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• Engaging in an authentic, meaningful conversation with consumers will be the key to marketing success and growth, even if that means acknowledging negative feedback; transparency is paramount.

  Ron Blake

  Keys, Growth, Marketing

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• I can't deny that Jerry Springer supposedly beating us didn't affect me. There was a point where I felt like, Golly, you work so hard, you try so hard and the people say they want meaningful television and then Jerry Springer ends up beating you. It was disturbing.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Work, People, Competition

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• Design is the conscious imposition of meaningful order.

  Jonah Lehrer

  Order, Design, Conscious

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• It has been said: The whole is more than the sum of its parts. It is more correct to say that the whole is something else than the sum of its parts, because summing up is a meaningless procedure, whereas the whole-part relationship is meaningful.

  Kurt Koffka

  Said, Procedures, Summing Up

  Kurt Koffka (1999). “Principles of Gestalt Psychology”, p.176, Psychology Press

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• I don't feel I have to write deep and meaningful songs; they can be light and meaningless. It has to do with the place I am in my life, a really good place.

  Neil Diamond

  Song, Writing, Light

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• As for the various religions, there's no doubt that they are very meaningful to adherents, and allow them to delude themselves into thinking there is some meaning to their lives beyond what we agree is the case. I'd never try to talk them out of the delusions, which are necessary for them to live a life that makes some sense to them. These beliefs can provide a framework for deeds that are noble or savage, and anywhere in between, and there's every reason to focus attention on the deeds and the background for them, to the extent that we can grasp it.

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, Focus, Doubt

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• I resisted using EHRs while an internist in Boston, as I wrote in my blog, ‘Why Be a Meaningful User.’ Over time, however, I found that working with health IT made me a better and safer physician. Most importantly, my patients received better, safer care and improved outcomes.

  David Blumenthal

  Boston, Care, Outcomes

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• Everyone is a theologian, either conscious or unconscious, in the sense that everyone has some conception of the nature of reality, of the demands of reality, and of those elements in reality that support or threaten meaningful existence.

  James Luther Adams

  Reality, Support, Elements

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• I think America understands that energy security is a very important part of our national security. But if we are going to address energy security in a meaningful way going forward, we need to do it in a new manner. We cannot just be doing the same old thing.

  Chris Van Hollen

  Thinking, Old Things, America

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• Drinking alone holds no fun. Drink with friends or strangers! Be foolish, least you'll remember something meaningful.

  Alcuin

  Fun, Drinking, Remember Something

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• Retire from your job but never from meaningful projects. If you want to live a long life, you need eustress, that is, a deep sense of meaning and of contribution to worthy projects and causes, particularly, your intergenerational family.

  Stephen Covey

  Motivational, Jobs, Long

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

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• The only meaningful statistic is number of games won.

  Woody Hayes

  Games, Numbers

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• When you are eighty years old, and in a quiet moment of reflection narrating for only yourself the most personal version of your life story, the telling that will be most compact and meaningful will be the series of choices you have made. In the end, we are our choices.

  Jeff Bezos

  Reflection, Quiet Moments, Years

  "The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon". Book by Brad Stone, October 15, 2013.

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• Solitude can become your most meaningful companion and it can assist you in being a more giving person in your spiritual partnerships. Rather than regarding your partner's need for time alone as a threat, see it as a time of renewal that you celebrate. Make every effort to help each other have that space. Treat that space as sacred.

  Wayne Dyer

  Spiritual, Space, Giving

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• Any group of persons – prisoners, primitives, pilots, or patients – develop a life of their own that becomes meaningful, reasonable and normal once you get close to it.

  Erving Goffman

  Groups, Pilots, Normal

  Erving Goffman (2017). “Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates”, p.17, Routledge

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• Remind yourself, in whatever way is personally meaningful, that it is not in your best interest to reinforce thoughts and feelings of unworthiness. Even if you've already taken the bait and feel the familiar pull of self-denigration, marshal your intelligence, courage, and humor in order to turn the tide. Ask yourself: Do I want to strengthen what I'm feeling now? Do I want to cut myself off from my basic goodness? Remind yourself that your fundamental nature is unconditionally open and free.

  Pema Chodron

  Taken, Cutting, Self

  Pema Chodron (2008). “The Pocket Pema Chodron”, p.46, Shambhala Publications

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• Only when there is a wilderness can man harmonize his inner being with the wavelengths of the earth. When the earth, its products, its creatures, become his concern, man is caught up in a cause greater than his own life and more meaningful. Only when man loses himself in an endeavor of that magnitude does he walk and live with humanity and reverence.

  William O. Douglas

  Men, Humanity, Doe

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• This freedom of movement is the very essence of our free society, setting us apart. Like the right of assembly and the right of association, it often makes all other rights meaningful-knowing, studying, arguing, exploring, conversing, observing and even thinking. Once the right to travel is curtailed, all other rights suffer, just as when curfew or home detention is placed on a person.

  William O. Douglas

  Home, Thinking, Rights

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• They who humble themselves before knowledge of any kind generally end up the wiser and as voices with something meaningful to say.

  Haki R. Madhubuti

  Humble, Voice, Kind

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• How can you put out a meaningful drama when every fifteen minutes proceedings are interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits with toilet paper? No dramatic art form should be dictated and controlled by men whose training and instincts are cut of an entirely different cloth. The fact remains that these gentlemen sell consumer goods, not an art form.

  Rod Serling

  Art, Drama, Cutting

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

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• Your date will not be impressed by you throwing up on her brand-new shoes, as you spout poetic babblings that are meaningful only to you.

  Gene Simmons

  Inspirational, New Shoes, Poetic

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• The number eighteen is symbolically meaningful because it is the numerical equivalent of the Hebrew word chai, which means life.

  Michael Bamberger

  Golf, Numbers, Hebrew

  Michael Bamberger (2005). “To the Linksland: A Golfing Adventure”, Gotham

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• Maybe it's all utterly meaningless. Maybe it's all unutterably meaningful. If you want to know which, pay attention to what it means to be truly human in a world that half the time we're in love with and half the time scares the hell out of us. Any fiction that helps us pay attention to that is religious fiction. The unexpected sound of your name on somebody's lips. The good dream. The strange coincidence. The moment that brings tears to your eyes. The person who brings life to your life. Even the smallest events hold the greatest clues.

  Frederick Buechner

  Dream, Religious, Eye

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• I don't think individual achievement in business is the most meaningful way for it to operate.

  Michael Eisner

  Thinking, Achievement, Way

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• It doesn't matter how many people you offend, as long as you're getting your message to your consumers. I say to those people who do not want to offend anybody: You are going to have a very, very difficult time having meaningful advertising.

  Phil Knight

  Knights, Long, People

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