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• Frequently these loaded images or objects are used by me without my attaching a particular significance to them. In other words, what I'm doing is letting whatever power, whatever affect they have, work on its own.

  Sarah Charlesworth

  Used, Particular, Loaded

  "Where Doubt Is Faith and the Sign Is Spirit: Sarah Charlesworth’s Art of Personal Religion" by G. Roger Denson, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 8, 2015.

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• Photography, too, reduces the world to strips and rectangles; photographers scrutinize the surfaces of reality in hope of unlocking the potential for significance that is latent within them.

  Frank Gohlke

  Photography, Reality, Unlocking

  Frank Gohlke (2009). “Thoughts on Landscape: Collected Writings and Interviews”, p.72, Hol Art Books

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• If tone is granted to be subjected to control, why not line also, which has equal emotional significance? And if line, why not shapes and forms? And if shapes and forms, why not allow elision or emphasis of detail? And if all these things are allowed, what becomes of the record of actuality ?... Sunk without a trace!

  William Mortensen

  Emotional, Details, Why Not

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• I'm not modest about myself. I know for a fact that I am good. But good in the sense that I can put things together. I expound vociferously to students of architecture and photography, the significance of design. A photograph is a design in which you assemble thoughts in your mind.

  Julius Shulman

  Photography, Design, Mind

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• How can we appraise a proposal if the terms hurled at our ears can mean anything or nothing, and change their significance with the inflection of the voice? Welfare state, national socialism, radical, liberal, conservative, reactionary and a regiment of others ... these terms in today's usage, are generally compounds of confusion and prejudice. If our attitudes are muddled, our language is often to blame. A good tonic for clearer thinking is a dose of precise, legal definition.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Attitude, Mean, Thinking

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• I'm one of those people for whom success is one thing, but significance is another. If I can have both, I'm living the dream.

  Romany Malco

  Dream, People, One Thing

  Source: collider.com

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• Sometimes you write a song in a certain era and it's got a certain kind of significance.

  Paul McCartney

  Song, Writing, Eras

  Source: www.today.com

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• For the person trying to do everything alone, the game really is over. If you want to do something big, you must link up with others. One is too small a number to achieve greatness. That's the Law of Significance.

  John C. Maxwell

  Greatness, Law, Games

  John C. Maxwell (2008). “Team Maxwell 2in1 (Winning With People/17 Indisputable Laws)”, p.12, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The progressive growth of the finite consciousness of man towards this Self, towards the universal , the eternal, the infinite, in a word his growth into spiritual consciousness by the development of his ordinary ignorant natural being into an illumined divine nature, this is for Indian thinking the significance of life and the aim of human existance.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Spiritual, Men, Thinking

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• Worries typically follow such lines, a narrative to oneself that jumps from concern to concern and more often than not includes catastrophizing, imagining some terrible tragedy.  Worries are almost always expressed in the mind's ear, not its eye - that is, in words, not images - a fact that has significance for controlling worry.

  Daniel Goleman

  Eye, Worry, Mind

  Daniel Goleman (2012). “Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ”, p.116, Bantam

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• I don't think the American people had a clear picture of either Nixon or me. I think they thought that Nixon was a strong, decisive, tough-minded guy and that I was an idealist and antiwar guy who might not attach enough significance to the security of the country. The truth is, I was the guy with the war record, and my opposition to Vietnam was because I was interested in the nation's well-being.

  George McGovern

  Country, Strong, War

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• A novelist has mad a fictional representation of life. I doing so, he has revealed to us more significance, it may be, than he could find in life itself.

  Bernard DeVoto

  Mad, Novelists, May

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• Goals should be difficult to achieve because those achieved with little effort are seldom appreciated, give little personal satisfaction, and are often not very worthwhile. There is a price to be paid for achieving anything of significance.

  John Wooden

  Giving, Goal, Effort

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• It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.

  Tennessee Williams

  Art, Taken, Play

  Tennessee Williams (1979). “The Rose Tattoo”, p.4, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• The concept of God as a loving, all-powerful person, who created us, who has a plan for us, who issues commandments, and who is ready to receive us into Heaven, is a substantial concept, rich in meaning and significance for human life. But if we take away all this, and leave only the idea of an original cause, it is questionable whether the same word should even be used. By keeping the original word, we delude ourselves into thinking that we are talking about the same thing.

  James Rachels

  Powerful, Thinking, Ideas

  James Rachels (1990). “Created from Animals: The Moral Implications of Darwinism”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• It's not the medium, but the quality of perception and expression, that determines the significance of art.

  Bill Watterson

  Art, Expression, Perception

  Bill Watterson (1996). “The Calvin & Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book”

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• I find it interesting that authors of fantasy and science fiction novels are rarely asked if their books are based on their personal experiences, because all writing is based on personal experience. I may not have gone on an epic quest through a haunted forest, but the feelings in my books are often based on feelings I've had. Real-life events, in fantasy and science fiction, can take on metaphorical significance that they can't in a so-called realistic novel.

  Malinda Lo

  Book, Writing, Epic

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• Free agency is a gift of God....The world does not comprehend the significance of that divine gift to the individual. It is as inherent as intelligence which, we are told, has never been nor can be created

  David O. McKay

  Agency, Doe, World

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• The dismal half-baked images of the average "reportage" and "documentary" photography are self dammning... the slick manner, the slightly obscure significance, the esoteric fear of simple beauty for its own sake - I am deeply concerned with these manifestations of decay. Gene Smith's work validates my most vigorous convictions that if the documentary photographs is to be truly effective it must contain elements of art, intensity, fine craft and spirituality. All these his work contains and we may turn to his work with gratitude, appreciation and great respect.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Appreciation, Gratitude

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• Every person needs to feel significant. We want our lives to count. We yearn to believe that in some way we are important and that hunger for significance-a drive as intense as our need for oxygen-doesn't come from pride or ego. It comes from God because he wants each of us to understand how important we are. ... We must seek our roots, our origin, and our destiny so that we can know our present value. ..... ...We can help each other realize that we are persons of significance being made in the image of God.

  R. C. Sproul

  Believe, Pride, Destiny

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• Success is about us. Significance is about others.

  John C. Maxwell

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• A handy short definition of almost all science fiction might read: realistic speculation about possible future events, based solidly on adequate knowledge of the real world, past and present, and on a thorough understanding of the nature and significance of the scientific method.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Real, Past, Thorough Understanding

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• Watching a child first learn to crawl on a carpet somehow has more significance to you as you get a little older. Perhaps it is that you have suffered more.

  Tobin Bell

  Children, Littles, Firsts

  "Jigsaw Offscreen: 'Saw' Star Spends Weekends Coaching Little League". MTV Interview, www.mtv.com. October 24, 2006.

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• But I think it is also important that we pay tribute and acknowledge another great principle, and that is the principle of religious conviction. Religious freedom has no significance unless it is accompanied by conviction.

  John F. Kennedy

  Religious, Thinking, Important

  "John F. Kennedy: 1961 : containing the public messages, speeches, and statements of the president, January 20 to December 31, 1961" by John F. Kennedy, Washington: Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration, 1962.

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• If I worried about that, I wouldn't have made a single record in my whole career. I think more and more, audiences appreciate something that is distinctive and different. Everyone always throws out this figure, 'Jazz is now down to three percent of the total record sales.' So does that mean it is not important? I think if we agree that human culture itself is important, then I think those three percent take on a greater significance.

  Dave Douglas

  Mean, Thinking, Careers

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