Insignificant Quotes - Page 5

• It is possible to evade a multitude of sorrows by the cultivation of an insignificant life.

  John Henry Jowett

  Sorrow, Cultivation, Multitudes

  John Henry Jowett (1910). “The School of Calvary”

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• I've always been baffled by how much we over-rate the statistically insignificant differences that separate competitors at the top end of the distribution.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Differences, Baffled, Ends

  "Usain Bolt, un colapso y una épica milla de la cerveza". Entrevista con Nicholas Thompson, www.newyorker.com. 27 de agosto de 2015.

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• I'm a mumbler. If I'm walking with a friend, and I say something, he says, "What?" So I say it again, and he says, "What?" Really, it's just some insignificant stuff I'm saying, but now I'm yelling, "That tree is far away!"

  Mitch Hedberg

  Divertido, Humor, Gritos

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• Asegúrate de recordar que nada en tu vida diaria es tan insignificante e intrascendente que el Señor no te ayude respondiendo a tu oración.

  Ole Hallesby

  Prayer, Helping, Remember

  Ole Hallesby (1975). "Prayer", Augsburg Fortress Publishing

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• At least half the country thinks the mascot issue is insignificant. But I think it's indicative of the ways in which Indians have no cultural power. We're still placed in the past. So we're either in the past or we're only viewed through casinos.

  Sherman Alexie

  País, Pasado, Pensamiento

  "Sherman Alexie on Living Outside Cultural Borders". "Moyers & Company" con Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. 12 de abril de 2013.

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• There's nothing tiny or insignificant. Everything is significant. And everything flows on the same basis of Laws. Whether you are looking at world events or something that's happening in your kitchen drawer, broad and important, or narrow and seemingly insignificant, there's potential for connection or disconnection in either case. And it is only the connection or the disconnection that is of really any importance.

  Esther Hicks

  Law, Kitchen, Important

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• The extraordinarily facile and in literary terms long lived works tend to be about ordinary people. Even Sappho writes about the utterly insignificant . What art can do is make the extraordinary more ordinary and ordinary more extraordinary.

  Robert Dessaix

  Art, Writing, Long

  Fuente: www.compulsivereader.com

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• El tiempo es una diosa etérea y a veces cruel. En su implacable paso, nos roba la juventud y la vitalidad, a menudo de formas que parecen insignificantes hasta que finalmente nos damos cuenta de lo mucho que nos ha quitado. Sin embargo, también es una deidad generosa, que ofrece sustituir lo que nos ha arrebatado por una sabiduría más profunda y una visión más clara de los enigmas de la vida. En este sentido, el tiempo puede ser nuestro aliado más poderoso, si somos lo bastante pacientes.

  Michael Kelleher

  Inspirador, Poderoso, Tomado

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• What is it about maps and globes that seems to require our undivided attention? I've spent hours looking at maps of places I will never see and maps so old that they are a record of nothing but the faintest glow of the past. Perhaps they turn us into gods, letting us look down at the insignificant drones that occupy the earth. Or maybe they simply feed off our hunger to go off into the unknown. Venturing off to places where people don't chain themselves to tedious jobs and financial debts but places of imagination, mystery and freedom Perhaps they're just trying to tell us something.

  Dan Kieran

  Jobs, Past, People

  Tom Hodgkinson, Dan Kieran (2010). “The Book of Idle Pleasures”, p.48, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• [I predict] the electricity generated by water power is the only thing that is going to keep future generations from freezing. Now we use coal whenever we produce electric power by steam engine, but there will be a time when there'll be no more coal to use. That time is not in the very distant future. ... Oil is too insignificant in its available supply to come into much consideration.

  Charles Proteus Steinmetz

  Science, Electric Power, Oil

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• La ansiedad básica puede describirse a grandes rasgos como un sentimiento de ser pequeño, insignificante, indefenso, abandonado o en peligro en un mundo que está ahí para abusar, engañar, humillar, traicionar, envidiar... . Y especial en esto es el sentimiento del niño de que el amor de los padres, su caridad cristiana, honestidad, generosidad... pueden ser sólo una pretensión.

