What Matters Quotes - Page 10

• What matters the most is what you do for free

  John Gorka

  Matter

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• Crisis or transition of any kind reminds us of what matters most. In the routine of life, we often take our families-our parents and children and siblings-for granted. But in times of danger and need and change, there is no question that what we care about most is our families! It will be even more so when we leave this life and enter into the spirit world. Surely the first people we will seek to find there will be father, mother, spouse, children, and siblings.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Mother, Children, Father

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• We're all trying to get to the same island — whether you swim, fly, surf, or skydive, it doesn't matter. What matters is when the red light goes on.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Islands, Light, Swim

  "How To Get Fired From Your Own Movie And Survive" by E.A. Hanks, www.buzzfeed.com. May 2, 2013.

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

  Jenny Sanford

  Live Your Life, Matter, Shows

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

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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, Play, Wells

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• The religion is a formality. What matters is you show respect to God and your faith in God.

  Sean Stone

  Faith In God, Show Respect, Shows

  "EXCLUSIVE: Sean Stone Makes A Frightening Directorial Debut with ‘Greystone Park’". Interview with Angela Dawson, frontrowfeatures.com. October 17, 2012.

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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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• What matters is that you enjoy doing something creative. And I'm more and more seeing that as the key. That success and money or any sort of accolades are really not the experience of the journey. It's all about the process of building something.

  Josh Lucas

  Journey, Keys, Creative

  "Josh Lucas on American Psycho, Russell Crowe, and the disastrous Poseidon set". Interview with Sam Fragoso, film.avclub.com. August 27, 2015.

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• You don't have to be a preacher to talk about what matters, and you don't have to drop the pleasures of style

  Rebecca Solnit

  Style, Pleasure, Preacher

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• If an audience finds themselves paying attention to how you made your film, you're sunk because that means they're unplugged from your story. What matters is what's unfolding on the screen, not how you put it there. It doesn't matter if it's red triangles or million dollar software if the audience doesn't care.

  Don Hertzfeldt

  Mean, Red, Dollars

  Source: www.notcoming.com

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• It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for... What they're willing to lie for.

  David Shore

  Lying, Focus, Priorities

  "House: Three Stories". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• Women should be women and not babies that need petting and correction all the time. I know we like to be appreciated but if we do not get all the appreciation which we think is our due, what matters? We know the Lord has laid high responsibility upon us, and there is not a wish or desire that the Lord has implanted in our hearts in righteousness but will be realized, and the greatest good we can do to ourselves and each other is to refine and cultivate ourselves in everything that is good and ennobling to qualify us for those responsibilities.

  Eliza R. Snow

  Baby, Appreciation, Heart

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• You don’t have to spend a jillion dollars on advertising to get your word out. What matters is that customers have a good experience with your product at every single point of contact.

  David Neeleman

  Dollars, Advertising, Contact

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• Its the publicity function of Amnesty that I think has made its name so widely known, not only to readers in the world, but to governments - and thats what matters.

  Peter Benenson

  Thinking, Government, Names

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• Money doesn't have anything have anything to do with the magnificence of a person. It doesn't. What matters is what you make. Whether it's a cake for bingo night or a costume for a saint or a wall of water-whatever you pour into this life is what makes you rich.

  Adriana Trigiani

  Wall, Night, Cake

  Adriana Trigiani (2005). “Rococo: A Novel”, p.253, Random House

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• Where focus goes, energy flows. And if you don't take the time to focus on what matters, then you're living a life of someone else's design.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Focus, Design

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• I do not agree with a big way of doing things. What matters is the individual. If we wait till we get numbers, then we will be lost in the numbers and we will never be able to show that love and respect for the person.

  Mother Teresa

  Numbers, Waiting, World

  "Mother Teresa's Reaching Out in Love: Stories Told by Mother Teresa". Compiled and Edited by Edward Le Joly and Jaya Chaliha, Barnes & Noble, p. 122, 2002.

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• A serious life, by definition, is a life one reflects on, a life one tries to make sense of and bear witness to. Truth in a memoir is achieved not through a recital of actual events; it is achieved when the reader comes to believe that the writer is working hard to engage with the experience at hand. What happened to the writer is not what matters; what matters is the large sense that the writer is able to make of what happened.

  Vivian Gornick

  Life, Truth, Believe

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• The biggest enemies of willpower: temptation, self-criticism, and stress. (...) these three skills —self-awareness, self-care, and remembering what matter most— are the foundation for self-control.

  Kelly McGonigal

  Stress, Skills, Self

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

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Long, Lasts, Our Lives

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

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• By God! I will not tell you more to-day, Judge any way you will - what matters it?

  William Morris

  Judging, Matter, Way

  William Morris, May Morris (2012). “The Collected Works of William Morris: With Introductions by His Daughter May Morris”, p.10, Cambridge University Press

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• The shortness of life, which we all discuss, but which is very clear to me at the moment, makes keeping and spreading a joyful peace more crucial than ever before. Let us keep our minds on what matters, which is our work, which is astonishment and gratitude. From this quiet magic comes a power for all other new years wishes to come true.

  Martha Beck

  New Year, Gratitude, Years

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• But whether it be dream or truth, to do well is what matters. If it be truth, for truth's sake. If not, then to gain friends for the time when we awaken.

  Pedro Calderon de la Barca

  Dream, Awakening, Sake

  "Life Is a Dream". Play by Pedro Calderón de la Barca, 1635.

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• Your education never stops and college is just the beginning. You come out of college with a huge advantage in that you've ideally and more times than not you've come out with a love of learning and that's what matters above all.

  David McCullough

  College, Advantage, More Time

  Source: belmontvision.com

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• Having the right message is what matters. It's not who you reach, it's what you say.

  Roy H. Williams

  Matter, Messages

  Roy H. Williams (2012). “The Wizard of Ads: Turning Words into Magic And Dreamers into Millionaires”, p.33, BookBaby

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