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• The important questions focus on what matters most-Heavenly Father's plan and the Savior's Atonement.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Father, Focus, Important

  FaceBook post by M Russell Ballard from Oct 05, 2014

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• Let the dream go. Are there not other dreams
  In vastness of clouds hid from thy sight
  That yet shall gild with beautiful gold gleams,
  And shoot the shadows through and through with light?
  What matters one lost vision of the night?
  Let the dream go!

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Sad, Beautiful, Dream

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2012). “Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.391, Jazzybee Verlag

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• What matters in a character is not whether one holds this or that opinion: what matters is how proudly one upholds it.

  Madame de Stael

  Character, Matter, Opinion

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• When you grow up on an island, what matters is how you stand to the sea.

  Roddy Doyle

  Growing Up, Islands, Sea

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• Errors and exaggerations do not matter. What matters is boldness in thinking with a strong-pitched voice, in speaking out about things as one feels them in the moment of speaking; in having the temerity to proclaim what one believes to be true without fear of the consequences. If one were to await the possession of the absolute truth, one must be either a fool or a mute. If the creative impulse were muted, the world would then be stayed on its march.

  Jose Clemente Orozco

  Strong, Fear, Truth

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• Limitation is the condition of our lives. What matters — what allows us to reach beyond ourselves, as we are, and push at the boundaries of our ability — is that we continue. But then everything depends on how we practice, what we practice.

  Glenn Kurtz

  Practice, Boundaries, Ability

  Glenn Kurtz (2008). “Practicing: A Musician's Return to Music”, p.241, Vintage

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• If what matters in a person's existence is to accept the inevitable consciously, to taste the good and bad to the full and to make for oneself a more individual, unaccidental and inward
  destiny alongside one's external fate, then my life has been neither empty nor worthless.

  Hermann Hesse

  Fate, Destiny, Inward

  Hermann Hesse (1969). “Gertrude”

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• I think a good MP is someone who cares for their community and becomes their champion, which is why I will make my home in any seat I am lucky enough to be selected for. Looks play no part in the equation, what matters is your ideas and connecting them to the electorate.

  Adam Rickitt

  Home, Thinking, Mps

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• Success in the long run has less to do with finding the best idea, organizational structure, or business model for an enterprise, than with discovering what matters to us as individuals.

  Jerry I. Porras

  Success, Running, Ideas

  "Success Built to Last: Creating A Life That Matters". Book by Jerry I. Porras, Stewart Emery and Mark Thompson, 2006.

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• We've got great flexibility and a certain discipline in terms of not doing some foolish thing just to be active - discipline in avoiding just doing any damn thing just because you can't stand inactivity.

  Charlie Munger

  Discipline, Foolish, Certain

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• There's no use running if you're on the wrong road.

  Warren Buffett

  Running, Use, Wrong Road

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• It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Greatness, Long

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• Architecture is my work, and Ive spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.

  Oscar Niemeyer

  Drawing, Important, Boards

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• I am a person who looks long-term, and I recognize the path we need to take. There will be moments when people are unhappy and disgruntled with some decision-making. Nonetheless, what matters most is to reach the destination. And my job as President is to see clearly where I want to go and be steadfast in my resolve to realize that vision

  George W. Bush

  Jobs, Long, People

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• I am fast and very powerful on the court, so this is what matters.

  Novak Djokovic

  Powerful, Court, Matter

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• People, even genetically damaged people, make choices. That’s what matters.’

  Veronica Roth

  People, Choices, Matter

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• What matters in Politics is what men actually do - sincerity is no excuse for acting unpolitically, and insincerity may be channelled by politics into good results.

  Bernard Crick

  Men, Acting, May

  Bernard Crick (2013). “In Defence of Politics”, p.129, A&C Black

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• I remember everyone telling me I had to think positive when I was writing my first book. If I believed I could do it, then I could! If I pictured myself published, then it was going to happen! Which sounded great, except...could I do it? If I didn't think I could, was I doomed to fail? What if I was almost totally sure I would fail? I am here to tell you-what matters is sticking with it.

  Holly Black

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• There's not much high and low culture any more: there's just mingling streams of art and what matters is whether it's good art or bad art.

  Neil Gaiman

  Art, Culture, Lows

  "Ask the Author Live: Dana Goodyear with Neil Gaiman". www.newyorker.com. January 15, 2010.

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• What matters is like, spreading love.

  Drew Chadwick

  Spreading Love, Matter

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• It is of no consequence to you what others think of you. What matters is what you think of them. That is how you live your life.

  Gore Vidal

  Thinking, Live Your Life, Think Of You

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• If I wrote at all, I must throw myself headlong into the great political maelstrom, and would of course be swallowed up like a fishing-boat in the great Norway horror which decorated our school geographies; for no woman had ever done such a thing, and I could never again hold up my head under the burden of shame and disgrace which would be heaped upon me. But what matter? I had no children to dishonor; all save one who had ever loved me were dead, and she no longer needed me, and if the Lord wanted some one to throw into that gulf, no one could be better spared than I.

  Jane Swisshelm

  Children, School, Fishing

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• What matter though the scorn of fools be given
  If the path follow'd lead us on to heaven!

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Heaven, Path, Fool

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• When things are taking their ordinary course, it is hard to remember what matters.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Ordinary, Remember, Courses

  Marilynne Robinson (2004). “Gilead: A Novel”, p.102, Macmillan

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• Frankly speaking, I hate comparisons. Two individuals are doing two different films, playing two different characters: how can you compare them? It is not fair to get into ratings. It really doesn't matter what I think about other actresses; what matters is what the directors think of them when they are casting them in a project, because I think it's the director who's behind a successful piece of cinema.

  Katrina Kaif

  Hate, Character, Successful

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