  Karen Horney

  Cristiano, Honestidad, Niños

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• Science is the most intimate school of resignation and humility, for it teaches us to bow before the seemingly most insignificant of facts.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  School, Humility, Science

  Miguel de Unamuno (2012). “Tragic Sense of Life”, p.197, Courier Corporation

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• There is nothing insignificant-nothing.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Significado

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1836). “The Poetical and Dramatic Works of S. T. Coleridge. With a Life of the Author”, p.146

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• ... God uses such seemingly insignificant ways to prepare us for the plan He has for our lives.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  God, Use, Way

  Corrie Ten Boom Pam Rosewell Moore (2004). "Lecciones de vida de Corrie Ten Boom"

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• It is a difficult matter for man to realize the extreme importance of social discriminations which seem outwardly insignificant but which produce in woman moral and intellectual effects so profound that they appear to spring from her original nature.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Spring, Men, Profound

  Simone de Beauvoir (1953). "El segundo sexo", Vintage

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• Indeed, the keynote of government is injustice. With the arrogance and self-sufficiency of the King who could do no wrong, governments ordain, judge, condemn, and punish the most insignificant offenses, while maintaining themselves by the greatest of all offenses, the annihilation of individual liberty.

  Emma Goldman

  Kings, Government, Self

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.38, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• The worldly relations of men and women often form an equation that cancels out without warning when some insignificant factor has been added to either side.

  William McFee

  Men, Sides, Warning

  William McFee (1916). “Casuals of the Sea: The Voyage of a Soul”

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• Ayudados e instigados por analistas corruptos, los pacientes que no tienen nada mejor que hacer con sus vidas a menudo utilizan la situación psicoanalítica para transformar insignificantes heridas infantiles en santuarios privados en los que veneran sin cesar la enormidad de las ofensas cometidas contra ellos. Esta solución es inmensamente halagadora para los pacientes -como lo son todas las formas de autoengrandecimiento inmerecido-; es inmensamente rentable para los analistas -como lo son todas las formas de complacer la vanidad de la gente-; y a menudo es inmensamente desagradable para casi todos los demás en la vida del paciente.

  Thomas Szasz

  Hurt, Vanity, Self

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• We are aware of yoga only as a technique to gain physical strength, flexibility, or increased health. And indeed these are potent side effects of the practice. But that is what they are: side effects. To focus on these largely insignificant manifestations is to miss the point entirely.

  John McAfee

  Yoga, Practice, Focus

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• No soy un levantador de pesas. Soy un buscador. El levantamiento de pesas es tan insignificante en mi vida.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Weight Lifting, Seekers, Weight

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• A man must be of a very quiet and happy nature, who can long endure the country; and, moreover, very well contented with his own insignificant person.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Country, Men, Long

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1854). “The Works: Hyperion”, p.110

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• We accept every person in the world as that for which he gives himself out, only he must give himself out for something. We can put up with the unpleasant more easily than we can endure the insignificant.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Giving, World, Accepting

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.770, Delphi Classics

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• Una de las orgullosas alegrías del hombre de letras -si ese hombre de letras es un artista- es sentir en sí mismo el poder de inmortalizar a voluntad cualquier cosa que decida inmortalizar. Por insignificante que sea, es consciente de poseer una divinidad creadora. Dios crea vidas; el hombre de imaginación crea vidas ficticias que pueden dejar una impresión profunda y, por así decirlo, más viva en la memoria del mundo.

  Edmond de Goncourt

  Memories, Book, Artist

  Statement on February 08, 1868. "Pages from the Goncourt Journal". Book by Edmond de Goncourt, translated by Robert Baldick, p. 135, 1962.

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• La naturaleza es la fuente más clara de soledad. La grandeza de la naturaleza puede abrumar el parloteo insignificante con el que medimos la mayor parte de nuestros días. Si tienes la sabiduría y el valor de ir solo a la naturaleza, los ritmos más grandes, el zumbido eterno, se darán a conocer mucho antes. Cuando lo hayas encontrado, siempre estará ahí para ti. La paz exterior se convertirá en la paz interior, y podrás volver a ella en tu corazón dondequiera que te encuentres.

  Kent Nerburn

  Nature, Heart, Greatness

  Kent Nerburn (2010). "Verdades sencillas: Guía clara y sencilla sobre los grandes temas de la vida", p.56, New World Library

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• I see no reason to believe that a creator of protoplasm or primeval matter, if such there be, has any reason to be interested in our insignificant race in a tiny corner of the universe, and still less in us, as still more insignificant individuals. Again, I see no reason why the belief that we are insignificant or fortuitous should lessen our faith.

  Rosalind Franklin

  Believe, Science, Race

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