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“Successful adult relationships, whether between lovers or friends, require a significant degree of vulnerability, trust, and openness-”

Successful Lovers Degrees Adults Significant Vulnerability Openness

Author:Susan Forward

“My brother's a teacher in Costa Rica and actually does a more important and significant job than I will ever do.”

Doe Important Jobs Teacher Brother Significant My Brother Costa Rica

Author:Dominic Monaghan

“The society of life on Mars, or the challenge of making Mars more livable, will have significant benefits on our attempts to modify and change in some ways the environment here on Earth.”

Way Earth Challenges Environment Benefits Significant Mars

Author:Buzz Aldrin

“If I eat junk food and have a workout the next day, I feel a significant difference in the way my body responds to exercise. Im sluggish, tired and run out of energy very quickly.”

Ifs Way Feels Body Running Next Energy Differences Exercise Tired Significant Next Day Workout Junk Junk Food Sluggish

Author:Josie Loren

“The older you get the more realistic it is that you're significant other is your significant other. I mean, you'll always have your girlfriends or your guy friends, but the person you're married to is usually your No. 1.”

Mean Persons Guy Married Significant Girlfriend Realistic Your Girlfriend Significant Other Guy Friend

Author:Ellen Pompeo

“I like to aim for significance over success because rarely can you be significant and also successful, but many people can be successful and not significant.”

People Successful Aim Significant Being Successful Significance

Author:Alyson Stoner

“So much of my self worth was tied with my position. It felt like I was being enveloped in darkness. It was a sense of loss of enthusiasm, a loss of happiness, a significant decline in self worth.”

Self Felt Loss Darkness Position Significant Self Worth Enthusiasm Decline Tied My Self Worth

Author:Tom Johnson

“Fame is a by-product which you have to deal with in a sensible way. To believe that it is anything more significant than that is deeply self-deceptive.”

Way Believe Self Deals Products Fame Significant Sensible Deceptive

Author:Jodhi May

“Taking significant amounts of carbon out of our economy without harming its vibrancy is exactly the sort of challenge at which California excels.”

Politics Challenges Economy Amount Climate Change Significant California Carbon Vibrancy

Author:Jerry Brown

“I highly recommend reading this book, and applying the NVC process it teaches. It is a significant first step towards changing our communication and creating a compassionate world.”

World Firsts Book Reading Process Steps Teach Communication Creating Significant Compassionate First Steps Nonviolent Communication

Author:Arun Manilal Gandhi

“The United States is strongly committed to the IPCC process of international cooperation on global climate change. We consider it vital that the community of nations be drawn together in an orderly, disciplined, rational way to review the history of our global environment, to assess the potential for future climate change, and to develop effective programs. The state of the science, the social and economic impacts, and the appropriate strategies all are crucial components to a global resolution. The stakes here are very high; the consequences, very significant.”

“Strive for originality in thought and action. Be first; Be different; And be daring. Only then will you make a significant difference in this world. You may even attain greatness.”

World Firsts May Different Action Differences This World Greatness Fame Strive Significant Originality Daring Thoughts And Actions

Author:Ernie J Zelinski

“I do try to be of some use in the world. I sometimes do volunteer work with kids, and manage to help some people a little, but really making a significant difference can be hard.”

People World Trying Littles Sometimes Hard Helping Use Kids Differences Significant Manage Volunteer Volunteer Work

Author:John Shirley

“The significant owl hoots in the night.”

Night Significant Owl Hoot

Book:Guards! Guards!: (Discworld Novel 8)

Source: Guards! Guards!: (Discworld Novel 8)

“Mobile phone technology can help to bring financial services to the 80 percent of African women who do not have a bank account and bolster the growth of the world's poorest continent. It's not just about empowering women, it's about economic growth. Unless we can make access to finance easier for women in their businesses, we will be missing out on a significant portion of growth within our economies”

“I had seen the ballet of Swan Lake as a child but it was as an adult, when I saw a production featuring Erik Bruhn, that I first noticed how significant a part the ever-present threat of violence played. This juxtaposition of great beauty and grace with a backdrop of pure evil stayed with me for years.”

Years Firsts Children Evil Saws Grace Violence Pure Adults Threat Productions Significant Lakes Ballet Swans Backdrop Juxtaposition Pure Evil Swan Lake

Author:Walter Dean Myers

“Daren Hardy's The Compound Effect is a culmination of success principles that is relevant to anyone who needs it! As a thought leader, he is making a significant contribution to our industry. A wonderful book!”

Needs Book Leader Principles Wonderful Effects Industry Significant Contribution Relevant Compounds Hardy Culmination

Author:Stedman Graham

“Terrorism is a significant threat to peace and security, prosperity and people.”

