Significance Quotes · Page 7

I sign films that have significance for my characters or are big entertainers.

— Padmapriya Janakiraman

What your foes do derives its significance or consequence from the way you react.

— Joseph Brodsky

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

— Fischer Black

The fact that a knight is temporarily on the edge of the board is of no great significance.

— Anatoly Karpov

Most of the time when "universal" is used, it's just a euphamism for "white"; white themes, white significance, white culture.

— Merle Woo

If you want to lower the significance of Russia in the world, you actually just want to elevate your own country. That…

— Vladimir Putin

“Things don’t have significance: they only have existence. Things are the only hidden meaning of things.”

— Alberto Caeiro

A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.

— Rollo May

Engage, educate, equip, encourage, empower, energize, and elevate. Those are the methods for maximizing the potential of any individual, team, organization, or…

— Tony Dungy

The wealth of south Florida, but even more important, the meaning and significance of south Florida lies in the black muck of…

— Marjory Stoneman Douglas

If I wanted to order a ring for myself, the inscription I should choose would be: "Nothing passes away." I believe that…

— Anton Chekhov

Stalin made mistakes. He made mistakes towards us, for example, in 1927. He made mistakes towards the Yugoslavs too. One cannot advance…

— Mao Zedong

she loved to walk down the street with a book under her arm. It had the same significance for her as an…

— Milan Kundera

A cross could be a shape for expressing something spacious; such as the coordinators of space. That could be called its first…

— Antoni Tapies

As for September 11, let us not too easily grant the Americans possession of that date on the calendar. Like May 1…

— J. M. Coetzee

Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real…

— James Dobson

The sole work and deed of universal freedom is therefore death, a death too which has no inner significance or filling, for…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

...in song the words tend to lose their significance, do often lose it, while at the other extreme, in current prose it…

— Paul Valery

In all the thrashing about that results from our dwindling gold reserves, it's about time that this country and other countries get…

— Malcolm Forbes

All important architecture of the last century was strongly influenced by political systems. Look at the Soviet system, with its constructivism and…

— Rem Koolhaas

Many people measure their success by wealth, recognition, power and status. There's nothing wrong with those, but if that's all you're focused…

— Ken Blanchard

“Significance is discovered in the heart. It is here that it is cultivated and nurtured as it imparts meaning to everything you…

— Michael M. Rose

The Hindu religion appears ... as a cathedral temple, half in ruins, noble in the mass, often fantastic in detail but always…

— Sri Aurobindo

To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty; to interpret it his problem; and to express it his dedication.…

— James Dean

The cost to Tata of purchasing Land Rover and Jaguar may have been small, but its wider symbolic significance is enormous.

— Martin Jacques

It's rare that you get to be a part of something that, hopefully, has some significance socially or historically.

— Matt Bomer

Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance.

— Susan Sontag

Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC.

— Andy Grove

“Whether you try too hard to fit in or you try too hard to stand out, it is of equal consequence: you…

— Criss Jami

It has been very good here, but the World Cup game was different. It had a different significance to it.

— Sachin Tendulkar

“Look up and hook up to a life of significance and don’t look down on yourself.”

— Sunday Adelaja

I know, basketball is a dance. I didn't understand the significance of that type of training at first. I was supposed to…

— Dirk Nowitzki

Love is the reflection of God's unity in the world of duality. It constitutes the entire significance of creation.

— Meher Baba

I can only say with deeper sincerity and fuller significance what I have always said in theory - Wait God's will.

— Charlotte Bronte

Human life doesn't seem to have much significance, and I don't know why.

— Mpho Koaho

The significance of man is that he is insignificant and is aware of it.

— Carl L. Becker

The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.

— Joseph Conrad

“It is only those that live intentionally that can accomplish and come to the significance meant for them.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“Your personal health is your greatest possession; the most significant foundation of any future you will have.”

— Bryant McGill

A story so cherished it has to be dressed in casualness to disguise its significance in case the listener turned out to…

— Diane Setterfield