Definition of Significance

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Definition of Significance
	Significance Alt. of Significancy Related Definitions: Alt, Of, Significancy

Significance Quotations

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Aristotle

To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty; to interpret it his problem; and to express it his dedication.
James Dean

What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us.
Marcel Proust

In time it will become clear to everyone that support for the policies of pre-emptive war and interventionist nation-building will have much greater significance than the removal of Saddam Hussein itself.
Ron Paul

Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance.
Susan Sontag

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.
Henri Cartier-Bresson

What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty, is everything!
H. P. Lovecraft

I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.
Pablo Casals

An organization which claims to be working for the needs of a community - as SNCC does - must work to provide that community with a position of strength from which to make its voice heard. This is the significance of black power beyond the slogan.
Stokely Carmichael

If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
Laurence J. Peter

Significance Translations

significance in German is Bedeutung
significance in Spanish is importancia
significance in Swedish is betydelse

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