Words matter. These are the best Significance Quotes from famous people such as Jez Butterworth, Simu Liu, Sachin Tendulkar, Koel Mallick, Phil Klay, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I understood very little about the significance of the Tony before, but I’ve learned that it makes a huge significance to whether or not your show is going to run.
I believe in the cultural significance of the Marvel Universe and ‘Kim’s Convenience.’ They are two weapons in the same fight and they mean everything to me and the possibilities of what they can represent.
I believe every era has its significance and the same holds true for players and coaches.
Success has never gone to my head. Profession is important, no doubt, but it can’t be of greater significance than your family. My priority is to be happy for as long as I live. Fame and money are after all, temporary.
Prayer in a combat zone serves exactly the same purpose as it does in peacetime. In war, the stakes are life and death, true; but if you believe in God and in the notion of a human soul, then we are always making decisions of tremendous significance.
One of the challenges for lawyers can be explaining, first of all, what the legal issue is and, second, its significance. And both of those are important.
Because Katrina put it out there, no one can play the pretend game anymore that there isn’t poverty and inequality in this country. The Millions More Movement – Katrina gives it added significance.
Back in 2006-07 when we completed the first Ashes whitewash in 86 years, the historical significance didn’t really filter in to our thinking. We didn’t realise it at the time – we were just making amends for 2005.
Almost the only persons who may be said to comprehend even approximately the significance, principles, and purposes of Socialism are the chief leaders of the extreme wings of the Socialistic forces, and perhaps a few of the money kings themselves.
I don’t have a problem with the concept that miracles might occasionally occur at moments of great significance, where there is a message being transmitted to us by God Almighty. But as a scientist, I set my standards for miracles very high.
‘Lord of the Rings’ was a childhood favorite, though the adult Rae wishes the women in those books had more significance and agency.
Red certainly is the family color. From my mother and my grandmother, I’ve learned a lot of little tricks – the significance of color and lipstick being one of them. I started skating when I was eight years old, and my mom did my makeup for me back then.
It is my first preference to do films with social significance. Art cinema has given me credibility and status as an actor, but commercial cinema has given me a comfortable living.
You may doubt the significance of your work, but work faithfully anyways.
If given a chance, I would really want to explore the monuments in Delhi, like Qutub Minar and the forts. I have been there as a child, but now I want to go back and understand the history and significance behind them. We take all of these things for granted in life.
With my fiction, I focused on chapters and overall conceptions, while in poetry, I crawled along in the trenches of each sentence, examining every word for a sign of a deeper significance.
If my significance comes from God, then I know I’m always secure.
When you draw or paint a tree, you do not imitate the tree; you do not copy it exactly as it is, which would be mere photography. To be free to paint a tree or a flower or a sunset, you have to feel what it conveys to you: the significance, the meaning of it.
Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.
The autumn of 1850 brought an event freighted with deep significance to me. My mother died.
I learned the significance of my own insignificant life.
The wealth of south Florida, but even more important, the meaning and significance of south Florida lies in the black muck of the Everglades and the inevitable development of this country to be the great tropic agricultural center of the world.
We need to change the focus from celebrating sales at the mall to celebrating the significance of President Washington’s birth to the birth of our nation.
When I found out that Inspiration 4 was gonna be the first all-civilian mission to space, well then there’s no chance that’s going to be a bunch of fishing buddies going on a joy ride. That’s something of significance, of responsibility.
Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance.
All of my tales are based on the fundamental premise that common human laws and emotions have no validity or significance in the cosmos-at-large.
Sometimes string figures were used to illustrate stories, as in the case of an Eskimo example that depicts a man catching a salmon. Sometimes they had magic or religious significance.
When we talk about having a life of significance and meaning, it’s not about fame or money or resources. It’s about people and lives and hearts. That’s my biggest passion in life.
History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.
The classics of Marxism, while fully appreciating the significance of the Darwinian theory, pointed out the errors of which Darwin was guilty. Darwin’s theory, though unquestionably materialist in its main features, is not free from some serious errors.
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.
‘Alien’ asked ground-breaking questions about eco-politics and female empowerment. ‘The Matrix’ delved deeper into the concept of perception versus reality than perhaps any other film I know. But for some reason, we tend not to remember the significance of their writing.
What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world’s beauty, is everything!
In the mind of the public, the word ‘planet’ carries a significance lacking in other words used to describe planetary bodies… many members of the public assume that alleged ‘non-planets’ cease to be interesting enough to warrant scientific exploration.
Students of American glass must always keep in mind that the creations they collect are truly examples of our American culture… and thus have historical significance.
How we think about the world and – perhaps even more importantly – how we narrate it have a massive significance, therefore, a thing that happens and is not told ceases to exist and perishes.
Death threatens our speech with futility because death is not just a biological event – it is a reality we fear may rob our living of any significance.
But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may not be aware of this till she is pretty far along with it.
Christianity makes of life a moral drama in which we play a starring role and in which the most ordinary events take on a grand significance.
My grandmother’s apartment had significance for me, even as a child, and I was fascinated by that world that was disappearing.
Establishing the two Eids as official holidays will carry important practical and symbolic significance.
There is some truth to the idea that, in the fields of science, individual contributions of great significance are possible.
Remembering the loss of those Irishmen from all parts of the island who were sent to their deaths in the imperialist slaughter of the First World War is crucial to understanding our history. It is also important to recognise the special significance in which the Battle of the Somme and the First World War is held.
The Countrywide scandal is a lesson for anyone who tries to downplay the significance of crony capitalism, which moves far beyond perks and favors for politicians. These corrupt arrangements influence policies that impact all Americans, and never for the better.
When we made ‘Life in a Day,’ we asked people around the globe to record their lives on a single ordinary day. When we were cutting that film, we talked about what it might be like if we chose a day that already had significance to people. The result is ‘Christmas in a Day.’
I already knew, of course, about the juggernaut that is Shonda Rhimes and the cultural significance of her.
International Women’s Day means many things to many people. Officially, it is ‘a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women.’ These are important points that deserve to be called out – so we all remember their significance.
As for September 11, let us not too easily grant the Americans possession of that date on the calendar. Like May 1 or July 14 or December 25, September 11 may seem full of significance to some people, while to other people it is just another day.
My goal is to make fine art, and fine art comes from the soul. If you have virtuosity and facility, you can take and create something of significance.
The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.
When my mother died, it sort of put a damper on things. My career didn’t have the same significance or excitement. It had always been about doing well for my family – my brothers, sisters, father, mother. Then something interesting and important happened – I started doing things for me.
