Consequential Quotes

28 quotes by 24 authors

So much are our minds influenced by the accidents of our bodies, that every man is more the man of the day than a regular… — Lord Chesterfield
Having a bunch of medals and badges doesnâ€™t necessarily mean youâ€™ve achieved anything, youâ€™ve got to do something beyond yourself to make a difference in… — Paula Broadwell
In retirement, only money and symptoms are consequential. — Mason Cooley
Trust doesn't come haphazardly. It really has to be built over time. And that trust has to happen really at times when there isn't a… — Tom Daschle
Most consequential choices involve shades of gray, and some fog is often useful in getting things done — Timothy Geithner
Canada's most important -- that is to say consequential -- modern voice. — Robin Blaser
Gary Shteyngart has written a memoir for the ages. I spat laughter on the first page and closed the last with wet eyes. Un-put-down-able in… — Mary Karr
It is very difficult for [people] to accept the idea that someone as inconsequential as Oswald could have killed someone as consequential as Kennedy. — Robert Dallek
Consequential strangers help us stretch beyond the relatively rigid boxes that the people who have known us the longest - our family and close friends… — Melinda Blau
The question of being is everything. Nothing could be more important or consequential-n othing where the stakes run so high. To remain unconscious of being… — Adyashanti
Mitch McConnell, 72, is second only to Henry Clay as the state'Â€Â™s most consequential public servant. McConnell's skills have been honed through five terms. He… — George Will
Speaking as somebody who has been happily married for 35 years, I can't imagine any choice more consequential for a lifelong journey than the choice… — Ben Bernanke
I can't point to a single person or incident that changed my life, but the recognition that there is a certain world order, has been… — Shari Arison
[C]ultivated risk-taking represents an 'experiment with trust' (in the sense of basic trust) which consequently has implications for an individual's self-identity. (...) In cultivated risk-taking,… — Anthony Giddens
Pleasure is the least consequential... engagement and meaning are much more important. — Martin Seligman
If you are deaf, you need captions for spoken elements. If you are blind, you need voiced descriptions of Web contents and spoken renderings of… — Vinton Cerf
The invisibility of work and workers in the digital age is as consequential as the rise of the assembly line and, later, the service economy. — George Packer
That attitude that fighting is probably not fair, but you have to defend yourself anyway and damage the enemy, has been profoundly consequential as far… — June Jordan
We could speak about the meaning of life vis-a-vis non-consequential/deontological theories, apodictic transformation schemata, the incoherence of exemplification, metaphysical realism, Cartesian interactive dualism, revised non… — Maira Kalman
Is action merely the incidental product of thought, or is thought the consequential product of action? — Haruki Murakami

Who Wrote These Consequential Quotes

24 authors contributed a total of 28 Consequential Quotes as follows: