Significance Quotations

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid.

Exact information about the functional significance of the deep sections of the brain is only obtained by working through the brain histologically in serial section.

Everything I own has some significance to me.

I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.

Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.

The great generalities of the constitution have a content and a significance that vary from age to age.

Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand.

Jesus is the only significance. Beside Jesus nothing has any significance. He alone matters.

In a few wretched buildings, we created a whole new industry with international significance.

People talk about 'lives of significance'-as if there's an alternative. If you're not leading a life of significance, you're not living.

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

There is no significance of God in my life, God is my life. I would not be, without God. I am supposed to be dead.

You have to see your unimportance before you can see your importance and your significance to the world.

I believe that not much happens of any significance when we're in our comfort zone.

A frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys.

To understand is to decipher. To hear significance is to translate.

The main evolutionary significance of humor is that it gets us from the closed mode to the open mode quicker than anything else.

Significance is sweet ...

Kierkegaard, Marx, and Nietzsche are for us like guideposts to a past which has lost its significance.

An inferior sense of smell," Marcus said, as if absolutely nothing of significance had happened, "is distinct from being told that one smells unpleasant.

If we discount the account of creation, we remove the significance of Christmas.

That the existence of the Soviet Union has an international revolutionary significance is a commonplace equally recognized by friends and foes.

I emphasized the significance of revolutionary strategy.

The desire to be significant casts a pall.

You gave me a significant look, but significant of what?

Your significance is not in your similarity to another - it is in your point of difference.

What will matter is not your success but your significance....

The meaning of today will not be clear until tomorrow.

Authentic stardom ... is a gift which, if it is to have any permanent significance, must be bestowed by a public rather than a manager.

every word calls up far more of a picture than its actual meaning is supposed to do, and the writer has to deal with all these silent associations as well as with the uttered significance.

I learned the significance of my own insignificant life.

If I choose to write about sheep, it's just because I happened to write about sheep. There is no deep significance.

That has less significance than a dog's fart.

Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.

Ambition without contribution is of no significance.

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.

A word is nothing unless it has values and an atmosphere, unless you grasp its historical significance.

I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.

The more elusive and ambiguous a symbol is, the more it gains significance and power.

Significance in life doesn’t come from status, because you can always find somebody who’s got more than you. It doesn’t come from sex. It doesn’t come from salary. It comes from serving.

Without God, life has no purpose, and without purpose, life has no meaning. Without meaning, life has no significance or hope.

There is nothing insignificant-nothing.

Anything incomprehensible has a sexual significance to many people under thirty-five.

Trillian had come to suspect that the main reason [Zaphood] had had such a wild and successful life was that he never really understood the significance of anything he did.

SUCCESS is when I add value to MYSELF. SIGNIFICANCE is when I add value to OTHERS.

Success is about us. Significance is about others.

I am not afraid that I shall exaggerate the value and significance of life, but that I shall not be up to the occasion which it is.

The significance of life is living.

Understand there is a price to be paid for achieving anything of significance. You must be willing to pay the price.

The only significance of life consists in helping to establish the kingdom of God.

The significance which is in unity is an eternal wonder.

The significance of the law of love is precisely that it is not just another law, but a law which transcends all law.

The simplest rudiment of mystical experience would seem to be that deepened sense of the significance of a maxim or formula which occasionally sweeps over one.