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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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• This root [the potato], no matter how much you prepare it, is tasteless and floury. It cannot pass for an agreeable food, but it supplies a food sufficiently abundant and sufficiently healthy for men who ask only to sustain themselves. The potato is criticized with reason for being windy, but what matters windiness for the vigorous organisms of peasants and laborers?

  Denis Diderot

  Men, Vegetables, Roots

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• Success is a learnable skill. You can learn to succeed at anything. If you want to be a great golfer, you can learn how to do it. If you want to be a great piano player, you can learn how to do it. If you want to be truly happy, you can learn how to do it. If you want to be rich, you can learn how to do it. It doesn't matter where you are right now. It doesn't matter where you're starting from. What matters is that you are willing to learn.

  T. Harv Eker

  Motivational, Happiness, Happy

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Apr 15, 2015

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• Astronomy is a cold, desert science, with all its pompous figures,-depends a little too much on the glass-grinder, too little on the mind. 'T is of no use to show us more planets and systems. We know already what matter is, and more or less of it does not signify.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Science, Glasses, Mind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson (1904). “The complete works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”

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• A book is simply the container of an idea-like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.

  Angela Carter

  Book, Writing, Ideas

  Angela Carter (1997). “Shaking a Leg: Journalism and Writings”, Vintage

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• We know there is a sun in heaven, yet we cannot see what matter it is made of, but perceive it only by the beams, light and heat. Election is a sun, the eyes of eagles cannot see it, yet we may find it in the heat of vocation, in the light of illumination, in the beams of good works.

  Thomas Adams

  Eye, Light, Eagles

  Thomas Adams, James Sherman (1848). “An Exposition Upon the Second Epistle General of St. Peter”, p.117

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• When a man's life becomes poetry, becomes a song, becomes a work of art, a creativity, he has become a sannyasin. Whether he knows it or not, it does not matter. The word 'sannyas' does not matter; what matters is the content.

  Rajneesh

  Song, Art, Creativity

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• At the end of the day it doesn't matter which group is most oppressed or whether they are identically oppressed, what matters is that no group be oppressed.

  Keith Boykin

  Gay, The End Of The Day, Groups

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• What matters most is that we learn from living.

  Doris Lessing

  Life, Witty, Matter

  "Permission to Play: Taking Time to Renew Your Smile". Book by Jill Murphy Long, 2003.

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• What matters is working with a few close friends, people you respect, knowing that if times did turn bad these people would hold together.

  Richard Branson

  Success, Leadership, Knowing

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• 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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• Grace is what matters. In anything. Especially life, especially growth, tragedy, pain, love, death. About people, that's what matters. That's a quality I admire very greatly. It keeps you from reaching for the gun too quickly; it keeps you from destroying things too foolishly; it sort of keeps you alive and keeps you open for more understanding.

  Jeff Buckley

  Pain, Gun, People

  "Jeff Buckley: Remembered". TV Movie, www.imdb.com. 1999.

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• It doesn't matter what you choose, what matters is the energy with which you choose it.

  Caroline Myss

  Energy, Matter, You Choose

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• For what is important when we give children a theorem to use is not that they should memorize it. What matters most is that by growing up with a few very powerful theorems one comes to appreciate how certain ideas can be used as tools to think with over a lifetime. One learns to enjoy and to respect the power of powerful ideas. One learns that the most powerful idea of all is the idea of powerful ideas.

  Seymour Papert

  Children, Growing Up, Powerful

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• The other thing is that women my age know that looks are only skin deep. They don't matter. What matters is who you are. Hopefully at the end of the day, you're a good person. That's what counts.

  Marcia Hines

  Women, The End Of The Day, Age

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• What matters is where you want to go. Focus in the right direction!

  Donald Trump

  Goal, Focus, Want

  Twitter post from

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• It does not matter to the killers if their victims are Christian or Muslim, Hindu or Humanist; what matters is that they show that they can kill where they please.

  Rowan Williams

  Christian, Doe, Killers

  "Today is not an occasion for us to focus on fear" by Rowan Williams, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2005.

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• Whether your characters journey daily to a distant moon or just down the street to the corner bar, what matters to the reader is the singular event that distinguishes one such voyage from all the others and makes for a story worth telling.

  Peter Selgin

  Writing, Character, Moon

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• I'm a father; that's what matters most. Nothing matters more.

  Gordon Brown

  Father, Nothing Matters, Father Son

  2003 Following the birth of his son. Quoted in the Observer, 19 Oct.

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• In the (film) industry, body size doesn't matter. What matters is how much an actor contributes through his performance and not his body size. It is important that every person should wear clothes that go with their body - the cut, the fabric make a lot of difference.

  Deepika Padukone

  Cutting, Differences, Clothes

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• What matters to me is learning and growing, and getting to do what I love to do. As long as I can do that, I'm happy.

  Jeremy Renner

  Long, Growing, Can Do

  "Jeremy Renner Talks James Gray’s LOW LIFE; Says Steve McQueen Biopic Will Focus More on Personal Aspect than Stunts". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 1, 2011.

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• It doesn't matter how many people I've killed. What matters is how I get along with the people who are still alive.

  Bruce Willis

  People, Alive, Stills

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• What matters most with any regimen, whether it's to lose weight or stop drinking or smoking, is your willingness to seek help and your desire to say 'no more.

  Ewan McGregor

  Drinking, Smoking, Desire

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• Fame is a by-product. It's not a goal. What matters is loving your work and loving what you do

  Madonna Ciccone

  Loving What You Do, Goal, Loving You

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• So all I'm saying is, everything that seems important--our quarrels, or philosophical differences--in the end, it doesn't matter much. You know? In the end, what matters is what remains.

  Thrity Umrigar

  Philosophical, Differences, Important

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