Significant Quotes - Page 7

It is better to be unsuccessful pursuing a significant goal that being successful attaining an insignificant one.

The desire to be significant casts a pall.

It's good to be successful but it's great to be significant

We don't know how large a proportion of the significant evidence about the universe is excluded by science. Perhaps hardly any. Perhaps so great a proportion that any body of knowledge which excludes it is hardly more than a caricature. Perhaps something in between - so that science finds truth but not the whole truth.

Enjoyment of life is not based on enjoyable circumstances. It is an attitude of the heart, a decision to enjoy everything because everything - even little, seemingly insignificant things - have a part in the overall "big picture" of life.

History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant.

You can't change the past but you can change everything else. Take your first step toward making a significant change in your life, today.

This is not something insignificant. This is real. This is happening, and this is ours.

God uses those who seem ill-fitted for a significant life.

In the scriptures the term light-mindedness means making light of sacred things or not taking seriously those eternally significant things that should be treated with reverence (D&C 84:54).

I'M SIGNIFICANT!!! ... Say's the dust speck.

I like to aim for significance over success because rarely can you be significant and also successful, but many people can be successful and not significant.

Of the significant and pleasurable experiences of life only the simplest are open indiscriminately to all. The rest cannot be had except by those who have undergone a suitable training.

Experience is not a matter of having actually swum the Hellespont, or danced with the dervishes, or slept in a doss-house. It is a matter of sensibility and intuition, of seeing, and hearing the significant thing, of paying attention at the right moments, of understanding and coordinating. Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

A great writer picks up on those things that matter. It’s almost like their radar is attuned to the most significant moments.

What happens in New York affects national policy in very significant ways.

The significant collapse of oil prices shows that it was previously way too high.

Most of the significant contributions that have been made to society have been made by people who were tired.

An insignificant right becomes important when it is assailed.

I have desired, like every artist, to create a little world out of the beautiful, pleasant, and significant things of this marred and clumsy world, and to show in a vision something of the face of Ireland to any of my own people who would look where I bid them. I have therefore written down accurately and candidly much that I have heard and seen, and, except by way of commentary, nothing that I have merely imagined.

No leader can create sustainable, significant change without a reservoir of good will. Without that, you always tend to compromise with failure.

Fundamental renegotiation is very, very unlikely to produce any significant change

EU expansion is, unfortunately, continuing without a constitution, as a gradual process of standardization - and that's far more dangerous. It is very difficult to slow down this process, which is being pushed forward without significant public participation.

Just feeling free to walk out on stage and be myself is pretty damn significant.

Something significant has been lost.