, whether in production or consumption.

Mohamed El-Erian

#70. Corporate executives often buy or sell shares in their companies, and stocks rarely rise or fall significantly when those transactions are reported.

Alex Berenson

#71. We acknowledge-now with President Obama-that we have made mistakes in the United States, and we along with other developed countries have contributed most significantly to the problem we face with climate change.

Hillary Clinton

#72. Interestingly, the American Embassy mentioned that our efficient relief effort has significantly improved the image of the United States among the Pakistani people.

Jon Porter

#73. When you delight the weird, the overlooked and the outliers, they are significantly more likely to talk about you and recommend you.

Seth

#74. When Laurie said 'Good-by', he whispered significantly, It won't do a bit of good, Jo. My eye is on you; so mind what you do, or I'll come and bring you home.

Louisa May Alcott

#75. Critiques of rape, pornography, and prostitution are "sex-negative" without qualification or examination, perhaps because so many men use these ignoble routes of access and domination to get laid, and without them the number of fucks would so significantly decrease that men might nearly be chaste.

Andrea Dworkin

#76. China should significantly augment the foreign aid and public goods it provides, so it can use these as a bargaining chip in its efforts to get more say in global decision-making

Wang Yizhou

#77. True delicacy, that most beautiful heart-leaf of humanity, exhibits itself most significantly in little things.

Mary Howitt

#78. It is possible to study fashion the way one can study a work of art, so that it reflects significantly upon the issues and conflicts of its own day.

Kim Chernin

#79. Since September 11, the U.S. has significantly improved its security to prevent another attack.

Timothy Murphy

#80. International alliances reduce the cost of developing cars significantly.

Sergio Marchionne

#81. As a novelist, I tend to know significantly more about my characters than I do about my friends.

Michelle Huneven

#82. I strongly believe that those of us, who are privileged to have wealth, should contribute significantly to try and create a better world for the millions who are far less privileged

Azim Premji

#83. The average investor does significantly worse than a simple index ... It's literally because of the way our brains are wired.

James O'Shaughnessy

#84. I am stronger than I was last year. I am throwing the ball better now in May of 2013 than I did in May of 2012 - significantly better. I got better throughout the season.

Peyton Manning

#85. I ... have two vocations: chess and engineering. If I played chess only, I believe that my success would not have been significantly greater. I can play chess well only when I have fully convalesced from chess and when the 'hunger for chess' once more awakens within me.

Mikhail Botvinnik

#86. One effect could be that the huge atomic arsenal created in the cold war could be reduced significantly.

Gerhard Schroder

#87. The last western society to worship female powers was Minoan Crete. And significantly, that fell and did not rise again.

Camille Paglia

#88. I would argue that's because we had a bunch of smart people running around here. They were coming in and working very hard and many of them had left jobs in which they made significantly more money.

John Hickenlooper

#89. Live your life significantly. Contribute to a meaningful and useful positive changes and growth towards humanity.

Angelica Hopes

#90. The major media companies are significantly reducing their financial commitment to the motion picture sector.

Peter Bart

#91. Saturdays and Sundays, America in the year 2009 does not in some ways differ significantly from the country that existed almost 50 years ago. This is truly sad.

Eric Holder

#92. I could no longer be equated with the Virgin Mary. I had been corrupted. I was like everyone else. My stone-casting credibility had been significantly compromised.

Graeme Simsion

#93. The good news is that even minimal activity can significantly extend life.

Howard Coble

#94. Consumers are going to have get used to eating less meat - to paying more for better quality meat and eating significantly less of it.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#95. I thought the stock was a great buy. I think anybody that bought the stock in 1999 was - saw over the next couple of years a strong growth. During the year of 1999, I significantly increased my ownership of shares in the company.

Jeffrey Skilling

#96. We need a moral philosophy which can speak significantly of Freud and Marx and out of which aesthetic and political views can be generated. We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now, can once again be made central.

Iris Murdoch

#97. They had waited for too long, and the result was this hiatus, and the reflection that time and patience may bring poor rewards, that time itself, if not confronted at the appropriate juncture, can play sly tricks, and more significantly, that those who do not act are not infrequently acted upon.

Anita Brookner

#98. Further devastation of the air, land and sea is obviously a very real possibility, unless the attitudes of politicians and all who irresponsibly exploit our natural resources change significantly in the very near future and all collaborate and sacrifice for the good of the planet.

Viggo Mortensen

#99. Writing has significantly improved my ability to lie.

Gerry Stimmler

#100. No matter how great the initial chemistry is, if your values are on two different pages, the odds of your marriage working decrease significantly.

Chana Levitan