Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Mahatma GandhiTag: paradox attributed-no-source difference action significance
Science is an organized pursuit of triviality.
Art is a casual pursuit of significance.
Let's keep it in perspective.
Tag: science art perspective significance trivia pursuit triviality
A life isn't significant except for its impact on other lives.
Jackie RobinsonTag: life influence significance
How good is it to remember one's insignificance: that of a man among billions of men, of an animal amid billions of animals; and one's abode, the earth, a little grain of sand in comparison with Sirius and others, and one's life span in comparison with billions on billions of ages. There is only one significance, you are a worker. The assignment is inscribed in your reason and heart and expressed clearly and comprehensibly by the best among the beings similar to you. The reward for doing the assignment is immediately within you. But what the significance of the assignment is or of its completion, that you are not given to know, nor do you need to know it. It is good enough as it is. What else could you desire?
Leo TolstoyTag: man god universe spirituality significance divine
Why does every road eventually narrow into a point at the horizon? Because that's where the point lies.
Vera NazarianTag: future road meaning essence significance the-road destination horizon point gist the-point
He was a volatile mixture of confidence and vulnerability. He could deliver extended monologues on professional matters, then promptly stop in his tracks to peer inquisitively into his guest's eyes for signs of boredom or mockery, being intelligent enough to be unable fully to believe in his own claims to significance. He might, in a past life, have been a particularly canny and sharp-tongued royal advisor.
Alain de BottonTag: intelligence confidence vulnerability significance professionalism
It's harder to pick and choose when you're dead. It's like a photograph, you know. It doesn't matter as much.
Neil GaimanTag: truth perspective death death-and-dying etiquette attachment significance self-censorship
Without God, life has no purpose, and without purpose, life has no meaning. Without meaning, life has no significance or hope.
Rick WarrenTag: life purpose god hope significance
The difference between real life and a story is that life has significance, while a story must have meaning.
The former is not always apparent, while the latter always has to be, before the end.
Tag: life reality writing fiction story storytelling meaning writer progression significance real writers-on-writing fictional storyteller pattern arc
Could a literary life be referred to with the iambic pentameter of, say, harnessing wind power, transplanting hearts or saving the whales. Or did it necessitate the sombre and monotonous dirge of software, priority banking or turbine building.
Anita NairTag: writing literary significance monotony professions
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