We all want merit to mean something, and we all may be tempted to reduce that meaning to something measurable and concrete like an SAT score. The reality, though, is that who deserves entry into an institution depends on what the institution exists to do.
Eric Liu
RealityMeaningWantMeanConcrete
Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life.
Paul Tillich
LifeReligionMeaningQuestionBeing
The idea of how to read a poem is based on the idea that poetry needs you as a reader. That the experience of poetry, the meaning in poetry, is a kind of circuit that takes place between a poet, a poem and a reader, and that meaning doesn't exist or inhere in poems alone.
Edward Hirsch
AloneExperiencePoetryMeaningYou
A lot of my lyrics are approximate meaning without me knowing why they sound right.
Matt Berninger
MeMeaningWhyKnowingSoundRight
My plays have been performed before children, workers, and peasants, and they have well understood the meaning of my theatre. What is needed for people to watch my theatre is a freshness and openness of mind.
Eugene Ionesco
ChildrenPeopleMindTheatreMeaning
Making it big in this world is such a rip-off, you gotta keep your head together or it can be totally without meaning.
Shelley Duvall
TogetherWorldMeaningYouHeadBig
There are certain songs that just stick around and do something that transcends whatever time they were written in. Through different eras, people are able to impart different meaning to the song, and they become part of some sort of consciousness.
Beck
TimePeopleSongMeaningBecome
I'm interested in the economy of words and forms: jokes, aphorisms, copywriting, advertising, that way of writing when meaning has to be squeezed into as few words as possible.
Martine Syms
WordsWritingAdvertisingMeaning
Convention serves a purpose: It gives life meaning, and without it, one is in a constant existential crisis. If you don't have the imposition of family to remind you of what is at stake, something else will.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
LifeFamilyPurposeMeaningYou
I can't imagine making something that is made only to be scary. For me, the darkness and scary material has to have meaning attached to it, or I can't invest the time and energy it takes to write and script or make a movie. It has to mean something.
Scott Derrickson
TimeDarknessMeEnergyMeaning
I come from a jazzy, acoustic, folky background. Everything has to work with melodies; the words have to have meaning.
Yuna
WorkWordsMeaningEverythingCome
By living so long, the supercentenarian earns the prefixal 'super' and becomes a person suddenly freighted with power and meaning. He's Gandalf, Yoda, the Ancient Mariner, perhaps with some otherworldly insight. He's lived so long that, in fact, he's living the afterlife to his own initial life.
Michael Paterniti
LifePowerMeaningLongLivingOwn
People see 'tradition' as something stultifying, old, and rigid, nothing that has meaning or application for us today. But families shouldn't have to follow the blueprint of the old. They can make family traditions out of whatever makes them feel comfortable and helps bring a sense of order and stability to their lives.
Elizabeth Berg
FamilyTodayPeopleFeelMeaning
A lot of the lyrical ideas do have a lot of meaning in a way, although it is somewhat abstracted.
Thurston Moore
IdeasMeaningWayLotAlthough
I am livid with rage, sitting here in chains through this mad war which kills any meaning of life... My nerves are shattered and my mind darkened.
Walter Gropius
LifeI AmWarMindMeaningMad
I know for sure that you have to re-define power as power that comes from within. Success needs to be more comprehensive and attached to something with meaning.
Molly Bloom
SuccessPowerMeaningYouKnowMore
You had to be aware that I saw that photography was a mere episode in the history of the optical projection and when the chemicals ended, meaning the picture was fixed by chemicals, we were in a new era.
David Hockney
HistoryPictureMeaningPhotography
To the mass of mankind - meaning also womankind - marriage may be the only possible thing; but to the individual, it may be the one thing impossible.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
MarriageImpossibleMeaningPossible
If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete.
Viktor E. Frankl
LifeDeathSufferingFateMeaning
Moral certainty, clear standards, and a commitment to spiritual ideals will set you apart in a world that searches for meaning.
Mitt Romney
CommitmentSpiritualWorldMeaning
You want the story to be about something, have some deeper meaning, but there is also an emotional, almost instinctual, element, which is, does this story seize some part of you and compel you to get to the bottom of it?
David Grann
StoryMeaningYouWantSeizeBottom
I'm ephemeral as much as I can be, so I started to think about the idea of not working. It's really about a change of attitude. It's not so much about stopping, but about re-thinking the meaning of one's production.
Rirkrit Tiravanija
ChangeAttitudeThinkMeaningI Can
A painter tries to convey to us a picture of the world as he sees it; an ophthalmologist tries to enable us to see the world as it really is. The logotherapist's role consists of widening and broadening the visual field of the patient so that the whole spectrum of potential meaning becomes conscious and visible to him.
WorldPotentialPictureMeaningSee
What I responded to, on the page, was the way a poem could liberate, by means of a word's setting, through subtleties of timing, of pacing, that word's full and surprising range of meaning. It seemed to me that simple language best suited this enterprise.
Louise Gluck
BestSimpleMeLanguageMeaningWay
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