Only Thing That Matters Quotes - Page 2

• Davy once asked me if I thought it was better to be a has-been than a never was, but maybe it doesn't make much of a difference. In the end, people are just people, and the only things that matter are whether they are good or bad, loving or unloving, loved or unloved.

  Todd Strasser

  Differences, People, Matter

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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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• The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.

  Earl Weaver

  Littles, Matter, Fields

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• The issue isn't, Am I good enough? No. The issue is, Do I not have any other choice? Will and desire don't matter. Ability doesn't matter. Need is the only thing that matters.

  Dana Spiotta

  Inspirational, Issues, Choices

  Dana Spiotta (2012). “Stone Arabia”, p.10, Canongate Books

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• Too many people have refused to begin running or have quickly dropped out of running programs because they 'have no talent for it.' Ridiculous. Talent has nothing to do with it. The only thing that matters is mental discipline.

  Amby Burfoot

  Running, Discipline, People

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• Stories are there to be told, and each story changes with the telling. Time changes them. Logic changes them. Grammar changes them. History changes them. Each story is shifted side-ways by each day that unfolds. Nothing ends. The only thing that matters, as Faulkner once put it, is the human heart in conflict with itself. At the heart of all this is the possibility, or desire, to create a piece of art that talks to the human instinct for recovery and joy.

  Colum McCann

  Art, Recovery, Joy

  "Author, author: Stories are there to be told" by Colum McCann, www.theguardian.com. September 4, 2009.

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• The only thing that matters is when the team wins.

  Jorge Posada

  Team, Winning, Matter

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• Whenever you look back and say "if" you know you're in trouble. There is no such thing as "if". The only thing that matters is what really happened.

  D. J. MacHale

  Looks, Matter, Trouble

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• Flexible supply chains are great for multinationals and consumers. But they erode already thin profit margins in developing-world factories and foster a pell-mell work environment in which getting the order out the door is the only thing that matters.

  James Surowiecki

  Doors, Order, World

  "After Rana Plaza". www.newyorker.com. May 20, 2013.

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• In 2012, I see the potential for people to come together, huge moments of political and social engagement where elections are part of the strategy for change, but not the end goal and not the only thing that matters.

  Olivia Wilde

  People, Goal, Political

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• It really shocks me when I encounter people who think kindness doesn't matter. Because I think it's pretty much the only thing that matters.

  Josh Radnor

  Kindness, Thinking, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The only thing that matters in life is your own opinion about yourself, nobody can destroy your dignity then, because it is not dependent on anybody's opinion.

  Rajneesh

  Life, Matter, Opinion

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• Literature doesn't matter! The only thing that matters is money and getting your teeth fixed!

  Delmore Schwartz

  Matter, Teeth, Literature

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• Who can say I have a bad swing? The only thing that matters in golf is the score you put on the board. You don't have to look pretty out there, you have to win. Look at my record and tell me who has a better swing than mine.

  Lee Trevino

  Golf, Winning, Swings

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• It's been a very remarkable year, and I feel very blessed. I lived an isolated lifestyle before the media. I lived a life of solitude and loyalty and commitment to my work. I just don't prioritize my life in the same way that other people do. The only thing that matters is my music and my performance.

  Lady Gaga

  Loyalty, Blessed, Commitment

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• I still hate making pictures! And I don't like Hollywood any better. I detest the limelight and love simplicity, and in Hollywood the only thing that matters is the hullabaloo of fame. If Hollywood will let me alone to find my way without forcing me and rushing me into things, I probably will change my feelings about it. But at present Hollywood seems utterly horrible and interfering and consuming. Which is why I want to leave it as soon as I am able.

  Margaret Sullavan

  Hate, Rushing, Simplicity

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• Cause you mean the world to me, you are my everything; I swear the only thing that matters, matters to me.

  Toni Braxton

  Mean, Causes, World

  Song: You Mean The World To Me, Album: Toni Braxton, 1993

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• Everything I've done feels like I'm just as much a part of it as if I was the producer. It's still the same job: all of us together figuring out the common good for a song. That's the only thing that matters. It's not like, "I'm the boss, and I'm gonna tell you what to play."

  Vince Gill

  Song, Jobs, Play

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• I think the only thing that matters is you win as a team and you lose as a team. And so the team needs to understand that no one player is bigger than any other player. Everybody has a role... Every single role is important.

  Bill O'Brien

  Team, Winning, Player

  "Bill O'Brien Q&A: How first-year coach jolted Texans". Interview with Jim Corbett, www.usatoday.com. October 31, 2014.

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• When you're in professional sports, winning is the only thing that matters.

  Leo Durocher

  Sports, Winning, Matter

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• If you have fame, you never feel that you have fame, if you have the brains of a flea. Because fame is something that's over back of you. It ain't ahead.... Not ahead at all. I mean, if you've done it that's great, but "what are you going to do now?" is the only thing that matters.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Mean, Brain, Done

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I try to go out and do the same thing every night. I've been taught since I was a kid that the only thing that matters is winning.

  Jorge Posada

  Kids, Winning, Night

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• Live in the world without any idea of what is going to happen. Whether you are going to be a winner or a loser, it doesn't matter. Death takes everything away. Whether you lose or win is immaterial. The only thing that matters, and has always been, is how you played the game. Did you enjoy it? - the game itself - then each moment is of joy. You never sacrifice the moment for the future.

  Rajneesh

  Sacrifice, Winning, Games

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• Here's what I think. I think that a lot of days, for me recently, it's like every split second the whole universe is created and destroyed. It's like constantly collapsing and reforming. And I think a lot of people feel that. I think that love is the answer and that's the only thing that matters.

  Andrew VanWyngarden

  Love Is, Thinking, People

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• I don't care what you do with that negative, you can retouch it, you can spit on it, you can grind it underfoot. The only thing that matters is if it is honest. If [the picture] is honest, you and everybody can tell. If it is dishonest, you and everybody can tell.

  Arnold Newman

  Negative, Care, Matter

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