Matter Quotes - Page 16

• To lend each other a hand when we're falling, perhaps that's the only work that matters in the end.

  Brennan Manning

  Fall, Hands, Ends

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• The truth of the matter is the tone is toxic here in Washington, and we have been exporting it around the country.

  Emanuel Cleaver

  Country, Toxic, Tone

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• We need to give up what no longer works and find new ways of being that keeps us close to what matters.

  Mark Nepo

  Giving Up, What Matters, Needs

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• Writing is a matter of finding the appropriate balance of dinosaurs and sodomy

  Michael Swanwick

  Writing, Balance, Dinosaurs

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• You see? Characters in books do not read books. Oh, they snap them shut when somebody enters a room, or fling them aside in disgust at what they fancy is said within, or hide their faces in one which they pretend to peruse while somebody else lectures them on matters they'd rather not confront. But they do not read them. 'Twould be recursive, rendering each book effectively infinite, so that no single one might be finished without reading them all. This is the infallible message of discovering on which side of the page you are on.

  Michael Swanwick

  Book, Reading, Character

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• I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Art, Order, Color

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• And the truth of the matter is that death is a mystery to me. I have no opinion on the subject.

  Oscar Zeta Acosta

  Opinion, Mystery, Subjects

  Oscar Zeta Acosta (2013). “Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo”, p.30, Vintage

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• To me the key thing is getting it right. And if a person's really smart and they're doing fantastic work I don't care if they're a high school kid or a Harvard professor, it's the work that matters.

  Jimmy Wales

  Smart, School, Kids

  "Q&A" with Jimmy Wales, www.c-span.org. September 12, 2005.

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• The lesson of the MVP is that any additional work beyond what was required to start learning is waste, no matter how important it might have seemed at the time.

  Eric Ries

  Mvp, Important, Lessons

  "How DropBox Started As A Minimal Viable Product". techcrunch.com. October 19, 2011.

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• No matter what you're trying to do there will be noise in the market... Before the race starts, I'm already focused on the victory.

  Sanya Richards-Ross

  Race, Victory, Trying

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• I guess this is how love is when it comes undone. No matter how tight you knit the stitches, a sharp tug on a loose thread will transform your warm sweater into a mangled heap of yarn that you can't reuse or repair.

  Tayari Jones

  Love Is, Yarn, Sweaters

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• I think women need kindness more than love. When one human being is kind to another, it's a very deep matter.

  Alice Childress

  Kindness, Thinking, Needs

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• For the machine, because of the way it is built, can work only in a given direction, no matter who pulls its levers.

  Rudolf Rocker

  Machines, Levers, Way

  "Nationalism and Culture" by Rudolf Rocker, translated by Ray E. Chase, Book II, (Ch. 12), 1952.

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• I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.

  Isaac Barrow

  Facetious, Obscene

  Isaac Barrow (1830). “The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow”, p.366

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• I'm a people's man - only the people matter.

  Bill Shankly

  Men, People

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• Ninety-nine per cent of traditional English literature concerns people who never have to worry about money at all. We always seem to be watching or reading about emotional crises among folk who live in a world of great fortune both in matters of luck and money; stories and fantasies about rock stars and film stars, sporting millionaires and models; jet-setting members of the aristocracy and international financiers.

  James Kelman

  Stars, Reading, Emotional

  James Kelman (2012). “And the Judges Said&…: Essays”, p.56, Birlinn

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• The key question is, no matter how much you absorb of another person, can you have absorbed so much of them that when that primary brain perishes, you can feel that that person did not totally perish from the earth... because they live on in a 'second neural home'?... In the wake of a human being's death, what survives is a set of afterglows, some brighter and some dimmer, in the collective brains of those who were dearest to them... Though the primary brain has been eclipsed, there is, in those who remain... a collective corona that still glows.

  Douglas Hofstadter

  Home, Keys, Brain

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• If you look at things as they are, there does not seem to be a code either of man or of God on which one can pattern one's conduct. Wrong triumphs over right as much as right over wrong. Sometimes its triumphs are greater. What happens ultimately, you do not know. In such circumstances what can you do but cultivate an utter indifference to all values? Nothing matters. Nothing whatever.

  Khushwant Singh

  Men, Triumph, Doe

  Khushwant Singh (2009). “Train to Pakistan”, p.181, Penguin Books India

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• Republican patience with how unionism deals with the political institutions, and with key issues like equality and human rights, will be tested because, obviously, there will be a battle a day on these matters. So lets face up to all of this with our eyes wide open.

  Gerry Adams

  Patience, Eye, Equality

  Gerry Adams (2007). “An Irish Eye”, Brandon Books

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• Administrators are there because of the fans and the cricketers to run this game, so credibility of a game, or a board, or even a government for that matter, is important irrespective of what you do. If you are in public life it is important.

  Rahul Dravid

  Running, Games, Government

  "Does credibility matter to the BCCI?". Interview with Raunak Kapoor, www.espncricinfo.com. August 5, 2013.

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• My own answer to the contrarian question is that most people think the future of the world will be defined by globalization, but the truth is that technology matters more.

  Peter Thiel

  Technology, Thinking, People

  Peter Thiel, Blake Masters (2014). “Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future”, p.9, Crown Business

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• Every university…seem[s] to reassure you that ‘it doesn’t matter what you do, as long as you do it well.’ That is completely false. It does matter what you do. You should focus relentlessly at something you’re good at doing, but before that you must think hard about whether it will be valuable in the future.

  Peter Thiel

  Thinking, Long, Focus

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• No civilization, no matter how mighty it may appear to itself, is indestructible.

  Niall Ferguson

  Civilization, May, Indestructible

  Niall Ferguson (2011). “Civilization: The West and the Rest”, p.107, Penguin

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• The truth of the matter was stories was everything and everything was stories. Everybody told stories. It was a way of saying who they were in the world. It was their understanding of themselves. It was letting themselves know how they believed the world worked, the right way and the way that was not so right.

  Harry Crews

  Understanding, Stories, World

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• When your thinking is brilliant, you will be brilliant, but if your thinking is not brilliant you will not be brilliant, no matter how brilliant you may think you are.

  Christian D. Larson

  Thinking, May, Brilliant

  Christian D. Larson (2012). “The Optimist Creed”, p.295, Penguin

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