#significance

THE autumn of 1850 brought an event freighted with deep significance to me. My mother died. ↗

— John Sergeant Wise

#brought #deep #died #event #freighted

The general statement that the mental faculties are class concepts, belonging to descriptive psychology, relieves us of the necessity of discussing them and their significance at the present stage of our inquiry. ↗

— Wilhelm Wundt

#class #concepts #descriptive #discussing #faculties

Americans need to understand the significance of having their civil liberties dismantled. It doesn't just affect terrorists and foreigners, it affects us all. ↗

— Bianca Jagger

#affects #civil #civil liberties #dismantled #foreigners

I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes. ↗

— Zoe Saldana

#history #i #intrigued #man #obscured

I did not choose necessarily on the basis of significance. If you have a vote for the most significant athlete, then you have Ali, then you have Babe Ruth, then you have Michael Jordan. ↗

— Dick Schaap

#athlete #babe #babe ruth #basis #choose

I believe every era has its significance and the same holds true for players and coaches. ↗

— Sachin Tendulkar

#coaches #era #every #holds #i

The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order the continuous thread of revelation. ↗

— Eudora Welty

#events #find #happen #lives #order

Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential. ↗

— William Thomas

#deal #fact #her #his #important

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. ↗

— Richard MacDonald

#comes #create #facility #fine #fine art

One day when I went to see him (Picasso), we were looking at the dust dancing in a ray of sunlight that slanted in through one of the high windows. He said to me, 'Nobody has any real importance to me. As far as I'm concerned, other people are like those little grains of dust floating in the sunlight. It takes only a push of the broom and out they go.'I told him I had often noticed in his dealings with others that he considered the rest of the world only little grains of dust. But I said, as it happened, I was a little grain of dust gifted with autonomous movement and who didn't therefore need a broom. I could go out by myself. ↗

— Françoise Gilot

#insignificance #picasso #life