Quotes about meaning
meaningful atheist responsibility
There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point… The truly adult view, by contrast, is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it. Richard Dawkins
meaningful views adults
The truly adult view [...] is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it. And we can make it very wonderful indeed.
meaningful real carpe-diem
If you listen real close, you can hear them whisper their legacy to you. Go on, lean in. Listen, you hear it? Carpe diem, seize the day boys, make your lives extraordinary. Robin Williams
meaningful painting subjects
The search for a meaningful painting subject is a search for ourselves.
meaningful differences way
Choosing a way to die, what's the difference? Choosing a way to live, now that's the hard part. Robert Ryan
meaningful president important
So without getting into the specifics, I can tell you that to the extent that investigation is a relatively important investigation and meaningful, the president would have been periodically briefed. Robert Mueller
meaningful waste life-is
Life is too god damn short and you can't waste a minute of it. Richard Jenkins
meaning-something perfect faces
Adrian's face was the picture of perfect politeness and restraint, meaning something disastrous was about to happen. Richelle Mead
meaningful courage determination
Courage becomes a worthwhile and meaningful virtue when it is regarded not so much as a willingness to die manfully but as a determination to live decently. Thomas S. Monson
meaningful emotional museums
When we want mood experiences, we go to concerts or museums. When we want meaningful emotional experience, we go to the storyteller. Robert McKee
meaningful powerful creative
Stories are the creative conversion of life itself into a more powerful, clearer, more meaningful experience. They are the currency of human contact.
meaningful people tree
Some people like to paint trees. I like to paint love. I find it more meaningful than painting trees. Robert Indiana
meaningful winning action
Winning starts with beginning. Robert H. Schuller
meaningful war people
People have murdered each other, in massive wars and guerilla actions, for many centuries, and still murder each other in the present, over Ideologies and Religions which, stated as propositions, appear neither true nor false to modern logicians- meaningless propositions that look meaningful to the linguistically naive. Robert Anton Wilson
meaningful play parent
It takes time--loose, unstructured dreamtime-- to experience nature in a meaningful way. Unless parents are vigilant, such time becomes a scarce resource, not because we intend it to shrink, but because time is consumed by multiple, invisible forces; because our culture currently places so little value on natural play. Richard Louv
meaningful nature memories
The times I spent with my children in nature are among my most meaningful memories-and I hope theirs.
meaningful nature stars
If a child never sees the stars, never has meaningful encounters with other species, never experiences the richness of nature, what happens to that child?
meaningful battle individual
The ability to be cool, confident, and decisive in crisis is not an inherited characteristic but is the direct result of how well the individual has prepared himself for the battle. Richard M. Nixon
meaning-of-life life-is problem
Life is problems. Living is solving problems. Raymond E. Feist
meaningful emotional long
Too much of what led up to the crisis in the old bubble days—the conspicuous consumption, the latter-day Gatsbyism—was fueled by a need to fill a huge emotional and psychological void left by the absence of meaningful work. When people cease to find meaning in work, when work is boring, alienating, and dehumanizing, the only option becomes the urge to consume—to buy happiness off the shelf, a phenomenon we now know cannot suffice in the long term. Richard Florida
meaningful done mosquitoes
I did my best work in The Mosquito Coast. I know it wasn't such a big hit, but for me it was more meaningful than anything else I'd ever done. River Phoenix
meaningful voice silence
Because we spoke so loudly, opponents of reproductive health access demonized and smeared me and others on the public airwaves. These smears are obvious attempts to distract from meaningful policy discussions and to silence women's voices regarding their own health care. Sandra Fluke
meaningful stories meaning-of-life
I don't need any more stories. I have enough stories. I need a life. Sandra Bullock
meaningful teacher people
I've learned that success comes in a very prickly package. Whether you choose to accept it or not is up to you. It's what you choose to do with it, the people you choose to surround yourself with. Always choose people that are better than you. Always choose people that challenge you and are smarter than you. Always be the student. Once you find yourself to be the teacher, you've lost it.
meaningful drama dancing
How can you put on a meaningful drama when, every fifteen minutes, proceedings are interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits with toilet paper? Rod Serling
meaningful art drama
How can you put out a meaningful drama when every fifteen minutes proceedings are interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits with toilet paper? No dramatic art form should be dictated and controlled by men whose training and instincts are cut of an entirely different cloth. The fact remains that these gentlemen sell consumer goods, not an art form.
meaningful people creative
Music is very nebulous, and you can conjure up a lot of moods with music. But lyrics - they're a lot more tangible. They're much more specific. And you want to say something meaningful and creative and artistic and that tells a story and that takes people someplace else. Sarah McLachlan
meaningful children book
Fifty percent of all meaningful education takes place in the home. What do you share with your child? You share your interests. I was a book person. I read with my son. My wife is an artist. She dragged his little butt around to museums. He's an illustrator of children's books. Walter Dean Myers
meaningful war player
Intelligence and war are games, perhaps the only meaningful games left. If any player becomes too proficient, the game is threatened with termination. William S. Burroughs
meaningful loyalty yuppies
Yuppies don't have loyalty. They have useful relationships and meaningful encounters. William Kristol
meaningful player acting
The audience is the most revered member of the theater. Without an audience, there is no theater. Everything done is ultimately for the enjoyment of the audience. They are our guests, fellow players, and the last spoke in the wheel which can then begin to roll. They make the performance meaningful. Viola Spolin
meaningful games numbers
The only meaningful statistic is number of games won. Woody Hayes
meaningful cutting tree
Since half of all trees cut go to making paper, the only meaningful way to address destruction of our forest is to change the way paper is made. Woody Harrelson