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• - This isn't an interrogation or a trail. Your version of the truth is the only thing that matters. -Truth is singular. It's 'versions' are mistruths.

  David Mitchell

  Matter, Truth Is, Trails

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• The things that matter don't necessarily make sense.

  Russell Hoban

  Matter, Make Sense

  Russell Hoban (2012). “The Turtle Diary”, p.148, A&C Black

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• I feel like, like, how you matter is defined by the things that matter to you. You matter as much as the things that matter to you.

  John Green

  Matter, Feels, Defined

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.186, Penguin

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• That's the only thing that matters, honey, for someone to see more in you than you thought there was to see.

  Arthur Japin

  Honey, Matter, Only Thing That Matters

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• There's never an easy route to the things that matter.

  Charles de Lint

  Matter, Easy Route, Routes

  Charles de Lint (2002). “The Onion Girl”, p.177, Macmillan

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• You don’t have to know a lot of things for your life to make a lasting difference in the world. But you do have to know the few great things that matter, perhaps just one, and then be willing to live for them and die for them. The people that make a durable difference in the world are not the people who have mastered many things, but who have been mastered by one great thing.

  John Piper

  Differences, People, World

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• The only thing that matters my goal my reward my beginning my end is the work itself. My work done my way. A private personal selfish egotistical motivation. That’s the only way I function. That’s all I am.

  Ayn Rand

  Motivation, Selfish, Goal

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• Time is an absurdity. An abstraction. The only thing that matters is this moment. This moment a million times over. You have to trust me. If this moment is repeated enough, if you keep trying — and you have to keep trying — eventually you will come across the next item on your list.

  Jonathan Nolan

  Over You, Trying, Matter

  "Memento Mori". Short story by Jonathan Nolan, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• I like to receive money for my work. But I can pass that up this time. I like to have people know my work is done by me. But I can pass that up. I like to have tenants made happy by my work. But that doesn't matter too much. The only thing that matters, my goal, my reward, my beginning, my end is the work itself. My work done my way. Peter, there's nothing in the world that you can offer me, except this. Offer me this and you can have anything I've got to give. My work done my way. A private, personal, selfish, egotistical motivation. That's the only way I function. That's all I am.

  Ayn Rand

  Motivation, Selfish, People

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.553, Penguin

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• I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life- changing difference

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Inspirational, Motivational, Life Changing

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• Family is the theatre of the spiritual drama, the place where things happen, especially the things that matter.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Spiritual, Drama, Theatre

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• Being decent is the only thing that matters in a terrible world like this.

  Joe Meno

  World, Matter, Terrible

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• Who can say I have a bad swing? The only thing that matters in golf is the score you put on the board. You don't have to look pretty out there, you have to win. Look at my record and tell me who has a better swing than mine.

  Lee Trevino

  Golf, Winning, Swings

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• I guess this is what marriage is, or was, or could be. You drop the mask. You allow the fatigue in. You lean across and kiss the years because they're the things that matter.

  Colum McCann

  Kissing, Years, Matter

  Colum McCann (2009). “Let the Great World Spin: A Novel”, p.319, Random House

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• For strictly scientific or technological purposes all this is irrelevant. On a pragmatic view, as on a religious view, theory and concepts are held in faith. On the pragmatic view the only thing that matters is that the theory is efficacious, that it 'works' and that the necessary preliminaries and side issues do not cost too much in time and effort. Beyond that, theory and concepts go to constitute a language in which the scientistic matters at issue can be formulated and discussed.

  Bertram Brockhouse

  Religious, Science, Views

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• Would do well to slow down a little... focus on the significant... and truly see the things that matter most.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Hate, Focus, Littles

  "Of Things That Matter Most". Dieter F. Uchtdorf’s address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. October 2010.

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• The truth is the last thing that matters,' she said. 'And you can believe one thing of the truth and me: I keep it well hidden, inside my heart.

  Philippa Gregory

  Believe, Heart, Matter

  Philippa Gregory (2004). “The Virgin's Lover”, p.217, Simon and Schuster

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• Concentrate on each task, whether trivial or crucial, as if it's the only thing that matters.

  Mark McCormack

  Wrestling, Tasks, Matter

  Mark H. McCormack (1990). “What They Still Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School”, Bantam

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• I mean, the only thing that matters to me is getting to the work - getting to do the work. And I don't really care where it is: whether it's on stage or on television or in film.

  Sally Field

  Mean, Television, Care

  "Sally Field, ‘Lincoln’ Star, On Politics And Looking Back On ‘Smokey And The Bandit’". Interview With Mike Ryan, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 7, 2012.

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• Indeed we have great reason to rejoice. If life and its rushed pace and many stresses have made it difficult for you to feel like rejoicing, then perhaps now is a good time to refocus on what matters most. Strength comes not from frantic activity but from being settled on a firm foundation of truth and light. It comes from placing our attention and efforts on the basics of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ. It comes from paying attention to the divine things that matter most.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Jesus, Stress, What Matters

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• Earlier in my life I thought the things that mattered were the things that you could see, like your car, your house, your wealth, your property, your office. But as I've grown older I've become convinced that the things that matter most are the things that you can't see -- the love you share with others, your inner purpose, your comfort with who you are.

  Jimmy Carter

  Love You, Car, Office

  "Jimmy Carter: Role Model" by Ken Dychtwald, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 13, 2015.

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• When it all come down to it, the thing that matters most in a relationship is principles [...] We have the same idea what’s right and what’s wrong, and that’s got us through any number of things. If you can have that with someone, then you’re most of the way toward love. Not just lover-love. Any kind of love.

  David Levithan

  Ideas, Numbers, Principles

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• Two things that matter to me. Emotional resonance and rocket launchers.

  Joss Whedon

  Emotional, Two, Matter

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• Still putting out the O'Reilly fires of me being a traitor and using Casey's name dishonorably, my in-laws sent out a press statement disagreeing with me in strong terms; which is totally okay with me, because they barely knew Casey. We have always been on separate sides of the fence politically and I have not spoken to them since the election when they supported the man who is responsible for Casey's death. The thing that matters to me is that our family - Casey's dad and my other 3 kids are on the same side of the fence that I am.

  Cindy Sheehan

  Strong, Dad, Kids

  "Camp Casey: Day 6" by Cindy Sheehan, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 12, 2005.

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• Then of course there are bigger things that matter, like who do I see up there in the congregation? Do I see myself up there? Well, I don't.

  Michael Emerson

  Matter, Bigger, Wells

  Source: www.pbs.org

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