Significance Quotes

The defining qualities are about use: ease and simplicity. Caring beyond the functional imperative, we also acknowledge that products have a significance way beyond traditional views of function.

Art of course survives on the walls of private dwellings and corporate offices, but it 'dies' in the sense of losing its public, community-gathering, world-historical significance.

I am continually trying to find meaning in the world. If we cannot find some ultimate significance or value in our lives, we fall very easily into despair.

The often heard lament, 'I have so little time,' gives the lie to the delusion that the daily is of little significance.

And if these incidents now seem full of significance and all of a piece, it's probably because I'm looking at them in the light of what came later.

The divinity of Jesus is not a dispensable extra that has no significance for our salvation. On the contrary, our salvation depends on it. We can be saved only by God Himself.

That the existence of the Soviet Union has an international revolutionary significance is a commonplace equally recognized by friends and foes.

When vitality runs high, death takes men by surprise. But if they close their eyes to this possibility, what they gain in peace they lose in sensibility and significance.

Years bleach away the sense of things until all that's left is a bone-white past, stripped of feeling and significance.

My varnashram dharma teaches me that there must be some significance in the fact of my being born in India instead of in Europe.

Because Katrina put it out there, no one can play the pretend game anymore that there isn't poverty and inequality in this country. The Millions More Movement - Katrina gives it added significance.

Anything having to do with what is happening inside people has political significance to me. That is why I like the term "holistic politics."

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

Most of the time when "universal" is used, it's just a euphamism for "white"; white themes, white significance, white culture.

It was not certain what significance the ceremony held... but the formality was no less sacred for it being unintelligible

Human life doesn't seem to have much significance, and I don't know why.

If sports do not hold significance in our life, we cannot nurture sportsman spirit as a "Sanskar" in our society and without such "Sanskars", the society cannot flourish!

Now to understand the significance of chastity within us, we have to know that chastity is the foundation of all dharmas. Unless and until you have sense of chastity you cannot have dharma.

The responsibility of the writer as a moral agent is to try to bring the truth about matters of human significance to an audience that can do something about them.

The development of space technology, including space warfare today, is similar in its technological-industrial significance to the development of navies a hundred years ago.

I think there was an overemphasis in the early stage on militarization rather than directly providing relief. I don't think it has any long-term significance.

Jean Baudrillard is a friend of mine, I do not agree with him on that one! For me, the significance of the war in Kosovo was that it was a war that moved into space.

I have never figured out how women work but I do know that their skin color has no significance. Black or white, every last one is pretty pink on the inside and they are all impossible.

Smithson was someone of tremendous significance whose work was not beautiful at all. I think he was an iconoclast.

It is my first preference to do films with social significance. Art cinema has given me credibility and status as an actor, but commercial cinema has given me a comfortable living.

Have a similar outlook as a monarch. A ruler is not reluctant to come up short. Disappointment is an alternate steppingstone to significance.

Whenever people open their hearts to God in some way, the Lord wants to do something good. Even if it just got scheduled randomly for that day, I'm sure [Pope Francis] sees significance in that.

Evolution may explain some features of the moral law, but it can't explain why it should have any real significance.

Do humans have a different moral significance than cows in general?

There is solemn satisfaction in doing the best you can for eight billion people. Perhaps their lives have no cosmic significance, but they have feelings. They can hurt.

Everyone has a need for significance; and if we can't make that possible, or even probable, in our society, then it will be obtained in destructive ways.

I just love having little vocal snippets like laughs and coughs, not necessarily stuff that has huge significance, just little human qualities.

There is nothing insignificant-nothing.

Dwelling-place and food are useful for life but give it no significance: the immediate goals of the housekeeper are only means, not true ends.

I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.

The competitors, like Commodore and Kaypro, were all doing speeds and feeds, whereas Steve always wanted things like “What is the significance in the world? How might this change things?

The most powerful element is that a designer has to reflect the times. So often you can only sense a change, and not really understand until much later its significance.

In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by Silence and by Speech acting together, comes a double significance.

The more elusive and ambiguous a symbol is, the more it gains significance and power.

An event of colossal and overwhelming significance may happen all at once, but the words which describe it have to come one by one in a long chain.

To try to understand the real significance of what the great artists, the serious masters, tell us in their masterpieces, that leads to God; one man wrote or told it in a book; another, in a picture.

Exact information about the functional significance of the deep sections of the brain is only obtained by working through the brain histologically in serial section.

First of all you must understand that practising martial arts means studying a certain oriental philosophy of life, otherwise it's merely a vacuous sport devoid of any significance.

The simplest rudiment of mystical experience would seem to be that deepened sense of the significance of a maxim or formula which occasionally sweeps over one.

Disconnect your identity from what you produce, and that’s a hard thing for us because we think of our significance, worth and value based on what we do instead of who we are.

I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.

He thinks himself rather an exceptional young man, thoroughly sophisticated, well adjusted to his environment, and somewhat more significant than any one else he knows.

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.

He was nothing but a conduit, after all, and there isn't a culvert in the world that remembers the water flowed through it once the rain has stopped.

A life isn't significant except for its impact on other lives.