Quotes about Significance

In this infinity then what is the difference between him who lives three days and him who lives three generations? Always

Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves? Even while we're still alive. We wish to assert our existence, like dogs peeing on fire hydrants.

Is that all we are? he thinks. Unmistakable clothing, a hairstyle, a few exaggerated features, a gesture? —

Of course Crake wasn't Crake yet, at that time: his name was Glenn. Why did it have two n's instead of the usual spelling? "My dad liked music," was Crake's explanation, once Jimmy got around to asking him about it, which had taken a while. "He named me after a dead pianist, some boy genius with two n's.

Life is too short to waste time on things that have no lasting significance.

It's sobering to contemplate how much time, effort, sacrifice, compromise, and attention we give to acquiring and increasing our supply of something that is totally insignificant in eternity.

Measured against eternity, our time on earth is just a blink of an eye, but the consequences of it will last forever.

Hardly anybody recognizes the most significant moments of their life at the time they happen.

Do not waste your time on light, weak, milk

I shall not remain insignificant, I shall work in the world and for mankind!

It's not an effort contest, it's an art contest. As customers, we care about ourselves, about how we feel, about whether a product or service or play or interaction changed us for the better. Where it's made or how it's made or how difficult it was to make is sort of irrelevant. That's why emotional labor is so much more valuable than physical labor. Emotional labor changes the recipient, and we care about that. Soft

Here's another way to describe the two axes: One asks, Can you see it? The other wonders, Do you care?