What Matters Quotes - Page 10

• For what is important when we give children a theorem to use is not that they should memorize it. What matters most is that by growing up with a few very powerful theorems one comes to appreciate how certain ideas can be used as tools to think with over a lifetime. One learns to enjoy and to respect the power of powerful ideas. One learns that the most powerful idea of all is the idea of powerful ideas.

  Seymour Papert

  Children, Growing Up, Powerful

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• What matters most is that we learn from living.

  Doris Lessing

  Life, Witty, Matter

  "Permission to Play: Taking Time to Renew Your Smile". Book by Jill Murphy Long, 2003.

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• Fame is a by-product. It's not a goal. What matters is loving your work and loving what you do

  Madonna Ciccone

  Loving What You Do, Goal, Loving You

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• Once you embrace that WHO you are defines you, you can conquer the world. What matters is what's in your heart, what your goals are and what kind of life you want to lead.

  Shantel VanSanten

  Heart, Conquer The World, Goal

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• Some people point to me as the cause of all society's problems, others as if I am the benefactor, responsible for everything good, but I am neither the former nor the latter. I am but a man in particular circumstances, and the most beautiful part is that an individual human life is capable of contributing to the growth, the awakening of the collective strength. That is what matters!

  Hugo Chavez

  Beautiful, Men, People

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• What matters in the end in literature, what is always there, is the truly good. And- though played out forms can throw up miraculous sports like The Importance of Being Earnest or Decline and Fall- what is good is always what is new, in both form and content. What is good forgets whatever models it might have had, and is unexpected; we have to catch it on the wing.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Sports, Fall, Wings

  V.S. Naipaul (2010). “Literary Occasions: Essays”, p.55, Vintage

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• C.S. Lewis admitted, when he was asked to set forth his beliefs, that he never felt less sure of them than when he tried to speak of them. Photographers know this frailty. To them words are a pallid, diffuse way of describing and celebrating what matters. Their gift is to see what will be affecting as a print. Mute.

  Robert Adams

  Way, Belief, Photographer

  Robert Adams (1994). “Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews”

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• My advice was to start a policy of making reversible decisions before anyone left the meeting or the office. In a startup, it doesn't matter if you're 100 percent right 100 percent of the time. What matters is having forward momentum and a tight fact-based data/metrics feedback loop to help you quickly recognize and reverse any incorrect decisions. That's why startups are agile. By the time a big company gets the committee to organize the subcommittee to pick a meeting date, your startup could have made 20 decisions, reversed five of them and implemented the fifteen that worked.

  Steve Blank

  Business, Data, Office

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• Anger is just anger. It isn't good. It isn't bad. It just is. What you do with it is what matters. It's like anything else. You can use it to build or to destroy. You just have to make the choice.

  Jim Butcher

  Anger, Choices, Use

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.1693, Penguin

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• So all I'm saying is, everything that seems important--our quarrels, or philosophical differences--in the end, it doesn't matter much. You know? In the end, what matters is what remains.

  Thrity Umrigar

  Philosophical, Differences, Important

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• We are bound to our ancestors and to those who made us, whether we want to be or not. What matters is what we make of what we are.

  Kate Elliott

  Want, Made, Ancestor

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• My body has changed and it will continue change in the future — that is natural for anyone. What matters to me most is that even though external change is inevitable, my passion for encouraging women to love themselves at any size and to live, thrive, and to go after their dreams is a part of my permanent nature. Even though my body and mind may evolve through life and experience, my values on this matter have not.

  Crystal Renn

  Dream, Passion, Mind

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• What is important to my work is the individual picture. I photograph stories on assignment, and of course they have to be put together coherently. But what matters most is that each picture stands on its own, with its own place and feeling.

  Steve McCurry

  Feelings, Important, Together

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

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• If I took perfect pictures all the time, the people standing in the room with me, or on the carpet, would think, 'What an actress! What a faker!' That thought embarrasses me so much that I look like s**t in half my photos, and I don't give a f***. What matters to me is that the people in the room leave and say, 'She was cool. She had a good time. She was honest.'

  Kristen Stewart

  Thinking, People, Giving

  "Kristen Stewart on the People Who Critique Her Red Carpet Poses: 'I Don't Care About the Voracious, Starving Shit Eaters'". www.vanityfair.com. June 5, 2012.

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• The only part of an argument that really matters is what we think of the people arguing. X claims a, Y claims b. They make arguments to support their claims with any number of points. But when their listeners remember the discussion, what matters is simply that X believes a and Y believes b. People then form their judgment on what they think of X and Y.

  Kim Stanley

  Believe, Thinking, Numbers

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• At the end of the day it doesn't matter which group is most oppressed or whether they are identically oppressed, what matters is that no group be oppressed.

  Keith Boykin

  Gay, The End Of The Day, Groups

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• When a man's life becomes poetry, becomes a song, becomes a work of art, a creativity, he has become a sannyasin. Whether he knows it or not, it does not matter. The word 'sannyas' does not matter; what matters is the content.

  Rajneesh

  Song, Art, Creativity

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• You will have many enemies, but even your foes will love you. Life will bring you many misfortunes, but you will find your happiness in them, and will bless life and will make others bless it-which is what matters most.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Happiness, Love You, Enemy

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.430, First Avenue Editions

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• What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.

  Ezra Pound

  Inspirational, Life, Helping Others

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• And just being there is ninety-nine percent of what matters when your world falls apart

  Holly Goldberg Sloan

  Fall, Ninety Nine, World

  Holly Goldberg Sloan (2013). “Counting by 7s”, p.115, Penguin

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• Bountiful is your life, full and complete. Or so you think, until someone comes along and makes you realize what you have been missing all this time. Like a mirror that reflects what is absent rather than present, he shows you the void in your soul—the void you have resisted seeing. That person can be a lover, a friend, or a spiritual master. Sometimes it can be a child to look after. What matters is to find the soul that will complete yours. All the prophets have given the same advice: Find the one who will be your mirror!".

  Elif Safak

  Spiritual, Children, Thinking

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• What matters most is not what I think I am or am not. What matters is what my Father sees in me and what He says about me.

  Steven Furtick

  God, Religious, Father

  Steven Furtick (2012). “Greater: Dream bigger. Start smaller. Ignite God's Vision for Your Life”, p.173, Multnomah

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• Keep it simple and focus on what matters. Don't let yourself be overwhelmed.

  Confucius

  Simple, Focus, Overwhelmed

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• You make the mistake of thinking you have to choose, that you have to do what you want, that there are conditions for happiness. What matters — all that matters, really is the will to happiness, a kind of enormous, ever present consciousness. The rest - women , art, success — is nothing but excuses. A canvas waiting for our embroideries.

  Albert Camus

  Art, Mistake, Thinking

  "Happy Death".

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• But we don’t remember those lives. We can’t read our diaries.’ ‘It doesn’t matter. We are where we are, however we got here. What matters is where we go next.’ ‘But can we choose that?’ ‘I don’t know.’ ‘We’re Dead. Can we really choose anything?’ ‘Maybe. If we want to bad enough.

  Isaac Marion

  Want, Next, Diaries

  Isaac Marion (2012). “Warm Bodies: A Novel”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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