Glenn Greenwald

The highest compliment one can give a writer is not to say that one wholeheartedly agrees with his observations, but that he provoked - really, forced - difficult thinking about consequential matters and internal questioning of one's own assumptions, often without quick or clear resolution.

American Journalist

Kubra Sait

I'm so glad that we have had so many consequential rallies and parades which have now educated people and made them stand up for the third gender and give them the absolute place in our society that they deserve. There should have never been a division in the first place, though.

Indian Model

Brian Stelter

Looking back, Mr. Trump's exploitation of the term 'fake news' to smear journalists was the single most consequential thing he did during the transition period. He built the scaffolding for his supporters to reject any and all information that wasn't Trump-approved.

Shari Arison

I can't point to a single person or incident that changed my life, but the recognition that there is a certain world order, has been consequential. It has empowered me to do things my way. I found an inner truth by which I abide.

Israeli Businesswoman

Mitch Landrieu

The federal government was responsible for building the levees, engineering the levees, and consequentially, the federal government is responsible for repairing the damage that has been done, which has not been completed yet.

American Politician

Robert Dallek

I think the public can t accept the idea that someone as inconsequential as Oswald could have killed someone as consequential as Kennedy. They don t want to believe the world is that chaotic. It is.

American Historian

June Jordan

That attitude that fighting is probably not fair, but you have to defend yourself anyway and damage the enemy, has been profoundly consequential as far as my political activism goes.

American Writer

George Packer

The invisibility of work and workers in the digital age is as consequential as the rise of the assembly line and, later, the service economy.

American Novelist

David Petraeus

Iraq is a country I came to know well and the place where I spent some of the most consequential years of my life.

American General

Timothy Geithner

Most consequential choices involve shades of gray, and some fog is often useful in getting things done.

American Public Servant

Use 'consequential' when decisions or actions lead to major changes or outcomes.

Impactful Choices

'Consequential' often describes events that change the course of history or a narrative.

Historical Moments

Stress 'consequential' verbally to highlight the significance of a subject being discussed.

Emphasis in Speech

Emphasizes the result of an event rather than the event itself.

Cause and Effect

'Consequential' describes outcomes without implying they are good or bad.

Not Always Negative

Often used when explaining a series of events leading to a particular result.

Sequence of Events

 are probably those who have not only tried, but they have successfully licked the elbow of the person sitting next to them. Those are the extroverts. Let me deal in a bit more detail with extroversion, because it's consequential and it's intriguing, and it helps us understand what I call our three natures.

Who are you, really? The...

 So, the next step is to decipher what the sequence means, how your genome and my genome are different. Interpreting the genes of the genome is the part scientists are still working on. While not every difference is consequential, the sum of these differences is responsible for differences in how we look,

How to sequence the...

 about genocide or nuclear proliferation or poverty or any other hugely consequential issue but the demagogues are right about one thing we need a universal conception of human values now what stands in the way of this well one thing to notice is that we we do

Science can answer moral...

 placed on a pregnant belly. But actually, the nine-month-long process of molding and shaping that goes on in the womb is a lot more visceral and consequential than that. Much of what a pregnant woman encounters in her daily life -- the air she breathes,

Annie Murphy Paul: What...

 So the seemingly trivial design exercise of drawing toast helps us get clear, engaged and aligned. So next time you're confronted with an interesting challenge, remember what design has to teach us. Make your ideas visible, tangible, and consequential.

Tom Wujec: Got a wicked...

 on course for what could be the grandest collision in history. To help us get our minds around this challenge, I'm going to introduce you to a great thinker, I'm going to present a big idea, and I'm going to pose a most consequential question.

Is war between China and...

 and realized it also implied that mass and energy, one apparently solid and the other supposedly ethereal, were actually equivalent. And their relationship could be expressed in what was to become the most famous and consequential equation in

Einstein's miracle year...

 the womb is a lot more visceral and consequential than that much of what a pregnant woman encounters in her daily life the air she breathes the food and drinks she consumes the chemical she's exposed to even the emotions she feels

What we learn before...

 and not about genocide or nuclear proliferation or poverty or any other hugely consequential issue. But the demagogues are right about one We need a universal conception of human values. Now, what stands in the way of this?

 This periodic doubling is an example of exponential growth, and while we’re not in any danger of discovering a real-life golden goose-coin, something almost as consequential has been growing like this