Insignificant Quotes - Page 8

• A man must be of a very quiet and happy nature, who can long endure the country; and, moreover, very well contented with his own insignificant person.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Country, Men, Long

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1854). “The Works: Hyperion”, p.110

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• I'm not a weight lifter. I'm a seeker. Weight lifting is so insignificant in my life.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Weight Lifting, Seekers, Weight

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• We are aware of yoga only as a technique to gain physical strength, flexibility, or increased health. And indeed these are potent side effects of the practice. But that is what they are: side effects. To focus on these largely insignificant manifestations is to miss the point entirely.

  John McAfee

  Yoga, Practice, Focus

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• The worldly relations of men and women often form an equation that cancels out without warning when some insignificant factor has been added to either side.

  William McFee

  Men, Sides, Warning

  William McFee (1916). “Casuals of the Sea: The Voyage of a Soul”

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• It is a difficult matter for man to realize the extreme importance of social discriminations which seem outwardly insignificant but which produce in woman moral and intellectual effects so profound that they appear to spring from her original nature.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Spring, Men, Profound

  Simone de Beauvoir (1953). “The second sex”, Vintage

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• Only a very few would allow creatures like us to exist. Thus our presence selects out from this vast array only those universes that are compatible with our existence. Although we are puny and insignificant on the scale of the cosmos, this makes us in a sense the lords of creation.

  Stephen Hawking

  Spring, Cosmos, Creation

  "The Grand Design". Book by Stephen Hawking, abcnews.go.com. September 7, 2010.

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• Time is an ethereal and sometimes cruel goddess. In her relentless passing, she steals away our youth and vitality, often in ways that seem insignificant until we finally realize how much she has taken. Still, she is also a generous deity, who offers to replace what she has seized with a deeper wisdom and a clearer vision of life's enigmas. In this sense, time can be our most powerful ally-if we are patient enough.

  Michael Kelleher

  Inspirational, Powerful, Taken

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• One of the proud joys of the man of letters - if that man of letters is an artist - is to feel within himself the power to immortalize at will anything he chooses to immortalize. Insignificant though he may be, he is conscious of possessing a creative divinity. God creates lives; the man of imagination creates fictional lives which may make a profound and as it were more living impression on the world's memory.

  Edmond de Goncourt

  Memories, Book, Artist

  Statement on February 08, 1868. "Pages from the Goncourt Journal". Book by Edmond de Goncourt, translated by Robert Baldick, p. 135, 1962.

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• Most people get overwhelmed by the insignificant decisions of their lives. I'm urging people to minimize the time spent on these when they're not critical to their most important goals.

  Robert Pozen

  People, Goal, Decision

  "How To Delegate Responsibility To Other People" by Aimee Groth, www.businessinsider.com. January 18, 2013.

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• There is no such thing as an insignificant life, only the insignificance of mind that refuses to grasp the implications.

  Laurence Overmire

  Life, Mind, Refuse

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• If you feel dirty, insignificant or unloved, then rats are a good role model. They exist without permission, they have no respect for the hierarchy of society, and they have sex 50 times a day.

  Banksy

  Sex, Dirty, Role Models

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• If you write, good ideas must come welling up into you so that you have something to write. If good ideas do not come at once, or for a long time, do not be troubled at all. Wait for them. Put down little ideas no matter how insignificant they are. But do not feel, any more, guilty about idleness and solitude.

  Brenda Ueland

  Writing, Ideas, Long

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• Look at your life in contrast with the magnitude of creation, space and time. Your life becomes insignificant. Ego disappears.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Space, Ego, Looks

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• Scripture suggests that the elements in space were created for the benefit of earth, while evolution suggests that earth is an insignificant speck in vast space.

  Walter Lang

  Space, Elements, Benefits

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• The real end of the world is the destruction of the spirit; the other kind depends on the insignificant attempt to see whether after such a destruction the world can go on.

  Karl Kraus

  Real, Goes On, World

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

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• GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These, by some occult process of nature, are penetrated and suffused with various degrees of the bird's intellectual energies and emotional character, so that when inked and drawn mechanically across paper by a person called an "author," there results a very fair and accurate transcript of the fowl's thought and feeling. The difference in geese, as discovered by this ingenious method, is considerable: many are found to have only trivial and insignificant powers, but some are seen to be very great geese indeed.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Writing, Character, Science

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.78, 谷月社

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• [I predict] the electricity generated by water power is the only thing that is going to keep future generations from freezing. Now we use coal whenever we produce electric power by steam engine, but there will be a time when there'll be no more coal to use. That time is not in the very distant future. ... Oil is too insignificant in its available supply to come into much consideration.

  Charles Proteus Steinmetz

  Science, Electric Power, Oil

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• I got incredibly heavy boots about how relatively insignificant life is, and how, compared to the universe and compared to time, it didn’t even matter if I existed at all.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Boots, Matter, Life Is

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.86, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• people who personify the system are indeed well known for not being what they seem to be; they have achieved greatness by embracing a level of reality lower than that of the most insignificant individual life- and everyone knows it.

  Guy Debord

  Life, Reality, Greatness

  Guy Debord (1994). “The Society of the Spectacle”, Zone Books (NY)

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• As there is no insignificant work, there is not an insignificant leader. All leaders need training...not just a few.

  Quint Studer

  Teaching, Learning, Leader

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• The whole world says that my Way is great like nothing else. It is great because it is like nothing else. If it were like everything else, it would long ago have become insignificant.

  Laozi

  Long Ago, Taoism, World

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• Nothing is insignificant in the history of a young community, and - above all - nothing seems impossible.

  Catherine Helen Spence

  Community, Impossible, Young

  Catherine Helen Spence “An Autobiography”, Library of Alexandria

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• Anything you think of doing, however insignificant, should be done immediately. Spur yourself on and carry it through without becoming discouraged. If this becomes an ingrained habit, things you thought were impossible will become possible, and closed doors will open, as you will discover in many ways.

  Shinichi Suzuki

  Thinking, Doors, Becoming

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• It is possible to evade a multitude of sorrows by the cultivation of an insignificant life.

  John Henry Jowett

  Sorrow, Cultivation, Multitudes

  John Henry Jowett (1910). “The School of Calvary”

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• Philosophy, certainly, is some account of truths the fragments and very insignificant parts of which man will practice in this workshop; truths infinite and in harmony with infinity, in respect to which the very objects and ends of the so-called practical philosopher will be mere propositions, like the rest.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.281, Simon and Schuster

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