Meaningful Quotes - Page 22

• How can you put on a meaningful drama when every fifteen minutes proceedings are interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits with toilet paper?

  Rod Serling

  Drama, Dancing, Twelve

  "American Masters (Rod Serling: Submitted for Your Approval)". TV Series, November 29, 1995.

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• What are we going to get out of life? This can understandably be a question of fundamental importance to us. We begin with certain basic needs and desires. It is important to have a comfortable home, plenty of food, a meaningful and well-paying job, comfort, companionship, and joy. However, many of us have not fully realized a simple, basic principle: for our receiving to take place, we must first give. Giving and receiving are two aspects of the same law of life.

  John Templeton

  Life, Jobs, Home

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• There is a way of living that has a certain grace and beauty. It is not a constant race for what is next, rather, an appreciation of that which has come before. There is a depth and quality of experience that is lived and felt, a recognition of what is truly meaningful. These are the feelings I would like my work to inspire. This is the quality of life that I believe in.

  Ralph Lauren

  Appreciation, Believe, Race

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• When you strip away the rhetoric, preservation is simply having the good sense to hold on to things that are well designed, that link us with our past in a meaningful way, and that have plenty of good use left in them.

  Richard Moe

  Past, Use, Links

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• Synchronicity is an inexplicable and profoundly meaningful coincidence that stirs the soul and offers a glimpse of one's destiny.

  Phil Cousineau

  Destiny, Soul, Glimpse

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• Every person who dedicates his or her life to something that belongs to the greater good is very meaningful.

  Mariane Pearl

  Greater Good, Persons, Very Mean

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• For the record, pot, like the Reader's Digest , is not necessarily habit-forming, but both can lead to hard-core addiction : heroin, in one case, abridged bad books, in the other. Either way you look at it, a withdrawal from a meaningful life.

  Mordecai Richler

  Book, Addiction, Withdrawal

  Mordecai Richler (1974). “Notes on an endangered species and others”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• The struggle for existence is a struggle 'for' something; it is purposeful and only in so being is it meaningful and able to bring meaning into life.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Struggle, Able, Existence

  Viktor E Frankl (2012). “The Doctor and the Soul: From Psychotherapy to Logotherapy”, p.102, Souvenir Press

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• You don't need to be able to string a sentence together in a way that is elegant or even vaguely meaningful to produce a bestseller - as Dan Brown has demonstrated time and again.

  Anthony Horowitz

  Together, Needs, Able

  "Anthony Horowitz: Do we still need publishers?" by Anthony Horowitz, www.theguardian.com. February 27, 2012.

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• You are not your body. It is just something you wear for a while, because living in the earthplane is infinitely more meaningful and more involved if you are encased in its trappings and subject to its rules.

  P. M. H. Atwater

  Body, Subjects, Involved

  P. M. H. Atwater (2004). “We Live Forever: The Real Truth about Death”, p.89, ARE Press

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• Productivity is the deliberate, strategic investment of your time, talent, intelligence, energy, resources, and opportunities in a manner calculated to move you measurably closer to meaningful goals.

  Dan S Kennedy

  Moving, Opportunity, Goal

  Dan S. Kennedy (2013). “No B.S. Time Management for Entrepreneurs: The Ultimate No Holds Barred Kick Butt Take No Prisoners Guide to Time Productivity and Sanity”, p.74, Entrepreneur Press

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• Information design addresses the organization and presentation of data: its transformation into valuable, meaningful information.

  Nathan Shedroff

  Data, Organization, Design

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• Rules of Play is an exhaustive, clear, cogent, and complete resource for understanding games and game design. Salen and Zimmerman describe an encyclopedia of game design issues, techniques, and attributes. In particular, they analyze the elements that can make a game experience richer, more interesting, more emotional, more meaningful, and, ultimately, more successful. It should be the first stop you make when learning about game design.

  Nathan Shedroff

  Successful, Emotional, Games

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• When our young people can find meaningful work, we all benefit. This youth jobs strategy would help connect youth with careers they can build on and equip them with the skills they need to thrive in today's global economy.

  Kathleen Wynne

  Jobs, Careers, Skills

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• Unable to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge: from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw animality forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life to which the ordinary man is conditioned. Getting spiritual nourishment from this chaos of events, sensations, and devious interpretations is the equivalent of trying to pick through a garbage pile for food.

  Lewis Mumford

  Spiritual, Revenge, Men

  "The Conduct Of Life" by Lewis Mumford, Ch. 1, 1951.

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• Of all human activities, only labor, and neither action nor work, is unending, progressing automatically in accordance with life itself and outside the range of willful decisions or humanly meaningful purposes.

  Hannah Arendt

  Work, Decision, Progress

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• If you are determined not to risk pain, then you must do without many things: having children, getting married, the ecstasy of sex, the hope of ambition, friendship-all that makes life alive, meaningful and significant.

  M. Scott Peck

  Sex, Children, Pain

  M. Scott Peck (2003). “The Road Less Traveled, Timeless Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth”, Touchstone

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• I believe that earning your living doing something you enjoy is one of the very best ways to nourish yourself. But even if you are employed at something that is not your ideal work, it is important to find ways to take as much pleasure in it as possible. Living in the present moment can make ordinary activities more interesting and joyful; you may be surprised, if you only look, at what you will find. If you try to stay connected with why you are doing what you are doing, for example, then even the parts of your life that aren't especially interesting can become more meaningful.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Work, Believe, Interesting

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• Happy persons seldom think of happiness. They are too busy losing their lives in the meaningful sacrifices of service.

  David W Augsburger

  Happiness, Sacrifice, Thinking

  David W. Augsburger (1982). “From Here to Maturity”, Tyndale House Pub

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• Whenever you do something without asking yourself, "Why am I doing this?"-that is meaningless life... . The "why" of life makes it meaningful... . Only when an answer is given is one living life as a man.

  Hu Shih

  Live Life, Men, Asking Yourself Why

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• If I am not in love, nothing is meaningful to me. I have no energy.

  Kevin Ayers

  Energy, No Energy, Ifs

  "Kevin Ayers: 'I never considered another profession' – one of his final interviews" by Kate Mossman, www.theguardian.com. February 21, 2013.

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• If a child never sees the stars, never has meaningful encounters with other species, never experiences the richness of nature, what happens to that child?

  Richard Louv

  Nature, Stars, Children

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• Realizing your goal, resolution, or transformation is a journey. Change, like any meaningful endeavor, proceeds sequentially through steps. The journey begins with the contemplation stage of specifying realistic goals, getting ready, or getting psyched. The planning stage is all about prepping. How exactly will I do this thing? At some point you will jump from preparing and planning to perspiring, the work of implementing the new, desired behavior. Getting there is wonderful, but we need to keep you there, which entails persevering through slips and, finally, persisting over time.

  John C. Norcross

  Journey, Goal, Needs

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• As an observer of markets - whenever everyone focuses on one thing - like Greece and Europe - maybe they miss issues that are far more important - such as a meaningful slowdown in India and China.

  Marc Faber

  Europe, Issues, Missing

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• The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and growth associated with the effort to improve it.

  Barry Commoner

  Powerful, Environmental Quality, Effort

  Interview With Alan Hall, www.scientificamerican.com. June 23, 1997.

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