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#meaning

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Man lives in a world of meaning.


George H. Mead


#man #man lives #meaning #world

Ordinary language carries with it conditions of meaning which it is easy to recognize by classifying the contexts in which the expression is employed in a meaningful manner.


Paul Ricoeur


#conditions #contexts #easy #employed #expression

It's a matter of reducing the work to its very simplest possible state, eliminating all of the things that lead away from the guts of the work, the thing the work is really about. Anything that's there must build towards its over-all organization and meaning.


Paul Cullen


#anything #away #build #eliminating #guts

The secret of it is to read what you've got in front of you. Don't, if you suspect that something has a double meaning, don't pause. Don't put on a leery vocal expression if you know what I mean on radio. Don't sort of do anything other than read it.


Humphrey Lyttelton


#double #double meaning #expression #front #got

I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.


Orson Welles


#anything #audience #becomes #contribute #get

Later on in life, you expect a bit of rest, don't you? You think you deserve it. I did, anyway. But then you begin to understand that the reward of merit is not life's business.


Julian Barnes


#history #life #meaning #memory #philosophy

All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich without us here.


Jodi Picoult


#love #meaning #life

This, it may be said, is no more than a hypothesis... only of that force of precedent which in all times has been so strong to keep alive religious forms of which the original meaning is lost.


William Robertson Smith


#been #force #forms #hypothesis #keep

When you put together deep knowledge about a subject that intensely matters to you, charisma happens. You gain courage to share your passion, and when you do that, folks follow.


Jerry Porras


#leadership #meaning #courage

Time after time have nations, ay, and rich and strong nations, learned in the arts, been, and passed away to be forgotten, so that no memory of them remains. This is but one of several; for Time eats up the works of man.


H. Rider Haggard


#fallen-nations #futility #inevitability #knowledge #learning






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