Meaningful Quotes - Page 34

• The Athens Olympics will be meaningful even though I cannot participate as an athlete, since I can participate in the flame relay all over the world.

  Cathy Freeman

  Motivational, Athlete, Flames

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• ...not all encounters with the world affect the mind equally. Studies have demonstrated that if the brain appraises an event as "meaningful," it will be more likely to be recalled in the future.

  Daniel J. Siegel

  Brain, Mind, Encounters

  Daniel J. Siegel (2015). “The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are”, p.72, Guilford Publications

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• Focusing on one thing without interruption is how you get meaningful work done.

  Nate Green

  Done, Entrepreneurship, Interruptions

  "How to Do Work: 8 Strategies to Stop Wasting Time and Get Things Done" by Nate Green, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 11, 2014.

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• I think if you maintain a force in the world that comes into people's sleep, you are exercising a meaningful power.

  Don DeLillo

  Sleep, Exercise, Power

  Don DeLillo (2015). “Underworld: Picador Classic”, p.78, Pan Macmillan

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• Doing mathematics should always mean finding patterns and crafting beautiful and meaningful explanations.

  Paul Lockhart

  Beautiful, Math, Patterns

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• It is reasonable to insist that when the government deprives a person of his or her liberty? and in this case for an indefinite period of time? that the individual have a meaningful opportunity to challenge the legality of their detention and challenge whether they are being wrongfully detained.

  Jeff Bingaman

  Opportunity, Government, Challenges

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• People have murdered each other, in massive wars and guerilla actions, for many centuries, and still murder each other in the present, over Ideologies and Religions which, stated as propositions, appear neither true nor false to modern logicians- meaningless propositions that look meaningful to the linguistically naive.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  War, People, Looks

  Robert Anton Wilson (1990). “Quantum Psychology: How Brain Software Programs You and Your World”, New Falcon Publications

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• My father has always prayed that his words would reflect God's standard of truth as the basis to claim, 'I have given them Your word' (John 17:14). In this book, I believe you will see that he has faithfully spoken God's Word that quenches the thirst of those seeking to draw from the wellsprings of Life. It is highly meaningful to see these statements now collected in one volume.

  Franklin Graham

  Father, Believe, Book

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• Art is no crime. It's every artist's responsibility to make art that is meaningful

  Shirin Neshat

  Art, Responsibility, Crime

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• Meaningful relationships are worth more than hundred-dollar trees, and they deserve all the time, effort, and energy they need to become strong and beautiful. Then, once the roots are well established, such relationships can continue to grow-even under difficult circumstances. Trust and understanding will nurture the relationship, and eventually, the flowers of love will blossom and bear sweet fruit.

  Lloyd D. Newell

  Beautiful, Sweet, Strong

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• To me, the job of the artist is to provide a useful and intelligent vocabulary for the world to be able to articulate feelings they experience everyday, and otherwise wouldn't have the means to express in a meaningful and useful way.

  Mos Def

  Jobs, Artist, Intelligent

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• Seen in the light of evolution, biology is, perhaps, intellectually the most satisfying and inspiring science. Without that light it becomes a pile of sundry facts -- some of them interesting or curious but making no meaningful picture as a whole.

  Theodosius Dobzhansky

  Light, Interesting, Facts

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• You can try to take sorrow and make it into something enduring, meaningful and beautiful. I always feel guilty that this is my job, that I get to do this

  Alice Hoffman

  Beautiful, Jobs, Sorrow

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• The inertia of humans is so huge that you can't really do anything meaningful.

  James Lovelock

  Inertia, Humans, Huge

  Interview with The Guardian, March 29, 2010.

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• Too much of what led up to the crisis in the old bubble days—the conspicuous consumption, the latter-day Gatsbyism—was fueled by a need to fill a huge emotional and psychological void left by the absence of meaningful work. When people cease to find meaning in work, when work is boring, alienating, and dehumanizing, the only option becomes the urge to consume—to buy happiness off the shelf, a phenomenon we now know cannot suffice in the long term.

  Richard Florida

  Emotional, Long, People

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• A meaningful life is composed of a series of meaningful moments. If this is what we want, then the ability to infuse each moment with meaning would seem to be a skill worth practicing.

  Bill Crawford

  Skills, Want, Life Is

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• Creating a meaningful life has less to do with how we feel about our past than what we do about our future.

  Bill Crawford

  Past, Creating, Our Future

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• I want hard stories, I demand them from myself. Hard stories are worth the difficulty. It seems to me the only way I have forgiven anything, understood anything, is through that process of opening up to my own terror and pain and reexamining it, re-creating it in the story, and making it something different, making it meaningful - even if the meaning is only in the act of the telling.

  Dorothy Allison

  Pain, Opening Up, Creating

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• Will Rogers became the biggest, most popular, and highest-paid star of every existing media of his time. The biggest star America ever produced. What is even more remarkable, the things he said and wrote remain as relevant and meaningful today as they did 60 and 70 years ago.

  Tommy Tune

  Stars, Media, Years

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• Bicycling beyond the Divide did what all great books do: it told me about me. In its tale of a journey made by two different men-both of them Daryl Farmer-this book offers us not only moving vistas and meaningful people, but also hope, that rarest of literary commodities these days. I didn't want this to end.

  Bret Lott

  Moving, Book, Journey

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• Architecture is about the understanding of the world and turning it into a more meaningful and humane place.

  Juhani Pallasmaa

  Understanding, World, Architecture

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• C being what it is lacks support for multiple return values, so the notion that it is meaningful to pass pointers to memory objects into which any random function may write random values without having a clue where they point, has not been debunked as the sheer idiocy it really is.

  Erik Naggum

  Memories, Writing, Support

  Re: Allegro CL foreign function interface (Usenet article), groups.google.com. June 14, 2000.

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• Whether a plane to Singapore, a subway in Manhattan, or the streets of Cincinnati, I search for meaningful conversation wherever I may travel. Without it, I believe we lose the ability to not only understand others, but more importantly, ourselves.

  Dhani Jones

  Believe, Manhattan, May

  "Creating a Culture of Conversation" by Dhani Jones, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 11, 2011.

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• If this word "music" is sacred and reserved for eighteenth and nineteenth century instruments, we can substitute a more meaningful term: organization of sound.

  John Cage

  Music, Organization, Piano

  John Cage (2011). “Silence: Lectures and Writings, 50th Anniversary Edition”, Wesleyan University Press

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• If you facilitate your subordinates' steady progress in meaningful work, make that progress salient to them, and treat them well, they will experience the emotions, motivations, and perceptions necessary for great performance.

  Teresa Amabile

  Leadership, Motivation, Perception

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