Significance Quotes · Page 12

A mind that is very selective to forms... is apt to use its images metaphorically, to exploit their possible significance for the…

— Susanne Katherina Langer

You have to see your unimportance before you can see your importance and your significance to the world.

— Charlie Haden

No time to spare: the expression assumed its full significance, as so many expressions do in wartime.

— Guy Sajer

One alters the past to form the future but there is a real significance to the pattern which finally appears, which resists…

— James Salter

An inferior sense of smell," Marcus said, as if absolutely nothing of significance had happened, "is distinct from being told that one…

— Jim Butcher

If I choose to write about sheep, it's just because I happened to write about sheep. There is no deep significance.

— Haruki Murakami

If someone gives you a belt buckle, it's like a piece of jewelry. It has the same sort of emotional significance. It…

— Lyle Lovett

Mathematics, in its widest significance, is the development of all types of formal, necessary, deductive reasoning.

— Alfred North Whitehead

The provisions of the Constitution are not mathematical formulas having their essence in their form; they are organic, living institutions transplanted from…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

The measure of a friendship is not its physicality but its significance. Good friendships, online or off, urge us toward empathy; they…

— Esther Earl

Self-development is the only thing that keeps a person from burning out. We all have many needs - the need for certainty,…

— Tony Robbins

A stage set should not make a pretty picture of its own. The empty stage should look formal and pleasing, but should…

— G. Wilson Knight

Much is missed if we have eyes only for the bright colors. Nature should be viewed without distinction... She makes no choice…

— Eliot Porter

Man's search for meaning is the primary motivation in his life and not a "secondary rationalization" of instinctual drives. This meaning is…

— Viktor E. Frankl

Our crimes, for which we are responsible: as taxpayers, for failing to provide massive reparations, for granting refuge and immunity to the…

— Noam Chomsky

Perfidy and brutal force thwarted opportunities for calling President Wilson's Arbitral Award to life. Nevertheless, its significance is not to be underestimated:…

— Serzh Sargsyan

Long ago, during my apprenticeship in the wine trade, I learned that wine is more than the sum of its parts, and…

— Gerald Asher

He was a volatile mixture of confidence and vulnerability. He could deliver extended monologues on professional matters, then promptly stop in his…

— Alain de Botton

Political realism is aware of the moral significance of political action. It is also aware of the ineluctable tension between the moral…

— Anonymous

The significance of language for the evolution of culture lies in this, that mankind set up in language a separate world beside…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Because I'm sort of an honorary Canadian, I don't think the others grasped the cultural significance of who the Tragically Hip were…

— Steve Berlin

The result is that a generation of physicists is growing up who have never exercised any particular degree of individual initiative, who…

— Percy Williams Bridgman

Then there is another area of activity - economic interaction between Russia and the United States. Right now, for example, it has…

— Vladimir Putin

This work, though it deals only with eating and drinking, which are regarded in the eyes of our supernaturalistic mock-culture as the…

— Ludwig Feuerbach

A belt does nothing but hold your gi together. A belt has assigned significance, a belt is someone else saying you're good,…

— Ronda Rousey

There is no significance of God in my life, God is my life. I would not be, without God. I am supposed…

— Danny Trejo

Something begins in order to end: an adventure doesn't let itself be extended it achieves significance only through its death.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

It was not certain what significance the ceremony held... but the formality was no less sacred for it being unintelligible

— Mervyn Peake

“it is (often) the quiet gesture which carries the most significance - the one which suddenly directs the symphony.”

— mary anne radmacher

Whenever people open their hearts to God in some way, the Lord wants to do something good. Even if it just got…

— Ralph Martin

Disconnect your identity from what you produce, and that’s a hard thing for us because we think of our significance, worth and…

— William P. Young

Death threatens our speech with futility because death is not just a biological event - it is a reality we fear may…

— Stanley Hauerwas

I am not afraid that I shall exaggerate the value and significance of life, but that I shall not be up to…

— Henry David Thoreau

In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by Silence and by Speech acting together, comes a double significance.

— Thomas Carlyle

Music first and last should sound well, should allure and enchant the ear. Never mind the inner significance.

— Thomas Beecham

With the revolution in information technology, with the revolution in transport technologies, I think just geography has lost its all significance.

— Manmohan Singh

Watching a child first learn to crawl on a carpet somehow has more significance to you as you get a little older.…

— Tobin Bell

In the real world of research, conventional tests of [statistical] significance seem almost worthless.

— Fischer Black

And if these incidents now seem full of significance and all of a piece, it's probably because I'm looking at them in…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

There are many options for how images can aggregate not to nihilism, but to significance, or to meaning.

— Cynthia Daignault