To understand is to decipher. To hear significance is to translate. — George Steiner Copy Share Image
“Success is the launch pad to significance.” — Will Craig, Living the Hero's Journey Copy Share Image
Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid. — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
The actions of a human being, even of fifteen months of age, may not be without significance to a sympathetic eye. — Dorothy Canfield Fisher Copy Share Image
And of course, identifying all human genes and proteins will have great medical significance. — Daniel Nathans Copy Share Image
What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Once you train an audience to look for significance, they start to find it everywhere. — Alex Hirsch Copy Share Image
The present challenge to the photographer is to express inner significance through outward form. — Beaumont Newhall Copy Share Image
As long as that spark of passion is missing there is no human significance in the performance. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I believe every era has its significance and the same holds true for players and coaches. — Sachin Tendulkar Copy Share Image
That the existence of the Soviet Union has an international revolutionary significance is a commonplace equally recognized by friends and foes. — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
The assumption that animals are without rights, and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance, is a positively… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
My goal is to make fine art, and fine art comes from the soul. If you have virtuosity and facility, you can… — Richard MacDonald Copy Share Image
For the person trying to do everything alone, the game really is over. If you want to do something big, you must… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
The most powerful element is that a designer has to reflect the times. So often you can only sense a change, and… — Suzy Menkes Copy Share Image
Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
A religious person is devout in the sense that he has no doubt about the significance of those superpersonal objects and goals… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I've praised Obama's record on same-sex equality as enthusiastically as anyone: it's one area where his record has been impressive. I understand,… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
There can be no reproach to pain unless we assume human dignity, there is no reason for restraints on pleasure unless we… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
Truth needs meditative eyes. If you don't have meditative eyes, then the whole life is just dull dead facts, unrelated to each… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
My pictures are devoid of objects; like objects, they are themselves objects. This means that they are devoid of content, significance or… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
“Haven’t you grasped the significance of this discovery? In the Telluric Navel you place the most powerful valve, which enables you to… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
There's something that intervenes and is very important which has to do with value. Value in the true biological sense, which is… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
It is that happy stretch of time when the lovers set to chronicling their passion. When no glance, no tone of voice… — Ahdaf Soueif Copy Share Image
Tomorrow and plans for tomorrow can have no significance at all unless you are in full contact with the reality of the… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
"Playing" the resources of characterology for the sake of clarification and insight into the structures of actual existence is many times more… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Our patriotism comes straight from the Romans. This is why French children are encouraged to seek inspiration for it in Corneille. It… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“How good is it to remember one's insignificance: that of a man among billions of men, of an animal amid billions of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Rare is the book that can actually transform us into better, more fulfilled people. Having combed through the research and documented case… — Ann Curry Copy Share Image
“It’s strange that Christians so rarely talk about failure when we claim to follow a guy whose three-year ministry was cut short… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
The most basic task of any museum must be the protection of works of cultural significance entrusted to its care for the… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
The dismal half-baked images of the average "reportage" and "documentary" photography are self dammning... the slick manner, the slightly obscure significance, the… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
The Socratic maxim that the recognition of our ignorance is the beginning of wisdom has profound significance for our understanding of society.… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Meaning can only be understood in relation to its environment. Therefore, the words only make full sense in context... There are no… — Serge King Copy Share Image