Significant Quotes - Page 2

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.

My significance is found in pointing to Someone far more significant.

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.

Most of us harbour a significant amount of subconscious fear about death, and act out of this fear in our daily lives.

It's quite extraordinary that a recourse (branding/identity) which is generally regarded as so significant, and is now so ubiquitous, is so little understood.

The vast majority of those who are famous are not significant and the vast majority of those who are significant are not famous.

To care for another person, in the most significant sense, is to help him grow and actualize himself.

I learned the significance of my own insignificant life.

All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.

I have never seen a major trial which lacked significant perjury, and I have yet to see that perjury punished.

Art collectors are pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. What matters and survives is the art.

Anyone who spends a significant amount of time with me finds me disagreeable.

For me [ Giovanni Lorenzo ] Bernini, [Francesco ] Borromini, and [Donato] Bramante have been as significant as Alvar Aalto, Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, and Louis Kahn. I still marvel at their works, which have a quality and a timelessness that I seek to have in our projects.

There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on how one looks at it.

Humanity finds itself in the midst of the world. In the midst of all other creatures humanity is the most significant and yet the most dependent upon the others.

I voted for the Deficit Reduction Package with significant heartburn over the student aid provisions.

Only when women wield power in significant numbers will we create a society that genuinely works for all women … that will be a society that works for everyone.

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.

Fraulein Noether was the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began.

Our culture teaches us that making significant changes takes a long time and is difficult to do. This is simply NOT true. Change happens in an instant. It is not a process - it is something you do in an instant by simply making a decision.

Democrats and Republicans were essentially the same party with different faces and that was why, no matter how many promises each leader made, significant change rarely transpired.

It is not what happens to people that is significant, but what they think happens to them.

They were words that came out of nothing, but they seemed to him somehow significant. He muttered them over again.

Humility bids us to take ourselves as we are; we do not have to be cosmically significant to be genuinely significant.

We do not measure a culture by its output of undisguised trivialities but by what it claims as significant.