Significant Things Quotes

Nobody can predict the future. You just have to give your all to the relationship you're in and do your best to take care of your partner, communicate and give them every last drop of love you have. I think one of the most important things in a relationship is caring for your significant other through good times and bad.

Nick Cannon

Love You, Caring, Thinking

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It is certainly true that whatever a man may do or say, the most significant thing about him is what he thinks; and significant also is how he came to think it, why he continued to think it, or, if he did not continue, what the influences were which caused him to change his mind.

Albert J. Nock

Men, Thinking, Mind

"Memoirs of a Superfluous Man". Book by Albert J. Nock, 1943.

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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.

Aldous Huxley

Men, House, Understanding

Texts and Pretexts (1932) p. 5

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There may be significant things to learn about people by looking at what annoys them most.

Alain de Botton

People, May, Annoying

Alain de Botton (2012). “How Proust Can Change Your Life”, p.94, Pan Macmillan

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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.

William Butler Yeats

Beautiful, Artist, People

William Butler Yeats (2015). “When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales”, p.222, Penguin

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It always seemed to me like it was a significant thing to do with one's life to be an actor 'cause I love movies and I felt like, not to be grandiose about it, but there is something important about film with the function it provides to general society.

Charlie Hunnam

Movie Love, Important, Actors

"Comic-Con 2011: Charlie Hunnam and Ron Perlman Interview SONS OF ANARCHY". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 25, 2011.

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Reagan has very significant things to teach us - positive lessons and quite negative lessons.

Eugene Jarecki

Negative, Lessons, Teach

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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The books that I do, the stories I write - I'm glad I'm able to do them, but they will quickly be swallowed up by the sands of time. Sometimes it frustrates me that I'm not able to do bigger, more important, more significant things. I guess you have to be content to do whatever it is you can do.

Jim Woodring

Book, Writing, Important

Interview with Ross Simonini, staging.believermag.com.

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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).

Brent L. Top

Mean, Light, Sacred Things

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The most significant thing is public participation. That assures the Afghan public that our promises are not empty.

Ashraf Ghani

Promise, Empty, Participation

"Ashraf Ghani: U.S. Critical To Afghanistan's Future". "Morning Edition" with Scott Neuman, www.npr.org. March 22, 2015.

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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.

Thomas McGuane

Work, Years, People

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Meditation is the most significant because it opens the door for all other significant things: love, prayer, God, light, music, poetry.

Rajneesh

Prayer, Light, Doors

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As you look at the first four, the significant thing is that Alboreto is fifth.

Murray Walker

Funny, Motor Racing, Looks

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One significant thing that you can do for your children is to invest some time into taking them out into nature.

Jaggi Vasudev

Love, Life, Children

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Perhaps the most significant thing a person can know about himself is to understand his own system of values. Almost every thing we do is a reflection of our own personal value system. What do we mean by values? Our values are what we want out of life. No one is born with a set of values. Except for our basic physiological needs such as air, water, and food, most of our values are acquired after birth.

Jacque Fresco

Mean, Reflection, Air

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In the world of the very small, where particle and wave aspects of reality are equally significant, things do not behave in any way that we can understand from our experience of the everyday world...all pictures are false, and there is no physical analogy we can make to understand what goes on inside atoms. Atoms behave like atoms, nothing else.

John Gribbin

Reality, Everyday, Way

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There's no question that as science, knowledge and technology advance, that we will attempt to do more significant things. And there's no question that we will always have to temper those things with ethics.

Benjamin Carson

Technology, Ethics, Temper

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You will have significant experiences. I hope that you will write them down and keep record of them, that you will read them from time to time and refresh your memory of those meaningful and significant things. Some may be funny. Some may be significant only to you. Some of them may be sacred and quietly beautiful. Some may build one upon another until they represent a lifetime of special experiences.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Beautiful, Meaningful, Memories

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Don't you think it's strange that life, described as so rich and full, a camel-trail of adventure, should shrink to this coin-sized world? A head on one side, a story on the other. Someone you loved and what happened. That's all there is when you dig in your pockets. The most significant thing is someone else's face. What else is embossed on your hands but her?

Jeanette Winterson

Adventure, Thinking, Hands

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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.

Gustav Nossal

Leadership, Motivation, Effort

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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.

Daniel Pinchbeck

Thinking, Media, Doe

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I think some of the most significant things happen in history when you get the right people in the right place at the right time and I think that's what we are.

Chokwe Lumumba

Thinking, People, Right Time

Source: bknation.org

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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.

Kazimir Malevich

Feelings, World, Environment

"The Non-Objective World: Suprematism" by Kazimir Malevich, 1927.

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Nobody has achievements like this ... you cannot name a Canadian prime minister who has done as many significant things as I did, because there are none.

Brian Mulroney

Names, Achievement, Done

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Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.

Rem Koolhaas

Luxury, Architecture, Rejects

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