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• What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.

  Ezra Pound

  Believe, Ideas, Capacity

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• Not everybody paints what the public will pay for. The method in which an artist receives money is nobody's business, what matters is that paintings are produced.

  Jim Rowe

  Artist, Pay, Painting

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• I lost some friends when I made the move, but if that's what matters to them, then they're not really friends at all.

  Jock Stein

  Moving, Lost, Made

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• Women should not allow themselves to be caught up in the hype that says performance, meaning the motions, is what matters.

  Kamala Harris

  Hype, Should, Caught

  "The Lenny Interview: Kamala Harris, the Senate Hopeful, Going After Revenge Porn". Interview with Doreen St. Félix, www.elle.com. October 23, 2015.

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• Don't be afraid of the storms; be afraid of the ship and the captain! Forget about the outside factors, what matters is the internal power!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Storm, Captains, Ships

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• Truth is always truth, untruth is always untruth. This is what matters, this is right desire.

  Gautama Buddha

  Desire, Truth Is, Untruth

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• I always want to have a new challenge involved. I need to put myself to the test, and if I make mistakes, it doesn't matter. What matters to me, instead, is making my dreams come true and putting them on display.

  Yohji Yamamoto

  Dream, Mistake, Challenges

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It doesn't matter how much you make, what matters is what you become. Stay hungry.. Learn.. you'll become world-class

  Azim Jamal

  Class, World, Hungry

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• Facts are irrelevant. What matters is what the consumer believes.

  Seth Godin

  Believe, Facts, Advertising

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• In politics intentions count for nothing; actions are what matter.

  David Horowitz

  Matter, Action, Intention

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• In general, in America, every discourse in literature in 15 minutes degenerates into a conversation about ethics, morality and this and that. The Holocaust and the consequences of it. Well, I find it terribly boring, predictable and unimportant, because what matters about literature is esthetic achievement.

  Joseph Brodsky

  America, Achievement, Holocaust

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• What matters at this stage is the construction of local forms of community within which civility and the intellectual and moral life can be sustained through the new dark ages which are already upon us. And if the tradition of the virtues was able to survive the horrors of the last dark ages, we are not entirely without ground for hope. This time however the barbarians are not waiting beyond the frontiers; they have already been governing us for quite some time.

  Alasdair MacIntyre

  Dark, Community, Waiting

  Alasdair MacIntyre (1981). “After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory”, Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd

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• What matters is how many times you get up.

  Daniel James Brown

  Matter, Get Up

  Daniel James Brown (2013). “The Boys In The Boat”, p.201, Pan Macmillan

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• What matters is giving over to what you love.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Giving, Matter, What You Love

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• What matters poverty? What matters anything to him who is enamoured of our art? Does he not carry in himself every joy and every beauty?

  Sarah Bernhardt

  Art, Joy, Doe

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• Artists are looking for a new modernity that would be based on translation: What matters today is to translate the cultural values of cultural groups and to connect them to the world network. This “reloading process” of modernism according to the twenty-first-century issues could be called altermodernism, a movement connected to the creolisation of cultures and the fight for autonomy, but also the possibility of producing singularities in a more and more standardized world.

  Nicolas Bourriaud

  Fighting, Artist, Issues

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• We forget that what matters begins with the imagination.

  Terry Brooks

  Imagination, Matter, Forget

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• What matters is that you are doing what you think is right based on the standards which you hold.

  Walter Annenberg

  Thinking, Matter, Standards

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• There's something missing about how we're informing the youngsters coming along about what matters in the world. We teach them the numbers and the letters, but we fail to communicate the importance of our connection to the living world.

  Sylvia Earle

  Numbers, Missing, Connections

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• Scripts are what matter. If you get the foundations right and then you get the right ingredients on top, you stand a shot... but if you get those foundations wrong, then you absolutely don't stand a shot. It's very rare-almost never-that a good film gets made from a bad screenplay.

  Tim Bevan

  Foundation, Directors, Scripts

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• You don't see a wonderful shot in a comedy. Why? Because they don't want to distract you from what matters, which is the joke. It has to be funny, so usually all the things in the background don't matter.

  Fede Alvarez

  Want, Comedy, Wonderful

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Passion and persistence are what matter. Dreams are achievable and you can make your fantasy come true, but there are no shortcuts. Nothing happens without hard work.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Dream, Hard Work, Passion

  Diane von Furstenberg (2015). “The Woman I Wanted to Be”, p.154, Simon and Schuster

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• What matters the party to me? I shall find enough anyhow who unite with me without swearing allegiance to my flag.

  Max Stirner

  Party, Flags, Enough

  Max Stirner (1995). “Stirner: The Ego and its Own”, p.210, Cambridge University Press

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• To see them succeed, to see them improve, that is what matters.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Rama, Succeed

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• What matters is that they are curious about life, energy, truth, and themselves and that they haven't sold out to the establishment powers that tell us what to think, what to wear, how to behave, what to believe in and what goes beyond the line of rational and irrational thought.

  Frederick Lenz

  Believe, Buddhism, Thinking

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