What Matters Quotes - Page 5

• I got good grades in school, but I'm not sure if I'm smart or if it just means I can study. I've never taken one of those IQ tests, and I don't want to. It's so pointless. As long as you enjoy life and have fun and you're healthy and happy, that's what matters.

  Dolph Lundgren

  Fun, Smart, Taken

  Source: www.menshealth.com

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• Having a great golf swing helps under pressure, but golf is a game about scoring. It's like an artist who can get a two-inch brush at Wal-Mart for 20 cents or a fine camel-hair brush from an art store for 20 dollars. The brush doesn't matter - how the finished painting looks is what matters.

  Jerry Pate

  Art, Golf, Hair

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• Well can I just make a point about the numbers because people talk a lot about police numbers as if police numbers are the holy grail. But actually what matters is what those police are doing. It's about how those police are deployed.

  Theresa May

  Numbers, People, Holy Grail

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We need to give up what no longer works and find new ways of being that keeps us close to what matters.

  Mark Nepo

  Giving Up, Needs, Way

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• We are friends for life. When we’re together the years fall away. Isn’t that what matters? To have someone who can remember with you? To have someone who remembers how far you’ve come?

  Judy Blume

  Fall, Years, Together

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• What matters is not how well you can avoid trouble, but how you cope with trouble when it comes.

  Paul Auster

  Matter, Trouble, Wells

  Paul Auster (2009). “The Book of Illusions: A Novel”, p.32, Macmillan

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• Writing may or may not be your salvation; it might or might not be your destiny. But that does not matter. What matters right now are the words, one after another. Find the next word. Write it down.

  Neil Gaiman

  Writing, Destiny, Doe

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• When you are on the podium nobody is asking you if you are 15 or 30 years old. What matters is who can do great gymnastics.

  Oksana Chusovitina

  Gymnastics, Years, Asking

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• Let go of resentment, for it will hold you back. Do not worry about what could've been, what is to come is what matters.

  Leon Brown

  Life, Letting Go, Worry

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• When test scores go up, we should worry, because of how poor a measure they are of what matters, and what you typically sacrifice in a desperate effort to raise scores.

  Alfie Kohn

  School, Sacrifice, Worry

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• Do what is necessary to be resilient. You will get knocked down. What matters is that you get back up.

  Hillary Clinton

  Inspiring Business, Resilient, Knocked Down

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• What matters is the people. We must ensure that the United Nations is supported by the people and that it reflects the will of the people.

  Anwarul Karim Chowdhury

  People, Unesco, United Nations

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• In my career there's many things I've won and many things I've achieved. But my greatest achievement is my family. What matters is being a good father and a good husband-just being connected to family as much as possible. Being a dad is more important than football, more important than anything. I adore children. I love the fact our children are part of both of us. It's one of the most amazing things ever.

  David Beckham

  Football, Children, Husband

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• Joy is a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Happiness, Inspiring, Success

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• Listening doesn't mean trying to understand. Anything, however trifling, may be of use one day. What matters is to know something that others don't know you know.

  Umberto Eco

  Mean, Listening, Trying

  Umberto Eco (2011). “The Prague Cemetery”, p.29, Random House

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• I hope that even if you remember not a single word of mine, you remember those of Seneca, another of those old Romans I met when I fled down the Classics corridor, in retreat from career ladders, in search of ancient wisdom: As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

  J. K. Rowling

  Careers, Long, Retreat

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• But we don’t remember those lives. We can’t read our diaries.’ ‘It doesn’t matter. We are where we are, however we got here. What matters is where we go next.’ ‘But can we choose that?’ ‘I don’t know.’ ‘We’re Dead. Can we really choose anything?’ ‘Maybe. If we want to bad enough.

  Isaac Marion

  Want, Next, Diaries

  Isaac Marion (2012). “Warm Bodies: A Novel”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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• You make the mistake of thinking you have to choose, that you have to do what you want, that there are conditions for happiness. What matters — all that matters, really is the will to happiness, a kind of enormous, ever present consciousness. The rest - women , art, success — is nothing but excuses. A canvas waiting for our embroideries.

  Albert Camus

  Art, Mistake, Thinking

  "Happy Death".

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