Significant Quotes - Page 3

• The desire to be significant casts a pall.

  Mason Cooley

  Desire, Significance, Casts

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• You gave me a significant look, but significant of what?

  Mason Cooley

  Looks, Significance

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• Every American, to the last man, lays claim to a "sense" of humor and guards it as his most significant spiritual trait, yet rejects humor as a contaminating element wherever found. America is a nation of comics and comedians; nevertheless, humor has no stature and is accepted only after the death of the perpetrator.

  E. B. White

  Funny, Spiritual, Men

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• The world moves into the future as a result of decisions, not as a result of plans. Plans are significant only insofar as they affect decisions.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Moving, Decision, World

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• We are one of only three species on our planet that can claim to be self-aware, yet self-delusion may be a more significant characteristic of our kind.

  Michael Crichton

  Self, May, Three

  Michael Crichton (2002). “Prey”

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• Whenever you do any one thing intensely over a period of time you have to give up other lives you could be living. You have to have a real single-minded kind of tunnel vision if you want to get anything significant accomplished. Especially if the desire is not to be a businessman, but to be a creative person.

  Steve Jobs

  Giving Up, Real, Tunnels

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• You really don't need leverage in this world much. If you're smart, you're going to make a lot of money without borrowing. I've never borrowed a significant amount of money in my life. Never. Never will. I've got no interest in it.

  Warren Buffett

  Smart, Would Be, Needs

  "Warren Buffett’s big life lesson to students: Don’t borrow money like Donald Trump" by Tae Kim, www.cnbc.com. April 12, 2018.

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• The story of scientific discovery has its own epic unity-a unity of purpose and endeavour-the single torch passing from hand to hand through the centuries; and the great moments of science when, after long labour, the pioneers saw their accumulated facts falling into a significant order-sometimes in the form of a law that revolutionised the whole world of thought-have an intense human interest, and belong essentially to the creative imagination of poetry.

  Alfred Noyes

  Fall, Science, Epic

  Alfred Noyes (1926). “Watchers of the Sky”, p.2, Library of Alexandria

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• Does history warrant the conclusion that religion is necessary to morality - that a natural ethic is too weak to withstand the savagery that lurks under civilization and emerges in our dreams, crimes and wars? ... There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion.

  Will Durant

  Dream, War, Civilization

  Will Durant, Ariel Durant (2012). “The Lessons of History”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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• In truth, it's usually failure, disappointment, and frustration that motivate people to reexamine that which they've taken for granted. It's rare to find big change without significant bad news. ... In that sense, the pain of failure creates the largest opportunities for progress.

  Judith M Bardwick

  Change, Pain, Disappointment

  Judith M. Bardwick (1995). “Danger in the Comfort Zone: From Boardroom to Mailroom--how to Break the Entitlement Habit That's Killing American Business”, p.229, AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn

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• When people in organizations feel too secure, it's because there aren't any significant outcomes as a result of what they do. Whatever you do, nothing much different happens. This also means there are no important pay-offs if you risk by innovating. As there are no rewards for taking risks, then there's no sense of push in that institution's culture.

  Judith M Bardwick

  Mean, Organization, People

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• Music is 'significant form,' and its significance is that of a symbol, a highly articulated, sensuous object, which by virtue of its dynamic structure can express the forms of vital experience which language is peculiarly unfit to convey. Feeling, life, motion and emotion constitute its import.

  Susanne Katherina Langer

  Music, Feelings, Emotion

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• It is significant that people who refuse to tell their children fairytales do not fear that the children will believe in princes and princesses, but that they will believe in witches and bogeys.

  Susanne Katherina Langer

  Children, Believe, Princess

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• The computer field is intoxicated with change. We have seen galloping growth over a period of four decades and it still does not seem to be slowing down. The field is not mature yet and already it accounts for a significant percentage of the Gross National Product both directly and indirectly.

  Fernando J. Corbato

  Growth, Doe, Four

  "On Building Systems That Will Fail". Fernando J. Corbato, "Communications of the ACM", Volume 34, Issue 9, dl.acm.org. September 1991.

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• There's nothing tiny or insignificant. Everything is significant. And everything flows on the same basis of Laws. Whether you are looking at world events or something that's happening in your kitchen drawer, broad and important, or narrow and seemingly insignificant, there's potential for connection or disconnection in either case. And it is only the connection or the disconnection that is of really any importance.

  Esther Hicks

  Law, Kitchen, Important

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• It must be significant that nearly all the evolutionary stories I learned as a student....have now been debunked.

  D. V. Ager

  Stories, Fossils, Students

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• I preserve things that are significant to me. Only time will determine what is important in the long term. But something can be rediscovered only if someone has collected and preserved it.

  Michael Feinstein

  Long, Important, Term

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• The most important thing I have to say to you today is that hair matters. Your hair will send significant messages to those around you: what hopes and dreams you have for the world, but more, what hopes and dreams you have for your hair. Pay attention to your hair, because everyone else will.

  Hillary Clinton

  Dream, Hair, Important

  "Do or dye: why women daren't go grey (unless they're very brave or very young)" by Karen Kay, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2015.

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• There are often multiple sources for some famous statements by King; as a professional speaker and minister he used some significant phrases with only slight variation many times in his
  essays, books, and his speeches to different audiences.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Kings, Book, Different

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• For a significant man
  woman, the one thought he values greatly, to the laughter and scorn of insignificant men, is a key to hidden treasure chambers; for those others, it is nothing but a piece of old iron.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Laughter, Men, Iron

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• I find it so difficult to dispose of the few facts which to me are significant, that I hesitate to burden my attention with thosewhich are insignificant, which only a divine mind could illustrate. Such is, for the most part, the news in newspapers and conversation.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Mind, Attention, News

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1166, Delphi Classics

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• All man must live in Machu Picchu for some time! Over there, you will be closer to the universe and you will realise how trivial you are in this chaotic cosmos. Science is the only power which will make you bigger and significant in this universe!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Science, Men, Cosmos

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• But it also came at a significant cost for human rights, and today's restricted freedom of expression, self-censorship and stunted multiparty democracy.

  Phil Robertson

  Freedom, Party, Rights

  "Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew, 'a true giant of history', dies aged 91" by Kevin Rawlinson, Kirsten Han, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2015.

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• There are 41 million people who do not have access to a toilet in Pakistan and as a result they are defecating in the open. And open defecation has significant health and nutritional consequences.

  Geeta Rao Gupta

  Health, People, Pakistan

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• The proper aim of education is to promote significant learning. Significant learning entails development. Development means successively asking broader and deeper questions of the relationship between oneself and the world. This is as true for first graders as graduate students, for fledging artists as graying accountants.

  Laurent A. Daloz

  Mean, Artist, Aim Of Education

  Laurent A. Daloz (2012). “Mentor: Guiding the Journey of Adult Learners (with New Foreword, Introduction, and Afterword)”, p.304, John Wiley & Sons

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