Matter Quotes - Page 14

• Everybody has a product to sell—no matter whether you’re an employee, a founder, or an investor. It’s true even if your company consists of just you and your computer. Look around. If you don’t see any salespeople, you’re the salesperson.

  Peter Thiel

  Looks, Computer, Salespeople

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• No civilization, no matter how mighty it may appear to itself, is indestructible.

  Niall Ferguson

  Civilization, May, Indestructible

  Niall Ferguson (2011). “Civilization: The West and the Rest”, p.107, Penguin

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• The truth of the matter was stories was everything and everything was stories. Everybody told stories. It was a way of saying who they were in the world. It was their understanding of themselves. It was letting themselves know how they believed the world worked, the right way and the way that was not so right.

  Harry Crews

  Understanding, Stories, World

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• Sometimes it’s more a matter of collaboration which matters in a collection.

  Raf Simons

  Collaboration, Sometimes, Collections

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• I get up at 4:30 in the morning, seven days a week, no matter where I am in the world.

  Bob Iger

  Morning, World, Seven Days

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• Your performance gets you promoted. It doesn't matter if you're brown, back or white.

  Geraldo Rivera

  White, Brown, Performances

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• It is the Law that any difficulties that can come to you at any time, no matter what they are, must be exactly what you need most at the moment, to enable you to take the next step forward by overcoming them. The only real misfortune, the only real tragedy, comes when we suffer without learning the lesson.

  Emmet Fox

  Real, Law, Suffering

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• When your thinking is brilliant, you will be brilliant, but if your thinking is not brilliant you will not be brilliant, no matter how brilliant you may think you are.

  Christian D. Larson

  Thinking, May, Brilliant

  Christian D. Larson (2012). “The Optimist Creed”, p.295, Penguin

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• Animals keep you company when you're really lonely. It helps because when you have a friend around who always likes you no matter what - it's harder to feel bad or down.

  Aaron Carter

  Lonely, Animal, Likes

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• My point is, however, that churches do promote beliefs that would more appropriately find a place in a context of intellectual debate. They wind up cheerleading for highly dubious opinions on historical, scientific, and metaphysical matters, simply on the bases of emotional preference and the inertia of tradition. They demand conformity to these beliefs, and if you cannot swim with the current, then, well partner, maybe you'd be happier in another pool, another lake in fact, the one ablaze with burning sulfur.

  Robert M. Price

  Cheerleading, Emotional, Wind

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• This is the greatest thing about sports - you play to win the game. Hello? You don't play to just play it. When you start telling me it doesn't matter, then retire, get out, because it matters.

  Herman Edwards

  Sports, Winning, Play

  "PRO FOOTBALL; Edwards's Take on Jets: Quitting Is Never an Option". Interview with Judy Battista, www.nytimes.com. October 31, 2012.

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• I'm not a panic guy. I don't do that. Can't. When you're a leader, you can never panic, no matter what's happening. The building could be falling down. Fire could be going all places. Somebody has to make a decision on how to get out.

  Herman Edwards

  Fall, Fire, Leader

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• It's all about self-expression; you know, if you feel like a troll then you should look like a troll. It doesn't matter what you look like. I mean, if you have a hunchback just throw a little glitter on it, honey, and go dancing!

  James St. James

  Mean, Self, Expression

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• Fifteen-year-old girls produce children with sixteen-year-old boys in the backseat of cars and in the stairwells of apartment buildings. Why can't two loving adults who have contemplated parenthood and are prepared to offer love, patience, and devotion come up with enough chromosomal matter to stick together and create a child?

  Scott Simon

  Girl, Children, Boys

  "Baby, We Were Meant for Each Other: In Praise of Adoption". Book by Scott Simon, 2010.

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• Whenever you have a tight situation and there's a close pitch, the umpire gets a squawk no matter how he calls it.

  Red Barber

  Umpires, Dull Minds, Situation

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• What matters most is how you live your life, not what you have to show for it.

  Jenny Sanford

  What Matters, Live Your Life, Shows

  Jenny Sanford (2010). “Staying True”, p.117, Ballantine Books

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• Fail, it's not in my dictionary. I've got a good dictionary up there and the words 'fail' and 'failure' have been ruled out for years. I don't know what people are talking about who use that word. All I do know is temporary non-success, even if I've got to wait another 20 years for what I'm after, and I try to put that into people, no matter what their object in life.

  Percy Cerutty

  Talking, Years, People

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• The ultimate [act] that would be the taboo, to show how bad some villain is, was to have somebody being raped, you know? I don't really think it matters. It's the same as, like, a decapitation. It's just a horrible act to show that somebody's a bad guy.

  Mark Millar

  Thinking, Guy, Would Be

  "Kick-Ass 2 Doubles Down on Self-Indulgent Violence. At Least There’s Hit-Girl" by Angela Watercutter, www.wired.com. August 15, 2013.

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• It doesn't matter how many people you offend, as long as you're getting your message to your consumers. I say to those people who do not want to offend anybody: You are going to have a very, very difficult time having meaningful advertising.

  Phil Knight

  Meaningful, Knights, Long

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• Even when change is elective, it will disorient you. You may go through anxiety. You will miss aspects of your former life. It doesn't matter. The trick is to know in advance of making any big change that you're going to be thrown off your feet by it. So you prepare for this inevitable disorientation and steady yourself to get through it. Then you take the challenge, make the change, and achieve your dream.

  Harvey Mackay

  Change, Dream, Feet

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• And as I looked at the star, I realised what millions of other people have realised when looking at stars. We're tiny. We don't matter. We're here for a second and then gone the next. We're a sneeze in the life of the universe.

  Danny Wallace

  Stars, People, Gone

  Danny Wallace (2010). “Danny Wallace and the Centre of the Universe”, p.6, Random House

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• I never even thought about whether or not they understand what I'm doing . . . the emotional reaction is all that matters as long as there's some feeling of communication, it isn't necessary that it be understood.

  John Coltrane

  Music, Communication, Emotional

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• Work is pushing matter around. Politics is pushing people around.

  Thomas Szasz

  People, Political, Politics

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (1976). “Heresies”, Anchor Books

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• The law has been perverted, and the powers of the state have become perverted along with it. The law has not only been turned from its proper function, but made to follow an entirely contrary purpose. The law has become a tool for every kind of greed. Instead of preventing crime, the law itself is guilty of the abuses it is supposed to punish. If this is true, it is a serious matter, and moral duty requires me to call the attention of my fellow-citizens to it.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Law, Greed, Political

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• How vast those Orbs must be, and how inconsiderable this Earth, the Theatre upon which all our mighty Designs, all our Navigations, and all our Wars are transacted, is when compared to them. A very fit consideration, and matter of Reflection, for those Kings and Princes who sacrifice the Lives of so many People, only to flatter their Ambition in being Masters of some pitiful corner of this small Spot.

  Christiaan Huygens

  Kings, War, Ambition

  Christiaan Huygens (1722). “The Celestial Worlds Discover'd, Or, Conjectures Concerning the Inhabitants, Plants and Productions of the Worlds in the Planets”, p.142

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