Matter Quotes - Page 34

• We each have our lives... What matters is not how long those lives last, but what we do with them.

  Kevin J. Anderson

  What Matters, Long, Lasts

  Kevin J. Anderson (2011). “Hidden Empire: The Saga Of Seven Suns - Book One”, p.234, Simon and Schuster

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• When everything that matters can be bought and sold, when commitments can be broken because they are no longer to our advantage, when shopping becomes salvation and advertising slogans become our litany, when our worth is measured by how much we earn and spend, then the market is destroying the very virtues on which in the long run it depends.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Running, Commitment, Shopping

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• You see, to me, it doesnt really matter if an elected official has a D or an R behind her name, or his name. I honestly dont give a damn about who belongs to either political party.

  Richard Trumka

  Party, Names, Giving

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• No good to paint in the head - what happens is what happens when you put the paint down - you can only hope that you are alert - ready - to see. What joy it  is for paint to become a thing - a being. Believe in this miracle - it is your only hope. To will this transformation is not possible. Only a  slow maturation can prepare the hand and eye to become quicker than ever. Ideas about art don't matter. They collapse anyway in front of the painting.

  Philip Guston

  Art, Believe, Eye

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• In the long run, no matter how good or successful you are or how clever or crafty, your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.

  Akio Morita

  Running, Clever, Successful

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• In a creative journey, it is essential, no matter how far one runs, to examine that which is closest to home.

  Dani Shapiro

  Running, Home, Journey

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• You know you've completely descended into madness when the matter of shampoo has ascended to philosophical heights.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Philosophical, Height, Madness

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.267, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The will is what matters---as long as you have that, you are safe.

  Evelyn Underhill

  What Matters, Long, Safety

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• One of the basics of a good system of innovation is diversity. In some ways, the stronger the culture (national, institutional, generational, or other), the less likely it is to harbor innovative thinking. Common and deep-seated beliefs, widespread norms, and behavior and performance standards are enemies of new ideas. Any society that prides itself on being harmonious and homogeneous is very unlikely to catalyze idiosyncratic thinking. Suppression of innovation need not be overt. It can be simply a matter of peoples walking around in tacit agreement and full comfort with the status quo.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Pride, Thinking, Agreement

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• Discovery is exciting, no matter how big or small or close or distant.

  Mike Brown

  Discovery, Bigs, Exciting

  Mike Brown (2010). “How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming”, p.102, Spiegel & Grau

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• Be persistent and just keep going to open mics no matter what, even if just to watch and not perform. You'll find that even at your worst keep your head up because you'll still be better than other people's best.

  Pete Holmes

  People, Watches, Mics

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• I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view. It's informed by our own understanding of spirituality; things that matter, things that are important to us. I write about things that matter for me.

  Ted Dekker

  Writing, Thinking, Views

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• Behind the footlights there is always the applause, which stimulates the actors. On the screen it is a different matter.

  Ivor Novello

  Different, Actors, Applause

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• If a person goes to his job with a firm determination to give of himself the best of which he is capable, that job no matter what it is takes on dignity and importance.

  Hortense Odlum

  Determination, Jobs, Giving

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• I believe that one key to success is to accept truth, no matter how it's spoken.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspiring, Believe, Keys

  Twitter post from Jan 13, 2017

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• This is not your father's marketing. Instead of "do it right no matter what", search marketing demands that you "do it wrong quickly and then fix it".

  Mike Moran

  Father, Marketing, Demand

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• The ability to suffer is a small matter - weak women and even slaves can acheive virtuosity in that.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pain, Suffering, Hardship

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• No matter how skillful you are, you can't invent a product advantage that doesn't exist. And if you do, and it's just a gimmick, it's going to fall apart anyway.

  William Bernbach

  Fall, Gimmicks, Advantage

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• For above all things Love means sweetness, and truth, and measure; yea, loyalty to the loved one and to your word. And because of this I dare not meddle with so high a matter.

  Marie de France

  Love, Loyalty, Mean

  Marie de France (2015). “Medieval Lays and Legends of Marie de France”, p.125, Xist Publishing

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• Sometimes the things we want most are the hardest to get. That means you need to be even more determined to succeed. That's what it takes to be a winner. You have to want it bad enough to stick with it no matter how tough things get.

  Chuck Norris

  Art, Mean, Determined To Succeed

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• This command seems to me to be strictly a missionary injunction; so that, apart altogether from choice and other lower reasons, my going forth is a matter of obedience to a plain command.

  James Gilmour

  Choices, Missionary, Reason

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• In matters of dress we wish neither silk nor rags," President Hinckley said. "We seek for the clean look, call it a wholesome look, the bright and happy look of young men and women who walk with a sense of who they are, of what is expected of them, and of what they may become.

  Daniel H. Ludlow

  Men, Wish, President

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• Leadership: Here is the heart and soul of the matter. If you look to lead, invest at least 30% managing those with authority over you, and 15% managing your peers. Use the remainder to induce those you 'work for' to understand and practice...lead yourself, lead your supervisors, lead your peers, and free your people to do the same. All else is trivia.

  Dee Hock

  Heart, Practice, People

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• We don't usually think of what we eat as a matter of ethics. Stealing, lying, hurting people - these acts are obviously relevant to our moral character. In ancient Greece and Rome, ethical choices about food were considered at least as significant as ethical choices about sex.

  Peter Singer

  Hurt, Sex, Lying

  Peter Singer, Jim Mason (2007). “The Ethics of What We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter”, p.3, Rodale

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• I am interested in the shape of ideas even if I do not believe in them. There is a wonderful sentence in Augustine . . . "Do not despair: one of the thieves was saved; do not presume: one of the thieves was damned." That sentence had a wonderful shape. It is the shape that matters.

  Samuel Beckett

  Believe, Ideas, Despair

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