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• The two things that matter the most to me: emotional resonance and rocket launchers. Party of Five, a brilliant show, and often made me cry uncontrollably, suffered ultimately from a lack of rocket launchers.

  Joss Whedon

  Party, Emotional, Two

  "50 Joss Whedon Quotes For His 50th Birthday" by Kevin P. Sullivan, www.mtv.com. June 23, 2014.

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• Spend time doing things that matter.

  Robin Sharma

  Matter, Spend Time, End Times

  Twitter post from Jan 26, 2017

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• The one thing that matters is the effort.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Life, Motivational, Best Effort

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• Change isn't optional, and creation isn't something that happened a long time ago and then ended. It's ongoing, and we are invited to be a part of it. The question for us is 'what will we create in this new day?' How will we make it count? How will we nourish the things that matter, and stand in the way of injustice in the small ways that add up to the arc of history? You are invited to participate in the creation of this day.

  David LaMotte

  Change, Creativity, New Day

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• Do not let yourself be bothered by the inconsequential. One has only so much time in this world, so devote it to the work and the people most important to you, to those you love and things that matter. One can waste half a lifetime with people one doesn't really like, or doing things when one would be better off somewhere else.

  Louis L'Amour

  Somewhere Else, People, Important

  Louis L'Amour (2014). “The Sacketts Volume One 5-Book Bundle: Sackett's Land, To the Far Blue Mountains, The Warrior's Path, Jubal Sackett, Ride the River”, p.862, Bantam

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• The activity at this very moment must be the only thing that matters, to which one is fully given. If one is concentrated, it matters little what one is doing. The important, as well as the unimportant things, assume a new dimension of reality, because they have one's full attention.

  Erich Fromm

  Reality, Unimportant Things, Littles

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.114, Open Road Media

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• It's as if scientists exert every effort of will they possess deliberately to find the least significant problems in the world and explain them. Art matters. Happiness matters. Love matters. Good matters. Evil matters. Slam the fridge door. They are the only things that matter and they are of course precisely the things that science goes out of its way to ignore.

  Stephen Fry

  Art, Doors, Evil

  Stephen Fry (2014). “Making History”, p.65, Soho Press

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

  Jerry Weintraub

  Matter, Only Thing That Matters

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• When you're in professional sports, winning is the only thing that matters.

  Leo Durocher

  Sports, Winning, Matter

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The things that matter most in life....Aren't things.

  Marie Avgeropoulos

  Matter

  Twitter post from Apr 24, 2013

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• As I see it, out of a hundred marriages ninety-nine marriages are just licensed prostitution. They are not marriages. A marriage is only a real marriage when it grows out of love. Legal, illegal, does not matter. The real thing that matters is love.

  Rajneesh

  Marriage, Real, Ninety Nine

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• Two weeks before his death, a friend asked him half jokingly if he had discovered any meaning in life. "Yes," he replied, "there is a meaning; at least, for me, there is one thing that matters - to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people."

  Cyril Connolly

  Two, People, Mind

  Cyril Connolly (1953). “Ideas and Places”, London, Weidenfeld

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• Live in the world without any idea of what is going to happen. Whether you are going to be a winner or a loser, it doesn't matter. Death takes everything away. Whether you lose or win is immaterial. The only thing that matters, and has always been, is how you played the game. Did you enjoy it? - the game itself - then each moment is of joy. You never sacrifice the moment for the future.

  Rajneesh

  Sacrifice, Winning, Games

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• The only thing that matters is here and the only thing that matters is now. And America's inability to delay gratification is because we do not have eternal thinking.

  Rick Warren

  Thinking, America, Inability

  "Rick Warren Clarifies Doctrine, Purpose Driven Life with John Piper". www.christianpost.com. May 28, 2011.

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• The issue isn't, Am I good enough? No. The issue is, Do I not have any other choice? Will and desire don't matter. Ability doesn't matter. Need is the only thing that matters.

  Dana Spiotta

  Inspirational, Issues, Choices

  Dana Spiotta (2012). “Stone Arabia”, p.10, Canongate Books

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• The only thing that matters is the choice you are making now--this very instant.

  Deepak Chopra

  Choices, Matter, Instant

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• The only thing that matters, at the end of a stay on earth, is how well did we love, what was the quality of our love?

  Richard Bach

  Quality, Earth, Our Love

  "The Bridge Across Forever". Book by Richard Bach, 1984.

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• Oscar Wilde quite rightly said, 'All art is useless'. And that may sound as if that means it's something not worth supporting. But if you actually think about it, the things that matter in life are useless. Love is useless. Wine is useless. Art is the love and wine of life. It is the extra, without which life is not worth living.

  Stephen Fry

  Art, Wine, Mean

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• As creators, our pursuit of perfection might be misguided, particularly if it comes at the expense of the things that matter.

  Seth Godin

  Perfection, Might, Matter

  "No one reads a comic strip because it's drawn well". sethgodin.typepad.com. December 27, 2013.

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• To stand together against homophobic, sexist, misogynistic, anti-Semitic and racist agendas. I’m an optimist and I can’t help but feel hopeful about the future of film - especially looking at all the beautiful people in this room. Martin Luther King Jr. said, ‘Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.’ I would like to encourage everyone in this room to please speak up.

  Jessica Chastain

  Beautiful, Kings, People

  "Watch Jessica Chastain’s Impassioned Speech For Diversity In Hollywood" by Christopher Rosen, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 26, 2015.

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• For Hamlet, greatness means willingness to fight for reasons as thin as an eggshell: anyone would fight for things that matter; true heroes take their personal honor so seriously they will fight for things that don’t matter.

  Peter Thiel

  Hero, Mean, Fighting

  Peter Thiel, Blake Masters (2014). “Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future”, p.36, Crown Business

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• The only thing that matters is when the team wins.

  Jorge Posada

  Team, Winning, Matter

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• The things that matter in this country have been reduced in choice, there are two political parties, there are a handful insurance companies, there are six or seven information centers.. but if you want a bagel there are 23 flavors. Because you have the illusion of choice!

  George Carlin

  Country, Philosophy, Party

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• Cause you mean the world to me, you are my everything; I swear the only thing that matters, matters to me.

  Toni Braxton

  Mean, Causes, World

  Song: You Mean The World To Me, Album: Toni Braxton, 1993

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• It’s important for you to spend your time photographing things that matter to you. You need to understand the things that have meaning to you, and not what others think is important for you.

  Steve McCurry

  Thinking, Important, Needs

  "Iconic Photographer Steve McCurry Talks Blogging and WordPress". Interview with Paul Gillin, www.socialmediatoday.com. December 8, 2012.

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