Significance Quotes - Page 19

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

  Andy Grove

  Sunset, Technology, Internet Users

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• At the heart of every faith system is a bargain: on one side there is the comfort that comes from a narrative that suggests human life has cosmic significance, and on the other a duty to yield to moral commands that can, in the moment, seem rather inconvenient.

  Gary Hamel

  Heart, Yield, Comfort

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• Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.

  Vaclav Havel

  Love, Life, Family

  "Disturbing the Peace". Book by Vaclav Havel, 1986.

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• I will not die an unlived life...I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me...I choose to risk my significance.

  Dawna Markova

  Death, Risk, Overcoming Fear

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• Over and above the political, economic, sociological, and international implications of racial prejudices, their major significance is that they place unnecessary burdens upon human beings.

  Kenneth Clark

  Justice, Diversity, Political

  Kenneth B. Clark (1988). “Prejudice and Your Child”, p.37, Wesleyan University Press

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• To identify your own idols, ask questions like these: What things take the place of God in my life? Where do I find my significance and my confidence? What things make me really angry? Anger usually erupts when an idol gets knocked off the shelf.

  Philip Graham Ryken

  Idols, Shelves, Angry

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• The Kennedy assassination has demonstrated that most of the major events of world significance are masterfully planned and orchestrated by an elite coterie of enormously powerful people who are not of one nation, one ethnic grouping, or one over-ridingly important business group. They are a power unto themselves for whom those others work. Neither is this power elite of recent origin. Its roots go deep into the past.

  L. Fletcher Prouty

  Powerful, Past, Roots

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• An organization which claims to be working for the needs of a community - as SNCC does - must work to provide that community with a position of strength from which to make its voice heard. This is the significance of black power beyond the slogan

  Stokely Carmichael

  Organization, Voice, Community

  Stokely Carmichael (1966). “What we want”

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• Egyptian pyramids or obelisks – seemed to be the basis of the great memorials that have kept their significance and dignity across time. Neither an obelisk nor a rectangular box nor a dome seemed right on this site or for this purpose. But here, at the edge of the Mississippi River, a great arch did seem right.

  Eero Saarinen

  Rivers, Arches, Domes

  "Eero Saarinen on His Work: A Selection of Buildings Dating from 1947 to 1964 with Statements by the Architect".

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• A modern building should derive its architectural significance solely from the vigour and consequence of its own organic proportions. It must be true to itself, logically transparent, and virginal of lies or trivialities.

  Walter Gropius

  Lying, Design, Building

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• Formal symbolic representation of qualitative entities is doomed to its rightful place of minor significance in a world where flowers and beautiful women abound.

  Albert Einstein

  Beautiful, Women, Flower

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• The hysterical find too much significance in things. The depressed find too little.

  Mason Cooley

  Suffering, Littles, Too Much

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• Apparently, as a kid, I used to eat spiders. Maybe there's some Freudian significance behind that.

  Matt Smith

  Kids, Spiders, Used

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I know I can not paint a flower, I can not paint the sun on the desert on a bright summer morning but maybe in terms of paint colour I can convey to you my experience of the flower or the experience that makes the flower of significance to me at that particular time.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Summer, Morning, Flower

  Britta Benke, Georgia O'Keeffe (2000). “O'Keeffe”

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

  Susan Sontag

  Women, Important, Disease

  Susan Sontag (1979). “Illness as metaphor”, Vintage

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• A British porch is a musty, forbidding non-room in which to fling a sodden umbrella or a muddy pair of boots; a guard against the elements and strangers. By contrast the good ol' American front porch seems to stand for positivity and openness; a platform from which to welcome or wave farewell; a place where things of significance could happen.

  Dan Stevens

  Farewell, Positivity, Boots

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have always considered imaginative truth to be more profound, more loaded with significance, than every day reality... Everything we dream about, and by that I mean everything we desire, is true (the myth of Icarus came before aviation, and if Ader or Bleriot started flying it is because all men have dreamed of flight). There is nothing truer than myth... Reality does not have to be: it is simply what is.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Dream, Mean, Reality

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• The significance which is in unity is an eternal wonder.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Unity, Wonder, Eternal

  Rabindranath Tagore (1994). “The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore: A miscellany”, p.696, Sahitya Akademi

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• Be brave and be patient. Have faith in yourself; trust in the significance of your life and the purpose of your passion.

  Jillian Michaels

  Passion, Brave, Purpose

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• I believe it to be of particular importance that the scientist have an articulate and adequate social philosophy, even more important than the average man should have a philosophy. For there are certain aspects of the relation between science and society that the scientist can appreciate better than anyone else, and if he does not insist on this significance no one else will, with the result that the relation of science to society will become warped, to the detriment of everybody.

  Percy Williams Bridgman

  Philosophy, Believe, Philosophical

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• When you become consumed by God's call on your life, everything will take on new meaning and significance. You will begin to see every facet of your life - including your pain - as a means through which God can work to bring others to Himself.

  Charles Stanley

  Christian, Pain, Mean

  Charles Stanley (1991). “How to Handle Adversity”, p.167, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• When you know that something's going to happen, you'll start trying to see signs of its approach in just about everything. Always try to remember that most of the things that happen in this world aren't signs. They happen because they happen, and their only real significance lies in normal cause and effect. You'll drive yourself crazy if you start trying to pry the meaning out of every gust of wind or rain squall. I'm not denying that there might actually be a few signs that you won't want to miss. Knowing the difference is the tricky part.

  David Eddings

  Lying, Crazy, Real

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• 'Alien' asked ground-breaking questions about eco-politics and female empowerment. 'The Matrix' delved deeper into the concept of perception versus reality than perhaps any other film I know. But for some reason, we tend not to remember the significance of their writing.

  Jason Reitman

  Writing, Reality, Empowerment

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• To emancipate woman is to refuse to confine her to the relations she bears to man, not to deny them to her; let her have her independent existence and she will continue nonetheless to exist for him also: mutually recognising each other as subject, each will yet remain for the other an other...when we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy that it implies, then the 'division' of humanity will reveal its genuine significance and the human couple will find its true form.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Couple, Independent, Men

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• An empty canvas, apparently really empty, that says nothing and is without significance – almost dull, in fact – in reality, is crammed with thousands of undertone tensions and full of expectancy. Slightly apprehensive lest it should be outraged.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Reality, Dull, Facts

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