Matter Quotes - Page 36

• I think it's really good that you have great competition among news networks, and for that matter all the networks in general. It's bringing more and more people in to watching the news.

  Walter Isaacson

  Thinking, People, Competition

  "Extended Interview: Walter Isaacson". "PBS NewsHour" with Terence Smith, www.pbs.org. January 28, 2002.

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• I believe that the World Wide Web is, as a matter of fact, the noogenesis of the noosphere of the future. This is it!

  Ralph Abraham

  Believe, World, Facts

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• Political conflicts distort and disturb a people's sense of distinction between matters of importance and matters of urgency. What is vital is disguised by what is merely a matter of well being.

  John Grierson

  People, Political, Conflict

  John Grierson (1966). “Grierson on Documentary”, p.207, Univ of California Press

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• You cannot be in the presence of God and be bored at the same time. For that matter, you cannot be in the will of God and be bored at the same time.

  Mark Batterson

  Bored, Gods Will, Presence Of God

  Mark Batterson (2013). “Going All In: One Decision Can Change Everything”, p.10, Zondervan

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• As long as our souls remain strong, that is all that matters; as long as they don't decline. Because with the fall of certain souls in this world, the world itself will collapse. These are the pillars which support it. They are few, but enough.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Strong, Fall, Long

  Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). “Report to Greco”, p.298, Simon and Schuster

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• Truth walks toward us on the paths of our questions. As soon as you think you have the answer, you have closed the path and may miss the vital new information. Wait awhile in the stillness, and do not rush to conclusions, no matter how uncomfortable the unknowing.

  Jacqueline Winspear

  Thinking, Waiting, Missing

  Jacqueline Winspear (2003). “Maisie Dobbs”, p.26, Soho Press

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• Concrete is momentarily unformed matter seeking its natural completion, filling in the last corners of its allowed space, finding a form. It is possibility rendered material, hope in an industrial-strength mixer.

  Mark Kingwell

  Space, Filling In, Lasts

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• It's just a matter of who you are and how you talk to people. Your subjects will trust you only if you're confident about what you're doing. It really bothers me when photographers first approach a subject without a camera, try to establish a personal relationship, and only then get out their cameras. It's deceptive. I think you should just show up with a camera, to make your intentions clear. People will either accept you or they won't.

  Mary Ellen Mark

  Thinking, People, Trying

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• To be homeward bound, no matter what tragic memories you have harbored, is unlike any voyage a man can ever make.

  Leon Uris

  Memories, Men, Voyages

  Leon Uris (1995). “Redemption”, G K Hall & Company

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• The tendency to conformity in our society is so strong that reasonably intelligent and well-meaning young people are willing to call white black. This is a matter of concern. It raises questions about our ways of education and about the values that guide our conduct.

  Solomon Asch

  Education, Strong, Black And White

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• Each of the essays in this volume ranges widely across technical and philosophical domains. They examine both familiar automatons from throughout history and delight us with yet more that will likely be unfamiliar to most readers. But the real treat of the essays is how they will make Artificial Life researchers squirm as they recognize their own intellectual sleights of hand exposed for all to see. Those researchers and the Genesis Redux contributors are all ultimately interested in what it is that truly distinguishes us beings from other lumps of matter.

  Rodney Brooks

  Real, Philosophical, Hands

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• Does Sex Matter? Of course it does. But does it matter enough to Matter? That's a different question.

  Vera Rubin

  Sex, Doe, Different

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• No matter how much of our liberty Washington takes away in the name of security, there are no guarantees that there won't be another terrorist attack. Instead of attacking American liberties, the government ought to go after terrorists in their countries of origin. It should be like what our military attempted during WWII. Don't wait to defend ships against the kamikaze -- bomb the fields where they take off.

  Walter E. Williams

  Country, Military, Government

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• According to God, the One who designed and instituted marriage, love is a choice. It’s a matter of obedience, not emotion.

