Meaningful Quotes - Page 28

• 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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• To have meaningful work is a tremendous happiness.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Work, Meaningful Work

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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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• When I first painted a number of canvases grey all over (about eight years ago), I did so because I did not know what to paint, or what there might be to paint: so wretched a start could lead to nothing meaningful. As time went on, however, I observed differences of quality among the grey surfaces - and also that these betrayed nothing of the destructive motivation that lay behind them. The pictures began to teach me. By generalizing a personal dilemma, they resolved it.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Motivation, Years

  FaceBook post by Gerhard Richter from Jun 30, 2015

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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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• Most believers struggle to really believe in the supernatural as a meaningful, deterministic reality except during moments when they are drawn to it, perhaps during a worship service or while reading a novel like 'Adam.' Being drawn to this truth is the first step to living a life in accordance to this truth.

  Ted Dekker

  Believe, Struggle, Reading

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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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• The times I spent with my children in nature are among my most meaningful memories-and I hope theirs.

  Richard Louv

  Nature, Children, Memories

  Richard Louv (2008). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.316, Algonquin Books

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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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• In Russia, as I sat there day after day wearing headphones, listening to the interpreter struggle to make our words relevant, I wondered if we could establish meaningful rapport with a nation that had never seen raisins dance in dark glasses on TV...never had a garage sale.

  Erma Bombeck

  Struggle, Dark, Russia

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• [...] I've come to the conclusion that the artist can not justify life or come up with a cogent reason as to why life is meaningful, but the artist can provide you with a cold glass of water on a hot day.

  Woody Allen

  Artist, Glasses, Water

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• ...Generally people don't recomend this type of book at all. It is far too interesting. Perhaps you have had other books recomended to you. Perhaps, even, you have been given books by friends, parents, teachers, then told that these books are the type you have to read. Those books are invariably described as "important"- which in my experience, pretty much means that they're boring. (words like meaningful and thoughtful are other good clues.)

  Brandon Sanderson

  Teacher, Book, Thoughtful

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• I do not have many things that are meaningful to me. Except my doubts and my fears. And my art.

  Chaim Potok

  Art, Doubt

  Chaim Potok (2003). “My Name Is Asher Lev”, Anchor

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• If you find life absurd, shouldn’t you find death precisely meaningful?

  Harry Mulisch

  Absurd, Ifs

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• I will write things, he was thinking. I will write something meaningful and wonderful someday. I can do that. And I'll dedicate it to you because you're the first person who ever made me think I could.

  Anne Rice

  Writing, Thinking, Firsts

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• I'm hoping what all sentient beings hope ... that somehow I'm part of something larger than myself, in which I play a role, an actual role that is somehow intended and meaningful.

  Anne Rice

  Play, Roles, Sentient Beings

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