Significance Quotes - Page 18

• When you haven't found inner meaning, you will always substitute outer performance. It's the only way to fill that void, that sense of significance - that I am significant. So almost the degree of outer performance can, in many cases, mirror the lack of inner alignment.

  Richard Rohr

  Mirrors, Way, Void

  99 Copy quote

• I like to work in the real world, so I do a lot of searching or just simple looking. But I'm not above tweaking reality and making something up. I don't think there are any rules in art. It's not so much what you see as it is the significance you, the artist, see in it.

  Keith Carter

  Photography, Art, Real

  8 Copy quote

• People who underestimate their capabilities also bear costs, although, as already noted, these are more likely to take self-limiting rather than aversive forms. By failing to cultivate personal potentialities and constricting their activities, such persons cut themselves off from many rewarding experiences. Should they attempt tasks having evaluative significance, they create internal obstacles to effective performance by approaching them with unnerving self-doubts

  Albert Bandura

  Cutting, Self, People

  8 Copy quote

• My varnashram dharma teaches me that there must be some significance in the fact of my being born in India instead of in Europe.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Europe, India, Facts

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• That distant day had a significance I could not give it then. So we wheeled and came back south towards the city. The Temple of Heaven slipped by underneath, that perfect pattern in its ample park. Then the wide plain ruled to the far horizon. Soon the aerodrome.

  Cecil Arthur Lewis

  Cities, Giving, Perfect

  6 Copy quote

• Every day, I'll get sent clips via email. I watch them and see if there's something of substance or significance.Some nights are super busy; some nights are quiet.

  Chris Pronger

  Night, Email, Watches

  Source: www.macleans.ca

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• All important architecture of the last century was strongly influenced by political systems. Look at the Soviet system, with its constructivism and Stalinism, Weimer with its Modern style, Mussolini and, of course, the Nazis and Albert Speer's colossal structures. Today's architecture is subservient to the market and its terms. The market has supplanted ideology. Architecture has turned into a spectacle. It has to package itself and no longer has significance as anything but a landmark.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Political, Style, Important

  ""Evil Can also Be Beautiful"". Interview with Matthias Matussek, Joachim Kronsbein, www.spiegel.de. March 27, 2006.

  73 Copy quote

  Show source

• God has given us prayer as a wartime walkie-talkie so that we can call headquarters for everything we need as the kingdom of Christ advances in the world. Prayer gives us the significance of front-line forces, and gives God the glory of a limitless Provider. The one who gives the power gets the glory. Thus prayer safeguards the supremacy of God in missions while linking us with endless grace for every need.

  John Piper

  Prayer, Giving, Grace

  John Piper (2010). “Let the Nations Be Glad!: The Supremacy of God in Missions”, p.65, Baker Academic

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• To understand the present with its full, rich significance, the mind must free itself from the habit of self-protecting acquisition; when it is utterly naked, then there is immortality.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Self, Mind, Naked

  17 Copy quote

• For reasons not always at the time explicable, there are specific occasions when events begin suddenly to take on a significance previously unsuspected, so that, before we really know where we are, life seems to have begun in earnest at last, and we ourselves, scarcely aware that any change has taken place, are careering uncontrollably down the slippery avenues of eternity.

  Anthony Powell

  Taken, Lasts, Events

  Anthony Powell (1995). “A Dance to the Music of Time: First Movement”, p.274, University of Chicago Press

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Love is the most important ingredient to any meaningful relationship. It is fundamental to true significance. Your quality of life is directly tied to the amount of love flowing in you and through you to others. Though it's often overlooked, love is infinitely more valuable than riches, fame, and honor. They will pass away, but love remains. You can be fulfilled without these, but not without love.

  Alex Kendrick

  Meaningful, Love Is, Honor

  19 Copy quote

• The thought of building a life around minimal morality or minimal significance—a life defined by the question, “What is permissible?”—felt almost disgusting to me. I didn’t want a minimal life. I didn’t want to live on the outskirts of reality. I wanted to understand the main thing about life and pursue it.