People Security Threat Prosperity Terrorism Significant Peace And Security

Author:Ban Ki-moon

“... while I bathed, while I tried but failed to sleep, I considered how I might become more like the women I respected and admired. Surrounded as I was by ambitious, accomplished women, I couldn't ignore the little voice in my head that said maybe I was supposed to shed halfway, and do something significant. Contribute something. Accomplish something. Choose. Be.”

Littles Said Might Voice Sleep Accomplish Significant Accomplished Ambitious Shed Halfway Voices In My Head

Author:Therese Anne Fowler

“I believe the single most significant decision I can make on a day-to-day basis is my choice of attitude... When my attitudes are right theres no challenge too great for me.”

Believe I Can Choices I Believe Challenges Decision Attitude Bases Significant Day To Day My Attitude

Book:Wisdom for the Way: Wise Words for Busy People

Source: Wisdom for the Way: Wise Words for Busy People

“In the state of Alabama we have a significant number of illegal aliens that are leaving our state as occurred in Arizona after they got tough on illegal aliens.”

States Numbers Tough Leaving Significant Aliens Illegal Arizona Alabama Illegal Aliens Significant Numbers

Author:Mo Brooks

“In the end, people don't view their life as merely the average of all its moments-which, after all, is mostly nothing much plus some sleep. For human beings, life is meaningful because it is a story. A story has a sense of a whole, and its arc is determined by the significant moments, the ones where something happens. Measurements of people's minute-by-minute levels of pleasure and pain miss this fundamental aspect of human existence. A seemingly happy life maybe empty. A seemingly difficult life may be devoted to a great cause. We have purposes larger than ourselves.”

Source: Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End

“To allow public access to orbit, we would need breakthroughs that would lower the cost by a lot more than an order of magnitude and increase safety by a factor of 100 as compared to every launch system used since the first manned space flight. I think airborne launch will be a significant part of the safety solution.”

Thinking Needs Firsts Used Order Space Cost Solutions Increase Safety Access Significant Factors Flight Breakthrough Magnitude Orbit Airborne Space Flight

Author:Burt Rutan

“Moreover, if one selects a problem, works on it in isolation for a few years and finally solves it, there is a danger, unless the problem is very famous, that it will no longer be regarded as all that significant.”

Ifs Years Problem Danger Mathematics Solve Significant Isolation Very Famous

Author:Timothy Gowers

“It always seemed to me like it was a significant thing to do with one's life to be an actor 'cause I love movies and I felt like, not to be grandiose about it, but there is something important about film with the function it provides to general society.”

Important Film Actors Felt Causes Function Significant Things To Do Movie Love Grandiose Significant Things

Author:Charlie Hunnam

“Periods of rapid and fundamental change were never favourable for literature. Significant works, have nearly always and everywhere been created in periods of stability, be it good or bad.”

Literature Periods Fundamentals Significant Stability Rapids

Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“The important thing for me as an educator is how to - how do we unsettle the minds and touch the souls of significant numbers of young people who don't read texts or don't read my texts.”

People Mind Important Soul Young Numbers Important Things Significant Educator Significant Numbers

Author:Cornel West

“Sometimes love burns so hot in your veins that it consumes all rational thought. You become a walking shell that can no longer function without your significant other whispering into your soul, telling your heart to beat.”

Heart Soul Sometimes Walking Beats Function Hot Significant Rational Your Soul Shells Veins Whispering Time Love Rational Thought Significant Other Sometimes Love

Author:Teresa Mummert

“religion is to misogyny as disease is to misery - not the sole cause, but a significant contributor”

Causes Disease Misery Significant Sole Misogyny Contributors

Book:The Happy Atheist

Source: The Happy Atheist

“But what was a body? Dust, dung, urine, itches. It was the light within which was important, and it was not significant if that light endured after death, or if the soul was blinded eternally in the endless night of the suspired flesh.”

Ifs Important Soul Body Light Night Flesh Significant Endless Dust After Death Blinded Light Within

Book:Great Lion of God: A Novel About Saint Paul

Source: Great Lion of God: A Novel About Saint Paul

“I couldn't give you a count of the number of single women I have in our congregation that are serving in very significant ways in the community. Our desire is for them to live all of life to the glory of God whether God calls them to be a wife or a mother or not.”

Way Giving Mother Desire Community Numbers Wife Glory Significant Serving Glory Of God Congregation Single Women

Author:Ligon Duncan

“Price fluctuations have only one significant meaning for the true investor. They provide him with an opportunity to buy wisely when prices fall sharply and to sell wisely when they advance a great deal.”

Fall Opportunity Deals Sells Investing Significant Investors Fluctuation

Book:The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel

Source: The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel

“What quality is shared by all objects that provoke our aesthetic emotions? Only one answer seems possible— significant form. In each, lines and colors combined in a particular way; certain forms and relations of forms, stir our aesthetic emotions. These relations and combinations of lines and colors, these aesthetically moving forms, I call ‘Significant Form’; and ‘Significant Form’ is the one quality common to all works of visual art.”

