Matter Quotes - Page 19

• Whatever a guidebook says, wether or not you leave somewhere with a sense of the place is entirely a matter of smell and instinct.

  Frances Mayes

  Smell, Instinct

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• We have created a mindset in our society where everyone wants what they want when they want it. And if we don't get what we want when we want it, we feel ripped off. To make matters worse, we intensify our problems by continuously rehashing our woe-is-me story to the entire world. Whatever it is that has the potential to keep you from enjoying the day, understand that it's not the situation itself that is causing you to be unhappy. It's your thoughts and how you allow them to control you. It's what you choose to focus on that fuels your emotions and defines your reality.

  Steve Rizzo

  Reality, Woe Is Me, Focus

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• The idea isn't to find yourself another environment for tomorrow, but to be constantly creating the environment and community you want for yourself, no matter what may occur.

  Keith Ferrazzi

  Ideas, Creating, Community

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• People who think they know what they are talking about when they talk about baseball include the announcers and all of the sports press - no matter how much evidence you present them to the contrary they will continue to think that what they think is right.

  Michael Lewis

  Sports, Baseball, Thinking

  "Michael Lewis on Moneyball". Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. June 16, 2003.

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• Oak trees come out of acorns, no matter how unlikely that seems. An acorn is just a tree's way back into the ground. For another try. Another trip through. One life for another.

  Shirley Ann Grau

  Life, Tree, Trying

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• But it doesn't matter what you're doing, it matters how you're doing it.

  Dan Savage

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• If the Royal Variety Show was put in a matter transportation machine with the Royal Institution Christmas lectures, this is what you'd get.

  Robin Ince

  Machines, Royal, Lectures

  "O come all ye non-faithful, and rejoice in science" by Stephanie Merritt, www.theguardian.com. December 06, 2009.

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• No matter our talent, we all know in the midnight of our souls that 90 percent of what we do is less than our best.

  Robert McKee

  Soul, Midnight, Talent

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• I like to think of my work as creating a private conversation with each person, no matter how public each work is and no matter how many people are present

  Maya Lin

  Thinking, Creating, People

  Maya Lin (2016). “Boundaries”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• My elaboration of the story always conforms to the reality at its source. It is always close to the world, the life, the reality it describes. No matter where I go, I’m still holding up a mirror.

  Gustaw Herling-Grudzinski

  Reality, Mirrors, Stories

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• No matter where I go, I'm still holding up a mirror.

  Gustaw Herling-Grudzinski

  Mirrors, Stills

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• Animals are not resources or property with whom we can do what we please, their lives matter very much, and they should be firmly entrenched in our moral community. Accepting the notion of ‘animal guardian’ to replace ‘pet owner’ will go a long way towards making the lives of our companions much better and richer.

  Marc Bekoff

  Animal, Long, Community

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• The open side Defensive End has to be one of your best football players. Size does not matter as much. We want an athletic player who can move around.

  Pete Carroll

  Football, Moving, Player

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• It's about being the very best you can be. Nothing else matters as long as you're working and striving to be your best. Always compete. It's truly that simple. Find the way to do your best. Compete in everything you do.

  Pete Carroll

  Simple, Long, Way

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• Evolutionists ... have a prior commitment, a commitment to materialism. It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us to accept a material explanation of the phenomenal world, but, on the contrary, that we are forced by our a priori adherence to material causes to create an apparatus of investigation and a set of concepts that produce material explanations, no matter how counter-intuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated. Moreover, that materialism is absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door.

  Richard Lewontin

  Commitment, Acceptance, Science

  "Billions and Billions of Demons" by Richard Lewontin, www.nybooks.com. January 9, 1997.

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• Man is the result of a purposeless and materialistic process that did not have him in mind. He was not planned. He is a state of matter, a form of life, a sort of animal, and a species of the Order Primates, akin nearly or remotely to all of life and indeed to all that is material.

  George Gaylord Simpson

  Animal, Men, Order

  George Gaylord Simpson (1959). “The Meaning of Evolution”

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• Do not underestimate the power of an enemy, no matter how great or small, to rise against you another day.

  Attila the Hun

  Enemy, Another Day, Underestimate

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• The real movement of history, it turns out, is fueled not by matter but by spirit, by the will to freedom.

  Gertrude Himmelfarb

  Real, Movement, Spirit

  Gertrude Himmelfarb (1995). “On Looking Into the Abyss: Untimely Thoughts on Culture and Society”, Vintage

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• It’s time to write dangerous music. It’s time to take risks. It’s time to wear your heart on your sleeve, and sing about the things that actually matter to you. It’s time to bury the shackles of religious expectation and stop trying to put new clothes on the dead.

  John Mark McMillan

  Religious, Writing, Heart

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• I've heard it said that grace is God reaching God's hands into the world. And the Bible tells us that we are part of the body of Christ, that if we let the Spirit move through us, we can become the hands of Christ on earth. Hands that heal, bless, unite, and love. I'd like to think God's hands are a bit like Grace's man hands—gentle but big, busy, and tough. God's hands are those of a creator—an artist who molded and shaped the universe out of a void, who hewed matter from nothingness.

  Cathleen Falsani

  Moving, Men, Thinking

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• Relationships are the only thing that matter in business in life.

  Jerry Weintraub

  Things That Matter, Only Thing That Matters

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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, What Matters, Focus

  "House: Three Stories". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• Out of pure spite we pretty much always said the opposite of what the other said, no matter what they said, only to mark distance. That's how we ended up calling ourselves Satanists, despite the fact that we absolutely were not. There was not a single Satanist in the whole Black Metal scene in Norway in 1991-92.

  Varg Vikernes

  Distance, Opposites, Black

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• No matter what you do for a living all we have is music to get through certain situations.

  Deana Carter

  No Matter What, Certain, Situation

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• When we sin, Satan tells us we are lost. In contrast, our Redeemer offers redemption to all—no matter what we have done wrong—even to you and to me.

  C. Scott Grow

  Done, Redemption, Sin

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