Have mountains, and waves, and skies, no significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Significance is not determined by the amount of time on stage but by what you do with the time you get.” — Mansur Hasib Copy Share Image
When language is used without true significance, it loses its purpose as a means of communication and becomes an end in itself. — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
If we have a correct theory but merely prate about it, pigeonhole it and do not put it into practice, then that… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
It's sobering to contemplate how much time, effort, sacrifice, compromise, and attention we give to acquiring and increasing our supply of something… — Anne Graham Lotz Copy Share Image
The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was brought up Catholic, and even as a little girl I was affected by the idea of giving back - doing… — Joan Ganz Cooney Copy Share Image
“A person could waste an important part of his living if he refuses to come into significance; if he refuses to impact… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Ponder the significance of the responsibility the Lord has given to us. The Lord has counseled, "Let the solemnities of eternity rest… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
The Gospel writers are not really interested primarily in the facts of the birth but in the significance, the meaning for them… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
“People always want to define you by what you do. I started saying: ‘i am not too concerned with what i’m going… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
I learned at a very young age that music teaches you about life. When you're in the midst of improvisation, there is… — Charlie Haden Copy Share Image
The folkish philosophy is fundamentally distinguished from the Marxist by reason of the fact that the former recognizes the significance of race… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that healthy-mindedness is inadequate as a philosophical doctrine, because the evil facts which it refuses positively to account… — William James Copy Share Image
Divine things are too deep to be expressed by common words. The heavenly teachings are expressed in parable in order to be… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
The symbolism - and the substantive significance - of planting a tree has universal power in every culture and every society on… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
I think it’s very important to live in the present. One of the great things that improvising teaches you is the magic… — Charlie Haden Copy Share Image
Objects and their functions no longer had any significance. All I perceived was perception itself, the hell of forms and figures devoid… — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
Even more ominous ... is the fact that since the Second World War a new kind of intellectual has emerged in large… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
I will not die an unlived life. I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire. I choose to inhabit… — Dawna Markova Copy Share Image
And last of all we have the secondary forms of crystals bursting in upon us, and sparkling in the rigidity of mathematical… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
Life is more than thought: what a man feels, and what his senses awaken in him, are more indispensable to his life's… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
I have always believed that scientific research is another domain where a form of optimism is essential to success: I have yet… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
The potential significance of Black feminist thought goes far beyond demonstrating that African-American women can be theorists. Like Black feminist practice, which… — Patricia Hill Collins Copy Share Image
I'm one of those people for whom success is one thing, but significance is another. If I can have both, I'm living… — Romany Malco Copy Share Image
Through imagination, we can visit the past, contemplate the present, and anticipate the future. We can also do something else of profound… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
“If you have committed all things to impacting a life at a time, or impacting a community or society, then welcome to… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
I just love having little vocal snippets like laughs and coughs, not necessarily stuff that has huge significance, just little human qualities. — Ryan Hemsworth Copy Share Image
I already knew, of course, about the juggernaut that is Shonda Rhimes and the cultural significance of her. — Jonathan Bailey Copy Share Image
A word is nothing unless it has values and an atmosphere, unless you grasp its historical significance. — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
It is only in God that we discover our origin, our identity, our meaning, our purpose, our significance, and our destiny. Every… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
A work of art must carry in itself its complete significance and impose it upon the beholder even before he can identify… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
The symbolic significance of individual athletes' achievements has sometimes proved more productive than the negotiations of diplomats or politicians. — Richard Attias Copy Share Image
He who lives as children live - who does not struggle for his bread and does not believe that his actions possess… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“She folds the pages of the books she reads when she wants to remember something important. Her favorite books are accordions, testaments… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
“Even when you have been somewhat enlightened by what you have read, you are called upon to continue the serach for significance.” — Mortimer J. Adler Copy Share Image
Formal symbolic representation of qualitative entities is doomed to its rightful place of minor significance in a world where flowers and beautiful… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
From looking at your neighbor and realizing his true significance, and that he will die, pity and compassion will arise in you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There might be a fact of the greatest significance reported by Thucydides which will only be recognized as such a hundred years… — Jacob Burckhardt Copy Share Image
If we must accept fate we are not less compelled to affirm liberty, the significance of the individual, the grandeur of duty,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
