What Matters Quotes - Page 9

• If life and its rushed pace and many stresses have made it difficult for you to feel like rejoicing, then perhaps now is a good time to refocus on what matters most.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Stress, Pace, Good Times

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• Together we can change our culture for the better by ending violence against women and girls, artists have a unique power to change minds and attitudes and get us thinking and talking about what matters, and all of us, in our lives, have the power to set an example. Join our campaign to stop this violence.

  Barack Obama

  Change, Girl, Attitude

  "Sam Smith Wins 4 Grammy Awards, Including Song Of The Year". wwno.org. February 9, 2015.

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• Sound opinions are valueless. What matters is who holds them.

  Karl Kraus

  Sound, Opinion, Valueless

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• Your work life is divided into two distinct areas - what matters most and everything else. You will have to take what matters to the extremes and be okay with what happens to the rest. Professional success requires it.

  Gary W. Keller

  Motivation, Two, Life Is

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• The drawing and the crafting of the story are fun, but it's the overall meaning that matters to me. It might escape some people who just want to read a comic, and that's fine. The overall meaning is what matters.

  Brian Michael Bendis

  Fun, Drawing, People

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• It's crazy to say that after three games [without a goal] I was in crisis. I do not care whether I score or not, what matters is that the team win and continue to do so.

  Lionel Messi

  Soccer, Team, Crazy

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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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• ... What matter, so there is but fire
  In you, in me?

  William Butler Yeats

  Passion, Fire, Emeralds

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.77, Wordsworth Editions

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• I broke my heart in two
  So hard I struck.
  What matter? for I know
  That out of rock,
  Out of a desolate source,
  Love leaps upon its course.

  William Butler Yeats

  Heart, Two, Rocks

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.267, Simon and Schuster

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• What matters it that man should have a little more knowledge of the universe? If he has it, he gets little higher. Is he not always infinitely removed from the end, and is not the duration of our life equally removed from eternity, even if it lasts ten years longer?

  Blaise Pascal

  Knowledge, Men, Should Have

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works”, p.30, Cosimo, Inc.

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• There’s only one thing we can be sure of, and that is the love that we have -- for our children, for our families, for each other. The warmth of a small child’s embrace -- that is true. The memories we have of them, the joy that they bring, the wonder we see through their eyes, that fierce and boundless love we feel for them, a love that takes us out of ourselves, and binds us to something larger -- we know that’s what matters. We know we’re always doing right when we’re taking care of them, when we’re teaching them well, when we’re showing acts of kindness. We don’t go wrong when we do that.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Memories, Kindness

  Remarks by the President at Sandy Hook Interfaith Prayer Vigil, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. December 16, 2012.

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• What, then, is the basic difference between today's computer and an intelligent being? It is that the computer can be made to seebut not to perceive. What matters here is not that the computer is without consciousness but that thus far it is incapable of the spontaneous grasp of pattern--a capacity essential to perception and intelligence.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Intelligent, Differences, Perception

  Rudolf Arnheim (2004). “Visual Thinking”, p.73, Univ of California Press

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• Just because somebody drops in on you from another dimension, don't assume they're wiser than you about anything at all, or that they can do anything better than you can do yourself. Discarnate or mortal, what matters about people is what they know.

  Richard Bach

  Education, People, Dimensions

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• What matters is how you feel inside, because feeling beautiful on the inside is key to looking good.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Beautiful, Keys, Feelings

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The most important thing in life is style. That is, the style of ones existence-the characteristic mode of ones actions-is basically, ultimately what matters. For if man defines himself by doing, then style is doubly definitive, because style describes the doing.

  Tom Robbins

  Men, Things In Life, Style

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Another Roadside Attraction”, p.13, Bantam

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• In the great scheme of things, what matters is not how long you live but why you live, what you stand for and what you are willing to die for.

  Paul Watson

  Long, Schemes, Willing

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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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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