What Matters Quotes - Page 23

• What matters is who we are, not who we beat.

  Tom Shadyac

  Who We Are, Matter, Beats

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• What matters most in a child’s development, they say, is not how much information we can stuff into her brain in the first few years. What matters, instead, is whether we are able to help her develop a very different set of qualities, a list that includes persistence, self-control, curiosity, conscientiousness, grit, and self-confidence. Economists refer to these as noncognitive skills, psychologists call them personality traits, and the rest of us sometimes think of them as character.

  Paul Tough

  Children, Character, Self Confidence

  Paul Tough (2012). “How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• All you can usually say about a poem or a picture is, 'Look at it, listen to it.' Whether you listen to a piece of music or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.

  Basil Bunting

  Jugs, Looks, Sculpture

  Basil Bunting (1999). “Basil Bunting on Poetry”

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• Let me keep my mind on what matters, which is my work, which is mostly standing still and learning to be astonished.

  Mary Oliver

  Mind, Let Me, Standing Still

  Mary Oliver (2006). “Thirst: Poems”, p.8, Beacon Press

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• As Hitler himself later enunciated, it matters not how idiotic the creed, what matters is the firmness with which it is enunciated.

  A. N. Wilson

  Creeds, Firmness, Idiotic

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• What matters is this: Being fearless of failure arms you to break the rules. In doing so, you may change the culture and just possibly, for a moment, change life itself.

  Malcolm Mclaren

  Life Changing, Fearless, Culture

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• It doesn't really matter whether we reflect the light through our authentic gifts or whether our authentic calling is to spread it. What matters is that tonight is that the world is dark, cold, and bleak. Your flame burns so brightly. Share your Love and warmth with others. Watch the Light return.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Healing, Dark, Light

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• 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

  Writing, Able, Happened

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• Defense is what matters. Scoring doesn't interest me.

  David Robinson

  Basketball, Defense, Interest

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• Live your life with passion, with some drive, decide that you are going to push yourself. The last chapter to your life has not been written yet, and it doesn't matter about what happened yesterday. It doesn't matter about what happened to you, what matters is, 'what are you going to do about it?'

  Les Brown

  Passion, Yesterday, Live Your Life

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• If people are not safe, they will not make themselves vulnerable. If they feel too comfortable, they can become complacent or lose their curiosity. They can become intellectually lazy about what matters most.

  Erica Brown

  People, Lazy, Curiosity

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Becoming a millionaire is not the end goal; your growth and development en-route is what matters.

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Goal, Growth, Development

  FaceBook post by Mark Victor Hansen from May 13, 2010

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• Years ago I read an interview with Paula Fox in which she said that in writing, truth is just as important as story. Reading that interview was the first time I really understood that there's no point in trying to impress people with my cleverness when I can just try to write honestly about what matters most to me.

  Molly Antopol

  Reading, Writing, Years

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• To all viewers but yourself, what matters is the product: the finished artwork. To you, and you alone, what matters is the process: the experiences of shaping that artwork. The viewers' concerns are not your concerns (although it'd dangerously easy to adopt their attitudes.) Their job is wahtever it is: to be moved by art, to be entertained by it, to make a killing off it, whatever. Your job is to learn to work on your work.

  David Bayles

  Art, Jobs, Attitude

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• The head is what matters. The rest of the body plays the part of antennae making life possible for people and life itself is inside the skull.

  Alberto Giacometti

  Play, Skulls, People

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• It won't matter who my friends were; it won't matter my endorsements; what matters is my heart's response to him.

  Mike Bickle

  Heart, Endorsements, Response

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• It's possible to make sense of what's morally at stake in an appreciation of the gift of life, or the gift of a child, without necessarily presupposing that there is a giver. What matters is that the gift - in this case, the child - not be wholly our own doing, our own product.

  Michael Sandel

  Appreciation, Children, Stakes

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Good and bad is tricky," she said. "I ain't too certain about where people stand. P'raps what matters is which way you face." (pp. 348-349)

  Terry Pratchett

  Rap, People, Way

  "Witches Abroad". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1991.

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• We all fall but that's not what matters. What matters is picking yourself up again.

  Patrick Ness

  Fall, Matter, Pick Yourself Up

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• What matters is not to know the world but to change it.

  Frantz Fanon

  World, Social Justice, Knows

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• This doesn't just involve you, honey. If it did, then what you suggest might be the best option. But it involves Shea and, by proxy, everyone at KGI because now you and your sister both are part of us. We don't run from a fight. It's not what KGI is about. KGI is about family. It's about protecting what matters the most to us. It's about never letting anyone take what is ours. You and Shea are ours now, we'll protect you with our last breaths.

  Maya Banks

  Running, Fighting, Might

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• You'll be alive', he pointed out. 'That's what matters. Enjoy what you have, every little detail of wherever you are. Don't focus on where you aren't.

  Richelle Mead

  Focus, Details, Alive

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Vampire Academy: Last Sacrifice”, p.125, Penguin UK

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• It does not matter whether you win or lose, what matters is whether I win or lose!

  Steven Weinberg

  Funny, Winning, Doe

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• Some books make us dream, others bring us face to face with reality, but what matters most to the author is the honesty with which a book is written.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Honesty, Book

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• You see how I try To reach with words What matters most And how I fail.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Trying, Matter, Failing

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