A Quote by Patricia Churchland
Humility bids us to take ourselves as we are; we do not have to be cosmically significant to be genuinely significant.
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Whistleblowers often take very significant efforts to bring us material and often at very significant risks.
You add one million citizens to the voting rolls in this state, that's a significant, significant difference. You do that nationwide, it's a significant difference.
J.K. Rowling said Bellatrix's role was going to be significant in the last one, when I showed some reluctance in playing a tiny bit part. Up front, they said, 'You're very significant in the last one.' But significant could mean a lot of things. That could just mean a significant plot point. Doesn't necessarily equal big part.
Previously the same Polish audiences would have been pressured into seeing cinema made for adults, films made by us about those spheres of life that were significant for us and which should be significant for our society.
I always think that we live, spiritually, By what others have given us in the significant hours of our life. These significant hours do not announce themselves as coming, but arrive unexpected.
There is no significant man-made global warming at this time, there has been none in the past and there is no reason to fear any in the future. Efforts to prove the theory that carbon dioxide is a significant 'greenhouse' gas and pollutant causing significant warming or weather effects have failed. There has been no warming over 18 years.
The list of non-democratic regimes that have seen significant reforms since 2001 is long and significant.
When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more significant one probably has had to be sacrificed.
There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed.
We need to give credence to the nonsexual relationships...the idea of having significant others instead of a significant other.
London, a city where creativity and innovation have always flourished, provides a significant home for Starbucks and a significant gateway into Europe.
Meditation is the most significant because it opens the door for all other significant things: love, prayer, God, light, music, poetry.
You gave me a significant look, but significant of what?
The most significant moment will be when we stop referring to the hiring of qualified women (and racial, ethnic and religious minorities) as significant. In other words, when qualified people are hired without regard to race, gender, ethnicity, religious or other differentiating characteristics, that will be the most significant, indeed momentous, event of all.
A genuinely fundamental and hopeful improvement in "systems" cannot happen without a significant shift in human consciousness.
Pride is the switch that turns off priesthood power. Humility is a switch that turns it on . . . . Some suppose that humility is about beating ourselves up. Humility does not mean convincing ourselves that we are worthless, meaningless, or of little value. Nor does it mean denying or withholding the talents God has given us. We don't discover humility by thinking less of ourselves; we discover humility by thinking less about ourselves. It comes as we go about our work with an attitude of serving God and our fellowman.
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