The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. Votes: 7
AristotleThis was love: a string of coincidences that gathered significance and became miracles. Votes: 5
Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieThe Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media. Votes: 4
William ColbyThe only significance of life consists in helping to establish the kingdom of God. Votes: 4
Leo TolstoyI feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance. Votes: 4
Pablo CasalsI believe every era has its significance and the same holds true for players and coaches. Votes: 4
Sachin TendulkarThe significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain. Votes: 4
Khalil GibranWhat a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us. Votes: 2
Marcel ProustArchitecture depends on facts, but its real field of activity lies in the realm of the significance. Votes: 2
Ludwig Mies van der RoheIf a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk? Votes: 2
Laurence J. PeterVisions possess greater significance than just entertainment! Visions have power. Votes: 0
Phil PringleAnything incomprehensible has a sexual significance to many people under thirty-five. Votes: 0
Zelda FitzgeraldMost people muddled through events and only in retrospect realized their significance. Votes: 0
Kate AtkinsonThe destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale. Votes: 0
Stanley KubrickThe individual is losing significance; his destiny is no longer what interests us. Votes: 0
Ludwig Mies van der RoheThe hysterical find too much significance in things. The depressed find too little. Votes: 0
Mason CooleyEveryone does magic all the time in different ways. 'Life' plus 'significance' = magic. Votes: 0
Grant MorrisonA frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys. Votes: 0
Edith WhartonFood still isn't my thing, but I've learned to respect its power and significance. Votes: 0
J. R. MoehringerWhat other significance can our existence have than to be ourselves fully and completely? Votes: 0
John MacmurrayJesus is the only significance. Beside Jesus nothing has any significance. He alone matters. Votes: 0
Dietrich BonhoefferAnd of course, identifying all human genes and proteins will have great medical significance. Votes: 0
Daniel NathansIn a few wretched buildings, we created a whole new industry with international significance. Votes: 0
Edwin LandThe present challenge to the photographer is to express inner significance through outward form. Votes: 0
Beaumont NewhallI believe that not much happens of any significance when we're in our comfort zone. Votes: 0
Bob ParsonsMany things happen that we don't know the significance of until a little bit later. Votes: 0
David LynchThe more elusive and ambiguous a symbol is, the more it gains significance and power. Votes: 0
Umberto EcoOnce you train an audience to look for significance, they start to find it everywhere. Votes: 0
Alex HirschSuperstition has been defined as the use of a form whose significance has been forgotten. Votes: 0
Dion FortuneSince the design of the movement is paramount, shape, for me, should have no significance. Votes: 0
George RickeyThe autumn of 1850 brought an event freighted with deep significance to me. My mother died. Votes: 0
John Sergeant WiseAikido is not ultimately Japanese: It is an art of universal truth and international significance. Votes: 0
Linda HolidayIt is the leaders job to add significance to the lives of the people he leads. Votes: 0
John C. MaxwellSUCCESS is when I add value to MYSELF. SIGNIFICANCE is when I add value to OTHERS. Votes: 0
John C. MaxwellMcCain is significant in the sense that he has no significance at all on any subject. Votes: 0
Gore VidalNever underestimate the significance of the little things done out of a large heart of love. Votes: 0
Elizabeth GeorgeEnthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do. Votes: 0
Norman Vincent PealeLeaders shouldn?t attach moral significance to their ideas: Do that, and you can?t compromise. Votes: 0
Peter DruckerYour feelings come from where you find your hope. Where is your happiness and your significance? Votes: 0
Timothy KellerThe main purpose of a significance test is to inhibit the natural enthusiasm of the investigator. Votes: 0
Frederick MostellerThere is great significance and importance in all our day-to-day actions in both words and deeds. Votes: 0
Jennifer YoungsApparently, as a kid, I used to eat spiders. Maybe there's some Freudian significance behind that. Votes: 0
Matt SmithSometimes you write a song in a certain era and it's got a certain kind of significance. Votes: 0
Paul McCartneyYour significance is not in your similarity to another - it is in your point of difference. Votes: 0
Mike MurdockAs long as that spark of passion is missing there is no human significance in the performance. Votes: 0
Henry MillerAre you aware of the significance of every thought, of every reaction that you happen to have? Votes: 0
Jiddu KrishnamurtiThe fact that a knight is temporarily on the edge of the board is of no great significance. Votes: 0
Anatoly KarpovThe only significance of analyzing the past is that it does give us some key to the future. Votes: 0
John F. KennedyThe real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind. Votes: 0
Joseph ConradIt is necessary not to be Christian to appreciate the beauty and significance of the life of Christ. Votes: 0
Henry David ThoreauStudents 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. Votes: 5 James Lafferty
All knowledge attains its ethical value and its human significance only by the human sense with which it is employed. Only a good man can be a great physician. Votes: 3 Hermann Nothnagel
Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. Votes: 3 Abraham Lincoln
It's not the medium, but the quality of perception and expression, that determines the significance of art. Votes: 3 Bill Watterson
There are several books that I have-the Physics of Star Trek, Star Trek and Business, there are manuals on command style and countless scholarly papers that have been written about the significance of Next Generation. Votes: 1 Patrick Stewart
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. Votes: 1 Richard MacDonald
History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us. Votes: 1 Johan Huizinga
To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication. Votes: 7 Marlon Brando
It was Nietzsche who first made us conscious of the significance of the individual as a term in the evolutionary process-in that part of the evolutionary process which has still to take place. Votes: 1 Herbert Read