  John Piper

  Reality, Want, Morality

  5 Copy quote

• There are many options for how images can aggregate not to nihilism, but to significance, or to meaning.

  Cynthia Daignault

  Nihilism

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  23 Copy quote

  Show source

• The name of mistress instead of wife would be dearer and more honourable for me, only love given freely, rather than the constriction of the marriage tie, is of significance to an ideal relationship.

  Heloise

  Ties, Names, Wife

  39 Copy quote

• Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

  Henry Miller

  Art, Teach, Artist

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.24, New Directions Publishing

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• If minds are wholly dependent on brains and brains on biochemistry, and biochemistry (in the long run) on the meaningless flux of the atoms, I cannot understand how the thought of those minds should have any more significance than the sound of the wind in the trees.

  C. S. Lewis

  Running, Should Have, Wind

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.229, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  29 Copy quote

  Show source

• Therein lies the social significance of art: It is constantly at work educating the spirit of the age, conjuring up the forms in which the age is more lacking. The unsatisfied yearning of the artist reaches back to the primordial image in the unconscious, which is best fitted to compensate the inadequacy and one-sidedness of the present. The artist seizes on this image and, in raising it from deepest unconsciousness, he brings it into relation with conscious values, thereby transforming it until it can be accepted by the minds of his contemporaries according to their powers.

  Carl Jung

  Art, Lying, Mind

  12 Copy quote

• Many things happen that we don't know the significance of until a little bit later.

  David Lynch

  Littles, Happens, Knows

  "David Lynch: Life Coach". Interview with Laura Brown, www.harpersbazaar.com. January 12, 2015.

  32 Copy quote

  Show source

• By focusing too myopically on what we want God to do on our behalf, we may miss the significance of what he has already done.

  Philip Yancey

  Missing, Done, May

  Philip Yancey (1988). “Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud”, p.223, Harper Collins

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• The writer who is a mother should, I think, record everything she can: make notes, keep journals, take photographs, use a tape recorder, and remind herself that there is a subject so incalculably vast significance to humanity, about which virtually nothing is known because writers have not been mothers.

  Alicia Ostriker

  Mother, Thinking, Humanity

  4 Copy quote

• A lot of people believe they are successful because they have everything they want. They have added value to themselves. But I believe significance comes when you add value to others and you can't have true success without significance.

  John C. Maxwell

  Believe, Successful, People

  4 Copy quote

• In this country, unfortunately, as all over the world, we care so little, we have no deep feeling about anything. Most of us are intellectual-intellectuals in the superficial sense of being very clever, full of words and theories about what is right and what is wrong, about how we should think, what we should do. Mentally we are highly developed, but inwardly there is very little substance or significance; and it is this inward substance that brings about true action, which is not action according to an idea.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Country, Clever, Character

  17 Copy quote

• The early Christians' opponents all accepted that Jesus existed, taught, had disciples, worked miracles, and was put to death on a Roman cross. As in our day, debate and disagreement centred largely not on the story but on the significance of Jesus. Today nearly all historians, whether Christians or not, accept that Jesus existed and that the gospels contain plenty of valuable evidence which has to be weighed and assessed critically.

  Graham Stanton

  Christian, Jesus, Miracle

  Graham Stanton (2002). “The Gospels and Jesus”, p.145, Oxford University Press

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Success means using your knowledge and experience to satisfy yourself.
  Significance means using your knowledge and experience to change the lives of others.

  Bob Buford

  Mean, Lives Of Others, Knowledge And Experience

  29 Copy quote

• Apart from it, the incarnation and the ministry would lose all their significance, the crucifixion would be but a martyrdom, and the cross a symbol of the victory of death over life. By the Resurrection it was that the Crucified One was "declared to be the Son of God with power," the great truth on which the Christian's faith is founded, and to which his hope is anchored. That Christ died for our sins is the Gospel of the Christian religion regarded as a human cult. The Gospel of Christianity goes on to declare "That He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures"

  Robert Anderson

  Christian, Son, Rose

  4 Copy quote