Significant Quotes - Page 5

Tax increases appear to have a very large sustained and highly significant negative impact on output.

It is better to live on the house top than to live in a house full of confusion.

The underlying principles of sound investment should not alter from decade to decade, but the application of these principles must be adapted to significant changes in the financial mechanisms and climate.

My aim is to escape from the medium with which I work; to leave no residue of technical mannerisms to stand between my expression and the observer. To seek freedom through significant form and design rather than through the diversion of so-called free and accidental brush handling.

After fifty years of living, it occurs to me that the most significant thing that people do is go to work, whether it is to go to work on their novel or at the assembly plant or fixing somebody's teeth.

All significant battles are fought within self.

George W. Bush attended the intelligence briefing every day. Obama has not even attended half of them. He sends surrogates. That to me is significant.

It's just silly to look at the incredibly steep decline in the mainline and the clear institutional weakening of Catholicism in the 1960s and 70s and pretend that something really big didn't change then. It did change. There really was a significant institutional decline.

If there's a large move on significant news, either favorable or unfavorable, the stock will usually continue to move in that direction.

There are no vital and significant forms of art; there is only art, and precious little of that.

In life's most significant moments we are always alone.

We have a large underclass in Britain, and a fairly low standard of education. Our best universities are extremely good, but a very significant proportion of the British population that comes out of compulsory schooling with very low standards of education.

I'm very hopeful that we'll see some change in our food system. I don't know how far we'll go, or how quickly we'll get there, but there is no question that a significant percentage of the American public is dissatisfied with the food system.

The insignificant labor, the great create.

The rabbit is significant in that the handle on the original South Pointing Chariot was carved in the form of a rabbit. Because the handle extended out front it meant that wherever the rabbit went the chariot had to follow.

There is a difference between who is important and who is significant.

I think we all depend on a significant other, and we think if they leave me, I'll die. But that's not true. We're all much stronger than we think we are.

We see a more assertive Russia, which has implemented a very significant military buildup over several years, and a Russia which has used military force against neighbors, especially Ukraine.

I could've written songs about, for example, the Paris attacks as they happened and have the song out the day after, but doing this project and following the news made me realize how much I miss deeper nuances in the news reporting. There's already so many quick opinions and angles being thrown in your face, so I avoided writing about things like that and tried focusing on the smaller, more seemingly insignificant things. The things you would find in the back of the newspaper or the back of your mind.

If my peers had a significant impact on my music, my music would probably be a lot more popular.

The French have a significant saying, that a woman who buys her complexion will sell it.

Society's emissions of carbon dioxide may or may not turn out to have something significant to do with global warming-the jury is still out.

All of the changes in publishing since 1960 are significant. There are far fewer publishers.

To recognize the significant in the factual is wisdom.

The capacity to recognize significant factors in a given situation is limited by the context that arises from the level of consciousness of the observer.