Way Art Seems Moving Form Certain Lines Answers Common Emotion Quality Objects Particular Color Relation Significant Combination Visuals Aesthetic Provoking Visual Art

Author:Clive Bell

“Studies by Andrew Newberg and others have shown that long-term practice of meditation produces significant alterations in cerebral blood flow in parts of the brain related to attention, emotion, and some autonomic functions.”

Long Term Emotion Attention Brain Practice Study Meditation Blood Produce Flow Function Significant Long Term Related Andrew Cerebral Alterations Blood Flow

Book:Hallucinations

Source: Hallucinations

“It doesnt matter if youre black, white, gay, straight, come from different countries, different language... every single person is significant and is meaningful.”

Ifs Persons Different Country Matter Language Black White Gay Meaningful Significant Single Person Different Countries Black White Different Languages

Author:Michael Franti

“It is significant that one says book lover and music lover and art lover but not record lover or CD lover or, conversely, text lover.”

Art Book Records Lovers Significant Cds Book Lover Music Lover Art Lovers

Author:James Gleick

“It is possible to think that the Internet will be a net positive for society while admitting that there are significant downsides - after all, it's not a revolution if nobody loses.”

Ifs Thinking Loses Revolution Internet Significant Admitting

Author:Clay Shirky

“Even Martin Luther and John Calvin believed that the Roman Catholic church, up to the Council of Trent, was basically orthodox - a true church with sound fundamental doctrines as well as significant error.”

Wells Sound Church Catholic Fundamentals Errors Significant Doctrine Orthodox Council Luther Catholic Church Roman Catholic Roman Catholic Church

Author:Norman Geisler

“Although it is still important to develop an HIV vaccine, we have significant tools already at our disposal that can make a major impact on the trajectory of this epidemic.”

Stills Important Majors Tools Impact Significant Hiv Vaccines Epidemics Trajectory

Author:Anthony S. Fauci

“Modern building has become so universally conditioned by optimized technology that the possibility of creating significant urban form has become extremely limited.”

Form Technology Modern Possibility Building Creating Significant Urban

Author:Kenneth Frampton

“Economists actually disagree about whether there are significant economic returns from attending an elite college versus a less-selective one.”

Economic College Return Significant Disagree Elites Economist Versus Attending Selective

Author:Emily Oster

“Chaga is significant in ethnomycology, forest ecology, and increasingly in pharmacognosy. Its long-term human use and cultural eastern European and Russian acceptance should awaken serious researchers to its potential as a reservoir of new medicines, and as a powerful preventive ally for protecting DNA.”

Should Humans Long Use Term Powerful Acceptance Serious Medicine Significant Forests Long Term Allies Ecology Eastern Dna Researchers Reservoirs

Author:Paul Stamets

“Reagan has very significant things to teach us - positive lessons and quite negative lessons.”

Teach Lessons Negative Significant Significant Things

Author:Eugene Jarecki

“Brands and branding are the most significant gifts that commerce has ever made to popular culture.”

Made Culture Significant Brands Branding Commerce Popular Culture

Author:Wally Olins

“A work of (whatever) art can be either 'received' or 'used'. ...'Using' is inferior to 'reception' because art, if used rather than received, merely facilitates, brightens, relieves or palliates our life, and does not add to it ... When the art in question is literature a complication arises, for to 'receive' significant words is always, in one sense, to 'use' them, to go through and beyond them to an imagined something which is not itself verbal.”

Ifs Doe Art Use Used Poetry Literature Our Lives Add Significant Arise Inferiors Complication Facilitate Reception

Author:C. S. Lewis

“Finding Mecca in America weaves social theory and concrete ethnography into a significant contribution on Muslims in the United States, illuminating broader questions about the integration of minority and immigrant groups along the way. This is an important work and a joy to read.”

“Russia is one of the places where significant presence of social networks are driven by domestic players right now.”

Social Player Right Now Driven Significant Russia Social Network

Author:Yuri Milner

“The most significant learning occurs when emotions are integrated with instruction because all body systems are united. The Arts are strongly linked to emotions, enhancing the likelihood that students will remember something.”

Art Body Remember United Emotion Students Significant Instruction Linked Integrated Likelihood Remember Something

Author:Eric Jensen

“By the artist's seizing any one object from nature, that object no longer is part of nature. One can go so far as to say that theartist creates the object in that very moment by emphasizing its significant, characteristic, and interesting aspects or, rather, by adding the higher values.”

Moments Artist Values Nature Interesting Objects Higher Aspect Significant Characteristics Seizing

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Not one example of significant self-generation or self-organization can be found in the entire realm of nature.... Without causation, nothing happens and without organization by an intelligent being, systems tend to lower and lower levels of complexity.”

Self Happens Found Levels Generations Example Organization Intelligent Scary Significant Things Happen Realms Complexity Causation

Author:Hugh Ross

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