Matter Quotes - Page 17

• 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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• Animals keep you company when you're really lonely. It helps because when you have a friend around who always likes you no matter what - it's harder to feel bad or down.

  Aaron Carter

  Lonely, Animal, Likes

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• This is the greatest thing about sports - you play to win the game. Hello? You don't play to just play it. When you start telling me it doesn't matter, then retire, get out, because it matters.

  Herman Edwards

  Sports, Winning, Play

  "PRO FOOTBALL; Edwards's Take on Jets: Quitting Is Never an Option". Interview with Judy Battista, www.nytimes.com. October 31, 2012.

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• I'm not a panic guy. I don't do that. Can't. When you're a leader, you can never panic, no matter what's happening. The building could be falling down. Fire could be going all places. Somebody has to make a decision on how to get out.

  Herman Edwards

  Fall, Fire, Leader

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• Whenever you have a tight situation and there's a close pitch, the umpire gets a squawk no matter how he calls it.

  Red Barber

  Umpires, Dull Minds, Situation

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• What matters most is how you live your life, not what you have to show for it.

  Jenny Sanford

  What Matters, Live Your Life, Shows

  Jenny Sanford (2010). “Staying True”, p.117, Ballantine Books

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• The ultimate [act] that would be the taboo, to show how bad some villain is, was to have somebody being raped, you know? I don't really think it matters. It's the same as, like, a decapitation. It's just a horrible act to show that somebody's a bad guy.

  Mark Millar

  Thinking, Guy, Would Be

  "Kick-Ass 2 Doubles Down on Self-Indulgent Violence. At Least There’s Hit-Girl" by Angela Watercutter, www.wired.com. August 15, 2013.

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• It doesn't matter how many people you offend, as long as you're getting your message to your consumers. I say to those people who do not want to offend anybody: You are going to have a very, very difficult time having meaningful advertising.

  Phil Knight

  Meaningful, Knights, Long

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• Work is pushing matter around. Politics is pushing people around.

  Thomas Szasz

  People, Political, Politics

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (1976). “Heresies”, Anchor Books

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• The law has been perverted, and the powers of the state have become perverted along with it. The law has not only been turned from its proper function, but made to follow an entirely contrary purpose. The law has become a tool for every kind of greed. Instead of preventing crime, the law itself is guilty of the abuses it is supposed to punish. If this is true, it is a serious matter, and moral duty requires me to call the attention of my fellow-citizens to it.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Law, Greed, Political

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• What matters isn't how well you play when you're playing well. What matters is how well you play when you're playing badly.

  Martina Navratilova

  Sports, What Matters, Play

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• It does not matter the circumstances, trials, or challenges that might surround us; an understanding of the doctrine of Christ and His Atonement will be the source of our strength and peace-yes, brothers and sisters, that internal tranquility that is born of the Spirit and which the Lord gives to His faithful Saints.

  Benjamin De Hoyos

  Brother, Giving, Challenges

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• And finally, no matter how good the science gets, there are problems that inevitably depend on judgment, on art, on a feel for financial markets.

  Martin Feldstein

  Art, Investing, Financial

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• Alchemy is really the secret tradition of the redemption of spirit from matter.

  Terence McKenna

  Inspirational, Life, Secret

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• You're going to feel good. But no matter how much you rehab you do, you can't speed up the healing process. I would rather see a guy come back in 14 months and pitch seven, eight or nine more years then come back in 10 months and get hurt again. You cannot mess with mother nature and father time. Nature will heal it if you give it time.

  Tommy John

  Motivational, Sports, Mother

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• I came in the league as not a shooter, not a scorer. My game was to play defense and make my teammates better. The most important stat to me was that left column - winning. Nothing else matters.

  Jason Kidd

  Winning, Games, Play

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• A head start is rarely large enough to matter, and time spent in stealth mode-away from customers-is unlikely to provide a head start. The only way to win is to learn faster than anyone else.

  Eric Ries

  Winning, Way, Enough

  Eric Ries (2011). “The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses”, p.111, Crown Business

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• Here is one optimists reason for believing unity will prevail ... within the next hundred years ... nationhood as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority. A phrase briefly fashionable in the mid-20th century -- citizen of the world -- will have assumed real meaning by the end of the 21st. All countries are basically social arrangements, accommodations to changing circumstances. No matter how permanent and even sacred they may seem at any one time, in fact they are all artificial and temporary.

  Strobe Talbott

  Country, Real, Believe

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• You're here so you're a Scientologist. Now we're going to make you into an expert auditor no matter what happens. We'd rather have you dead than incapable.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Experts, Auditors, Incapable

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• And as a matter of fact, governments don't act, governments only react. The bankers make the decisions, and then governments decide how are we going to adjust to this. Government can't do anything unless the bank gives them the money to do it.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Government, Giving, Decision

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• The descent into matter must be complete before the ascent to spirit can commence.

  Dion Fortune

  Ascent, Spirit, Descent

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• Beauty is vanishing from our world because we live as though it does not matter.

  Roger Scruton

  Our World, Doe, Vanishing

  Roger Scruton (2011). “Beauty: A Very Short Introduction”, p.161, Oxford University Press

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• Grief does not seem to me to be a choice. Whether or not you think grief has value, you will lose what matters to you. The world will break your heart. So I think we’d better look at what grief might offer us. It’s like what Rilke says about self-doubt: it is not going to go away, and therefore you need to think about how it might become your ally.

  Mark Doty

  Grief, Heart, Thinking

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• No matter how painful something is, you have to take it. I saw that in both my parents.

  Bernard Lagat

  Parent, Saws, Painful

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• Packs a Huge Emotional Punch! Graceful Writing, Great Acting, Exquisite Direction, Suspense, Profound Subject Matter and It Rocks!

  Rex Reed

  Writing, Emotional, Rocks

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