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• Those who are excluded from meaningful work are, by an large, excluded from meaningful play.

  David Riesman

  Play, Meaningful Work, Excluded

  "Individualism Reconsidered". Book by David Riesman, p. 333, 1954.

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• There can be no peace without justice, no justice without law and no meaningful law without a Court to decide what is just and lawful under any given circumstance.

  Benjamin B. Ferencz

  Law, Justice, Given

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• A hug from a samurai girl is warmer than a heap of blankets and more meaningful than a pile of words.

  Sandy Fussell

  Girl, Hug, Samurai

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• Modern man is conditioned to expect instant gratification, but any success or triumph realized quickly, with only marginal effort, is necessarily shallow. Meaningful achievement takes time, hard work, persistence, patience, proper intent and self-awareness. The path to success is punctuated by failure, consolidation, and renewed effort.

  Mark Twight

  Success, Hard Work, Persistence

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• We are...capable of using our compassion and our intelligence, our technology and our wealth, to make an abundant and meaningful life for every inhabitant of this planet. To enhance enormously our understanding of the Universe, and to carry us to the stars.

  Carl Sagan

  Stars, Compassion, Technology

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• If I have something to say, I want it to be meaningful.

  Tom Brady

  Want, Ifs

  "A Q&A with Tom Brady". Interview with Jimmy Tarina, www.si.com. June 21, 2012.

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• The meaningful times, the meaningful people, even the people who were not so meaningful, but these people who have done things in your life that make you what you are, they're bricks in the building that you are.

  Antwone Fisher

  People, Mentor, Done

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• Risk no more that you can afford to lose, and also risk enough so that a win is meaningful.

  Ed Seykota

  Winning, Risk, Enough

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• That to fly requires chaotic, sometimes even violent passages--becomes a metaphor for all of life's most meaningful endeavors.

  Kelly Corrigan

  Sometimes, Metaphor, Violent

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• In an ideal world, social responsibility would be a prerequisite for design, and designers would vow to produce beautiful, useful, positive, responsible, functional, and economical things and concepts that are meaningful additions to—or sometimes subtractions from—the world we live in. Indeed, design deserves such thoughtful consideration.

  Paola Antonelli

  Beautiful, Responsibility, Thoughtful

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• I'm conscious of race whenever I'm writing, just as I'm conscious of class, religion, human psychology, politics — everything that makes up the human experience. I don't think I can do a good job if I'm not paying attention to what's meaningful to people, and in American culture, there isn't anything that informs human interaction more than the idea of race.

  Dwayne McDuffie

  Jobs, Writing, Thinking

  "Race, Sci-Fi, and Comics: A Talk with Dwayne McDuffie". Interview with Evan Narcisse, www.theatlantic.com. March 5, 2010.

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• The biggest lie is the idea that we are entitled to a meaningful and coherent summarizing, a conclusion, of something which never concludes. In that regard, this is the lie I'm telling myself so I don't set fire to anything.

  David Milch

  Lying, Fire, Ideas

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• The fastest way to disengage an employee is to tell him his work is meaningful only because of the paycheck.

  Shawn Achor

  Way, Paychecks, Employee

  Shawn Achor (2011). “The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology that Fuel Success and Performance at Work”, p.81, Random House

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• For me a nude photograph should be erotic, not devoid of emotion. The body is a sensual thing, sensuality being one of its most beautiful and meaningful qualities.

  Wynn Bullock

  Beautiful, Photography, Erotic

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• The thought content of ghazals must be meaningful, related to life, it’s emotions of joy and sorrow. It must have the human touch, it should not be phoney.

  Jagjit Singh

  Joy, Sorrow, Emotion

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• We now know that the way to help a child develop optimally is to help create connections in her brain—her whole brain—that develop skills that lead to better relationships, better mental health, and more meaningful lives. You could call it brain sculpting, or brain nourishing, or brain building. Whatever phrase you prefer, the point is crucial, and thrilling: as a result of the words we use and the actions we take, children’s brains will actually change, and be built, as they undergo new experiences.

  Daniel J. Siegel

  Children, New Experiences, Skills

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• In order to live the life we desire, and set the intention for greater happiness and more meaningful connections with others, we have to release the hold that our past has on us

  Deepak Chopra

  Live Life, Past, Order

  FaceBook post by Deepak Chopra from May 21, 2014

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• After you run, there's a sense of accomplishment; you feel like your life is meaningful. It's a moment of clarity.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Running, Accomplishment, Clarity

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• I don't know Who, or what, put the question, I don't know when it was put. I don't even remember answering. But at some moment I did answer Yes to Someone, or Something,and from that hour I was certain that existence is meaningful and that, therefore, my life, in self-surrender, had a goal.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Self, Goal, Answers

  Markings (1964)

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• Standardized personalization=universal right to meaningful learning. Personalized standardization=flexible access to mandated learning.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Learning, Personalized

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• Indeed, in the present climate of mistrust of institutions, many people who yearn for a more meaningful and fulfilling life would regard the church as an unlikely place to go for guidance.

  Hugh Mackay

  People, Church, Climate

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• Many people have found prayer impossible because they thought they should only pray for wonderful but remote needs they actually had little or no interest in or even knowledge of. Prayer simply dies from efforts to pray about ‘good things’ that honestly do not matter to us. The way to get to meaningful prayer for those good things is to start by praying for what we are truly interested in. The circle of our interests will inevitably grow in the largeness of God’s love.

  Dallas Willard

  Prayer, Circles, People

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• To be a leader means, especially, having the opportunity to make a meaningful difference in the lives of those who permit leaders to lead.

  Max De Pree

  Opportunity, Differences, Leader

  Max De Pree (1987). “Leadership is an Art”, Doubleday Business

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• We have to consciously build the elements of a world based on a culture of peace and disarmament. This is a task for everyone. It is multidimensional in scope, requiring meaningful participation of people at all levels.

  Widad Akrawi

  People, Elements, World

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• Resilience is a precious skill. People who have it tend to also have three underlying advantages: a believe that they can influence life events; a tendency to find meaningful purpose in life’s turmoil; and a conviction that they can learn from both positive and negative experiences.

  Amanda Ripley

  Believe, Skills, Negative Experiences

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