Significant Quotes - Page 8

If you come from insignificance and when you die you return to insignificance, then nothing is significant now.

It's very difficult to put in the work unless you believe that what you're doing is significant in some way.

The papers that flourish will be papers that serve a national audience. Papers that have figured out how to make the transition to the electronic platform that aren't simply providing a duplicate experience of the words on paper experience, but are doing something that arises organically from the new electronic medium. It's really just a matter of finding the right platforms for the way people want to read newspapers. I mean, maybe it will be the iPhone. But one way or another, newspapers on paper are just not really going to exist to any significant degree within a decade.

I do look for openings where I can overturn popular misconceptions, but unlike Christopher Hitchens, I am neither a contrarian nor a lone heretic. I like to have a significant number of academics watching my back.

Let's take something like antidepressant medications. There's decent science saying it has an effect, but it's shockingly small after you control for penetration of the blind, people knowing that they're getting the active pills versus sugar pills, if you use an active control. It's probably only a few points. But it's a multi, multibillion-dollar industry. And by the way, has huge side effects. 40 percent of the people taking them have significant sexual side effects. And that's just one. A single antidepressant medication can be worth a billion dollars to a company.

Young men do not usually become inactive in the Church because they are given too many significant things to do.

Regardless of what you plan on when you fall in love, significant others come and go in your life. Your friends are it. My friends are my everything.

We are not significant on the cosmic scale.

Innovation is significant positive change.

There is nothing insignificant-nothing.

I think there needs to be a much more significant filter on those Donald Trump tweets. It's OK to have some unspoken and untweeted thoughts.

The product Disney created actually changed a life, and that was significant to them. They didn't stand in my way at all.

Now, the one thing that's clear is that we need nonprofit, noncommercial media - not just broadcasting - more than ever in the United States. We don't need a purely nonprofit, noncommercial system, but we need a significant nonprofit, noncommercial system. Advertising-run media, profit-driven media, simply is not acceptable as the entirety of our media system. There's no defense for it.

Colors are beautiful when they are significant.

The Bible is clear that God considers 40 days a spiritually significant time period. Whenever God wanted to prepare someone for his purposes, he took 40 days.

We, as a country, have not seen a significant change in immigration policy in nearly two decades, even though all Americans agree that current immigration policy is outdated and malfunctioning.

We are basically in the nicotine business. . . . Effective control of nicotine in our products should equate to a significant product performance and cost advantage.

Celebrities, even insignificant ones like me, are created to be abused by the Great Unwashed.

Don't turn on monitization, typically, until it's going to be significant.

There's art that I would readily buy if I could afford it, and enjoy, but would never write about because it doesn't seem significant.

I think that you will see some significant changes in the [Donald] Trump administration.

I guess for me what is more significant than success is the nature of each of the songs and of the words.

In the good mystery there is nothing wasted, no sentence, no word that is not significant.

Television allows you to actually make a living, feed your children, send them to college and important significant things. To have the ability, the luxury, to make the choices of doing little movies where people cannot pay you.

I have to say that I have been blessed with significant teachers at every stage of my life.