Matter Quotes - Page 40

• I have this theory that the more important and intimate the emotion, the fewer words are required to express it. For instance in dating: 'Will you go out with me?' Six words. 'I really care for you.' Five words. 'You matter to me' Four words. 'I love you.' Three words. 'Marry me.' Two words. Well, what's left? What's the one most important and intimate word you can ever say to somebody?
  
  'Goodbye...'

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Life, Goodbye, Love You

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• When kids grow up wanting to be you, you matter.

  Seth Godin

  Growing Up, Kids, Greatness

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• When the legacy you leave behind lasts for hours, days or a lifetime, you matter.

  Seth Godin

  Greatness, Legacy, Lasts

  Seth Godin (2012). “Whatcha Gonna Do with That Duck?: And Other Provocations, 2006-2012”, p.79, Penguin

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• When the room brightens when you walk in, you matter.

  Seth Godin

  Greatness, Rooms, Walks

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• Honesty is largely a matter of information, of knowing that dishonesty is a mistake. Principle is not as powerful in keeping people straight as a policeman.

  E. W. Howe

  Honesty, Powerful, Mistake

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• The main American naval forces were shifted to the Pacific region and an American admiral made a strong declaration to the effect that if war were to break out between Japan and the United States, the Japanese navy could be sunk in a matter of weeks.

  Hideki Tojo

  Strong, War, Japan

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• I've been trying to get down to the heart of the matter
  but my will gets weak
  and my thoughts seem to scatter
  but I think it's about forgiveness...
  forgiveness,
  even if you don't love me anymore.

  Don Henley

  Song, Heart, Thinking

  Song: The Heart of the Matter, Album: The End of the Innocence

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• Is this the real life?
  Is this just fantasy?
  Caught in a landslide,
  No escape from reality.
  
  Open your eyes,
  Look up to the skies and see,
  I'm just a poor boy, I need no sympathy,
  Because I'm easy come, easy go,
  Little high, little low,
  Any way the wind blows doesn't really matter to me, to me.

  Freddie Mercury

  Song, Real, Eye

  Song: Bohemian Rhapsody

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• What really matters is not just our own winning but helping other people to win, too.

  Fred Rogers

  Helping Others, Winning, People

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• Rather than concede to the state of Missouri for one single instant the right to dictate to my government in any matter however unimportant, I would see you, and you, and you, and you, and every man, woman and child in the state, dead and buried. This means war.

  Nathaniel Lyon

  Children, War, Mean

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• Though I would have liked my chances in a rematch in 1998 if I were better prepared, it was clear then that computer superiority over humans in chess had always been just a matter of time.

  Garry Kasparov

  Chess, Chance, Computer

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• Action is stronger than subjectivity. No matter what you feel or think, you can still act.

  Dan Millman

  Thinking, Stronger, Subjectivity

  Dan Millman (1993). “The Life You Were Born to Live: A Guide to Finding Your Life Purpose”, H J Kramer

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• No matter what we feel or know, no matter what our potential gifts or talents, only action brings them to life. Those of us who only think we understand concepts such as commitment, courage, and love, one day discover that we only know when we act; doing becomes understanding.

  Dan Millman

  Commitment, Thinking, Understanding

  Dan Millman (1995). “The Life You Were Born to Live: A Guide to Finding Your Life Purpose”, p.390, H J Kramer

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• Those who actually hate animals to the point of being cruel to them are outcasts to the rest of us, no matter where in the world they live.

  Nick Clooney

  Hate, Animal, World

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• Besides reasoning about matters of fact, men also make moral judgements.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Miracle, Facts

  C. S. Lewis (1996). “Miracles: A Preliminary Study”, Touchstone Books

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• Mon cher ami, let's not give them any pretext, no matter how small, for judging us!!! Otherwise, we'll be left in shreds. We are forced to take the same precautions as the animal trainer. If, before going into the cage, he has the misfortune to cut himself while shaving, what a feast for the wild animals!!

  Albert Camus

  Cutting, Animal, Giving

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• I'm very good at integral and differential calculus, I know the scientific names of beings animalculous; In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral, I am the very model of a modern Major-General.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Math, Animal, Vegetables

  'The Pirates of Penzance' (1879) act 1

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• The more equally attractive two alternatives seem, the harder it can be to choose between them - no matter that, to the same degree, the choice can only matter less.

  Edward Fredkin

  Two, Choices, Degrees

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• Golf is played between the ears and if you are not 100 percent focused on what you are trying to do, then people will go past you no matter who you are.

  Lee Westwood

  Golf, Past, People

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• One thing we did well the whole tournament was keep fighting. And no matter what happened the point before, missed opportunity, missed easy shot, we just played the next point and blocked it out of our mind. That's why we're the champs.

  Daniel Nestor

  Fighting, Opportunity, Focus

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• Throughout my career, my mind rarely wandered, and I was never sidetracked by distractions, no matter what I was going through off the court.

  Pete Sampras

  Careers, Focus, Tennis

  Pete Sampras, Peter Bodo (2008). “A Champion's Mind: Lessons from a Life in Tennis”, p.10, Crown Archetype

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• We have to recognize that however smart we are, we're not smarter than everyone else combined. . . . We can't lose sight of the fact that no matter how important our own contributions are, we couldn't have gotten anywhere without the help and hard work of lots of other people.

  James M. Kouzes

  Leadership, Smart, Hard Work

  James M. Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner (2008). “A Leader's Legacy”, p.159, John Wiley & Sons

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• Now there she goes again, the dopest Ethiopian,
  And now the world around me be gets movin in slow motion
  Whenever she happens to walk by, why does the apple of my eye
  Overlook and disregard my feelings no matter how much I try?

  Fatlip

  Rap, Eye, Apples

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• Rapport is the ultimate tool for producing results with other people. No matter what you want in your life, if you can develop rapport with the right people, you'll be able to fill their needs, and they will be able to fill yours.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, People, Needs

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Unlimited Power: The New Science of Personal Achievement”, p.268, Simon and Schuster

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• I am opposed to looking upon logic as a kind of game. ... One might think that it is a matter of choice or convention which logic one adopts. I disagree with this view.

  Karl Popper

  Science, Thinking, Views

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