Matter Quotes - Page 28

• You know, comments about style always seem strange to me - 'why do you work in this style, or in that style' - as if you had a choice in the matter... What you're doing is trying to stay alive and continue and not die.

  Philip Guston

  Choices, Style, Trying

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• This is the doctrine of Christian Science: that divine Love cannot be deprived of its manifestation, or object; that joy cannot be turned into sorrow, for sorrow is not the master of joy; that good can never produce evil; that matter can never produce mind nor life result in death.  The perfect man - governed by God, his perfect Principle - is sinless and eternal.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Christian, Men, Evil

  Mary Baker Eddy (2014). “Science And Health”, p.367, Jazzybee Verlag

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• In the long run, no matter how good or successful you are or how clever or crafty, your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.

  Akio Morita

  Running, Clever, Successful

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• In a creative journey, it is essential, no matter how far one runs, to examine that which is closest to home.

  Dani Shapiro

  Running, Home, Journey

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• Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells better.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Hard Work, Appreciate, Simplicity

  "On the nature of Computing Science" by Edsger Dijkstra, www.cs.utexas.edu. August 10, 1984.

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• You know you've completely descended into madness when the matter of shampoo has ascended to philosophical heights.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Philosophical, Height, Madness

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.267, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Facts, according to my ideas, are merely the elements of truths, and not the truths themselves; of all matters there are none so utterly useless by themselves as your mere matters of fact

  Henry Mayhew

  Ideas, Elements, Useless

  Henry Mayhew (1851). “London Labour and the London Poor: A Cyclopaedia of the Condition and Earnings of Those that Will Work, Those that Cannot Work, and Those that Will Not Work”, p.157

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• I do not want to frighten you by telling you about the temptations life will bring. Anyone who is healthy in spirit will overcome them. But there is something I want you to realize. It does not matter so much what you do. What matters is whether your soul is harmed by what you do. If your soul is harmed, something irreparable happens, the extent of which you won't realize until it will be too late.

  Albert Schweitzer

  What Matters, Temptation, Healthy

  "Reverence for Life". Book by Albert Schweitzer, 1969.

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• Do not be angry with people who are weak. That is the mark of a coward. There are plenty of things to be angry about in the world--people wielding political or religious authority who have been blinded by money, for example! That is the kind of evil young people should direct their rage at. Be angry about that, and you'll never lose your temper about trifling matters.

  Josei Toda

  Religious, People, Evil

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• No matter how difficult your situation may be you have to follow the Lord of the Second Advent completely.

  Sun Myung Moon

  May, Advent, Lord

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• Am I a pessimist? Not at all. I am convinced that the history of the human race, no matter how tragic, will ultimately lead to the Kingdom of God. I am convinced that all the works of humankind will be reintegrated in the work of God, and that each of us, no matter how sinful, will ultimately be saved.

  Jacques Ellul

  Race, Kingdoms, Pessimist

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• If by losing the spirit of prayer, you mean losing the heavenly sensations of deep devotion, I am afraid that does not matter a scrap.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Prayer, Mean, Doe

  Evelyn Underhill, Carol Poston (2010). “The Making of a Mystic: New and Selected Letters of Evelyn Underhill”, p.159, University of Illinois Press

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• The will is what matters---as long as you have that, you are safe.

  Evelyn Underhill

  What Matters, Long, Safety

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• So many things that seemed crucial and excruciatingly hard ended and then didn't matter anymore, forever after

  Mona Simpson

  Forever, Ever After, Crucial

  Mona Simpson (2010). “My Hollywood”, p.238, Vintage

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• One of the basics of a good system of innovation is diversity. In some ways, the stronger the culture (national, institutional, generational, or other), the less likely it is to harbor innovative thinking. Common and deep-seated beliefs, widespread norms, and behavior and performance standards are enemies of new ideas. Any society that prides itself on being harmonious and homogeneous is very unlikely to catalyze idiosyncratic thinking. Suppression of innovation need not be overt. It can be simply a matter of peoples walking around in tacit agreement and full comfort with the status quo.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Pride, Thinking, Agreement

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• Discovery is exciting, no matter how big or small or close or distant.

  Mike Brown

  Discovery, Bigs, Exciting

  Mike Brown (2010). “How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming”, p.102, Spiegel & Grau

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• I would walk down the hall with my guitar and play for anyone that would listen. As a young kid I was really driven and I was going to make it happen no matter what.

  Teena Marie

  Kids, Guitar, Play

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• Several elements of the ADD mind favor creativity....As mentioned earlier, the term 'attention deficit' is a misnomer. It is a matter of attention inconsistency. While it is true that the ADD mind wanders when not engaged, it is also the case that the ADD mind fastens on to its subject fiercely when it is engaged. A child with ADD may sit for hours meticulously putting together a model airplane.

  Edward Hallowell

  Children, Airplane, Creativity

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• Be persistent and just keep going to open mics no matter what, even if just to watch and not perform. You'll find that even at your worst keep your head up because you'll still be better than other people's best.

  Pete Holmes

  People, Watches, Mics

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• I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view. It's informed by our own understanding of spirituality; things that matter, things that are important to us. I write about things that matter for me.

  Ted Dekker

  Writing, Thinking, Views

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• My theory is that in the age of the internet, it's what you write, not where you write it, that matters.

  Daniel Lyons

  Writing, Marketing, Age

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• Behind the footlights there is always the applause, which stimulates the actors. On the screen it is a different matter.

  Ivor Novello

  Different, Actors, Applause

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• If a person goes to his job with a firm determination to give of himself the best of which he is capable, that job no matter what it is takes on dignity and importance.

  Hortense Odlum

  Determination, Jobs, Giving

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• There were theoretical elements in the subjection of women and it is not possible to avoid the conclusion that a large contribution was made to them by the Church. In part this was a matter of its hostile stance towards sexuality.

  John Roberts

  Church, Elements, Sexuality

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• The fact of the matter is, this is a very dynamic economy we have, and in this dynamic economy, you have a lot of job gains, but you also have job loss.

  Alexis Herman

  Jobs, Loss, Gains

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