What Matters Quotes - Page 17

• For businesses to be successful, they need to constantly ask the question: how can we provide value to our customers? At the end of the day, that is what matters.

  Eli Broad

  Successful, The End Of The Day, Needs

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• I think that being a gentleman is what matters; taking them out to a nice dinner, open the doors, stuff like that.

  Justin Bieber

  Nice, Thinking, Doors

  "Justin Bieber: My mom is my Valentine". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. February 11, 2010.

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• It doesn't really matter if you are left behind the back, but what matters is your capacity to pull and push everyone by your way to get to the front.

  Michael Bassey

  Way, Capacity, Left Behind

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• At the end of the day, a television, a computer, or a smart phone is just a device through which one can access content. The content itself is what matters, not the device.

  Ray William Johnson

  Smart, Phones, The End Of The Day

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Still uncertain as to our identity, we think that what matters in the work world is gaining attention and making friends. And these misconceptions and naïveté are brutally exposed in the light of the real world.

  Robert Greene

  Real, Thinking, Light

  Robert Greene (2012). “Mastery”, p.64, Profile Books

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• Give yourself permission to be happy. It doesn't matter what's going on around you, what matters is what's going on inside you.

  Hal Elrod

  Inspirational, Giving, Permission

  FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from Dec 21, 2013

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• God doesn't expect us to perform for him. He loves us always-when we're disappointed or hurt or making a mess of things. Sometimes we speak to him in a language that only he can understand. What matters to him is that we are vulnerable, that we are completely ourselves. We are work, too, but God cherishes us.

  Luci Swindoll

  God, Hurt, Language

  Patsy Clairmont, Barbara Johnson, Marilyn Meberg, Luci Swindoll (1998). “The Joyful Journey”, Zondervan Publishing Company

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• What matters is the imaginative truth.

  Edna O'Brien

  Matter, Imaginative

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• Seeing depends on knowledge / And knowledge, of course, on your college / But when you are erudite and wise / What matters is to use your eyes.

  Ernst Gombrich

  Wise, Eye, College

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• What matters most to me? To work with my model until I have it enough in me to be able to improvise, to let my hand run free.

  Henri Matisse

  Running, Hands, Able

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• As people enable themselves to achieve one or two goals for the year that are most meaningful, they will find power, peace of mind, and confidence in their abilities because they have achieved what they set out to accomplish. Your commitment to achieving what matters most will become the foundation for tremendous accomplishments and contributions. You will become the change you seek to make.

  Stephen Covey

  Meaningful, Commitment, Years

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• What matters is not the allocation of portions out of a fund presented to man by nature. The problem is rather to further those social institutions which enable people to continue and to enlarge the production of all those things which they need.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Men, People, Needs

  Ludwig Von Mises (1978). “Anti-Capitalistic Mentality, The”, p.81, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Being a professor and working are not the same thing. The academic community is composed largely of nitwits. If I may generalize. People who don't know very much about what matters very much, who view life through literature rather than the other way around.

  Robert B. Parker

  Views, People, Community

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• Art collectors are pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. What matters and survives is the art.

  Charles Saatchi

  Art, Insignificant Things, Schemes

  Charles Saatchi (2009). “My Name is Charles Saatchi and I Am an Artoholic”, Phaidon Press

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• What matters Death, if Freedom be not dead?
  No flags are fair, if Freedom's flag be furled.
  Who fights for Freedom, goes with joyful tread
  To meet the fires of Hell against him hurled.

  Joyce Kilmer

  Fighting, Fire, Poetry

  Joyce Kilmer (1968). “Joyce Kilmer: Memoir and poems”

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• Being strong, showing that you will see things through no matter what comes your way, that's what matters most to me.

  Cat Zingano

  Strong, Ufc, Mma

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• I try to take a snapshot of who I am now, who I am becoming, as opposed to who I was when I was first starting to make records. I'm not trying to make boring adult music, but I try to make music more reflective of what matters to me now.

  El-P

  Who I Am, Trying, Adults

  Interview with Sam Chennault, pitchfork.com. August 1, 2002.

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• It doesn’t much matter whether people care or don’t care. What matters is that people change the world.

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  People, World, Care

  Elizabeth Kolbert (2014). “The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History”, p.164, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• What matters are those ordinary acts of kindness and of love, not vaulting ambition with its attendant hubris and smugness.

  Michael Dirda

  Kindness, Ambition, Ordinary

  "Kurt Vonnegut". Live discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. April 12, 2007.

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• A consoling thought: what matters is not what we do, but the spirit in which we do it. Others suffer too; so much so that there is nothing in the world but suffering; the problem is simply to keep a clear conscience.

  Cesare Pavese

  Suffering, World, Spirit

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.78, Transaction Publishers

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• What matters most has an ultimate metallic quality of death. The chasuble and the wagon wheel, the razor and the prickly beards of shepherds, the bare moon, a fly, humid cupboards, rubble piles, the images of saints covered in lace, quicklime, and the wounding edges of the rooflines and watchtowers.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Moon, Quality, Razors

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• Those of us who have the privilege to serve this country have an obligation to do our job as best we can. We come from different parties, but we are Americans first. And that's why disagreement cannot mean dysfunction. It can't degenerate into hatred. The American people's hopes and dreams are what matters, not ours. Our obligations are to them. Our regard for them compels us all, Democrats and Republicans, to cooperate, and compromise, and act in the best interests of our nation –- one nation, under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

  Barack Obama

  Dream, Country, Jobs

  "Obama may have won now, but next three years could be tough" by Leigh Ann Caldwell, www.cnn.com. October 18, 2013.

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• We see many instances of cities going down like sinking ships to their destruction. There have been such wrecks in the past and there surely will be others in the future, caused by the wickedness of captains and crews alike. For these are guilty men, whose sin is supreme ignorance of what matters most.

  Plato

  Ignorance, Past, Men

  Plato (1952). “Plato's Statesman”

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• David Blunkett and I both take the same view that it is scandalous that someone from North Tyneside, Laura Spence, with the best qualifications and who wants to be a doctor, should be turned down by Oxford University using an interview system more reminiscent of the old school network and the old school tie than justice. It is about time for an end to that old Britain where what matters more are the privileges you are born with, rather than the potential you actually have.

  Gordon Brown

  School, Doctors, Views

  "Brown goes to war over Oxford elite" by Alexandra Frean, John O'Leary and Philip Webster, The Times, May 26, 2000.

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• I have just accepted the invitation of Her Majesty The Queen to form a Government. This will be a new Government with new priorities and I have been privileged to have been granted the great opportunity to serve my country and at all times I will be strong in purpose, steadfast in will, resolute in action in the service of what matters to the British people, meeting the concerns and aspirations of our whole country.

  Gordon Brown

  Country, Strong, Queens

  "Gordon Brown's First Speech as Prime Minister". www.telegraph.co.uk. June 27, 2007.

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