Lakshmi Mittal Quotes

...there is no absolute scale of size in nature, and the small may be as important, or more so than the great.

There are no great people. There are only great topics.

The emphasis should be on why we do a job.

What counts isn't the frame, it's what you put in it.

Child, you have to learn to see things in the right proportions. Learn to see great things great and small things small.

Just because something might not have a deep philosophical meaning doesn't mean it's not important or relevant.

Everything I think in life is about context and intention.

Truth, wisdom, love, seek reasons; malice only seeks causes.

Reason? That dreary shed, that hutch for grubby schoolboys.

You see, in this world there is one awful thing, and that is that everyone has his reasons.

A fact is like a sack which won't stand up if it's empty. In order that it may stand up, one has to put into it the reason and sentiment which caused it to exist.

Priority is a function of context.

The point is, it didn’t really matter what the book was about. It was what it meant that was important.

If you repeat something, it can become pointless. Some things can repeat and be endlessly fascinating.

We are not apt to think of the importance of events as they transpire with us, but we feel the importance of them afterwards.

All things show up in the world according to the purposes we ascribe to them.

I don't talk things, sir. I talk the meaning of things.

If you think that what you're doing is not all that important in the larger scheme of things and that you're just an insignificant creature in the whole wide world, which is full of six billion people, and that people are born and die every day and it makes no difference to future generations what you write, and that writing and reading are increasingly irrelevant activities, you'd probably never get out of bed.

What we don't include is as important as what we do include.

Either the world is so tiny or we are enormous; in either case, we fill it completely.

Free from what? What does that matter to Zarathustra! Clearly, however, shall your eye show to me: free for what?

Everything matters, but nothing matters very much.

Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point MY POINT EXACTLY.

Nothing really matters except a few things that really don't matter very much.

If you understand something in only one way, then you don't really understand it at all. The secret of what anything means to us depends on how we've connected it to all other things we know. Well-connected representations let you turn ideas around in your mind, to envision things from many perspectives until you find one that works for you. And that's what we mean by thinking!