Quotes Tagged "significant"

You fight your superficiality, your shallowness, so as to try to come at people without unreal expectations, without an overload of bias or hope or arrogance, as untanklike as you can be, sans cannon and machine guns and steel plating half a foot thick; you come at them unmenacingly on your own ten toes instead of tearing up the turf with your caterpillar treads, take them on with an open mind, as equals, man to man, as we used to say, and yet you never fail to get them wrong. You might as well have the brain of a tank. You get them wrong before you meet them, while you're anticipating meeting them; you get them wrong while you're with them; and then you go home to tell somebody else about the meeting and you get them all wrong again. Since the same generally goes for them with you, the whole thing is really a dazzling illusion. ... The fact remains that getting people right is not what living is all about anyway. It's getting them wrong that is living, getting them wrong and wrong and wrong and then, on careful reconsideration, getting them wrong again. That's how we know we're alive: we're wrong. Maybe the best thing would be to forget being right or wrong about people and just go along for the ride. But if you can do that -- well, lucky you.

How to win in life: 1 work hard 2 complain less 3 listen more 4 try, learn, grow 5 don't let people tell you it cant be done 6 make no excuses

I have always known that in life, becoming significant is really tough, however, remaining a mediocre is even tougher.

There was unprecedented elite condemnation of the plans to invade Iraq. Sensible analysts were able to perceive that the enterprise carried significant risks for U.S. interests, however conceived.

Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.

Significant anniversaries are solemnly commemorated - Japan's attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, for example.

The avian influenza found in mainland British Columbia poses no significant threat to human health.

As with almost every significant aspect of the Bush presidency, its handling of 9/11 was a catastrophe from start to finish.

One of the most significant factors contributing to the chasm of educational opportunity is the way that schools are funded.

All of the significant art of today stems from Conceptual art. This includes the art of installation, political, feminist and socially directed art.

Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.

HBO is not an advertiser-based model, it's a subscription model. So what's significant to HBO is not necessarily the debut of an episode, it's the cumulative numbers.

Though dams and artificial lakes can have significant negative environmental impacts, when carefully considered, mitigated, and managed, the benefits of hydropower often outweigh these costs.

Art is significant deformity.

At HSN, the experience we create are a significant point of differentiation.

Developing countries are losing significant tax revenues through corporate tax dodging.

The most significant indicator that there is no disaster in Iraq is the fact that there is no exodus.

Sinn Fein is committed to promoting and enhancing reconciliation, and in recent years, I and other members of my party have taken a number of significant initiatives aimed to advance this process.

Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.

You add one million citizens to the voting rolls in this state, that's a significant, significant difference. You do that nationwide, it's a significant difference.