Quotes about meaningful
meaningful pain opening-up
I want hard stories, I demand them from myself. Hard stories are worth the difficulty. It seems to me the only way I have forgiven anything, understood anything, is through that process of opening up to my own terror and pain and reexamining it, re-creating it in the story, and making it something different, making it meaningful - even if the meaning is only in the act of the telling. Dorothy Allison
meaningful superficial
There is nothing wrong with the love of Beauty. But Beauty-unless she is wed to something more meaningful-is always superficial Donna Tartt
meaningful digital internet
Digital wisdom is made of recycled electrons that are meaningful until you pull the plug. Don Rittner
meaningful profound goal
We must eschew anything trivial. We must embrace all that is frivolous.... Trivial things take up all your time and dull your senses, whereas frivolity is meaningful, profound, worth living and dying for.... If we devote our lives to frivolity, the world will be a far, far better place. Humanity will be better able to fulfill its primary goal, that of having a good time. Cynthia Heimel
meaningful lifetime used
37 seconds, well used, is a lifetime. Dustin Hoffman
meaningful real sacrifice
Real meaningful endeavours, the biggies in human existence, often require the sacrifice of others. Andrew Schneider
meaningful interaction ifs
If you can't be psyched about your own thoughts, then how are you supposed to have a meaningful interaction with anyone? Angel Olsen
meaningful mistake trying
Do I really want to spend my whole life trying not to die by mistake? Amanda Seyfried
meaningful dark tickling
You can get around to meaningful conversations more quickly in the dark than with the sun tickling your face. Anne Frank
meaningful negative attention
The other thing is that it's really hard to separate out the harassment from everything we do. When we started creating Tropes, we were hyper-aware of the intense scrutiny, the intense harassment, and the intense pressure to do something meaningful given the attention both positive and negative. That's carried over in terms of making sure that I produce the best work that I can, that's the most accurate, the most sensitive and engaged. Anita Sarkeesian
meaningful kids hard-work
If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just. Anita Roddick
meaningful technology records
I love music, right? I can't say "I'm only going to listen to a physical medium," because there's a bunch of meaningful records that as a music fan I love that I would've never been able to access. So if I want to be part of something I have to get dragged along with technology. Chuck Klosterman
meaningful feelings growing
Ask yourself, 'Why am I seeing and feeling this? How am I growing? What am I learning?' Remember: Every coincidence is potentially meaningful. Ansel Adams
meaningful excited ifs
If you're not excited by it, why do you do it? Amy Adams
meaningful important elements
Time and rhythm are the most important elements in music. If both aren't well conceived, organized, and executed, no amount of notes will make the piece a meaningful artistic experience. Anthony Davis
meaningful brother jobs
I can't really blame a lot of young sisters and brothers who believe that education has anything to offer them. Because as a matter of fact, it has nothing to offer them. Suppose they do get a high school diploma that is meaningful. What kind of job is awaiting them. The jobs that used to be available to working class people are not there as a result of the de-industrialization of this economy. Angela Davis
meaningful writing thinking
I will write things, he was thinking. I will write something meaningful and wonderful someday. I can do that. And I'll dedicate it to you because you're the first person who ever made me think I could. Anne Rice
meaningful play roles
I'm hoping what all sentient beings hope ... that somehow I'm part of something larger than myself, in which I play a role, an actual role that is somehow intended and meaningful. Anne Rice
meaningful children growing-up
I grew up feeling that to be gay was a tragedy. I didn't grow up thinking that it was morally wrong, but I grew up thinking that it would make me marginal, prevent me from having children, and quite possibly prevent me from having a meaningful long relationship. It seemed that this condition would leave me with a vastly reduced life. Andrew Solomon
meaningful together able
You don't need to be able to string a sentence together in a way that is elegant or even vaguely meaningful to produce a bestseller - as Dan Brown has demonstrated time and again. Anthony Horowitz
meaningful rewards
The reward is in the doing of it. Anthony Hopkins
meaningful gone want
If you don't go when you want to go, when you do go, you'll find you've gone. Anthony Hopkins
meaningful teaching circles
I don't know. I imagine good teaching as a circle of earnest people sitting down to ask each other meaningful questions. I don't see it as a handing down of answers... Alice Walker
meaningful nature compassion
The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men. Alice Walker
meaningful powerful business-success
Work/life benefits allow companies meaningful ways for responding to their employees' needs; they can be a powerful tool for transforming a workforce and driving a business' success. Anne M. Mulcahy
meaningful regret thinking
If you don't pursue what you think will be most meaningful, you will regret it. Life is long. There is always time for Plan B. But don't begin with it. Drew Gilpin Faust
meaningful imperfection pages
A thank-you can be just as meaningful as a soulful ten-page message. Drew Barrymore
meaningful promise world
These happy endings all express the weak and sly promise that the world is not rotten and out of joint but meaningful and ultimately in excellent condition. Douglas Sirk
meaningful sleep exercise
I think if you maintain a force in the world that comes into people's sleep, you are exercising a meaningful power. Don DeLillo
meaningful may influential
In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act. Don DeLillo
meaningful laughter real
Doesn't seem quite real. It's not meaningful. I can't quite imagine myself being 73. That's the age my father was! [Laughter.] How can I be his age? It's weird. Don DeLillo
meaningful
And when they played they really played. And when they worked they really worked. Dr. Seuss
meaningful grateful writing
I didn't know how story worked. So, when writing the screenplay, people introduced me to the science of it. And I'm grateful. I'll probably use that information for the rest of my career, in terms of writing novels or writing stories. And then, of course, to help me live a better story, a more meaningful story Donald Miller