To recognize the significant in the factual is wisdom.
If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive regrets and its impotences.
Just feeling free to walk out on stage and be myself is pretty damn significant.
Perhaps the most significant thing a person can know about himself is to understand his own system of values. Almost every thing we do is a reflection of our own personal value system. What do we mean by values? Our values are what we want out of life. No one is born with a set of values. Except for our basic physiological needs such as air, water, and food, most of our values are acquired after birth.
A person who hasn't grieved a significant loss has unfinished business inside and can cause others great grief as a result.
But one thing that we have done in the last four years is we have really put pressure on the leadership of this organization [Al Qaeda]. We have killed a significant number of leaders. We've captured others. Those that remain have to look over their shoulders, they have to be on the run. So that even if we don't manage to kill or capture them all within four years, what we do do is put the kind of pressure on them that makes them focus on their own skins, as opposed to carrying out attacks.
Look your significant other in the eyes, make that connection.
There is nothing in all the world more beautiful or significant of the laws of the universe than the nude human body.
The first sexual experience is a significant imprinting of attention.
The sad truth is as difficult as the first mile can be for entrepreneurs, it is doubly tough inside most large companies as innovators can face some significant headwinds.