Christopher Paolini Quotes

I like everything I do to have some kind of meaning.

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world.

It's not about the money; it's about the content.

I want to do work of meaning that speaks to a greater depth of who I am.

We did want to stand for something, not just cute girls with cute concepts. Everything we talk about has meaning behind it.

Pleasure is the least consequential... engagement and meaning are much more important.

Peter Keating: "Do you always have to have a purpose? Do you always have to be so damn serious? Can't you ever do things without reason, just like everybody else? You're so serious, so old. Everything's important with you. Everything's great, significant in some way, every minute, even when you keep still. Can't you ever be comfortable-and unimportant?": Howard Roark: "No."

Stories are important...They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.

The life of many a person could probably be changed if only someone would make him feel important.

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

Character is more important than any other leadership trait.

What matters to you defines your mattering.

The little things are important, Mr. Wind-Up Bird.

I think that if you're doing something that's important, that's significant in your life, it takes some of the pain away.

If you treat every person you meet as if he or she were the most important person in the world, you'll communicate that he or she is somebody - to you.

If I made an album just to sell you a story about how I'm the man, it really doesn't show any human side to me. It's good to talk about what's real and what's relevant.

The whole idea is not to figure out what you should do that will matter, but to make each thing you do reflect the values you want, because we don't know what's going to matter in the future

The need to leave a legacy is our spiritual need to have a sense of meaning, purpose, personal congruence, and contribution.

Everything amounts to nothing if you don't love someone or something.

Everybody is trying to make something real, something with a core of substance, and of course, an exciting action movie with a lot of terrific stuff and fantastic visuals and everything, but at the core of it, it's a movie with substance and something that is going to make people think.

The things that really matter don't mix with idle chatter.

I feel like, like, how you matter is defined by the things that matter to you. You matter as much as the things that matter to you.

Names are the sweetest and most important sound in any language.