Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kevin Ayers

If I am not in love, nothing is meaningful to me. I have no energy.

Kenneth More

The thing is to try to do as much as you can in the time that you have.

Jack Welch

If work is just going in every day and getting a check, it's an ugly life. When you can make work a meaningful purpose, you've hit the jackpot for people.

Jacque Fresco

People will continue to search for answers to universal and perplexing problems. But to find meaningful answers, one must first know what questions to ask.

Henry Rollins

There's something about being under-rested and knowing that the situation is going to remain that way for quite some time that makes things more meaningful.

Helen Fisher

I think that property is very important in this day and age. It defines you; you worked hard to get it. It's meaningful to you, and when you divorce, a lot of people have a lot of battles over their property for good reasons.

Manning Marable

As the years progress, what women and men will discover is that the most lasting and rewarding educational experiences come not from specific information provided in classroom lectures or assigned textbooks, but from the values obtained in active engagement in meaningful issues. We achieve for ourselves only as we appreciate the problems and concerns of others-and only as we see our own lives as part of a much greater social purpose.

Manmohan Singh

Meaningful solutions to the problems of mass poverty that prevails in India I believe can only be found in the framework of an expanding economy.

Malcolm X

I know that societies often have killed people who have helped to change those societies. And if I can die having brought any light, having exposed any meaningful truth that will help destroy the racist cancer that is malignant in the body of America, then, all credit is due to Allah. Only the mistakes have been mine.

John C. Maxwell

We were created for meaningful work, and one of life's greatest pleasures is the satisfaction of a job well done.

James Redfield

[Learn] to slow down and perceive the mysterious events and opportunities that happen in life. We call them coincidences, but if we look closely we see they are meaningful. They bring us just the right information at just the right time to extend our careers, relationships, and growth. These events feel destined in some way, as though the world is set up to help us make a better life, work through our problems, and reach our dreams - if we just pay attention.

James Redfield

As we blossom or awaken, we begin to notice there is a force in the world that seems to be operating and leading us into a certain destiny. And it's very much a kind of detective effort on our own part to figure out what these things mean. The synchronicity is essentially a meaningful coincidence that brings us information at just the right time. While leading us forward, it also feels very inspiring and destined in a way. It feels like we're on a path of unfolding in our own personal evolution.

James Fox

Since the late 1970's, the main focus of prisons has been punishment, not rehabilitation. It's hard to believe, but you would be hard-pressed to find a meaningful violence-prevention class in a federal or state penitentiary. And 'we the people' are footing the bill to keep these folks imprisoned. It costs on average $46,000 a year to keep an adult incarcerated in California and about the same for New York State.

Jon Porter

As a member of Congress, and a parent, I understand the importance of ensuring that families are able to provide a meaningful and proper burial for their loved ones.

Jon Gruden

Meaningless yards are not meaningful.

M. Russell Ballard

Be involved; be informed. Make meaningful contributions to society through service and involvement.

M. Scott Peck

If you are determined not to risk pain, then you must do without many things: having children, getting married, the ecstasy of sex, the hope of ambition, friendship-all that makes life alive, meaningful and significant.

M. Scott Peck

We skim over the surface thoughtlessly. But we must acknowledge that thinking well is a time-consuming process. We can't expect instant results. We have to slow down a bit, and take the time to contemplate, meditate, and even pray. It is the only route to a more meaningful and efficient existence.

Louise Brown

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

Eric Hoffer

It is the acquisition of skills in particular, irrespective of their utility, that is potent in making life meaningful. Since man has no inborn skills, the survival of the species has depended on the ability to acquire and perfect skills. Hence the mastery of skills is a uniquely human activity and yields deep satisfaction.

Emmy Rossum

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

Norman Mailer

When the wind carries a cry which is meaningful to human ears, it is simpler to believe the wind shares with us some part of the emotion of Being than that the mysteries of a hurricane's rising murmur reduce to no more than the random collision of insensate molecules.

It's got to be significant enough and advantaged enough that it would make a meaningful difference.

They did it together and that's the most meaningful thing for me. They epitomize the meaning of team. To win a state championship, you have to have a team.

Tyrone Willingham

I've done this before, ... But it's meaningful because there will be many others that will make something of it.

Eli Manning

It's going to be meaningful and exciting. It's going to be something different, something I've never done before.

Alan Cohen

There is no real security in what is no longer meaningful.

Alan Cohen

Focus on the highest, clearest, and most meaningful teaching you can find, and let all else go.

Alan Cohen

Life has meaning only if you do what is meaningful to you.

Portia de Rossi

Average. It was the worst, most disgusting word in the English language. Nothing meaningful or worthwhile ever came from that word.

Nelson Mandela

As long as outmoded ways of thinking prevent women from making a meaningful contribution to society, progress will be slow. As long as the nation refuses to acknowledge the equal role of more than half of itself, it is doomed to failure.

Nelson Mandela

Abject poverty is demeaning, is an assault on the dignity of those that suffer it. In the end it demeans us all. It makes the freedom of all of us less meaningful.

Neill Blomkamp

If you look at the most meaningful science fiction, it didn't come from watching other films. We seem to be in a place now where filmmakers make films based on other films because that's where the stimuli and influence comes from.