  Kay Arthur

  Love Is, Choices, Emotion

  Kay Arthur (2007). “A Marriage Without Regrets: No Matter Where You Are Or Where You've Been, You Can Have...”, p.118, Harvest House Publishers

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• In all things there must be order, but it must of such a kind as is possible to observe...to see a man burnt for doing as he thought right, harms the people, for this is a matter of conscience.

  William the Silent

  Men, Order, People

  "William the Silent, William of Nausau, Prince of Orange, 1533-1584". Book by C. V. Wedgwood, p. 78, 1944.

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• It doesn't matter if you have a desperate heart when you have to sing about joy; it doesn't matter if you're scared to death when the lights go on.

  Mireille Mathieu

  Heart, Light, Joy

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• My parents ingrained in me early on that the perfect score is always something to strive for. I want to win and I want to succeed no matter what.

  Andrea Jung

  Winning, Perfect, Parent

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• It's not what we eat or don't eat that makes us good people; it's how we treat one another. As you grow older, you'll find that people of every religion think they're the best, but that's not true. There are good and bad people in every religion. Just because someone is Muslim, Jewish, or Christian doesn't mean a thing. You have to look and see what's in their hearts. That's the only thing that matters, and that's the only detail God cares about.

  Firoozeh Dumas

  Christian, Heart, Mean

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• I am now being criticized (by the opposition) for being irresponsible for saying `I will not raise the consumption tax rate while I am in office,' ... But, when my successor does raise the consumption tax rate, it will not be simply a matter of being irresponsible. He will be criticized for raising the tax.

  Junichiro Koizumi

  Office, Doe, Taxes

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• For the user, it doesn't matter whether he is getting access on Wi-Fi, 3G or 2G networks. What matters is good connectivity, and as a technology provider, our job is to hide the complexity of the technology.

  Padmasree Warrior

  Jobs, Technology, What Matters

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• If you notice phrases, ideas, and anecdotes that closely resemble those that appear elsewhere in my writing, it's not a matter of sloppy editing. I'm repeating myself. I'm reshuffling words in the hope that just once I might say something exactly right. And I'm still wrestling with dilemmas that are not easily resolved or easily dismissed. I run at them again and again because I am not finished with them. Any may never be. Work-in- progress on a life-in-progress is what my writing is about. And some progress in the work is enough to keep it going on.

  Robert Fulghum

  Life, Running, Hope

  Robert Fulghum (2010). “Uh-Oh: Some Observations from Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door”, p.28, Ivy Books

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• But fortunately for us and for all men, it has not been given unto us to judge, nor to execute, nor to measure out the days and the years of men. We may be most grateful that such matters belong to the Lord God our Father, who sees things past and things to come. And, we may be grateful for the assurance that there is plan and purpose in this world, and in our own lives.

  Richard L. Evans

  Life, Father, Grateful

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• We cannot look upon our lives as dreams of a dreamer who has no awakening in all time. We have a personality to which matter and force are unmeaning unless related to something infinitely personal, whose nature we have discovered, in some measure, in human love, in the greatness of the good, in the martyrdom of heroic souls, in the ineffable beauty of nature, which can never be a mere physical fact nor anything but an expression of personality.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Life, Dream, Greatness

  Rabindranath Tagore (2010). “My Life In My Words”, p.163, Penguin UK

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• Obviously, where art has it over life is in the matter of editing. Life can be seen to suffer from a drastic lack of editing. It stops too quick, or else it goes on too long. Worse, its pacing is erratic. Some chapters are little more than a few sentences in length, while others stretch into volumes. Life, for all its raw talent, has little sense of structure. It creates amazing textures, but it can't be counted on for snappy beginnings or good endings either. Indeed, in many cases no ending is provided at all.

  Larry McMurtry

  Life, Art, Editing

  Larry McMurtry (2010). “Film Flam: Essays on Hollywood”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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• Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end.

  John Updike

  Life, Games, Video

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