Meaningful Quotes - Page 24

• 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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• I became aware that all sounds can make meaningful language.

  Karlheinz Stockhausen

  Sound, Language

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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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• But I have to add - and this answers your other question - this catholicity in time and in space is only meaningful for me if there is, at the same time, a concentration on the Gospel.

  Hans Kung

  Space, Add, Answers

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• But they are not going to take on Big Oil because Big Oil is very generous at campaign time, and this is all about the elections. They want to pretend that they are doing something meaningful.

  Peter DeFazio

  Oil, Campaigns, Want

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• The United States must also continue to push the United Nations Security Council for strong action to thwart Iran's nuclear ambitions. In the meantime, it is our job to take meaningful steps to eliminate the threats posed by Iran.

  Allyson Schwartz

  Strong, Jobs, Ambition

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• After one hundred years of federal rule, the United States House of Representatives has moved to provide for the first meaningful route to self-determination for the Puerto Rican people under our federal system.

  Dick Thornburgh

  Determination, Self, Years

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• In all my career, in my ups and downs, I've never had a beauty campaign. This was meaningful that at almost 41 years old, I could be getting my first beauty campaign. It made me feel really great.

  Teri Hatcher

  Careers, Years, Firsts

  "Teri Hatcher Is New Clairol Spokeswoman", www.foxnews.com. September 13, 2005.

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• While I think storytelling is a meaningful way to spend your life... it does feel a little bit secondary or off-point.

  David Simon

  Thinking, Way, Doe

  "'The Wire' writer David Simon among MacArthur genius grant winners" by Dan Zak, www.washingtonpost.com. September 28, 2010.

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• I just wanted to make a record that wasn't escapism. Like, I didn't want to write another record that was devoid of meaningful content.

  Dan Deacon

  Writing, Records, Want

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• Hence it is that the shape of something is especially meaningful.

  James J. Gibson

  Shapes

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• That to fly requires chaotic, sometimes even violent passages--becomes a metaphor for all of life's most meaningful endeavors.

  Kelly Corrigan

  Sometimes, Metaphor, Violent

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• The biggest lie is the idea that we are entitled to a meaningful and coherent summarizing, a conclusion, of something which never concludes. In that regard, this is the lie I'm telling myself so I don't set fire to anything.

  David Milch

  Lying, Fire, Ideas

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• We now know that the way to help a child develop optimally is to help create connections in her brain—her whole brain—that develop skills that lead to better relationships, better mental health, and more meaningful lives. You could call it brain sculpting, or brain nourishing, or brain building. Whatever phrase you prefer, the point is crucial, and thrilling: as a result of the words we use and the actions we take, children’s brains will actually change, and be built, as they undergo new experiences.

  Daniel J. Siegel

  Children, New Experiences, Skills

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• In order to live the life we desire, and set the intention for greater happiness and more meaningful connections with others, we have to release the hold that our past has on us

  Deepak Chopra

  Live Life, Past, Order

  FaceBook post by Deepak Chopra from May 21, 2014

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• Astrology is one of the intuitive methods like the I Ching, geomantics, and other divinatory procedures. It is based upon the synchronicity principle, meaningful coincidence. ... Astrology is a naively projected psychology in which the different attitudes and temperaments of man are represented as gods and identified with planets and zodiacal constellations.

  Carl Jung

  Attitude, Men, Astrology

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• After you run, there's a sense of accomplishment; you feel like your life is meaningful. It's a moment of clarity.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Running, Accomplishment, Clarity

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• Compassion is one of the principal things that make our lives meaningful. It is the source of all lasting happiness and joy.

  Dalai Lama

  Compassion, Lasting Happiness, Joy

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• I don't know Who, or what, put the question, I don't know when it was put. I don't even remember answering. But at some moment I did answer Yes to Someone, or Something,and from that hour I was certain that existence is meaningful and that, therefore, my life, in self-surrender, had a goal.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Self, Goal, Answers

  Markings (1964)

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• Standardized personalization=universal right to meaningful learning. Personalized standardization=flexible access to mandated learning.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Learning, Personalized

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• Indeed, in the present climate of mistrust of institutions, many people who yearn for a more meaningful and fulfilling life would regard the church as an unlikely place to go for guidance.

  Hugh Mackay

  People, Church, Climate

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• To be a leader means, especially, having the opportunity to make a meaningful difference in the lives of those who permit leaders to lead.

  Max De Pree

  Opportunity, Differences, Leader

  Max De Pree (1987). “Leadership is an Art”, Doubleday Business

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• Resilience is a precious skill. People who have it tend to also have three underlying advantages: a believe that they can influence life events; a tendency to find meaningful purpose in life’s turmoil; and a conviction that they can learn from both positive and negative experiences.

  Amanda Ripley

  Believe, Skills, Negative Experiences

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