Matter Quotes - Page 15

• 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, What Matters, Play

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• Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.

  Irving Babbitt

  Men, Desire, Term

  Irving Babbitt (2005). “On Literature, Cultures, and Religion”, p.137, Transaction Publishers

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• It does not matter the circumstances, trials, or challenges that might surround us; an understanding of the doctrine of Christ and His Atonement will be the source of our strength and peace-yes, brothers and sisters, that internal tranquility that is born of the Spirit and which the Lord gives to His faithful Saints.

  Benjamin De Hoyos

  Brother, Giving, Challenges

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• And finally, no matter how good the science gets, there are problems that inevitably depend on judgment, on art, on a feel for financial markets.

  Martin Feldstein

  Art, Investing, Financial

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• It is my contention that an agent ideal to the use of the scientific militarist, for both the air raid and the long distance bombardment is now in the process of development; that its eventual perfection is but a matter of time; and its use in warfare is certain to occur. I refer to the rocket. The perfection of the rocket in my opinion will give to future warfare the horror unknown in previous conflicts and will make possible destruction of nations, in a cool, passionless and scientific fashion.

  David Lasser

  Fashion, Distance, Future

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• Alchemy is really the secret tradition of the redemption of spirit from matter.

  Terence McKenna

  Inspirational, Life, Secret

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• You're going to feel good. But no matter how much you rehab you do, you can't speed up the healing process. I would rather see a guy come back in 14 months and pitch seven, eight or nine more years then come back in 10 months and get hurt again. You cannot mess with mother nature and father time. Nature will heal it if you give it time.

  Tommy John

  Motivational, Sports, Mother

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• The Singularity denotes an event that will take place in the material world, the inevitable next step in the evolutionary process that started with biological evolution and has extended through human-directed technological evolution. however, it is precisely in the world of matter and energy that we encounter transcendence, a principal connotation of what people refer to as spirituality.

  Ray Kurzweil

  People, Energy, Next Steps

  Ray Kurzweil (2005). “The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology”, p.498, Penguin

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• We cannot fulfill our engagements with the Almighty without we have that Spirit with us. We should so live as to acknowledge the Good Spirit continually. We cannot do this unless we let the Spirit of God rule in temporalities as well as in spiritual matter.

  Daniel H. Wells

  Spiritual, Engagement, Almighty

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• If something is going on, I hear about it. I like to talk to people, I socialise. Television is a waste of time. Human contact is what matters.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  What Matters, People, Serendipity

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• It doesn't matter who you vote for. It's still the same billionaires that run the world.

  Geezer Butler

  Running, World, Vote

  "It's Just Honest Music". Interview with David Marchese, www.popmatters.com. July 13, 2005.

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• I can trust in my parents' love. And it strikes me that is a big thing to trust, a big thing to have had, no matter what else happens.

  Ally Condie

  Parent, Bigs, Strikes

  Ally Condie (2011). “Matched”, p.216, Penguin

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• I came in the league as not a shooter, not a scorer. My game was to play defense and make my teammates better. The most important stat to me was that left column - winning. Nothing else matters.

  Jason Kidd

  Winning, Games, Play

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• A head start is rarely large enough to matter, and time spent in stealth mode-away from customers-is unlikely to provide a head start. The only way to win is to learn faster than anyone else.

  Eric Ries

  Winning, Way, Enough

  Eric Ries (2011). “The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses”, p.111, Crown Business

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• Because startups often accidentally build something nobody wants, it doesn’t matter much if they do it on time and on budget. The goal of a startup is to figure out the right thing to build - the thing customers want and will pay for - as quickly as possible.

  Eric Ries

  Goal, Want, Pay

  Eric Ries (2011). “The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses”, p.20, Crown Business

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• Here is one optimists reason for believing unity will prevail ... within the next hundred years ... nationhood as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority. A phrase briefly fashionable in the mid-20th century -- citizen of the world -- will have assumed real meaning by the end of the 21st. All countries are basically social arrangements, accommodations to changing circumstances. No matter how permanent and even sacred they may seem at any one time, in fact they are all artificial and temporary.

  Strobe Talbott

  Country, Real, Believe

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• You're here so you're a Scientologist. Now we're going to make you into an expert auditor no matter what happens. We'd rather have you dead than incapable.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Experts, Auditors, Incapable

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• Scientology 1970 is being planned on a religious organization basis throughout the world. This will not upset in any way the usual activities of any organization. It is entirely a matter for accountants and solicitors.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Religious, Organization, Upset

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• No matter what system the magician chooses, in order to make it work most effectively he or she must first become attuned to that system's particular way of viewing of the universe.

  Lon Milo DuQuette

  Order, Way, Firsts

  Lon Milo DuQuette (2008). “Enochian Vision Magick: An Introduction and Practical Guide to the Magick of Mr. John Dee and Edward Kelley”, p.18, Weiser Books

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• And as a matter of fact, governments don't act, governments only react. The bankers make the decisions, and then governments decide how are we going to adjust to this. Government can't do anything unless the bank gives them the money to do it.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Government, Giving, Decision

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• The descent into matter must be complete before the ascent to spirit can commence.

  Dion Fortune

  Ascent, Spirit, Descent

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• No wizard has ever made himself useful by magic, or, if they've tried, they've only made matters worse. No wizard ever stopped a war or mended a fence. It's better that they stay in their marshes, out of the way of worldly folk like farmers and soldiers and merchants and kings.

  Kelly Link

  Kings, War, Soldier

  Kelly Link (2009). “Pretty Monsters”, p.34, Canongate Books

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• Beauty is vanishing from our world because we live as though it does not matter.

  Roger Scruton

  Our World, Doe, Vanishing

  Roger Scruton (2011). “Beauty: A Very Short Introduction”, p.161, Oxford University Press

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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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• Stories are there to be told, and each story changes with the telling. Time changes them. Logic changes them. Grammar changes them. History changes them. Each story is shifted side-ways by each day that unfolds. Nothing ends. The only thing that matters, as Faulkner once put it, is the human heart in conflict with itself. At the heart of all this is the possibility, or desire, to create a piece of art that talks to the human instinct for recovery and joy.

  Colum McCann

  Art, Recovery, Joy

  "Author, author: Stories are there to be told" by Colum McCann, www.theguardian.com. September 4, 2009.

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