Meaningful Quotes

• The richest most meaningful stories are found in small places: made, carried, crafted, told, and retold by apparently unimportant people.

  

  Louise Brown
  • People
  • Small
  • Meaningful

• If you're making a bunch of little decisions - like, do I read this email now or later? Do I file it? Do I forward it? Do I have to get more information? Do I put it in the spam folder? - that's a handful of decisions right there, and you haven't done anything meaningful. It puts us into a brain state of decision fatigue.

  

  Daniel Levitin
  • Done
  • Decision
  • Brain

• We have to face the fact that meaningful gun control has to be a part of homeland security.

  

  Jeh Johnson
  • Control
  • Gun
  • Meaningful

• The quality of festival Q&As is often a matter of chance. Sometimes the lights come up on movies I loved, and not a single meaningful question is asked. Sometimes it's the opposite.

  

  Yance Ford
  • Up
  • Question
  • Single

• It was fun; you know, at this point in my life it's like, I want to do stuff that's meaningful.

  

  Joan Cusack
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Meaningful

• It's incredibly hard to get meaningful work done when your workday has been shredded into work moments.

  

  Jason Fried
  • Work
  • Done
  • Moments

• A thank-you can be just as meaningful as a soulful ten-page message.

  

  Drew Barrymore
  • Meaningful

• The discerning realize that it is not realistic to expect perfection in others when none of us is perfect...Meaningful progress can be made only when all of us can cast the motes out of our own eyes, leave judgment to our Father in Heaven, and lose ourselves in righteous living.

  

  Marvin J. Ashton
  • Father
  • Perfect
  • Eyes

• You too can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aim and destination.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Motivational
  • Meaningful
  • Target

• How your social network - the people that you know, or in your community - understand or value a work can be... a tremendously relevant indicator of how important or meaningful it's going to be to you.

  

  David Weinberger
  • People
  • Work
  • Important

• What you put into it is what you're going to get out of it. If you're getting the chance to step into the octagon, you better be going full speed and give it everything you've got.

  

  B.J. Penn
  • Giving
  • Meaningful
  • Steps

• Children are nowhere taught, in any systematic way, to distinguish true from false, or meaningful from meaningless, statements. Why is this so? Because their elders, even in the democratic countries, do not want them to be given this kind of education.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Children
  • Why
  • True

• I think art comes out of meaningful experiences, and it's hard to make art when your meaningful experience is getting into your electric car and driving from your fancy house in the Hills to your fancy job in the Valley.

  

  Aisha Tyler
  • Art
  • Job
  • Experience

• Most organizations do not value imagination, do not encourage it, do not reward it. In many cases, they don't even think about it. But if you're not thinking about imagination, I guarantee you're not going to have meaningful innovation.

  

  Jay S. Walker
  • Thinking
  • Value
  • Imagination

• I am not sure one is capable of reflecting absurdity without having a strong sense of meaning. Absurdity makes sense only against a meaningful background. It is the deeper meaning that is shedding light on the absurdity. There must be a vanish point, a metaphysical horizon if you will where absurdity and meaning merge.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Strong
  • Light
  • Point

• If oil exploration can threaten a place as beautiful and meaningful as Virunga, where next?

  

  Anna Friel
  • Beautiful
  • Ifs
  • Next

• That is a real attitude - to see everything as being meaningful, even the less important things, to prove something, even the greater problems of life.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Life
  • Important
  • Real

• Let’s summarize. What is awesomeness? Awesomeness happens when thick — real, meaningful — value is created by people who love what they do, added to insanely great stuff, and multiplied by communities who are delighted and inspired because they are authentically better off. That’s a better kind of innovation, built for 21st century economics.

  

  Umair Haque
  • People
  • Great
  • Real

• I want to keep doing projects that speak for people within the community and tell different types of meaningful stories.

  

  Ashton Sanders
  • People
  • Different
  • Community

• Zombies, vampires, Frankenstein's monster, robots, Wolfman - all of this stuff was really popular in the '50s. Robots are the only one of those make-believe monsters that have become real. They are really in our lives in a meaningful way. That's pretty fascinating to me.

  

  Daniel H. Wilson
  • Believe
  • Real
  • Pretty

• I've learned to take jobs as an actress that is meaningful to me because I've never taken a job for the money.

  

  Emmy Rossum
  • Money
  • Job
  • Taken

• Someone who copies a Van Gogh does not therefore become Van Gogh, and the same would go for Mozart or anyone else who contributed something that was original. Certainly in the way that I described visualizing numbers in abstract, meaningful shapes.

  

  Daniel Tammet
  • Meaningful

• When the Senate ceases to engage nominees in meaningful discussion of legal issues, the confirmation process takes on an air of vacuity and farce, and the Senate becomes incapable of evaluating nominees or appropriately educating the public.

  

  Elena Kagan
  • Air
  • Discussion
  • Senate

• It seems to me every one of us is doing something meaningful for this world.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • World
  • Me
  • Meaningful

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