Quotes by Significant Things There may be significant things to learn about people by looking at what annoys them most. Alain de Botton significant-things may people It is certainly true that whatever a man may do or say, the most significant thing about him is what he thinks; and significant also is how he came to think it, why he continued to think it, or, if he did not continue, what the influences were which caused him to change his mind. Albert J. Nock significant-things men thinking Experience is not a matter of having actually swum the Hellespont, or danced with the dervishes, or slept in a doss-house. It is a matter of sensibility and intuition, of seeing, and hearing the significant thing, of paying attention at the right moments, of understanding and coordinating. Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him. Aldous Huxley significant-things house men The most significant thing is public participation. That assures the Afghan public that our promises are not empty. Ashraf Ghani significant-things empty promise There's no question that as science, knowledge and technology advance, that we will attempt to do more significant things. And there's no question that we will always have to temper those things with ethics. Benjamin Carson significant-things ethics technology In the scriptures the term light-mindedness means making light of sacred things or not taking seriously those eternally significant things that should be treated with reverence (D&C 84:54). Brent L. Top significant-things light mean Nobody has achievements like this ... you cannot name a Canadian prime minister who has done as many significant things as I did, because there are none. Brian Mulroney significant-things achievement names It always seemed to me like it was a significant thing to do with one's life to be an actor 'cause I love movies and I felt like, not to be grandiose about it, but there is something important about film with the function it provides to general society. Charlie Hunnam significant-things important movie-love I think some of the most significant things happen in history when you get the right people in the right place at the right time and I think that's what we are. Chokwe Lumumba significant-things people thinking I think you're never going to get somewhere ambitious if you don't start out with great ambitions. What I would say is: we got a start. That to me is a very significant thing. Here we were, a historic meeting to talk about climate change. Christy Clark significant-things ambition thinking If you step back from it and really think about what the mass media does on a global scale, the most significant thing it does is coordinate behaviour. Daniel Pinchbeck significant-things media thinking Significant things often happen when you are present. Things come to you, and then you respond to what is required. The response very often comes without a premeditated idea of what you want. It is simply a response to the situation. Eckhart Tolle significant-things want ideas Reagan has very significant things to teach us - positive lessons and quite negative lessons. Eugene Jarecki significant-things lessons negative The motivations of a scientist are always mixed and complex... every medical student has the desire to do good in the world. Making a small contribution to that effort is really in a sense the last significant thing that I want to do with my life. Gustav Nossal significant-things motivation leadership The books that I do, the stories I write - I'm glad I'm able to do them, but they will quickly be swallowed up by the sands of time. Sometimes it frustrates me that I'm not able to do bigger, more important, more significant things. I guess you have to be content to do whatever it is you can do. Jim Woodring significant-things writing book In the world of the very small, where particle and wave aspects of reality are equally significant, things do not behave in any way that we can understand from our experience of the everyday world...all pictures are false, and there is no physical analogy we can make to understand what goes on inside atoms. Atoms behave like atoms, nothing else. John Gribbin significant-things everyday reality To the Suprematist the visual phenomena of the objective world are, in themselves, meaningless; the significant thing is feeling, as such, quite apart from the environment in which it is called forth. Kazimir Malevich significant-things feelings world It was often in small moments that significant things were revealed. Lisa Kleypas significant-moments small-moments significant-things Of course, a woman's choice to go out into the world is a very significant thing. But part of real liberation is recognizing that mothering is every bit as important as other kinds of work. I actually believe it's more important than anything we do out in the world. Marianne Williamson significant-things real believe Leadership is like third grade: it means repeating the significant things. Max De Pree third-grade significant-things mean 12»
