Meaning Quotes
4592 Meaning quotes by 2692 unique authors
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Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.
— Andrei Platonov
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There is no meaning if meaning is not shared, and not because there would be an ultimate or first signification that all beings have in…
— Unknown Author
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It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience.
— David Foster Wallace
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The secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components. Every word that serves no function, every long word that could…
— William Zinsser
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You'll never make your mark as a writer unless you develop a respect for words and a curiosity about their shades of meaning that is…
— William Zinsser
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As for the various religions, there's no doubt that they are very meaningful to adherents, and allow them to delude themselves into thinking there is…
— Noam Chomsky
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There are only a few images that are not forced to provide meaning, or have to go through the filter of a specific idea.
— Jean Baudrillard
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In whatever country you live, however young or inadequate you feel, or however aged or limited you see yourself as being, I testify you are…
— Jeffrey R. Holland
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Christmas is a time for remembering the Son of God and renewing our determination to take upon us His name. It is a time to…
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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Let us be mindful of the foundational precepts our Heavenly Father has given to His children that will establish the basis of a rich and…
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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Finally, I truly believe that each of us must find meaning in our work. The best work happens when you know that it's not just…
— Satya Nadella
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The vitality that can stand the abyss of meaninglessness is aware of a hidden meaning within the destruction of meaning.
— Paul Tillich
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The word is a thing of mystery, so volatile that it vanishes almost on the lip, yet so powerful that it decides fates and determines…
— Romano Guardini
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When I paint, I liberate monsters They are the manifestations of all the doubts, searches and groping for meaning and expression which all artists experience…
— Pierre Alechinsky
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The painting rises from the brushstrokes as a poem rises from the words. The meaning comes later.
— Joan Miro
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I can negate everything of that part of me that lives on vague nostalgias, except this desire for unity, this longing to solve, this need…
— Albert Camus
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There are things that a woman sings, and only a woman knows the full meaning. You may sing for men as well as for women,…
— Gayl Jones
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The first aim of a good college is not to teach books, but the meaning and purpose of life. Hard study and the learning of…
— John B. Watson
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So Positive Psychology takes seriously the bright hope that if you find yourself stuck in the parking lot of life, with few and only ephemeral…
— Martin Seligman
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The sticker has no meaning but exists only to cause people to react, to contemplate and search for meaning in the sticker,
— Shepard Fairey
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The public needs art, and it is the responsibility of a ’self-proclaimed artist’ to realize the public needs art, and not to make bourgeois art…
— Keith Haring
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Pop Art is industrial painting. I think the meaning of my work is that it is industrial, it's what all the world will soon become.…
— Roy Lichtenstein
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It's just a combination of letters I liked. And when your whole art's based on the lettering you choose, you kinda figure out what ones…
— Unknown Author
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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.
— Miguel de Unamuno
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But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage.
— Jack Kingston
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