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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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• You don’t have to spend a jillion dollars on advertising to get your word out. What matters is that customers have a good experience with your product at every single point of contact.

  David Neeleman

  Dollars, Advertising, Contact

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• When I think of the value that i appreciate and the value that I create, what matters to me most is how much I love people, and how much the people that I love love me.

  Hank Green

  Thinking, People, Appreciate

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• What matter is the information, not what you think about it.

  Anna Politkovskaya

  Thinking, Information, Matter

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• What matters are not the truths other people tell us or the practices that we are able to mimic, but the spiritual discoveries we make through personal investigation.

  Adyashanti

  Spiritual, Discovery, Practice

  Adyashanti (2010). “True Meditation: Discover the Freedom of Pure Awareness”, p.2, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Where focus goes, energy flows. And if you don't take the time to focus on what matters, then you're living a life of someone else's design.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Focus, Design

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• I do not agree with a big way of doing things. What matters is the individual. If we wait till we get numbers, then we will be lost in the numbers and we will never be able to show that love and respect for the person.

  Mother Teresa

  Numbers, Waiting, World

  "Mother Teresa's Reaching Out in Love: Stories Told by Mother Teresa". Compiled and Edited by Edward Le Joly and Jaya Chaliha, Barnes & Noble, p. 122, 2002.

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• Being a healthy woman isn't about getting on a scale or measuring your waistline. We need to start focusing on what matters-on how we feel, and how we feel about ourselves.

  Michelle Obama

  Empowering, Healthy, Needs

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• Grief does not seem to me to be a choice. Whether or not you think grief has value, you will lose what matters to you. The world will break your heart. So I think we’d better look at what grief might offer us. It’s like what Rilke says about self-doubt: it is not going to go away, and therefore you need to think about how it might become your ally.

  Mark Doty

  Grief, Heart, Thinking

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• Objects are what matter. Only they carry the evidence that throughout the centuries something really happened among human beings.

  Claude Levi-Strauss

  Economy, Century, Collecting

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• What matters in modern music is not the part you can write down, the words and the tune, but the rest - the texture, the atmosphere, the references and associations.

  Brian Eno

  Writing, Atmosphere, Tunes

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• We are each given different gifts and talents by our Master. The thing that matters most is how we use what we have been given, not how much we make or do compared to someone else. What matters is that we spend ourselves.

  Francis Chan

  Different, Gifts And Talents, Use

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.90, David C Cook

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• The God who created, names, and numbers the stars in the heavens also numbers the hairs of my head..He pays attention to very big things and to very small ones. What matters to me matters to Him, and that changes my life.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Stars, Names, Numbers

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• What matters is that you never stop trying.

  Marc Parent

  Trying, Matter, Stop Trying

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• We're all trying to get to the same island — whether you swim, fly, surf, or skydive, it doesn't matter. What matters is when the red light goes on.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Islands, Light, Swim

  "How To Get Fired From Your Own Movie And Survive" by E.A. Hanks, www.buzzfeed.com. May 2, 2013.

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• Being one step ahead of a fashion trend is not so important to me. What matters is to always forge ahead.

  Sonia Rykiel

  Fashion, Important, Trends

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• We all go through rough times. We have those obstacles that seem too large to overcome or that current that you never seem to swim out of. We have to decide what matters most to us - our passions.

  Bethany Hamilton

  Passion, Swim, Overcoming

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• It doesn't really matter what a person decides to do, or how radically a person plays with gender. What matters, I think, is how aware a person is of the options. How sad for a person to be missing out on some expression of identity, just for not knowing there are options

  Kate Bornstein

  Thinking, Expression, Play

  Kate Bornstein (2013). “Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us”, p.61, Routledge

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• It does not matter what has been made of us; what matters is what we ourselves make of what has been made of us.

  Jan Kott

  Doe, Made, Has Beens

  Jan Kott (2015). “Shakespeare, Our Contemporary”, p.90, Doubleday

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• As long as we wish for safety, we will have difficulty pursuing what matters.

  Peter Block

  Long, Safety, Wish

  Peter Block (2003). “The Answer to How Is Yes: Acting on What Matters”, p.57, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• The true secret to seeking the unknown is in the looking, not the finding. The journey is what matters.

  Josh Gates

  Journey, Secret, Findings

  Josh Gates (2011). “Destination Truth: Memoirs of a Monster Hunter”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• What does it matter how cultivated and up-to-date we are, or how many thousands of books we’ve read? What matters is how we feel, how we see, what we do after reading; whether the street and the clouds and the existence of others mean anything to us; whether reading makes us, physically, more alive.

  Gabriel Zaid

  Reading, Book, Mean

  Gabriel Zaid, Natasha Wimmer (2003). “So Many Books: Reading and Publishing in an Age of Abundance”, Paul Dry Books Incorporated

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• Go all the way with it. Do not back off. For once, go all the goddamn way with what matters.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Matter, Way

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• The world doesn’t fully make sense until the writer has secured his version of it on the page. And the act of writing is strangely more lifelike than life….every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understood…. Your job is to marshal the talent you do have and find people who believe in your work. What’s important, finally, is that you create, and that those creations define for you what matters most, that which cannot be extinguished even in the face of silence, solitude, and rejection.

  Betsy Lerner

  Jobs, Believe, Writing

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